Big Announcement With Mark Titus, College Bball Preview, Lamar Fan Fiction + Guys On Chicks

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And then I can't blame all on the sun Oh no We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue And then we'll take it higher Oh we're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue Presented by Barstool Sports Welcome to Pardon My Take Today is Wednesday, February 22nd and it's just four of us in the studio, boys. It feels a little empty.
It feels a little thin in here. It feels a little empty.
Jake and Billy are down in the DMV getting drunk, calling ESPN plus PLL games. What if Jake just went to the beer pong thing and then Billy showed up to call the games? That would be a great freaky Friday.
There was a great post that Billy had when he was down. I'm going to look it up right now.
He showed up to the lacrosse camp today and he's down on field level and I don't know if Billy wrote this or if it was a copy and paste job but he said, talking about the new rules format for the Premier Lacrosse Championship Series with Paul Rabel, how it impacts players and on-field product. Oh.
I think Billy's turned into a Big J. What happened? That's one of those prompts.
What would be the tweet if you got kidnapped? Yeah. That's Billy's tweet right there.
But yeah, it's a big show because we have a big announcement with our friend Mark Titus. Coming up, we're going to do a college basketball preview with him.
Very excited about the future with Mark Titus. Mark Titus.
I shouldn't ruin it all. No.
It's going to be awesome. So get excited.
We're in college basketball zone. What else? I mean.
It's franchise tag season. It's franchise tag season.
The tag season is officially open right now. Nathan Peterman

did not get tagged. Okay, breaking news.

Yep. The QB tag

I think is what, $34 million

something around there? Yeah, sure.

Daniel Jones fired his agent

getting a new agent.

So now they're speculating what that could be.

No, not her.

But I think it means that he doesn't want to get tagged and that he wants megabucks. I heard the megabucks number got thrown around the other day that it's speculating that he might want upwards of like $45 million a year.
Uh-oh. I do too, for the record.
I would like $45 million a year. And then Derek Carr is taking his free agency tour.

Yes.

Per David Carr, his brother, who he might be his agent.

Yeah.

David said that Derek's going to enjoy this tour.

He's going to go around, get wined and dined, make sure he finds a place that really wants him.

I actually had a source.

Shout out Mikey Betts.

He sent me a picture of Derek Carr at dinner with Robert Salah and Nathaniel Hackett. And I saw the picture.
That was also on Twitter. It was on Twitter.
Well, he sent it to me first, so I'm going to credit him. Nathaniel Hackett's face, I'm sorry, but he's got to – something's going to have to happen for me to just wash off that stink.
Because I saw him and I was like, there's a Broncos guy who didn't know how to use timeouts. I mean, it's perfect.
It's a great opportunity for him to change your look. Yeah.
He's got to grow a beard. He's got to get some tats, some neck tats.
Oh, he'd look like a biker. Yeah.
He's got to maybe add, he's got to maybe change his name too. Maybe be Nate Hakovich or something.
Okay. He's from Serbia.
I don't know. I would be in on that.
I think that Derek Carr should take his time on this because he's been through a lot in Las Vegas, and he needs to find a place where he feels welcome. I feel like I'm left out, though, because I'm getting all my Derek Carr news via David Carr because he blocks me on Twitter.
Derek Carr is the new Big Ben. He blocks everybody on Twitter, apparently.

Well, you said he has herpes.

You did say he has herpes.

Did I say that?

Yeah, you said he has herpes.

Remember we found that out when we last talked about this?

I hope he doesn't have Michael Rappaport's lawyer.

Yeah.

Well, no.

I hope he does.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Eat him for lunch.

He wins shit.

I've got some fan fiction that I've been working on.

Hank, with your permission, my internet dad and I, Mike mike florio are kind of collabing on this one great so there's been you know we've seen all the photoshops that are floating out all over the internet of lamar jackson in a commander's uniform it's been hot talk for a while that kind of sounds like an erotic one yeah okay so it went away for a little bit okay yeah was just, I was engaging myself. I was entertaining myself to keep myself in a good mood thinking, okay, next year might not just be a total wash.
Florio put out an interesting take and I'm going to, I'm going to build on it. Florio said he pulled a, he pulled a wind horse.
He goes, why would Eric Biennemi go to Washington DC? Why would he leave Pat Mah leave Pat Mahomes and the opportunity to win multiple more Super Bowls, coaching maybe the greatest quarterback of all time in the history of the NFL, to go to Washington, D.C., where they're going into next year with a starting quarterback, Sam Howell, who started precisely one game. Now, he did beat Hank's Cowboys, but he started one game, and there's a big uncertain future there in D.C.
Why would he do something like that? Well, I'll tell you why. There might be a little deal behind the scenes with Ron Rivera telling Bien-Ami, Lamar gets franchise tag if it's non-exclusive.
We're going to get Lamar. Now, okay, people are going to point at Dan Snyder.
Dan Snyder's going to sell the team. What's going to happen in this offseason? Is he in a position where he's going to be able to give up all these assets? I would say that Dan Snyder, out of spite, just to fuck over the next owner, would love nothing more than to give those two first-round picks away and, on top of that, throw in a shitload of guaranteed money in a contract extension for Lamar Jackson, which would not only maybe fuck over the future owner, depending on how Lamar plays, but also in the big fuck you, he would fuck over the rest of the owners in the NFL that don't want these guaranteed contracts to go to players.
They got pissed off when Deshaun Jackson or Deshaun Watson got his. It would be a fuck you to those guys

while also opening the door for everybody to be like,

thank you, Dan Snyder.

If it pays off in the future,

look what Dan did for the team on the way out.

This is the perfect exit.

This is the perfect exit.

Hank has gone to his phone.

I'm listening.

I'm tuned in.

I'm tuned in.

Spot the flaw. I'm tuned in.
I don't see any flaws. I don't think.
Wait, wait. Play it back.
What'd he say? Dan Snyder. Once he's got, once you got a Dan Snyder being spiteful.
That is usually a point where you're like, okay. That's where it's like, he's not going to do that.
He's just going to leave. You don't think that Dan Snyder would love to stick it up the rest of the owner's ass? Oh, yeah, he would.
How do you think your buddy Jerry Jones picture got released? By giving him a... How do you think John Gruden's emails got released? Some of them.
He is spiteful. Yeah, one bad email.
The man is spite as a person. If you were to draw...
If you look up spite in the dictionary, you'd see, first of all, a picture of Hank looking grumpy.

And then next to it,

Dan Snyder right behind him with his hand on his shoulder. He literally is.

He's an owner with a suicide vest right now.

Yes.

And,

and by giving Lamar Jackson,

huge guaranteed money,

fully guaranteed in the contract that would piss off the rest of the owners

that just spent the last two years trying to get Dan Snyder out of the NFL

facts,

factor fact, but you're talking about a guy who notoriously never spends money on anything what hank are you are you fucking shitting me albert hainsworth deon sanders jeff george should he go on the man the man loves the renovations don't make him go on. Carson Wentz.

The man loves spending...

You're confusing Dan Snyder with the owner of the Bengals.

Dan Snyder loves spending money on all the stupidest shit ever.

Shout out Zach Taylor, by the way.

Ultimate football guy.

He said he'd have to be taken out in a casket from the Bengals.

That was kind of cool.

So I think...

I think the BNME thing makes a little bit of sense. You had me there.
It is suspect to say the least that Eric Biennemi, I mean I guess he is getting a bump because he's officially the offensive coordinator and Andy Reid was calling a lot of the plays with the Chiefs but still, it would be weird to take that job and be like Sam Howell? He's in the perfect scenario for an offensive coordinator, and he's going to maybe the worst scenario as an offensive coordinator. Where does Lamar live? I was just about to say I'm not a geography guy.
He lives in Maryland. He's got ties to the area.
But I'm saying, is his house close enough that he doesn't have to move?

It might be.

Wow.

Yeah.

So what about that, Hank?

That makes sense, too.

When we got BNME, I was thinking to myself,

this must be what Pete Davidson feels like all the time.

I have an ugly-ass franchise,

and now I've got the hottest thing on the block that's just moving into town.

There's something weird going on there.

They interviewed 17 times.

That's true.

The hottest thing.

Thank you. have an ugly ass franchise and now i've got the hottest thing on the block that's just moving into town it's there's something weird going on 17 times that's true the hottest thing that's yeah well that's another he interviewed 17 times for other opportunities some including offensive coordinator opportunities but yet he wants this one yeah i would i would not want this one true is rivera on his way out is that like uh probably because we're gonna get a new owner so he's probably gonna be fired huh just connect some dots hey just let me dream man connect a few let me have some optimism these are the dots we gotta connect i hope lamar jackson's a washington commander i we also should just uh i i know that was mean what you just did uh It is crazy Lamar Jackson doesn't have an agent.
Yeah. It is crazy.

I know, like... that was mean what you just did uh it is crazy lamar jackson doesn't have an agent yeah it is crazy i i know like you can i'm all for player empowerment but i feel like he is probably losing out on opportunities without an agent yeah and the stuff that the agents do behind the scenes like they can start to negotiate trades and things like that what team he has no idea what team wants him yeah i mean every team should want him but like you he doesn't know i it's just crazy it just blows my mind it's not a big enough story that lamar jackson is the first guy who is set to make insane amounts of money because you see it sometimes where guys won't have agents but it will be a veteran who it's like you know what you're going to make it's not really I think Bobby Wagner fired his agent it's like well Bobby Wagner has been in the league forever I think Richard Sherman did that Richard Sherman but he did it I think later on when he was like all right I know what I'm going to make I'm slotted in Lamar Jackson could be making the most amount of money a quarterback has ever made yeah like that's on the table and he doesn he doesn't have an agent.
Yeah, he's just saying, give me what Deshaun got, plus, like, five extra million dollars a year. It's crazy.
It's crazy. So, yeah, I think all bets, like, you can't predict a guy who doesn't have an agent.
You can't. Shit's going to get wild.
Shit's going to get wild. All I'm saying is, remember who told you this before it happened.
Remember who put out those fire photoshops. I'll remember.

I'll remember.

Hank will remember.

I'm rooting for you, PFT.

Thank you.

As someone who has a very exciting quarterback who sometimes gets called a running back,

join the party.

I'd love to.

In exchange for that, I hope that Taylor Heineke signs with the Bears.

Yeah.

I'll trade you Taylor Heineke this offseason if I get Lamar Jackson.

Imagine if our football teams became good. Do you think people wouldn't like this show anymore? Hank would quit.
I think there's a chance that people wouldn't like this show. I actually agree with that 100%.
I think if the Bears and the Commanders were both 13-4, people would be like, fuck these guys. Let's be real.
If the Bears and the Commanders were the two best teams in the nfl people just wouldn't like the nfl anymore yeah that too that too but they would i think there would be an element because part of the the the allure of this show is we can make fun of everyone because we can make fun of our own team the most which we do uh if that's gone uh-oh like i'm looking at hank's eyes he's scared right now I don't I hope you guys are successful I always root for your success I'm not a hater I'm a lover and a supporter you are a lover Hank the lover alright so other order in business because we have we're in this weird spot where we're going to Indy next week so we're going to get some new interviews there we. We have a great interview coming up with Mark Titus.
We're going to also do a Liv Full Swing, is that what it's called? Review, maybe next week, our good friend Not just Liv. Oh, sorry, yeah, yeah.
It's PGA and Liv. Our good friend Brooks Koepka, I was texting him last night.
He is down to come back on to talk about his episode, which PFT you haven't watched yet, but when you do. I'm too focused on my own game right now.
It was very funny. He was wearing a Barstool Sports Triggered sweatshirt for a full scene that I loved.
I just loved that so much. But, yeah, Brooks will come back on the show.
Say what you want about Brooks, but he doesn't have a media guy. No.
There's nobody that's around Brooks being like, hey, maybe change that sweatshirt. No, no, I just said triggered for an entire extended scene with his mom, and it was awesome.
I just fucking love the guy. But so we're going to do that next week as well.
Other things we've got to talk about. Should we talk briefly about Alabama basketball? That was on my hot seat.
Okay, well, wait for it. So then the other order of business I had, Max, I tasked you with finding an NCAA basketball team that you wanted me to put a future on.
You said save it for the show because we had a car ride today, and we didn't talk about it. So would you like to tell the AWLs what your decision is? We should say we've already decided half of it's going to go on Max Homa.
Correct. Half of it's going to go on Max Homa to win the Masters.
That'll be great. Well, probably not because he'll blow it.
No. He'll blow it.
I'm going all positive with Max. We have a good interview with Max coming out.
We talked through some of the positive vibe stuff. I'm just going 100% positivity with Max.
We can do good cop, bad cop. Well, I also had a self-reflection after Sunday night show when I said he blew it,

and I realized that the reason why I do that

is just to get Jake's reaction.

Because Jake loves Max,

and he's the nicest guy in the world.

So when I'm like, yeah, Max blew it,

and Jake's like, oh, how could you say that?

I'm pretty much just doing it.

It's an audience of one. So I actually told Max.
I was like, listen, it's not. It's something personal.
I just want to see Jake squirm when I say that you blow the fucking Genesis open. Yeah.
Because he blew it. He did.
Choke artist. No, I think he blew it, too.
He's going to win the Masters, so it's fine. I mean, he couldn't get out of that bunker.
Yeah, he couldn't get out of the bunker. He couldn't get out of the bunker.

It was over at that point.

I could get out of that bunker.

He still parred the hole.

What?

He parred that hole.

He did.

Max, lay it on us.

My team, okay.

I normally am a very big college basketball guy.

Villanova's really bad this year, and it's one of those things.

Max, back sports town?

Huh?

No, I watch every Villanova game, but it makes me so angry

that we're going to be Villanova is really bad this year and it's one of those things Sports Town? No, I watch every Villanova game but it makes me so angry that I don't watch any other college basketball because watching good teams makes me angry because my team is normally very good and right now they're really bad and really frustrating that being said I obviously got sent all of the Ken Palm stuff of like you have to have this team of this top 30 or whatever ranking. Top 40 offense, top 22 defense.
People sent me that a million times thinking that they're the only person who knows that stat. Thank you to everybody that tried to help Max.
Thank you for all those people. That's a weird way of saying it.
Granted, I am listening to those people because I am picking one of those teams. But you're mad about it.

No, yeah.

Whatever.

I'm just saying.

All right.

You're still in a rough patch.

You're going on vacation in 12 hours.

I am so excited to go on vacation.

No one is deserving of vacation more than you.

Yeah, agreed.

I want you to turn off your phone.

Don't even worry about us.

We won't talk about you.

Whatever.

So I'm going with the UCLA Bruins.

Okay, guys. I got a future on them

too. Let's go.

Mostly because

Tiger Campbell and Jaime Jaquez are still on the teams.

There's two guys that I know. Tiger Campbell

is really sick hair. Jaime Jaquez

is very fun to say. And Mick Cronin, friend of the show.
And Mick Cronin, friend of the show. So, yeah, let's go Bruins.
Let's go Bruins. I love rooting for Mick Cronin.
The story behind him being like the fourth or fifth choice to go to UCLA and then going out there and being like, yeah, you know what? I know I wasn't the first choice. I'm still going to stick two middle fingers up the rest of the Pac-12's ass.
I love it. I love that he's done that.
Yeah. All right.
Let's go Bruins. Great colors, too.
Yeah. Everything about them.
Love UCLA. Let's go Bruins.
Does it make you a little nervous that I did have a future on them last year? No. Okay.
I mean, you got to – what about – no, you were wrong about Villanova, then right about Villanova. Never mind.
Then I was right. Yeah, yeah.
Never mind. I also, in this car ride that max and i took there was a moment where i i told him i was like a part of me wants to just put a stupid amount of money on the eagles and be like unfinished business and just put it through torture again i'm not gonna do it i said that but a part of me wants to do that i'm not going to i'm not.
I don't believe you. But just be like a painful amount of money and just be like, unfinished business.
You better fucking do it this time. I'm just curious now because we're all invested in UCLA.
We're a UCLA podcast. Yeah, we are.
What is Hank going to do? Because it's not going to be UCLA. Let's do a group bet.
Yeah, I like UCLA. Let's fucking get going.
I had a family friend that was a team manager on the Final Four team back in the day. Okay.
He sent me a bunch of free shit when I was in high school, so I always wore it. Let's fucking go.
I like UCLA. Okay, UCLA, let's go.
I don't have a college team. Yeah.
Hell yeah. Yeah, Duke.
Well, no, I mean, Northern New Hampshire or whatever. Southern New Hampshire.
Southern New Hampshire. Northern New Hampshire is just Canada.
Come on, dude. The pen men.
All right. So what else? Anything else before we do Hot Seat Cool Trump? There's not.
Northern New Hampshire is Canada. That one took a minute.
Yeah. Yeah.
Geography. That's just simple geography.
Yeah. It wasn't even a joke.
It was just a statement. Looking at my map.
Yeah. It's right there.
Sometimes it takes me me a second. It's touching it.
Yeah. It's right there.
Yeah. This is, I mean, NBA's in break.
They shouldn't have this long of a break. Come back and play.
Yeah. Come on, guys.
Come on. Stephen A.
Smith did say LeBron James ruined the dunk contest, which I liked. How? By not participating.
I like that. Ever.
Well, it's true. How many times has the dunk contest been saved? It gets saved every three years.
Aaron Gordon. Aaron Gordon.
Zach Levine. Dwight Howard saved it.
Vince Carter saved it. Vince Carter.
Nate Robinson. I say Ryder saved it.
Ryder saved it for sure. In between the legs.
Harold J saved it. Harold Miner.
Harold Miner saved it one year. Oh, Birdman saved it.
Birdman saved it. We've said Nate Robinson, right? He definitely saved it.
Yeah, he saved it too. Yeah, it has been saved a lot.
Gerald Green. No, Nate Robinson was bullshit.
He should have lost Andre Iguodala. Oh, there's a take.
Well, he missed like 32 dunks in a row and then still won. Pray for Nate Robinson.
That was the biggest NBA rig thing of all time. I remember as a little child, Andre Godala absolutely dominated that dunk contest, and Nate Robinson missed 32 dunks in a row and still won.
AI should have been dunking on a 12-foot hoop to make it equal to what Nate Robinson was doing. Yeah, whatever.
I like this. What do we talk about in mid-February? How Nate Robinson shouldn't have won the dunk contest in whatever, 2008 or something? What was it?

Yeah.

So Max is upset because a Philly guy finished in second place in a big

event, it sounds like to me.

Yeah.

That's kind of your thing.

Mack McClung just won, so.

That's true.

I'm also seeing a lot of Sixers takes being like,

Mack McClung should be getting more minutes.

Yeah.

I like Mack McClung.

I love his story.

But when he does start getting minutes and teams just pick on him, it's going to be like, oh, yeah. Okay.
Oh, one last thing about NBA. Did you guys see that they now have player AIs? Luca's AI.
So they unveiled it. Adam Silver, Ahmad Rashad, who we should do a deep dive on Ahmad Rashad.
He has the greatest career ever just being best friends with Michael Jordan. He's the Jim Gray of the NBA.
It's incredible. I was like, Ahmad Rashad's still doing shit.
I did love watching Inside Stuff when I was a kid. That was the shit.
Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome.
But it's like a Luka AI, and I guess they're doing it for players now. Essentially, I think the NBA is like, remember Top Shot? Sorry about that.
Yeah, let's try this instead. And it was just a big Luka on a screen.
It felt like an Apple reveal or Elon Musk. It was Luka talking to Luka.
It was wild. That does sound wild.
So I don't know what they're going to do with the Luka AI. I want to see Jokic's brothers in AI.
Yeah. Or JaVale McGee AI would be.
I don't think that we have the level of programming necessary to figure out all those decision trees. Yes.
But it would be fun. Yes.
So Luka AI, get ready for NBA AI. Again, I don't know what they're going to do.
Oh, big NBA news. Big Cat.
Oh, yeah. Congratulations on getting Pat Bev.
Pat Bev. Pat Bev.
Uh-oh. You had that? Yeah, Pat Bev coming home to Chicago.
It's going to be – I don't know what the Bulls are doing. It's going to be fun.
They should tank. I kind of like the idea of if your team's not going to do anything, get an absolute wild card.
Yeah. It's going to make the rest of the season fun.
That part I'm all in on. I like watching Pat Bev compete.
But, yeah, the Bulls should, like, they are, I think, in the 12th spot right now or something, and they stink. They have somehow found a way to be, like, you know how everyone shoots threes now? The Bulls are the worst three.
I saw a stat. It was like the last month they're shooting 25% from three.
That's really hard to do in the NBA. That's tough.
That's really fucking hard to do. So they suck.
They should tank, but I agree. Make the Bulls fun with Pat Pev.
Yeah. And Roan.
Pat Pev and Roan Pod. Maybe the Bulls sign him to a deal.
Long-term deal. Three years.
He's looking for three years, 30 mil. Make it happen.
Do it. Why not? Like, at least if you're going to suck, be fun.
Yep. And be fun with Papev.
Okay. Let's do Hot Seat, Cool Throne, and then we will get to Mark Titus and talk some more college basketball.
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Hank. My hot seat is Brandon Miller.
Who's that? He's an Alabama basketball player. Oh, I know who that is.
He's a projected lottery round pick. Not anymore.

No, he will still be a lottery pick.

Yeah, I don't think it matters.

It sounds like it's bad.

No, it is bad.

But he was involved in the fatal shooting in Alabama.

I guess actually Piazza's right.

He might go to jail.

I don't know.

I don't think I'm way out of bounds to say he might not get drafted. No, I was saying more that any team would be like, he's talented, so who cares? Darius Miles committed murder.
He's an Alabama basketball player. He texted Brandon Miller the day of to bring him the gun that he used to commit the murder.
Darius, sorry, Brandon Miller brought the gun to him, him and said the heat is in the hat and then texted him there's one in the head which means there's a bullet in the chamber that's cap so that all came out today uh and then nate oats his response to that said we knew about that can't control everything everybody does outside of practice nobody knew that was going

to happen college kids are out brandon hasn't been in any type of trouble nor is he in any type of trouble in this case wrong spot at the wrong time um you don't have to control everything that they do outside of practice but maybe maybe not committing murder would be one thing that you could focus on yeah and uh wrong spot in the wrong time feels like the wrong way to to describe this

situation murder would be one thing that you could focus on yeah and uh wrong spot in the wrong time feels

like the wrong way to to describe this situation right it wasn't a coincidence

yeah i that's not great i would say no i agree yeah but i don't i'm not a legal guy but i actually

don't like is he an accomplice in this situation to hand somebody a loaded gun and say yeah here's

that gun that you wanted yeah i think yeah that's probably his gun yeah and it's a murder weapon i

Thank you. I actually don't like, is he an accomplice in this situation? To hand somebody a loaded gun and say, yeah, here's that gun that you wanted.
Yeah. I think, yeah, that's probably illegal.
If it's his gun, yeah, and it's a murder weapon, I think that might be a problem. Well, I don't know what the Alabama gun laws are.
True. Because some places, like in Texas, you can just give somebody a gun.
Right. He didn't know he was going to commit a murder with it, allegedly.
I'm pretty sure that it's illegal. I'm going to go out on a limb all of my two second amendment people out there might correct me i'm pretty sure it's illegal to just give somebody a gun that ends up getting used in a murder yeah it's not good it's it's it's at base level not good at wrong place wrong time wrong place wrong time can control everything.
Everybody does outside of practice. Not everything.
That's what a wild way to describe that. It's pretty easy to be like, yeah, this is a really bad situation.
We're looking into it. Did he do no further comment? He pretty much said boys will be boys.
Yeah. When it came to a murder.
Yeah. Look, college.
What college? You know, college kids outside of practice. You remember college.
Yeah. I do, yeah.
Yeah. Just handing guns around.
Having them end up in murders. Again, no murders happened during Alabama practice.
I bet you he told them. That's pretty much Nate Oates' defense.
It's true, yeah. He's like, as far as I saw, while we were practicing, no one was shot and killed.
Yeah, what do you want from me? What the fuck? This is a wild story. I mean, it is.
It's a very sad story. It's a very sad story.
Because I think it was like a single mother got shot. Incredibly sad and tragic.
But it goes back to, this goes to every single college coach. Whenever there's a bad situation, they are so quickly to pretend like they are ignorant to what their players are doing.
Now, these are college coaches who, in football and basketball, are literally the kings of their little college town, and they know everything about everyone, and they know all the police, and they know what all their players are doing at all times, and they're, by nature, to get to the level of being a Division I big conference college coach in football or basketball. You have to be a psycho micromanager, like, down to every detail, and then a murder happens.
You're like, well, I don't fucking know. Yeah, it's also crazy.
Also, if you were to ever participate in a murder, probably the last thing that you would do would be to just text the person. Here's the gun.
Crazy. Crazy.
Very, very sad story. But, yeah.
NATO's not a great answer, I would say. Agreed.
Yeah. We're UCLA guys.
Yeah. Yeah.
Go Bs. Yeah.
I might do a double Bruins future. Oh.
Oh. Look at that.
I like that. You're the Bruin.
B up. Bear up.
Okay. I'm at Cool Throne Chicago.
We're moving there. Now the Super Bowl's over.
I'm very much locked in, starting to look at places, getting excited. And then our co-worker, Pat Beverly, is beating us to the spot.
Yeah. And Mark Titus, who we'll talk to in a minute.
Yeah. Yeah.
And we're going to get a boat. Multiple.
Multiple boats? Yeah, let's get a fleet. You want to get a fleet of boats? Dude, we're talking fleet now? I'm down.
I wasn't down until he said fleet. Imagine not having a fleet.
Imagine rolling out onto the Lake Dolo and then you see a fleet come up to you. The playpen.
I heard a lot about that place. Yeah, very fun time.
A lot of great golf there? There's a lot of great golf courses that are very quick to get to that are a lot easier than to get to in New York. There's also one thing about the move that I keep bringing up to Max and he gets upset every single time I bring it up.
We're, as a podcast, going to run a 5K in the fall. Yeah.
And Max gets upset every time I bring it up. You just bring it up way too often.
Well, because I know how upset it makes you. It's not going to happen for so long.
So we're going to run the pause Chicago because I think, PFT, you might – I don't want to speak out of turn, but you might be thinking about adopting a dog at some point. Yeah, I am thinking about adopting a dog.
And same with you, Hank? I'm already shopping for dogs. Oh, Hank, you're a cat guy? No, I've been thinking about it, but I'm also like – I am very committed to golf, and I just don't – I don't want to get in the way of that yeah okay maybe i don't know yeah it's hard dog dog as a single parent is is tough it's a big commitment golf is also a big commitment yeah there's some lot of commitments you got there i know you can bring the dog you can bring the dog out onto the golf course talk about a talk about a full schedule dogs and golf dogs are not very vacation not.
Am I wrong? And vacation. No, you're right.
Vacation, yeah. But Paws Chicago.
You've played a picture of a lot of your life now that they mention it. Paws Chicago, where I adopted Stella.
And I work with them with Stella Blue Coffee. They have a 5K, and we're going to run it.
And I thought it would be fun if when we get to the 5K, we draw straws to see who doesn't have to run it and who can videotape it instead. I might have a marathon that day.
Okay. I'll get back to you.
If you have a marathon, that trumps a 5K. Okay.
But I just want to see Max running a 5K. Talk about a bad guy.
There would be so many breaks. Isn't 5K like three miles? Yeah, 3.1.
I couldn't run a 5K when I was in the middle of playing college sports. Were you baseball? Correct.
For one season. First base.
I was on the team for two seasons. A redshirt had won.
You think David Ortiz is out there running 5Ks? They have red shirts at Hofstra. Yep.
Okay.

Yeah.

I mean, you hit dingers.

How many?

Three and like 52 at bats.

That's fucking legit.

OPS.

Great OPS.

Having three college baseball home runs is something that I would like dream

about every day when I close my eyes.

That's fucking Max deserves credit for that.

Thank you.

Yes.

And we could tell you're a college baseball player from a golf swing. yeah that's on brand for college baseball for sure everyone was roasting me at southern new hampshire yeah also i thought it was northern new hampshire southern new hampshire i thought it was northern new hampshire you mean canada hank all right your hot seat we'll throw a bft uh my hot seat is beer oh putting beer on the hot seat We'll throw a BFT My hot seat is beer

Putting beer on the hot seat

Because at the Chiefs parade

A couple players got a little inebriated

Patrick Mahomes had a couple

Coors Lights

There was another guy that got wheeled out on a wheelchair

Because he was so drunk

And there were some people who were upset about it

Namely Janet Hensel

In Liberty, Missouri

Wrote into the local paper complaining about it

Thank you. because he was so drunk.
I love that. And there are some people who are upset about it.
Namely, Janet Hensel in Liberty, Missouri, wrote into the local paper complaining about it, said that Andy Reid should have prohibited alcohol during the parade, which Hensel said looked like a college fraternity beer bust. I don't know what a beer bust.
I think she just means party. She just means a frat party.
She said, If the Chiefs cannot go a few hours without alcohol, the organization has a problem. I, for one one was sickened to see this for the second time some chiefs even bragged on social media about how drunk they were afterwards no doubt this spectacle made the news in other cities so this is amazing so janet wants no beer at the parade to celebrate winning a super bowl and then beers on the hot seat as well because in dc this.
this weekend at the D.C. Defenders game, they marketed the beer snake.
They were leaning into the beer snake. We made several of those beer snakes at the old XFL games back in 2020, and it was like a thing that the team was doing as a tradition.
The fans were making beer snakes. And leading into this game, they even advertised beer snake packages where you could get multiple beers sick so they made a beer snake in the game and they confiscated it they removed the beer snake immediately that's why fans threw all those lemons onto the field love that where the like who where that's what that's what i don't you don't walk around with a lemon in your pocket right well they're they they sell some mixed drinks at the game a lemon right now i'd just chuck it at your face.
They have half lemons in them in the bottom of the drink. So that's what everybody was drinking or a lot of people were drinking.
Got it. They threw it on the field.
Those are full-ass lemons. They need to figure that shit out because you can't advertise a pro beer snake environment and then remove the snake.
Yeah. That's not how it works.
Facts. So they got to figure that shit out in D.C.
because there's going to be a revolution. Yeah.
Agreed. My cool throne is USA Rugby.
Oh. It's Los Angeles 7s this weekend in the World Series of Rugby.
The HSBC 7s coming to Los Angeles. And the U.S.
is two points out of third place. Whoa.
Wait. So with a good result.
We're regressing. No.
If we have a good showing this weekend, we end up in third place. Maybe even second place.
I thought we were second place. Whoa.
So with a good result, we're regressing. No way.
If we, if we have a good showing this weekend, we end up in third place, maybe even second place.

I thought we were a second place team.

We're doing, it's still early.

Okay.

It's still early.

So out in LA, go to the party, go to the games.

Las Vegas sevens was one of the best times that I've ever had.

It's just a giant party.

People from all over the world.

They're cheering on their teams.

We are in the group of death in different ways. There ways.
You get hit with less piss in Las Vegas, but there's more dancing. And we're in the group of death.
We play Samoa at 4.30, New Zealand at 7. And then, no, excuse me, Samoa at 1, New Zealand at 4.30, Chile at 7.
And we got some good guys on the team this year. Some AWLs are playing on the team.
Love it. So go out there if you're in LA, support the lads.
Let's go, lads. All right, my hot seat is Terry Francona.
I don't know if you guys saw this story, but it was quite funny. Terry Francona has been a manager in the big leagues for – or he's been in a dugout for 32 years uh and he has been 44 years been involved in professional baseball it's the 11th year with the with the guardians turns out terry francona gets nervous too so uh this is a tweet from zach meisel terry francona gave his annual team speech he was so nervous he wasrenched in sweat.
He declined dinner with coaches last night so he could make edits. He made pasta, but it didn't fully cook and broke his tooth.
He arrived at camp at 3.30 a.m. and spilled coffee all over the speech.
This is like he's basically Kevin Malone in the office. I was going to say it sounds like the way Mr.
Bean would prepare for a pregame speech. Shut up, Mr.
Bean bean what a legend but that i mean it's just terry francona is a legend and uh all-time baseball guy baseball life and he gets nervous before the the pre-season speech too my favorite thing about terry francona is the big wad of of chew that he does he mixes bubble gum and chewing tobacco yeah and he makes like invents a new, it's kind of like barbacuffalo sauce.

He puts it in his cheek and spits it.

You always see him like in the dugout.

He basically stands in a puddle of his own spit.

But I love Terry Franco.

Yes.

All-time baseball guy.

All-time baseball guy.

All right.

My Cool Throne, two Cool Thrones.

One, Jake is down in DMV, like we said.

He's calling the PLL on ESPN Plus on Thursday, I believe. So tune in.
If you don't, you're a scumbag. And then also, you see these shirts we're wearing.
St. Patrick's Day is coming up, and we've made it easy for you to find green outfits this year.
The PMT St. Patrick's Day merch is out.
What's on your shirt? What is on my shirt, PFT? Tell me. Oh, it says pot of gold, and it's me and you inside a giant cauldron with lottery balls and then we're having a great time and hank is sulking in the background because i don't know why he's sulking why aren't you wearing this hank you don't you don't want to put on the shirt you want to put on the shirt i didn't want to steal your valor oh okay all right well go to barstool uh store.barstoolsports.com shop our st patrick's day collection uh check it out now we got all the shirts and including the insult shirt of hank lockwood and how he can't get the lottery ball it is an insult shirt uh pilar one of the women that works on the merch team was like oh this shirt's live featuring the lottery balls that hank never got haha haha sounds like a pretty normal joke amongst co-workers yeah that is that sounds like

a very sounds like being a little sensitive yeah okay we'll find out at the end of the show if you

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Okay, we now welcome on

a very, very special guest.

Two verys. Very, very.

Let me finish. Very, very special guest.
Two verys. Very, very.
You let me finish. Very, very special co-worker.
Yeah, colleague. Uh-huh.
It is Mark Titus. If you have seen the announcement video that he posted on Twitter this morning, he is now a Barstool sports employee.
It feels very weird.

Welcome aboard, Mark.

Yeah!

We've been courting you for the last seven years on this show. I actually went back and I looked at our DMs the first time that you came on the show.

And it was destiny from that point on.

It was.

The whole reason I came on the show in the first place was I wanted to see the man behind the PFT Commenter Twitter account. I'll never forget this.
You, you asked me, I started this new podcast at Barstool called Pardon My Take. Um, we're, how many shows have you done at that point? Like three, two or three shows.
Cause it was very early. We got started, uh, March 1st.
Um, and I had been following you PFT forever. And, uh, I and I thought the whole time I was following you,

I thought you were literally taking comments from Mike Florio's blogs and just copying and pasting them onto Twitter.

So I was like, this is definitely a funny account, but I don't really think I fully get it.

And then about a month before you DM me, I finally understood that there was a man behind this.

This was not just somebody copying and pasting the best comments of PFT's blogs. And I was like, I gotta, I gotta see who this guy is.
And then you told me like, we're going to do it over zoom. And I was like, all right, I'll do it.
I don't, I don't think this show's going anywhere, but I'll, I'll like, if nothing else, I'll get to see who the guy is running this account. You're the guy who sold Apple stock.
Surprise, I'm a white guy.

Now I think you guys are my boss?

Is that how this works?

No, no, no.

Hank's my boss.

Yeah, Hank is your boss.

Hank is your boss,

but this is very exciting.

Yeah.

A long courting.

A lot of, you know,

we did big steak dinners.

We flirted for a while. Yeah, we put his number up on the Jumbotron.

Like, he got game. We're like, could you see yourself here? But this is very exciting.
He has a new podcast that's going to be on Barstool Sports called the Mark Titus Show. Yeah, great title, right? Yeah, Mark Titus Show.
So we're going to do a two-parter today about college basketball. The second part will be on his YouTube.
Everyone go subscribe. If you don't subscribe, you're a scumbag um all awls please please subscribe we we already were talking pft uh before you got here that when we so all right so the big the big news is mark is moving to chicago as well i am yeah in the mix yep it's i'm so excited for this you're gonna be in the mix every day i'm not because mark is, he's gotten too handsome.
He is. We don't need.
That's L.A. Mark.
We don't need your hands. That's L.A.
Mark. That's Marina Del Rey Mark.
Fat Titus is coming back. Midwest Mark.
Midwest Mark is coming back. Oh, he's coming back.
I like it. He's coming back.
The mustache is, you've got like when you slick your hair back. I saw you at the Super Bowl.
Yeah. Your hair slicked back.
The mustache was out. Yeah.
You looked like the handsomest version of John Wilkes Booth. Yeah.
Your jaw is just chiseled. I don't know what happened.
I don't know. Yeah, I moved by the beach.
You got hot. I started eating kale salads.
But, yeah, the dream is dead. I am going back home where I belong in the Midwest.
I am excited am excited for it man that is one of the big reasons why like I think three years ago when I left the ringer I was I wanted part of me wanted to come here but there's no world in which I would ever live in New York right and I remember that we were courting you then yeah yeah and the new Chicago deal is like this makes too much sense yeah so yeah I'm fired up about it with a basketball court which you're just going to dominate us on so pft we were talking about ways to get new subscribers to the mark titus show on youtube everyone go subscribe right now stop what you're doing right now please subscribe uh part two will be on there but we were saying that when we get to the new office in chicago we're gonna i think mark scored over a thousand points in high school and we're just gonna do a stream where me you and Hank uh all have to get over a thousand points without shooting in the paint and we'll just be a subscribe-a-thon on his YouTube is he gonna play defense you play no no no no it's just I'm shooting for like I'll go and it'll take like two hours then you'll go take two hours and Hank will go see how long it 1,000 points. Yeah, I like that.
That's a great idea because I actually had an idea of something that we could do in Chicago as well. I've never had a stroke.
Never had a stroke in basketball. Oh, Jesus.
Oh, Jesus. I was like, dude, bonk.
Bonk, bonk. Bonk, bonk.
No, no, no. I was talking about health.
Yeah, I thought you were talking about health, too. You've never had a stroke health-wise.
I guess bonk on me. Yeah.
Put that on the list, Hank. I've also never had a stroke health-wise, but I've always wanted to be able to shoot a jump shot because I can dribble the ball.
Okay. I'm not slow.
I'm a decent passer. Hank's saying I can – Hank's doing this – Anyone can dribble a basketball.
Okay, well, I look like a point guard is the thing. I'm short.
That's all I've got going for me. I'm short.
I'll never be able to dunk with two hands. But I've always wanted to get a stroke.
Could you teach me? I was thinking like a good video series could be make me wet, Mark Thomas. Yeah.
Where you just teach me how to just get wet. Could you make me wet? Can my stroke make you wet? Yeah.
Yeah, I actually think i could i actually think i could i i i think if there's one thing i could teach in this world it's how to shoot a basketball and so and it's it's gonna suck for us because i you you are very good at basketball and no no it's gonna be a basketball court i'm not but compared i i've seen you guys play and last time i was here though i told, you're better than I thought you would be. And I stand by that.
You are better than I thought you would be. We played, and we went through a workout.
And I've told Hank this, I think, because Hank was like, is he really that good? And we went through a workout. The first 10 minutes, I think Mark probably, I don't know, shot like 30%, like bricking everything.
Had to calibrate it. And then he hit one shot, and he didn't miss for 50 minutes straight.
Like, literally did not miss, three-pointers, everything, for 50 minutes straight. And I was like, oh, okay, I get it.
Like, that's the difference between just, like, random dudes who, like, play like little pickle basketball and you. I can teach you, though.
You just have to – we'll start by you have to find your spot on the floor. Just find, like, the one spot where you're like, I will not miss from here.
I'm an elbow guy. I think you're elbow extended.
Oh, I like that. But those are inefficient shots.
No, not for you. You're DeMar DeRozan.
Okay, elbow extended. Yeah, we're bringing back the lost art of the mid-range jump shot.
Yes, we start there. Then I think we can do it.
We have time. We'll be able to handle it.
You know what? My parents actually met because my dad was a pretty good basketball player back in the day. He played at GW.
And he was in the gym. And he was shooting foul shots.
And he hit 97 foul shots out of 100. My mom saw him.
Oh, shit. Like, through the window to the gym.
And she was like, I have to have Steph Curry. I have to have Steph Curry.
He's so wet. I need that man.
That's Steph Curry right there. But this is very exciting.
I am so, so excited for you to be here at Barstool moving to Chicago. You're going to be with us throughout March Madness.
You're going to come out to New York. We'll have you on a bunch of times, the new Mark Titus show.
It's going to be awesome. The one thing that people are probably listening right now, and they're like, hey, what happened to his co-host? Well, Mark will talk about his path to Barstool and everything, the decision behind it, on his new podcast, which first episode Selection Sunday? No, we're going to put the first out, I think, March 6th.
Oh, yeah, Championship Sunday. We're going to do Monday, Wednesday, Friday, all through the rest of March.
march good good weeks yeah it's good good there's a big huh not a lot of great podcasts come out um yeah so so we're gonna do that yeah i mean i'll people want to know yes i don't know why they want to know but there's not there's not really much of us but i'll i'll i'll. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right. You got all the dirt.

All right.

All the dirt.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll tell all.

Yeah, the juiciest episode of the Mark Titus podcast ever.

Yeah, when we pump it up and we say it's salacious and all this stuff

and then people tune in and you're like, yeah, me and Tate are still friends,

that doesn't matter because they still listen.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So that's the game.

Yes.

Yeah.

You'll never believe why we broke up. You'll never believe.
You'll never believe yeah 10 reasons why tate tightest broke uh so so yeah so march 7th that would be right no march 6th monday march march 6th monday march 6th that'll be the start of championship week he'll be here like i said we're going i don't think we've announced this but i'll announce it right now uh for the first part of the tournament, we are going to be visiting some Penn properties in Ohio, and it worked. It was serendipitous.
We'll be in Columbus. Oh, we'll be in Columbus? We'll be in Columbus.
I wonder if you've ever been there. Will the Buckeyes be playing an NIT game at home? NIT favorites.
Maybe I'll swing over. CBI? Yeah.
You should get NIT Stu on your podcast. I love that guy.
To break down the NIT. I met him in Austin, Texas, I want to say.
Is he from Austin? Yeah. He came up to me in a bar with an envelope filled with blogs that he had printed out.
They were all about the NIT. I want to say I won the NIT, me personally.
In 2008, we won the NIT the year after we went to the national championship game. Oh, damn.
And I think when I met NIT Stu, he brought like a – there was something – there was like the NIT logo, obviously, and then I think it said like 2008 champion, and he asked me to sign it. Do you have a ring? I said, I have a watch.
I have like a watch that they got from like Dick's Sporting Goods for like 70 bucks for, like, 70 bucks probably. We need to get you, like, every year.
No, when they have the NIT championship, Madison Square Garden, like, Mark Titus comes out in court being, like, and champion to the pod. Yeah, welcome back to the championship.
Or, like, they should name the MVP of the NIT after Mark Titus. Yeah, why not? We'll just say that's what it is.
When we won the NIT, it was the weirdest feeling ever because we wanted to celebrate because like, but it was almost, we were almost celebrating not losing in the NIT. Right.
The only thing more embarrassing than playing in the NIT is losing in the NIT. It was a very weird locker room because we were technically happy, but it was not like a championship-type locker room.
They could have great ratings in the finals. What if it's Ohio State against Kentucky? Ooh.
I like Kentucky. Ohio State, yeah.
I think Kentucky. I honestly don't think Ohio State's good enough to make the United States.
No, I don't think so either. I think we're going to lose out the rest of the season.
And the way they've lost is just like every which way. i i actually we can jump off from here i actually

like kentucky as like a long shot i something about cal's guys he's gone through it he's legitimately on the hot seat yeah but they are i think right now supposed to be like a 10 or 11 seed the big win against tennessee yeah i there's something about them when i watch them i'm like i could see how they could get hot, like almost a what is it? 2014 UConn. No.
Yeah. The 20 the 2014.
Yeah. The team that just didn't lose for the no.
Was that the 2014 Kentucky was like an AC that went to the title game and lost to UConn. Is that what you're talking about? Who knows? Now I'm screwing up my ears.
It was the 20 whatever year UConn beat Butler. That was 2010.
2010. The team that they literally won the entire Big East tournament.
Oh, you're talking about comparing them to UConn. I was thinking of other Kentucky teams.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, like where they have really good players.
They've had moments where they've looked terrible. They've had moments where they've looked good.
And maybe they'll just be one of those teams. It's hey we get hot because we tried the the two seed kentucky last year yeah with the national player of the year yep why not try the 10 or 11 seed with cal on the hot seat shock the world i the the problem i have with kentucky i don't love their roster i case and wallace is awesome i love him um i i think uh oscar shibwe is it's almost unfortunate that he came back because he was so likable and so good.
I know. And I don't want to say he's, like, tarnished his legacy because that's way too – that only happens in the NBA.
You can only tarnish your legacy in the NBA. Hunter Dickinson's trying really hard right now.
Hunter Dickinson's trying really hard right now. All right.
I stay correct. But, like, the magic isn't there with Oscar, and I think what's – like, he still plays super hard.
He still is, like, a very likable guy off the court. He checks all those boxes.
I just think, like, somewhere along the line, someone figured out that he sucks in ball screen defense. And, like, what if we made him move his feet a little bit? And it sort of exposed Kentucky.
But they have turned a corner. Severe Wheeler is no longer like running the point for them which is uh you know kind of made them a different team and I I do think they're better than if you haven't been paying a ton of attention you would get lost in the idea that Kentucky sucks this year and cows on the hot seat and all that I do they they're good enough to win a couple games but I I don't know about they're not they're not winning the national title I think it's I their – they have, like, a couple crazy guards that are, like, will just be reckless.
Yeah. And I like – like, whenever I'm thinking of a long shot, I'm like, give me a couple guards that will just – they'll throw their body at the basket and they'll just be, like, constantly fast-breaking when there's not a fast break.
That type of shit. I do think there's something to it, though, that – something about the jerseys – like the reason, the reasons we're so enamored with the blue bloods is because like in that locker room, they're supposed, they feel like they're supposed to, to win.
And, and like when March comes around, I guess there's so many other examples. I mean, they literally just lost to a 15 seed last year, but like it, there is something weird about, I mean, I really think that if North Carolina's team last year was wearing different jerseys, they would not have gone to the national championship game.
I agree. The expectation actually improves your game a little bit.
Yeah, if they were wearing like a Mountain West jersey, they would have lost in the first round. They would have.
The exact same group of guys. Everything else is the exact same.
It's just the laundry they're wearing is different. With Shibuye, he's a really interesting guy off the court.
A fascinating guy. I was reading some stories about how he sometimes just won't travel to a game because he gets a premonition, right? He gets a premonition that he should not get on this plane because something bad is going to happen on the plane.
He listens to those premonitions. So it's really up for – he's up for anything.
When it comes to tourney time, if he wakes up and feels great, he might go out there and drop 30 yeah but if he wakes up and he's like i think he feels like some danger is going to happen on the way didn't he say like god told him yeah bad was coming last tournament yeah i thought st peter's right maybe he does maybe he does yeah what's his name pete whatever yeah what was the guy's name uh the guard oh doug doug doug oh yeah dougie dirt yeah i i had an all-time uh you know when you just have an interaction with someone and it just you think about it forever after because you're like damn did i suck there i met oscar shibwe when i was in lexington for uh the breeders cup and he came up he was it was the je Ruby's Steakhouse. So the guy was introducing him around.
And I was like, oh, man, what are you back for your seventh year? And he was just like, yeah, it's my fourth. And I was just like, fuck, I really fucked that one up.
Nice guy, though. It's because when you win National Player of the Year, that guy usually doesn't come back.
Yeah. And I just walked away being like, what the fuck did I? Why did I don't even hate? I like him.
Why did I say that? My favorite story about him is that they played in, was it the Bahamas? They played a game outside the United States. Right.
Right. And for whatever reason with his visa, he's not allowed to get any NIL money when he's inside the U.S.
So he touched down on the airstrip and he immediately took a call from his agent. He goes, where do you need me and how much? And then he just spent the entire he skipped practices and Coach Cal was like, I get it.
He's sending money back home. This is an opportunity for him to cash in.
We got to make sure that he can get paid in the U.S. I agree.
I think that's above my head. I don't know who can...
Talk to Tate about it. But it is a bummer, just to put a bow on the Sheba talk.
The guy is the first national player to come back since Tyler Hansborough. And it is kind of a bummer that we're not talking about him more, I guess.
Right. You felt like coming into the year, he was going to be a guy you talk about all season, and he's so likable.
He's just kind of not been that. The guy who stays a year too long is always a lover.
It's just like, ah, damn. And I know, obviously, he probably wasn't going to be an NBA pro, but still, it's just like, ah, fuck, he had a great year.
But unfinished business. That's what you got to say.
Yeah, maybe it all comes full circle and they do go to the final. Yeah, yeah, right.
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Here's more Mark Titus. All right, so the big story of this year in college basketball,

as far as I can tell, is no one's good except the big 12 and maybe alabama yeah um that's pretty much yeah i i it does feel like everybody kind of sucks um which is it can be fun i don't know it's been uh i go back and forth on whether or not like this has been a quote-unquote good year of college basketball because I do think the parity is fun. Like, my ideal season, though, is there are – I don't want, like, one or two good teams.
Like, the Juergens, Zag, and Baylor were so much better than everybody else, and then they met in the title game. That was cool because they were two great teams, and we were just, like, all, like, you know, edging, thinking, like, what's going to happen if they play? Oh, my God.
And then it happened, and then it was over, like, five minutes into the game,

and they had to run them off the court.

That can be fun, but for me, I want, like, five or six good teams

where you can start talking yourself into, like, a handful of different.

Now you're almost like you're trying to talk yourself into one team

that could win it all.

Right, because every time there's a new number one, they lose.

Yes, yes.

I think this year there was a record that was tied,

and there's still enough season left that could be broken the most times that the number one team in the country lost right lost a game and it's that they've given up the number one ranking yeah and it's i i i do i love college basketball so i think it's been a fun year in the fact that it like it is wide open yeah it is most it's the most it'll be a fun tournament in that regard. It won't be fun for a guy like me who might come back on PMT

or do my own show on the Mark Titus show.

Subscribe on the YouTube.

Breaking down the matchups.

Yeah, you're pretty busy Monday, Wednesday.

I don't know if I have time.

Schedule that.

It will not be fun for a guy like me who the public turns to

and says, make sense of all of this.

Who's going to win? Give us the predictions, smart guy. Yeah make sense of all of this right who's going to win yeah smart guy yeah if you're so smart who's gonna win the national championship yeah indiana yeah i said indiana to you i think it was a month ago and you're like uh indiana i i want i listen i i was an indiana fan before i was any a fan of of any other team in this world uh i was a fan of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team.
So I would love for Indiana to be a national title caliber team again. I don't think they can win at all.
I think they could get to the Final Four. I think their guard play, Hood Shefino is awesome.
He's going to be a first-round pick this year. He's a freshman.
There's one play every game in the last eight minutes that he will just do the dumbest shit you've ever seen. And then he usually follows it up immediately by hitting a really tough shot with his hand in his face.
But you're like, why would you? And they're waiting on Xavier Johnson to come back, who's I think he's a senior. He's been around forever.
They're waiting for him to get healthy, but the problem is he's just as erratic. That's what worries me.
Indiana also doesn't play awesome defense all the time, but they do have a little juice. There's like juice to the program in a way there hasn't been in a while, which is exciting.
I feel like watching an Indiana game, if Trace Jackson Davis can get like two or three big dunks in the first half, they're going to win. Because everyone's just pumped up.
And he does like, he yams. at the game uh against purdue when they they beat purdue purdue's ranked number one in assembly hall have you been to a game assembly no i need to go i've been to it it is but i have never been it was it was the perfect storm because assembly hall is it's always awesome but it's it's at its absolute best when indiana's like a one or two point underdog which i don't even know what the spread actually was in that game but like there but there's a sense that they're not supposed to win, quote unquote, but they're good enough to win.
And that crowd just, like, that's where they, the worst assembly hall is when Indiana's favored by like seven. And then everyone just has clenched buttholes, like we're going to fuck this up somehow.
But when Indiana's like a slight dog and they're ranked like 18th and they're playing a top five team, that place is bonkers. We go we gotta go there and we should do a road trip next year we should go there and a little bit farther away but fog allen i've always wanted awesome and so leading into that i mean kansas is probably if you were sitting here right now whatever day it is february 21st uh kansas feels like the team and it's crazy because they would go back to back with a completely different roster.
I think I saw the stat like there's I can't remember. Was there four teams that have gone back to back or five teams have gone back to back? Florida, Duke, UCLA, Russell, San Francisco, San Francisco.
And like all of them maybe maybe i think all of them all of them lost like 15 of their scoring right kansas lost 70 of their scoring from last year and they're trying to go back to back but think about that florida team they no one everyone came back i know this dan thank you that we lost a&m oklahoma and that florida team like It was crazy. They cheated., Dan.
Thank you. We lost it.
Oklahoma A&M. Oklahoma A&M.
Of course, yeah. Yeah, that Florida team.
That was crazy. Cheated.
They cheated. Literally cheated.
That would have never happened again. My old man take from that national title game has always been that there can't be, it has to be six fouls in college basketball because I remember being so hyped for that game and Odin and Joakim got two fouls.
No, that was the game before. Oh, that was game before.
That was Roy Hibber and Greg in the final four.

And they got like two minutes in, and it was just like,

what the fuck am I watching?

Yeah.

But that should be a league.

If you win a national title, you can't bring back all five starters, right?

No, they did.

That should be a league.

That should be a league.

Unfortunately, that Florida campus was insane at the time, too.

I don't want to talk about it.

Yeah, Kansas.

What they're doing is crazy.

Yeah, so we're recording this right after Kansas played TCU.

Yeah, Kansas, what they're doing is crazy. Yeah, so we're recording this right after Kansas played TCU.
Sorry to Lampkin PFT, I put him on that. You love TCU.
You love Eddie Lampkin. And they're finally getting healthy.
Yeah, there's something to that. Right.
Max Duggan was at the game. Yeah.
And we got Grady Dict. And I said to you before, there's something about Kansas players, Kansas white guys, if you put them on a Duke uniform, I'd hate their guts.
But in a Kansas uniform, I'm like, I kind of like this. Scrappy.
Yeah, like they're kind of cool. No, Grady, I mean, the guy has had to live with the name Grady Dick his whole life.
And that haircut. Yeah.
And he's still, you know, I like Grady Dick a lot. He's awesome.
He's a ton of fun to watch. Kansas, I think – I would say Kansas and Houston as it stands right now are the two that I believe the most in.
Kansas – but, like, if I'm being completely honest, the only reason I believe in Kansas is because they won it last year the exact same way. Like, if you switch the teams – and I was watching this Kansas team having not won a national title.
Bill Self had not won the national title last year. I don't know how much I believe in them.
They get blown out at home by TCU. Last year they got blown out at home by Kentucky.
Bill Self basketball, for as long as I can remember, has always been inside out. He's always had a great post guy that he's dumped the ball down into, played through them.
That's been part of who he is. Last year they abandoned that, and then David McCormick in the Final Four played out of his mind.
I thought he should have won Most Outstanding Player, not to take away from Agbaje, who was awesome, but also literally to take away from Agbaje. Actually, I would have given it to McCormick.
But he wasn't the focal point of their offense. They were winning games by just putting Christian Brown and Agbaje on the wing, just letting them run up and down and make plays.
And it was a huge departure from what Bill Self Basketball had been to that point. But this year's team, it feels the exact same way.
It's a different roster but it's the exact same feeling that you have watching kansas last year where it's like you're checking all the the same boxes i don't know how much i trust their bench they had last year ramey martin they don't really have a ramey martin this year like the kid from arizona state that wasn't really that good yeah suddenly in the final four or in the in march was cool name was playing out of his mind um so there's still like questions around Kansas but I think they're you talk yourself into Kansas because uh what they did last year and like they're following the same recipe but also they their schedule's insane and like every single night they're playing a team that is yeah is NCAA tournament caliber that they're at some point they have like 14 I don't know what the mean, if I'm being completely honest. There are four of them.
But when you tell me they have 14 quad ones wins. It's the whole Big 12.
The entire Big 12 is quad ones. Yeah, it's insane.
So they're going to be battle-tested in that regard. So what about Houston? Houston feels like if we're playing the uniform game, if Houston was wearing a blue blood jersey, the run that they've been on recently we'd be talking about them a lot more i think houston um this is houston fans are not gonna

like this they're not gonna like this i i thought houston should have been the preseason number one

team i thought houston houston has been the betting favorite all season um i think they

should continue to be there the number one team right now i love houston um but houston as a

program is sort of like the new gonzaga where uh they have gotten over the hump they made a final four so i don't mean in that regard i just mean the way you look at a houston team at this point in the season is the way you would look at a gonzaga team where you're like yes they're beating the shit out of everyone yes they're they're they have two losses or whatever it is, but I don't know about the schedule.

How much have they been playing?

Gonzaga now, to their credit, is like Gonzaga's stepping up and playing everybody in the non-conference.

Houston still really isn't.

South Florida.

Temple's actually scrappy.

Temple beat them.

Yeah, I know.

Temple's scrappy.

But also, my problem with Houston.

But Houston is otherwise. They have the combination of of guard play experienced guard play they play great defense they have an awesome coach they have a five star and uh jaris walker is who's going to be a lottery pick maybe a top five pick um they have like everything you would look for and and you'll love this i maybe you've maybe i've already talked to you about this j Jim Nance's last Final Four is this year.
The Final Four is in Houston. Jim Nance is an alum of the University of Houston.
So connect those stars for me and tell me that's not like, you know, there's not some destiny at play there. And they rebound the fuck out of the ball.
That's always my Houston. Like're just going to get, especially on those second tournament games or like Championship Sunday when it's like a brick fest and the game's played in the 50s, Houston wins because they just get so many extra shots.
The concerns would be like they play super slow, so they have sort of the Virginia concerns we had about Virginia. That's how they lost's how they lost to temple is is yeah they were just like we're fine we're fine it's a close game though i could we're fine we're fine and then the last second like the ball bounces one way and temple wins like what the hell just happened right um so that's worrisome is that like houston can be quote-unquote dominating you and they're up by like seven but they have like a stranglehold on the game because their defense, you can't score on their defense, but then suddenly you start throwing in bullshit

and they get upset.

I don't know.

This might be a dumb question.

Has any team ever won the NCAA tournament in their home city?

Ooh.

It's like the NFL.

Butler almost did in 2010.

That's right.

That shot should have gone in.

Duke lost in 94, I remember, in Charlotte to Arkansas, which is not anywhere close to the question you asked. Same state.
Yeah, I don't know. That's a great question.
But I'm Googling it right now. You're making history.
UCLA, maybe? Did they play one of those final fours back in the day? Oh, probably, yeah, like way back in the day. My biggest problem with Houston is their – Kelvin Sampson named his son kellen samson and i don't like that that's confusing and kellen samson his son is like gonna be the next great head coach like he looks exactly like he's like everyone talks about him like he's gonna be but you can't just name your son kelvin yeah why Why would you name him Kellen? Yeah.
It's, it's a weird name. You just like think you're screwed.
Like he just turned the V on its side. I was reading an article about Kellen Sampson and I was like, wait, is his dad's name Kellen? I thought his dad's name was Kelvin.
And then I had to go Google Kelvin Sampson. I was like Houston Sampson.
And I was like, wait, no, his name's Kelvin. So I don't like it.
So they're out on my that immediately disqualified. Okay.
All right. I'm gonna throw another school at you here and big cat cover your ears.
I think I believe in Purdue. Whoa.
I think I believe it. Wait, you didn't let me finish.
Okay. I believe Purdue will win the national championship next year when Edie comes back for another season, and he's three inches taller than he is right now.
I have gone on record as saying, first of all, I'm a Purdue booster, and I donate to the school every, that's true, that's a fact, every summer. So I wouldn't mind if Purdue won.
But, yeah, I've gone on record saying i i'm willing to cheer for purdue win a national championship for the big 10 as much as uh i would too as much we've gotten to that point yeah no it's desperate like i absolutely hate i hate the sec football fans that cheer for the sec yeah but at a certain point yeah at a certain point when the the the wars come to your doorstep you have to take arms, Dave. You have to.
Do you know how dark it's gotten? So not only am I like, yeah, I guess if Purdue won, then we could stop with the jokes about the Big Ten not winning since Mateen Cleaves, although I count Maryland 2002. I count Kansas last year.
I think we're getting Kansas at some point. Also, if Gonzaga had won, I would have counted them because Jalen Suggs is from Minnesota.
But it's getting so bad. I'm like, is Northwestern frisky? That's how bad it's getting.
It's Northwestern frisky. Yeah.
I'm asking myself that. That's rock bottom.
So, Purdue, when you talk about, like, boxes to check in a national championship,

in a national championship in a national champion i would say purdue checks zero of them i would say i would say there are zero boxes that purdue checks um can we make a new box but i have i say that affectionately like i i part of me wants them to win because i think it'd be cool to make a new box i think it'd be cool to be like actually we were everything we thought we knew about yeah college basketball march madness we were wrong about can we just do you actually can win with two freshman guards and a coach that's never been to a final four even though he's been coaching for 30 years and a big dude that's seven four yeah the seven four guy that if he gets two fouls you're out yeah like that that's the thing with purdue if they have the If Zach Keeney gets two fouls five minutes into any tournament game, it's over. Yeah.
I generally – I mean, I'm laughing, but I generally think that would be cool. That's part of what I love about college basketball is that Tony Bennett was playing a style of basketball that could never work.
It can't work. You can't walk the ball off the floor.
You can't play that kind of defense. You'll never win anything.
That's why you lost to a 16th seed and then you won a national championship and you're like all right well maybe it can work yeah maybe now they're moving forward it can't work i i have a box for you uh this was a tweet from bob ryan oh that's a bonk for you i think oh yeah put him on the list uh this is a tweet from bob ryan uh it was like three days ago i'm watching's 7-4 Zach Eady play quality big man basketball for the fourth or fifth time. And if it's true, there's no longer a place in the NBA for him.
I'm officially disgusted with the hostile takeover of the three, which is distorted basketball at every level. I love that take so much for a couple reasons.
One, if you've watched Zach Eadie play for four or five times, great college basketball player. At no point are you like, this guy's going to be awesome in the NBA.
And second, he says that as I think the top three in the MVP right now are Djokic, Embiid, and Giannis. Yeah.
Yeah, they don't play traditional back to the basket, but those are three big men yeah they're jokic is gonna win his third mvp he's a big man and a very skilled one i i'm scared to say too much because i i i feel like i am i feel like being the old man yelling at the cloud do it just do it but it feels like it comes for all of us so i'm i i don't i'm not saying i agree with bob ryan i'm saying no there's a part of them there i'm saying i know i'm well on my way to becoming that so i don't want to be a hypocrite i don't want to shit all over this guy because i when i watch basketball now my mind starts going a lot of places that like a bob ryan goes like not i'm not trying to get rid of the three-point line but uh i do miss the days when guys like me who could shoot were specialists like if I was if I was on my AU team now I would I would be kicked off the team because like Greg Oden would be shooting threes you know what I mean and like that and like what would my role be on this team they'd be like you don't have a role get off the team and then I wouldn't be sitting in front of you guys now you know if if you are afraid of being a hypocrite you'd pick the wrong company to work with. Yeah.
Just call it right there. Zach Eady, I think when we watched Zach Eady live against Wisconsin last year, and remember when you won the Big Ten championship game? Yep.
Co-title. Remember that? Co-title? Yeah, that's fine.
We were watching him play. Flags fly forever.
Watching him move his feet and pivot. I think we said that he looks like he's controlled by somebody that lives inside his body that's pulling levers, levers, telling his feet.
He's gotten better. He's gotten, he's gotten better, right? He's gotten better.
He's gotten smoother to his credit. He is, he, uh, I do feel bad for him in the sense that like people do rip on him for just, he's not good.
He's big. Like that's like kind of become a meme and certainly in the big 10.
Um, the guy's good. Like he's very talented.
He's skilled. He's, he's, he's a, he can pass out of double teams.
Like that's the reason Purdue's good. You know how many, there've been a ton of, I was just talking to Ken Jack as I was sitting next to him before he came in here about, he's like, who's the guy on Asheville that Tyler Hansborough dunked on? That was seven, seven Kenny George was the kid's name.
Um, seven. Do you remember that? The football player where Hansborough tookborough took four steps and just yammed on him? But that's an example of a guy that's just big.
There's a reason that Zach Eadie, that that guy was never up for – Isaac Haas is like the exact same size as Zach Eadie. Isaac Haas was never a national player of the year.
I also – Because Zach Eadie's good is what I'm saying. Uh, but you know, he has one thing going for him and this is a storyline thing because more than anything with March Madness, you need the storyline.
I don't know why. Cause usually at Purdue on one of the bottom TVs, so I don't sound on, they just love showing his mom.
They love showing his mom. It's constant.
He needs something. there's Zach Eadie's mom.
Yeah. Like, okay.

Sure. I don't know what the story is.
Is there a story behind it? I don't know. He came out of her, I guess.
Yeah. She gave birth.
I think she's Asian. I don't know.
I think they just show her constantly. It's just like, okay.
In the hockey picture, too. When he was playing hockey at age 15 or whatever.
yeah i i will say in your defense um i think everyone who's maybe older than 30 and it does come for everyone you watch a basketball game and you do find yourself saying like can we get some post touches yeah yeah can we can we get can we get a post touch here please if i can be serious for a second, there is an element. The evolution of basketball has gotten to a point where I kind of don't recognize the game that I was taught growing up.
I fell in love with basketball because there was certain fundamental truths of how you play the game. Being tall was supposed to.
That's where Bob Ryan's from is like the best player of all time was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. And then, you know, Jordan comes along and makes people question them.
But like that was Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and like these dudes at Shaq and all these big dudes dominate basketball. So then there are ways you're taught the game.
If you're not that big, this is how you find success in the game. And basically all that has been blown open to now.
Like I get put in a position. I'm going to be put in this position here in six or seven weeks where I have to cover the NBA playoffs.
And everyone comes to me and asks me like, what do I think of like this team? And I'm honest to God. Like there are times where I watch the NBA and I'm like, I don't even recognize what the fuck this sport is.
And it, whether it's, I'm, anything else. Some people argue...
In terms of skill. I don't want J.J.
Redick knocking on my door saying, let's fight about this. I'm not interested in that.
I'm just saying the game that I was taught it does not... It doesn't look like the game.
That'll fuck you up. Add like 60 years and now I'm Bob Ryan's age yeah I can't imagine thanks Steph Curry yeah what's gonna happen in another like 40 years that's what I mean yeah swing back me a four-point line if there wasn't if there was no three-point line at all would Steph Curry still be like an all-time great that's a great question shots counted as two I think he i think he would be um like uh uh i he'd still be a hall of famer but not like an all-time like you know like a goat level type i mean did you see that i would say that would be my that's my gimmick you're saying yeah you see that tweet the other day it's like i think there's a new format on twitter i don't know what elon's doing but it it's the long format.
It basically listed. It was career, seven three-pointers made in your games.
You've played seven three-pointers made, and it was like Steph Curry, 140, and then it was just a list of all the other games, and then it got all the way down to 22. It was like Ray Allen.
It was like, this is fucking insane. It.
Dude, Steve Kerr was an awesome shooter growing up. It's like Steve Kerr makes this offense complete.
You have to have that guy on your team. Now Steve Kerr would never even – No.
No. Yeah, so like I said, some people think it's better.
Some people think it's worse. I go back – I don't know.
That's ultimately why i think i gravitate to college basketball is just sheer laziness out of my part that like college basketball more closely resembles a game that i was taught where uh a bunch of different contrasting styles can work and um but yeah so i i don't want to rip on bob ryan too much because i i read that too and i was like i'm willing to listen to his argument i'm willing to hear him out when people do the college basketball versus nba thing because i love basketball so it's like no i i love watching the nba but i just know that i don't really like the games don't really start matting till the second round of the playoffs yeah like that's when usually the first round you'll see all the lower seeds lose yeah like in college basketball it's a inferior product in terms of like if you if you watch side-by-side the shot-making of college basketball versus NBA, it's fucking stupid. It's not the same sport.
But January and February, the games are intense, the crowds are awesome, and March Madness is the best tournament we have. I mean, there is something to be said about it.
If I tell you two teams are playing in mid-January, pick any time of the season, you'll know going in that everybody who is healthy is going to be playing. Right.
There's nobody going to be sitting out. And every single person on that takes the court is going to, or at least there is an understanding that they are going to be busting their ass doing everything they can to win this game tonight.
Right. And I think taking those two things into consideration is something I never thought you'd have to do with basketball.
And that's become very frustrating. I don't know what games count in the NBA.
I have no idea what games matter. I'll look up the – I remember when the Thunder smoked the Celtics not that long ago, and they didn't have Shea Gildas Alexander, and they hung 150 on the Celtics.
And I was like, so if that happens in college, you're like, oh, shit, I guess the Celtics can't win the NBA title. It means something.
It means that they're frauds. It means nothing.
The next 23 games mean something for LeBron. Yeah.
Those 23 most important games. Do you accept him as a Buckeye? It depends on whether his son commits to Ohio State.
No, that's fair. That's fair.
That's right. You've got the upper hand in this.
So right now, Bronny, if you're listening so right now bronnie if you're listening lebron if you're listening your buckeyes come home we love you uh come uh what if what yeah like lebron if lebron put out a statement that said i want my son to to play basketball to play college basketball at home how many schools are going to be like fuck yes that's us like miami is going to say that. UCLA is gonna say that Akron's gonna say that yeah Northwestern might even say it for that one summer yeah LeBron's coming to the ball what about this take November December January Collins March had that take I'll give you one guess yeah we don't say his name.
We don't say his name on the show anymore. But Northwestern Frisky, you actually believe, like, Northwestern? I have them in my could make some noise bucket.
Yeah, can we talk about this? Because I was thinking, what are the differences to you guys between making some noise, a team that can make some noise, a team that's dangerous, are they the same thing? And then a team that's going to be a tough out. Where do we – I have my theories, but I'm curious what you guys think about that.
A tough out is a 14 seed that takes it to overtime. And plays a lot of defense and slows – like there's only going to be 60 possessions in the game.
Yeah. St.
Mary's to me is the perfect tough out. That's a tough out team.
Like they have – I think it's like a low ceiling, but. Iowa State plays a little more offense than they did last year.
They're a tough out. Yeah, tough out.
Yeah. And then I think a dangerous team is the team that has all the talent in the world, but hasn't quite put it fully.
Like an Illinois comes to mind as a dangerous team. You want no part of Illinois.
Right. Because you don't know what to expect.
Because they don't know what to expect. Nobody knows what to expect.
Right, right. Michigan State might be in there.
Michigan State, like the whole Big Ten. Right, yeah.
That is true. So yeah, throw Northwestern in there.
Northwestern makes the noise. I just love the name Boo Booey.
Boo Booey's a great name. He seems like a name that would get a lot of run in the NCAA tournament.
Northwestern has, this is the best Northwestern team ever. I feel comfortable saying that.
I mean, the 1930s. It's pretty, this would be the second time they've ever made the tournament.
I think the 1931 team, it was pretty good though. It's entirely too much Northwestern talk.
Wait, I have a... The fairness to...
Bob Ryan's chiming in saying that. I have a hypothetical for you.
Oh wait, last thing on the... I think Make Some Noise is a team that has one star.
Yeah. And it's like John Morant was a Make Some Noise team.
Yeah. Where it's like if this guy does this, they could go deep.
Our guy Jelly Walker, UAB. Yeah.
That's a Make Some Noise team. Like they could – you could see them going to the Sweet 16.
Does it have to be a smaller school though? No. Northwestern counts as a smaller school in this context.
Yeah, it does.

I think a school from a major conference that's like a 6-8 seed,

if they win that third-round game, that's what makes them noise.

But I think they can't be a team that goes to the tournament often.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah.

Like a Georgia Tech, they would be a make-some-noise team if they were good enough. Like one of those type of teams.
Florida Gulf Coast was a great make some noise. They made a lot of fucking noise.
They made a shitload of noise. A shitload of noise.
Tunk City. Yeah.
But like, you couldn't say like if Duke was an eight seed, you couldn't say they could make some noise. They're dangerous.
At that point, you're dangerous. Duke is dangerous.
They're rounding into form. Yeah.
Like they're getting hot at the right time. I had one last hypothetical.
Then we're going to shift to the Mark Titus show on the YouTube. So we're going to go to the other studio with your art, which I can't wait to see.
It was actually funny because when Titus signed all the paperwork and I was like, he's like, what do I do next? I was like, good news. Barstool has 400 employees now.
So so i was like i put him on an email with like

five different people i was like can you guys do the stuff for them and they did the stuff it was crazy they did they're like yeah just make the youtube and do all that because i had i would have the same reaction as you it's like uh what do i do now i was i took a meeting this morning about my youtube banner page and what i thought about it and i was like I have zero thoughts.

This is crazy that we have all these.

All right, so here's my hypothetical. about my youtube banner page and what i thought about it and i was like frank frank i don't know

i have zero thoughts yeah zero thoughts crazy that we have all these all right so here's my hypothetical and then we're we're going to talk some duke when we go on to the mark titus uh youtube page you can find him on all the social mark titus show uh subscribe to the podcast subscribe to youtube please subscribe to youtube do it i want to see that at least 10K in like two days. Please.
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All right?

Hypothetical.

Back to LeBron real quick.

I've always wondered this.

If LeBron had committed to Akron, how deep would they have gone in the tournament?

18-year-old LeBron.

So we're just – I don't remember their roster.

So we're just going off like a replacement level.

Yeah, Akron team.

Say they're third in the MAC.

I mean, how sick would that have been?

He's pretty fucking good now.

I know.

This guy can play some basketball.

And I always just think about how cool it would be if one of those type of guys was like,

yeah, I'm going to go.

It's actually, we get the junkyard version of this with Imani Bates at Eastern Michigan. Yeah.
I think they definitely would have been good enough to make a Final Four. He's that good.
That would have been so wonderful. Could they have won a national title? Honestly, man, if there's one player, Tim, Like he was, I i we can do the goat debate on the mark when we shift over to my studio but like i'm not we're not doing a jordan lebron thing but the go 18 year old is definitely lebron well or kareem well wait what about this oh this hypothetical is funny because mj did win a title when he, he was 18.
Yeah, but at North Carolina. Yeah.

What if not at Akron?

What if he's not at Akron?

The real GOAT, 18-year-old.

With Hall of Famer James Worthy. No, James Worthy wasn't that good.
What if you put Wimba Yama on Georgetown? Right now? How good is Georgetown? Do they win more than three Big East games? As I'm thinking through these hypotheticals, I'm just picturing, like, is Ted Valentine on the call for the game? because if like Ted Valentine

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I'm thinking through these hypotheticals, I'm just picturing, like, is Ted Valentine on the call for the game? Because if, like, Ted Valentine is reffing a LeBron James Final Four game on Akron and going into, like, say it's like last year's Final Four, very Blue Blood heavy, but instead of, I don't know, pick Villanova's out and put Akron and LeBron in, and all the talk going into it is about LeBron and this darling Akron team and is this kid the greatest 18-year-old we've ever seen and they only lost one game all year and was on the last second, whatever the situation is. If Ted Valentine is reffing that game, he will 100% find a way to steal the show.
And punish LeBron for being great. Who the fuck you think you are, dude? Yeah.

So, I don't know.

That's something you actually have to consider when thinking through college basketball.

Okay.

So, Mark Titus, now a colleague.

Couldn't be more excited.

Yeah, I hope it doesn't change anything, man.

I hope.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Like, what does this mean for my PMT legacy?

I don't know.

Is this, like. It's over.
I think. Is that it? Is it done? I think that it? Is it done? That's what I'm asking.
Like, do we have to. Yeah, I think you'll probably break the record for most recurring guest.
I think. Oh, you did get suspended for that one year.
Yeah. No, I didn't.
I didn't know if like you were having me on because you're this was this was all like part of the flirtatious recruiting period. And now that you got me, you're like, fuck that guy.
We're never brought back on. I want you on all Marsh Madness.
PFT's right, though, the fact that I'm very happy you're here, but we really were your only last option after the things you said. There was nowhere else you could go.
It was Newsmax or Barstool Sports. I looked at the landscape and i i was uh i was brook you have you guys you have seen full swing on netflix yeah i started it you started i haven't started you saw the brooks episode yeah it broke my heart i know that that's how i feel it was like i got to robbie hummel is my scotty scheffler where i was like i gotta be honest i thought i had like a stranglehold on like mainstream college basketball coverage, but I can't compete with this fucking guy.
He's on every broadcast. He's on, he's somehow like working for every network.
He works for ESPN, but then like Fox owns big 10 network and this man's on big 10 network. How do I compete with that? He's winning three on three championships.
He's a better player than I am. He's a better, I can't compete with this.
I need to join the live tour. You were less in touch.

I got,

I got Dave on the phone.

Yeah.

This is my live tour.

But it's going to be awesome.

It's a great addition for the Chicago office.

You are going to probably kill us in basketball.

We're going to watch PFT get wet.

So wet.

So everyone get excited.

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Commenter, senior cat, Billy feet ball and cake marsh. My boyfriend of five years is always making comments about himself putting objects in his butt.
Last night we were laying in bed watching TV and we couldn't find the remote. My boyfriend said oh gee, I hope I didn't shove it up my ass.
We flipped pillows and blankets over and eventually found it. But when he found it, he then pretended to shove the TV remote up his butt while making grimacing sounds and expressions he makes comments like this every day multiple times a day he tells me he doesn't want me anywhere near his butthole during sexy time but this is his way of telling me he wants to do that stuff question mark does he want me to peg him or is this just normal guy humor yeah thank you long time listener i think he's feelers out there, so you should put a feeler out there.

Maybe next time you're getting warmed up,

just slip like a finger.

Because it sounds like he's not wanting to ask for it,

but if it happened, he would be down for it.

Yeah, you got to test the waters

because he's definitely giving you the hints.

I'd say more than enough hints.

Yeah.

Also, shout out that guy who created an account

who just replies to everyone's tweets saying, this person gets pegged.'s a i don't know you you've seen it i've seen it i've seen it several times yeah um it was the funniest part about that guy's account because like every now and then there'll be someone who pops up who's just like this is gonna be my lane i'm just gonna pick it i'm just gonna reply to everyone's tweets at barstool and say this person gets pegged um The only person who got upset was Elio, who was like, why are they saying I'm getting pegged? So I appreciated that. But yeah, shout out that guy.
Yeah, if he's bringing it up a lot, I think it means he's at least curious. But he's shy.
It might actually be the Twitter account I'm talking about. Yeah.
Yeah. Sup, fellas.
My boyfriend and I moved in together. Like a typical guy, his two biggest passions in life are sports and video games.
Recently, he's fallen back in love with Pokemon, saying, It reminds me of simpler times. He spends two to three hours a day hunting on Pokemon Go, brings his Nintendo Switch to bed, and plays the new Pokemon Scarlet.

And when we have sex, as he's getting ready to come, he sometimes says,

Pika Pika, followed by, Chew, right as he comes.

Giant missed opportunity to say Squirtle.

Yep.

How do I tell him that he's taken video games a bit too far and we need to get back to normal life?

Thanks.

I don't think a guy can take video games too far.

Let guys play video games. Yeah, the Pokemon thing is one thing that i missed i did too i too old we tried to get into the pokemon go where that you remember when the chinese government had you spy on your own living rooms and it was very funny too watching people like walk around in a park with their phones out just like tripping over themselves yeah uh but one of my friends still plays it religiously really hilarious i would love we'll just be somewhere and i'll pull it out i'm like what are you doing he's like i'm i'm hunting i would love to i would love to interview those people like you know there's some people out there who are just crushing farmville still oh yeah like i would like to talk to those people play on the train i people play like candy crush all the time yeah like there's some there's some hardcore gamers on the train i'm like i never i never got into candy crush angry birds people still doing that i've thought about buying a nokia burner just so i could play snake again yeah that was breaker best oh brick breaker holy shit brick breaker i spent so much time playing brick breaker and then it sucks because you beat it and then you just go back to level one just faster yeah it's like fuck i wasted all this time yeah let him play video games let the boys play video nothing wrong with as long as he's not taking his phone out and actually finding a pokemon while you guys are having sex yeah like is there is charmander on your on your nipple that's kind of yeah it's true all right here's a classic one what's up almost father of three cats short kingFT, and handsome Hank? Should I be concerned about my boyfriend of three months going on his spring break trip to Florida with his fraternity brothers alongside a sorority that I did not get into? Furthermore, he has history with some of those girls, and I don't trust them.
Thanks, PFT, guys. It sounds fine.
You trust him, right? It sounds like you really trust him.

Three months, yeah.

I mean, that's a lifetime of trust to build up.

You've been dating for three months.

He's going to Florida, probably Panama City Beach, I would imagine,

with a sorority you didn't get into with girls that he's slept with before.

This is one of those questions, like,

don't ask a question if you don't want the answer.

You know what I'm saying?

Get him tested when he gets back. Yeah.
Put an Apple tag on him. Yeah.
See where he's going. Is that it? No, I got some more.
Okay. These are long ones.
I usually try to shift through the short ones and they're all just long. Should we nextnesday should we do chicago fqs yes okay so

we'll do that so everyone get your questions in hey pmt gang i've been dating my boyfriend for four years and he's a big fan of part of my take and for some reason and especially a big fan of hank that's mean that's you just randomly picked this no i i told you i didn't read this i don't I can't pre-read the long ones.

That's too much reading.

Now. I can't pre-read the long ones.
That's too much reading. Now I wish I did.
He is such a Hank fan. He swore he would not have sex with me until...
He is such a Hank fan. He swore he would not have sex with me until Hank gets the lottery ball.
Correct? Ha, ha, ha. Love of God, can you please get a rigget for Hank to get the the lottery ball because he clearly will never get it on his own.
This is just a lie. This is like Chirac.
This is just a bunch of lies. Oh, man.
I'm not even going to finish that. Yeah.
They're never having sex. That's a guy.
No, that's a guy that wrote that question. Oh, you think so? Yeah.
No. No way.
It's guys on chicks. At this point, you should just encourage him to enter the priesthood.
I'm going to have him send me the full one. Last one.
Yeah, I know. He's like, can you get the ball? Because he'll clearly never get on his own so I can get laid for the first time in two years.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Yeah.
You're never getting laid. You're probably a virgin.
That doesn't mean you won't. I mean, he's a virgin, but you're not going to get the ball.
How do you bonkable boys? Recently, my boyfriend of seven... These are all so long.

Recently, my boyfriend of seven years and I were visiting my family and stayed at my

mom's for a couple nights.

On our last night, I woke up to what I presume was my boyfriend pounding his meat.

I didn't see it with my own eyes, but it sounded like the man was going at it.

I tried turning in bed to make it obvious that I was awake and hearing what was happening,

but he didn't stop.

This proceeded for what felt like a very long time, but I don't think he ever finished. I heard a few goddamits during the event, but no solid conclusion.
The next morning, I asked him how he slept, and he said, not great. I said, duh, you were jagging off all night.
He said he had no recollection of this and looked at me like I had three heads. My question is, what is weirder? The fact that he couldn't recall masturbating at all or that he didn't finish.
Ps. he will 100 hear this because we are both huge jwl's love you guys probably the jacking off part yeah it's probably the weirdest yeah that's probably i would say that's the weirdest not finishing well sometimes you're drunk yeah it happens to everyone sometimes you don't finish jacking off in a bed next to somebody is just bad manners.

Yeah.

Agreed.

Yeah.

Is it?

I'm just asking a question.

Unless he asks you to join in.

Yeah, you should probably go to the bathroom. All right.

Yeah, no, that's fair.

That's fair.

I also like, I mean, not finishing like, you know, whiskey dick like that.

That's kind of rules. If we're being honest, like you fuck like a porn star.
Yeah, nature's Roman swipe. Yeah, it's like...
Everyone's like, oh, whiskey dick. Like, I don't know.
It's kind of cool. Like, I felt like I lasted forever.
That happens, but like... And I did, because I never came.
If you're just doing it to yourself, like... How do you not finish? Well, I think whiskey dick.
Sounds like he was was drunk and he probably just he passed he gave up yeah he probably lost the memory that's his head that he was jerking off that's actually a big concern staying at her mom's house it sounds like he drunk can you be what if he was sleep jerk like in his sleep now that sleep like sleep, but like jerking off. That actually probably is more likely than the blacked out.
Yeah. What a wild thing to have happen to you.
I don't think I've ever sleep jacked in. That happened to Pee Wee Herman.
How would you know? That's a good point. Because he said he didn't recollect it at all.
But if you get caught, you're going to be like, what are you talking about? Yeah, that's exactly what you would say. But it looked like...
Saying that you were asleep is the best defense against anything. Yeah, by far.
Nate Ochoa said he was asleep. Yeah.
Yeah. All right, this is the last fucking essay.
You got this, Hank. Hi, Dad Cat, Loser Hank, Fuck the Eagles Max, P.F.
We, and Billy Boy. Three and a half years ago, I went out with some girlfriends, and one of them brought a couple of guy friends along.
Well, we ended up drinking a lot, and me and one of the guys ended up going back to my place. Hot.
Nice. It was a one-night stand.
It's such a classic. But we followed each other on Instagram and added each other on Snapchatchat classic fast forward several years and here's my dilemma i'm a nurse as well as the guy that i hooked up with they're both nurses okay yeah i also have a boyfriend of three years guys could be nurses who is also a nurse oh this is like gray's anatomy doctor is the mother, Hank.
This is a Grey's Anatomy plot.

Coincidentally, my boyfriend and this random hookup have ended up working on the same unit together.

Now they have become really good friends.

Now my boyfriend has demanded that we go on a double date with my old hookup and his current girlfriend.

Hot.

How do I go about managing this situation?

Do I tell my boyfriend what happened or act like I've never seen him before?

Thanks, guys. Much love.
They're going the the hookup and her are ending up together is this is all the time is that the plot this is a tale as old as i was gonna say you can't you can't say anything about it if you're a nurse you took the hippocratic oath right true first do no harm you're not allowed to say that's that's doctor or nurse patient confidentiality you you you need to, you need to go go up to the hookup and be like, we're not talking about it, right? Because that's the only thing that could blow up. If he's talking about it and you're not talking about it.
I think Hank's right, though. I think having that conversation will lead to a DM, which will lead to a text, which will lead to working late shifts together.

There's all those beds around in the hospital.

The IV's just dripping.

Overnight shifts.

Yeah.

Heart rate just going up.

All right.

Good guys on check.

So, yeah, next Wednesday, we will do Chicago FAQs.

You got questions about the office move.

And no, you can't get a job right away. That will be, how many do you think? Five figures.
Five figs? If you ask. Mid five figs.
We're blacklisting your name. Yeah, yeah.
If you ask, you're blacklisted. All right.
Hank, have you ever gotten this? What? The lottery ball? Oh 99 numbers 99 17 99 99 I'll do 69 I also this is an experiment this doesn't count as me my son picked 5 today ok I want to see if he gets it before Hank. Could you imagine a fucking three and a half year old?

20. Oh, imagine if he gets it before

you? Interesting you didn't ask your daughter.

Well, she can't count yet.

She can't count yet, so fuck you.

88!

Oh!

Second time it's been two numbers

What?

It was 44 now it's 88

Next time it'll be

Can you do the math?

No

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