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

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Today is Friday, March 17th, and Joe Biden's bracket is busted. That's tough.
That's tough. Once again, our President Biden, he submitted his polls after the official locations had closed.
He did. He put in his votes, I think, at like, I want to say 1245.
Yep. So he missed the deadline, but he had Arizona.
A lot of people had Arizona. The good news is we don't owe Joe Biden a billion dollars.
Yes. Well, we do not.
I haven't seen what my tax check is going to be like this year. So maybe.
But he pandered to Arizona, and his bracket is busted as long as far. Whoa.
I can't speak. Let's just set the stage real quick.
Yeah, well, what I meant to say is his bracket is malarkey. Yeah, the bracket is, what is it, dog-faced pony boy? Yeah.
Yeah. Dog-faced pony soldier.
Pony soldier, just fat. Remember when Joe Biden just, like, his brain stopped and he saw a dude who was, like, asking him a hard question.
He's like, listen, fat like listen fat yeah yeah you know what that is he challenged him to a push-up contest listen fat uh all right what i was trying to say is this is the show we do it every year it's this show and sunday's show where we are struggling we are with everyone we're in the foxhole with everyone who loves march madness who bets on march madness who has teams in march madness who's grinding loving every second of it hating every second of it we don't sound great we don't feel great but we're here for the people and what i was trying to say is his brackets broken as as i can't do it okay i'll take over real quick as well as everyone else's that that's it. Joe Biden fucked America.
Yeah, no, everyone's bracket's broken. Including Jake Marsh, who for the second year in a row, he's not here right now, he's doing the Titus show.
For the second year in a row, he lost his national champion on day one. Tough break for our college basketball expert.
But actually, it works perfectly because Jake has proven this year, as well as last year, that he fits in on this show. Because if you're going to be wrong, you might as well be hilariously wrong at everything.
It was funny because when Arizona got pounced, he came up to me. He's like, I remember last year when the same thing happened.
I think he had Kentucky. He was like, you told me, if you're going to be bad, just be the worst.
And I was like, yeah. And you could tell like he actually took that to heart and was like, this is my way forward.
Yeah. And we've molded him.
He adopted it this year again. Being dumb can be a career path.
We have shown that. Yes.
And it can be a very, yes, absolutely. Oh, wait, we're all we're all super dumb that was hank that was uh saying before the show that he doesn't have anything to say hank is hank are you doing a show from the north pole right now what would you like to say i'm ice cold it's not cold in this room i'm cold what was your record today i won my first bet of the day on the first half west virginia under i won my last bet of the day on uh ucla spread and that put me at two and 27 that's that's tough it is so 27 other games it's so diabolical and this happened i think last year as well that that the ncaa tournament and that's usually starts the day after payday yeah how dare you how dare you sir and St.
Patrick's Day we should have mentioned that Billy's not here because he's celebrating for the next three weeks he's celebrating White History Month right now yeah he's got a lot of plans for St. Patrick's Day mostly just not getting in fights uh yeah so we're here it was a great first day of tournament we had incredible upsets I I know it wasn't a great day for us but I'm saying for people who are listening who maybe don't gamble they saw and they watched it and it was madness we had the Furman buzzer beater not buzzer beater but close to a buzzer beater we had Princeton crazy upset third year in a row we've had a 15 seed take down a two seed it's basically happens now every single year it feels like oral roberts two years ago st peter's last year and now princeton this year hank you just gave pft a side eye do you want to we want to bring up bad blood this early well we should probably get it out in the open here i actually gave him the side eye and then i realized i just don't have it in me well i attracted the side i do eye.
I do. I don't.
Since I'm getting side-eyed right now, I think we should discuss it. I can't fight when I'm dead.
So I put together a hot parlay this year. Streets were talking about it.
I parlayed every single one seed to win Moneyline along with every single two seed. And then what does Hank do? Hank comes out and he bets every two seed to lose at halftime money line right just just spitting in my face hank hank is truly addicted to plus signs so much so that he will just straight up take a bet that i have and then see that the opposite side is plus and then just go right in my face but both of you lost we both lost because of hank's bad vibes hanks yeah and it explained to me.
But when you're just completely separate. Completely separate.
When you explained to me what you're doing, PFT, I had a moment where I was like, just remember, like, there will be a moment in these next two days where there will be a 15 seed putting the two seed to the brink, and everyone will be rooting for the 15 seed, and it will suck to have it you're like yeah yeah and then we got to that moment it was like this sucks that oh yeah i felt like such an asshole rooting for arizona why would i why was i rooting for arizona it made no sense but it it was worse knowing that hank was back there just cackling just rubbing his fingers together like like gargamoil from the smurfs being like i've got. I've got PFT right where I want him.
In your defense there, in my defense there, I wasn't really focused on you. I was in a room with Jake.
He was legitimately squirming, pacing around, jumping up and down, and I was getting a little bit of satisfaction watching Arizona lose. I'm not – I can't lie.
I know you were. I wasn wasn't thinking about you really although you did call me small

which was crazy yeah you did the too small dance on him but yeah it is what it is it was um for your loss honestly no you're not it was quite it was quite something and it's hard all right so princeton beats arizona incredible upset i think arizona didn't score for like the last six minutes Mark Few fuse legacy passing off just tragic losses to tommy lloyd uh to take with him to arizona arizona was feeling themselves after winning the pac-12 championship like a lot of people were picking them to win it all and now you have alabama in the south region virginia and arizona lose they now have it's officially official that if they don't make it to the final four it's the biggest disaster in sports yeah yeah also with with the Arizona Princeton game Arizona's kind of lucky it wasn't worse yeah because Princeton didn't shoot well right I think they ended four was it four for 25 from three they shot so that's 16 percent from three and just 40 percent shooting overall on the day so it could have been way worse like this was not a fluke no Arizona's offense stunk in the second half and the last part of the first half as well yeah they're a flawed team and Princeton is this is going way back but like they do just feel like a tournament team because it's just etched in your memory them running the backdoor cut over and over and over again. And their coach is just so Ivy League.
He looks like he should be a lawyer, and instead he's coaching basketball. I mean, it was legitimately fun to watch that type of upset happen in an Ivy League.
They have sick jersey colors. They do.
They have non-Ivy jerseys. And their gym.
Google their gym. Their gym is awesome.
I actually think that Princeton, by far, is the funnest Ivy League school to root for. Think about it.
I mean, I probably can't name them all. There's Penn, which technically is Ivy League.
There's Cornell. The only one I would say.
Yale, Harvard. The only one I'd say is Chris Berman's Brown.
Because Brown is like, who goes to Brown? Yeah. A bunch of weirdos.
Yeah, Brown's pretty cool. Brown's cool to root for in football.
Yeah. Princeton's cool to root for in basketball.
Yeah, I agree. Yeah, Princeton's the coolest basketball school.
Google their gym. It's one of those random gyms I just look at every now and then, which says a about me uh but it is a very very cool gym so yeah princeton basketball won the day i would say they won the day i think firman did firman i mean but the way that it over two is just insane for i guess not insane anymore firman though yes firman's comeback win look at that that's a good gym put it up on the the YouTube.
You see how weird it is in the top? I believe it has some fucking cool-ass gyms. That's sick.
I would fuck this gym. Yeah, yeah.
Very cool gym. Yeah, so Furman, Kihei Clark, who had one of the greatest passes in NCAA tournament history in the overtime win the year they won the championship against or sorry yeah the overtime win the year they won the championship against Texas Tech they did that he did that against Purdue remember the overtime game I'm just repeating myself he had that pass that was incredible and then he had one of the worst passes in NCAA history when he gets trapped in the corner just lobs it up and Furman gets it hits a three wins the game that was awesome what's also I have a question what's a paladin a paladin I'm the score is like it's like 76 67 it's like a race car no yeah Hank's right race car radar yeah it's uh I want to say it has something to do with a horse probably a knight all right I saw a lot of horses out there.
The paladins also called the 12 peers or 12 legendary knights the foremost members of Charlemagne's court in the 8th century. That's lame.
They have to be canceled by now, right? Like the knights of the round table, they definitely did something fucked up. Here's the cool thing for Furman.
Now everyone knows they're the paladins. Like I wouldn't have been been able to tell you what the Furman's.
I would have been like the Bulldogs. I will forget by tomorrow morning.
That's a promise to you. The end of that game was so crazy, though.
He gets trapped. There wasn't even really anybody he was passing to.
No. He threw the ball like three-quarters of the way down the court.
Hank, cover your ears. Yeah, it was.
It's giving Jacoby Myers. It was was jacoby myers type pass it it was just picked off great interception at midcourt and it was like skills he you say he threw it far he really didn't well he threw it high he seemed like he wanted to throw it all the way down the court he threw it to like half court it would have been better if you threw it high and it went all the way down the court right i think that's what he thought he was doing it was a zach wilson pass because he threw it and then when they zoomed out you're like there's got to be a guy there and there wasn't a guy anywhere close i'm gonna wait till the all 22 comes out but it looks like maybe his receiver ran the wrong route yeah i feel bad for him he's like a fifth year senior obviously had a great career um terrible way to end i do i am going to the nba or is that, that's.
No, I don't think so. That's tough.
My shoes are blocking the course. Like, can you grab me a water or two? I'm going to lose my voice.
No, he's, I don't think he's going to the NBA. That was a tough one.
But I want to say we got beat to a take that I'm very upset about. Pat Forty, who's a college basketball, football writer, very good writer.
He had a article after the game that said, Virginia's upset loss to Furman further proves 2019 national title was a fluke. Well, I mean, look it up because the last four years of UVA in the tournament, they lost in the round of 64, won the natty, lost in the round of 64, lost in the round of 64.
Do they suck? I don't even think their national title counts anymore. That was a COVID year, technically, right? No, 2019.
Oh, that's right. Yeah.
I was in Hong Kong for that one. That's why I thought it was.
Yeah. 2019 is pre-COVID.
Yeah. Pre-COVID.
It was. I'm going'm gonna find myself agreeing with pat 40 the more i think

about it yeah it was a fluke i mean they should fire tony bennett it's what you do yeah you should go coach wisconsin that wouldn't be bad no it's it's what you do around your your championship that people remember you for not the championship yeah i i think tony bennett's one of the coaches there's probably only like two or three that still remain that need to be wearing a suit i know they relax the rules. Tony Bennett should be

wearing a suit.

Jim Kilpari should be wearing a suit. And Rick Pitino should be wearing a suit.
Buzz Williams had a nice suit on, too. Buzz Williams had a three-piece on.
That was nice. I also, Virginia basketball, because it's similar to Wisconsin basketball, it's not fun to watch.
People take a lot of joy when they fail. Yeah.
Because they're like, I don't like watching you play basketball. Get out of this tournament.
See, I like watching UVA play basketball. If all of college basketball was like that, I would hate it.
Right. But it's good to have one team that's around that's just playing that ugly.
They keep things slow. They muck it up.
They just do a bunch of curls right at the foul line. They take like 28 seconds to shoot.
It's fun to have one team that does that. Yeah, but you know what I mean? UVA gets more anger than they probably deserve just because everyone's sick of watching them play basketball.
And they are the Ivy League of the South, as they'll remind you. And shout out me for being a total shit a total shit for brains loser who gave out firman all week and then went against myself and then on top of it had to do the ray allen tweet yeah still i mean i mean our show is big and we have a lot of listeners and we love all of our listeners but you forget when you do the ray allen tweet there's a lot of people who don't know what you're doing i could tell by big catch reaction he he was so excited to do the Ray Allen tweet and then right before you did it you tweeted out a warning yeah and then after you did it you you tried to cover it up again I had to reach just to make sure and then and then I tweeted at you and said yo Big Cat you accidentally tweeted this and then I I could tell that you were a little bit on edge that there were so many people that are like whoa is Big Cat being horny horny on Main right now? No, I wasn't on edge.
It was just funny because there were so many people. It was like an instant 70 quote tweets of people being like, bro, what's wrong with you? Yeah, did you get ratios? What the fuck is this? Someone said, this is exactly how I imagine white men sex.
Yeah, yeah. Or like the Barstool boys.
I had another one that was like, the Barstool are being shitty again. Barstool Doping Generate Impossible Challenge.
Literally, they know we don't get laid ever. Yeah.
It was voice to text. Jokes on them.
Yeah. It was just guys hanging out in a casino.
But yeah, Furman. So Furman and Princeton won the day.
This motherfucker on the Vegas bombs for sure. What else? I mean, there was some dramatic – there was some other dramatic games-ish.
There's another team that I would say won the game, won the day, and that would be Penn State. Yes.
Penn State, if they play like this, nobody can beat them. Dude, Andrew Funk.
What are you laughing at, Max?

Hank just looks so, so sad right now.

Yeah, so sad.

You look like.

Every time you bring up one of his losers, I could just hear it in, like, the audio of this huge sigh.

I did say Penn State.

So watch it on the YouTube, but Hank right now looks like Bernie Sanders at the inauguration.

You said you love Texas A&M. I said Penn State.

We got to stick together, boys. said penn state we gotta stick together boys

yeah um stick together yeah i i went what was that i roll i went with my heart on this one i went with a&m because i like buzz i wanted to see the texas versus texas a&m matchup instead we got a&m versus penn state in the battle of which loser has to admit they're a cult basically So A&M, you lost that one.

And also, A&M, this is just a lesson to ourselves. state in the battle of which loser has to admit they're a cult basically so a and m you lost that

one and also a and m this is just a lesson to ourselves whatever team complains about being underseeded usually loses i feel like because like that was the texas a and m got screwed i said it myself i was like i thought they deserved a five seed and then they come out and they laid an absolute stinker. Penn State looks incredible.
Andrew Funk, I love this kid so goddamn much. Andrew Funk was eight for ten from three.
Eight for ten from three, just absolutely unconscious. Those are the moments that you always remember in the tournament, like some guy who just gets blazing hot and absolutely torches a team.
And yeah, Penn State, I have a few other winners. Duke.
And he pulls up from deep. And he pulls up from deep, yeah.
Duke was a winner. Duke smashed.
Yeah, Duke was really good. It was one of those, or sorry, it wasn't.
San Diego State beat Charleston. Yeah, who played Duke? Oral Roberts.
Oral Roberts was like one of those teams that everyone was talking about oh look at this six points love it that was a never in doubt i mean i don't think or roberts scored for the first eight minutes of the game it was an ass kicking i was hoping that they weren't going to score i was hoping that they'd get to like two minutes in the first half when something's bad you just want it to get worse sometimes and i i am saying this as somebody that bet on Oral just so that I could make Oral Roberts jokes later. Unfortunately, they stole that from us.
Society took that from us. The loss is really on the listeners for not having to listen to me say, like, Oral sucks for seven hours.
But I wanted my bet to lose way, way, way, way worse because it was so comically bad. Yes.
But Duke was incredible.

Duke was like all the credit in the world goes to what Duke's been able to do in the last 12 months

since they rid themselves of the plague that was Coach K.

This team probably wouldn't have made the tournament with Coach K.

No, Shire has the boy.

Shire took a pile of shit and he grew a rose out of it.

And I have a little, I want to say something real quick because I think Hank was about to say it, but i'll say it before he does there's no way you're about to say what i was about to say okay i'll write it down and then you say okay i mean all right all right all right hold on hold on i promise you if you're about to say this then like you're david blaine okay because this is not about anything all right i'm not touching my keyboard keyboard. Go ahead.
Go ahead. You say what you were about to say.
The Duke coaching staff sweaters. Look at that.
Shut up. Look at that.
Shire sweater. Shut up.
I fucking wrote it down. No, you didn't.
You said it like seven times on the fucking stream. You're just like, these sweaters are so cool.
These sweaters are so cool. I don't know if I have notes that you won't want to see.
PFD can confirm. I wrote Shire's sweater right here.
Shire's sweater. Yeah, confirmed.
Confirmed. I knew what you were going to say.
It was a nice sweater. Every time they showed him, you were like, those are the sickest sweaters I've ever seen.
And what I was going to say is, I think John Shire's sweater is bringing Hank's Duke fandom back. Yeah, well, I think a lot of Duke fans are sitting at home looking at that, and they probably flew off the shelves.
Yeah. No, Hank mentioned it like four times.
Every time they showed him, he's like, oh, my God, those sweaters are so fire. Well, no, because it's like coaching.
It's like, you know, sometimes they go super casual. Then sometimes they try and go with, like, shirts that are too casual.
Sometimes they try they try to wear polos it's over casual these look like really really comfortable long sleeve athletic sweaters but they were like sweaters if hank showed up wearing one of these sweaters you wouldn't work out in it it would you but you fit on a basketball you would definitely wear it to christmas dinner no yes it's like it's a sweater hank would wear to like his sister's graduation. Yes.
And everybody would be like, Hank definitely doesn't wear this on a regular basis. No, it's a church sweater for Hank.
People will back me up. No, no, I thought they were very nice.
He's revolutionizing the game. You make deals in that sweater.
Yeah. You show up to a client dinner and you're like, we're going to make some deals in this sweater.
And everyone's going to know I went to Duke like you did. But I'm also an athlete.
But you're also an athlete. Yeah.
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I think UCLA is America's team.

They're the most fun blue

blood to root for. They're kind of scrappy

underdogs right now, not only with their

head coach, but also they've lost a lot of players

to injuries. So, Max, you live to fight

another day. UCLA looked

really good. Now, they're

playing against UNC Asheville.

Arizona lost to Princeton. You know what? I'll say this about UCLA.
They took care of business. They did.
You get credit for taking care of business in the tournament. You absolutely do.
They went out and smashed them. Other winners, Colgate for basically deceiving the public for the third straight year in a row.
I feel like Colgate gets talked about as the underdog pick for everyone. And every year they play a team and then the team's like, wait, these guys aren't athletic.
We can beat them. And it happened again.
Yeah, they had us going for a while until Texas remembered. Oh, yeah, we've got we've got horses.
It was it happened two years ago with Arkansas. I have been last year with Wisconsin happened this year with Texas..
No offense to Colgate. They seem like a great college team, whatever.
Why do you say that? I don't know. I'm just trying to be nice.
I don't know. They keep winning their conference, so they're doing something right, but then they get to the tournament, and everyone's like, Colgate shoots a lot of threes.
Colgate, they can really change the pace of a game and get an upset, and then Colgate gets absolutely killed, and then we'll do it again next year. Remember, I think it was three years ago when we were in Chicago, every mouth-based team won? Yeah.
Well, no, Colgate did not win. They got killed by Arkansas.
The big Colgate stat that everyone likes to throw out is they've been leading in the second half of all of their games. Okay.
And then they lost to Arkansas by 17. Yeah, Colgate.
Maybe they did win that first game. I don't know.
Maybe. They might have because I think it was Colgate, Oral Roberts, and then there was another mouth.
Lipscomb? Maybe. It was the year of the mouth.
Nope, they didn't. They lost by 17 to Arkansas in the first round.
So shout out Colgate. Shout out Colgate.
Great group of kids. Yeah.
Way to get everyone pumped up every year for the same result. That was mean to Colgate, but I don't really care.
Another winner, Arkansas. Arkansas.
Arkansas. That was another one that I gave out.
The under. When I was talking to Stanford Steve, it was a brick fest.
Arkansas. Felt like Illinois was going to come back there.
Muss is one game away from officially being Mr. March.
If he takes down Kansas, I think he's Mr. March because that would be two straight years where he takes down a one seed and he'd go to another Sweet 16.
He's Mr. Sweet 16, Mr.
March. Yeah, and they're not going to have Bill Self.
So that was another piece of big news. Bill Self still recuperating.
Thoughts and prayers to Bill Self, first of all. Yep.
Second of all. Jake would probably use his thoughts and prayers for, like, the basketball getting wedgied.
Yeah, so we should talk about that. There's a scandal afoot in March Madness this year.
In Des Moines specifically. It's Des Moines, Iowa.
We need to shut that whole place down until we can figure out what the hell is going on. There were five, six wedgies today, four of which occurred in the Des Moines, Iowa gym.
So either the balls are stickier, the rims are harder, maybe the balls are a little bit smaller, that might do it. But there's something different this year.
I don't know, last year I remember the balls were oranger, you remember that? Yes. This year the balls are stickier, something's happening.
We've got to figure out what's going on because this is not –

we haven't seen this level of wedgie before.

And it was – it's just a different experience watching March Madness

with Jake when we're all gambling, and we needed a three to be hit,

and there was a wedgie, and he stood up and cheered

like it was Game 7 of the World Series.

He's like, wedgie, another wedgie.

And everyone turned around and was like, dude, what are you doing? He's like, Sorry. I just love Wedgies.
We gotta get him to make a shirt. I love Wedgies.
It would be, man, it would be so Jake if he tours Patellar Tendon celebrating a Wedgie. A Wedgie, yes, yes.
Other winners. Maryland.
Yeah. They won the first game of the official tournament.
Looked like they were dead in the first half. Shout out Scott Van Pelt.
I know he probably didn't even watch the game because he was dancing for Edwin Diaz's injury. His head was spinning.
Yeah, his head was spinning. He was so happy that Edwin Diaz got injured that he probably didn't even see his Terps.
But they get it. Also, the Mountain West for having at least one team advance to the second round.
They got killed. Devada got absolutely smoked by Arizona State.
Utah State lost to Mizzou. Boise State lost to Northwestern.
But San Diego State, there's one team. They're off the schneid.
That would have been tragic if they had been out of the tournament in 10 hours just like last year but mountain west they they got something to prove yeah my aztecs they advance uh with maryland i think this was a big win it's kevin willard right their head coach yes big win for him because a lot of the maryland fan base did not think that he should be hired in the first place. Yes.
And the way that they won was pretty impressive.

They came back.

I think West Virginia was up.

They were up double digits.

And the Terps fought back.

They're fun.

The Terps are a fun team to root for again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, they're running to a buzzsaw because Alabama looked really, really fucking good

without Brandon Miller.

Brandon Miller's got a groin issue that he's dealing with. He scored zero points.
He played, but he scored zero points. Yeah, he scored zero points.
That is an issue. We had Texas Corpus Christi.
That dude on Texas Corpus Christi being like, I want the ball. I want to cover this spread was such a March moment.
It's just chaos everywhere. He's a hero.
Somebody, so I don't know exactly what was going on on that last play,

but it looked to me like he demanded the ball because he knew that they had to score.

Yeah.

And then he went over to the coach.

It looked like he told him, stop.

We don't need to shoot.

He dribbles between his legs, takes a baseline three, goes in at the buzzer.

They cover a crazy spread.

There's no reason he should have shot that ball.

No.

I mean, I'm glad that he did just because it's March and that's fun for march right but that was weird it was that was weird there's that that got the hairs on my neck standing up that was suspect especially because it covered like the line move from 22 and a half to 25 so like you know you could have middled it somewhere yeah so uh yeah very suspect um auburn gets my bad sports town of the of the day oh okay i disagree but go off i just wasn't impressed with the crowd they're playing basically a home game i think they will be they will show out for their game against houston on saturday but i was going into that game being like i was going to struggle because it's a home game for auburn when they showed the stands they were like half full yeah i was still struggling because frame of camera can't I was going into that game being like, I was going to struggle because it's a home game for Auburn. When they showed the stands, they were like half full.
Yeah. Iowa still struggled because Fran McCaffrey can't coach in March.
But Auburn, like, come on, guys. I disagree.
This is a home crowd for you. I think Alabama is a bad sports town.
Birmingham, Alabama is a bad sports town because if the Crimson Tide fans had had their shit together they would have bought tickets to show up and then boo alabama or excuse me boo auburn and root for iowa if the rivalry was real you're they're playing in your home court show up and fuck them up a little bit that's i mean it's a fair point it's a fair point but yeah rv updike would have been there in a second. Yeah.
I mean, we'll see on Saturday when they do play Houston.

Houston struggled.

Sasser got re-injured.

I appreciate Kellen Sampson just at least admitting how hard it is to watch Houston sometimes.

He said, we play like shit a lot.

And I was like, yeah, you know what?

That's the honest truth.

You guys do play like shit a lot.

So they got, on the offensive rebound side of things, they got out-rebounded.

Overall, they rebounded better.

They got more total rebounds.

But on the offensive side of Northern Kentucky, they were playing like fucking maniacs.

Crazy.

They were running to the ball.

They were throwing elbows.

They were diving everywhere.

Yeah, the Norse.

They were absolutely crushing it on the offensive glass.

Houston, I mean, they got away with it because, you know, they're Houston.

But they definitely didn't look like they had a sense of urgency.

Yeah.

And I'm trying to think what other things happened today.

We had our first crying cheerleader, Utah State.

Her bottom lip was quivering.

There's something about March Madness. The crowd shots are just so great.
They just make it so much better when you see the pain. Virginia fans, the Utah State fans, the passion and the exhilaration.
It's just the best. I just love watching the crowd shots in March.
There's another Northwestern kid that looks exactly like the old one. They're spawning them.
They're just reloaded. They just restock.
So this kid, I think he's about the same age as the first Northwestern crying kid who, credit to Jake, he did pick Arizona in a tribute to his favorite president, Biden. But Jake said that they were going to show the Northwestern crying kid and have him show up on the broadcast again be like look you want to feel old this kid's age the appropriate amount of years right age right but then they cut to the side and that fucking maybe that kid had a kid maybe that's maybe that's his child probably it's the same guy it's the exact same guy they also showed uh they showed Doug Collins in the stands yep a couple times that was kind of cool yeah that's wild isn't it his son's the coach his son's the coach yeah northwestern played really well yeah i was that game was kind of never in doubt big day for nerds i think nerds won day one of march madness huge day for and mizzou mizzou winning you know the the journalism school isn't just syracuse no let's put put some other schools on the map.
Oh, and last one, Tennessee won the award of thank God we won, even though we know we're going to lose in the next round. Yeah, well, it's big for Rick Barnes.
Yeah. Rick Barnes, if he makes it to the Sweet 16, are we calling that a win for Rick Barnes this year? Yeah, I would say so.
There's slightly expectations right now. Yeah, they're dealing with injuries.
They've been on the downslide. There's something about when your team makes it to March Madness and you are a four or above seed.
Those first-round games are basically a no-win situation because you are expected to win, and then when you win, you just breathe a sigh a sigh of relief like thank god we're not embarrassed thank god we're not arizona thank god we're not virginia because those are the moments that everyone just like laughs at you and punishes you losing in the second round anyone can lose in the second round but when you lose in the first round if you're four three two one seed it's just the worst feeling in the world so good job Tennessee you survived now you get Duke in the first round, if you're 4-3-2-1 seed, it's just the worst feeling in the world.

So good job, Tennessee. You survived.
Now you get Duke in the next round. And, I mean, Duke looks like they could be very, very dangerous.
Have you seen the sweaters? They look. Those sweaters.
Are you going to run the sweaters back if you're Duke? You have to. You have to.
Hank, what was your favorite moment from today? West Virginia, first half under. Yeah.
Yeah, that was big. Should have just left the tournament then.
So this happened to us last year, I think, on Thursday. I think we all got killed.
He's thinking about it. No, I'm just trying to think of other, like, there was no other joy.
I ate ice cream. That was good.
I had 10 Reese's Cups. I went through.
10? I was trying to rally multiple times. Like, I came back here.
I was like, all right, I'm going to chill out, put some bets in for later, and then get back on track. Like, win one.
Then the snowball goes rolling down the hill. I came in here.
And then I kept coming back.

Yeah, I came in the green room,

and there was just a bunch of Reese's in the refrigerator,

and I was like, I know my guy Hank.

He's stocking up.

Because little known fact, Hank and I,

at the core of our relationship, if everything else fails,

our love for peanut butter and chocolate is like,

we're just always there.

That's true.

Just like, if I go buy some, I'll get some for him. If he goes buy some, he'll get some for him.
It's just, it's just, we know it. We know it.
It's true. At the end of the day, peanut butter and chocolate can heal all.
PST's wearing insult socks. I mean, I'll save it for Fyre Fest, I guess.
I am wearing insult socks right now. Oh, no.
It's on my right foot only. I just, just looking at those right now.
Right, right, right foot only, strictly for the, strictly for buckets. I've got Hank's face all over my socks right now.
It's a bad luck sock, though. I jinxed myself.
I admittedly came out a little bit strong against Hank. I should not have given him the too small.
But in my defense, I was furious at him. And we've all been there.
We've all been mad at Hank. He takes turns.
You're an equal opportunity pisser off. I was going to say not me, but that's not true.
Yeah, you're definitely mad at yourself. You're very mad at yourself right now.
Yeah, no, yeah. You're furious at yourself.
Yeah, you've got a rivalry with yourself. Oh, also, shout out Dayton.
We went to the first four. That was an awesome arena.
Yeah, it was. It was very cool.
It was intimate. It was intimate Yeah It was nice It was fun to get out there We saw Texas Southern And they lost to Fairleigh Dickinson And that's about all I have to say about that game Yeah It was a bad game It was a very bad game I know that I know Jake just was getting so romantic About the idea that we went to the first four And we're going to go to the final four.
He's just like, he's so in love with March Madness. It's something to aspire to have.
Yeah, some kid came up to him on the stream and said, Jake, if you could pick anywhere in the world to go on vacation tomorrow, where would you pick? And without even thinking, he was like, well, I wouldn't go tomorrow because it's March Madness. Smart.
Jake is so pure. He's like a cartoon character almost.
Yeah. Yeah, I felt bad.
Like Rudy, I was actually, honestly, Arizona losing might have been the only other time I felt any type of like happiness to watch his. And that's a little bit like kind of messed up because Jake is a pure soul and the nicest guy in the world.
But you want to drag him down to your level. And it's Princeton.
I didn't have any dog in the fight. So I was like, fuck it.
Who doesn't like an upset? And it's going to, you know. Would you be happy, Hank, if you corrupted Jake and you turned Jake into a very, very cynical, bitter man, would that cheer you up? Hank just talked himself around being like, yeah, I was just trying to be a dick to Jake.
I wasn't trying. It was just like it was funny.
Yeah. Which I guess is, again, like.
I don't think Jake could ever be cynical. I think Hank's making his mission, though.
I don't think he ever could. No, it wasn't.
Jake didn't care. What are you going to say, Max? I was also in the room.
I was in this green room with Hank a lot. Max was on the same boat as me.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, I wish you guys had called me in.
I would have loved to see it. I would have made fun of him.
Yeah, no, it was fun. But Hank was down tremendous.
And then I just look over at him because he had Princeton first half money line. I was like, are you going to be pissed if Princeton wins? And he took first half money line and not full game money line.
And he's just like, yeah, but Jake really wants Arizona. That's worth every other bet.
It's also like, yeah, I don't know. I feel weird rooting at someone to lose a bet, but like losing a bracket, it's like who gives a buck.
You can do that.

It is true.

Misery does love company.

If you're going to be pissed off, then you're going to want somebody that is just as upset as you are.

It's so infuriating if somebody has a better, if anyone has a better experience than you do,

at a certain level, you feel jealousy towards them.

You feel mad at yourself for letting yourself down.

So you just want somebody else to be just as mad as you are.

And you can see that. certain level you you you feel uh jealousy towards them you feel mad at yourself for letting yourself down so you just want somebody else to be just as mad as you are and yeah evan did have almost a perfect 15 out of 16 pretty good he forgot about andrew funk andrew funk funk funked him up yeah i think if it was 16 out of 16 it would it'd probably be a lot more story headline news i said.
It'd be headline news. I said he might start the show.
Man in Columbus goes 16 for 16. I mean, look, 16 for 16, a lot of people have done it.
But to do it on a day when you have a 15 seed beat a 2 seed, that's pretty fucking impressive. So Penn State was his only miss.
What else? Anything else? I think every bracket is perfect. doesn't get old i just i googled probably four or five times today just ncaa bracket just to look at it yeah and we won't have to pay a billion dollars because there's no way there'll be a perfect bracket no i think it's down i pulled up the stats here it's down to 0.006 percent of all brackets that remain perfect.
If Evan was in that?

Yeah.

Shit, dude.

So close.

So close.

All right, should we get to John Rothstein?

Yeah, let's get to old Johnny Boyd. We still had all of the boyish wonder of March Madness,

and we were excited about everything that was going to take place.

I think tomorrow is going to be a better day.

I think so, too.

It can't be worse. Hank went 2-27.
27 that's really bad hank you do a sports podcast bro do you know ball i'm not i actually learned early on i'm not a sports talk guy yeah if you come to the show for expert analysis and like trying to get an edge on something you are you've played yourself although I did give out two stone cold winners on Wednesday that I just didn't bet so maybe maybe the the key is to just listen to us in a former moment USC was my favorite pick of Thursday and Friday it's the early game tomorrow if that doesn't hit just disregard okay just pretend this never happened if it does regard. Because you definitely wouldn't start out a day with a winning bet and then go two for 27 afterwards.
Fair counterpoint. Maybe that'll be the only bet I make.
Actually, if Hank's wrong tomorrow, then tail Hank for the rest of his bets. Yeah, that's true.
You'll go reverse on it. All right, let's do John Rothstein.
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And now, this is march with john rostein okay we now welcome on our friend john rostein we thought we'd do a little different this year we got him on for the friday games you've already watched march madness the first day you're probably bleary eyed you've seen a bunch of buzzer beaters hopefully now it's time to re regroup. Now it's time to get what Rothstein's got to say about the Friday game.
So, John,

how you doing? What's the buzz? Give us what's going on in your life right now.

I mean, guys, first off, great to be with you. Best time of the year.
I mean, you know me. My

life's an open book. What do you guys want to know? I'm curious to know if you've heard the

news about Bar Coastal, your favorite wing place, Kerry's Way. That was the name of the wing sauce.
Well, PFT, I have heard that and I have been to Plug Uglies and they have recreated the wings that we used to have at Bar Coastal. So the vibe is a little bit different, but if you're looking for your wing fix, that is definitely the place to go.
In fact, when I had a Super Bowl party, that's where we got the wings from. Wait, you watched the Super Bowl? Socially, I watched the Super Bowl.
You know, I wasn't really watching the game. I was, you know, I was wanting to make sure that obviously, you know, that I had, you know, people around and I was visiting with people, but I wasn't really watching the Super Bowl.
Okay, so since your life is open book, I have a question as well. Have you retroactively gone back and given thoughts and prayers to DeMar Hamlin? I have opted moving forward to just be more cognizant of what's going on around me at all times, despite the fact that I am a college basketball insider and I was merely reacting to Rutgers going on the road and playing Purdue.
I did not know that a Monday night football game was going on. I didn't know, obviously, who was playing.

I was only focused on what was happening at Mackey Arena.

But obviously, when something like that happens, you just send your prayers out and hope for

the best.

Okay, so can you say it?

Thoughts and prayers for DeMar Hamlin?

Thoughts and prayers for DeMar Hamlin.

Okay, thank you.

That's very nice.

That's very nice.

You do realize the thing that we love about you is that you are singularly focused on

college basketball.

That's all you do.

That's all you care about.

But I don't necessarily want John Rothstein out there tweeting about things that are happening in other sports. I go to you to get away from all that stuff.
Well, and again, it all happens, obviously, in like a Murphy's Law type of way, PFT. I mean, Cam Spencer makes that unbelievable three at Mackey Arena.
It just happens to coincide with such a dramatic event. And obviously, we're just continuing to wish good prayers to DeMar and obviously his family.
But you know, again, I had no idea what was going on. And people have asked me over the last couple of weeks, like, what are you going to do after the Final Four? Are you going to get into baseball? You know, the Mets just added some pitcher or something like that.
Or are you going to get into the NFL draft? And I said, no, there is only my mind and that's the NCAA tournament then preparing for next season especially in April which is portal combat season yes yes and and all right so last personal question because then I do want to get into the Friday matchups what's the update you went to Europe did you like it we went to Europe it was a life-altering trip 18 days and 18 pounds later my life was altered but the bread in France was so life-altering and the pasta at the Amalfi coast was so life-altering I found that France and especially Paris is a comfort food city meaning you don't want to overthink your meals there go to obviously a brasser get croissants, get bread, get a croque monsieur, get a grilled cheese and fries, get a burger, but don't get too intricate with stuff. But the pasta and the freshness of the pasta in Italy, we went to Portofino, Rome, and the Amalfi Coast.
And in Rome, there's a place near the Pantheon, Armando al Pantheon. It was the best rigatoni amateur chian I've had in my life.
I can still taste the bruschetta on some days. But I will say this, we talk all about what we eventually want to do in the media and how can we expand our career and so on and so forth.
In preparing for this trip to Europe, I binge-watched Searching for Italy with Stan Tucci. I would like to get a crack maybe in the off-season to do a similar show and kind of be a co-pilot to Stan Tucci because I watched that show and that restaurant in Rome, Armando Al Pantheon was taken off the show.

Oh, OK. Yeah, we can.
I'm a good friend of his, so I'll reach out directly and see if I can link you two up. Now, we do need the final verdict, though.
Is it more life alteringtering to go to Europe for an extended vacation or spend one night at the Siegel Center at VCU? It depends if the A-10 is a multi-bid league. It hasn't been a multi-bid league this year, so I think we have to wait and see what happens next year in the transfer portal.
If the A-10 is a multi-bid league and it's peak shaka like it was in 2014 when you had Briante Weber at the top of Hav know, you want to do push-ups on picket fences when they put the press on. That was a different animal.
That was Taye Jones and Langston Galloway at St. Joe's.
That was obviously in 2014. You think back to those St.
Joe's teams. You think back to the Dayton teams that Archie Miller had with Scucci, Smith, and guys of that caliber.
You think back to the GW teams with Kevin Larson, and Pat Garino that was peak a 10 so to substitute obviously a trip to Europe well I love the bread I love the pasta the sights were beautiful I think that might be a stretch I listen you were that was exactly what I was thinking I often think back to the George Washington heydays so uh same wavelength All right, so, John, let's do Friday's games real quick. Give us a big picture.
Which games are you most excited for? Which games are popping off that you're like, all right, I can't wait to see this matchup? Well, I just wanted to know, guys, if we had the chance to kind of go through the names that I had for the regions because we didn't do that because we're doing things doing things differently I look at the top left the south region as being the region of opportunity because I look at this and I don't see any way that Alabama who has never been to a final four gets to a regional final I see that and I see San Diego State as a five seed a program that has not won in NCAA tournament games since 2015 when it beat st john's in an 8-9 game under steve fisher i think there's major opportunity remember the mountain west went 0-4 last year in the tournament you go then to the bottom left part of your bracket the east region it's the region of misdirection now why do i say that purdue was supposed to be good not this good marquette was ninth in the Big East. They're the two seed.
Kansas State was picked 10th in the Big 12. They're the three seed.
And Duke, again, is vintage Duke, is the five seed. It's not vintage Duke, but they're the five seed.
It's the region of misdirection. So then you go to the top right, the Midwest region.
It's the region of guard play. Look at the guards in this region.
Houston has Sasser and Shedd, Miami basketball, more guards than Shawshank, Nigel Pack, Isaiah Wong, Indiana has Jalen Hood-Shifino, then Xavier has Sule Boom, Penn State has Jalen Pickett, and of course, Texas A&M has Wade Taylor IV, and Texas has Serge Abari Rice. He also has Marcus Carr and Tyrese Hunter.
That is the region of guard play. And then finally, the region of brands out west.
These are your top four seeds. Kansas, UCLA, Gonzaga, and UConn, all have been to a Final Four in the last 10 years.
John, you mentioned the region of guards. Do any of the other regions have guards? They definitely have guards, but not of this caliber.
I think, you know, you have to look at that region as being specifically, specifically noted for its guard play. And even the guards on Pittsburgh, who I covered on Tuesday night in the first four, have big time chops.
I mean, Nelly Cummings came from Colgate. He was somebody who played in multiple NCAA tournaments under Matt Langell.
And also Jamarius Burton made a big shot to beat Mississippi State. So the region of guards holds form.
Yeah. Okay.
All right. So we've struggled here on this show trying to figure out what to make of Purdue.
What's the vibe with Purdue? Because I don't believe in Purdue.

I've never believed in Purdue.

I do think Zach Eadie has gotten a lot better. I just think it's going to be same old Purdue, and I don't mean that in a mean way to Purdue fans.
It's just they kind of feel the same way. I think for Purdue, it's a Final Four bus type scenario.
Now, this is why I'm saying that. Think back to the heartache that this program has had over the last half decade in the NCAA tournament.
2018, you're good enough to go to a Final Four. You lose Isaac Haas, your starting center, to an elbow injury.
You lose to Texas Tech in the Sweet 16. 2019, the brutal loss to Virginia in the Elite Eight when Mamadi Diakite made that shot at the buzzer to send it to overtime.

And then last year, you have a team with E.D., Travion Williams, and Jaden Ivey

who loses to St. Peter's.

So given all of that, given the balanced landscape of college basketball,

and given the fact that you have the most dominant force that we've seen in quite some time at the center position, Zach Eady, anything less than a Final Four berth will be a disappointment for Purdue, for its fans, for its alumni, for everybody. Yeah, I'd agree.
Yeah, I would agree. I'm going championship or bust with Purdue.
I'm putting my flag in the ground right now. You're getting bold, PFT.
You're getting bold. What can possibly go wrong? Absolutely nothing.
What coach in this tournament do you think has the most to lose, legacy-wise? Because I feel like there are a couple guys that are dangling out there. That's an interesting question.
When you say legacy-wise, PFT, do you mean they may never get an opportunity like this again?

I guess when I say legacy, I mean for us in the media to absolutely tear them down after a bad loss after this. It really doesn't mean much, but who's going to be the easiest target to say this guy's on the hot seat with a bad tournament loss this year? I don't know if we can go there, but I will say this.
I think there are certain programs that have opportunities in front of them that they're not going to have a line like this for a significantly long time one is Alabama Alabama has never been a number one seed in the NCAA tournament until this year another is Houston because Houston has obviously the final four in its home city and the third would be Purdue Those are all programs where if they don't make it to Houston to play in a Final Four, you will feel like the season's a disappointment. Yeah, okay.
Here's a question for the Friday games. Vermont versus Marquette.
Jake Marsh's Vermont catamounts going against Marquette, who just came off, obviously, a great Big East tournament. What do you see in this game? Does Vermont have a chance? Do we have a chance for Jake? I think Jake would agree.
Vermont has been knocking at the door under John Becker to win an NCAA tournament game, but I just see too much of, obviously, an advantage in terms of Marquette's size and athleticism. I think Verreto's going to be overmatched against Omax and also Iguodaro.
I think it's a tough matchup for Vermont, but most of the matchups in the round of 64 are going to be tough. But I will say this, Vermont was really competitive last year against Arkansas and has been competitive in the NCAA tournament, just haven't gotten over the hump.
Yeah, Yeah. Should Kentucky fans out there be worried going Providence,

you would think with Ed Cooley, great coach,

done some good stuff in the tournament before.

He knows how to get his guys ready,

but they're kind of limping into the tournament right now.

So not only that PFT, but like Bryce Hopkins,

who barely played last year at Kentucky has become a borderline all American

and an all big East player this year,

averaging about 16-10, and he is playing against his old team. So that is probably the individual storyline of the first round.
Providence has not played well down the stretch, but Bryce Hopkins is going to get a crack at his old team. So that, to me, should be a concern as well, because, look, Kentucky, when you look at at things is coming off what I believe is the biggest upset in NCAA tournament history when it lost to St.
Peter's last season now people can say what about UMBC Virginia if you compare the potential the resources for UMBC's program and St. Peter's program it's night and day and I also think when we look back and we start thinking about the Virginia team in 2018 that lost to UMBC,

sure they won the ACC regular season title by multiple games.

Sure they won the ACC tournament title.

But if you remember, DeAndre Hunter went out before the NCAA tournament with an injury,

and that allowed UMBC obviously to have the door open for them to get that historic win.

So remind me again, what happened the year after that?

Thank you. tournament with an injury and that allowed UMBC obviously to have the door open and for them to get that historic win.
So, so remind me again, what happened the year after that for UVA? They won a national championship. Hmm.
So you're saying Kentucky has a chance. Everybody has a chance this year.
I think this is as wide open a landscape as I've seen in nearly 20 years covering the sport at the national level. And guys, it reminds me of the 2010-2011 season when UConn who was a three seed and finished nine and nine in the Big East won the national championship they played Kentucky in the final four who was a four seed and the other side of the bracket was an eight seed in Butler and an 11 seed in VCU it would not shock me if when we get to Houston for the Final Four, if there's no one and two seeds in the Final Four.
Whoa.

Okay, that's a bold prediction.

One of my favorite

games on Friday. Danny

Hurley, Rick Pitino.

What do you expect out of the

coach's box in this game?

And also, what are you hearing

about Rick Pitino going to St. John's or

possibly Providence and Ed Cooley going to Georgetown? Where's Rick Pitino going to coach next year? Well, let's get to the game first. We'll get to the matchup first.
You know, Big Cat, I'm with you. When I saw this game on the screen on Selection Sunday, this to me is immediately where my head went to as the most intriguing game of the round of 64 because Dan Hurley, the carpenter, has done a great job building UConn's program.
They're back to obviously being a force in the Big East, but UConn has not advanced in the first round of the NCAA tournament in each of the past few years. Lost to Maryland two years ago, lost to New Mexico State last year.
So really, this staff, this program has been building towards just getting over the hurdle that is the round of 64 and standing in its way is Rick Pitino, who is arguably, you know, pound for pound, inch for inch, you know, one of the top coaches in the sport today. It's a fascinating matchup.
UConn has a significant advantage up front with Sunogo and Klingon, but the guards for Iona, who I saw live a couple of weeks ago in person when they played Manhattan, are very, very capable and high major caliber players. Walter Clayton Jr.
is a very good player. Danis Jenkins is a good player.
So I think Iona's guards will be able to trade blows with UConn's guards. It's going to be a matter of whether or not Iona can rebound and obviously stop or contain Sonoma and Klingon.
So let's get to Rick Pitino. This is what I can tell you.
St. John's has no secondary candidate.
St. John's knows that in order to restore relevance, it needs Rick Pitino.
St. John's has not won an NCAA tournament game since 2000.
How long ago was that? Jay Wright was the head coach at Hofstra still. But with that said, Rick Pitino is still, whenever Iona's season going to end, still going to have to get the necessary assurances from St.
John's that they're going to be willing to do the things that it takes to win. Better facilities, better offices, all those things, before obviously a deal is finalized.
So I would say that Rick Pitino is clearly the target for St. John's.
They don't have a secondary candidate. I can confirm that, but I still think that, you know, there is nothing obviously done in the sense that we're going to have a press conference 48 hours after Iona season's over.
What about from Rick Pitino's standpoint? Is he, he's got to be thinking like, I, in my opinion, Providence or maybe Georgetown would be better, a better fit for him right now, like ready to go. They don't have to put in all those upgrades that you mentioned.
If I'm Rick, I'm not limiting myself to St. John's.
I'm looking elsewhere. No doubt, PFT, but the one thing we have to remember is that Ed Cooley has danced the dance before and flirted with other jobs in the past.
He took a hard look at Michigan before Michigan hired Jawan Howard. He obviously was going to have some interest in Maryland and Louisville last year.
He opted to sign a long-term deal and stay at Providence after the Sweet 16 run. So that job isn't open and that domino hasn't happened yet.
So I think from what I've gathered, it was very important for a school to prioritize Rick Pitino to make him obviously aware that they wanted him to be their coach. St.
John's has done that through back channels to his representatives. So now it's just a matter of if St.
John's can obviously get a deal done with Rick Pitino. And guys, I firmly believe this parallel.
If St. John's was able to secure the services of Rick Pitino as its next head basketball coach, considering everything I just said a couple minutes ago, they have not won an NCAA tournament game since 2000, not since it beat Northern Arizona with Dan McClintock in the 2000 NCAA tournament.
Rick Pitino going to St. John's would be comparable to when Pat Riley became the head coach of the Knicks in 1991.
Yeah, but he wants to be wanted. He wants them to tell him to come.
Correct. He wants to be prioritized.
And they should prioritize him. Yeah, they should.
Absolutely. All right, similar question.
Coach and matchup. Michigan State, USC, this is happening.
This is the early game on Friday. I think it's the first game that tips on Friday.
What do you see in this game? And then how many more years is Tom Izzo going to coach? Because it feels like we've lost almost the entire old guard at this point. He's the last stalwart.
How's that going to play out? I ask myself that question every preseason when I go to East Lansing. And then I tell myself, what would Tom do though if he didn't coach I don't think Tom Izzo would want to you know be a studio analyst or a game analyst I don't think he would want to be you know an athletic director Tom Izzo wants to coach Tom Izzo wants to win he wants to win another national championship Michigan State is recruiting at a high level so I think Tom Izzo is going to coach as long as he can coach.
But I do think, guys, that this is a very, very sneaky USC team that they're playing. When USC was healthy this year, they were extremely, extremely capable.
But they've had injuries in and out of the lineup all season long. Drew Peterson recently has been battling a back issue.
Vince Uwachuku has had injuries. We've also seen that with Reese Dixon Waters, but this is a team you got to remember that erased a 12-point deficit at the half at the Galen Center to come back and beat UCLA.
I'll say this much. From a personnel perspective, forget the name on the jersey.
I see more talent on USC's roster than i do michigan states usc has rim protection with ue chukwu and joshua morgan they've got veteran guards with boogie ellis and drew peterson boogie ellis is playing like an all-american and nobody's talking about it and i love the wings trey white kobe johnson reese dixon waters i think usc doesn't just have a to push Michigan State, but could push Marquette in the round of 32. Interesting.
Wait, Drew Peterson, are you talking about Drew Peterson, the murderer or the basketball player? The basketball player, transferred from Rice. Got it.
Okay. You got to say that.
You got to let everyone know. There's a difference.
There's two Drew Petersons. Appreciate you clarifying.
Yes. do you know the story about the other drew peterson i had no idea there was another drew peterson until big cat just mentioned him that's good that's why we love yeah yeah that's that's smart so uh memphis memphis i've i've heard many people refer to as the best hc out there possibly a bad second round matchup as well so um memphis it's fau right they FAU.
Staying at our hotel. They're in our hotel.
We could actually. Should we, is it illegal to pull the fire alarm to make them not get a good night's sleep? Light bulb just went off my head.
Dusty, we sleep in May. Yeah, that's true.
Yes. But Memphis, as for the actual play on the court, do you see Memphis as being the strongest eight seed in this tournament? Memphis, Maryland, the Arkansas-Illinois game is capable.
Obviously the same thing with Iowa and Auburn. It's close, but I look at Memphis as being a potential bracket buster in the region of misdirection.
Another reason why I use misdirection is because Penny Hardaway may have one of his lesser talented teams like there's no precious achua there's no james wiseman there's no boogie ellis but they're a better basketball team is because we have seen and big cat knows this because he's obviously spent so much time watching the big 10 we have seen purdue's guards struggle with pressure the last month if memphis can get by fau memphis could be a really difficult matchup for purdue in the round of 32 this is by far penny hardaway's best coaching job since he took over at memphis kendrick davis deandre williams big time big time players i think memphis is a scary matchup for purdue in the round of 32 if they can get by dusty we sleep in may yeah i mean i think fau is a scary matchup for Purdue in the round of 32. If they can get by, Dusty, we sleep in May.
Yeah, I mean, I think FAU is a scary matchup for Purdue as well because they got Vladislav Golden, right? Vladislav Golden, transfer from Texas Tech. Yeah, big man on big man.
It would be like an old school, be like turning on the TV and watching a 1985 tournament game. Yeah.
From just a purely basketball standpoint, John, do you like the direction the sport has gone? Is it better for you to watch? Do you enjoy it more? Or do you miss kind of banging it down low? No, I think the big thing that's happened is, you know, finally, you know, with the NIL rules finally going in, which were long overdue, we have seen college be able to retain some of its better players if those players didn't have lucrative professional opportunities. So that has made players more identifiable for fans from the periphery.
And the brand of basketball has been better. So I think it's really helped the sport.
I think things will reset a little bit when the COVID year goes away and kids don't have that additional year of eligibility. But no, I think it's all good.
Another question about your broadcast. So your colleague, Jay Wright, have you talked to him? Have you discussed whether or not he has interest in maybe coaching in the NBA next season? No, I don't think he wants to coach again.
What? Yeah, I don't think Jay wants to coach again. Now, he can answer that better than I can.
But I get the vibe that I know he's working at media.

He's great at media already.

Obviously, he has keen insights from being somebody that's led a team to four Final Fours and two national titles.

So, no, he's working at this broadcast thing, and he's already great at it.

Okay.

All right.

I have one last question, John.

You've got to scurry and call the first four games, which is awesome.

We will actually be there, so we'll see you.

Awesome.

Maybe give us a wave.

Yeah, we're going to be in Dayton.

We're not there yet.

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We've had basically no time this week we finally got here john tell us your final four and who your champion is and let's hope that team has not already been eliminated that would be very funny i've got alabama out of the region of opportunity i've got duke out of the region of misdirection i've got heat texas out of the region of guard play and I've got Gonzaga out of the region of opportunity. I've got Duke out of the region of misdirection.
I've got Texas out of the region of guard play.

And I've got Gonzaga out of the region of brands.

And I've got Alabama beating Gonzaga for the national championship.

Oh, wow.

Mark Few going to his first final four.

That would be huge.

He's went to two already.

I don't recall.

He went in 17 and 21.

I disagree. Must be a few Mark Fewuse.
Disagree. Why is that? Because Mark Fuse has never been to a Final Four.
Gonzaga's never gotten over the hump. He's built a good program, but at the end of the day, you have to give me some results.
Yeah, will this be the year that Gonzaga finally gets over the hump and gets to a Final Four? They're the yeah buts. Yeah, Gonzaga's good, but they can't win the big one.
You guys are a tough crowd. All right, well, John, thank you as always.
We appreciate it. Enjoy the tournament.
Best time of year. We're all going to be just sitting there, just enjoying every moment.
Nothing better. And maybe we'll see you in Houston.
All right, guys, congratulations you and your team on that uh big move to chicago and continued success really happy for all you guys yeah when you're out when you're out uh scouting like uh the salukis or you're going out to i mean i don't i don't even think you go see the big 10 teams right i love chicago especially in the summer great restaurant scene okay so you'll the office. John, I have one last question for you, just real quick.
So I was talking to your good friend Rico Bosco last night, and we got into a debate about whether or not you had ever played basketball in your life. Have you ever played basketball? I mean, when I was a kid, yeah.
So, yeah, you have. So, yeah, proven.
We're on your side. He said that you've never taken a jump shot.

And I called Cap, John.

I called Cap for real, for real. We just look forward to the documentary on, you know, Rico's life in 20 years because

that's going to be appointment TV.

That will be.

You're right.

Are you reporting that Rico Bosco dies in 20 years?

No, no, no.

It's going to be a documentary on his life.

You know, you try to be nice to the guy and he treats you obviously like he's his worst enemy. That's true.
That is true. You try to be playful.
Yeah, I mean, I'll be featured heavily in that documentary. All right, well, John, thank you so much.
Good luck with the first four. Good luck with the rest of the tournament.
Great catching up with you, man. All right, guys.
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We watch 12, 13, 14 hours of basketball, and we just forget about everything else that's happened in our lives. Probably should have talked about this somewhere in the beginning.
Aaron Rodgers is out of my fucking life. Not yet.
He is, PFT. Not yet He's not.
Yes, he is. Don't do this.
I root for Dan Snyder to sell the team. Aaron Rodgers is out of my life.
He is gone. He's going to the Jets.
It's over. I'm so happy.
Wednesday was one of the best days. Everything is up for the Bears.
Fuck him. He's gone.
Okay. Don't do this.
You're going to do it. No, here's what I'm going to say.
He's not. He is gone.
He's not going to play for the Packers. You're right.
He's gone to that certain extent. But we still don't have a trade in place.
Correct. So he actually fucked the Packers over.
Yes, that's why. Aaron Rodgers finally beat the Packers.
So, yeah, his his last act He goes on the Pat McAfee show And he basically burns that bridge And says I've decided not to play for them They don't want me to play for them So I told them I want to play for the New York Jets Now The trade's not finalized So now the Jets are going to have to fork over Probably more than they were originally Because he tipped his hand and tipped the Packers' hand. I think it might be opposite.
The Packers, it's clear that Aaron Rodgers does not want to play for the Packers. The Packers don't want to employ Aaron Rodgers.
The Packers now don't have much leverage because Aaron Rodgers doesn't want, he's like, they don't want me. I don't want to be there.
All the cards are out on the table like the packers have to they have to trade him so they could trade him but they don't have to pay him until i think start a training camp so i don't know so they can they can keep him around for a while and they can start fielding other offers he's gone he's out of your life which is gone i'm very happy he's gone he's gone he's gone i'm so happy

he's gone i just am so happy he's gone because here's the thing aaron rogers is a phenomenal

quarterback hall of fame quarterback he did say that he was the best packer ever which was okay

dude way to blow yourself there bart star bro bart star bro right like that guy was pretty damn good

reggie white yeah you won one super bowl dick butkus no no no no just kidding that was a joke that wasn't serious no yeah he was serious that was not serious you just thought you just thought old guy from cold weather i hope i hope john shire's sweater gives him a really bad rash no that was a joke yeah okay uh but yeah he is a phenomenal quarterback. He's probably going to play for, I don't know, three, four more years.
Even if his skills diminished, he loved beating the Bears. He was going to keep beating the Bears forever.
It was just how it was going to go. I'm just so happy he's out of my life.
And all the Packers fans are like, Jordan Love's next up.

Let's see.

Let's see. It doesn't, if it works this way that you just go back to back to back

Hall of Fame quarterbacks, I'll just put my hands up and be like,

there's no reason to even watch football anymore.

But I'm confident that he's not going to be Aaron Rodgers.

And maybe this gets clipped and I'm an idiot in like five years.

But let's cool it on Jordan Love is like, we're actually happy that Aaron Rodgers is gone Jordan Love's next up he's gonna be awesome chill out Aaron also laid it on pretty thick with the darkness retreat stuff in the interview he kept saying how his perspective got changed by it how he came out with a sense of clarity but if you really listen to what he said he came out thinking that he was retire. Right.
And then he got back to civilization and started reading the Internet again. And the Internet puts weird thoughts in Aaron Rodgers brain quite frequently.
And this might be the weirdest of all of them where he was like, actually, you know what? I'd rather play for the Jets. Yeah.
And so he decided that that's what he was going to do. But if I was a real darkness retreat guy, like an old head, that had done darkness retreats for years and years and years, and then Aaron just comes in.
Aaron adopted darkness. Helen Keller was born into it.
You're not a darkness guy. You just did it one time.
You calling Cap on Helen Keller? Cap alert? Her parents tell some tall tales. Oh, really? You don't think she was really blind? Which one? Blind, deaf, or mute? Which one do you think she wasn't? Deaf She could hear everything She just couldn't speak or see Still tough life If that's the case, great commitment to the bit Yeah Or mom, stage mom but aaron rogers this is actually really bad for like the psychedelic community because uh like doing a bunch of ayahuasca and going into a darkness treat and then coming out and being like i want to play for the jets not great yeah yeah absolutely not that's actually what they should do for reefer madness yeah for ayahuasca, this is your brain, and you're playing for the Green Bay Packers.
This is your brain on drugs. Yeah.
You're playing for the New York Jets. And shout out Memes and Billy.
They're happy. I do think the Jets are immediately a Super Bowl contender.
It depends. Once Aaron Rodgers is on the team.
It depends how many of his friends he's going to get to play with them. That's true.
So they're still waiting. That's part of the thing, too, for the Jets the jets it's like now we have to basically change up our entire offense and get all new personnel that was also the biggest takeaway from the pat mcfee interview is as much as aaron rogers wants to play the role of like i don't care what people think guy he listens to everything oh yeah and he gets mad about everything yeah uh and he should be in jail i hope he gets mad about that the uh the text was shefty where he's like i told shefty uh yeah you can lose my number yeah when he sent and then shefty just tweeted out the screen grab that actually made adam shefter look good it made him look really good he's just he's a hound i didn't tell you this big cat but i i texted aaron um like a month ago you didn't give me his number but in in the uh in the text to aaron i was like hey this pft from part of my take big cat didn't give me your number by the way and i just wanted to ask him questions about dmt he didn't i feel bad because like he at least gave shefty the dude lose my number with me he just left me on red yeah and didn't even reply to me i would have loved for him to be like hey fuck off oh i mean i've been left on red i all my text messages to him are not i don't think he'll ever speak to me again um maybe maybe not i mean he seems uh let's see uh the thing with the jets is he's going to a very very tough division yeah i texted him on march 7th you need any New York City recommendations, I got you.
Want to make your move as comfortable as possible. That's what friends do for each other.
No response. And then I said, so happy for you and your new team.
Congrats on wishing you nothing but the best, peace, and love. And then I said, hey, Aaron, if you need someone to move you into your new apartment, I'm happy to do it.
I'll rent the U-Haul through a charge. I kind of hope he takes you up on that i would makes you makes you carry dude he could have my apartment he could have every piece of furniture in my apartment i bet my kids toys i don't give a fuck i bet aaron's gonna set up like a teepee in his apartment in brooklyn yeah yeah he's gonna fit he actually would be perfect in brooklyn because he could like there's enough people in brook Brooklyn that don't watch football that he could definitely just have

a group of friends that don't even know he plays for the

Jets. He could go out to a bar and they

just wouldn't recognize him. Yeah.

There's a bar on my corner that doesn't have a TV.

What kind of bar is that? He's gonna ride

his fixie bike through Williamsburg.

That's not a bar.

It's just a fucking...

It's like a shitty house.

Honestly, if you go to a bar where there's not a TV, you're an alcoholic. It's packed all the time.
It's like every bar in Williamsburg. What? When I was in Williamsburg, I had to, I remember like being like, oh, it's Monday Night Football.
I'm going to go watch and get food at a bar down the street. And I had to walk like, I mean, it's New York City, so it wasn't, there was, but I probably went to five or six bars.
Yeah. Walking in, being like, there's no TV here.
I bet you if you did a poll of every Brooklyn. It was like a soccer pub, which is the most hipster shit ever.
Not like far Brooklyn that has actual sports fans, but close to the river in Manhattan, Brooklyn. I bet you my house has more TVs than almost every other bar.
I went to a bar one time in my neighborhood that has TVs, and they incorporated them into the decor, and they're not plugged in. Yeah.
That was fucked. That's assault.
That is assault. That is honestly assault.
It's a tease. I wanted to burn the place down.
But yeah, Aaron Rodgers is gone. Everything's looking up for the Bears.
It's been legitimately great two weeks to be a Bears fan. So I know this won't last.
I know the shoe's shoes on the other foot probably draft Jalen Carter after he like doesn't want to play football anymore um but yeah I can't can't yuck my um right now everyone who's trying to no no no no Aaron Rodgers is gone out of my life um all right should we do fire fest oh you know what's crazy is that the teams that can be forced to do hard knocks next year it's the jets the bears the commanders and then i think the saints it will 100 be the jets if he's on that yes and oh my god he is going to treat the new york media so poorly yeah which i kind of like yeah i want to see how that relationship unfolds yes um hey do you want to do your fire fest first yeah do you guys want to give quick quick edwin diaz thoughts yeah he got injured yeah uh world baseball classic that's hot takes that's tough uh it's it's really really tough considering it's a game that doesn't really mean anything but or does it here's here's my i saw a lot of debate back and forth um these guys are grown grown-ass men if they want to play for their country they should get to play for their country like i don't know why people are being like why would my players play like they get to decide what they want to do they know that they could get injured most most people who play sports for a profession like to play sports for a profession so if they get to play with their friends that they maybe grew up with and rep their team rep their country i err their country i think they'll probably take that that that chance this is obviously the downside but every fan being like why the fuck do we even have world but i don't know. Like, these guys want to play.
They don't have to play. Also, it didn't happen in the course of the game.
My big takeaway from this is that this is the most Mets thing to ever happen possible. Yes, that's true.
So if you're a Mets fan, you probably in your darkest nightmares think to yourself, oh, Edwin Diaz is going to go play in the World Baseball Classic. Oh, shit, he's probably going to tear his patellar tendon celebrating after a win when he's just jumping up in the air and then he's not going to be able to pitch for the next 12 months.
That thought has probably crossed your head prior to this happening and they get rid of DeGrom who would be the guy that I would think that this would happen to and Diaz too he had one of the all-time great seasons in the history of Major League Baseball as a close of the trumpets which hey Pica have you heard this one the trumpets are playing taps oh no damn I I just don't I'm not a world baseball classic fan some people really like it and if the players want to play they should get to play I don't i don't like i also believe that injuries like that were going to happen anyway you know what i mean like well yeah it wasn't in the course of the game even if it was a freak celebration and something probably is a little off with your body that like there's gonna have there's gonna be an injury that happens at some point in the season yeah it's called being a mets player right exactlyout is a big winner of the World Baseball Classic because he gets to play meaningful baseball for once. Yes.
So he's having fun. He's probably, I'd say he's Captain America.
He's the Patrick Reed of the U.S. team.
And so it's fun watching him actually be able to celebrate a game that could potentially impact future games. Yes, yes.
So, yeah, I'm not, world baseball classic is i still don't care but for people who do care cool yeah i'd say that's fair yeah like i have fun i that's that's cool like march madness is on but if you like baseball more than college basketball that's cool too so the the knock against it is it's a made-up tournament that people just decided to start doing but every tournament every single is a made-up tournament until somebody decides to start doing it it's a completely non-existent tournament that doesn't mean anything correct and then they try to grow it so history yeah it takes time to build up history and tradition i think we can say as a podcast we're a grow the game podcast yeah doesn't matter all games it is i'm in favor of growing every game it is kind of funny though the world baseball classic like the only major headlines it ever gets is the injuries yeah it doesn't feel like there's a lot of positive headlines no not really yeah uh columbia covered a seven and a half run spread that was pretty awesome huge uh okay fire fest of the week hank uh in the midst of today which as we previously discussed did not go great uh there is a rage room adjacent to our gambling setup i crushed shout out to jack's links uh little little sponsorship for for people that have bad bets or whatever they go and do do some smashing Jack Links. Jack Links.
What did I say? Jack's Lynx, a little sponsorship for people that have bad bets or whatever. They go and do some smashing.
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Sorry. PFT went in there, and in the video.
I love how Hank's Fire Fest has just become him as an excuse to take a shit on me. No, go ahead.
Wait, Tim, let me finish. Yeah, go ahead.
Well, I wanted you to shut the fuck up for a second. I had to set it up.
I mean, because my mind makes no sense without explaining yours. Context matters.
If I was mean right now, I'd say that you're so addicted to plus signs that even your golf game incorporates them. But I'm not going to say that.
No, if I was a plus in golf, that'd be unbelievable. No.
I shot a 7. Plus is bad in golf.
You're a plus 6 handicap? False. Plus is bad in golf.
You want lower scores. False.
Plus 6 handicap means you're really, really good. I didn't say plus 6.
You guys going to kiss? I'll kiss him if he wants to. PFT went into the rage room.
I think Hank and I. This is getting hot hot the sexual tension is off the charts it's crazy what's the jacket walked in the rage room uh with a baseball bat swung at a glass and completely missed oh no and i again maybe that maybe i'm learning a lot about myself probably the only other part of the day where I kind of laughed watching the video, being like, ha-ha, swinging a miss.
That's embarrassing. And it's right next to the room where I was in lying down, and I was like, all right, biggest bet tonight, Texas A&M, walk.
Let's get this train rolling. I'm going to make a video poking fun at PFT, explaining my bet, and then I'm going to smash the glass that he missed.

And then I took a swing, and he went over the cup.

I went under the cup.

I just smashed the table, but I missed the cup.

Oh, no.

And it was a one-take.

You should have bet Penn State right then.

It was a one-take situation.

I wasn't going to delete it.

And a lot of people did say, well, obviously,

now I'm going to bet Penn State.

So I guess you're welcome.

That was sad. I'm going to bet Penn State, so I guess you're welcome.
That was sad.

I'm sorry about that, Hank.

I'm sorry I kind of forced you to do that.

I'm just unathletic, dumb, stupid, not good at gambling.

Your yawns sound very bad.

I was helping you out.

You seemed like you were looking for another bad thing about you. Yeah, USC.
USC. You know what, Hank? I'm a good friend, so I'm going to ride on USC tomorrow.
Let's go. PFT or Firefest.
My Firefest of the week, I was going to say what happened in the Jack Link's rage room when I took a big cut and just completely whiffed on the glass, but it was a small bat. And also, I'm a golfer now, so it ruined my baseball swing.
But I will pivot and say my Firefest of the Week is, this is my first March Madness without Tums. And the reason for that is I think I'm a full-time, like, take-two antacid tablets, a day guy.
Yeah, like medicine. Yeah, like medicine.
So I wake up, and I need to have one of those Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday things that old people get that their children have to dispense for them. But I've made the transition to that because just straight Tums isn't cutting it for me anymore.
Damn. The acid's that bad, shout out Aaron Rodgers, that I have to now be able to switch over and and it's weird because i always forget to take it until right before i need it and then it doesn't work like tums that's the thing if i try to take a pepsi dac instead of a tums i have to wait an hour to get any relief but now i'm a full-time just like constant there's always going to be antacid in my blood yeah is what i'm saying and

that's that to me is the worst that's that's the most clear sign that i'm old as fuck yeah that's tough yeah that's very tough um i'm trying to think i don't really have firefist my firefist is i love the tournament so much that when thursday ends i'm like damn, we only have one more really crazy chaotic day.

And it bums me out.

I'm trying to think.

What else?

Oh, my son is no longer waking me up, but he does watch me sleep.

And that's kind of creepy.

I guess that would be my fire.

Oh, yeah.

You know, you figured out he stands in your room.

Yeah.

So I told him, like, if you come in my room and you wake me up, like, I'm going to lock

my door.

And he's like, don't lock the door.

Don't lock the door. And I was like, so don't wake me up.
And room and you wake me up like i'm gonna lock my door and he does he's like don't lock the door don't lock the door and i was like so don't wake me up and he didn't wake me up and then i was walking him to school and i was like so you slept well last night and he's like well yeah i came in your room and it was too cold in there so then i went back to my room i was like what and then i looked at the monitor and the fucker left his room for like 10 minutes. He probably just watched me sleep.

Yeah.

So that's weird.

He just loves you.

He's just staring at me, but not waking me up.

So that's baby steps.

Yeah, we're making progress.

So he's just watching me sleep.

That's fine.

Kind of miss it on the road.

Like, don't get anyone to watch me sleep.

Maybe, Hank, you could.

Wait.

I'll give you my key card tonight, Hank.

You can come in and just watch me sleep. Is your son the hat man? No, he's not the hat man He's not the hat man in trading But yeah, I do miss him There's one more story That's kind of developing right now as we speak The Jimmy G to the Raiders saga Yeah So Jimmy G has not signed a contract with the Raiders yet They were supposed to introduce him at a press conference this afternoon The Bunny Ranch even did a picture Did they hookers for jimmy g yeah so so he so he shows up or he doesn't show up the scheduled time was i want to say like 4 30 in the afternoon all the reporters showed up waited for jimmy g they said we're going to delay the press conference by an hour he just never showed up something they delayed they had to delay it a full day or more with Jimmy G.
Uh-oh. And I don't know if Josh McDaniels leaked news of his marriage to anybody or what's happening there.
He just got to Vegas and was like, this is awesome. Yeah, you know what? I think I just realized that I wanted to move to Las Vegas and not necessarily play football there.
But what if he just backed out? Because that would be – knowing what I know about Josh McDaniels, it's not his way of doing business to accept an offer to go somewhere and then back out of it right shortly thereafter. That's not how we do things on McDaniels Las Vegas Raiders.
Yeah. Someone – yeah, Jim Irsay went to Jimmy G's house, took a shit, and he's like, I want to play for this guy., also, Mike Florio reported that Dan Snyder's going to sell the Washington Commanders.

Yeah.

And so.

See, I'm excited for you.

I'm not going to ruin it for you.

I was trying to ruin.

I was just pointing out that he's not going to.

He's he might not play for the Jets.

He's not going to pay for the Packers.

But Florio reported that Snyder has moved all of the shit out of the commander's team facility, him and his wife,

and that a sale is imminent right now.

So that was the highlight of my day.

I had a bad day at the track today.

No, you walked around showing the tweet to everyone in the room.

Yeah, I was so happy.

Look at this.

Well, I want to jack off again.

I mean, I've got a hotel room, and I can't jack off in it.

That's torture.

Well, give Hank your key card.

You want to come jack me off, Hank?

Thank you. Look at this.
Look at this. Well, I want to jack off again.
Yeah. And, I mean, I've got a hotel room, and I can't jack off in it.
That's torture. Well, give Hank your key card.
You want to come jack me off, Hank? Hank, you've got a lot of work to do tonight. We've got a lot of sexual tension.
Yeah. All right.
We did lottery ball. Yeah.
And we'll see if Hank gets it. Let's cut to that.
Yeah. Hank, do you think you got it this time? Yeah.
All right.'s kick it to ourselves back in studio. See everyone on Sunday night when we don't have voices.
Love you guys Okay, we're back in the studio after you listen to us recap the first day of the tournament. We're gonna we're taping this on Tuesday Hank.
Oh, no. False start.
Oh, no, Billy. That was the biggest false start of all time.
You said lottery ball. No.
I thought I was. No, I was asking Hank if he ever got the lottery ball number.
I know. I did.
You tried to Lane Johnson it. I did.
I'll take numbers. 600.
No, no, no. You have a false start.
You go last. 64.
18. Hank, I was going to take 64.

Oh, wow.

For the tournament.

Do you want to take 69?

Yeah, no shit.

PFT, one of us.

Well, there's definitely 68.

Why being so salty?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, 68.

I'll take...

Good point, Jake.

Yeah.

Well, by the time this episode airs,

there'll be...

No, but I'm looking at a bracket right now.

There are 68 teams at the time of this recording.

68 teams.

You know what?

I'll take 17.

I'll let you... Max, you have last chance to take 69? Yeah, I'll take 69.
What the fuck? Yes. Billy getting genuinely upset at other people taking 69.
It's my number, dude. Because it's the sex number.
It's just ridiculous. No, it's just like a yin-yang and just like it's a consistent number.
Oh, that's why? You can guess it every time.

Yeah.

20.

What was your number, Hank?

This will be devastating.

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

48.

Continental U.S.

48.

Love you guys.

Damn, Hank.

And you lost all your bets today.

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

Oh.

Halfway through.

Hank, you did your math wrong.

At the end of Friday, there's 64, 16 games.

You should have done that, Hank.

Number of teams remaining at this. Or at the end of Friday, not the end of this episode.
Yeah. Figure done that, Hank.
Number of teams remaining at this –

or at the end of Friday, not the end of this episode.

Yeah.

Figure it out, Jake.

But still.

No, not still.

Not even close.

Wait.

No, after Thursday.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's right.

You're wrong, Hank.

Yeah, you should have guessed 48.

Thursday we go 64-48, and then Friday 48-32.

Oh, no, Hank.

Tough break.

Yeah.

Learn ball. Hank, that's tough.
Love you guys. They proved that chickens actually came before the egg.
Oh, don't get away. I don't know what to say.
I'll say it anyway. Today's another day.
You're probably going to shine away. I'll be coming for your lover again.
Shine away. I'll be coming for your lover again.
We let you Thank you. Take me.
And now you are my silhouette And now you are my silhouette

And now you are my silhouette

And now you are my silhouette Stay in love. Stay in love.
Stay in love. You're all in love.
Don't remember. You're shy.
I'll give you a little bit. You're shy.
I'll give you a little bit. Take me on me.
Take me on me. Take me on me.
Take me on me. Take me on of the fire Take me out of the fire On me Take me out of the fire Take me out of the fire Take me out of the fire Take me out of the fire Take me out of the fire Take me out of the fire you Take my baby