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He is the college basketball insider. Perfect day to have him on.
He came straight from the Rick Pitino press conference. He also has a lot of thoughts about Ed Cooley, the rest of the tournament.
Great time with him. And then we have our old friend, Damon John in studio.
He has a new book, a children's book, and he teaches PFT and I about economics like we're children. Cause we are, it was very fun interview.
One of those interviews where I think his publicist came out was like, that was the best interview he's ever done so uh both must listen we're going to talk world baseball classic we got hot seat cool throne and then we have guys on chicks to finish off the show there's making a sandwich and then there's crafting a sandwich and when i want something perfectly crafted i go straight to boar's head for over a century boar's Head has been dedicated to crafting premium deli favorites. Every ingredient is carefully chosen, every recipe made with a purpose.
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Today is Wednesday, March 22nd, and the St. Louis Cardinals have lost America.
Okay. Go on.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, Paul Goldschmidt just hitting into a double play when we had a little rally going. I mean, we lost.
We lost. USA lost to Japan for all the baseball crazies who have been yelling at everyone online.
We watched the entire game. We taped after the game.
I enjoyed the game. It was incredible.
Our hero, our collective hero, who's been on all of our teams. Kyle Schwarber is the absolute man.
That was like my favorite moment because we all have known from watching Kyle Schwarber play baseball when he's locked in and he hit like four home runs and one at bat. It just, one of them had to eventually go fair.
And, but we ended Shohei Otani striking out Mike Trout. The game ends.
Was it strikeout? Yeah, it was a strikeout. And it was, I felt really the big loser of tonight was the, was the Los Angeles angels of Anaheim because, wow, that lasted bat.
John Smoltz said it best best i think there were two strikes and john smoltz goes and these two guys right now two of the best baseball players to ever play the sport it was awesome it was a great game though i i i loved watching it we always said we've been consistent on this show we weren't going to care about the world baseball classic until the united states started winning and then then we're going to become fair weather fans. And it turns out it was an electric atmosphere.
And you're right about that Schwarber at bat. Everybody in the stadium knew that Schwarber was about to hit a home run because he hit probably, I'd say like three quarters of a mile worth of home runs during that at bat.
And then one just happened to go fair and shout out to the guy in the outfield that almost killed himself trying to catch that ball and fell over the railing. Like, yeah, that was at that moment.
I just thought like, if you could build the entire team out of Schwarber, I think we would win this game 15 to nothing. He's the absolute best.
He just pissed on the baseball. Like it was exit velocity of 120.
That's my own stat cast sitting on my couch.

Yeah, it was a fun game.

I enjoyed it.

I watched the entire game.

Smoltz was, I think it's just maybe it's a little early for him because he also had a moment that he had to correct himself

where he's like, this guy, Hugh Darvish, is going to be a star in this league.

And then he corrected himself.

He's like, well, he's already been really, really good.

He's been around for a while, dude.

He seemed like he was on Quaaludes the entire game,

just kind of like in a fog, wasn't really feeling the atmosphere.

Schwarber hit a ball probably, I don't know, 450 feet

to the right of the foul pole, and then Smoltz was just like,

and here's the payoff pitch.

Like, didn't even talk about it.

It was honestly bizarre listening to Smoltz talk about it,

but it was an awesome game. Good tournament shout out to baseball great tournament shout out to baseball

and and i'm i was kind of joking but i mean the heart of our lineup was st louis cardinals and

they went one for seven not great right i mean if we're if we're doing the blame what are you

gonna say hank i keep finish i have some more blame well if we're doing a blame i i think i'd

start with those guys get some hits and some big moments and maybe this game maybe we can be sitting here bragging about uh the u.s being the best in baseball i also the other note was well to that point big cat yeah there was three philadelphia phillies on the team so well fitting that was my other point place oh yeah it was it was i think it absolutely counts as another max second place because the two runs are scored by Phillies. The Phillies tried their hardest.
They were treating it like the world series. And just like Philadelphia does all the time, we came up second place, right? Yeah.
I mean, at least we didn't get no hit this time. So that's kind of nice.
Max, former national Trey Turner used to be good until Philly corrupted him.

Max, thoughts?

Second place?

You tell us how to deal with this because you know so well.

This is bullshit.

My entire mentions right now are just that I'm a jinx once again and that my guys are the only ones who fucking showed up.

And now it's Philly's fault again,

even though they were the best players on the team.

They were close.

They tried their hardest.

They came up just short.

All they were doing was hitting bombs.

We're doing they when they were playing for Team USA.

It's like, but yeah, no, in terms of,

so obviously, like we said, PFT alluded to it,

we were going to pay attention if the U.S. got far in the tournament and also as soon as march madness wasn't on um i i had my first brush with baseball twitter i think they're just they're on high alert this entire tournament it's been a great it has been a great tournament i watched the entire game tonight i've seen clips from other games i thought it was very fun i'm not a world baseball classic hater, but if you tell me, would you rather watch world baseball classic or March Madness? I'd say March Madness a hundred times out of a hundred times.
That's okay. Everyone can like what they like, but, uh, it was funny.
Cause I had, I did tweet like there's no, like world baseball classic is stupid anyway, essentially because we lost if we had won, I would have been like, this is the greatest victory ever. And I had like a little touch of the baseball Twitter people who have been on high alert for the last week and a half defending the game.
Stand down, people. Stand back and stand down.
I don't actually care that much. I thought it was a fun tournament.
I'm down for the more World Baseball Classic. It seemed like a really good time.
Just maybe don't schedule it during March Madness, and I'd watch every game. I think that baseball has become the new hockey in terms of their fan base being like, please like my sport, and being on high alert in case anybody out there seems to be quasi-disrespectful or at least ambivalent towards their sport.
So hockey fans have actually been pretty chill on that recently. There's not a lot of the please like my sports stuff going on, but man, the world, it's not even like these

people don't even care that much during major league baseball season. It was just, it was just

during the world baseball classic that everybody was like, you need to respect this tournament.

And yeah, there, guess what? I'm telling you right now, don't get mad at me. You're right.

The tournament kicked ass. It was an awesome tournament, but still, but still chill.
Just please, chill out. Baseball season hasn't even started yet.
Relax. Someone told me that this was more electric.
This one game was more electric than the last 10 World Series. I'm going to disagree with that.
I really liked the 2016 World Series. Yeah.
Personally. I love the 2019 World Series world series like there was some pretty good moments

yeah yeah max did you like the 2020 fuck off fuck off say you up for that but yeah the um i here's

here's a here's an idea throw this out there why don't they play 140 games major league baseball

season and then we can have a world baseball classic every year and you can expand the

tournament i'd be down for that that would be cool i would be so down you want to expand the

Thank you. 140 games major league baseball season and then we can have a world baseball classic every year and you can expand the tournament i'd be down for that that would be cool i would be so down you want to expand the tournament right now we've yeah right now half the teams are filled with like american players from double a baseball oh yeah we sent mechanics for pitchers so let's just say there's an asterisk next to japan's win but uh i'm saying expand the tournament like if you had told me this was a three-game series or a five-game series, I'd be like, I'm in.
No, I disagree. I love the one-game format for a championship game.
You would watch tomorrow night. Come on.
It's so much better this way, though. Both teams empty the tank.
Shohei coming in to pitch the ninth inning. You would watch tomorrow night.
It would be fun if it was a five-game series. I would.
Baseball's meant to be played in series. Now you're turning into one of those baseball people that's like, stop being a hater on baseball.
No. I'm asking for more baseball.
I know. I love this format.
The format's awesome. You don't get it anywhere else.
You're asking for the same amount of baseball. Either way, we give two thumbs up to World Baseball Classic.
Everyone can chill out. You're coming at the wrong podcast because we we actually made the conscious decision we recorded the rest of the show uh around noon today and we're sitting in the studio and we're like should we wait till after the game and we're like you know what we respect the world baseball classic so much we respect team usa so much yeah we're gonna wait till after the game we're gonna record like this is an nba playoff game or Sunday night football game.
That's how much we respect World Baseball Classic. We respect it so much I didn't even tweet about World War II during the game.
Yeah, so you wanted to empty the clip. There were a lot of nuclear bomb jokes being thrown around.
I'm not really prepared. Okay, yeah, you're right.
He's pulling out a scroll right now for the people listening. He just busted out a scroll.
I I'm not prepared really and he told us before I got them all written here I'm not prepared for for doing these but the US need to play small ball going base to base or as we called it in the 1940s island hopping hey you guys if we wanted to shock Japan, we should have started Doolittle.

Nice.

One thing I was really afraid of was Japanese sacrifice flies.

Okay, I like that one.

That one's the winner so far.

Boys, the Japanese really have great vibes in the dugout.

All the fellas are cheering.

Even for Japan, that's a lot of ramen.

Oh, okay. One of my favorite behind-the-scenes guys must have been there because i heard one of the vendors yelling yoza nice american pitching wasn't great the u.s didn't have the flamethrowers this time where was aaron judge where was garrett cole where was rizzo we need more guys who worked on a manhattan project and in the japan and in the end the japanese fishermen dealt a crushing blow yet again in an area where the dolphins like to play and now back to fat man and little boy aka part of my take nice good job those are all off the top of my head.
That's what we call improv, ladies and gentlemen. Damn.
Yes, and. Alright, anything else from World Baseball Classic? Yeah, go ahead, Jake.
Jake's going to be like, this is the most romantic game I've ever watched of baseball in my life. No, it was obviously in my hometown.
I had multiple people either send pictures or texts saying that the part of my cheesesteak line was very long but very worth it. It was in the concourse at the World Baseball Classic.
Speaking of which, I've been getting a shitload of WhatsApp. Oh, Marlinsman sent me that too.
Text messages from Marlinsman. Yeah.
But I haven't updated my WhatsApp because I haven't been getting a shitload of WhatsApp text messages from Marlins, man.

Yeah.

But I haven't updated my WhatsApp because I haven't been on a bachelor party in a really long time.

That's pretty much the only time you update your WhatsApp.

He said, show this to Dan.

And it was just a video of World Baseball Classic.

Oh, okay.

Can you play it? Oh, that was cool. That was really cool.
He was at the World Baseball Classic. Hold on.
I've just updated my WhatsApp. He sent me a lot of texts to him.
69 getting thrown out of the World Baseball Classic. Yeah, that was it.
That was a guy in the 69 jersey. That was it.
I want to know how Marlins man decides which app to use to message on any given occasion. Because I'll get a DM on Twitter.
I'll get a DM on Instagram. He's all over the place.
He texted me saying, check the video I just sent you. And it was a video on WhatsApp.
That's weird. I don't know.
Moving different. Like a spy.
Like, go to the park and look under the bench. He's doing dead drops.
You'll find a video of a guy in his 69 jersey getting kicked out. Yeah.
And, oh, Wisconsin in the Final Four. That also happened tonight.
NIT, the most important tournament out there. I, this, tonight was a big night for me of watching two sports games where I was like emotionally not going to be vulnerable.
And then by the end I was a little bit pissed about one and obviously happy the Badgers won where I'm like, don't do this to yourself. These games don't matter.
And then, and then when struck out, I was like, fuck, man. I really wanted a rally.
So I'm going to stick up for our guy Jake here because he's been getting a lot of shit for having just a disaster of a bracket, just an absolute cluster. Not one region correct.
Well, he was almost close. And what region was that, Jake? The region where there were no upsets.
But I'm going to stand up for Jake because he has been getting

a lot of shit. He has almost a perfect

NIT bracket.

He has the Badgers.

I'm in first place in NIT

Stu's celebrity region and fourth

place overall out of 819 people.

And you have the Badgers winning it all?

Badgers beating Jelly Walker

and UAB in the championship.

Look at you Jake.

If UAB beats Vandy tomorrow I'll have three or four in the final four in the NIT. Whoa.
Alright, so we maybe just need to start, just forget the real tournament, let's just talk NIT. Hey, you're on the same train this year.
Yeah. Do you think Shohei and Trout bust each other's balls? I think after a week or so.
There's got to be some sort of... Even in general, before...
No. I'm saying going into the game, do you think they're boys? Or do you think they're just like...
I think they're boys. It would be hard to not be boys with the only other good player on your shitty team.
Yeah. You're suffering together through all this.
He's the only person in the world that could possibly understand what you're going through because he's like the second best baseball player and so you guys at least have a shared experience i was gonna say i i feel like shohei otani is like 10 times funnier than trout like he probably has so much more personality than trout so i think shohei might try toout's balls, and Trout just sits there and is like, can't wait for the Eagles season. Yeah.
Like, that's just all going through his head. Honestly, good for Japan.
Because I feel like they would have taken it a lot harder if they had lost than the U.S. did.
Yeah. And it was the most watched baseball game of all time.
Is that right, Jake? I think they were anticipating on that, but obviously it takes some time to get the numbers.

All right, well, let us know because I want to know if that was four hours well spent or not.

Yeah, I need to know.

That will determine whether or not it was a good game

is how high the ratings were.

But yeah, World Baseball Classic, two thumbs up.

Maybe play it in the middle of the summer or something.

Maybe make it longer.

I don't know.

But I liked it.

When is it again?

Four years from now?

Every four years probably, yeah.

So maybe everyone... Play it in the middle of the summer or something.
Maybe make it longer. I don't know.
But I liked it.

When is it again?

Four years from now?

Every four years probably, yeah.

So maybe every two years.

That would actually get me a little more juiced up.

Because I feel like I forget about it.

They should do this for hockey.

Yeah.

How sick would that be?

Hockey would be awesome.

Why doesn't baseball have a big presence in the Summer Olympics?

Well, they do play in the Olympics.

Well, because it's in the summer.

Yeah, I guess.

That's baseball season.

Yeah, it's true.

But in the NHL, they pause.

They don't anymore.

Oh, okay.

They stopped doing that.

They stopped sending our pros, which sucks.

I don't know why.

I agree with you, Jake.

The Olympics should have, yeah, make the world.

Yeah, instead of giving. They gave them gold medals at the end, didn't they? They probably had some sort of award, yeah.
Yeah, I think they got medals. I think they had medals.
They should take a break. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
Should we kick it to ourselves back in studio for the rest of the show? Johnny Fanta and Damon John, awesome, awesome interviews and a lot of other stuff. Hot seat, cool, thrown as well.
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Okay. Hot seat, cool, strong.
Hank. My hot seat is Scotty Pippen Jr.
Oh. Lakers? He's on the Lakers.
I'm not sure if he's on the team or if he's on the G League team. But his mom.
Yeah. Larsa Pippen.
Larsa Pippen, married to scotty pippen uh came out with a clip that is going super viral saying she had sex three times a day for 24 years straight whoa which fucking that's a lot of fucking but if you're on a professional basketball team locker room talk like that's just that that can't be fun in the locker room to have your teammates knowing that information and probably talk and also mj's son dates her

yeah that is tough also that's tough if you're a professional athlete and you're having sex

three or four times a day that's that's a lot of sex to be having that's going to affect your

stamina isn't it wait it's not tough for mj's son why is it tough for mj's son oh to hear about

larsa pippen fucking three times a day and knowing knowing that you would not. It was four times a night.
Four times a night. Oh, I thought it was three times a night, yeah.
There's a big difference between three times a day and four times a night. Well, we are sex positive.
You can't celebrate Wilt Chamberlain and not also celebrate Larsa Pippen. So good for her.
Yeah. Well, you got Billy.
Billy, you got something? No, good for her. I'm pro.
It sounds awesome. I'm saying if you're the son, you don't want that to be public.
Yeah, it's tough for your mom to be like, I fuck all the time. Yeah.
What were you going to say, Billy? And for MJ Jr., it's like, fuck, I thought two times a night was great.

Depending on the definition of sex in her context,

Scotty may have been only having sex once a night.

That's a good point.

I think that makes more sense.

Is she saying that she came four times a night?

I think that's good. Or is she saying, Scotty does have good dick game confirmed.

When does having sex occur? When do you count it as one time yeah i count it personally as every stroke so yeah i count it as every time i jerk off yeah so i have sex usually when i have sex i have sex at least five times during one sex kissing yeah kissing is sex i thought that for a long time really till when 19 20 pretty much You thought that's how people got pregnant? Yeah, I mean, probably until I was like 13, maybe 14 health classes ago. I also once smoked weed adjacent to Larsa Pippen.
That was cool. At Super Bowl in LA.
She and Antonio Brown showed up, and Antonio Brown was like, we want to smoke weed at this restaurant. And the waiter was like, well, everyone's got to be cool with it.
And we're like, yeah, we're cool with it if you just give us some. And he has a blunt roller with him at all times.
Got to. Which is a fucking awesome move.
The woman was like, yeah, I'm Antonio Brown's blunt roller. You guys want one? I was like, yes.
Do you think Scottie Pippen could have been having sex? Do you think he'd be better at basketball if he was having less sex? Or do you think he was so good at basketball because he was having all that sex? Well, he did have back problems, right? That's true. He blew out his own back.
Yeah. It happens.
Yeah, it does happen. Okay, good hot seat.
I thought your hot seat was going to be Max. Well, breaking moves.
Celtics do control their own destiny. Yeah, Sixers no longer control their own destiny.

Again, it wasn't that big a deal.

I wasn't worried about it.

Playoff Harden showed up early.

What happened?

The Bulls beat the Sixers on Monday night in one of the worst games I've ever watched.

I think they scored like 115 points in two overtimes, which is hard to do in today's NBA. Feels like everyone scores a million points.
Yeah, Harden didn't have a good game. A really bad game.
Yeah, really, really, really bad game. Embiid fouled out.
And spoiler alert, Sixers are not great when Embiid doesn't play. Yeah.
I don't think. He played like 45 minutes.
Yeah, well, and he played well in those 45 minutes. So does that game against the Celtics become a must win? Yeah.
Well, they have to play the Bulls again on Wednesday. Yeah, no, but the important game is the Celtics one that determines who controls their own destiny.
Well, no, the Sixers no longer control their own destiny. No.
What if they beat the Celtics, though? Destiny back on? No, I think they would have a tiebreaker. Do you understand how the loss column works? Apparently not.
Yeah, clearly. And then my cool throne is 19-year-olds.
Okay. Tennis.
The number one tennis player in the world right now is 19. Oh, who is it? Carlos Alcaraz.
Oh, yeah, that guy. Formerly known as Alcaraz on the show.
We call him, yeah, we talk about that guy like once a year. Yeah, Djokovic will probably whoop that ass.
But is he next up? He's now. Yeah, Rafa.
He's 19. Rafa, I think, is out of the top 10 for the first time in like a billion years.
They did the, this is how long Rafa has been. This is how long Rafa has been in the top 10, and they showed like the video game when he first got in the top 10 and then today's video game.
Yeah. I love those.
So they don't have tennis video games? No, I guess they do. Oh, really? Yeah.
He was Mario in the first one, and he became Luigi in the second one. Wii Tennis is the best video game of all time.
Wii Tennis video games. Mario Tennis is a good one.
No, but like. Yeah, with real people.
There's. WTA.
Yeah. 20.
2K23. Yeah, bro.
They have good arcade versions, too. Like Dave Musters.
Yep. What's better than playing tennis? Playing video game tennis.
Wii Tennis. Wii Tennis.
Electric. It was fun.
Yeah. Yeah, Wii Tennis was fun.
Yeah. Yeah.
I have another one, but I think someone else is going to use it. No, go ahead.
Slam ball. Yeah, slam ball is back.
Slam ball is back. Officially.
We did it. We brought back slam ball, guys.
Credit to us. Credit to us.
So are they going to do a draft? Where are they getting their players? Probably Europe. Yeah.
No, but like. No, Europeans would suck at slam ball.
Do you want to play? I actually absolutely play. I don't...
We can get you a tryout. We can definitely get you a tryout.
We can get you a tryout. I feel like they're going to get basketball players who played college basketball.
No, because remember we talked to the guy, and he said that the best slam ball players are defensive backs. Oh, yeah, true.
So, Billy, you would actually be outstanding at being the guy that's getting dunked on.

It would be a good bet.

Well, no, they said defensive backs, not special teamers.

That's true.

No, but, Billy, I can just see the clips right now.

It's a guy that's built like DK Metcalf.

Yeah.

Just jamming on your face and you falling down.

I would watch that.

Oh, yeah.

I'd do it.

You think?

That would be awesome. Talks are currently underway for distribution for distribution just saying they're looking for a broadcast home yeah just saying okay be fun okay hank can you get that done c-suite hank we can definitely get billy a try i think we got to see the product okay all right okay well if billy's seen the product though the product exists you If Billy's in the product, you know how much it will suck.

I also think, you know, who knows, but they might be like the slap league where it's like maybe too violent and after the first broadcast,

like we can't do this.

Billy, I want to see you on a slam ball court very badly.

I've always wanted to do it.

Watching on Cartoon Network growing up was awesome.

I had a trampoline basketball set up in my backyard.

That's why I never went pro.

Respectfully, Billy was kind of born. I spent too much time grinding on the trampoline.
How many injuries? Honestly, none. Really? And I got launched.
We had people get double bounced out of the trampoline. Because I feel like any parent who buys a trampoline, they're just buying a broken leg for someone.
Yeah, there was definitely fights. I got in like a fist fight with one of my best friends.
Oh, really? Jumping on the tramp. I still laugh about it.
I can see that rage. We got heated, and then when you cross that line, I'm just like...
Oh, we're really fighting. But we were on a trampoline jumping.
No, did you guys not have fake cage fights? And then he just laughed and had to use my house. Yeah.
In the trampolines with the nets because people got nets.

I didn't go to the trampolines

that had nets on them.

No, because we just pretend

it was like a UFC ring.

Yeah.

I knew kids who did that too.

We had like a fight club.

And they made videos

on Google videos.

It was like before YouTube

was like a thing.

I would like to watch those.

It was like only on Google.

I wasn't in it,

but I had friends with it.

Dude, we had a whole like lead.

Yeah, and there was like

a broadcast and everything.

It was so sick. Can we get our hands on that? Yeah, I can hit it.
I can hit it with my body. I feel like if parents get a trampoline, they do it just to be like, this will definitely get the kids outside of the house for a little bit.
Yeah. This will keep them in the backyard, keep them injured.
The double bounce. I'm so scared of a double bounce.
You guys ever play Break the Egg? When you had to curl up into a little ball and then people had to slam you so hard that you broke?

Yeah.

We call it popcorn because you had to pop.

Yeah, I vividly remember getting double bounce out of the trampoline and just landing on the ground and just getting up.

Yeah. We have an end to this league because one of the investors is Blake Griffin.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

Is Blake going to be in slam ball? I don't know. That would be awesome.
Can he still dunk? No, probably not. Yes, he can.
Okay. PFT, your hot seat, Cool Drone.
My hot seat is Nate Oates. Yeah.
Nate Oates, Alabama's coach, because Nick Saban has just suspended freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell. He got arrested last week, drug and weapon charges in Florida.
And Nick Saban said, everybody's got an opportunity to make choices and decisions. There's no such thing as the wrong place at the wrong time.
Seemed like a direct shot at Nate Oates for using wrong place, wrong time excuse for Brandon Miller. So, yeah, embrace debate.
Is there such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time airplane crash yes that feels like not your fault yes uh mcdonald's drive-thru at 10 31 in the morning right after they stopped serving breakfast that might be your fault yeah but it's wrong place wrong time yeah that's true yeah uh the archduke franz ferdinand making a left turn in 1914 wrong place wrong time wrong time who's to say uh jfk taking the top down that day. Yep.
Yeah. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand making a left turn in 1914.
Wrong place, wrong time. Wrong place, wrong time.
Who's to say? JFK taking the top down that day. Yep.
Apparently it was coincidental that he said that. Oh, coincidental.
No, it was very codental. It was very codental of him to do that.
Uncoincidental? Uncoincidental because, I mean, let's be honest. Nick nick saban i don't think he's like furious at nate oats but any microscope on alabama sports and the police department and bad publicity definitely he gets caught in the in the uh fray here so he's sending a message that he runs his program i run my program i'm the king now we need to ask, is Nick Saban in the wrong place at the wrong time? Being at Alabama when Nate Oates says that Brandon Miller is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'd say so. I'd say, man, wrong place, wrong time-ception on this one.
Big time. But, yeah, it does feel – I don't think that Saban was – I don't think it was a coincidence.
No, definitely not. I think Saban knows exactly what he's saying at all times.
He doesn't seem like a coincidental type of guy. No, everything is planned out.
It's a process. Part of the process.
Also, hot seat Steph Curry because Corey Kispert post-All-Star break, post-part of my take appearance, is now averaging 11.6 points per game and shooting 56.4% from the field. Wow.
Pretty good, and 45% from three points. Hell yeah.
After we told him, shoot, just shoot the ball more. Shoot more.
My cool throne is hospitality. I don't know how we didn't talk about this a couple of weeks ago when the news came out, but we should cover it because we are parverts.
We're dimple heads. And Scotty Scheffler released his master's menu.
Yes. For the champion's dinner.
So Scotty Scheffler's master's champion's dinner. Appetizers of cheeseburger sliders served Scotty style.
He didn't elaborate on what Scotty style means. Imagine if he just licked all of them.
Firecracker shrimp. Delicious.
Tortilla soup. Yes.
Texas ribeye steak or blackened redfish. Pussy if you get the redfish.
And then for dinner, the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie. So basically.
Awesome. Scotty Scheffler has.
Gotta have ice cream, but unbelievable. I bet you that there's ice cream.
There might be some ice cream. There's ice cream.
No one serves the chocolate chip skillet cookie without ice cream. Yeah.
There's a scoop of vanilla on there. That's a la mode.
But that was, in terms of master's menus, that was top notch. He basically took a Ruby Tuesdays.
Yeah. And then moved it to Augusta.
Yeah, love it. Which, great job.
And I've never been more convinced that a man has grown up around lots and lots of strip malls than after watching this menu. This is suburb city.
I feel like the master's dinner is so overhyped for drama and nothing's going to happen. This year, it seems like...
Everyone's like, oh, the master's's going to be crazy. There's going to be...
Well, there was a fake Masters dinner that was going around that was like any live tour dinners at the 8th hole at 9 o'clock. Ha-ha.
They got them all outside. That's funny.
But yeah. Oh, on the green? Yeah.
I mean, is Phil going? Yeah, Phil's going to be there. Yeah.
DJ will be there. It will be there.
It will be interesting. Yeah.
Patrick Reed. Yeah.
Some of the ninth green at nine thing. Yeah.
Yeah. From Hoppy Gilmore.
Yeah. Classic.
Yeah, no. Yeah, it was a fake menu going around.
Yeah. It was pretty funny.
Also, Max got caught with a fake quote. Oh, yeah.
Bill Simmons. I said that.
He was like, he was saying it. I was like, obviously, Bill Simmons would say that, and then it was the most fake thing of all time.
Yeah. And I know it's fake because Simmons then quote treated the fake quote being like, I never said that.
Like, remember when Scott Van Pelt got caught by the onion? Yeah. He was like, I never said that.
It's like, well, yeah, of course. If you look at the account, it's NBA Central instead of Central.
You know what one gets me all the time is the PGA Tour. Yes.
The T-U-O-R. Yeah, Urlacher got caught by that.
That was the one that Charlie Woods, they said Charlie Woods was going to be featured on next year's Drive to Survive. And the one that got hit with the Spieths ball, and he said he asked for 25 tickets to the Masters in a bunch of free clubs.
You know what it is, though? It's actually not us getting caught. It's people tagging us.
Because I always get tagged in those, and then my instant reaction is to retweet it. And now I've started to slowly be like, all right, look at it for a second.
No, that's what I'm saying. Like the PGA 2R one.
Yeah. You just get tagged.
I get tagged, and I look at it, and I get excited. Right.
And then I'm like, well, fuck. They actually should have Tiger on the F1 drive to survive.
That would be cool. Just load him up.
Yeah, with SUV SUV. No rear mirror window.
Go off gear. Yeah, just have Elan chasing him with a golf club.
He'll win every race. Faster than anyone.
Yeah, but Max. Yeah, sometimes you get caught.
No tap? No tap? No. I'm not apologizing for getting caught.
Max isn't a no tap guy. Yeah, no.
Max is a double down and triple down guy. Listen, I've long said that if you are a creature of the internet, if you do a job like ours, if you're not getting got at least a few times a year, then you're not doing your job.
You're not working hard enough. It also wasn't a good thing.
I wasn't happy about it. So it was a sort of thing.
Oh, now you're trying to explain. Just say you got got.
No, I got caught, but I'm happy that I got caught. But think about it this way.
Because that was a bad quote for me. It's not true, but it's just a quote that hasn't happened yet.
Right. It does sound like something that the Sixers would do.
I bet you someone in the Sixers locker room has said, I can't wait to play the Celtics and lose. I have said the first part of what you just said.
Also, I do want to mention the Bulls finally beat Joel Embiid. That was pretty crazy.
I was watching the Bulls telecast, but it was quite a stat when it was like Bulls now lifetime 12-1, or the Sixers are 12-1 against the Bulls when Embiid plays. Tough.
Very tough. Do you guys think that in that vaunted matchup against the Celtics for home court advantage, if you guys win, do you think they'll drop confetti? Oh, the cannons will go off.
I'm done. I'm done hearing about confetti.
Your court is awesome, by the way. Yeah.
Sick court. Sick court.
Yeah. Very sick.
Yeah. Okay.
My hot seat. Don't you want confetti? I feel like that's the goal for every team is yeah you should be at a game where you guys drop the confetti uh i would like to win the game where you dropped yeah that's that's the that's the biggest issue yeah or you could just do it when you go to overtime yeah that's happen.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right, my hot seat is I mentioned him on Monday because he's become like the NBA's most hated player, but Dylan Brooks, he got denied a jersey swap with Kyrie Irving, which is very funny. After the game on Monday night, he took his jersey off, went up to Kyrie, and Kyrie was just like no i'm not like i i understand that from kairi's point of view yeah like you have to you have to save those jerseys for people that need it also isn't like if you are if you're dylan brooks and you get kairi's jersey isn't that like tom segura owning like hitler's uh teacup it might be that might that might age poorly it might be but if i'm kairi like why is dylan brooks asking me to swap jerseys yeah well he's listen dylan brooks he got it i think his 18th technical of the season yeah he's uh he's become the new bad boy yeah i i just think that you have to have more awareness of dylan but you have to know that you're dylan brooks yeah and kairi was like yeah i've already i already had like my mind was already on the next game to process kairi probably doesn't want to get fined.
Yeah. And then, but it's just a bad look to be like, can you Jersey swap and not, and be denied? You have to know that you are like, did he already have a shirt off? Yeah.
Kyrie already had his shirt off, but I think he either was holding it or give it, gave it to his own teammate, like his staff. And then Dylan Brooks took his off and went up to Kyrie and Kyrie was like, nah.

Yeah, that's a tough look.

You got to know that it's going to happen.

Yeah, you have to arrange that ahead of time, I think.

Right, right.

And then my cool throne is Roger Goodell, who is finalizing an extension.

Good.

Congrats, Roger.

Good for Roger Goodell.

He actually, for everything that he has hated for, and he's hated for a lot,

in terms of his actual job requirements, he does an incredible job incredible job yeah it's like he was designed in a lab just to just to absorb blows it's it's absorb blows and make a shitload of money for the nfl and he's done both like basically the best you could possibly do he squeezed every dollar out of the nfl and every time there's any controversy you know whether it be on the, off the field, he just gets all the shit, and the owners get to just keep making money. Yeah, he exists to take shots not only from the media and from the public, but also he has to just answer Jerry Jones' phone calls, get yelled at for a while, and then pretend those calls never happen.
It is funny when he gets that extension and everyone gets upset, and it's like, no, you don't understand his job requirements he actually is awesome at could you imagine if the if the nfl had a commissioner

like the nba does with silver someone who's always like tinkering best buddy yeah trying to be best

friends trying to like read the nfl reddit page and implement rule changes no roger goodell is

very good at existing and being an asshole that everybody hates and he's compensated handsomely

yeah the point of roger goodell's entire existence is that everyone hates him not the owners yep and

I don't know. Your face looks great, by the way.
Thank you. It's been a long road.
Once I get out of it, I'll do a face reveal. Of the original picture? Yeah.
It's not funny to me right now. Yeah, yeah.
Once I'm able to laugh at it. Are you currently out of the woods? No.
Today's the first day I didn't take prednisone. So we'll see how it goes.
Okay. Billy came in the studio earlier today and today was like i'm almost off steroids nice and i thought that i did not interpret it as billy taking like medicine i just thought that billy was talking about steroids yeah but uh everyone's just replaying the first uh scene of the last of us series and with the with the headline so but slowly you say also hot seat jets why the hell have hasn't it happened? Why hasn't Aaron Rodgers been signed yet? Yeah.
So, yeah. And then Cool Throne, Hustle GPT.
Apparently, it can tell you how to turn $100 into a million dollars if you ask it. Huh.
Did you ask it? Chat GPT, yeah. Apparently, it's like big people out of money.
Take TCU plus four and a half? Exactly. What did they say? Actually, I'm going to start getting gambling advice from ChatGBT.
Yeah. Well, you already broke Vegas.
Yeah, I know. Are you just going to say you know how to make a million dollars and then not share? I'm just going to be like, hey, how do I choose the best March Madness picks? And then what do I do to win? No, no.
But you just said a second ago that it will teach you how to turn $100 into a million dollars. Yeah.
Care to share? Well, you got to ask ChatGBT. Yeah.
I think Billy's got side deals going. I don't get a side deal.
Why aren't you telling me how to make a million dollars? Well, he hasn't gotten it yet. I haven't gotten it yet.
I didn't pay for it. He needs like, he probably needs.
Oh, wait, you got to pay for it? Yeah. Billy needs like 100 people here to sign up and then he needs 100 to get them to 100 a hundred people sign up and then they're gonna get billy the million dollars it also be funny if chat gbt like you sign up for a hundred bucks and it's at you ask him how to make a hundred to a million and the answer is just don't sign up for random things online and invest your money instead true yeah and laramie tunsel dude just keeps getting paid good him.
Good for Laramie. Yeah.
He is. He's the coolest guy ever to smoke out of a gas mask.
Without an agent. Yeah.
So it's like, does Lamar actually have a problem? That's a good question. I think Lamar's going to go.
I think Lamar, we're not going to get anything until after the draft. I think he's going to just keep going.
Lamar's also, isn't he doing an interview with himself? Oh, really? I saw that the other day. Yeah, Lamar's going to do.
Well, then he should just say it's an interview with his agent. Yeah.
That would be interesting. He asks agent Lamar questions.
Yeah. Yeah.
But it does feel like we're going to wait until the draft, then whoever misses out on a quarterback in the draft will then be like, okay, now we'll sign this offer sheet because also then you get to use your draft pick this year. Yeah, so I think that when he first became a free agent, the teams that would have been in contact with him would be the teams that really wanted him, and now it's going to be teams that don't have another option.
Right. Right.
Jake.

My hot seat is Cinderella, Fairleigh Dickinson.

Yeah.

Their coach is gone.

Gone.

And a week ago we saw him in the first four, and now he's gone.

Yeah.

He's not gone.

He's still alive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's there.

But, yeah, it does kind of suck whenever that.

Yeah.

It happened last year with Sheen Holloway.

Yeah. But good for him.
Good for him. Yes.
And I'm sure we'll talk about the coaching carousel with Fanta later on. My Cool Throne's Kevin Harlan.
CBS dropped a viral video of his game-winning call. Perfect.
Perfect? Yeah. You calling it perfect? And you see he went over to his partners.
He's like, lay out. Lay out.
Put his arm out. Yeah.
So, flawless.

What game was it for?

Virginia Furman.

Okay.

Good job, Kevin Harlan.

He was holding them back.

He was one of the best in the game.

Yeah, he was literally holding them back.

He's like.

You need to do that to me and Dave more often.

I will.

Well, during the big moments.

Yeah.

That's all that matters.

Right.

Yeah.

But yeah, Kevin Harlan is, he's getting into like, I mean, he's almost goat status.

Like every game that you hear him call, it feels like a big game.

Yeah, he's got the voice.

He's got the big game voice.

Yep.

Thank you. He's getting into like, I mean, he's almost goat status.
Like every game that you hear him call, it feels like a big game. He's got the big game voice.
So, yeah, I knew you'd love that. How many times did you watch it? I mean, there's I think like 4 million views on Twitter.
I'm like 3.5 of them. Okay, nice, nice.
All right, let's get to John Fanta, Johnny Fanta in studio. And then we have Dave and John also in studio.
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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It's the first time on this show, but we've known him for a while.
He is electric. He is college basketball.
It is the one and only Johnny Fanta. John Fanta, you can find him on Twitter, John underscore F fanta he covers college basketball on fox he's also the big east guru we have some people in this room we're very excited that you're here max is a villanova guy he loves johnny fanta loves johnny fanta big johnny fanta guy 100 yeah are we the only ones that call you john know, my grandma did.
Okay. My grandma was Joni, and she would call me Johnny.
She was Joni Fanta? She was Joni. She was Joni Fanta? Yes.
Wow. No, Joni Coughlin.
Okay, I was going to say. Moms, moms, moms.
So she would call me Johnny. Yeah, I mean, it's a great name.
Johnny Fanta just sounds like that's a person I want to tune in for. Yeah.
I appreciate that. Yeah, it sounds like you're a character from what was the singer from The Godfather? Was that Johnny? What was his name? Oh, I forget that guy's name.
I know Johnny Ola, but the singer from Godfather 1, that's what I always think of. Either way, you are electric, and we couldn't have had you come in on a better day.
You are coming straight from Rick Pitino's press conference, new head basketball coach at St. John's.
First of all, I guess, how quickly did this get done? Because it felt like right after Rick walked off the court, Iona Yukon, he was texting Johnny Fanta like, hey, tweet it out. It's done.
Tell us how it all went down. Well, there's no doubting that St.
John's primary target was Rick Pitino. How could it not be at this point? You've been in the darkness forever.
Right. I mean, think about their coaching wave.
Steve Lavin, who is a friend, did a great job with Fox on TV. Now he's at San Diego.
It just didn't work out on the sidelines. Then you go from Lave to Chris Mullen.
Which should have been the prodigal son. That didn't work.
We know how the prodigal son thing works in college basketball. Yeah, it usually doesn't happen.
Yeah, it doesn't happen. It didn't happen here.
So then they go to Mike Anderson, and as much as he had never had a losing season, he also had never really had the full breakthrough, and that didn't work either. So at this point, you need a winner.
You need to win at all costs. You are stuck in the basement of the Big East or close to it anyways.
You're almost like in between when you're going up the basement steps and you get to like that halfway mark. Yeah, yeah.
That's where St. John's has kind of been.
It's like when are you going to come into the kitchen for dinner? Yeah. Well, guess what? Rick Pitino's coming in the kitchen.
Yeah. They're in the kitchen.
Facts. Be careful.
He's going to get you on a couple of those. I mean, you started.
You started right off the bat. The first thing you said when you sat down was, Johnny Penta is now regretting coming in this studio.
The first thing you said was, we went to an Italian restaurant right afterwards. So you got me all wound up over here, Johnny.
Yeah, he's hot. Oh, man.
Here's the thing. They targeted Rick Pitino and Father Shanley at St.
John's. Here's where we get into the Big East, the priesthood.
Yes. You know, the Catholic, religious.
This conference was built on meatballs, prayer, and hoops. Yeah.
Oh, I like that. Meatballs, prayer, hoops prayer that's a great biggie that's a great i would also i would just add superstar coaches to it soup big name has always had the best coaches in basketball yeah big name coaches big brand coaches rick patino being one of them you know he was at providence with billy the kid donovan in the 80s and all that so the the whole premise of this goes back to like you need to find a winner they father brian shanley is the president at st john's shanley hired ed cooley to providence oh but at that time he was thinking about hiring Rick Pitino to Providence.

Right.

So Shanley has always had Pitino on his mind,

Pitino being a Providence guy. So ironically enough, as the waves change,

Shanley ended up having his term as president of Providence end in 2020.

He takes a St. John's president job, so he inherits Mike Anderson,

but Shanley built Providence College.

He helped build it with Cooley.

Right, yeah.

It does. in 2020 he takes a st john's president job so he inherits mike anderson but shanley built providence college he helped build it with cooley right yeah the facilities the brand recognition so now at st john's he's like i'm tired of losing so where am i going to go he had a phone call with billy donovan billy donovan told shanley and shanley said this at the press conference father you've got to hire rick patino if you really want to turn St.
John's around and that's what happened So how is he going to solve the big problem that St. John's has, which is recruiting kids to come play in New York City So I've never really understood why that's an issue It used to seem to me like it would be a big attraction for people to want to play not only in the Big East but, but in New York.
But then you start to think about it, being a college kid in New York, maybe not as nice as going to another school. You're getting more NIL money.
Your money goes a little bit further. It's an expensive place to go to college.
It is an expensive place to go to college. So how do you solve that? How do you get kids to want to come play in New York City? By showing them that you will win no matter what.
And Rick Pitino will. Rick Pitino will win.
Yeah. And by showing them that you can get them everywhere that they want to go because you've done it with everybody.
And it's not just messaging. It's not just, well, we play at Madison Square Garden.
Well, you played there four times this past year. Like, let's face it, it's not like it was your second home.

Right.

So now that's going to change.

MSG will be hosting more St. John's games.
Is that you thinking it?

No, that's happening.

Oh, okay.

I like that.

St. John's is going to call the Garden its second home again.

Madison Square Garden will be a sea of red in January or February

when teams are coming in.

No longer will it be a Villanova home game in New York or a UConn home game in New York.

UConn fans will fill it up, but you're going to see a real battle now inside the Mecca.

Patino, he has gotten the commitments from the leadership at St. John's that previous

coaches could not get.

Why?

Because Rick Patino, as much as he's a great basketball coach, he is a dealmaker. Yeah.
So, okay, I'm fired up right now for St. John's.
What do you think realistic goals here are? Like what Rick Pitino, check him off. When does he have to be back in the tournament? Is it next year? Is he going to make this a winner right now? Yes.
Yes. And we can revisit this a year from now.
I think they will have found a way to make the NCAA tournament. Look at the bubble.
Let's be honest here. Did you watch the Arizona State-Nevada game? You know what I mean? If that's your last four in, let's face it.
I'm betting on that guy in a Big East program where in the transfer portal, if Kansas State and Missouri could do what they just did this year, why can't Rick Pitino do it at St. John's in the Big East? Now, it's going to be tough because you know you've got to go through.
Marquette's going to bring everybody back. So they're going to be like a top five preseason team.
I think people will be surprised to see that, but that's going to be the case. UConn's really good.
Creighton doesn't slow down. Sean Miller.
Sean Miller's got Xavier cooking now. Yeah.
But I still, I really think it's an honest expectation that you could see St. John's ranked next season, and I think they will make the NCAA tournament.
I really believe that. It's like what Deion said at Colorado.
Rick Pitino, he's bringing the luggage with him yeah gucci right he's yeah is he bringing it do you think anybody on iona is going to play for st john's maybe yeah i mean it's certainly possible it's entirely every coach seems to bring people with them yeah i i don't know anything for a fact but i'd be surprised if he didn't attempt to i think for him this move was about okay i'm making the tournament at Iona but I'm in a one bid league wait you're giving me a chance being like a six or seven bid league I'm making the tournament in that because I because he believes he's the best coach in the league which look I'm gonna bet on him over anybody else yeah and he knows that because of the nature of the portal whether he brings kids from Iona with him or not, he can go get a power conference cast-off who needs a second chance and who wants to be coached by a Hall of Famer, and he could make that kid a star. All right, so another question.
Is this forever home? Is this Rick Pitino is here for the next five to ten years, however long he wants to coach? He's not young is this rick patino st john's go to the tournament a couple years ooh a big time school now asks if that big time school is asking i guess my question that big time school is okay you're big time why are you now relying on a 75 year old for like three years right to me this is To me, this is the last stop. This is the forever home.
This is the forever home. Iona was not.
Right. No, no.
It was clear Iona was not. Now, this is a tough one.
Let's say Rick Pitino stays at St. John's for eight years.
Yeah. Final four? Yeah.
Oh, I like it, Johnny Penta. College basketball is a better sport when Rick Bettino is at the top tier.
I just think the climate of the sport, the ability to turn over your roster quickly, when you have someone who's always going to have his team ready, they play harder than everybody. Yeah.
The fact that they were up on UConn at the half on Thursday, did you hear him at halftime? He's like, I'm so proud of my team. In other words, he's like, we should not be winning this game.
And we are. Now, at St.
John's, if you're telling me I get a Hall of Famer who has not lost his fastball. Nope.
He is just, he is readapted and reinvented and just, he's like a fine wine. And if it's in New York City.
If you're telling me I get him for eight years in New York City playing home games at Madison Square Garden in this Big East, yeah, why the hell not? Rick Pitino in the Final Four will happen at some point again before he calls it quits. Love it.
Love it. Now what about the other side of the game of musical chairs in the Big East? You're going to Georgetown tomorrow, right? Yeah.
Ed Cooley. I think it's a home run higher.
I think that Georgetown, they're a sleeping giant. They need a guy that has demonstrated that he can do it before.
I thought John Thompson III was a great coach. Sometimes when you get the same guy in the same place for a while, the message starts to fall on deaf ears.
You get these interpersonal relationships that get in the way of on the court. Patrick Ewing, it was a big swing.
It took a swing. It was a swing and a miss.
But Ed Cooley, he's a proven guy. I feel like Georgetown could also be in that Final Four discussion in the next six years too.
I think that that's why Ed Cooley is the coach at Georgetown. I mean, at the end of the day, everybody's reading Twitter and people are making their theories and all that.
Everybody loves all that. It's noise.
It's buzz. It's chatter.
Ed Cooley is the coach at Georgetown University because he believes that Georgetown, resurrecting the program, bringing the brand back to the top of college basketball, winning NIL resources, the priority of hoops there, and the donors in the district area.

And if he can get them to a Final Four, he goes beyond the King of Providence.

He turns into, even though he's a villain in Providence right now

and probably will be for quite some time, he goes into a national legacy

if he can get Georgetown to a Final Four.

This matters too. As a guy who idolized John freaking Thompson, who's a legend, Ed Cooley, being a black coach, has been an activist in that space, and that matters to him.
Because if you're the coach at Georgetown, it goes beyond basketball, guys. It does.
It's a bigger than basketball type of job. Yeah.
And $5 million a year. And a nice paycheck.
Yeah. Let's just at least say that part because he did get more money.
He did get more money. Now, Providence offered a comparable thing.
It was less. Well, is comparable $500,000 less? I don't know.
I'd say it's comparable $4.5 to stay at home, and he's a Providence guy, right? Wouldn't you argue that at that point, when Providence owed him over $30 million. Okay.
So at what point do you say with $500K? Yeah, I guess it's probably more the NIL. you put it when we were walking down the hallway perfectly it's uh if georgetown has their best possible season and providence has their best possible season which team is probably going farther it's georgetown and which team is getting noticed more nationally yeah yeah and i hate to say look i love providence fans um they're the best they're the best they're the best I never have to pay for a meal on Federal Hill.
I hope that that still stands. Uh-oh.
I don't know. You don't know? Well, I heard that you were the one who got Ed Cooley to Georgetown.
No. Oh, I heard you wheeled and dealed it.
Are you telling me that I have to go to Chicago to cover a DePaul game and get a free meal? Yeah. Yeah, you come.
When we move our office, you're always welcome. You went to Allstate Arena one time.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
That was not nice. That was not nice.
Allstate Arena where DePaul used to play and also the Sky, champions. Champions a couple years ago.
It was next to a target. The Wintrust is really nice.
DePaul needs a coach too. Tony Stubblefield.
I know, but it feels like PFT said, you now have big-time names in the Big East when it comes to all these coaches. Maybe Jay Wright? Jay Wright goes to DePaul? I miss Jay Wright.
I also, here's one. Wait, how much is that going to be the new thing? Oh, every time.
Is that going to be your, because now Patino settled in. Is that your new video? Sometimes you have to – Yeah, yeah.
It's Jay Wright. Jay Wright's everywhere.
He's going to be your new guy. He's got to be the new guy.
Well, here's a question. Providence, what I really want, I want a brother at Providence.
I want a Hurley or I want a Miller. Yes.
Archie Miller's already in Rhode Island. Let's have brother fights in the Big East.
I mean, we're basically there. Bobby Hurley in the Big East would be a dream.
Because at Providence, at Providence, let's face it, Providence UConn fans, they despise each other. Yeah.
Despise. So if you've got brothers going at it and you've got Bob Sr.
in the middle being like Mother Nature and Heat cold miser yes i mean and listen i'll settle for archie if you tell me i can't get bobby i'll settle for archie miller time i mean i i like archie it was a tough first year at uri it was we are one all right so uh one last question about the georgetown job you you are an insider you know every name that gets talked about was Jay Williams ever considered? He was. I mean, he said that he would take the job.
No, he was because he said, I believe the exact tweet was since so many people are asking, I'll address it here. Get up, more like get down.
So he wasn't. Look, I love J.
Will. I mean, I don't know him at all.
He'll probably look at this and think, what does this guy think? I mean, who's this Drew Carey? I don't give a damn. J.
Will, no hard feelings. You weren't considered.
No hard feelings. You were never going to be the coach at Georgetown.
Yeah. Like, let's just call a spade a spade.

What was that tweet?

I don't know.

I think he just, I think he saw the potential of a job opening,

and he thinks that it's good for his name, for his buzz,

to be linked to jobs.

Or maybe he got hacked again.

Remember he got hacked when he reported that Emei Adoka

is going to be the first African-American coach of the Boston Celtics?

Yo.

Yeah, yeah.

And everybody was like, hey, there's Doc Rivers just won a championship

Thank you. was it Emei Adoka is going to be the first African-American coach of the Boston Celtics? Yo.
And then everybody was like, hey, there's Doc Rivers just won a championship there. And he was like, I've been hacked.
I'm trying to find out who the hacker was. So maybe he got hacked again.
Yeah. That's crazy.
Yeah. So who else was being considered for Georgetown, if not J-Will? I mean, I don't, I mean, Micah Shrewsbury at Penn State is being considered by everybody.

Yeah.

Although Penn State put out the report last week to John Rothstein that they're backing up the truck.

Why not to you?

Well, Happy Valley.

Okay, all right.

Let's get some of those scoops, too.

I sensed a little animosity there when you said John Rothstein.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

J.R.'s a friend.

Okay.

J.R.'s a friend.

I would share any meal with J.R. He's a friend of ours as well.
Yeah, we love John. Yeah.
But let's get some scoops out of Happy Valley for Johnny Fanta. We'd have to do some scoop.
Yeah, wet the beak. Don't they have good ice cream over there? Yeah, they do.
They claim that they're going to back up the truck for him. And at the end of the day, if you're Penn State, I know that basketball's not first, but do you really want to lose your coach to somebody that's not?

No, they're in a weird position where Penn State is like they're a big enough state school

that's not good enough at basketball, so they are kind of a stepping stone job.

But as far as university pride, you don't want to ever think that anything at Penn State is a stepping stone.

Do you think that Micah Shrewsbury and James Franklin get together for lunch yeah being like where are we going want to go to USC together I don't think so I think I think I think Shrewsbury probably wins like six games in a row and then uh then Franklin will be like hey congrats to the basketball team you guys are doing good he'll do a little video then go his office. Yeah.
Don't you love the coaches of other sports this time of year when they're at these games? Yeah. Like Michigan State.
Izzo's just got a whole entourage of people. Of people behind him.
And I'm curious. Here's my question to you guys on this show.
By the way, Cooley was the top target for Georgetown. They got the top target.
Yeah, makes sense. Seems like both St.
John's and Georgetown got their top guy. Yes.
Speaking of other sports, though, do you guys believe Nick Saban ends up in Houston if Alabama reaches the Final Four? I don't know. Not after the comment of there is no wrong place, wrong time.

That was a message.

He was sending a message to Nate Oates.

I believe that.

I agree with you.

Yeah.

Wholeheartedly.

I mean, it was very clear what he was saying.

And we were talking about it on the show.

When Nate Oates has that happen with the Alabama basketball program, it looks bad for all of Alabama sports. That's absolutely the truth.
And Nick Saban doesn't like that. No, he doesn't.
Right. He's not.
Nick Saban is only ever. Nick Saban is never going to look bad in Nick Saban's mind and in the minds of everyone in Tuscaloosa.
Nick Saban, except when he was on the TV desk during the playoff and somebody was talking about that, and he got kind of pissed off of that. But Nick Saban's – anything that jeopardizes that is going to have Nick Saban through the roof.
Yes. And that did.
That did. It's a bad look for Alabama.
We all know that. He said a great message, too, which was by saying wrong place, wrong time, and then having everybody react to it, and then being like, I didn't mean anything by saying wrong place wrong time and then having everybody react to it

and then being like i didn't mean anything by saying wrong place wrong time now nate oates is like oh shit is nick saban living in my head rent free and i'm just imagining this entire thing that's nick saban with the ultimate mental power play on him in other words right place right time for Nick. Yes.
Yes. Yes.

All right. So you're going

to Las Vegas. Yes.

Tell me that

UConn can get to the Final Four because I have a future on them. What do you think in this? We'll go through each region, but what are you thinking in this region, which is UConn versus Arkansas and then UCLA versus Gonzaga in the lower part? I think you could be jumping for joy.
Yeah. On Saturday night.
Yeah. You're due.
I am due. You're due.
I'm'm very much due. I've been following you.
I'm very much due. I think that you're in a position here.
I think this has a chance to be your best second weekend of the tournament. Your performance metrics are on the rise.
There's something to be said here. You haven't peaked.
No, I've yet to peak. Is UConn going to be my peak? I think they can be.
Yeah. And frankly, they're getting Arkansas.
So Connecticut gets a draw. What if I had told you Iona and St.
Mary's? Okay, you would have said beforehand, yeah, where do I sign? Yeah. Okay, and oh, I'll knock out Kansas for you.
Yeah. Now Arkansas, don't get me wrong, very talented.
They're a top 20 metrics team, so they're not your typical 8th seed. They're far from an 8th seed.
Yeah, and we love Muss. He is a hell of a coach.
Love him. I'm wondering if Dan Hurley will take his shirt off if he wins this game.
Okay. Counter shirting.
Yep. But here's why I love UConn.
Adama Sonogo is playing as well as any big man in America right now. 52 points and 21 rebounds combined in the two NCAA tournament wins.
Jordan Hawkins, in five minutes of the St. Mary's game, hit four threes.
Yeah, he unlocks them. He unlocks them.
When he's hitting threes and they're getting tempo, good night. Because you have to call timeout to it's like an avalanche effect yeah and then you pour in the joey calcaterra alex caravan the freshman last year connecticut's biggest problem was the ball would just stick they didn't have perimeter shooting dan hurley was like you know what i've got these bigs i've got sunogo i know clingan's coming in i've got andre jackson to do all the little things i some shooting.
I need shot makers. Like Rick Pitino just got done saying it at his press conference.
He goes, at the end of the day, right now in college basketball, I've got to find shot makers. And UConn has one in Hawkins, and everybody seems to benefit when he unlocks something from three.
Everybody else plays with confidence. So that's why UConn can do it.
They've got to generate good tempo against Arkansas. Don't get stuck in the half court.
But defensively, if they can contain Devo Davis and keep Ricky Council from having those spurts, Arkansas is a big spurts team. You have to avoid that patented 8-10-0 run where Musk is just going crazy and they're clicking on all cylinders.
That's going to be a phenomenal matchup in Vegas to kick off Thursday. It's going to be great because I also think UConn, and like I said, I love Mus.
It's one of those things. I have a future on UConn.
If Arkansas ends up going to the Final Four, I'll be very happy for them. But I do think Arkansas, their strength is they want to go to the rim constantly, and UConn can actually defend that.
They can defend that that UConn's going to try to shrink the floor and say we dare you to shoot the three now does Arkansas have guys that can hit it yeah of course they do of course they do they've got men yeah like their freshman class is beyond their years so those are pros so it's going to be interesting because to your point Connecticut's the team that previously wasn't able to beat teams in a game on the perimeter. That gets decided on the perimeter.
But Hawkins is playing like a top-20 pick in the NBA draft right now. Yeah.
So if Tristan Newton plays well for UConn and they can negate what Davis and Council do, look, I love Arkansas. I really do.
And you just said it. If they made the Final Four, their fan base in Houston would be something to behold.
But UConn as a storyline is very buzzworthy. But the play on the court, speaking for itself right now, they have it going.
And that's why I give them the edge over Arkansas because of their ability to protect the rim and because Sunogo can say, the front court is mine. Yeah, I like it.
I'm pumped up. I'm ready for this game.
And then the bottom of that, though, Gonzaga and UCLA, those two teams are very, very good. Gonzaga, I don't understand.
It feels like people aren't talking about it enough, but when they get humming, you can't really stop them. No, you can't.
You cannot stop Drew Timmy. And when he gets help from a Robin, typically it's been Julian Strother, who I think is the key to this game because of Jaime Hock is on the other side.
But Gonzaga just showed it against TCU. When they get going with their tempo, when they're stringing baskets together, they are a dangerous, dangerous team.
But how about the fact that we get Gonzaga and UCLA 17 years to the day of, oh, what a game! Oh, what a game! UCLA! When the Bruins came back from 11 down against the Zags and beat them. Morrison crying..
Epic. And now Morrison will be doing radio for Gonzaga.

Yeah, he's a friend of ours.

He's the best.

He's great.

He is.

He's awesome.

I'm curious.

How many times does the TV camera take him on Thursday night?

Over, under three and a half.

I'll hammer the over.

Yeah, over, definitely.

Over, because he'll come back.

They'll do a story like on his mom.

They'll do like three shots in the second half, probably,

especially if it's a close game.

Yeah.

And rematch with the buzzer beater two years ago.

Yeah.

And the buzzer beater two years ago.

So these two teams have a lot of history.

High-intensity game.

Guys, I love UCLA.

I love them.

Even with the injuries.

Even with the injuries.

Jaime Jaquez is the biggest winner in college basketball.

He's a winner.

In every sense of that word. Tiger Campbell initiates.
He stirs the drink for them. I love the way that they are playing.
I'm going with the Bruins because they're defensively, I think they're in line even without Clark. And to me, as good as Gonzaga is, I don't trust their backcourt,

and I do trust Tiger Campbell.

All right. So you want to kick it to the other games?

We've got Michigan State, Kansas State.

I love Noel, mostly because he's short and because he's just electric.

Like, he's passing, he's driving.

He's the guy that stirs the drink on Kansas State for sure.

Yes, he does.

And so going up against Izzo.

Izzo, we talked on Monday's show about just how dangerous Michigan State

Thank you. Yeah.
He's the guy that stirs the drink on Kansas State for sure. Yes, he does.
And so going up against Izzo. Izzo, we talked on Monday's show about just how dangerous Michigan State always is, especially when they're not the highest seed.
So I'm excited for this game, but I feel like nothing's getting in the way of Tom Izzo right now. Noel's going to try, but I still love Michigan State in this one.
I really badly want to go with the kids from Harlem. Mr.
New York City. Mr.
New York City. Because I thought Kentucky played well enough.
Like if you were Cal on Sunday, you had to be really pissed off to the point of, man, I really did design a game plan that could have been fit to win. Yeah.
I thought, I mean, Kentucky was up by four inside four minutes to go. I thought they were going to win.
Yeah. Noel just took the game from them.
He said, I am not leaving here without a doubt. And I love the way that they're playing, but I cannot bet against a man who the last two times he's been in the second weekend, he's made the Vinyl Four, who in 28 years at the helm, he's made the second weekend of the NCAA tournament 15 times.
So he's betting over 50% on making it to the Sweet 16. I cannot bet against a man who's got Tyson Walker, who's got A.J.
Hogard, who's got Jaden Akins playing well. And Joey Hauser is the Brady Manic of this NCAA tournament.
Oh. Should have gone to Wisconsin.
Should have transferred to Wisconsin. He should have.
I DM'd him when the Hauser brothers were leaving Marquette. They didn't answer.
It's bullshit. Are you still waiting? I'm still waiting.
Maybe he has a year left? I don't think so. He might.
If he has a year left. Drew Timmy has a year left.
I mean, it hit me a couple weeks ago when I was doing Big East Awards at the Garden, and Jack Nunji of Xavier is a really good player, except Scholar Athlete of the Year, and he walks up to the podium and he goes, I really want to thank my wife. Yeah.
Yeah. This is the world that we're living in, all sports.
Yeah, yeah. Joey Hauser should not have another year of Ell But he might What if he answers you after And he's like okay I'll think about it After he declares Sixth year at Wisconsin Joey Hauser I'm going with Michigan State by the way I feel like great coaches are always If you're running up against a team with the hottest player in America If that's your best player And and your offense runs to that one person, I'll take a great coach figuring out a way to hold that guy or to contain that one player.
You're right, because he did it with Tyler Kolick. Tyler Kolick was on a roll for Marquette.
Two early fouls and then seven points in that game. Tyler Kolick scoring seven points, being held to single digits.
I mean, Izzo said, I'm going to take Marquette's best player. I'm going to take the Big East player of the year, Big East tournament most outstanding player.
I'm going to take him away. And it works perfectly.
And I think because of that scheme, it can work with Noel. But not only that, just Michigan State is getting frontcourt play that suffices as opposed to what they were getting earlier this year.
Matty Sissoko has been better. Cooper has given them some solid contributions.
So for Michigan State, they've come into form. It took them some time, but they're a team with quite the season arc.
I mean, let's face it, they went through injuries. Malik Hall is now back.
You go through an on-campus tragedy like they had. They're playing for that.
Tom Izzo is Michigan State University. He is.
If I said the Bonetti first person you think of, honestly, I don't think I'd pick anybody over Izzo. That's one of the few times where the basketball coach, even in 2023, comes ahead of everybody else.
Yeah, no, it's true. We were having a debate of whether or not Michigan State's a blue blood, and I think you've solidified it.
I don't think that they're a blue blood. I think that Tom Izzo is a blue blood.
I like that. Cut him and he bleeds blue.
Yeah. He wouldn't like that.
No. Cut him and he bleeds green.
Joey Hauser does have another year. No, he doesn't.
Yes, he does. I just looked it up.
This is an article from March 8th, 2023, so two weeks ago. Wow.
It says MSU for Joey Hauser says unlikely he'll return for another season. That's not a no.
He said – To Michigan State, which means he said to Wisconsin. Yeah, MSU's Joey Hauser, yeah, on his potential for another year, says never say never, but basically says this is the last year in college.
I love it. I love that we get like this because part of what people have complained about college basketball is that guys don't stay long or they transfer.
Having guys stay for five, six years, I kind of like it. So are you publicly inviting him to make a decision on your air? Yes.
He can come on the show and declare for the Badgers one last year. One last ride.
Unfinished business, Joey Hauser. But not if he decides not to.
Yeah. Then he's not welcome on the air.
Yes. I also don't know, like, some of these guys, like Drew Timmy.
Drew Timmy does technically have another year. Why wouldn't Drew Timmy just go to, like, Arizona or UNC somewhere? I know that recruiting and, like, log jams and all that.
but how fun would that be to be a guy who owned a small program and then gets to go to a big blue blood and then maybe finally get to a Final Four? Yeah, I'm with you. Drew Timmy, to me, seems like a guy that 17 years from now, if he was playing in a college basketball game, I'd be like, yeah, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah. He's been in college basketball so long, he's sworn twice on the air in the NCAA tournament.
Yeah, yeah, I love it. Yeah, I love him for the game.
I love him for Gonzaga. He keeps them elevated.
But you're right. You wonder if the thought ever crosses his mind, hey, I'm going to go to UCLA, or hey,

I'm going to go to an Arizona, and I'm going to win the

national championship there, and I'll go down a hero there.

Right. Now, this is almost like

NBA debate now.

What does a title mean?

If you ever won the title at Gonzaga,

it would be like the Cavs in 2016.

It's worth more than one. That's true.

It's worth more than one. Oh yeah, I forgot you're a LeBron

fan. Cleveland sports fan.

Cleveland sports fan.

So no longer a LeBron fan. No, he's a Laker.

Okay, alright, good. Good answer.

Good answer. We don't,

I don't follow, like, I don't follow players.

Yeah, good answer. Johnny Fitz.

Did you like our interview with Kevin Stefanski?

Great stuff. Yeah, he's a good guy.

Smart guy. Real good guy.
He's gonna get

it going in Cleveland. Yeah.
He's gonna run the damn

ball. Maybe not.
Real good guy.

He's going to get it going in Cleveland.

Yeah.

He's going to run the damn ball.

Maybe not.

If he runs the ball, then it's going to happen.

Well, no, I think Kevin Stefanski's a great coach, but there are some teams.

My own team, the Bears are the same way.

You could have the best coach in the world.

The organization still can fuck up.

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If you were to power rank your fandom It's third down

Who who who who who who who who who who who who

Pass completed for 13 yards for a Pittsburgh Steelers first down

Browns number one

Yeah Cleveland football town

Heart and soul. Hardland of America.
6 a.m. Muni lot.
Beers. Fun.
Pancake. Sausage.
It's Cleveland Browns football. Yeah.
I like that. Cleveland Browns football.
Browns. Baseball's actually second for me.
Okay. Indians are guardians.
Sorry. Have a very fun team.
Fun. Yeah.
Love Jose Ramirez and Terry Francona. Please just stay healthy, Tito.
Yeah. You have the job forever.
Yep. And then Cavaliers.
I mean, I love all three teams like, like your, your children. I really do.
But, but football comes first in Cleveland. Yeah.
Facts are facts. Back to the tournament.
Is it Alabama's tournament to lose at this point? Because it feels like their region, especially, they should be in the Final Four. They're the most talented team.
They've been the most talented team all season. What trips them up besides the Rico Bosco mush? Because that could happen.
So, on their side of the bracket, and I mean on the total size between the South and the East, there's nobody there that I think can pull it off. Really, there's nobody there.
The interesting team I would say this weekend for them is if they were to draw Creighton in the Elite Eight,

just because Creighton was a preseason top 10 team,

but guys, they played like it last weekend.

They beat Baylor by nine.

It was never in question. No, it was never in question.

I was surprised.

We've just become accustomed to seeing Scott Drew

and the Bears kind of make some things happen.

They got beat.

Ryan Nembhard had 30.

They wore the wrong uniforms.

I think they did.

They should have worn the highlighters. They should have worn the Grand Canyon uniforms.
Oh, yeah. That was a great story, wasn't it? Yes.
You want to share the story? Yeah. You probably have some insight I don't have.
No, I think you have more. Okay.
You're on the tournament coverage. You're doing a good job.
Grand Canyon forgot their uniforms. You have Pete Gillum still alive, right? Yeah.
Yes. Okay, good.
But yeah, they forgot their uniforms, right? They forgot their uniforms. Well, the uniforms were not forgotten.
I don't know if they were forgotten as much as they were. There was an air in transporting them.
Mm-hmm. So there's an air in transporting them.
How does that happen? All the band, all the instruments for the pep band got delivered. But the freaking uniforms didn't get delivered.
Yeah. What? How does that happen? So, as a result, Grand Canyon is screwed, but Bryce Drew is the coach at Grand Canyon, so he says to his brother Scott, I don't know what to do.
You know, are we just going to wear some random T-shirts for our shoot-around? So, brotherly love, he helped out Grand Canyon with some Baylor uniforms. Wow.
Maybe those were the good uniforms that would have got him that dub. Damn.
That's tough. Maybe once Grand Canyon wore them.
Oh. Oh, they caught.
They put the stink on them. Oh, no.
That was what it was. That's absolutely what it was.
The Bears went to the Grand Canyon. They got full-blown Grand Canyon.
Yeah. Yeah.
Shit. They contracted it big time.
That's tough. What about Tennessee? Because our theory on this show is that Rick Barnes is actually in the best position he's ever been to advance to this tournament further than he's ever gone because there are no expectations on him.
Yes. No one thinks that Tennessee is going to be a threat because of injuries.
But now that he doesn't have the pressure of, oh, because if Rick Barnes loses on Thursday night, the storyline is not going to be Rick Barnes still can't get it done in the tournament. No.
It's going to be, well, yeah, it was a banged up team. They were a flawed team right now.
So is this actually where Rick Barnes finally gets to a Final Four? Yeah. Oh.
Johnny Vance is bringing the tape. You know who we have futures on on this show, Johnny.
You're patronizing us. He's got UCLA, UConn, and Tennessee all getting to the Final Four, which is not possible, but I appreciate it.
And Purdue. You've probably got Purdue still on there.
I've got UCLA. Ah, screw it.
I've got UConn making the Final Four. I've got Connecticut making the Final Four.
Tennessee, you know, I really look at the way that they're playing, and everybody's like, well, they're ugly. Yeah, but in the tournament, that allows you to win oftentimes.
So it's Virginia's scheme, and sometimes it backfires. But when it can click, it can work.
And right now it's working. Olivier Camois is on a mission.
Santiago Vescovy, sometimes when you have two great players, like Vescovy and Ziegler are really good. And I'd rather have them than not.
It's sad that Ziegler's gone, but like Vescovy now is like, I know I have to do this for my team, so I'm going to just deliver. And I felt that against Duke.
Next to the FDU win over Purdue, that was the result I've been most surprised by. Really? Because Duke had won 10 in a row.
You know, they were hot. But I got bad vibes the moment that we heard, Mark Mitchell's not playing today.
Like, two minutes before tip-off, they found out. I'm like, uh-oh.
Like, this is interesting here when you have a lineup change so late. Duke never clicked in that game.
And Tennessee makes you uncomfortable. Tennessee should beat Florida Atlantic.
Let's call a spade a spade. They should beat FAU.
I like the story that Dusty Mays put up. Great name, by the way.
It's going to end. I think Tennessee wins.
I hope that I'm wrong and that the Owls hoot on, but I like Tennessee. Hoot on.
Hoot on. Yeah, hooting on.
What I like about Dusty Mays, what he did after they won, he said, we're going to have to study some rugby if we want to be able to beat Tennessee. Hoot on.
What I like about Dusty May is what he did after they won. He said

we're going to have to study some rugby if we want to be able

to beat Tennessee. Just putting it out there.

Letting the powers that be know

hey, you have to call this game

a little bit differently than you called the game against Duke

because they're going to come out. They're going to be throwing elbows.

You know, Phil Jackson used to do that a lot.

He used to make the storyline about him

talking to the refs before a big series

or a big game. Do you think

that Tennessee is going to be officiated any differently

in this game than they were against Duke?

It depends on the crew.

I mean, it really is crew to crew.

Every officiating crew is different.

Yeah. Yes.

I mean, does FAU have

staying power, though? Maybe they do

by being just a random school.

I think they got bad vibes, actually. They had great vibes until that last second missed dunk.
Yeah. That's a karma play.
Mark that down. That's PFT's karma play of the NCAA tournament.
That's going to come back to haunt them. Not the fact that Tennessee is a superior team with superior players and better scoring and better defense.
It's the fact that he bricked that last second dunk that's going to bite him in the ass. Are you also suggesting that had Coach K been at the game last weekend, that the officiating would have changed? He was there.
He was in the building somewhere lurking. I think that Coach K.
He was like staying up in the rafters. You know he was.
I think after that brick dunk, Coach K wishes to God he had been there just so he could go down onto the court and say, hey, you're too good a player to be pulling a stunt like that at the end. Oh, that was a different game, but yeah, it doesn't matter.
Go into Tennessee's locker room and coach them up. Be like, listen, guys, I don't like how you played today.
He would have done that. Never coach another man's team unless you're Coach K.
He can coach anyone's team. what he thinks you think he'll coach again uh no but i would love to see him back out there because he's a nemesis that i'd love to have where would he go where would he go john john do you have sources he's not he's not coach because you asked that that sounds like a question we would ask you're stupid as shit and you're smart so why are you doing it's not happening.
Why would Johnny ask that question? It's not happening. I hope he coaches a grandchildren's game.
That's what I'm trying to root for. Yeah, so I can hate him on that.
That would be great. I would root so hard against him in that game.
Well, how about that the current St. John's Athletic Director, Mike Craig, was his right-hand man.
Remember Coach K showed up to a game at the Garden a couple of days? Yeah, yeah. Like in the regular season? So does Coach K show up for a Rick Pitino game at the Garden? Oh.
I would love that. Huh.
Maybe takes a half or something. Okay.
All right. And then in the Midwest region, which we have to talk about because they're really good teams, Houston, Kellen Sampson said it himself.
He's like, a lot of times we just play like shit. They're hard to watch.
But, man, do they just beat the hell out of teams. Like, what they did to Auburn in the second half, that might have been the most impressive performance in the first two rounds because they just killed them.
They took them to the woodshed. And they have a setup where they can ride somebody offensively in a half, like they did against Auburn, where it's not just Sasser as good as he is.
It could be a Jawan Roberts. It could be Tremont Mark.
They've just got dudes. And Sasser being good, huge.
Because if he's not good to go, then there's real, real concern. I give him a lot of credit.
When he said he was 100% for the game, I've got to be honest with you, I didn't believe a word of that. Yep.
And I expected him to struggle because you've got a groin injury. There's been no sign that you're okay.
And he played through that, and they played through that. Their defense is relentless.
It's absolutely relentless. But, hot take, Miami can beat them.
And I'm going to be the one guy that picks Miami to win. Wow.
Because Miami's a bad matchup for Houston. They're a bad matchup for Houston.
Nigel Pack, Isaiah Wong can line it up in a second. They are both players who have spurtability to a tee.
I'm talking, you know, in their first tournament game against Drake, it's Wong who comes, actually it was Pack who came up big. In their second tournament game against Indiana, it's Wong who comes up big with the 20-plus point performance.
To beat Houston, you've got to shoot over them some. You've got to make perimeter shots.
You've got to manage possessions. Jordan Miller is Mr.
Steady for the Hurricanes. Northcad O'Meara, on the glass, an elite rebounder.
Elite rebounder, just sets the tone of physicality for them. So when you have a great backcourt, not a good backcourt, Miami's got a great backcourt.
When you have a rebounder in O'Meara, when you have a coach in Jim Laranega who knows how to scheme and who's kind of taken on this role of a friendly grandpa to a point that his kids, I think, play well for him because his whole demeanor is kind of settled. Like Jim Laranega could say, I'm retiring right now.
I'm going to go play golf for the rest of my life and it'd be fine. He doesn't have anything left to prove.
He's done it. He did it at George Mason.
He's doing it at Miami. They've got the right vibe to beat Houston.
And I am going to go out on a limb and pick them. Because I think I don't trust Houston's offense.
And there's a reason why Auburn was up by 10 at the half. I don't even think that Auburn team was that great, to be candidly honest with you.
So when they were up by 10 at the half on Houston, I'm sitting there saying, man, Houston really does have some issues right now. Like NKU was giving Houston some issues in the first round.
I'm going out on a limb. Miami makes back-to-back elite eights.
And if you're a Houston fan, you're out there saying, thank you, Johnny Fanta, because there will be a graphic that comes up that shows everybody picking Houston. Make sure to add, if they don't have John Fanta's pick on there, add it in in your brain.
Somebody did pick University of Miami. Thank you, Johnny.
Thank you, Johnny. Now, you know that Dana Holgerson will be at that Final Four if they make it there.
We got to go to his house. Oh, yeah, for sure.
I totally forgot about that. Hank will stay over for six days.
Yeah, yeah. Holgerson's a great guy.
He's the best. Great dude.
Wait, so is Miami in the Final Four? So right now, John Fantas picks. He's got Alabama in the Final Four.
He's got Tennessee in the Final Four. Yeah, I'm going out on a limb.
You got UConn in the Final Four. Who's your fourth Final Four team? Rodney Terry in Texas.
Okay. I like that pick.
Yeah, and that goes back to right now, Dylan DeSue is playing as well as anybody. I mean, in two tournament games, he's had 45 points and 20 rebounds.
He's on another level right now. And they have an all-time starting five team name guy, Serge Ibari Rice.
Love Serge Ibari Rice. I mean, the best name.
Who comes in off the bench. Yeah.
But you need one of those guys on your team to make a magical run in the Final Four. Yes.
One name that everyone's like, whoa, Serge Bari Rice? That's his name? Okay, cool. Yeah, and I just think, guys, that this team, this group of players, when the Chris Beard stuff goes down, they had the personnel to get through that.
There's so many other teams. 80% of any other team would have withered or maybe made the tournament and been a first-round bow out.
This group has a dude in Marcus Carr who came to Texas for this chapter. This is why he transferred.
They've got Timmy Allen, who I think is a guy who leads and a guy who steps up for them in different ways. Christian Bishop gives them a different look when he comes into the game.
Another transfer. Came from Creighton.
A lot of people scrutinized him for going from Creighton to Texas. That's worked out.
So I just like their makeup. And Tyrese Hunter.
Tyrese Hunter went from Iowa State to Texas for this moment. For this moment with the Longhorns.
They've got a group of, by doing the portal as much as Beard did, I think a lot of these kids have a common ground. And they're playing hard for their guy in Rodney Terry, who, by the way, should be the head coach for Texas.
Texas needs to stop thinking about what they're going to do, looking at what they're going to do. Could you imagine the confidence factor right now? Texas basketball.
You ever want to win a national championship? Do you want to win one? I'd argue your chances are as good right now as they ever would be with Rodney Terry. What happens if Chris Del Conte, the Texas AD, says right now, puts out a statement or a tweet today or tomorrow morning and says, you know what? I've heard all the chatter.
Rodney Terry's my head coach. If you're a Longhorns player, wouldn't you want to then just run through a brick wire? Okay, counterpoint.ari no no to Big Cat's point though you're so in your line of thinking no he's giving me which is right I think I think John's right you're I wouldn't hire him if I was Texas like logically you are correct sir I agree with 100% of what you're saying but the reality at the University of Texas is it's not always the athletic director that's making that call.
I know. It's the boosters that have their names on buildings and names on stadiums that are making that call.
But what has Cal done in the last four years to make the donor that excited? No, not a lot. I don't think they know Ball, though.
He's on a downside. He's a splashy name, right? And so if you're a big money Texas booster, you see Cal, you're like, oh, I recognize that guy's name.
I want him. Look, would I love it? Yeah.
Yeah. It's great for college basketball if we see some massive seismic move of John Calipari going from Kentucky to Texas.
I would love it. I think it'd be buzzworthy.
I mean, I wouldn't love it for Rodney Terry. I think he deserves it.

But you know what?

In this business, you think you could be handed something.

That's not how it goes.

Cal at Kentucky has run its course.

It's run its course.

You know, I think for both sides, it might be best for their best versions

of themselves going forward to not be together.

What about Calipari leaves, goes to Texas, Jay Wright to Kentucky? Well, that's going to be the theory every time. Max is shaking his head he's not happy about that.
You're not happy about that? He wants Jay Wright back now. He wants him back.
Jay's not going anywhere. Jay Wright, think about Jay Wright's life right now.
He retired. Well, you could retire.
Retired from coaching. We know how retirement works around here.
I mean, you can say you're retiring and then. So Jay Wright right now, here's Jay Wright's life.
Jay Wright gets to go to the city of his choice for CBS Sports. He's typically going with Bill Raftery.
And if he's not going with Bill Raftery, he's going with a big-time play-by-play announcer. There are many, whether it's Ian Eagle, whether it's Spiro Didis.
I could go down the line with Andrew Catalan. And he basically is going into a town.
He gets to sit with the coaches and chat it up. He can go to dinner, and if he's with Raft, they can shut down the bar.
And when I say shut down, they – Raft – Bill Raftery turns 80 in August. An ode to Bill Raftery for having the energy that he possesses every single day in college basketball.
The guy is still calling a million games a minute. He knows his stuff.
His lines are good. It's not stale.
It's not. And Jay Wright gets to live that life.
He ain't calling – he retired from the sidelines for this lifestyle. Yeah, but counterpoint again, any of these guys who have had that type of success at that level, they miss it a little.
The winning games. Of course.
Winning games matters more than anything. There's no winner or loser when you're sitting on the desk.
That's why I think a year from now, you got me thinking with Kentucky and stuff, I think a year from now, you'll see Chris Mack get back into college basketball coaching. He's been kind of quiet since the Louisville chapter ended.
By the way, I do think Rodney Terry should be the coach of Texas. I just like to play the game of John Calipari going anywhere.
I do too. Yeah.
And do you think that, so are you saying that he's officially on the hot seat? Next season he's got to go on an NCAA tournament run. Okay.
So that sounds like hot seat to me. That sounds like lukewarm seat.
No, it's hot because if it was – he's not getting fired right now, but the seat is heating up. But is the seat heating up now or is it heating up next year if he doesn't go on a run? So, in my opinion, this is my logic with this, if you make the NCAA tournament again next year and you have a one and done, or you win a game and then lose, you're now going on five consecutive years of no second weekend.
Yeah, they're supposed to be Kentucky. They're supposed to be Kentucky.
If you are the Dallas Cowboys, right, of college basketball. Are you not? Yeah.
Kentucky's won something recently. Ish.
Yeah. But yeah, they're the biggest brand.
Over a decade now. It's been a while.
It's been a while. All right, what would you compare them to, Kentucky? No, I think you're right in terms of the brand.
The brand is a flashy brand, and with Cal there, I think it even makes the brand. It's under a bigger microscope with him, and he just hasn't got it done recently.
Yeah, and I just think it's under a bigger microscope in general. And when you don't go on second weekend NCAA tournament runs at a school like Kentucky for a half decade, at some point we've got to stop worrying about the number of stars next to a kid's name.
That's not winning games in March. This sport is different now.
You have to crush the portal. You have to figure out a way through NIL.
Not just dropping bags, but figuring out a way to both drop bags and to make it work for your locker room. This Kentucky team this year was proclaimed to be a national championship contender.
And I know Carolina's sitting at home and they didn't even make the tournament. But you know what? They made the national championship game a year ago.
Right. When nobody expected them to.
This Kentucky team was supposed to be a team that could at the very least be sitting here. At the very least be sitting here in the Sweet 16.
And the fact that they go home to kansas state who was picked dead last in the big 12 preseason bowl that's sour again it stings it's nothing against cal personally it's just a fact kentucky basketball has underperformed now for several years in a row i like the fire and i i mean listen we have a lot of fans at kentucky Kentucky. We get to host Matt Jones' show every year.
He's been on our hot seat for like five years, so maybe we are actually the true Kentucky insiders. You guys are, and you know what? Big Blue Nation is awesome.
They're an awesome fan base, but Big Blue Nation, isn't your expectation level high? Yeah, I that the people from kentucky will get mad at us for this segment not because we're putting cal on the hot seat but because we didn't go far enough and say like i think that if you ask like a true blue kentucky fan they want him gone yesterday they're done yeah they are done so who would you hire at kentucky rick patino yeah rick patino rick patino. Rick Pitino gets a call in two weeks from Kentucky.

Sometimes you've got to go home.

I'm not going to lie.

That would be the most St. John's thing ever.

It would be.

That would be very Jets, wouldn't it?

It would.

Yes.

Yes, they are a New York sports team.

Yeah.

Rick Pitino writes in a little cocktail napkin.

What if Kentucky hired Jim Bayheim? Good laugh for the boys. Breaking.
Jay Williams. Yeah, Jay Williams being considered.
All right, well, I have one last question. Johnny Fanta, this has been awesome.
Great to have you on. We're going to see you in Houston.
You're going to be invited on Barstool Live from Kirby's Ice House. I think Dave's going to go after you for your Cooley water holding, carrying.

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Give us your national champion. Also, Wisconsin's still alive in the NIT if you want to just pick them.
Oh, man. Let's see here.
Are you going to stay out in Vegas for the NIT? No. I'm not doing that.
Oh, come on. I'm going to come back to Jersey.
It used to be the real national championship. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, in luck to your badgers thank you but man uh my national champion no don't do it my national champion don't do it is the connecticut yeah you're pandering that's fine your pick that's fine i need to no it's not a pan look i think i think everybody and their mother believes al thought you were going to say Alabama.
Yeah, you're pandering. That's fine.
It's a pander pick. That's fine.
I need to. No, it's not a pander.
Look, I think everybody and their mother believes Alabama's going to do it. Yeah.
Like, whether you – all the – we all know about what's going on with them. But, I mean, real talk, it clearly has not been a distraction for this basketball team as much as that sucks.
No, it's basically that South Carolina game they won in overtime. Yeah.
That was it. That was it.
So, you know what? I think Alabama should win it, but there was something I saw from UConn last week and that made me say they could do it. And so that's why I'm just, I'm going out on a little bit of a limb.
I want to see Danny Hurley there. I'm going to take, I'll take UConn.
Can you tell me just how Alabama loses? Yeah, they lose if they fall in love with a three-point shot too much and go like eight for 37 in a game. Bad rim.
A bad rim. A bad rim.
Like East region, I don't see anybody being able to win it. I mean, I like Michigan State.
I like what they're doing, but I don't trust Tennessee in the Final Four. Up in the, well, down in the South, in the South, Alabama to me is a shoo-in to make it.
So then by that virtue, they're going to be in the championship game. So, you know, I think on the other side, could Houston win it? Yeah, but I just don't trust them always with their offense.
Tennessee would be a pick too, but I'm going to pick UConn and go a little bit outside the box because I do think UConn's talent, UConn's talent stacks up with anybody. There it is.
There's my pick. John Fanta, go follow him on Twitter everywhere.
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And now for something completely different. Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite recurring guests.
Back in studio is Damon John. He's here.
He has what he's calling a legacy book. A legacy book, yes.
It's called Little Damon Learns to Earn. It's out now.
Go buy it. I actually wanted to start.
I was saying to you in the hallway. I don't know if you read Art of the Deal.
I read Art of the Deal, so I know how to negotiate better than pretty much everyone. I negotiated with my son this morning.
I told him, if you put on your clothes right now, I will bring home a book for you. And it was your book.
So your book's already helping my life. Did he get excited? Yeah.
He was like, oh, thank you so much for the book. That's the key.
In the back head i was like i'm probably gonna forget to bring it home but that's fine whatever but that's the key that he actually likes books yes right now because usually they're like a book yeah what am i gonna do with that yeah i mean they lie to you when you're a kid because books when you're young they're just pictures right and then all of a sudden you have to start reading shit and then you're like wait wait wait this is bait and switch yeah yeah but this is so you you've been working on this book for how long now i've been i didn't realize i was working on this book for the last 30 years because i was trying to teach my oldest girls financial intelligence and and i didn't know how to and when i first made money i thought the financial intelligence was you want a car you go out and you work i'll match how much money you have and get you a car i was just teaching her how to work hard right it wasn't financial intelligence so i started looking around and the reason why this is my legacy uh is going to be my legacy is because there's no book out there like this for kids five to ten years old where it shows them how to build a business or what to do with money um all the books are princes and princesses. And now I have a new little girl.
She's, what, six, seven years old. And I'm tired of reading her stories about a prince that's going to one day come and check out her, I don't know, gold slipper or something like that.
Yeah. And I realized this is not out.
And then our kids don't have financial intelligence. And at 17 years old, they can acquire $700,000 worth of debt that they won't pay off until the end of their 50s.
I always thought that was messed up. When you're growing up, you should, the biggest part of your life is going to be learning how to have money, spend money, what to do with your money.
Your life is going to be centered around that to a certain extent for the next 60, 70 years and they don't teach you anything about that in school ever. They teach you math that you're probably, you know, certain parts of math.
In high school, i've never used calculus in my life i've never used trigonometry i've never been in the same room as calculus yeah that's actually true i took algebra two twice yeah yeah c plus the second time i i love school so much i took seventh grade twice yeah but so it's not listen it's not a scam or it's not some kind of thing people want to do to us.

They're not saying, oh, let's not teach our kids anything about money and then all of a sudden let's prey on them.

But what happens is the school system is broken.

The school system is where the school system was 80 years ago.

We needed to be able to build ships and build things and have a trade like that because we're going to war.

Or they were teaching you how to be a good employee because there weren't companies that you started yourself. But the fact is that whoever's listening today who's graduating school, 50% of them will retire with a job title that doesn't exist today.
That's like saying somebody 20 years ago, you were going to be a podcaster. Yeah, that's us.
Or you were going to be an AI expert or social media person or pay-per-click manager. So you're going to not be taught financial intelligence and then at 17 years old, take $700,000 worth of debt for an education you don't know you want to have.
Yeah. So this book, it's ages 5 to 10, 4 to 8? 5 to 10.
Parents can read it with their kids. And unlike when you think about a book, like when I cash on the ride in school yeah why the hell am i reading this yeah fuck holden caulfield that book was come on he's a phony yeah he is he's a big phony he's like dude just grow up a little yeah when you think about your little boy when when you read this book a kid loves repetitiveness so what you would do is you read it every month yeah right because right now the status like 60 percent of parents are uncomfortable talking about money with their kids so now i figured because i'm i'm i'm literally the only african-american in on major television on major network for the last 14 years that don't come from music sports or television music sports or politics i've been in these kids living rooms for 14 years yeah i'm i'm trying to be the new mr ro Rogers and teach them what's going on.
And that's what I'm trying to bring this financial intelligence to families and parents and everybody. Yeah.
I also think that sometimes people that don't grow up with money, they don't learn how to talk about money. They get afraid to bring it up because in certain people's houses, you bring it up.
If you don't have money growing up, your parents just tell you, don't talk about money. It's a taboo topic.
It's bad, right? And it's not, right? So I put it in a real soluble way where little Dave wants to earn. He wants to get some stuff and he wants to make his own.
He starts his own business. Fails.
Then he realizes he needs friends and he needs to tap into his friend's skill set to help him make money. And they all make money.
So when your little boy, you know, I don't want him thinking he can only be a superhero because Webb's got to come out of his wrist so he has to fly. But if I can show him, like the Avengers, instead of fighting Thanos, what you need to fight is you need to just grab each other and get each other together, and then I use the fact that you can dance, you can sing, you can draw, you're a gamer, and we can make money having fun.

And that's what people need to understand. So do you explain, or maybe you could explain it to someone, like we have a lot of listeners that are maybe five years old.
Inflation, how does that make sense? Well, inflation means that the cost of everything is rising, but you can make money off of inflation. You know, if you buried $100,000 in the ground in 1975, you pull that $100,000 cash up, it could barely get your Mercedes-Benz.
But due to inflation, if you buried a diamond in the ground that's worth $100,000, it would be worth $1.75 million today. Do we print more money when we get out of it? This is, again, a question for five-year-olds.
Yeah, right? Of course. We're not.
But you guys came into money, right? Yeah, we did, but I'm wondering. I now need some tips on- Well, what would you do with the money now? I would bury it.
Gamble it responsibly. I would bury it.
Wait, wait, wait. I put my hat on because- Okay.
Nice. You got a top hat.
Nice. Teach us.
I see I'm needed here. Bring top hats back.
You know, when I'm on Shark Tank, no little kid gives a shit about my $10,000 Tom Ford suits. But when I wear this hat...
Oh, this is awesome. When I wear this hat, you know, they want me to create magic, and I'm going to show them magic on how to get the hell out of their parents' house at 21 years old or turn $1 into three.
So you're going to use your money gambling? Well, listen, you have $5, and responsibly you say if I take one of those dollars and I hit a parlay, now I have $20. And what are the odds on the parlay? I'm not a mathematician.
Understood. But I really like this team.
Yeah, you really like the team. Well, you know, so an asset is what feeds you and a liability is what eats you, right? So let me ask you something.
What do you think is an asset of liability? Okay, I'm going to give you choices. Asset.
Let me give you a choice right now. Well, I'll just give you one and then you give me a choice.
Asset, working with PFT, liability, working with Billy. I kind of nailed that, right? I think so.
I think I think i nailed that i think i nailed that i was i was gonna say you have the walking definition of a liability in this room he's right there right now it's it's billy he'll get it he'll give you a rash in two seconds billy what do you do billy doesn't know what's your billy's actually billy's actually struggling with taxes right now that's a very interesting very interesting question. It's not a tough question.
What do you do, Billy? Stuff. Like what? I try to help out as much as I can.
Sometimes it's beneficial. Sometimes it's content.
Yeah. Wait, wait.
I like the fact that he said content. That's the same description as a drug dealer, but I'm trying to find out

what exactly did you do here? Yeah, that is. You're right.
Well, they have a product. What's the product? That's debatable.
Billy is the drug. Yeah.
So I think you're accurate about that assessment of what Billy is. Yeah, he's the liability.
All right. All right.
So you got some money. All right.
Let me ask you what's the asset liability. um

an 80 foot yacht

paint purple

with uh

you know

just a bunch of

TV screens on it, and you sit there all day and you gamble watching TV screens on the yacht. Yep.
Or a share of Amazon that they may deliver products right to you or they own Whole Foods. Which one do you think is an asset of liability? I'm a shareholder in Amazon right now, and I'll tell you, for the last two years, I would much rather be betting on the can't-lose parlay every weekend.
Yeah, purple yacht. Bezos doesn't let his employees take a piss break.
Yeah. That's a good boss.
So Amazon, you should be doubling down on Amazon right now because right now, if a car you loved was on a 30% discount brand new, wouldn't you buy a couple of them? Yeah, but you can probably tell by looking at me. I'm a luxury brand guy.
And right now, Amazon, it's like- Look at this jersey, Italia. Italy.
That's me, okay? I want that yacht. Right now, I see Amazon stock.
It's like, ew, gross. So you need to buy when it's down because it's going to go back up so if you put your money in the bank you would make maybe three percent you put let's say you guys just made some money you put a hundred thousand dollars in the bank end of the year it would be a hundred and three thousand dollars you put in amazon if it just goes back to where it used to be, that would be probably about $1,300.
Okay, that sounds better. So it would be $130.
Excuse me, I forgot which $100 or $1,000. And then the $13,000 in the parlay.
You let the winnings ride. Now your money's making money.
This is the whole reason why I'm writing this book for kids, because adults like you are already too stupid to teach. So I want to teach kids at about five years old to start understanding how to process it.
You're right, by the way. I'm good at making money.
I'm not good at holding the money. Let me show you.
There's a simple, and none of this stuff is hard, really, to understand. So let me show you something that you and any listener can do right now for the kids in your life.
Just something casual to do, okay? Your son, if he likes toys and stuff like that, you want to buy him a nice little truck, right? Buy him a little Caterpillar truck, right? Buy him a share in Caterpillar. Oh! And then show him what that truck is equal to and then take a picture of him that day you know the next uh birthday or the next holiday or christmas buy him a share in maybe disney and a disney and a product that he likes right oh and when you look at this book all these shares that he keeps going over with his what and looking at over the of the next five, ten years, he's going to start to understand.
Then you show him how much they appreciated. And how much did the truck appreciate and how much can he sell that for? And how much can the stock be sold for? And if everybody did that with their kids, they would start to understand stocks.
But let me show you the exact way the $3 works. So if you guys made $3, $3,000, $3 million, here's exactly how it's supposed to happen.
The first dollar is supposed to go for what you have to pay for, right? Food, bills, whatever the case is. The second is an investment.
Anything, real estate, whatever the case is. And the third dollar, you go and you buy what you would like to have, but you don't have to have.
And if you don't buy it then you put it back into number two what most americans do is they put the money in they do number three first because they worked hard they want to treat themselves right right then they never get to number two and then all of a sudden number one is late and they're paying 18 percent interest on their credit cards okay but if you teach your kids what one two three is when money comes into the house because when you look at your kids and go why the hell are you doing that you know how hard i work they go no and i don't give a shit i came into this world just like this and you were taking care of everything why would i give a shit yeah but when you show them that type of stuff i did the same thing with my daughter she's seven she had three hundred dollars at the end of the year i mean tooth fairy Tooth Fairy's giving away $40 these days. Wait, what?

$40?

I got $2.25 for all my teeth and my consoles.

Damn.

No problem.

We broke out the $300.

I said, baby, here's $100.

You got to give that to mommy and daddy because you got to help pay the rent.

She said, basically looked at me with the I don't give a shit.

No problem.

Take it.

The second one, we put it into a little business.

She's going to buy seashells.

She's going to find seashells and put them into little glass bottles and sell those and the third i said what do you want to do with this third what do you want anything you want she wanted a pet she started off with a giraffe but we ended up down to a little fish okay we go so we buy the fish we bring it home i said baby the money just bought you freedom she said what do you mean i said you didn't have to wait for christmas you didn't have to wait for your birthday you didn't tell me and i went and bought you a fish of that you didn't want this is what freedom is yeah so what she started to understand and all the parents can do this today with their kids she started to understand that's freedom freedom is either going away on a vacation giving to a charity you know parlay whatever yeah right yep but then we went back to number two she had bought 30 little bottles to pull them full of shells but she went and give away 20 i said you can't give away 20 because you'll be bankrupt she realized if she gives away five sells 25 she could then buy 60 and so on she has financial intelligence how things work at seven years old imagine if i kept doing the stock thing with her and that yeah it keeps growing do kids have to pay taxes kids do not have to pay taxes because you usually pay the taxes for them that's actually wrong because there's always the dad tax whenever my kids have food that i want i take a bite yeah my son chris uh he's four he goes to chipotle all the time because the public investment fund of saudi arabia invested him and whenever he comes home'm like, let me get half that meal. You know the Bureau of Child Welfare could be listening to us right now.
Wait, whoa, you don't take dad tax? Like when my son has last night, he had Mickey Mouse gummies. And I was like, dad tax, give me a couple of those.
They get taxed. You know, they get taxed in a certain way, but you're giving them a gift.
So what are you, gift taxing them? Yeah, that's a gift tax. Yeah, I'm gift taxing them.
I love the idea about the stock. That's actually genius.
You buy them a gift, you get them a stock like $5 in Caterpillar. What about my daughter? She's a huge Lockheed Martin fan, and I really don't want to have her invest in bombs.
Well, I think your daughter

should be, I think you should be listening more to your daughter

than she should be listening to you

if she's a huge Lockheed Martin fan.

She's their number one fan.

She's only, she's about to be two, but she's their

number one fan. It's a good company.

It's strong.

It's a strong company.

Yeah, my son, Chris, he loves

Halliburton too.

Big Dick Cheney guy. I'm curious.
What's the worst piece of advice that you've ever received in business? Besides going part of my take. Good question.
Besides going part of my take. The worst piece of advice that I ever got in business was, you're not guaranteed tomorrow to spend it all.

So back to, now you're talking about like,

you have money right now.

Yeah.

You don't know what to do with it. Right.

Besides get rid of it, right?

Get what?

You're saying like, if you have money,

you might as well get rid of it

because you don't know what else to do with it.

That's bad advice.

That's bad advice because they're saying spend it all, meaning always reinvest in the business. There's certain ways to reinvest in the business.
It's not necessarily putting money back into the business because there's a lot of people out there that have large businesses and they spend all the money and they don't have anything to take at home, right? Because everybody usually gets paid off your business besides you. the people that are renting the building, the people that are providing the microphones, all the employees and all that other stuff, and you're not taking the money out for yourself.
So they say spend it all on the business or various other things. And that's not really the best way to do it.
What you should be doing is taking that business like McDonald's and using it for more real estate than hamburgers, right? You got to put it in and build something else within the business and let the money work for you in the business. At the end of your book, did you ever think about having like a page at the end of the book being like, and the best business advice is create a book that kids will buy because they never run out of kids.
They never run out of kids. They never run out of kids.
Think about it. It's literally a coin.
It's just every year. Every time I have sex, I'm thinking to myself, dollar size.
Kids. They never run out of kids.
I'm going to make money off this kid. Well, are you paying for that sex, you mean? No, I'm making the money.
Oh, you're getting paid? No, I'm paying for it, but my payment is an investment. So you're breaking down cost per pump? Yeah.
All right, I got you. Three pumps at the station.
I'm very efficient. I get it.
All business. I like that.
You're more of a P&L kind of guy. How much is your cost per pump these days? I don't know.
They call me all business skeet. I'm in, I'm out.
Wait, P&L, that's profit and losses. You said your name was business skeet? No, no, we got a guy named All Business Pete here, but it's a long story.

I want to know, what are you paying cost per pump these days?

I don't pay anything.

They pay me.

Yeah.

They pay you.

Yeah.

I pay $20 a pump.

You pay $20 a pump?

$20 a pump.

So what does a good night at home cost you?

It's only $40.

What does a good night at home cost you?

$40.

What does a good night at home cost you?

$40.

$40.

But I got to show you, so you got what they call phantom costs around there because are you paying for everything at the house? Yeah, I guess. Yeah.
Yeah. So you're probably at about $200 per pump right now.
Oh, okay. So you forgot about $180 worth it because that's what we call phantom cost.
What is a phantom cost? That you don't realize that it's costing you more because you're just thinking about what you're doing right there, but there's a lot of other things that are in play, and that's a phantom cost. Okay, so- You've got a bed.
You've got covers on that bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, that makes sense. No, no, no, not physically.
Well, that too. I mean, but if you're paying all of the bills around the house and everything else- The lights are on, the lights are off.
Okay, so what so we had a we know we're talking about children's book today right yeah we're talking about children to make sure we're we are children does little damon allow his employees to use the bathroom yes okay nice good solid what about uh this sbv bank so we broke it down for the people yeah and we were like well it's not really that big of a deal because they'll just print more money is that true well uh you know the problem is if you you you give to that bank now other banks can say well where's our money where's our money so that that's a bigger issue okay and that's uh that's way my pay grade. Are we about to be in a recession?

I feel like everyone keeps talking about it.

Really?

I believe so, yeah.

Shit.

I got to change some things around.

No, no, no.

This is when you take that money because cash is king in a recession.

And this is when you buy things because everything is at a discount.

So this is exactly why you need to know Little Damon Learns to Earn

because you buy things when they're down, not when everybody has money and they're rushing and buying luxury goods and things of that nature. I'm about to buy a house probably in the next week or two.
My real estate agent keeps telling me, hey, PFT, don't buy this house just because it's around the corner from a wing restaurant that you like. Hey, PFT, don't buy this house just because you're walking through the basement and they have a giant tv in the house as they're showing the house but these are the things that attack that that attract my eye right is that good advice well i would think that a better advice would just go to a great wing restaurant with a big tv in it and then you can just uh you know pay for your meal there and get 50 of it of course if it's get 50% of it written off.
And you don't have to inherit all those other things. So I can just drive to the wing restaurant.
You could actually walk to the wing restaurant that's around the corner. Didn't you say you were around the corner? Yeah, but I'm saying I want to buy a more expensive house because it's closer to a restaurant that I like.
Whereas I could buy a house that's 10 minutes away from that restaurant that's cheaper and then drive to the restaurant. Right.
So this book is for children because adults are already set in their ways because you can always go to that restaurant, man. I am a child.
And take the money and just look at the game over there and parlay right there yeah we're making money so uh this book is is

fantastic i am going to read to my son tonight um and my daughter uh but again she's a huge lockheed martin fan so uh what i had a question about like where social media is going with the economic uh literacy because you're obviously now part of this doing it for kids but what do you think when you see these guys on instagram or twitter who are like the life hack guys the uh like this one guy the other day said that he does four four work days in one day yeah he does like he'll just in the morning that's one work day in the middle of the day that's one work day and he's working four times harder than us i'm a i prescribed the 10x theory that if you just do 10x of everything you'll just be 10x as rich do you think we're in a dangerous spot in terms of maybe some people who are full of bullshit yeah there's a lot of people out there that are full of bullshit but there's a lot of people out there that are i mean it's just no difference it's a different platform there's a lot of people that are full of shit and there's a lot of people that honestly are giving you great takeaways. But like anything you're doing, you should compare that life hack to various other professionals' life hacks and find the common denominator in all of them.
Yeah. Don't just listen to one person.
Okay, that's actually very good advice. Because, yeah, you'll see it.
You'll scroll Instagram, and it will just be like, here's 10 ways that every successful person got to be a billionaire. Oh, the grind set king.
Yeah, right. You know, listen, and here's for the adults too because, of course, this book is for adults and children to read together, but a lot of people say I don't have financial intelligence.
I think you brought up a good point. The best thing to do if you don't have it right now is you just load up your phone with 10 or 20 Instagram or whatever accounts that talk about finance.
Don't buy anything. And try to just scroll through those the same time in the morning when you're looking at bags, shopping, chicks, food, men, whatever you're looking at.
And you scroll through those. And believe it or not, in a year or two years, you'll start seeing common things that you will be attracted.
Because whether you like sports cards trading, Bitcoin is obviously down. there's some there could be something there right or you're looking at stocks or real flipping real estate you'll start to see something you're really attracted about and you'll get interested in it without spending any money just do that because like you said there's a lot of people full of shit so you don't want to follow one account that's all of a sudden going to sell you something right but if you see 10 and 20 accounts you're casually going through going through, you're going to be like, oh, you know what? Everybody's saying this.
Everybody's saying that. Let me start looking at it for myself.
Okay. I like that.
That's good advice. I've got a serious business question for you here.
What would you rather have, $500,000 or dinner with Jay-Z? $500,000. Okay.
But wait, let me finish. At the dinner with Jay-Z, you can pick his brain On how to make $500,000 Because most likely Jay Z Has said it a million times In various different ways So it would be like me saving $500,000 just to spend two days Looking at every Single interview he's ever done And or I can even get somebody to do a Whole report and break down Everything he's done's done so why do i need to listen to him i could save five hundred thousand dollars okay how many times have you had dinner with jay-z never really never we hung out once twice but never had dinner with him yeah sounds like you should probably do it yeah not do the five hundred thousand dollars you don't even know maybe be worth it it would be worth it i would i could definitely learn from jay is there anyone out there that you would take the dinner with instead of the $500,000? Maybe Warren Buffett.
Okay. Bezos.
You'd just be eating McDonald's. Huh? Warren Buffett just eats McDonald's.
I know. Bezos would be a good answer.
Bezos. Do you know Magic Johnson? I do.
Can you text him real quick and ask him if he's going to buy the Commanders? You want me to text him and ask him? Could you? I think it's He may not be up right now. No, he's up.
I saw him talking about the seedlings in the NCAA tournament. Yeah? Yeah, he's working out right now.
And why would I ask him that? Because I'm desperate. For what? I'm desperate for him to buy the Commanders.
Why is that? Because I want Dan Snyder to be thrown into the ocean and then run over with a steam cruiser. You just received some money, didn't you uh yeah a little bit yeah yeah you should be i've been trying to be caring about some other stuff other than that i've been trying to i'm trying to get involved with jay-z's investment group with uh kevin durant and all those guys oh that's a good one that's a good one yeah you know and how are you doing that i'm just tweeting at him a lot yeah is he answering you no that's.
That's a grind set. That's a grind set.
He's on his grind set. Yeah.
Just wake up and tweet. And what do you expect to do with that? Because I believe that that group asked you, well, how can you help contribute? Because we don't want regular money because we all have money.
We want smart money. People who are going to add some kind of, you know.
Yeah. So I've been thinking about that I I know some of the guys that work on the biggest sports podcast in America so it would be I think maybe good for their good for their brand to be like you remember um you remember when we uh in the Iraq war when they had that dude that was Baghdad Bob that was just saying everything's fine, don't worry, Saddam Hussein

is doing great, that guy, that would be me

for the Washington commanders. I would just

put propaganda out there all the time. You would just go out there

and do that? I would do everything.

When you tweet at him, what do you say?

Because that's a pitch. What is your pitch? What do you say?

Hey, Jay-Z,

big fan.

I've got some money. Can I give

you some money and then I can buy the Commanders with you and own a suite there. Oh, okay.
Well, why don't you just go and get a suite there now? And then when he buys it, the suite will probably go up and you can flip the suite if you want. I just want to say that I'm an owner.
Honestly, the entire point is I want to say that I'm an owner of the Washington Commanders because when I was 18 years old, I told my girlfriend at the time, one day I'm going to own the Washington Redskins. And so I'm really trying to get back at her for that.
Have you tried extortion? Yeah. Where is she now? Do you know? No, I don't know.
So how are you going to get back at her? I just want to be able to say that. I want to be able to say I own the Washington Redskins.
Okay. Well, listen, that's really not a bad goal.
How much do you think they would go for? Probably about $2 billion? I think probably $6 billion. What's your piece going to be worth, do you think? 1% of 1% of 1% of 1%.
All right. Yeah, I think you may have a tough time with that.
Damon's reaching for his pocket. Is he going to take out his checkbook for PFT? Do you want to get involved in my investment group? No, no, no.
Are you about to give him money? No, no, no. I was texting my security ass.
Shit. Get them to get me the hell out of here.
That was going to be awesome. I was trying to.
I'm sorry. That was going to be like your version of Oprah.
It's like, look under your chair. There's one Washington commander.
I was trying to say, please save me because I'm not sure what just happened. You get a football team.
Yeah, you get a football team. You get a football team.
All right, so, Damon, this book is out now. Little Damon Learns to Earn.
So everyone should go buy it, especially if you're a parent. I cannot wait to read it to my kids.
What's the one last thing that you would tell parents with small children uh maybe outside of the book that's like hey this is another thing to think about here's something else that uh you should try to teach your kids that they have to listen at the end of the day they have to control the screen times they have to put on i deal with a lot of youtubers and the ones who are creating uh like the mcclory's the m creating a lot of stuff. They say they only look at it 40 minutes.
They have an automatic cutoff. I think it's under family usage or you can go down to the store and get it 40 minutes.
They cut it off. Now, what happens is this.
They go, well, if you want to look at it more or have more time after that, they can always reward them by putting them on their iPad by going by going hey listen if you do this i'll give you more time on an ipad right because instead of having to give them candy or your mother stuff let them earn it because right now what's happening with kids is they're basically absorbing all that information on ipad and when we were kids our parents cut the tv off but a kid will sit there and put an an iPad on them and fall asleep and keep listening to the same stuff. And what happens is my six or seven-year-old, she started having anxiety around the house because there's no shows for basically six and seven-year-olds.
After Peppa Pig and all that, well, now you got the other shows around 12. So every time that my wife and I got into a dispute, she was like, are you getting divorced? Well, she'd say, are you going to die? Or when am I going to have a baby? Because she's watching stuff that may have a great song on it, but they're really adult topics they're talking about in there.
And these kids are falling asleep with these iPads on them when they're going to bed. And it's really programming their minds against a whole lot of other things that are not productive for them.
So I think that's one thing're doing with our daughter and we're finding that we take it away and after about a week she didn't mind not having it for 40 minutes after 40 minutes she just decided to play yeah and do something else and use her mind instead of worrying about what somebody's unboxing and worry about all these children on social media that are showing them how to play with toys she's starting to do it herself and then she started to pick up instruments and other things so bottom line that's cut the ipad down because the ipad is extremely dangerous it's letting basically cartoons and a whole bunch of crap into your child's life where honestly most most cartoons have about 40 acts of violence in them per cartoon we all grew up with bugs money and all these kind of things this is not something they should be uh absorbing too much yeah all right that's good advice i got one last question about uh you're a fashion guy yeah your roots are in fashion uh i'm a fashion guy i can see i brought levi's back to the usa i started that levi's trend and the whole nasa me too. The what trend? The NASA.
People wearing NASA logos everywhere. NASA shirts, okay.
I invented those. Okay.
What's next? I want to know what's next. I want to be on the cutting edge, the bleeding edge of fashion.
What should I be looking at wearing as a hypebeast? Wait, you're a fashion guy, you said. I'm a hypebeast, yeah.
You're a fashion guy. You should be telling me.
Yeah, but we're picking each other's brains here. I mean, you're looking at me.
I'm showing you. I'm kimono telling you what i think is coming next why are you opening your kimono that's how business people i've heard people say that in meetings before i've never heard that before i'll circle back on you and i'll let you know where i heard that okay uh but what's next what's next in fashion fashion is anything that you want it to be you know you can't fashion is dictated by how you want to wear it yeah you know you know Yeah.
Top hats. Yeah, top hats is totally in, right? But you know where, like, all the couture stuff, fashion really started was really the porpoids that used to stand outside the royal palaces when they were getting married.
They used to do their own runway shows outside, and they used to come up with rags and things of that nature and look like they were royalty walking down the street.

Fashion is whatever you want it to be.

Sweatpants.

What about crutches?

What about designer?

Like crutches for people walking around with one crutch.

Designer wheelchairs?

Do they even have crutches anymore or is those things that you just put your leg up on and roll around with?

Oh, I like those.

Those are cool. Yeah, those get me around the Golden Cor around with? Oh, I like those.
Those are cool.

Yeah, those get me around the Golden Corral Buffet pretty quickly.

Yeah, yeah.

Those are cool.

That's my favorite is going to a buffet and seeing people that have eaten their way into

like a scooter.

Yeah.

Still hammering that buffet.

It's still hammering that buffet.

Scooter still works.

Well, everyone should go out and buy it.

You can buy it everywhere.

Yeah, we started talking about camons and buffets and scooters. This is where the conversation usually goes.
All right. Little Damon Learns to Earn is out now.
This is the first book of its kind, and it teaches financial intelligence in a fun way, as well as how to start a business. You read it to your child every month for about a year or maybe two years, the same way they want to read Dragons and Tacos and Stinky Wonky Donkey.
But what it does is it starts to process their mind on when they have things they want to do. They go, oh, wait a minute.
That's just like in Little Damon Learns to Earn. Yeah.
And I gave you some ideas on what to do with your children with stocks. Buy a toy and buy a stock that matches it.
Maybe put a whole bunch of frames up in the house or a nice little portfolio of a book they can look through with great memories. And I show you how to honestly deal with $3.
First dollar for what you have to pay. Second to invest.
And third for what you would like to have but don't have to have. And the second dollar starts to make so much over the years that it flows into one and two.
Because if you were to put an automatic deduction of $100 in the year 2000 every single month, if you started that and you were 18 years old, by the time you're 65, it could average out to be about $1.4 or $1.5 million. That's by just doing an automatic deduction you will never see right out of your check for $100 a month.
it would easily be at least $1.4 or $1.5 million by the time you're 60. Dang.
That's compound interest, right? Yeah, compound interest. Carl Daston, you taught me that.
Yeah, so I will release a review. I will read it to my kids, and I'll release a review.
But, Damon, thanks always for coming on. Thank you, guys.
We appreciate it. This is honestly, I swear, I'm not being funny.
This is literally my favorite show. Yeah, I mean, this is like your third or fourth time on, so we love having you stop by.
I'm excited. Congratulations on what you guys have accomplished and making a little bit of money.
And don't spend it on parlays. If you want to spend it, I got a whole bunch of crap that I bought from Shark Tank that I can sell you.
Okay, perfect. Awesome.
And that's it. Yeah.
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Okay, let's wrap up. We got some guys on chicks.
Hank? Yeah? Go ahead. Hey, future Chicago studs.
My birthday's coming up and my boyfriend keeps saying he's really excited about my present. I'd say he's about 50-50 with good gifts and question mark, question mark, question mark gifts.
I feel like I always get him great gifts. It's not about money because he makes more than I do.
It's about the thought behind it, which is why I don't want to just tell him what to buy me. Should I just keep pretending to like things? I don't want another beer glass.
Oh, that's a good gift. It's like Homer Simpson getting Marge the bowling ball.
I don't like people that compare gifts. What do you mean? Like in a relationship, like this woman clearly thinks because of the gifts she gets.
I don't know. The sentence, I feel like I always get him great gifts.
Obviously, you think you get him great gifts. Right.
He probably thinks he gets you great gifts. Shitty gifts, yeah, yeah.
Get experiences. Yeah.
Get concert tickets. Get some sort of vacation.
Do something like that. Yeah, or like a really nice restaurant.
And then you maybe like, you know, something after where it's a surprise. That experience is a good call.
Or just cash. Cash always wins.
Getting someone cash. No one has ever been upset about cash.
I think a girlfriend would get upset about cash. Not if you give enough cash.

It's the thought that counts.

You remember when Coach O gave his wife cash?

Yeah.

That was awesome. And the divorce?

Dude, happy Mother's Day.

No, this is on Mother's Day.

Coach O gave Mrs. O like $500 cash for Mother's Day.

Yeah, like people who get upset about the cash they get

is because they just didn't get enough cash.

There's definitely a limit where like if you get enough cash she won't complain that's a fact guys get her get her lingerie for her birthday she'll love that a vacuum cleaner but like one of those really nice ones yeah get the roomba the cordless ones hello pmt crew long time listener and big fan my question is why do guys d each other up multiple times? I teach high school and the students I teach dap each other up like four to five times in a row until they think it sounded good enough, even though the previous one sounded exactly the same. Nope.
Thanks and good luck with your bets. You need to, you need to have that experience where you feel the perfect dap, perfect connection.
It's, it's incredible. I learned something the other day.
I think I told you this on the stream. I don't know if you guys heard this.
Do you guys know who invented the fist bump? Yeah. Stan Musial invented the fist bump.
How crazy is that? It is crazy. And then Dusty Baker invented the high five.
And Bobby Valentine invented the rap. It all circles back to baseball.
Yeah. yeah the perfect dap there's no better feeling and they're also just practicing let them get their reps in because it's not about like like with with a friend you're dapping for practice you got to use it for when you have that moment where you're dapping someone you've never dapped before and it's like all right i've been put in my reps hopefully you've been put in your reps and we can nail this on the first try also, especially if you're in high school, you're just delaying time.
You're just like, oh, you know, we dap up before class, but hold on, we got to dap up five more times before we can get started. Like, hold on, hold on.
And an average friend can become a good friend if you have a really clean dap with them. Yes, yes.
Bad daps can be bad. Again, yeah, hugs.
Jake, dap. Shout out, Moss.
Dap up Hank right now. Oh, that was tough.
Yeah. That was tough.
You kind of missed it. No, Hank.
Hugged. Shout out Moss.
Dap up Hank right now.

Oh, that was tough. You kind of missed it.

Hank was going a little harder

than you were. You went pad on pad

on that. You got to get the

one of those.

Anything's better than Moss, though.

Oh, come on.

What are you talking about? You heard it.

What are you talking about?

That was beat.

That was better. What are you talking about? That was beat.
That was better.

You hear that snap?

Mm-hmm.

You hear that snap?

No, you don't like it, Max?

Max, get over here and dap me.

I mean, that was bad.

Dap Billy.

Dap Billy.

I'll dap Billy.

Max, let's get a fucking...

Yeah.

All right, let's see this.

Change the camera.

Change the camera.

Change the camera.

Let's see the dap.

Wait, sit down.

Sit down, Billy.

Sit down.

Oh, you go in the middle, yeah.

Jake, do you play by play? Oh, wait. No.
Oh, you had no snap. You had no snap.
The snap is... You got a snap.
Yes, the snap. Watch.
The snap? We're not in a fucking show tune. Dude, watch this.
It's really easy. Get the snap right in front of the mic.
Hear that? Hear that snap? Clean as fuck. That's the snap.
I don't think I've ever snapped. I don't think I've ever...
No, we're not actually snapping, you moron. No, but no one does that.
It's our fucking hands making the sound. You want to know what the coolest one is? It's if you dap and then you finger gun.
That's pretty good. Put those things away.
You guys just fighters. Spider's a big time finger gun guy.
What about the Fresh Prince? That one always plays. Nah.
Dap That one always plays Nah Unoriginal I think you guys are just doing old guys Yeah I was gonna say that's also from like the 90s The sound is what it's about You guys missed the sound I haven't tried to do that You didn't dap you bro hug No we dapped and we hugged. Because then you respect each other's mass.
Got it. Got it.
I've been respecting my boy's masses yet, like recently. You ever dap up a girl? Why don't girls dap? You'll never catch me dapping up a girl.
Fuck that. That's honestly the gayest thing you can do.
Fuck that. You might get a charge nowadays.
Yeah, no. Fuck that.
You'll never see me dapping up a girl. Ever.
Hank just had a face that makes me nervous about this next question. It might be a word.
He might be making a face about a word. No, this is disgusting, but believable.
How disgusting? Do you wash your hands? Yeah. I don't wash my hands.
Less diseases back in the day. We need to start doing mean girl clips.
You know what we should do for gas? We should clip our daps, and then hopefully it hits black Twitter and they roast us. That's pretty good.
We should start doing mean girl clips to go viral. PFD, I was wondering.
Could you dunk from the free throw line? No, no, no. Is murder that bad? Well, no, because people murder all the time.
Right. It's methodical when you do it.
It's called war. How come war isn't murders? The US government murders people all the time.
Are they bad? I shouldn't say this on the pod, but I've murdered like three or four people, and I didn't think it was that bad. It's not murder if it's vibes.
Yeah, that's true. If they're like killing the vibe yeah then you i have to murder yeah no like one time this dude came over to my house and we were just like chilling whatever and uh i just i honestly just i slit his throat yeah i ate his organs and it was just like it was chill the social team asked me for a pmt clip every episode is this the one i I sent it? Yes, please send this.
I'll have them cut it up.

Yeah.

I'll have it the main account.

Yeah.

I'm going to find the same font and color that they do for their captions as well.

Yeah.

It's murder that bad.

Yeah, Max.

So send me this clip.

I'll send it to the social team and then post it on the Barstool account.

Perfect.

Love it.

There we go.

It's going to pop.

Yeah.

Numbies.

All right.

Hey, PMT boys.

My husband is a great husband and an even better father.

He does this thing with dirty laundry that absolutely grosses me out.

Well, I'll have to go. All right.
Hey, PMT boys. My husband is a great husband and an even better father.

He does this thing with dirty laundry that absolutely grosses me out.

My husband refuses to use Kleenexes to blow his nose.

Instead, uses his dirty laundry from the hamper.

He will pull socks and boxers from the hamper, blow his nose, fold it up, and throw it back in.

When I confronted him about this, he said,

they're going to get washed anyways and don't have to worry if the amount of snot justifies a new tissue is this normal how do i get them to use kleenexes like a civilized human this is the mean girl clip yeah every guy does this yes this is a like it's honestly weird that chicks don't do it because it's wasteful and you're ruining the environment if the clothes are going to washed anyways, it's no different than using a handkerchief.

I blow my nose on my socks every day when I take them off.

I blow them and then I throw them into the hamper.

I go actually one further.

Whenever I have a big blow of- I don't even use toilet paper.

Yeah, no, never.

Never use toilet paper.

I'll just use socks.

I'll use my underwear.

Whenever I have a big hamper of laundry,

I'll just jizz all over it

because you might as well make the washing machine do extra work, right?

You're washing it anyway.

So what the fuck?

Yeah, no, I agree.

I care about the world.

You honestly, Hank, that's a little bit weird that you wipe your butt with socks because the human body.

Well, shirts sometimes too, sweatshirts, hoodies.

Yeah, the human body actually.

Whatever's on the floor of my bathroom. You don't need you think that do you think cavemen were wiping their butts i actually do you think that people were wiping their butts in the 1800s 1900s and if you actually don't wipe your ass long enough it just kind of builds up it's kind of like not wearing batting gloves yeah right right and i i hate to say this but i low-key kind of miss covid because i used to wipe my butt with my mask all the time.
Yeah. And it's like, just get that, you know.
Again, if you're not making your laundry machine work, like these laundry machines have come a really long way. So they're there to clean.
Make them clean. And if you use the outside of your mask, it's not even touching your face.
Right. No, I use the inside too.
No, you got to use the outside. I agree.
That's a little gross. I agree with Hank.
Let's not even touching your face right no i use the inside too no you got to use the outside that's a little gross i agree yeah let's not judge the inside is i like to i brush my teeth with the inside of my mask and then i wipe with the outside yeah all right uh last one hey pmt boys i've been with my boyfriend for over four years now. We just moved in with each other about a year ago.

Everything's going great except for one thing I really don't know about until we moved in with each other.

Whenever he goes pee, he tries to flush.

Oh, I do this too.

This is great.

I didn't read this.

Oh, yes, I do it too.

We all do it.

You try to time it.

You try to race the water.

I don't know.

I'm assuming what I was going to say.

Yeah, it's efficient.

He tries to flush while he's still peeing and he's behind the toilet to finish flushing flushing exactly when he finishes peeing. I wouldn't care if he was better at it, but I'd say more times than not, he flushes too early and ends up having some pee left over in the toilet and doesn't flush it after.
Just like a little bit of... I never heard of a guy do this before.
I asked him why Desi said it's like a little game every time he pees, and it's fun. Is it common? So common.
So common. It's efficiency.

It's efficiency.

You're going to the bathroom.

If you pee, wait till you finish peeing, then flush.

That's a second of your life that you'd never get back.

Yep, I agree.

I agree 100%. It's fun.

It's so much fun to try to time it out.

It's tempo.

You got to be in tempo time.

Have you ever started flushing right when you start peeing and then you force yourself

to pee extra hard?

There's also, yeah, yeah, yeah, where you pick up the pace. Yeah, yeah.
You go to the four-minute offense. It's a race.
Yeah. It's like trying to spell your name in snow.
There's also the cousin of this is when you're in a toilet or a setting where it's like, hey, you're at someone's house or something, the flush the minute the shit hits the water, like just do it quickly so it doesn't smell as bad. You don't let it linger.
That one you have to do sometimes. The courtesy flush.
Yeah, but it's like you're literally like pooping and flushing at the same time. Do you ever wait after you do that in someone else's house just to have to pee to then get the skid marks off the bowl? Oh, you wash with the skid marks.
Yeah, I wait pee if i'm pooping and then i use it to walk it is it's hard but like poop and not pee it's really fucking dude i've actually that's that's bullshit billy no really i'm gonna back him up because muscles it's impossible no it's really hold on you're pushing you don't actually have to pee when you're like but then you wait and then sometimes you're in there for a little extra longer but it's like so much more discreet I've actually I'm gonna not only back up I don't actually have to pee when you're like, but then you wait. And then sometimes you're in there for a little extra longer, but it's like so much more discreet.
I've actually, I'm going to not only back up Billy. Physically possible.
No, because I've, I think it's maybe just either getting older. You also have to hold.
I'm like tired all the time. Physically? I've had a couple times.
You really got to tie it in a knot. Oh, yeah.
Well, no, but I've had a couple times the last like month or so where I forgot to pee while I was taking a shit and then I had to pee when I after. Yeah, that's weird.
I know. I know it's physically possible.
I think it's physically possible because it's happened to me multiple times where I'm like, wait, did I pee? Not even a squirt. Well, because you're scared.
No, I just forget. You're scared to poop, which makes you not have to pee.
You're scared to poop in the weird place, be it like someone's house that you're like trying to be discreet at. And then you end up having to pee after and then you get to clean whatever has it after flushing.
That's so smart, Billy. Actually, you know what the best way to wipe is, like most sanitary way? It's just by taking it.
You're not wiping. No, you're masked.
Oh, the self bidet? The self bidet? Yeah, it's what Billy's talking about except on the bowl, you just pee directly onto the butt and then that wipes away all the shit. Yeah, it's a self bidet.
Yeah. Max, you don't think so? And then you come in your butt for- You got a pretty big dick for that, I think.
No, you just pull it back, and then it's like one of those super soakers where you can turn the nozzle to the side. Yeah, and then you come in your butt for the conditioner.
Yeah. I just don't wipe, and then I build it up, and then I wear a bathing suit in the shower to make sure that I'm not getting a clean asshole in the shower.
I only just, I don't wipe and then I build it up and then I wear a bathing suit in the shower to make sure that like, yeah, I'm not getting, yeah, I never wipe it.

Asshole.

Yeah.

I only just, I don't wipe and then I'll just find a pool.

That's the best way to do it.

The other.

So everyone, every guy does that.

I think the other thing or like another, another thing, I think the peeing.

Oh, I was going to say I was joking.

No.

Max was like nodding his head to everything that we've been saying, and then we talked

about peeing the shit off your own butt, and he was like, no, I don't do that.

Well, I mean, I was just thinking logistically how that would work.

I mean, if you have any real friends in your life, they've also had to pee in your butt

when you can't, when you don't have pee.

That's just boys helping out boys.

Yeah, I've been in a locker room.

Yeah, can you quickly clean my butt? Have they peed it for you? I always enjoy, and this happened more like college age, I feel like, but when you and someone you don't even know walk into a stall at the same time, you're always trying to pee longer. Yeah.
It's like a race. It's not a race, but it's like like competition no like you like let's say me and you walked in the bathroom together we don't even know each other but we both walk into a stall and we start peeing i'm in my head being like i gotta outlast this guy no i'm more like you gotta start peeing first i also if you're in a if you're taking a shit in a public bathroom and it's like empty stalls everywhere and the guy sits next to you i'll always make a noise being like oh come on dude seriously and then i'll put my hand

underneath and be like ready uh all right good show hank have you ever gotten a lottery ball

number no oh you're getting sassy with me you're fucking sassy i'm not sassy i asked you a question

i don't remember i answered it you're dumb if you don't remember numbers 69

Thank you. You're fucking sassy.
I'm not sassy. I asked you a question.
I don't remember. I answered it.
You're dumb if you don't remember.

Numbers.

6 and 9.

17.

Oh, you're back.

I'll go 7.

Fuck you.

I'm just going to follow you around, bitch.

8.

20.

This might be the time, Hank.

Come on.

I don't think this could go to Chicago, by the way.

Yeah, it could.

28.

Damn.

28.

It's like a city thing.

It'll be fine.

17 is right there.

Oh, no.

It's right on top. You guys...
something on the. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. That's right.
I thought you were going to do it right before. We have new shirts on the Barstool store for those who are listening.
It's a part of my take lottery ball on the front. On the back, have you ever got this? With the lottery ball machine.
I love it. Shout out Shane.
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This is an awesome design.

I believe it's dropping today.

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Go buy it.

Pardon my take on the front.

You know what? Oh, you know what?

This is a nice touch on all the balls that have been chosen.

It's got all the ones that we pick and that win a lot.

And then look, 17 is almost going up there.

Very good detail.

Oh, it's right there, Hank.

That's actually the exact same.

That's also exactly where 17 is right now.

Oh, man.

Wow.

Should we see if 17 comes up?

This doesn't count.

Yeah, yeah, give it a shot.

Let's just see.

Oh, no, we're back to the bottom.

17 is never going to come up.

Great shirt.

Great shirt.

Have you ever gotten this? 14. 14.
14. Go buy it now.
If you wear it, I'm spitting in your face. Those are back-to-back football numbers.
Maybe 17 will be next. It's a football.
No, it's not. It's definitely not going to be next.
Unless I guess it. Then it might be.
All right. See you everyone Friday.
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