Uconn Coach Dan Hurley, Final 4 Is Set, The World Stays Mad About Zach Edey And DJ Burns Is An American Hero

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Speaker 15 On today's part of my take, we have UConn head coach Dan Hurley, our good friend.

Speaker 19 Third time on, he has just punched a ticket with his Huskies to the final four back-to-back Final Fours, trying to be the first team to go back-to-back since Florida.

Speaker 22 They're on a dominant run.

Speaker 23 We're going to talk about the Final Four.

Speaker 24 It is set.

Speaker 28 The teams, the four teams that are in it, what the storylines are.

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Speaker 47 Today is Monday, April 1st, and Duke is in a Final Four.

Speaker 7 Four.

Speaker 34 April Fools.

Speaker 36 That's a good one. Ha ha.

Speaker 23 No, we have our Final Four set.

Speaker 48 And Hank Fools.

Speaker 36 I was devastated

Speaker 36 with Duke getting bounced. So, so upset.
It broke my heart to see how upset you were. Actually, Hank, you didn't really get mad until you bet on Duke live.
Yeah, no,

Speaker 52 it was a perfect Henry Lockwood moment where, like, he hasn't cared about Duke all year.

Speaker 18 He's admitted this.

Speaker 24 And then in the second half, he decided to bet them live.

Speaker 19 And Duke gave us the worst second half imaginable.

Speaker 55 Just couldn't score the basketball, which which is an important part of the game.

Speaker 28 And DJ Burns was your daddy all second half, and then you actually were upset.

Speaker 24 So you found your way to be upset about this loss.

Speaker 36 Which I like. I'm glad that you're mad because if you were just like, whatever, and you didn't actually care at all, I'd be upset by that.
Yeah.

Speaker 57 Yeah, it was a horrible game.

Speaker 58 I mean, they shot, I think, 19 for like 75.

Speaker 59 What are you doing with your shoes?

Speaker 60 What do you mean?

Speaker 14 Are you like trying to be a fashion guy?

Speaker 59 What are your shoes?

Speaker 56 What are those shoes?

Speaker 31 They're nice shoes. Are you trying to be a fashion?

Speaker 44 Is he trying to be a fashion guy?

Speaker 49 What are you talking about? It makes sense.

Speaker 61 I know we got to talk about the Final Four.

Speaker 62 I've always had the best shoes in the future.

Speaker 63 I just dressed the 90s.

Speaker 60 I actually think BFT gives a run for the money with best shoes.

Speaker 36 When he drops his 19s, I got the Kamikazes.

Speaker 66 Are you trying to be a fashion guy?

Speaker 58 I've had these shoes for like a year.

Speaker 67 I know we have to talk about the Final Four, but I have to talk about these shoes for the fourth.

Speaker 58 I've always been a fashion guy.

Speaker 58 I'm so fashion.

Speaker 36 Those look like shoes you would wear when you want to think that you're wearing golf shoes.

Speaker 28 This is a nice Easter outfit oh you get dressed up for easter interesting yeah interesting is that why are you wearing carolina blue today i don't know what you're doing with those shoes but i'm on to you what i mean like this these are literally just white shoes yeah but something about it they're not like regular white shoes they're like fashion guy white shoes they're instagram ad white here the here are the shoes you wear if you're going to work but you want to wear shoes but you have to dress up That's what he's wearing.

Speaker 36 What are you looking at, Hank?

Speaker 60 I'm trying to look at the name.

Speaker 71 Prada?

Speaker 3 I can see it. It's Prada.

Speaker 36 Yeah, those are fancy.

Speaker 26 Those are Prada shoes.

Speaker 54 No free ads.

Speaker 60 No free ads.

Speaker 58 No free ads, but a dude who's a stoolie gave these to me.

Speaker 53 Yeah, Instagram ad.

Speaker 72 By the vetting machine shirt.

Speaker 36 Yeah, sorry that. By the vetting machine shirt.
Your devil's lost on Easter, actually. Very sacrilegious on your part to be cheering for them.
But DJ Burns is the fucking man. Yes.
I love him.

Speaker 63 Thank you.

Speaker 36 On behalf of America, thank you. Everyone in America should thank DJ Burns for beating Duke for just being awesome.
And it is funny.

Speaker 36 It's like the Drake meme when we just got done watching Zach Eady and we're like, no. And then we watched DJ Burns.

Speaker 69 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 36 Fuck yes.

Speaker 73 And he was wearing his eighth-grade bully shoes.

Speaker 42 I think they were James Hardens, but it was like

Speaker 42 a hue of green that just didn't match anything else on the court.

Speaker 46 Spinning on everyone,

Speaker 31 just looking awesome.

Speaker 76 His touch is so nice.

Speaker 13 It basically came down to...

Speaker 26 Could DJ Burns score more points than got scored on him?

Speaker 69 And the answer was yes.

Speaker 36 I would also say, could he score more points than got scored on him and also limit his fouls to four or less. Yes.

Speaker 36 Because for the last like seven minutes of the game, DJ Burns would just stand with his arms straight up. He wouldn't even try to contest shit.

Speaker 50 He would just go right out of him.

Speaker 36 He'd just be like, I'm just standing in the paint, and I'm going to put my hands up in the air. And try to avoid me if you can, please, offense.
Yes.

Speaker 67 And we could talk about the totality of the Final Four.

Speaker 24 We're going to go through each game, but like this NC State run, everyone's heard it.

Speaker 22 You know, they were down or they were tied with Louisville in the first round of the ACC tournament.

Speaker 79 I actually have a clip.

Speaker 74 This is the team that's playing in the Final Four.

Speaker 41 This is from the game they played against Louisville 19 days ago.

Speaker 61 Tell me, what is this celebration right here?

Speaker 7 I don't know why anybody that's good at the recent history of these guys are celebrating.

Speaker 32 That's Jim Boeheim 19 days ago.

Speaker 75 The team that's playing in the Final Four.

Speaker 46 Now, credit to Jim Boeheim. He did actually pick them to go to the Final Four in his bracket.

Speaker 80 He was three for four.

Speaker 74 He had UConn, Purdue, and NC State.

Speaker 27 But the NC State team was tied with five minutes left to Louisville in the first game of the ACC tournament.

Speaker 29 They were a buzzer beater three-pointer away from none of this ever happening.

Speaker 46 And actually, even more, because everyone's like, oh, yeah, the buzzer beater when Virginia didn't foul up three.

Speaker 68 The crazier part about the whole thing that gets lost in the shuffle is the guy who was shooting the free throw for Virginia, Isaac McMcNeely, was an 87% free throw shooter.

Speaker 23 And not once this entire season had he had missed two free throws in a game.

Speaker 15 He had already missed one in that game.

Speaker 74 He missed the second one.

Speaker 55 So the first time all season, he missed two free throws in a game, and that let NC State get the buzzer beater overtime, start of what is the most insane run.

Speaker 36 So he bricked the foul shot. NC State goes down the court.
They don't foul. They get a three-off, banks it in, barely banks it in, too.
Not even like a good-looking bank. Yeah.
Goes to overtime.

Speaker 36 NC State goes on. And then, yeah, I think they just started believing that they could do it because

Speaker 36 they beat Duke, they beat UNC, they beat Duke again. Yep.
And now, like, you can't, you can't tell me they

Speaker 36 beat Marquette. They're actually just a good team.
Yeah. They're a good team.
And the other DJ on the team, awesome. So they're a good combination.

Speaker 36 And then they've got Diara, who's just eating up rebounds and fasting for Ramadan at the same time, which now I'm starting to think that you should have somebody on your team that is practicing Muslim that fasts during NCAA tournament games.

Speaker 36 Because now this is two years in a row with Sunogo from last year and Hakeem did it back in the NBA days.

Speaker 36 There's something to it. They're crazy.

Speaker 78 They have the most losses for a Final Four team ever.

Speaker 74 14 losses on the season and they're in the Final Four as an 11 seed.

Speaker 66 I mean, it's just fun to watch.

Speaker 32 Like DJ Burns.

Speaker 15 I don't know how anyone watches that game and isn't like, this is my favorite.

Speaker 14 It's got to be your favorite player.

Speaker 27 Like he was spinning the soft touch.

Speaker 42 Like he doesn't even really jump. There was a couple times where he boxed out, but he wasn't even really boxing out.

Speaker 74 He kind of was just holding someone off and then grabbed it with his other hand.

Speaker 85 And he's also the best dude ever.

Speaker 14 Do you see that clip of him taking pictures with security actor?

Speaker 47 Yep.

Speaker 36 Like, best dude ever. Owens vending machines.

Speaker 31 Owens vending machines.

Speaker 42 NC State is America's team.

Speaker 47 And they took down Duke and justice for Jamal Shedd, who got hurt in that Houston game because Houston would have whooped Duke's ass.

Speaker 36 Yeah, Houston was definitely the better team. I think the only way that you can defend against DJ Burns,

Speaker 36 maybe Edie will be able to do it just because he's huge and has long arms. But we can get to that in a second.

Speaker 36 If you're not a giant, the only way that you can defend him is something that Duke tried to do one time tonight, that never went back to it, where you just back away from him as he's putting that out.

Speaker 36 You pull the chair out, and then he gets out of control. That's the only way that you can stop him because you can't push back against him.
You're not going to out-muscle him.

Speaker 36 He's going to hit you with his back or shoulder and get like two feet of separation right as the time that he's spinning around with a hook shot, and you can't do anything about it.

Speaker 3 And his finish is so soft.

Speaker 36 And listen, like, disappointing end for duke they were they should have won that game they were seven and a half point favorites but john shire how would he have known that dj burns was good you you can't you can't prepare for yeah he's never had to prepare for a guy like that no so you know maybe he he should have had someone besides filipowski in on dj burns who followed out with 10 minutes left in the game and you know what not only did did nce state defeat duke but they also beat the refs there was a moment there was a moment when america said okay here we go again hank's part of america where uh barely

Speaker 36 they blew the whistle because the ball hit the shot clock, went out of bounds. It was a Filipowski shot that went out of bounds.
He threw it at the shot clock. He threw it out of bounds.

Speaker 36 He tried to take the shot clock down.

Speaker 36 And they said out on NC State, NC State's coach just basically put his hands up and was like, what are you doing? What are you talking about? Teed him up.

Speaker 36 That right there felt like things were about to end for NC State.

Speaker 36 It's hard to beat the refs and Duke at the same time.

Speaker 57 It's very rarely done.

Speaker 57 He did it.

Speaker 29 It was an eight-point lead, and then it took it for the two technical foul shots.

Speaker 15 It was a six-point lead, and they were like, and Duke has the ball.

Speaker 17 Like, this is going to be a four-point game.

Speaker 15 Yeah. This sucks.

Speaker 86 But NC State outlasted him, was the better team.

Speaker 36 Shout out to Middlebrooks.

Speaker 3 So sad for Duke.

Speaker 36 Danny Connell's nephew. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The most try-hard guy out there, which I love.

Speaker 36 I was only slightly upset on NC State winning for one reason, one reason only. I would have just loved to hear Danny Connell's take on getting beaten by a guy that wears nail polish.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 36 That would have been right in his mind. I would never root for that.

Speaker 36 He would have done three weeks in a row of content about how men should not wear nail polish.

Speaker 21 Also, it would have been nice if Middlebrooks had gone to an SEC school because that would have also been a nice wrinkle for Danny to have to root for an SEC.

Speaker 36 For an SEC, yeah.

Speaker 29 But he had the shirt, Middlebrooks, what was his name, Ben?

Speaker 54 Ben Middlebrooks?

Speaker 34 Uncle. Yeah.

Speaker 33 Just so everyone was clear.

Speaker 36 We should sell those shirts.

Speaker 36 Just anyone can buy Ben Middlebrooks' uncle shirts.

Speaker 73 Yeah, he becomes aware's Waldo of who's his actual uncle.

Speaker 36 Yeah, he's America's nephew. Yeah.

Speaker 41 But yeah, NC State, incredible story.

Speaker 66 So this Final Four, I feel like, has it all.

Speaker 69 I know that,

Speaker 41 you know, the Final Four, when we had all the Blue Bloods, was incredible and the ratings were crazy.

Speaker 24 But this Final Four has the true Cinderella.

Speaker 73 They have Purdue and the most polarizing player in college basketball and Zach Eady because you either are a Purdue fan and love him or you're the rest of America and hate him.

Speaker 27 They have the freight train of Yukon.

Speaker 32 And then they have Alabama, which Alabama, as much as I am not a Nate Oates fan, they are fun to watch when they get going and they're absolute flamethrowers.

Speaker 54 and it's their first Final Four.

Speaker 27 So you have two teams that haven't been, I think, 83 for NC State, 80 for Purdue, first time for Bama, and then the repeat, you know, the national champs from last year.

Speaker 12 Joggerson redemption for Purdue.

Speaker 7 Redemption for Redemption for losing NC State.

Speaker 36 Yeah, losing last year. And the crazy part of it is that amongst those four teams, I feel like UConn is the team that anyone without a dog in the fight is going to root for.

Speaker 91 Yeah, well, I mean, it's pretty crazy.

Speaker 45 NC State.

Speaker 36 Sorry. Sorry, sorry.

Speaker 12 NC State.

Speaker 7 NC State is America's team. I forgot about that.
I can't admit admit that.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 92 So let's talk about the Purdue Tennessee game because, boy, do people,

Speaker 87 it gives me so much joy watching other fan bases have to watch Zach Eady, and then I feel less crazy because I've had to watch it for four years, and it's like they join the fray and, you know, the screenshots come out, and the anger comes out.

Speaker 7 Everyone's like,

Speaker 33 how do they call this a foul?

Speaker 74 Zach Edie didn't have a foul called on him for the first 30 minutes of the game.

Speaker 15 But with all that that said, Tennessee, I know Tennessee fans are mad, and you could be mad at Zach Eady.

Speaker 22 I think you probably should be more mad about everyone not named Dalton Connect.

Speaker 36 I think you can be mad about both things at the same time. I think you can be furious about Zach Eady and how the reps call him.

Speaker 36 And I think that you can also be like, it would be nice if Ziegler had made one three-point shot.

Speaker 71 They went, so Dalton Connect was 14 for 31, and the rest of the team, or sorry, he was 17 for 31.

Speaker 93 Wait, what was his final stat line?

Speaker 7 He scored 31 points.

Speaker 36 More than half of his

Speaker 79 37 points.

Speaker 94 14 of 31, 6 of 12 from 3.

Speaker 5 14 of 31.

Speaker 27 The rest of the team went 10 for 31.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 33 I'd say that that would probably be more why you lost than Zach Eady and how he was officiated.

Speaker 48 And I am.

Speaker 51 I got dangerously close.

Speaker 16 If Duke had won that game, I would have been like, I might have gotten an Edie jersey and watched Purdue play Duke and been like

Speaker 17 at the forefront of saying, like, those aren't, those are all fouls.

Speaker 34 fouls.

Speaker 15 You can't do that to Zach Eady.

Speaker 19 I would have been number one like proponent of Zach Eady for one single game.

Speaker 15 Zach Edie makes everyone so angry, and I understand why, because I've had to go through it myself.

Speaker 2 He also is getting to a point where like people are just diminishing that he's just not good at basketball, and he's very good at basketball.

Speaker 36 He is good at basketball for sure. Like he has gotten a whole lot better at basketball.

Speaker 36 When I first saw him play, I think two years ago is when I started watching him, he was just, he didn't look like he liked being out there. Didn't look like he had any fire.

Speaker 36 Didn't look like he knew what he was doing. He was just kind of out there moving slowly.

Speaker 36 I always would say that it's like there's a tiny little person controlling the big robot inside of him that's like thinking, okay, move your left leg, right leg, left leg, right hand.

Speaker 36 And now it's like he is a smooth basketball player for his size at times. Right.
He's not like super quick or anything, but he does, he has improved a whole lot. And if you're Tennessee,

Speaker 36 you can be mad at the way the refs call him, but also just Zach Eady being there has a big effect on every single thing that you do. And it makes you uncomfortable.

Speaker 36 Like Zakai Ziegler, when he ever would drive to the paint, you could tell he was like a second slow, either deciding whether to pass or shoot because he was thinking there's a giant in the paint somewhere that's just going to swap me if I do this wrong.

Speaker 36 Yeah, he causes it. It's like always in the back of your head if you're playing against him.

Speaker 18 He causes hesitation.

Speaker 19 He causes like shots that you normally wouldn't love.

Speaker 15 A lot of mid-range shots because you don't want to go to the rim.

Speaker 27 And, you know, Purdue's defense, and same with UConn, with Donovan Klingon.

Speaker 22 They know that they've got a guy behind them so they can play more pressure up top and run you off the three-point line and get you into those shots that are low-percentage shots and get you into a spot where you're shooting 10 for 31 as a team.

Speaker 47 I think most Purdue fans have reached this point, and I hope they have, where Purdue fans should just say fuck off to everyone else.

Speaker 16 Stop trying to make everyone, stop trying to tell us that it's something it's not.

Speaker 1 Like, Zach Eady's really good at basketball.

Speaker 69 Purdue's really good, a really good team, really, really good basketball basketball team.

Speaker 45 It's not enjoyable to watch, and that's okay to have that opinion, to be like, I don't like watching a foul fest.

Speaker 15 I don't like watching a guy, you know, stand in the paint and be able to just turn around and put the ball in the basket.

Speaker 50 Purdue fans should just be like, that's okay because we win.

Speaker 42 You know what I mean? Like, it's at a point where it's like,

Speaker 77 to quote our good friend Jay Billis, agree to disagree.

Speaker 79 Like, you guys have your team.

Speaker 41 They play a certain brand that is winning basketball.

Speaker 16 It's getting you to the final four.

Speaker 30 Most of America doesn't enjoy this experience.

Speaker 36 It's okay. I think you're being a little disingenuous there, PK.

Speaker 1 But that's like Purdue fans trying to tell us that it's something it's not is where it's like the disconnect becomes.

Speaker 79 Like, you could just have to put up your hand and be like, yeah, I understand.

Speaker 66 People probably don't want to watch it, but guess what?

Speaker 33 We're winning.

Speaker 36 So fuck off. Yeah, you don't have to worry about what people think about your score.
Right. You don't have to worry.
You don't have to prove it's us.

Speaker 36 You don't have to get your dubs stamped by anybody else to be like, okay, this was really a win. You guys are in the final four.
Yeah, they're really good.

Speaker 36 And they made their way, they earned their forest.

Speaker 98 And they suck to watch.

Speaker 36 They suck to watch. Do you see after the game, Zach Eady cutting down the nets, did not need a ladder? Yeah.
He just stood next to it.

Speaker 36 I said they should have caught a foul on the ladder because it looked like it was impeding his way to the net.

Speaker 36 But he was just standing on his own two feet, reaching up in the air, clipping down the net. And I just saw everyone across America saw that and thought the same thing.

Speaker 36 Like, if I was this guy's size, I would also be in the final four. Yeah.
Might not be true, but it's also for somebody that's on the shorter side, it's fun to think about.

Speaker 36 It's a nice, like, soothing balm that you can put on the burn of having to grow up being shorter than normal is just saying, oh, if I was just a a foot taller, I would be better than everyone at sports.

Speaker 36 No, he so I encourage people to do that. He's put in a ton of work.

Speaker 21 He's gotten a lot better, but it's not a fun watch.

Speaker 16 Hank actually has joined the Purdue Hate crew.

Speaker 93 It's not a fun watch. Not fun at all.

Speaker 34 Yeah, but it works for them.

Speaker 15 So like if I, if I had Zach Eady on my team, I would just be like, fuck everyone.

Speaker 33 That's just the way it goes.

Speaker 58 Yeah, but

Speaker 58 imagine the national championship, how much you're going to be rooting against them and hate watching them.

Speaker 7 Of course.

Speaker 95 And I unfortunately think that DJ Burns probably already got his first foul in the game on Saturday, getting off the bus.

Speaker 21 Like,

Speaker 2 he's going to be out of that game so fast.

Speaker 36 It's going to, yeah. It's going to suck.
He's not great defensively to begin with. Right.
And he does like to foul. He gets in harm's way a lot.
But then, what are they going to do?

Speaker 46 Danny Connell's nephew might be the try-hard answer that America needs.

Speaker 36 Just beat the fuck out of Zach East.

Speaker 12 Yeah, just try extra hard.

Speaker 36 Yeah, just be really annoying. Ask Danny for some good quotes.

Speaker 36 Just record everything that Danny Connell says between now and the game, and then just repeat that to him verbatim during the game to annoy him. Yeah.
He just doesn't want to play.

Speaker 36 there's one other thing about dj burns uh

Speaker 36 everybody in america thinks that he should play football huh why

Speaker 36 he's good at basketball who said that just everyone is like no but i know that when we interviewed him when we were like you know uh do you think of like playing basketball like your football player playing basketball oh yeah he does that a few times but i've seen i've seen lots of people be like oh this guy should actually try to play left tackle in the nfl oh i haven't seen that because i i mean he his touch is so good that i want him to keep playing basketball Yeah, it would be a disaster.

Speaker 36 Yeah. He's not a football player.
No, he's the perfect big man basketball player. Exactly.

Speaker 36 Let's just enjoy DJ Burns for what he is. Although, I do understand the sentiment that the NFL is king, and so you have to be like, you see a good athlete, oh, he should play football.

Speaker 36 Because there was a while where anytime there was a good basketball player,

Speaker 36 they would want to try out for the NFL to be a tight end. Yeah.
Like, who was the guy on George Mason? I don't remember.

Speaker 36 You remember that?

Speaker 45 I haven't seen the DJ Burns should play football take.

Speaker 43 I know that he

Speaker 90 does plays that make him look like he's a football player, but yeah, I love watching him play basketball.

Speaker 36 Just let the man play basketball. But whoever the George Mason guy was, I remember he tried out like.

Speaker 94 Are you thinking of Moali Cox from VCU?

Speaker 36 No, no, no.

Speaker 63 He's on the Colts.

Speaker 36 No, no, I'm thinking about the George Mason player from the 2000.

Speaker 94 2006 when he was the Final Four.

Speaker 36 Yeah, so he tried out for the NFL, and they clocked him into 40. I think he ran like a 5-4, 40-yard dash time.
They're like, okay, yeah, maybe this whole NFL player, NBA college basketball player

Speaker 36 for everybody.

Speaker 3 Ja Lewis signed a free agent contract with the New York Giants.

Speaker 37 Ja Lewis.

Speaker 100 That was who you were thinking of.

Speaker 65 I just looked it up.

Speaker 97 2006.

Speaker 83 Yeah, no, I think DJ Burns is right where he needs to be.

Speaker 41 All right, so Tennessee fans, though, like, that was disappointing, but I really do think it's really the rest of your team, not named Dalton Connect, kind of let you down.

Speaker 10 All you had to do was hit a few shots that weren't Dalton Connect shots, and he was so good, but it just, you can't, like, Purdue's one of those teams, like, you can't make mistakes against them because they, they, all their guards are older.

Speaker 90 They, they, they're just smart with what they, like, they have a system.

Speaker 30 They know exactly what's going to work.

Speaker 87 They spam the same play, and if they're hitting their threes, too, it's just like lights out.

Speaker 15 That happened on Friday night when Gonzaga was in that game, and then you looked up, and it was like, nope, Gonzaga's done.

Speaker 7 I'm absolutely cooked.

Speaker 36 I'm going to say something nice about Zach Eady, though. After the game, when they interviewed him, and he was talking about people that doubt him, he started screaming.

Speaker 36 I think he dropped the F-bomb.

Speaker 69 He was like, we're fucking here.

Speaker 77 He showed some emotion.

Speaker 36 I hate him less after watching that.

Speaker 26 He also said he had a boner when someone was holding a, one of his teammates was holding a camera or phone and being like, we made it, we made it.

Speaker 64 Final four, how we feel. And he's like, I have a boner.

Speaker 36 Probably for the first time in his life. If you're that big, you've got so much blood elsewhere in your body.
Yeah.

Speaker 87 So, I mean, listen, he's averaging 30 and 16. He had 40 and 16 today.
It's insane what he's been doing this tournament run.

Speaker 24 Not a fun watch, but credit to Zach Edie because he's good at basketball.

Speaker 87 And now we have people also policing the paint touches and how long he's camped out.

Speaker 26 Like, if you watch him play, his footwork has gotten so much better, and his defense has gotten so much better.

Speaker 42 He's getting in and out of the paint to reset his time.

Speaker 1 You can be upset about how they officiate him.

Speaker 15 Everything else is kind of stupid to be like, he's not good.

Speaker 36 Yeah, he actually does work. He doesn't stand perfectly still the entire time.
But still, if you're NC State,

Speaker 36 you want that discussion to happen. You want the refs to be hearing that all week.
So that way they're at least looking at him when you play against them.

Speaker 50 Yeah, by the way,

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Speaker 73 our guy Quiggs, who's one of our best employees at Barstool, incredible editor, NC State grad.

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Speaker 36 Yeah, Alabama, the great Alabama experiment, has hacked basketball. It's fun to watch if you are a sicko.

Speaker 14 Yeah, Rico has just ruined Alabama for me because NATO should be a story that we're like, I mean, it is cool.

Speaker 89 Like, when they're like 11 years ago, he was a math teacher, and now he's going to the final four, and you saw Alabama on Saturday night to when they get hot from three,

Speaker 15 they can be the best team in the country.

Speaker 33 Like, that's just a fact.

Speaker 22 And Clemson kind of hit the regression monster, and we know ball.

Speaker 36 Yeah, so if you're shooting like 50% or slightly less than 50%, if those backdoor cuts are working at like a moderate pace, if you're Clemson, you're still not going to be able to beat Alabama if they're shooting the ball well.

Speaker 36 That's just a fact. It's just math.
That's where the math teacher thing comes in.

Speaker 26 Yeah, the math teacher thing comes in strong because they went 45%

Speaker 30 from three, and they were just, it felt like they were hitting big shot after big shot.

Speaker 85 I also think that Alabama, and maybe people will say this is crazy, but if you have as much football success as Alabama does, you can't, like, no one can, in their right mind, be like, I'm rooting for Alabama, unless you're obviously an Alabama fan.

Speaker 36 In which case, enjoy this.

Speaker 2 Enjoy the hell out of this.

Speaker 70 But like, the regular sports fans in the world is just too close to everything Nick Sabin did and how much he dominated in football.

Speaker 7 Like, you can't also have basketball.

Speaker 36 If you're an Alabama just sports fan, so you root for Alabama football and you root for Alabama basketball, probably to a significantly lesser extent than you root for the football team.

Speaker 36 What's the conversion rate? Like, what would you trade an NCAA championship for in basketball in football? Like, an SEC title?

Speaker 64 I don't think so. I think less.

Speaker 36 You think less? Just a win, just an Iron Bowl win.

Speaker 17 I think maybe even less than that.

Speaker 36 Win at home against LSU. Yeah, maybe, maybe.
Home win against LSU equals national championship basketball.

Speaker 18 I mean, there will be some Alabama basketball fans that will say that we're crazy for this, but I think that if you pulled the entire Alabama fan base.

Speaker 66 I mean, football just is king there.

Speaker 36 Yeah, I'm not talking about the die-hard Alabama basketball fans in which, like, if you are one, obviously, and even if you're not, even if you're just an Alabama fan.

Speaker 36 This is an awesome time. Enjoy it, but I'm trying to figure out what what the average member of the fan base would trade this title for.

Speaker 26 Win against Georgia.

Speaker 36 A win against Georgia, I think that's two, two in a row, two times

Speaker 64 for that.

Speaker 93 That might be.

Speaker 79 But yeah, they just have, there's something about having it all, and they have it all.

Speaker 31 They do.

Speaker 83 The fact that they had a team in the college football playoff.

Speaker 74 They have a team in the Final Four.

Speaker 15 A lot of Michigan State fans reminding everyone they're the only other team who's done that. Oh, yeah,

Speaker 61 they went about that.

Speaker 44 But yeah, they have it all.

Speaker 13 And NATO is a great story in the fact that

Speaker 83 what is it, 11 years ago, math teacher, to have this rise this quick and be in a spot where he's in the Final Four in the top of the college basketball landscape.

Speaker 40 It's crazy.

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And to make Alabama fans care about basketball.

Speaker 46 They've never been to a Final Four.

Speaker 32 They'd only been to one Elite Eight before, you know, Friday or Thursday.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 36 Basketball school, maybe.

Speaker 15 And Clemson, I Clemson kind of the similar. Like, I don't...

Speaker 64 I don't feel that bad. You guys have...

Speaker 10 Dabbo's going to figure it out.

Speaker 36 Dabbo will be... I don't know.
Who do you think would win a national championship first?

Speaker 36 Clemson or Alabama? Sabing gone?

Speaker 7 I think probably. Dabbo's still there.

Speaker 64 Probably Alabama.

Speaker 19 Shout out to our guy, Seewoo Kim Tracker.

Speaker 15 He was down bad.

Speaker 36 Yeah, it was a rough weekend for CW Kim Tracker.

Speaker 19 He said 50 likes, and I asked the flight attendant for two sodas when he was at an airport.

Speaker 36 He just stopped giving me updates on CWo Kim. He tied for 17th.

Speaker 94 That's a good finish this week.

Speaker 36 Yeah, but he stopped giving me updates on CW Kim because he was too depressed about Clemson losing. I expect more out of my trackers.

Speaker 94 Masters next week.

Speaker 57 Big week.

Speaker 36 Big week for him. Yeah.

Speaker 73 But

Speaker 16 he is our favorite tracker because no other tracker in the world can you get 22 feet for Eagle, Bertie, Bertie, and we were minus seven in the same timeline as

Speaker 15 all caps.

Speaker 20 There's no goddamn motherfucking way that's a foul.

Speaker 3 Flopping fucking pussies.

Speaker 87 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I hope Rico stubs his toe for five months straight.

Speaker 73 Yeah. He's just

Speaker 24 the man does it all.

Speaker 36 Yeah. So I was, truth be told, I was rooting for Clemson.

Speaker 81 I was too.

Speaker 7 No, I mean, I definitely was.

Speaker 36 I was rooting for Clemson because I wanted to be so wrong about Clemson the entire. I wanted Clemson to win the national champion.

Speaker 45 I think we would have won Ratio of the Year.

Speaker 90 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Like, it would have been one of the greatest graphics for this show ever to have the Clemson graphic thrown back in our face.

Speaker 46 But unfortunately, for the people at home, we do know ball.

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 46 We know too much ball.

Speaker 7 We do. We do.

Speaker 85 It sucks.

Speaker 48 It's a blessing and a curse because we have to tell people the truth about us knowing ball, and then they want to say, you're crazy, Clemson could win it all.

Speaker 65 No, they couldn't.

Speaker 36 I expect an apology for anyone who quote tweeted that graphic.

Speaker 7 Everyone.

Speaker 36 Be nice. Everyone that did it.
How many quote tweets does it have on it right now? Probably like 200?

Speaker 36 It would be nice. I would like to see 200 people reaching out being like, I apologize for quote tweeting.
Our bad. Turns out everyone that did that should be old takes exposed.
Yeah.

Speaker 36 Every single one of them.

Speaker 85 And just a simple tweet at us saying, YKB, you know ball.

Speaker 10 That's all I want.

Speaker 36 But yeah, they're going to run up against an entirely different animal in Yukon. And

Speaker 36 it is like live by the jump shot, die by the jump shot.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 36 If they can make 40, what did you say, 46%?

Speaker 14 They were 45%.

Speaker 36 If they can make 45% of their three-point shots, they can win.

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 22 The only other problem for Alabama is they take twos at the rim and threes, and twos at the rim with Donovan Klingen is an impossible feat to do because we saw it with UConn versus Illinois. And UConn

Speaker 78 had a 30-0

Speaker 17 run against Illinois in an Elite Eight.

Speaker 40 Illinois offense that has been playing lights out and had an incredible season.

Speaker 15 That was one of the craziest things to watch ever, where it just started, it spanned two halves because it was 23-23.

Speaker 19 The first half ended 29-23.

Speaker 15 And then it just kept on happening where it was UConn would score.

Speaker 30 And UConn wasn't even playing well on Saturday.

Speaker 36 So we made fun of UVA when this happened to them earlier in the play-in game. Yeah.
And a similar thing happened, except the difference is this is in the Elite Eight. So you're a good team.
Illinois

Speaker 36 is a really good team. Very good team.
Offensively, what were they like? Top five in the nation?

Speaker 29 They were, I mean, they had three guys who were very, very good offensively.

Speaker 94 This is number one versus number two, I think.

Speaker 36 Yeah. Was it number one versus number two?

Speaker 21 And Sharon was out of this world for all the games up until this point.

Speaker 36 The Illini are a great, great team. And then they scored, I think they went 55 minutes of real time without scoring a basket.
It was nuts. Without making a shot.

Speaker 7 Yeah, because it spanned halftime.

Speaker 36 In Klingen, he was in his first 17 minutes on the floor, Illinois scored four points.

Speaker 36 In his first 17 minutes on the floor, they scored four points. They went 0 for 9 on field goal attempts that were contested by him.

Speaker 30 It was actually 0 for 19.

Speaker 36 0 for 19. 0 for 9.
Over 19.

Speaker 73 He affects everything.

Speaker 77 And Brad Underwood...

Speaker 83 Who I've been,

Speaker 29 the minute he got hired to Illinois, I was like, that's a problem.

Speaker 16 He's a really good coach.

Speaker 3 With one of the most regrettable sound bites slash coaching strategies of all time.

Speaker 83 When they got him in the first half, and he was like, if he blocks 100 shots, he blocks 100 shots.

Speaker 3 He didn't block 100 shots, but it felt like he was blocking 100 shots because every shot at the rim was fucked up by Donovan Klingen.

Speaker 15 And they just kept on saying, We're going to go after him.

Speaker 22 And it kept on resulting in zero points and then points on the other side of the floor.

Speaker 29 And the craziest stat from this UConn game and how goddamn good they are, because I've been saying it, like

Speaker 69 they have a solution to every problem

Speaker 40 that's given to them.

Speaker 53 UConn didn't even play well.

Speaker 27 They shot 17.6% from three.

Speaker 91 Like imagine if they had hit a couple of threes.

Speaker 76 Because when you say a 30-0 run, you think this team just got nuclear from three and it just avalanched.

Speaker 53 No, no, no.

Speaker 31 That's not anything that happened.

Speaker 79 They could not shoot from outside on Saturday and they still absolutely curb stomped Illinois.

Speaker 36 It was bad. The game was over after that.
You can't come back from a 30-0 run. No.
It's impossible.

Speaker 73 It was crazy, and it was also like the loudest crowd.

Speaker 21 I mean, that was.

Speaker 36 That's Bill Murray, though.

Speaker 40 It was insane how loud it was for UConn.

Speaker 30 And

Speaker 64 they're just a monster.

Speaker 31 The closest

Speaker 48 tournament game they've played in the 10 games that they've won in a row here was a 13-point victory over Miami in the Final Four.

Speaker 36 And you know what's crazy is we have a possibility, depending on what happens tonight on the women's bracket, but there is a possibility of getting UConn against NC State in the finals in both tournaments.

Speaker 57 That would be incredible.

Speaker 7 That would rock.

Speaker 83 What an afternoon for NC State fans. Yeah.

Speaker 21 Back-to-back.

Speaker 13 They were six, seven-point underdogs in both games.

Speaker 36 You know what? They deserve it. NC State fans deserve it.
It's been a long time.

Speaker 46 Remember when we did the Mount Rushmore mid?

Speaker 36 Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 13 And we were like NC State football?

Speaker 36 You remember when, yeah, and I stand by that, by the way. But was it like 2020?

Speaker 36 It was four years ago during COVID where the college baseball World Series, didn't they get like disqualified or something? Oh, yes.

Speaker 36 They had like six players test positive for COVID and they couldn't even play.

Speaker 2 Yes, and they were really good that year.

Speaker 34 Yeah, they got screwed.

Speaker 36 NC State, you deserve this. Yeah, you do.
Don't let anyone.

Speaker 36 We're going to bring up the most losses in Final Four history just because we have to.

Speaker 7 That's cool.

Speaker 36 But don't let the haters get you down. No, you earned this, NC State.
It's been incredible.

Speaker 87 But yeah, UConn is an absolute wagon.

Speaker 64 I don't.

Speaker 3 I mean, if they can finish the job, because they have to finish the job to be in this conversation, but if they finish the job this upcoming weekend and Monday, they have to go in the conversation of best college basketball teams of all time.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 15 Like it has to be said. I know that there's UCLA teams that won like five straight years without losing a game.

Speaker 16 You had the Florida back-to-backs, the Duke year, Leitner years, but this team and the fact that it's like, you know, there's some guys from last year, but there's a lot of new guys too.

Speaker 29 It's crazy.

Speaker 17 Danny Hurley, who we have coming up on the show, is a master motivator.

Speaker 36 It's a piss-drinking motivator. Yeah.

Speaker 77 Okay, so Final Four set.

Speaker 12 I'm excited.

Speaker 36 Also, he didn't let his son shoot again

Speaker 36 at the end of the game.

Speaker 12 We're killing him.

Speaker 36 We're going to talk to him about that in a little bit, but just let Andrew take a shot.

Speaker 19 Are you guys excited for the Final Four now?

Speaker 68 I feel like this is, especially after last year, which was a weird Final Four because we had all those upsets and we had, you know,

Speaker 84 San Diego State and FAU, and it was a weird tournament.

Speaker 3 This feels like we're back to Order Restore, where it's like you have two teams that were.

Speaker 15 Purdue and Yukon were the two best teams all year, and then you have two great stories matching up against them.

Speaker 36 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 36 I like it set up this way because we all have one Cinderella to focus all of our Cinderella energy on. There were too many Cinderellas last year.
Yeah. Not enough stepmothers.

Speaker 58 I'm very excited. I am a little concerned for you and Dave.
You guys have big futures both on UConn, and it seems too easy at this point, which it never is. And

Speaker 36 NC State

Speaker 58 has big-time Team of Destiny vibes.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 29 I mean, I bet UConn in December, right after they lost to Kansas at 14-1.

Speaker 93 And I said before we started taping that if UConn wins the national championship, I will only have had a bad march.

Speaker 16 So I need them to win the national championship.

Speaker 50 I do.

Speaker 58 So I'm excited, but that, that. Yeah, no, it does.
If that happens, that will be.

Speaker 7 But what if they just keep rolling?

Speaker 58 It seems like they should.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 36 I don't think Danny Hurley is the kind of coach that's going to let him take a game off.

Speaker 46 The one thing that makes me nervous is Alabama does have the one, one, like, if they just go nuclear from three, they can beat any, like, they have that in them, the ability to beat any team any given night because of their three-point shooting.

Speaker 15 And every guy shoots.

Speaker 22 And that's a problem.

Speaker 36 I'm trying to find futures here. Like, what are the team futures?

Speaker 36 Okay, UConn minus 195. Purdue plus 205.
NC State and Alabama both 16 to 1.

Speaker 19 Yeah, NC State was 35 to this morning.

Speaker 22 Pretty crazy. Pretty good.
In the Elite Eight.

Speaker 36 The vending machine, baby.

Speaker 84 No one thought NC State was going to be able to beat Duke.

Speaker 18 Your Duke's.

Speaker 34 So sad.

Speaker 5 I did momentarily. It's a main event time, though.

Speaker 58 It's a main event.

Speaker 43 Friday night, I became Mexico. Actually, it was the main event.

Speaker 19 Friday night, I became a lay fraud Mickey Mouse reply guy for a while on Friday night.

Speaker 53 Oh, Duke?

Speaker 36 Because that shed, that's bullshit. Yeah.
Houston was going to beat him.

Speaker 22 So I replied to Duke's final score graphic, and I was like, Duke's Mickey Mouse run.

Speaker 16 And that got quoted a million times.

Speaker 19 And I also was trying to get Duke fans to vacate the win, which I would have done if I were a Duke fan in that moment.

Speaker 19 Jamal Shedd is, you know, he's going to finish as a finalist for National Player of the Year.

Speaker 79 He goes out.

Speaker 29 I vacate that win because I have sportsmanship and I actually root for guys to not get injured, unlike Duke fans.

Speaker 36 Yeah, it's sad. It's sad.
Houston wouldn't have won. They probably wouldn't have won the national championship.
Yeah. That's what I'm going to say.
Maybe I'll get a refund, too. Yeah.

Speaker 36 What's worse, being a Mickey Mouse LaFraud reply guy, or being a LMA0

Speaker 60 reply guy?

Speaker 58 I mean, sometimes things are just funny.

Speaker 47 Yeah. Sometimes.

Speaker 36 No, but when you're doing the LMAO, like making fun of the person that said that.

Speaker 36 Like not agreeing, not actually thinking it was funny.

Speaker 49 Oh.

Speaker 36 So, Big Cat, if you had done the here's Duke's Mickey Mouse run and then at the, and then ended it with LMAO,

Speaker 36 like laughing at your own joke at Duke, I think that makes it a little bit worse. Yeah, that makes it worse.
As long as you don't level up into that guy, then you're good. good.

Speaker 19 Listen, I enjoyed my time as a Mickey Mouse LaFraud guy. It was kind of fun to just step into that world.

Speaker 15 Because then you have to copy and paste it and be ready to just post it on anyone who posts.

Speaker 83 Yeah. Like instantly.

Speaker 26 It's got to be the first thing.

Speaker 3 Like Adam Schefter tweets that the Giants just signed a backup kicker.

Speaker 29 You got to be like, Duke's fraud run.

Speaker 34 You got to have

Speaker 36 to have like 60 different notifications. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 19 Speaking of Adam Schefter, should we talk for a second about Rashid Rice just being on the run?

Speaker 36 Yeah, so he got into, he was driving a car that was in a really bad accident, I guess.

Speaker 87 The old Lance Briggs, where he then left his car and was like, I don't know where it is.

Speaker 36 I was going to say he's like a coach's son on that team.

Speaker 47 Yeah, but what's the latest?

Speaker 82 Is he still gone?

Speaker 36 I don't know.

Speaker 36 I don't think he's been apprehended.

Speaker 3 That's very bizarre.

Speaker 36 They haven't caught him yet. But good news for the Chiefs, he signed a Welsh rugby star, so I guess you're receiving Corby Fine.

Speaker 43 Did anyone...

Speaker 97 No one died, right?

Speaker 36 I don't think so.

Speaker 36 I think it was a serious accident.

Speaker 58 The woman was injured injured and her kid was in the car.

Speaker 95 Okay. I mean, bad.

Speaker 36 Very bad.

Speaker 3 I just saw a lot of people being like, the Chiefs are done now.

Speaker 34 They're cooked.

Speaker 17 I'm sure Rashid Rice will probably still play.

Speaker 36 I don't know. Depending on how injured people are, depending on what he did.

Speaker 84 You probably shouldn't leave the scene of an accident like that.

Speaker 36 I would say not. Probably not.

Speaker 94 PFD, have you been studying for the bar?

Speaker 36 Yeah, I have, Jason.

Speaker 94 Because according to Josina Anderson, she says Rashi Rice has retained counsel.

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 63 Oh, so he got a lawyer. So he's a lawyer.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 36 Well, that's a smart move. You should always shut the fuck up when you're talking to the police.
If they're asking you questions, it's because they don't know the answer. All right.

Speaker 36 I just love Shut the Fuck Up Friday upside down.

Speaker 12 Those guys write six minutes ago.

Speaker 100 Yeah. Okay.
That's a weird story, though.

Speaker 36 It's a very strange story. So

Speaker 36 I'm looking at some of the pictures of the crash site.

Speaker 92 Yeah, it doesn't look good.

Speaker 21 It was not good.

Speaker 78 I'm going to confirm not good.

Speaker 58 Rashid Rice. There's a dash cam video, too.

Speaker 78 Yeah, of him crashing.

Speaker 19 Turn yourself in. Rashid rice do it all right what else is going on in the sports world before we do who's back

Speaker 36 anything else oh there's that jokic pass mlb yeah i saw the jokic pass i saw the luka shot yeah luca that luca did a scoop like bare almost a three-pointer from like 20 feet out jokic also said that he was late to his press conference tonight because he was watching dj burns game respect game yeah big men respect big man a huge women's game tonight huge women's game tonight yes

Speaker 66 this one's gonna get people angry oh also kim mulkey not that bad.

Speaker 36 Yeah, so the hit piece on Kim Mulkey dropped. It turns out it was just a profile of Kim Mulkey.

Speaker 82 It was just like, she's an asshole.

Speaker 78 Which anyone who's a very successful coach in college sports or pro sports, you could write it and be like, yeah, it turns out they're kind of an asshole.

Speaker 36 Yeah, they're very demanding. Some players don't like them because they're so demanding.
They can be a dick and they can go too far.

Speaker 36 I actually think it's a beautiful moment in just equality in America when I can look at Kim Mulkey and be like, she is a dick. Yeah, she's a dickhead.
She's a dickhead. Definition of a dickhead.

Speaker 36 And I want to know how much more views this article got because Kim Mulkey did like two press conferences about it. Probably a decent amount.

Speaker 7 I went and looked for it.

Speaker 36 I looked for it too.

Speaker 51 Who are you guys rooting for in LSU versus Iowa?

Speaker 36 I think I'm rooting for, I want Caitlin Clark to get a championship or to get to a championship.

Speaker 14 You got to a championship last year.

Speaker 36 I want her to get to another one, and I want her

Speaker 36 probably to win. So I think I'm going to take Iowa.

Speaker 7 Okay.

Speaker 49 Hank?

Speaker 62 What's the spread?

Speaker 53 I think it's like one and a half.

Speaker 72 Let's just pick the game.

Speaker 84 I think I'm kind of rooting for LSU because it makes people so mad.

Speaker 36 Caitlin Clark makes people mad too.

Speaker 15 She makes people really mad too, but I think that that would make people

Speaker 60 really, really mad.

Speaker 36 If Kim Mulkey won a national championship, people would be furious, which would be another one.

Speaker 64 Yeah, another one. She's one of shit.
Yeah.

Speaker 36 But I mean, like, now

Speaker 36 in the wake of the article coming up.

Speaker 84 Yeah, I guess maybe I'm rooting for Iowa because I think South Carolina is going to beat either of them.

Speaker 45 So, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 23 Iowa would get the revenge and get back to the Final Four.

Speaker 34 And it would make the Final Four more fun because Caitlin Clark would be a good player.

Speaker 57 It'd be good for the sport.

Speaker 21 Yeah, and I do like watching Caitlin Clark play.

Speaker 36 There was a very funny moment today when in the Elite Eight game, the three-point lines were different distances in the college game.

Speaker 36 One was like the old women's distance, and one was the new women's distance. And they didn't know.
They played, I think, five games on that court before somebody. And it wasn't.

Speaker 4 That's way worse than like.

Speaker 36 It wasn't even an official that saw it. You know who saw it? It was a dude that was up in the 300 level.

Speaker 7 Well, why didn't a guy.

Speaker 58 It's not on the officials to measure the three-point line.

Speaker 36 But if a guy that's just sitting up in the 300 level notices it and he had to yell at somebody on the sidelines, texted that person, sent them a picture that he took on his own camera from the upper deck, and then they had to go measure.

Speaker 23 It's crazy.

Speaker 40 The fact that they played five games there and no one said anything is bad.

Speaker 36 It's bad.

Speaker 57 Very bad.

Speaker 30 And I feel like we could have probably been making money off.

Speaker 36 We definitely could have been making money.

Speaker 94 What would have happened if they went to overtime?

Speaker 36 It's a good question, Jake. I don't know.

Speaker 57 Play half court.

Speaker 7 Do like two 30 minute, two and a half minute periods.

Speaker 12 Yeah, yeah. So they switch.

Speaker 36 Play one-on-one?

Speaker 61 Yeah.

Speaker 64 I don't know.

Speaker 64 Big three.

Speaker 36 Big three?

Speaker 33 That was very bad. Yeah.

Speaker 36 We got some brawls in baseball. Yeah.
And by brawls, I mean benches clearing and bullpen catchers. That's my favorite when the bullpen catchers get involved.
Yeah.

Speaker 36 Because they do this little trot out of the bullpen. Yeah, they look like penguins.
They're so happy that they get to see sunlight.

Speaker 20 Yeah, the Mets are already a disaster because they got got one hit on opening day.

Speaker 20 They've lost all three games, and then they also threw at Reese Hoskins on Saturday after I think he was already four for four

Speaker 15 and was like total, just unanimous Bush League.

Speaker 18 And we're like, why would you do this after he's four for four?

Speaker 30 I think their manager already got suspended.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 36 Yeah, so there was the Brewers and Mets with benches clearing, and then the Blu-rays and Jays also had the benches clear. It's good to get a start

Speaker 36 though. What's that? The Blu-ray death.
Yeah, Yeah, the Blu-rays. Yeah, the Blu-rays did it.

Speaker 36 Also, I'd just like to be the first to congratulate Jake's New York Yankees on winning the World Series. Yeah.

Speaker 94 Four-game sleep in Hughes.

Speaker 36 Congrats, Jake.

Speaker 23 Juan Soto got his pin strike. New era.

Speaker 36 Juan Soto today. Offense and defense.
Actually, this whole weekend, Juan Soto has been incredible. And it's just like, it goes to show you when you play in San Diego, it's too nice.

Speaker 36 You can't be that good at. You can't be locked in at sports if you're in San Diego.
But you go to New York, your day kind of sucks a little bit, just getting around.

Speaker 36 The only thing you care about, again, is sports. And once that was probably, I don't know, one of the best players in the game.
And he's so fun to watch. I'm so pissed off.

Speaker 36 I don't get to root for him for his entire career.

Speaker 64 Yeah, Yankees have won it all.

Speaker 36 Congrats.

Speaker 10 Congrats on the Yankees.

Speaker 10 Coming home.

Speaker 69 Let's do

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Speaker 1 All right, Hank, your who's back of the week.

Speaker 58 My who's back of the week is Bryce Harper.

Speaker 49 Yes. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 58 It was either game one or game two. Bryce Harper was playing first base.
They hit a foul ball. He went flying over to try and catch the ball, went too fast, and then basically cartwheeled head.

Speaker 58 first into the dugout. Looked pretty serious.

Speaker 58 And then the funniest part of the video was that the ball landed probably 10 yards behind him right in the right right in play it hit the net

Speaker 58 yeah you know nothing you're really gone you know nothing no because i've i've seen a lot of people saying this is like it clearly hit the net that makes more sense because that that oh you thought that video without context of it hitting the net was a lot funnier where it looked like he was just he just overran it yeah and it is funny to think that but also the watch the video without thinking about it i i saw it funny i saw it hank and the ball is very clearly going like towards the field of play as it falls down.

Speaker 58 A wind and like backspin.

Speaker 7 It hit the net.

Speaker 36 You saw it hit the net?

Speaker 92 No, I just knew the minute I watched it, I was like, that clearly bounced off the net.

Speaker 36 It's way funnier if you think that it didn't hit the net, though.

Speaker 58 I haven't seen a video where it hits the net.

Speaker 77 No, but.

Speaker 2 Have you?

Speaker 41 I used my brain, and I said he's running directly to the dugout,

Speaker 53 and then the ball is coming at a weird angle down off what is probably the net right there.

Speaker 62 Backspin?

Speaker 7 No. Wind?

Speaker 36 The net. Wind's not real.

Speaker 43 The net.

Speaker 103 The net is still far away from where he

Speaker 7 made the catch. Yeah, but it.

Speaker 4 He misjudged where the catch.

Speaker 91 I also think it might have...

Speaker 66 At first, I actually thought it hit...

Speaker 58 Well, if it's far enough to hit the net, then he still didn't need to be going that hard towards the dugout.

Speaker 92 At first, I thought maybe

Speaker 14 he hit the net and then hit the top of the dugout and bounced up.

Speaker 58 Like, if the net is that far away from the dugout railing where he barreled into, did he really need to be a little bit more freaking out?

Speaker 7 He's a competitor, all right?

Speaker 103 He was excited about opening weekend. Let him be.
Let him try and play.

Speaker 52 He didn't win today because of load management.

Speaker 49 Well,

Speaker 103 he did not play today. That's correct.
But he'll be back in the lineup tomorrow. You know what?

Speaker 36 I'm going to agree with Hank on this because I haven't seen the ball hit the net. We don't know.
Okay, fine. And it's a hilarious.

Speaker 7 Yeah, all right, fine.

Speaker 59 Yeah, it didn't hit the net.

Speaker 36 It didn't hit the net. Bryce Harper just misjudged it.
Didn't hit the net.

Speaker 7 And the ball hit. Oh, Hank's an idiot.
And then,

Speaker 98 let's not let Hank cut off this without being an idiot.

Speaker 36 I'm watching this. The ball.

Speaker 7 Have you seen it hit the net, Max?

Speaker 7 It hit the net.

Speaker 33 The spin on the net

Speaker 36 brought it back.

Speaker 103 It hit the net.

Speaker 58 Yeah, I don't think you guys are accounting. Like, if you hit the ball a certain way, it's going to be backspinning in the air.

Speaker 36 But that would make it actually go further.

Speaker 36 It was top spinning. Yeah.
Hit the world's first top spin spinning.

Speaker 12 It's not inclusive. We're doing the review.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 36 No video evidence. Yeah.

Speaker 58 You guys say these things as fact.

Speaker 78 No, I'm not going to hit you. No, I'm on your side now.

Speaker 40 It didn't hit the net. He's an idiot.

Speaker 36 Great job, Max.

Speaker 70 Who's back of the week for you, PFT?

Speaker 36 My Who's Back of the Week is Country Music. Oh, Country Music back because Beyonce put out a country album.
Yes. And I finished listening to it.
She's done it again.

Speaker 72 Bangers.

Speaker 36 Bangers. Bangers only.
She single-handedly saved country music. Well,

Speaker 58 and it's fair. How much of this is just because the song she has with Miley is the best song?

Speaker 36 I'd say 95% of the time.

Speaker 36 It is a great song. It's a great song.
It's a really good song.

Speaker 58 It's warranted.

Speaker 36 I'm just going to say it. I think Miley outperforms it on her own album.
Yeah. Yeah.
I think Miley stepped. Miley Cyrus brought country music back.

Speaker 58 Yeah, people are having the debate because Miley Cyrus also covered Jolene a few years ago.

Speaker 36 Way better. Beyonce's Jolene sucks.

Speaker 23 That's

Speaker 23 she covered it on this album? She did it.

Speaker 36 And it's a skip. Oh, it's a big skip.
It's a big skip.

Speaker 63 It's not good.

Speaker 58 Boy, everything's a skip for you except probably the Miley song. It's true, yeah.

Speaker 36 No, well, 16 Carriages is pretty good, too. Skip.

Speaker 36 But I did see, there was an article that was written in the New York Post about how Beyonce saved a dying genre, which is very funny, just because you're making everybody upset.

Speaker 19 This is like when Travis Kelsey got credit for the fade.

Speaker 80 Yeah,

Speaker 36 when Taylor Swift got credit for doing the heart,

Speaker 36 the heart thing, which, by the way, I'd like to see Taylor Swift try to make a country album. I don't think she can.

Speaker 36 Fiancé only.

Speaker 19 Max is still trying to find a hit the net.

Speaker 65 I don't think he can.

Speaker 7 I don't think it hit the net. Look at him.

Speaker 49 He didn't hit the net.

Speaker 58 Yeah, but watch when it lands.

Speaker 71 It didn't hit the net.

Speaker 7 Yeah, no. No.

Speaker 36 I don't see the ball hit the net.

Speaker 69 I actually thought it hit the floor of the dugout at first, but yeah, I think, Max, you're wrong.

Speaker 103 it didn't hit the you can see the way now whatever yeah i'm not gonna i'm not gonna take this bait yeah also the fact that

Speaker 59 what the fact that no no no no no no no if we're not if we are doing this if we are doing this if you really were to slow this down frame by frame

Speaker 70 he he didn't need if he saw it hit the net why did he fall into the dugout like why did he keep going

Speaker 49 if he saw it hit the net

Speaker 36 and hank if you slow it down Yeah, make it go frame by frame. The ball goes back into the left.
You can see it. Look at that.
It's going to the left. I don't think it hit the net.

Speaker 44 Either way,

Speaker 2 we still like Bryce Harper.

Speaker 16 We want him on the show, but it didn't hit the net.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 29 is that the end of your who's back? Well, yeah.

Speaker 36 I mean, country music was dead. Nobody listened to country music, and then Beyonce

Speaker 63 showed up.

Speaker 36 And now people listen to country music again, so congrats to country.

Speaker 78 It never hit the net.

Speaker 24 My Who's Back of the Week is the commercial we all end up hating because we watch it so much during March Madness.

Speaker 17 And unfortunately...

Speaker 36 Game time.

Speaker 71 No, that one rocks.

Speaker 49 I didn't even know that we tape.

Speaker 46 PFT and I, if people have probably seen, we've been on, I think TBS is run it.

Speaker 33 When we taped that, we didn't know that was going to be a real commercial.

Speaker 36 No, so that was a commercial that me and Roan taped like two years ago. Yeah.
And it was like a pre-roll for Barcelona Sports Videos.

Speaker 36 And then I got a text from one of our producers saying, hey, we want to remake that video. Can you do it? Here's when Ron's going to be in town.

Speaker 36 And I was like, yeah, I don't know why we're redoing this, but yeah, let's do it. And then Big Cat was here.
Roan was not here. So Big Cat's like, sure, I guess I'll do this ad.

Speaker 99 Well, Rob begged me because I was like, he was like, Roan can't make it, and I know I annoy you.

Speaker 64 And I was like, no, Rob, you don't annoy me, but I'll do it.

Speaker 36 And so we do this, and then like a week, two weeks later, it's apparently a commercial that's on TV, which is crazy.

Speaker 66 But that one doesn't annoy people, hopefully.

Speaker 21 The SGA Shea Gildish Alexander and Chet Holmgren commercial is horrific.

Speaker 33 And those are two of the most fun young players in the NBA.

Speaker 30 And I don't know who told them to do that, but that was a big mistake because I hate them now.

Speaker 36 It's way, way better than Paul Mistinette.

Speaker 7 Oh, that one's good. I like that one.
I know.

Speaker 36 Paul Mistinette. I know.
I love it too.

Speaker 36 I love the look on Biz's face when Whitney hits him with that one.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 29 my other who's back is Cooper Flag because

Speaker 26 every single time Duke loses, everyone's like, you sure Cooper Flag wants to go there?

Speaker 16 And it's awesome because he's getting hated before he even shows up.

Speaker 25 Main event.

Speaker 91 Main event?

Speaker 26 That's his nickname? Yeah.

Speaker 64 I like that nickname.

Speaker 26 Listen, I was a Cooper Flag guy.

Speaker 21 Unfortunately, he didn't take my deal of a Super Mega NIL offer from Stella Blue Coffee to go to anywhere but Duke.

Speaker 19 I wasn't even offering him to try to go to Wisconsin.

Speaker 17 I'm realistic.

Speaker 15 I was like, go anywhere but Duke, and I'll give you the Super Mega Max NIL deal.

Speaker 69 Oh, wait.

Speaker 36 Is his nickname the main event, but it's M-A-I-N-E? Yes. That's cool.
I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 97 Hank, don't make PFT feel stupid.

Speaker 63 You're making me feel dumb.

Speaker 60 You can't even open a calendar.

Speaker 7 You couldn't open that calendar.

Speaker 49 The calendar.

Speaker 79 The 11th.

Speaker 29 You got bodied by the calendar. All right, Jake, who's your who's back?

Speaker 36 Worst thing that's ever happened on the 11th day of a month.

Speaker 94 My who's back of the week is spring football.

Speaker 96 It's back. Yeah.

Speaker 36 UFL.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 57 We had a 64-yard field goal. Yeah.

Speaker 36 I don't know if you guys saw that. I didn't watch it.
I watched the highlight of the kick. I saw the highlight of it.

Speaker 94 We had a fake field goal from former Steelers punter Brad Wing.

Speaker 36 Yeah, that was cool. He threw like a 40-yard pass.

Speaker 64 I think he's more LSU, but yeah.

Speaker 57 I like they do.

Speaker 58 They did embrace a content creator and let him be a kicker, and he actually kicks in games, which I thought was cool.

Speaker 25 Wait, what?

Speaker 58 Destroying.

Speaker 79 Who's that?

Speaker 58 He was like, he was a

Speaker 58 he was one of those kids back in the day, it was a few years ago, where he had a YouTube channel. He was going to play in college, but then they didn't let him play because he had a YouTube channel.

Speaker 58 He was like, fuck it, I'm just going to play.

Speaker 36 Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember that guy.

Speaker 58 And he's like, he's with Faze Clan. He does like streams and stuff.
But he's super athletic, obviously. And he kicks for one of the teams.
And he kicked off, kicked a field goal.

Speaker 36 He's an actual kicker. He did well.
Yeah, well. You deserve that shot.

Speaker 36 This is a Mickey Mouse league. Well, this is a fraud bubble league.
And the real XFL in 2020 did not do that because they cared about football.

Speaker 19 I've never been more confident in my take that spring football, I just don't care.

Speaker 33 I feel very good about that because

Speaker 2 every few years they try to pop one up and be like, you should care.

Speaker 3 I respect the sports calendar more than anything.

Speaker 93 This is March Madness.

Speaker 22 This is going to be Masters.

Speaker 16 This is going to be NBA and NHL playoffs.

Speaker 15 Football is king.

Speaker 22 I love football more than anything, but not spring football.

Speaker 36 I liked the XFL in 2020. It felt like that was on the right path until COVID because there were a lot of people in the stands, at least, for those games.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but I just was still, I still wasn't.

Speaker 15 I remember when it was happening, and it was March Madness.

Speaker 36 Yeah, no, I know you're not. You're definitely not, but I think that one had a chance of maybe lasting a few years.
This one, I don't know.

Speaker 61 Probably not. Yeah.

Speaker 64 I feel confident in my take.

Speaker 69 Okay, let's do our interview with Dan Hurley.

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Speaker 36 And now here's Coach Hurley.

Speaker 52 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, friend of the program.

Speaker 15 It is a tradition, two years running now to have him on on the Sunday after getting to a final forward.

Speaker 41 It is Yukon Huskies head coach Dan Hurley.

Speaker 101 Coach, first of all, congratulations.

Speaker 55 Your team is a monster and so much fun to watch.

Speaker 66 I want to start with Saturday night.

Speaker 54 From your perspective, a 3-0 run in an Elite 8 game.

Speaker 57 What was going through your mind when that was happening?

Speaker 1 Because that was insane to watch.

Speaker 107 Really, man, just the way I'm wired, I'm probably in my mind just like

Speaker 107 thinking next possession, you know, like just because because I'm, you know, just, I'm so, you know, maniacally kind of locked into the game.

Speaker 107 But, you know, it was weird just looking up at the scoreboard and, you know, we got off to a good start. It's 23, 23.

Speaker 107 You know, you look up a couple more times and then it's 53, 23.

Speaker 107 You know, and it was crazy. And to do that.

Speaker 107 you know, to do that against that team, you know, the way they've been playing,

Speaker 107 you know, it was, it was crazy. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 36 It was, it was so fast and so impressive that even people in the stands, Larry David included, was yelling at you to stop coaching. He told you, stop coaching.
You're done coaching for today.

Speaker 36 Did you hear

Speaker 36 Larry David yelling at you?

Speaker 107 No,

Speaker 107 I didn't know he was over there. And everyone told me about it after.

Speaker 107 And I'm like a Larry David type of character, like as a coach, you know, I got all, you know, the weird idiosyncrasies and I say whatever I feel like saying, and it's a lot of times it's ignorant.

Speaker 107 You know, I would have thought he'd be on my side. You know, I would have thought he would be for me and not

Speaker 107 against me. And I don't think there can't be a connection to University of Illinois at Champaign, right?

Speaker 29 No, I think he was just there as a fan.

Speaker 59 But yeah, I think he hated me.

Speaker 49 Yeah,

Speaker 107 he hated my style. He hated the way I went about coaching.

Speaker 36 He said, shame on you. Did you feel shame?

Speaker 107 I have felt shame at different points of this year,

Speaker 107 mostly after being threatened by fans in opposing arenas and then them trying to play an I Got You moment with me and videoing me and trying to present me as some type of a monster.

Speaker 56 Yeah, we've had your back the whole way when any of those videos pop up.

Speaker 90 And you are kind of a Larry David-like character.

Speaker 68 I mean, you drink the piss before every game.

Speaker 90 You know, you're going crazy on the sideline.

Speaker 1 How is that going, by the way?

Speaker 86 The mushroom tea? We'll call it mushroom tea.

Speaker 37 We know what you're drinking.

Speaker 107 Yeah,

Speaker 107 you know, it's all being effective for me. You know, the cocktail that I've got over there.

Speaker 107 Everything I'm doing pre,

Speaker 107 you know, pre-game in the back. I have actually a setup before I even get out onto the arena court.
I've thought about maybe you know, letting CBS in on that.

Speaker 107 I've got like all these different, you know, sprays, aromatherapy, lavender spray, a peppermint spray,

Speaker 107 a peppermint halo. I have some holy water back there.
I got

Speaker 107 a nice little setup

Speaker 107 right around the eight to five minute mark spritzing that

Speaker 107 gets me in a good place. Gets me smelling fresh too.
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 36 Yeah. Yeah.
We can tell you look like you smell good on TV. Yeah.
Sure.

Speaker 57 That's a fact.

Speaker 36 I like the one quote that you had where you said that your fan base is noxious as shit on social media.

Speaker 36 so you've do you have somebody that monitors what's going on on twitter on instagram and do you do you actually show people's posts in your team meetings yeah we do we do it all the time we uh

Speaker 107 you know um sometimes in recruiting too if there's you know things that we could use to show potential recruits um you know that that they'd be making a mistake by going to another school uh you know based on some things we've seen on social we'll share that too there.

Speaker 107 But yeah, Luke Murray, I mean, he does a lot of just fueling the fire, poking the bear, so to speak. And,

Speaker 107 you know, you got to have some different type of fuel that you, that you run on. And,

Speaker 107 you know, because

Speaker 107 it's a long season and

Speaker 107 you got to obviously be on your toes, especially when you're playing in a single elimination tournament. We don't even get the luxury of best of five, best of best of seven.
So you got to be on edge.

Speaker 52 Yeah.

Speaker 37 So about that, you found motivation in very different ways this year because you guys are so good.

Speaker 68 Has there ever been a moment where your team's like, all right, coach, like you're you're not actually mad about this, specifically the tip time that you use as motivation for Thursday night when you're like, oh, we're first tip, okay.

Speaker 2 Shows disrespect.

Speaker 15 Because I was watching that and I was like, I like that Coach Hurley's doing this, but he can't actually be mad about this, can he?

Speaker 107 Yeah.

Speaker 107 Yeah, I mean, they expect it and

Speaker 107 they're almost aware before I come in

Speaker 107 of where I'm going. You know, these kids, you know, cling in and, you know,

Speaker 107 my new addition here, my,

Speaker 107 you know, my Cam Spencer, who, you know, who also, you know, he's a mini me

Speaker 107 on the court. Yeah.
So.

Speaker 107 Yeah, you know, I think for us, it's like we've won a lot. Look at what we've done since Teddy Allen

Speaker 107 knocked us out of the tournament there, you know, in that brutal rock fight in Buffalo.

Speaker 107 We've dominated and we've put guys in the NBA.

Speaker 107 We've won all the championships. Now we're in the final four.
We're going to have more guys in the lottery this year.

Speaker 107 You know, I think we do got an edge to us. We don't get talked about enough.
Our season hasn't been covered

Speaker 107 in my mind and the national media enough.

Speaker 107 This is a team that's done historic stuff.

Speaker 107 So yeah, I mean, if we were at Duke or Kentucky or Kansas, they would lead Sports Center with it, and it would be the biggest story in sports. But, you know, because we're in Storrs, Connecticut, and,

Speaker 107 you know,

Speaker 107 we're just a little grimier there. A little grimier.

Speaker 52 Yeah, I'd love to chip on your shoulder.

Speaker 101 So, I actually, you bring up Cam Spencer.

Speaker 86 I had a question about him.

Speaker 88 The story goes that he stays in hotel rooms on the road with Caravan, and he yells at him before every game in the hotel room.

Speaker 86 At what point did you find out or figure out that Cam Spencer was a mini U and also a psycho yeah i knew he was a psycho um

Speaker 107 well on the visit you had a pretty good sense because like brother pat you know dad bruce and and donna um you know they're they're uh

Speaker 107 they're all alike i mean they have the absolute same worldview

Speaker 107 uh all of them and it's like you know go hard or shut the you know what up

Speaker 107 uh

Speaker 107 and he's uh you know there's some weird connections too both his parents were born in Jersey City, you know, where I grew up, right?

Speaker 107 I think his mom went to the grammar school I went to. And then

Speaker 107 they also lived in Rhode Island for a little bit, you know, so there's some weird connections there. But the,

Speaker 107 you know, he's cursing. You know, I think, you know, he curses a lot.
He smashes and kicks the ball.

Speaker 107 he punches the basket.

Speaker 107 He could just miss his like a free throw on like a side basket and he'll just go into his like straight Tourettes, you know? And

Speaker 107 so our language is actually and the way we carry ourselves is I think it's going to button up and clean up after he leaves.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 79 You guys, you guys are one and the same.

Speaker 88 That's nice to have like you on the court every single time.

Speaker 12 Bunch on the floor.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 36 It's good stuff. Yeah.

Speaker 36 Did you figure out what you're going to use for motivation this week?

Speaker 36 I mean, I know you already talked about the national media not talking about UConn enough, but is there anything with the setup of the tournament that you've found so far where it seems like they're out to get you?

Speaker 36 Because if if you don't have some, I've got a couple you can.

Speaker 86 I do too.

Speaker 7 I brought some for you. Yeah.
Okay, so the first.

Speaker 36 Oh, you do have some?

Speaker 107 I was just going to say, you know, it's just, it's far.

Speaker 57 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 36 That's the first one on my list.

Speaker 63 You're making you go way too far.

Speaker 36 Yeah, Alabama has a much shorter trip. You have to travel so much further than Alabama, which means that, and you guys haven't really spent much time on a plane.
You're going to have to be on a plane.

Speaker 36 It could be a Boeing. You don't want any extra minutes in the air.

Speaker 7 Oh, it's far.

Speaker 63 I like it. It's just far.

Speaker 36 And then the second one I had was how you feed off online hatred.

Speaker 36 You love seeing people talking shit to you. And Alabama actually has the 47th lowest broadband rate.
And I think they're the 46th lowest internet availability for all the states.

Speaker 36 So there's not as much stuff for you to use for motivation there.

Speaker 107 Yes.

Speaker 107 So the fan base is not going to do it for me? Well, I got one.

Speaker 7 I got one for you.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I got one.

Speaker 36 I'm saying there's not enough internet in Alabama for you to talk shit.

Speaker 52 Yeah, I got one, though, for you.

Speaker 5 I found someone, someone found enough internet. Here's one.

Speaker 82 Someone tweeted, fuck it.

Speaker 101 We're beating UConn. You can't convince me otherwise.

Speaker 2 That was actually from the Barstow, Alabama account.

Speaker 55 Barstow, Alabama. Barstow, Alabama said that.

Speaker 107 How many followers do they have? Did a lot of people hear that?

Speaker 57 Yeah, they had

Speaker 82 60,000 views on the tweet.

Speaker 107 Because that matters a lot in terms of how angry you get over what somebody said. You know, if there's a,

Speaker 107 if they don't,

Speaker 107 if the avatar is like an egg or it's like a person that doesn't exist and it's like a fake name, that those people, they don't get to me.

Speaker 107 But anyone who has the courage to go like their actual face with their actual name and maybe where they work,

Speaker 107 when they trash me, that gets to me. Yeah.

Speaker 107 You know, the bot or whatever, you know, whatever the fake person shit, the Wizard of Oz, I don't care what the guy says behind the curtain. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's, I mean, that's, so this is just a message to anyone.

Speaker 18 If you want to get noticed by Coach Hurley, put a name on it.

Speaker 64 Put a name on it and a face on it.

Speaker 107 The real person. You should have to show a driver's, you should have to do a Twitter to you should, I think you should have to have some type of ID.
Yeah.

Speaker 107 You know, like you should only be allowed to have one account and everything that you say, you know,

Speaker 107 it should not, there should be no, no anonymous on there.

Speaker 49 Let everyone back up their words.

Speaker 36 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 79 Especially nudes in bio.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 80 Which is just all the tweets now.

Speaker 57 It's just every tweet that's under there.

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Speaker 4 I got a stat for you.

Speaker 2 You ready for a stat?

Speaker 64 And I want to know maybe if you change up.

Speaker 3 I mean, everything's working right now, but if you want to change up something for the final four, we could help you, you know, be coaches from afar.

Speaker 88 UConn's record when Andrew Hurley plays 41 and 0, when he doesn't, 63 and 29.

Speaker 5 Sounds like have you thought about starting him?

Speaker 107 I did on senior day.

Speaker 49 Oh, did you win?

Speaker 107 Well, I didn't end up starting him,

Speaker 107 but I met with him.

Speaker 107 We talked it through. We talked it through because the fans love him at UConn because he's not like an entitled asshole whose dad's the coach and the whole thing.
Like he's like a humble kid.

Speaker 107 He's a funny kid.

Speaker 107 He just does his thing. So, you know, I went to him before seeing you guys.
I said, listen, these people, you know, you fooled them. They think you're, you know, they're really behind you.

Speaker 107 And, you know, they celebrate you all the time. But if I start you, you play like shit and we lose this game and blow the big east regular season.
That whole thing shifts.

Speaker 107 And he didn't want to risk it.

Speaker 107 So we, you know, he just, he cleaned it up at the end. Yeah.

Speaker 36 I mean, my biggest qualm with your coaching recently has been that you have not let him shoot at the end. Yeah.
You're on the sidelines. He's your son.

Speaker 7 Now, I know what you're thinking.

Speaker 36 You want to be classy. You don't want to run the score up.
I get that side of it.

Speaker 36 But I would imagine that your dad would take more enjoyment of seeing him making a shot in that situation than anybody else.

Speaker 36 And one day he might be a coach and you're going to want to see your grandson hit a shot in a game like that. So you got to teach him.

Speaker 36 You got to let him in and be like, okay, you're going to get one shot here.

Speaker 107 Yeah, he and you know what? My dad is probably a better dad than me because he let me

Speaker 107 I think it was maybe maybe my sophomore year, I subbed my brother out county championship.

Speaker 107 You know, we were up, you know, 100 and he subbed me out at the end. And I hit a half court bank shot at the buzzer, I think, to win by 63

Speaker 107 or whatever. But

Speaker 107 we found that with Andrew in these games, that we have,

Speaker 107 he's been dribbling the ball out, though. Yeah.
You know, like he's, and he's racking up assists and rebounds. And then,

Speaker 107 you know, so he's showing that he's an all all-around player not not just a shooter yeah i mean the fact that he's gotten into every single tournament game in in this two-year run is is pretty awesome i mean that's he's clearly a big piece of the success 41 and oh you can't 41 and oh when he's in the game is pretty insane 41 and oh and and he's got uh the covet year eligibility

Speaker 107 and Yeah, so he's squeezing me hard now. NIL,

Speaker 107 he's obviously got tremendous leverage

Speaker 107 with the portal.

Speaker 56 Yeah, and I'm sure that

Speaker 68 he could talk to his mom and

Speaker 2 probably get you to show some leniency that way.

Speaker 36 I mean, he's the closer. You got to have some respect for the closer.
Yeah.

Speaker 107 He's the closer at Ted's on campus here.

Speaker 107 That's where all the madness goes on in stores.

Speaker 56 I had a real basketball question for you real quick.

Speaker 55 First of all, Donovan Klingen. Unbelievable.

Speaker 42 You also don't get enough credit for having his nickname, which should get, more people should be talking about it.

Speaker 32 You call him Kling Kong, which is awesome.

Speaker 30 But in a basketball perspective, watching him grow, you know, last year he had the injuries.

Speaker 66 This year, he's been unbelievable.

Speaker 15 Saturday night, he was just an absolute force.

Speaker 42 What is it, you know, what have you seen from his progression?

Speaker 24 And also, what does he do defensively that helps the entire team?

Speaker 2 Because I feel like he makes everything go, whether it be perimeter defense or shots at the rim, everything goes through him.

Speaker 107 Yeah. You know what? The thing that's unique about Donovan is

Speaker 107 you know really a couple things i mean he's 7'2 you know plus you know probably

Speaker 107 you know closer to 7'3 but and um you know once he got back from the uh from the injuries we just we wouldn't let him back on the court until he got his weight down into the 250s you know he probably came into the season like a little bit too heavy you know these guys you know with nil and everything they got they they got it pretty good so uh you know probably just came in a little bit heavy um

Speaker 107 but it's just rare that you see somebody that size moving around the court the way he does. With our offense, that moves a lot.
Our defense moves a lot.

Speaker 107 We attack the glass. We run in transition.
So we ask him to move around a lot. And I know that's what the NBA loves about him.

Speaker 107 Plus, he's like sometimes the big guys, especially the really tall ones,

Speaker 107 they don't have a lot of pop. They don't have a lot of personality.
They don't love to play. Somebody made them play because they were tall.

Speaker 107 They don't like when people ask them how tall they are all the time. They just start to, you know, kind of turtle up a little bit in their shell.
But he's like, you know, this dude is like alive.

Speaker 107 He's up at 5 a.m.

Speaker 107 If the weather was nice enough,

Speaker 107 he'd fish from 5 to 7,

Speaker 107 you know,

Speaker 107 get in the gym, wouldn't go to bed till, you know.

Speaker 107 2 a.m. And then he's back up at 5.
Like this dude is alive. So he's got this incredible energy about him.
So he's going to be a, you know,

Speaker 107 his, uh, his games are numbered here, obviously, at UConn. So we want to make the most of it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's, he's so much fun to watch, and it's just a great story because it's like, you know, even last year, he could have gone to the NBA draft after last year's run.

Speaker 37 He probably, you know, sat down with you and you were like, hey,

Speaker 46 we can show more of your game and progress you to a point where you feel even more confident.

Speaker 86 That's what I love about college basketball and what we kind of miss sometimes.

Speaker 107 Yeah, I mean, it's like he's not going to be in the NBA, you know, and he knows it. And, you know, you can make some money in NIL and do real well.
So it's not like, you know, you could still,

Speaker 107 you know, if you're a popular player and an excellent player, I mean, you could, these guys are going to be making close to what the rookies are making, you know, in college at some point soon anyway.

Speaker 107 But,

Speaker 107 you know, the guy, you know, he loves Connecticut. He's from here.
He always dreamed of playing here.

Speaker 107 He's got a chance to like, you know, if we win this thing this week, you know, he's got a chance to stake his claim to being like the greatest

Speaker 107 UConn player. If he gets two,

Speaker 107 becomes a lottery pick, he's won the Big East. He'll have

Speaker 107 done it all. But I think he just loves being on like a real team because once you get to the NBA,

Speaker 107 things change. It's a grown man world and like, you know, the locker room and the commitment to, you know,

Speaker 107 all right.

Speaker 39 I don't want to go.

Speaker 59 No, I mean, you're right, though.

Speaker 66 No, you're right.

Speaker 4 And I read an article where you said you talked about it.

Speaker 33 It's like, look, there's it's hard for a lot of these guys because, you know, the money's there and you can go to the NBA, but your goal is to make a lot of these guys get to a point where they can have long NBA careers, not just get drafted and make money, right?

Speaker 40 But you want these guys to be in the NBA for 10, 15 years.

Speaker 15 And I think that honesty is great.

Speaker 107 James Book Knight, you know, he was,

Speaker 107 if you remember him from a couple of years back, that COVID year, I mean, he was, I mean,

Speaker 107 six, five, like the perfect modern basketball NBA,

Speaker 107 you know, just that guy was a freak, man. The athleticism, the scoring, I mean, he dropped 40 on Creighton during a regular season as a sophomore.

Speaker 107 And at the end of his sophomore year, he was a lottery pick. I probably deep down inside knew he wasn't ready for that world, but

Speaker 107 I didn't see my obligation in that situation to say, hey, listen, you may need some more

Speaker 107 time on a college campus. You're not ready for that world.

Speaker 107 And I think James, you know, maybe not going to

Speaker 107 an organization that would hold him accountable like we did at UConn.

Speaker 107 Like, you know, he probably needed to go to a more buttoned-up place like a Miami Heat or something like that, where they're running a tight ship.

Speaker 107 But, you know, moving forward with these guys, if I think they're making a mistake and I think they need more time in college, I'm going to tell them I should have a book.

Speaker 36 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 36 UConn gun has a um a pretty cool opportunity in front of him you're going to a final four obviously the women's team could be in the final four too are you do you talk to to geno during the tournament and are you guys checking in with each other and like how how have you thought have you guys talked about how cool that would be to both be in the final fours at the same time yeah um i talk to gino

Speaker 107 all the time um

Speaker 107 whether it's stopping over there and seeing him or uh

Speaker 107 you know or him you know just dropping a call or a text you know either way the guy is like you know the smartest guy

Speaker 107 I mean just like just a super brilliant guy and he's been great to me from the start you know it's awkward for me with him and coach because

Speaker 107 they obviously don't you know they don't see eye to eye

Speaker 107 him and coach Calhoun but

Speaker 107 so I've got to kind of try to not let either guy you know see me

Speaker 107 you know too too buddied up to the other one or else that could cause some

Speaker 107 friction. But what Gino's done, man, is like they got like six scholarship players in the Elite Eight.
And Paige Becker's

Speaker 107 obviously

Speaker 107 just to see her play, it's amazing. And

Speaker 107 I know that she, you know, the queen wants her throne back and I know she's going to go hard for it

Speaker 107 tomorrow night.

Speaker 43 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 41 I mean, the run that both the men's and women's team is on is awesome.

Speaker 64 And there's nothing better.

Speaker 36 And I love that you call him coach. Like Calhoun is still coach.
How many guys do you call coach?

Speaker 107 PJ,

Speaker 107 my college coach.

Speaker 107 I call my dad my dad. I don't even know if I ever called him.

Speaker 107 I don't think I ever said anything. I don't think I ever said coach or dad during those high school years with my father.

Speaker 107 Coach Blaney. Yeah, just my college coaches, really.

Speaker 107 And then those two,

Speaker 107 they're giants, man. Coach Calhoun, he'll be in practice this week.

Speaker 107 He'll talk to the boys and he'll give them a proper send-off. He'll bring them in a circle.
He'll rip, you know, he'll rip a couple guys. He doesn't like the way they're playing.
He'll rip them.

Speaker 107 And then he'll tell them, like, you know,

Speaker 107 it ain't enough.

Speaker 107 Basically, you know, it ain't enough, man. You got to pick your shit up.

Speaker 92 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 3 So I got one last question. This has been awesome as always, Coach.

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Speaker 15 It's actually not a question. It's a statement.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 75 So this run has been incredible.

Speaker 15 You've, you've, you know, we've still got two games left, not looking ahead, but it's been an incredible run.

Speaker 2 I want you to know, though, probably the most incredible part of this run is Max, our producer, who's a a diehard Villanova fan, you've taken all the fight out of him.

Speaker 86 You've taken all the fight out of him.

Speaker 32 You remember when you came into the studio last year and we were like, that's the guy who bet against you every single game.

Speaker 66 This year, he's like, he's just laying down. He just doesn't care.

Speaker 59 He can't fight anymore.

Speaker 60 I heard.

Speaker 107 I listened to it. I listened to it.
It made me sad. Yeah, very sad.

Speaker 107 That segment that you guys did after that Marquette game. Yeah.
Where

Speaker 107 he's a broken man man and broken fan, you know, and it was just sad.

Speaker 107 You never want to see that from your, you know, there's no feeling like loving your team and believing in your team. And for a man to have that, you know, ripped from his hands, it's just, it's sad.

Speaker 29 It's really sad, Max.

Speaker 82 It's so sad.

Speaker 41 I mean, that, like, when you think about it, things that have happened in Max's life that are just like the worst is, is he just has to go back to your speech when you lost to Villanova and then you better get us now because we're coming.

Speaker 15 Like, that was the start of the end of Max's life.

Speaker 107 Max, hey, Max, I would say this in Max's defense. I mean,

Speaker 107 those non-conference wins, tremendous. You know, what hurts them, though, is

Speaker 107 those big five games are just brutal games to have on your schedule.

Speaker 103 Yeah, I mean, they six in the big five issues.

Speaker 107 Well, they're tough games because, you know, they're the Super Bowl of all those low-to-mid majors. And

Speaker 107 for Villanova, when you're playing Carolina in the non-conference and all these big games,

Speaker 107 and then you're getting ready for the Big East,

Speaker 107 it's not as circled on your calendar and they're neutral or they're in weird places. And it's just,

Speaker 107 I wonder if you asked,

Speaker 107 you know.

Speaker 107 I wonder if you asked those guys whether they like having those big five games on their schedule.

Speaker 7 That's tough.

Speaker 36 Is this making you like reignite your hatred a little little bit? The fact that your bitter rival is

Speaker 43 patting you on the head. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 103 I've been patted on the head for the past two years. It's just what it is.

Speaker 103 I will say,

Speaker 103 I haven't bet on UConn one time this tournament, but

Speaker 103 I haven't been against them once.

Speaker 98 You learned your lesson.

Speaker 103 I just know you're going to win, and I can't root for you.

Speaker 57 There's nothing you can do about it.

Speaker 103 But at least I'm not rooting against you like I was last year. Yeah.

Speaker 107 Last year, you were against this.

Speaker 49 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 25 The whole way. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 82 He bet against you every single game.

Speaker 42 He's like, they can't do it.

Speaker 2 Dan Hurley can't coach you.

Speaker 103 I didn't say that.

Speaker 103 He said all these things.

Speaker 103 I didn't say that. He kept on saying them.

Speaker 82 By the way,

Speaker 50 so you've been standing.

Speaker 57 He did flip.

Speaker 56 It flipped. I didn't flip.

Speaker 107 Why did he flip?

Speaker 36 You killed him this year. I think

Speaker 36 after the Big East tournament this year, when Villanova got bounced, I think he just gave up all hope.

Speaker 56 Yeah, he also got up.

Speaker 36 He just said baseball season.

Speaker 46 He got up big for that Saturday night game when Villanova came to Connecticut.

Speaker 73 He was like, this is the start of the run for Villanova.

Speaker 68 That kind of just extends.

Speaker 103 Well, we got you guys coming off a loss. That was bullshit.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 56 He was so mad that he lost to Creighton because he's like, no, we needed this.

Speaker 52 But he, so, one thing about Max, and I want to actually want your take.

Speaker 75 My last question, because you have been standing up for your league, which I love that.

Speaker 41 You know, the Big East should have had more than three teams in the tournament.

Speaker 15 Max has the take that it's actually anti-Italian discrimination because the Big East is an Italian league.

Speaker 69 Do you agree with that?

Speaker 107 Yeah,

Speaker 107 I never put that together.

Speaker 107 I had a lot of conspiracies as to why it was happening.

Speaker 49 Yeah. But

Speaker 107 not the Italian thing. I thought it had more to do with

Speaker 107 not having big-time football or whoever.

Speaker 107 The weird thing is, too, is

Speaker 107 in that room, there's with all those committee members, when the representative from your league, when they are talking about teams in your league, that person's not allowed to stay in the room.

Speaker 107 So I guess what you got to learn, we have got to learn the art of is like, I guess, of how to destroy these other conferences when you are in the room.

Speaker 107 Right, yeah, right, because they refuse you, yeah, yeah, because yeah, you gotta, you can't that you can't fight for your teams, you can't say a word about your teams, but you, uh, but you do have the ability, though, um, to crush the other people, yeah.

Speaker 36 And what, what channel do you guys play your games on in the Big East?

Speaker 7 What network is that? Yeah, I know.

Speaker 36 Fox, what network, what network is the uh NCAA tournament on?

Speaker 107 Just yeah it's been on it's been on cbs or unless you're the defending you know national champs that uh have had a historic season and and and won almost everything you know then you you know you're a true tv

Speaker 107 yeah yeah interesting or playing it or playing at two o'clock on friday instead of prime time which you know like you honestly you know we you know whether we're able to finish this thing off and have the great week and and deliver you know like historic level stuff with a completely new team um

Speaker 107 you know just when you've done what we've when you've done what we've done we we just you deserve those prime time slots you deserve um you know the attention that that comes with with all the success these guys have achieved that's all yeah um now you know if we come up short on saturday um you know or monday if we get through saturday and and uh you know people want to go at me for uh you know for for for talking and being confident and believing in the team and talking a lot of shit.

Speaker 107 And, you know, they'll have that moment. But I turned my notifications off.

Speaker 107 So I won't hear the shit anyway. Yes, there you go.

Speaker 23 So, yeah, look into that Italian discrimination thing.

Speaker 90 It goes deeper, I think.

Speaker 85 Max is on to something.

Speaker 66 Big East is Italian League.

Speaker 49 Hey, Max.

Speaker 25 Max.

Speaker 107 Max, as soon as I'm done with this season, man,

Speaker 107 I'm on that.

Speaker 25 I'm going to figure that out. Thank you.
Thank you.

Speaker 103 I need that. I need someone from the inside.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Well, coach, thank you so much.

Speaker 37 We appreciate it.

Speaker 2 Best of luck.

Speaker 21 I'm rooting for you guys.

Speaker 15 Maybe because I put a future on you after you lost to Kansas because I was like, this team's good.

Speaker 15 I'm the anti-max in the room.

Speaker 44 But, yeah, good luck.

Speaker 23 And anytime you're in Chicago, next time you're here, we've got to have you come out because we've got a full basketball court.

Speaker 36 You got to

Speaker 55 run us through some drills.

Speaker 107 Yeah, I would love to do that. I mean, was Coach Bettino? Was he in studio?

Speaker 75 Yeah, he was in studio, yeah.

Speaker 33 So we got to do it. Yeah, I get.

Speaker 107 I got to get back in studio. Let's do it.
Yeah.

Speaker 63 All right.

Speaker 52 Well, best of luck, Coach.

Speaker 2 We'll be watching on Saturday night the late game.

Speaker 88 Some respect.

Speaker 40 The late game on Saturday night.

Speaker 46 Coach Dan Hurley, congrats, and let's go win two more.

Speaker 107 Let's go. Let's do it.

Speaker 94 Man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 38 When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts.

Speaker 106 That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed.
Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate. It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 106 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this: Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else.

Speaker 38 Snickers satisfies, man.

Speaker 104 That's a winning play.

Speaker 52 Okay, let's wrap up the show.

Speaker 19 We forgot one very important topic that we need to bring up.

Speaker 15 And I'm not taking this lightly because we actually need to have a discussion about this.

Speaker 23 The Philadelphia Phillies hung a banner for losing the World Series.

Speaker 53 The town that doesn't hang banners.

Speaker 7 It wasn't the World Series.

Speaker 45 Oh, yeah, they didn't lose. Oh, they lost the NLCS.

Speaker 49 Oh, God, I got my idea.

Speaker 36 And so they didn't even hang the banner for

Speaker 100 the World Series.

Speaker 36 They hung a banner for a year to just celebrate a good year.

Speaker 46 This is coming from our good, good friend, Max,

Speaker 4 who has claimed that we don't care about banners for losing years. We don't hang banners for losing years.
They hung a banner for a year when they

Speaker 66 choked in the NLCS and lost games six and seven at the bank.

Speaker 36 So Max, why is this flag a different color? I don't get that.

Speaker 98 I don't want to talk about this.

Speaker 7 Oh, no, I have to have a series.

Speaker 70 You thought you were going to get through the game.

Speaker 103 I didn't talk about it. I was happy to not talk about it.

Speaker 84 Yeah, you can pull up the text I sent to Hank and PFT right before we stepped in the studio.

Speaker 99 I said, let's not bring it up till the end to make him think that we just missed it because you thought in your sick little head we would miss this.

Speaker 103 Well, we talked about baseball. I was like, all right, nice.

Speaker 63 Yeah, we did that on purpose.

Speaker 52 Hank was like, I'm going to do who's back Bryce Harper.

Speaker 68 You think we can get through it without bringing it up?

Speaker 73 I was like, yes, we'll avoid it because we have to have a serious discussion about the city of Philadelphia hanging a banner for a year that they lost in the NLCS Max.

Speaker 42 It's probably going to confuse some people, too.

Speaker 98 Oh, there's probably some people

Speaker 58 in the stadium being like, what year is it? Oh, it's 2023.

Speaker 36 I'm confused right now because there's other flags out there. Some are blue.

Speaker 36 What is blue flag? Like the dark blue?

Speaker 36 I think the dark blue means lost the World Series.

Speaker 15 Oh, that makes sense.

Speaker 36 And then the white means won the World Series. Oh.
And then the sky blue that they hung up means lost in the almost lost the World Series. Almost lost.
They didn't even win the division.

Speaker 12 They won nothing.

Speaker 63 I don't know what.

Speaker 36 You hung a wild card banner.

Speaker 103 Which is

Speaker 103 insane. Like, that needs to be taken down immediately.
There was a part of me that they won today. They lost the first two games.

Speaker 103 There was a part of me that I wanted them to lose every single game that that flag was up so that something had to be done for it to be taken down.

Speaker 103 I thought that they would never win as long as that flag was up. It can't be up.
It can't be up. That flag can't be there.

Speaker 103 It has to be like an opening series thing, and then they'll take it down by...

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 what, to celebrate the year that we're in?

Speaker 58 Yeah, but it was a fun year, Max. Like, you don't, like, you guys made the playoffs.

Speaker 70 Yeah, you beat the Braves.

Speaker 23 This is the most pathetic thing.

Speaker 103 It's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 70 You thought it was Photoshopped.

Speaker 103 No, I knew it wasn't Photoshopped.

Speaker 52 You thought, though, in your head, you were like, maybe it is.

Speaker 92 So,

Speaker 12 as the mayor of Philadelphia who claims that we don't hang banners for losing seasons,

Speaker 4 where do we go from here?

Speaker 42 Everything that you stood for is gone.

Speaker 58 Are they going to give our rings for this, too?

Speaker 59 Oh, they probably should.

Speaker 47 What would the ring be?

Speaker 29 3-2 lead in the NLCS?

Speaker 21 NLCS participant, which is what they did in the World Series.

Speaker 36 National League finalist. Yeah.

Speaker 36 Like the Colts banner.

Speaker 7 I don't know.

Speaker 36 You're no different from the Colts. Yeah.

Speaker 79 You are the Colts.

Speaker 29 You're the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 103 Yeah, I don't know what you want me to say. Like, I'm not fighting.
Like, you guys are.

Speaker 36 This is. It's a direct reflection on you.

Speaker 103 I'm on your side.

Speaker 36 But this is representative of you, Matt. This is your city.
This is

Speaker 70 what you believe in.

Speaker 103 I might

Speaker 103 go to Citizens Bank Park, scale that poll, and take it down myself.

Speaker 33 Now we've got to see that happen. I'll pay your bail.

Speaker 63 I'll pay your bail.

Speaker 36 You would probably get cheered. There would probably be raucous applause in the stands for Max.

Speaker 46 Have you gotten an answer on what is going on with this thing?

Speaker 92 No, I have no.

Speaker 103 Like, I know nothing. I want it down so badly.

Speaker 36 This is such a bad banner. I could see it affecting other sports in that city.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 98 Big time.

Speaker 36 You need to cut this off now.

Speaker 76 Big Dom needs to take that banner down.

Speaker 57 Yeah.

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 103 I don't know. I don't get it.
It makes no sense. I don't know what

Speaker 103 I don't know what they're celebrating. I don't know why that couldn't.

Speaker 36 The Philadelphia that I know.

Speaker 58 I'm sure there's Phillies fans that are like, yes, thank you. Now

Speaker 58 remember.

Speaker 60 Zero.

Speaker 29 Now we can remember the time Max got in overalls and pigtails and screamed at everyone.

Speaker 36 People of Philadelphia that I know, that I love, the die-hard weirdos that love these teams, they would not let this stand. They would have already done something about it.
This is your call, Philly.

Speaker 96 They're just happy to be there.

Speaker 43 I'm with Max.

Speaker 36 I refuse to believe this is real. If it is real,

Speaker 36 it's quite sad.

Speaker 19 Quite sad, Max.

Speaker 103 I don't know what to say. It needs to be down.

Speaker 103 I need the people of Philadelphia to rally behind everyone and just say that we need some sort of protest so that this banner gets taken, this flag gets taken.

Speaker 36 Hank was just saying, it sounds like they like the flag.

Speaker 7 No, that's incredible.

Speaker 4 Were people as outraged as you were?

Speaker 103 Yes.

Speaker 2 Okay, Pug, you're a Philly fan.

Speaker 103 He's not, he's an Eagles fan. That's it.

Speaker 43 Oh, you're only Eagles fan? Yeah. No, Phillies.

Speaker 99 What is he?

Speaker 99 Not Philly's fan.

Speaker 94 Not Phillies. Oh, not Phillies, Pug.

Speaker 29 Okay, but Pug,

Speaker 32 this will probably infect the Eagles.

Speaker 26 This will infect the Eagles for his type of loser behavior.

Speaker 36 It's going to infect the 76ers. Yep.

Speaker 53 They probably won't even win a playoff series.

Speaker 75 I actually will say right now, they're not going to win a playoff series.

Speaker 36 You know what? It's infected the Flyers already. Yeah.
The Flyers, they lost their playoff spot to the Capitals. They lost the Blackhawks.

Speaker 49 Maybe.

Speaker 103 I think that's right. I don't know.

Speaker 98 They got me.

Speaker 103 I watched my first two Flyers games last year.

Speaker 36 Yeah, and is it any coincidence that this all started to happen after this flag went up?

Speaker 63 Next thing you know, Nova won't even make the tournament.

Speaker 36 No, come on. All right.
Come on, people. Come on.

Speaker 7 That's fine, Pog.

Speaker 50 All right.

Speaker 18 That is our show.

Speaker 26 I think we're going to do a baseball preview on Wednesday, earlier than ever.

Speaker 43 Love it.

Speaker 21 We've got a special guest to do a baseball preview.

Speaker 36 And the boys are off to Phoenix slash Glendale slash slash Scottsdale slash

Speaker 36 Scottsdale

Speaker 21 slash all that for the final four.

Speaker 17 And then it's Masters Week, boys. And then it's Masters Week.

Speaker 14 And then we're kicking it into high gear.

Speaker 17 We're turning the corner on, like, I love how the sports calendar works, where you get March Madness, and then you just look up, and it's like all, like, 16 playoff games on a night, on a weekend, on a Saturday and Sunday.

Speaker 58 Best two weeks of my sports calendar year, I think.

Speaker 69 Really?

Speaker 58 I love the first round of NHL and

Speaker 7 NBA playoffs.

Speaker 36 Well, I mean, NHL wasn't two weeks for you last year.

Speaker 58 Yeah, but just as a sports fan, we don't have to talk about me specifically.

Speaker 36 Okay. That wasn't about you.
No,

Speaker 58 for me, I'm not worried until conference championships.

Speaker 72 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 58 But every night having meaningful games is the best.

Speaker 36 It is nice, yeah.

Speaker 84 This is going to be the most intense Celtics run. Yeah.

Speaker 64 Yeah.

Speaker 64 You've got to win it all. Actually,

Speaker 36 if your city has two teams, if you have a team in the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs, those weeks are just chaos for you. It's so fun.
It's the best.

Speaker 53 Yeah, no, I don't have anything.

Speaker 93 I don't have anything.

Speaker 72 Bulls are going to be in a plane.

Speaker 49 Fucking

Speaker 58 Bulls Six or Celtics is looking pretty.

Speaker 81 The Bulls would have to win two

Speaker 58 and then play Celtics.

Speaker 30 Yeah, they'd have to win two games against playing

Speaker 48 teams.

Speaker 7 Like the Sixers.

Speaker 57 Right.

Speaker 30 They're not going to win two games.

Speaker 66 All right. Numbers.

Speaker 60 40. 8.

Speaker 61 3. 20.

Speaker 26 Max, I feel like your number should be 2.

Speaker 7 7.

Speaker 103 No, second place.

Speaker 7 Oh, I'll be 2.

Speaker 92 I'll go two. I'll go two.

Speaker 76 Can I change my number to two today?

Speaker 36 If I can change mine to 11. Okay.

Speaker 58 Maybe 23.

Speaker 66 Let's just start again. Numbers.
20.

Speaker 61 11.

Speaker 34 2.

Speaker 12 18. 3.

Speaker 59 99, Pug.

Speaker 61 21.

Speaker 97 That's Shane.

Speaker 8 Sounded like 21 Savage, though, she did.

Speaker 55 74.

Speaker 36 Love you guys.

Speaker 39 Talking away.

Speaker 39 I don't know

Speaker 49 I'm coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 39 Needless to say,

Speaker 39 I wanna set it

Speaker 39 up.

Speaker 39 Slowly learning that life is okay.

Speaker 39 Say after me.

Speaker 39 At least no better to be safe and sorry. Say after me

Speaker 39 better to be safe and sorry.

Speaker 39 Dream only

Speaker 39 I

Speaker 39 will

Speaker 39 drink all the time

Speaker 39 Things that I can say

Speaker 39 oh, just to play my word easy.

Speaker 39 You are the things I've got to remember. And you're shy and away.

Speaker 39 Well, I'll be coming with you anyway.

Speaker 39 In the shine away.

Speaker 39 Well, I'll be coming with you anyway.

Speaker 39 Take on me.

Speaker 39 take on me. I'll make

Speaker 39 your song

Speaker 39 take on me.

Speaker 39 Take on me, I'll make

Speaker 39 you

Speaker 39 take on the