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First time ever in person, in studio, plus a very special appearance from Dana Beers,

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We have college basketball unreal weekend. We're going to talk a little who's back.
maybe get into a little who's going to be announcing what game in the NFL next year, because everyone's a free agent apparently now. And then we will finish up.
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And this is only February. It's almost March.
Almost. It's not leap year this year.
By the way, a premature who's back of the week making the leap year jokes like no weed on February 29th, 30th and 31st. That is true yeah yeah sign up for that the the i always wonder like we should probably get like a leap year baby on how much that suck well we are yeah we are we true yeah we are we we are this is our six year anniversary is between today at midnight between today and tuesday is our six year anniversary as a podcast Is that right? No,, sixth? One and a quarter.
We're one and a quarter years old. 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
So starting our sixth year. We're starting our sixth year.
The leap year baby is always confused. We're in kindergarten.
Do you call yourself one-year-old when you're four? Maybe that's what Hezbollah is. Maybe he's just a leap year baby.
That's probably right. Andy Milonakis.
Yeah. Actually, Andy Milonakis I share a birthday with.
Most famous guy I share a birthday with. January 30th? Yes.
Wow. Andy Milonakis.
Shout out. The king.
The original king. I think he lives in New York now.
We should get him on the show. What do you think? Can we get him on the show? Sure.
Let's get him on the show. What do you think the best birthday is with the most famous people? We should probably do some research on that.

Yeah, that one we should research.

I actually, before we get to the-

Mine's pretty good.

Besides me, obviously, Jackie Robinson.

Okay.

Who's number one?

You're basing this off of the fact that you know who your birthday is.

We should probably do research on that.

Who's Batman?

Who's Robin?

Me or Jackie Hart?

That was a backwards way of being like, my birthday's stacked. It is Justin Timberlake.
It's big three. The unbelievable Saturday in college basketball.
I did tweet, I love this time of year. People were saying that I say that all the time.
So real quick, what is your favorite? I love this time of year. Because I think you're allowed to say that like seven times a year.

Okay, so off the top of my head, I love the week of July 4th.

Yep, love this time of year.

Barbecues, sun, day drinking, sweating, NBA.

Well, it used to be the NBA free agency, right?

Yep.

I love that.

Big fan of the first two weeks of March Madness. First two weeks.
All of March. All of March.
I love this time. March is a good month.
I love this time of year. I love Thanksgiving week, feast week, college basketball, football, everything.
I love this time of year. That's a big I love this time of year.
All of October. I think I'm just a happy guy.
Well, what's the worst time of year? I'm going to say last week of August is pretty bad. The guy hates summer.
No, I don't hate summer. No, you do hate summer.
I don't like August. August is too hot.
Last week of August is pretty bad because I think we all have PTSD from thinking of that as back to school time. Of course.
That never leaves your brain. But yeah, it was pointed out to me that I say that a lot, and I think it's just i'm a happy guy who loves because like i'm now thinking about like the first weekend of may kentucky derby nba nhl playoffs i love that time of year masters first week st patrick's day i love that time of year first week in june can fuck right off first week of june that's usually actually nba finals but yeah that can i can that doesn't really do anything Yeah.
But the summer's coming up. Yeah.
Love this time of year. I love this time of year.
You have the whole summer ahead of you. That's what Memorial Day is for.
Which is the last week of May. I think the only time you can't say I love this time of year is right after the Super Bowl until right now.
That's it. That's the only time you can be like.
That's the time when I wish that they made a hibernation drug. Right.
But now that Super Bowl happens so much later, you really only have to deal with like two weeks because we had this Saturday, which was incredible. This felt like the beginning, the true beginning of March Madness.
The one, two, three, four, five, six, and nine teams in the country. So seven out of the top 10 teams, really seven out of the top nine because Baylor was the 10th team uh lost on Saturday upset Saturday unbelievable I picked a really bad time to unearth the the Tom Izzo is overrated thing yeah but that was such a classic Tom Izzo spot too where like Michigan State has no identity and they they've just been sucking terribly and then they're going to win that game especially with the three-pointer that the guy hit who hit that Jake we're gonna we're gonna lean on you here that was an awesome game just start the day and then it was one of those days very similar to like a college football Saturday where you kind of lose perspective I was sitting there watching Gonzaga playing a high school gym at St.
Mary's, which I love. I love the WCC and how all the gyms are like super, super small.
And I was like, oh, yeah, remember Michigan State beat Purdue like 14 hours ago? It's been a fun day. Yeah, no, that gym is Tyson Walker.
Tyson Walker. Okay, that gym, I love the WCC.
I love St. Mary's.
They always manage to have three Australians, two Kiwis, three guys from the Baltic States on their team. Remember a couple years ago when I smoked a little too much weed and maybe took a little too much Adderall, I thought I had unearthed a point-shaving conspiracy with St.
Mary's. Yeah, it turns out that's just how they shoot in Lithuania.
It wasn't true at all, but it was fun for that moment. I was very excited.
They went, what, 16-0 in their home gym this year? St. Mary's? Yeah, and that was Gonzaga's first WCC loss.
St. Mary's is such a funny group of guys because they have their entire team is, they look like a rock band, down to having their power forwards and centers look like the roadies, like the guys who are carrying the amps and stuff.
They have some gnarly-looking dudes. They had one dude who was just fully bald.
I don't even think he was shaving his head. He was just like, no, I'm 22 years old and bald.
No, they kind of strike a balance of if BYU did hard drugs. Yeah.
That's what you get with St. Mary's.
Right, right. It's awesome to watch.
And they beat Gonzaga, who now we can say is soft. Oh, yeah.
I don't like Drew Timmy. Do you like Drew Timmy, Jake Marsh? I didn't like him last year when he got – I have a critique of Drew Timmy.
Go ahead. I think his shoulders are too sink down a little bit They're too small He doesn't have man shoulders You can't play in the low post without man shoulders He's got like Reggie Miller shoulders Yeah they're too slender He's got like a two guard shoulders Not a center or power forward shoulders My critique of him I a big fan i i think he's okay my critique would be that his his mustache is a little bit too ironic handlebar stuff yeah it's too ironic i don't have a problem with guys growing mustache if they're mustache guys like big cat is a mustache guy adam morrison who are you talking about there hank the h-man yes yeah uh but yeah.
But yeah, that was... Harambe? He was a little...
He was a hipster. Yeah.
No, it drew to me. Remember last year when he did the mustache thing? Yeah, down 15.
Down 15 against Baylor. That was when I was like, I'm off this guy.
The sad mustache thing was like that sorority girl doing the sad dance. Yeah.
It was like, come on, Jimmy. You don't have tears.
Yeah. Yeah.
But that game was awesome. Who's number two? Oh, fucking shout out our guys, Ron and Caleb.
Unbelievable day they had. If you haven't seen it, I'm sure the whole video is going to come out.
They started the day in Fayetteville where the must bus beat Kentucky, didn't storm the court because SEC, which it's very, very funny that the SEC of all conferences were like, it means more. And that's literally they're saying it means more.
And people are crazy. They have the strictest fine schedule for any team or any fan base that storms the court or field.
So Arkansas had, they stormed the field against Texas in football. Then they stormed the court against Auburn in basketball.
I think the fine yesterday if they had stormed was going to be $250,000, which is crazy. So they were very adamantly like no storming the court.
They didn't let Caleb and Roan in the game. They barred him from the game.
Now, to be fair, they were also wearing storm-chasing uniforms.

No, they were there for a storm.

If they had gotten in, there would have been a storm.

They would have started a storm.

But they let someone in who mooned a free-throw shooter.

That's fine.

That's Arkansas.

It plays.

That's okay.

Then why not let Caleb and Ronan? I don't think the guy walked in with his ass out.

He's like, hey, I'm the guy here to moon him.

Maybe if they weren't wearing yellow, they would have been in. Yeah.
No, probably. They did stand out a little bit.
Stephen A. Smith? Yeah, they were ready for him.
No, I'm saying if they were. The Elmette's Provocation.
If they were wearing Arkansas gear and just weren't looking like the Storm Chains. I get a FaceTime at like, I don't know, it was probably like 3 o'clock from them.
They had their full gear. They were just standing on the side of the road, and they're like, hey, do you think Colorado has any shot of beating Arizona? I was like, you guys are going to Colorado? We're thinking about it.
All I said to them was, it is a back-to-back in the mountain trip, which usually isn't great for the opposing team. And they're like, we're going.
They flew to Denver, drove to Boulder, got there for the second half. Colorado had an incredible second half.
Beats number two Arizona. Stormed the court.
Like, maybe the greatest day ever that Caleb and Roan could ever have. Like, they deserve all the credit in the world.
Chef Donnie, Tom, Trey. Just shouting them all out.
What happened at the end of the Kentucky-Arkansas game where Kentucky's players left the court before the game was over? That was because of the storm. They were afraid of the storm.
They were reverse storm. Yeah, no, they were basically putting like...
They were hiding in the cellar. They were putting duct tape on their windows.
Yeah. I will say, boarding it up.
Whenever there's a storm, usually the students don't go like tackle the opposing players. I actually don't think it's ever happened.
Yeah, I get why they would do it, but I feel like I haven't heard any stories of it.

Now, someone in this podcast room is going to say

that I have a bias,

but I faintly remember Coach K complaining

that he thought that he was under attack once

and thought that his team was going to get injured.

He was crying wolf.

That definitely happened.

But I don't think that a player has ever been

accosted by anybody.

Yeah, not that at all.

Because we would hear about that.

They would probably just take away the student section

for the rest of the year if that ever happened.

Thank you. But I don't think that a player has ever been accosted by anybody.
Yeah, not that at all. Because we would hear about that.
They would probably just take away the student section for the rest of the year if that ever happened. Court Storm and Coach K.
No, there was a – well, remember LeGarrette Blount? He hit someone. Well, that was an opposing player.
He was an opposing player. But was that – there was one punch.
No, you're thinking of Jermaine O'Neal. No, I know that.
It's an old video. There was something.
Something did happen on a court storm. No, it was a player ran over.
It was the Kansas. And there was a football player who ran over some kid once and was like, oh, it was an accident.
Yeah, here it is. I just searched it.
2013, Coach K complains about Virginia court storm. So that was probably why it all started.
Yeah. He was like, I thought I was going to lose my life for a second there a second and so cal he got all his players off and then left his players out there on the court to hit a three a bank shot three at the buzzer to cover the spread which yeah i i pushed on that and i it's a new i think most gamblers will understand what i'm about to say but i was watching the game it was nap time in my house i watched the end of the game ended.
My whole family came back in the living room. And I rewound the TV and I made them all watch it.
And they were like, we don't care. I was like, did you see this? You see this? There's fucking three.
They're like, please just put on fucking Moana right now. This is stupid.
It was a freight train that was coming about five miles per hour. And everybody saw it coming.
But it just adds insult to injury when Cal takes the rest of his team off. Right.

And then he's giving up the game.

I knew, too.

You guys have been around me enough to know I know when I'm dead before I'm dead.

It was a math game.

Arkansas was up two to four points for the last three minutes.

And I was like, at some point, a free throw is going to get missed,

and there will be an inconsequential three that has all the consequences. Just a couple quotes here.
Do you know how close you are to just put yourself in the position of one of our players or coaches? And I'm not saying any fan did this, but the potential is there all the time. But they can just go up to you and say, Coach, you're a blank or push you or hit you or whatever.
What do you do? What if you did something in retaliation? That would be the story, right? We deserve that type of protection. This is Coach K after Virginia stormed the court.
He's basically saying, it didn't happen, but I'm so mad that I lost. I'm going to complain about the court being stormed instead of the fact that I lost.
But it could have happened. It could have happened.
It could have happened. I could have died.
Do we ever address what happened with Coach K when he just left at halftime on the eve

of those stories coming out about Tommy Hanaker?

I think his grandson needed a ride.

That might have been it.

Hank, did you see that in the news?

Oh, I saw it.

I remember what you guys said.

Yeah.

It was just kind of crazy that they were probably going to ask him about what happened with

him just taking the Duke coaching job away from a black coach.

That's why he left at halftime?

I thought he was sick.

No, it was interesting.

It was just interesting.

This is the last quote from Coach K.

I don't think he knows what college kids do.

He said, they should have fun and burn benches and do all that stuff.

I'm all for that.

They're a great school, great kids, but get us off the court, and that's the bottom line because Coach K said so. That's fair.
Ah, Billy. It was a Nebraska football player who punched a Missouri fan.
Yes. I remember it very vividly.
It was a really bad sucker punch. Yes.
Will Compton? Yes. And he was saying, he basically was like, I felt nervous for my life.
Yeah, it sounds like Will Compton. Kellen Huston.
Yeah, that's Will Compton. No, that's Will Compton.
That's Will Compton. He uses that name whenever he checks in a hotel.
Oh. So we had Arizona lose.
We had, who's number three? Purdue? No. Auburn.
Auburn. Which that one, as crazy as yesterday was, Arkansas was a favorite.
Tennessee was a favorite. So there was obviously some games that I think people – I mean, Baylor was a favorite.
So there was a few games that it wasn't quote-unquote an upset. It just felt like bedlam because seven out of the top ten teams lost.
One thing I will always respect about Bruce Pearl is how the man manages to get more tan over the wintertime. It's insane.
It's like he plays in Maui every weekend. It's Mike Shanahan.
He just glows. I think it used to pop a little bit more when he was coaching at Tennessee because the orange of the Tennessee orange would be so strikingly similar in contrast to his skin where he would just turn into a big giant sun out there.
The one, I'll say I'm going to stop you on the glows. I think it's a glisten because he always has a sweat, too.
Yeah. It's a glisten.
It's not like the heavy sweat like you see from the Sean Millers of the game. Right.
But he's always wet. It looks like he walked through the misters at a really hot NFL stadium.
Or the Broncos COVID protocols. Yes.
Where he just walked through the portable car wash. Yeah, exactly.
Like, oh, shit, this will help me. I'll just get spritzed in the face for a second, and then I won't be dehydrated.
Contrary to what I was saying on last week's show, I do like Auburn. I think that they're very fun.
Auburn fans are crazy. Yeah, they're crazy, but I love their particular brand of crazy.
Yeah. I'm mostly saying they're the team.
You always have a like, I don't know if I trust them.

Auburn's my, I'm not so sure if I trust them yet, guys.

The craziest thing about yesterday was

I walked away and being like

Kentucky is still, like they lost

and I was like

they lost, they had two of their best players

come back from injury, Rusty

and they still were in that game

like they fought back, they had a slow

they keep getting slow starts

I was at, as much as you can be

impressed with a loss, like road loss like that is nothing to be ashamed of in conference play. Just like Kansas losing to Baylor.
When you lose these tough games, especially at the end of the season, on the road, you can't be like, oh, man, they suck now. No, it's just really hard to win.
I only think that a team sucks if they're in the top 10 going into senior night and they lose their senior night game. You can't lose senior night.
Gonzaga losing, it's all perspective. But Gonzaga was a 10.5 point favorite.
Arizona was a 10.5 point favorite. Those are losses that shouldn't have happened.
The other ones were really good teams that were playing. Arkansas is a really good team.
Tennesseeessee baylor like these these teams are really really really good you know what i i like the new the new fashion trend i've picked up on is the net hats yeah the students wearing their hats they're just the nets that get cut down and the show the sharks in arkansas student section were awesome yeah yeah they looked they looked dehydrated they did uh but yeah i need to get my hands on a net hat i I'm a big fan of a novelty hat. What else from...
So we were talking before the show, because PFT asked Jake, what was your question about Providence? Do you think the Providence... They're already in the they will make some noise department.
I've got that file set aside for them. But would you say, is Providence a real threat? Absolutely.
Come turning time. Well, first off, shout out to Coach Cooley.
Providence won the Big East for the first time ever. Yeah.
On Saturday. Crazy.
Which is crazy to think. And they won it with two games left.
Yeah. Their mascot still freaks me out.
Of course. He is the biggest creep in the world.
Yeah. No, mine is the St.
Louis Billiken. That's a pretty creepy one.
Yeah, it looks like the Wuhan bat. Did you? Yeah, he's...
That one's creepy. Did you see Xavier's got like an alternate mascot that basically is just a blue blob.
It's very weird. Interesting.
Yeah. I don't talk.
He's in that category. Yeah, it's basically what they were like.
Oh, Western Kentucky is cool. Let's just make a blue version of that.
Yeah. No.
Providence. Look, 24 and three.
Yes, they've won some tight games, but overall 24 and three is 24 and three. So I think they can make the make the final four so why not like the thing that drives me nuts and I love obviously Ken Palm is great because he like you can basically look in the history of college basketball like what teams will eventually be national champions what teams will be final fours those advanced stats everyone's got advanced stats I love using them.
I do think that there's something that, like, the pendulum has swung too far on advanced stats, not by the guys who make the advanced stats. It's by casual fans who then discredit good teams because their advanced stats suck.
Providence is number one team in luck, right? That's what Ken Palm says. Wisconsin is actually very similar where it's like Wisconsin wins a lot of close games, hasn't blown a lot of teams out.
Everyone's saying, oh, wait till March. They suck.
I think if you're a Providence fan, you have to just tune all of those fucking people out. They embrace it at this point.
Yeah, because it's like enjoy the ride. College basketball is so much fun.
The big games are are so much fun like storming the court after you win the biggies for the first time do you think any of those fans care about fucking luck like that's so stupid so what happens if providence loses in the second round and everyone's like oh they sucked all along don't let them take it away from you that was a really fun season the tournament is really really hard Anything could happen. I said to you, Jake, like Illinois last year.
Illinois was really good last year. Yeah, they could have won it all.
They could have won it all. They had a bad game against Loyola Chicago who played their best game of the season.
That doesn't mean they sucked all year. It just means a single elimination tournament is really hard to win.
So I think Providence fans, embrace it. Don't let anyone fucking rain on your parade.
Big East champions. So what if some of these games are lucky? Like Jake said, 21-3 is 21-3.
24-3. But also the way that your team plays in close games.
Absolutely. You can't really write stats around.
You can't sequence the clutch gene. You can't actually put numbers around everything that matters at the end of the game, like all the small stuff.
So, yeah, it might not be quantifiable. You might not be able to read it in a stat online, but it's still a thing that your team is good at.
You can still say, like, we're a very good second-half team. We're very good down the stretch.
Having seniors, having senior leadership, being able to say to yourself, like like we're not going to let this moment be too big absolutely that all matters so and also hitting your free throws yep like at the end of a wisconsin game if brad davidson's going to the line he's going to make them you know what i mean like those are the type of things if you have those type of guys on your roster that's not luck anymore that's just having good good players who make free throws in clutch situations back in high school when i was doing brackets i would uh i would always bet on the teams that had the higher free throw percentage yeah team wise yeah in the first two rounds it's usually a pretty good bet to make because so many of it so much of it does come down to the end of the game where yeah if you have like a freshman that's attempting free throws it's the moment's a little bit too big a lot of it is yeah free throws and having a guy who can bring the ball up like a senior guard they say it's not going to get rattled yeah right who's not going to get rattled in big moments i've got those two things matter i've got a dumb idea that could revolutionize the nba why don't they just go full court press because they get tired yeah but the other guys get tired too yeah but i think the defense gets really tired because then you got to also play offense yeah with those same i mean 40 minutes from hell nolan richardson yeah those are electric yeah always love that i love whatever a team whips out a press and it just demolishes the other team it's just hard to do for a sustained amount of time i'll bet you there's going to be an nba coach in the next like years, someone who has absolutely no business coaching at an NBA level, probably on the Knicks, that's just going to be like, here's what we're going to do. We're going to press.
We're going to play hard defense, and then he's going to absolutely barrel out that first year, probably not make it through the end of the season. The best is, though, when you try to press a team and everyone on the other team can handle the ball.
So it's like you try to press them and then, oh, look, here's the center being able to dribble the ball. That's also probably why because everyone in the NBA can handle the ball.
So it's not – like essentially when you press in college, you're like at least two or three of these guys doesn't feel comfortable dribbling like for more than three seconds. So we can do this.
There's a guy that's like – that's seen the water boy where the kicker looks. He's like, yeah, that's my bitch right there.
There's one guy that you try to funnel the ball to on the press. Yeah, there's one guy who's always on a college roster who catches the ball and immediately panics.
It's like, okay, well, you're fucked. I looked up Ken Palm because I didn't know where he came from, like what his background was.
He's actually a storm chaser himself yeah he has a master's degree in atmospheric sciences from like utah or something university of uh he's an instructor there at utah he got his from the university of wyoming i knew he was out west somewhere yeah so he's become yeah i mean ken palm is not a secret anymore it was you know maybe five ten years ago but everyone uses it it's i think vegas uses it players and the coaches use it players yeah players and the coaches use it so i obviously he he himself is a genius and what he does is great i just don't like when casual fans try to discredit some of these teams who are having great seasons it's like fuck it dude it's hard to win games 24 and 3 providence like i don't care if they're lucky so we're ride the waves right now they're pretty far down there aren't they well in terms of ken right now the 39 yeah so don't let them listen to 15 team right now i remember this week svp like a few years ago he would fight every single day online because maryland was like very good and ken palm had him like outside the top. And he's like, I don't care.
They're good. Don't apologize for winning.
Yeah, it's like Wisconsin this year, they're good. I don't care.
They're not great. They're not the best team.
I never said they were. But you can't get this point in the season and be one in your conference and be like, oh, no, they stink.
That's just not how it works. I completely was wrong in the preseason no i'm not this is not yeah yeah this is more for providence people providence people get it all the time like everyone is going against providence being like the luck has to run out and it hasn't and maybe it never will but also playing in these tight games is great experience for when it matters most agreed in march they could win, they could win four two-point games.
They're battle-tested. And go to the Final Four.
Who knows? I love this time of year. Best time of year.
Best time of year. This is truly the only time I say it.
Best time of year? Well, you're a man of integrity. When does that start? When is your best time of year start? I'd say the day after the Super Bowl through the Final Four.
So you're not even including the super bowl in your best time of year when college basketball college basketball is my favorite sport when it has all the spotlight it hits different i'd agree with that yeah yeah it does when it was like that saturday was awesome yeah it just it was wall to wall the best just watching every single game it every single two hours. Like, oh, here's another huge game that's going to happen.
Here's another big game where there's going to be an upset. And now we have brackets.
The mid-major tournaments starting, we have brackets. It's great to just see, like, ooh, this team has this path to go dancing.
I love brackets. I love staring at brackets.
Quickly, give us, before we move on to some other talk,

give us your four one seeds and four two seeds.

On the latest Jake March.

Yes, I just updated it.

You just updated it.

Yes.

Wow.

Okay.

So, number one overall.

So, there's actually not a lot of change despite all the chaos this week

because who do you move up?

Yeah, right. So, it kind of cancels out.
Duke did beat Syracuse. That was embarrassing.
Syracuse is circling the drain. Yeah.
At this point. It's supposed to be a wild season.
It is not. Coach K called into Jim Boeheim's radio show.
He did. Mike from Durham.
Mike from Durham. It was a little fun treat that he did.
That's really funny. I think like Boeheim, Boeheim is Coach K's only friend, I think.
Yeah, oh, yeah. And they don't even like each other.
Well, and his sons. Well, they coach USA together.
Yeah. Mel was on the team.
It's pretty wild. The one seeds right now.
I have Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas, Auburn. Auburn was a lock a couple of weeks ago.
Oh, yeah. That could be Kentucky or Duke's.
Yeah. So I'd say right now, Gonzaga, Arizona are definitely getting it.
Kansas, Auburn, maybe. And then twos are Baylor, Kentucky, Duke, Purdue, Wisconsin, Villanova, Texas Tech, Providence, the threes.
Interesting. I think if Wisconsin beats Purdue, they flip flop.
And that would be a good game on Tuesday night. We're excited for it.
How locked in do you get on your seeds and how much can change in a conference tournament? Well, first of all, this is my first year doing it, but a lot will change. I want to know your formula.
Yeah, what's behind it? Open the kimono for me. Yeah.
Who your who you got your uh your play-in games right now it's actually this is like of the play-in games uh doing the play-in games bracketology oh yeah this is a few weeks before is is i have no idea what i'm doing off yeah it's equivalent to the mock draft with six trades in the first round i uh i met this one dude in austin a few years ago i forget the guy's name name, but he is a bracketologist and he is obsessed with the NIT. He doesn't give a shit about the NCAA tournament, but he gets fucking laser focused on the NIT, breaks down all the matchups, has his bracket ready to go before they announce it.
Dude, I love all the CBI, the CIT. Are they playing those this year? Yeah, the CBI is in Daytona Beach.
And the CIT? I don't know about the CIT. Is the CIT the one where the championship games played? It's like a two-game series at someone's home.
I love those tournaments. I've told this story before, but in a former life before everything, before Barstool, I was taking a GMAT class because I thought I wanted to go to business school, and I was betting CBI and CIT games in a business class I had paid a lot of money for or GMAT class and I was like, this is the wrong thing.
Yeah, right now actually one of the first- It's like Oregon State was playing and I was like, ah. One of the first four games I have a Blue Blood showdown, Indiana, North Carolina.
Whoa. That would be interesting.
That would be fun. That would be sick.
Very fun. Do you agree, Wisconsin, right now with three? Yeah, no, I think three is fair.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, their win against Rutgers was very big. Yeah.
Yeah. Tune in, by the way, Benchmont, Brad Davison on today's show.
There we go. Love this time of year.
We've got some more stuff coming up. We're going to have Titus on.
I think we're going to have J.J. Redick on coming soon.
So we're going to have a lot of good basketball content this next month uh let's i've really loved john rostein by the way tweeting during uh the war in ukraine oh yeah like whenever everything's going to shit on that first night and he was like wow just uh just saw a schedule release pop out for like providence at corpus christi 2024 very excited for this this is only February. By the way, the war in Ukraine, can I just ask one question? Friday night, Billy, how close were you to getting a flight to Ukraine? Because you had a tweet, you deleted it.
What was the tweet? It was fun. I have it.
You do? All right. Me and the buddies, like, you know.
Wait, read it. I'll read it, then you can explain.
Yeah. It's from billy football the boys and i are about seven beers deep which i when i read that i like i'm so used to reading pfts uh notations afterwards so what what would you translate that to pft me and the boys are about seven about seven beers deep i'd say probably a dozen i was gonna say 12 yeah no you have to do doctor math which i hope that they teach every doctor in america to do that when they ask you how much you drink and you say i have like three beers on a friday you have to you have to at least triple that yeah the boys and i are about seven beers deep and considering the free plane ticket from the ukraine embassy to go defend freedom we'll wake up and totally not do it but we we're getting hype, RN.
You did get hype about it.

If they had,

if at that moment, if you hadn't deleted

that tweet, let's just play out

a little scenario here. If you hadn't deleted that tweet,

which you shouldn't have because it was very funny,

and

the Ukraine

embassy saw the tweet

and was like, we will be there in 30 minutes.

We got a fucking private

plane and some AK-47s

and rocket launchers.

We'll be right back. embassy saw the tweet was like we will be there in 30 minutes we got a we got a fucking private plane and some ak-47s and rocket launchers do you think you would have gone you know those like memes where the guys like oh went out with the buddies and ended up in a different country you mean you mean the hangover the movie no but we did do the footwork where we like googled you would do it.
That's some serious footwork.

It sounds like you were basically in Ukraine.

Basically.

And the pay is insane.

What is it?

I think it's like 3K either a week.

You'd be immersed.

Billy Merckx?

Yeah.

But what happened is, so you go to the embassy.

They get you a ticket.

They fly you to Budapest. Then they take you on a convoy over the border.

And then you get to the outskirts. what's crazy about that is getting in is easy but like I think the problem is getting out once you're there okay Billy so yeah once the war ends yeah once yeah once you kill Putin they'll let you out yeah final boss no but you know it's not I delete it's like it's I'm sorry it's not yes we shouldn't be joking about it.
Joking about it. But I'm not joking about it.
Whatever the pay is, I will triple it for you to go there. I'll match.
If Donnie – So that's six times? Yeah, I'll match it. If Donnie wants to go to Ukraine, because I want to go with someone else.
I need a little buddy system. The boys.
The boys, yeah. Seven beers deep.
They got jobs. Well, no, answer me there.
You do too. Which one of the boys was the one that was really instigating, that was leading the charge on Google? No, we were just...
I hadn't seen him in a long time. You were doing cyber warfare.
That's usually what happens when I don't see my friends for a long time. Let's go fucking fight in a war.
We were talking, you know, current events. You know, we were talking current events, and we were like.
I do love how it seems that. It's like, how's your kids? Hey, how's your kids? Have you seen any good wars recently we can hop into? I love how Ukraine just, it appears that they have pound for pound the most badass civilians of anywhere in the world.
And when you look at it, they've got like the Klitschko brothers. Yeah, that's my who's back.
Lomachenko. They've got Lomachenko.
What's that town in Iowa? I think it's Iowa City. It's like if you get into a bar fight in Iowa City, chances are you're going to end up either against a collegiate wrestler or a professional MMA fighter.
It's like Ukraine is an entire country just built out of Iowa City. Yeah.
No, but it's not a joke, but it would have been cool if you went.

Yeah.

Well, the sports world has been condemning Putin,

and they're not pulling any punches.

I saw that the World Cup said that no impasse.

Listen, trigger alert for all you impasse out there

that understand emotions and feel bad for other people. You might not want to listen to this part of the podcast because it's about a war.
The World Cup is not allowing Russia to compete using their flag. Whoa.
They're saying, you take this one step further, Russia, and you're out of the tournament. Damn.
But as of right now, they're allowed're allowed to compete I think under the Russian Federation acronym and then uh the judo the International Judo Federation stripped Russian President Vladimir Putin of his most senior official position in world sports citing the ongoing war conflict in Ukraine I this is like um this is very similar to uh DMing Caleb Williams and being like I know it's probably not going to do anything, but if there's like a .001%, what if Putin was like, they took away my judo black belt? I'm out. Well, he was the president of the international.
I kind of like it. He was like an honorary president.
Do everything. You know what? I'm banning Vladimir Putin from part of my take.
Yep. Sanctioned.
And any oligarchs. Unless he wants to come on in person, so that way we can kill him.
Yeah, Billy will. Billy will kill him.
Yeah. Okay, so you are invited onto the show, but you have to sit in between Billy and Jake.
And it's not a trap. Not a trap at all.
It's not a trap. But yeah, we are sanctioning all oligarchs, Russian oligarchs, and Vladimir Putin from coming on Part of My Take.
And we are pro-Ghost, that's that. That's one of those ones that's weird.
It doesn't matter though. It was going like three for three on misinformation.
No, no, it doesn't matter if it's disagreeing. I saw Billy's tweet and immediately I want to believe it, but if like I consider myself a student of warfare, an aviation war as well, I don't think anyone's got an ace in a day in like 75 years.
Right, because there hasn't been a war. Because they didn't have air-to-air missiles like they have right now, which makes it virtually impossible.
It was 30 hours, so he landed and went back up. That's also the weird...
He tapped in. He didn't sleep in.
He switched planes. He fell back asleep.
Gassed up, grabbed some combos at 7-Eleven and went back up there for some strikes. I mean, pumping misinfo, that's going to actually help them now.
So it doesn't really matter. Maybe if there's a 0.01% that Billy's tweet about the ghost help, sure.
I just think there's definitely a weird thing that's happening on Twitter right now of war porn. That it's like, I feel really uncomfortable with this.
I'm just going to stick to college basketball. I did respect the guy that was carrying the anti-tank mine away from the bridge while smoking a cigarette.
Was that real? That was real. And then there was the pharma.
That could have been from any time. No, that was real.
And it's an anti-tank mine. Do we know that was real? I saw it from several people on the top line.
Who cares? Let's just gas up the Ukrainians. Yeah, just gas up.
They need some gas. Careful, careful.
We're also making... Oh, shit.
Come on. We're hyping them up.
But it also makes war look cool and war's not cool. War's not cool.
That's the part that's a little... But Klitschko standing with a machine gun was pretty fucking badass.
It is, but the situation that he's in. Right, right.
Very uncool. Right.
Deeply uncool sitch. A lot of fake videos going around.
That's the weird part. All right, should we do Hot Seat Cool Throne? Well, the weirdest part is the people that take a video that know that it's not from this thing, and then they just tweet it out themselves.
Well, it's for clout. The people that start it, it's very, very strange.
Do you think that? Yeah. I mean, this is this is listen.
We're at a point in the world where I don't think there's anything that could ever happen. Tragedy, like an apocalypse where someone wouldn't be out there trying to get some cloud off of it.
That's just a fact. That's just how the game works now.
I'm sure there'll be some fake nuclear missile clout going around.

People will be like, oh, look, I saw these warheads down the street.

Like when Matt Patricia tried to do that to Marcus Mariota before the playoff game in Hawaii.

And they're like, hey, nuclear threat inbound.

That's right.

That's right.

Did he really do that?

No.

That would have been fucking awesome.

We got a lot of fact checking on this. Spotify is going to pull this podcast for sure.
Fuck it. We'll be the bad boys.
This episode, the only episode ever deleted. Do you think, could we do an episode of the Joe Rogan podcast? Like one of the ones that they took down where we just, we do a cover episode.
We just say all the words. Billy has to say them.
Deal. Okay.
Jake has to say them. Jake's quoting it.
You know he wouldn't say it. Nobody's ever covered a podcast before, though.
Could be lucrative. Just re-release them like Taylor Swift.
Alright, let's do Who's Back? Sorry, Hank. Who's back? You're right.
I'm out of practice. I don't know why I'm out of practice.
Why would I be out of practice? Oh, because we didn't have a show last Monday. That's why I'm out of practice.
Yep. Yep.
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This is my favorite time of the year because college baseball is back. Oh, yeah.
Ping. No MLB.
Thank you, Mitzi. Thank you, Mitzi.
We'll get to the MLB later at the end of the show. But Tommy Tanks.
Yep. He's on NC State.
I believe it's seven home runs in his first nine, maybe eight out of ten. Either way, he's kind of the main story, the main attraction of college baseball this year.
With no baseball going on, it's getting an even more heightened coverage. This is college baseball's time to shine.
Bombs. Yeah, he does.
Tommy Tanks. Who's the guy? He's a great name.
Who's the dude on? I think he's on Ole Miss. The big dude.
Yeah, that guy's like seven feet tall. That dude's awesome too.
Tommy Tanks has, I saw a list of most home runs per team. Eight home runs in seven games.
Yeah, like, no, I think it's nine now. I think it is nine.
Nine and eight games. Wow.
I have the stats here. Yeah.
Nine home runs, 21 RBIs, 29 RBIs. I like what you said.
Go with RBIs. Okay, RBIs.
Go with RBIs. Also, some people get mad when you say RBIs because technically it's R runs batted in.
This would sound weird. RBIs.
RBIs. It's RISB.
And 588 batting average. Wow.
Sheesh. Are they playing real teams yet? I got to check.
Tommy Tanks is on another planet. I'm not going to do that.
We should just get the disinfo going. Just become a disinformation podcast.
This guy, Tommy Tanks, is the guy from the Little League World Series a few years ago that said he just loves hitting dingers. Evansville, High Point, Longwood, and Quinnipiac.
Quinnipiac. Great schools.
Legit. They scored double-digit runs in 6 of 8.
I'm sure Quinnipiac is up to speed on baseball. Yes, absolutely.
In January and February in Connecticut. I'm sure they've been training nonstop.
I feel like their baseball team is just their hockey team that's trying to stay in shape. It's like all the cold-weather teams coming down.
Yeah, they're pushing the extras in one of the three games. Falls to 10 in 10 innings.
Just to get Tommy Tanks to tank their ass. All right, that's your Who's Back?

That is.

I also had Storm Chasers and Billy War Mode.

Yeah, we covered that.

Billy War Mode.

PFT, your Who's Back?

My Who's Back of the week is Hank the Tank.

Hank the Tank is back.

He's been kind of exonerated.

So they did DNA testing on all the bear break-ins. It turns out there are three different bears that are performing these break-ins.
Love it. So that means that Hank the Tank is no longer in jeopardy of being shot and killed.
Yeah. Well, what about...
Unless that's misinformation so then they can make you... It's okay if they kill all three.
Do you think it's like... They realize that Hank the Tank had celebrity.
Yeah. If they killed him, it was going to be a problem for him.
Or this could be like their version of The Wire, where they had to invent a serial killer to get more funding. Maybe the Parks Department invented Hank the Tank to get people's attention on the bear break-ins.
That's what I think might be happening, actually. By the way, because we made a Hank the Tank shirt, go buy it in preparation for his untimely death so we could sell more shirts.
Memes tipped me off that the Bengals fans found the Harambe shirt like a few days ago. Took them a couple weeks and they were very mad.
Yeah, they're extremely upset. But to be fair, we told people not to buy the shirt.
We said it was a sicko shirt. And also, to be fair, if you should be mad at anyone, it should be mad at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Not, we didn't kill Harambe. It's a great litmus test of like the, I said that again.
No, it's okay. The hive mind of the internet when it's like, someone posted it, I saw it and was like, I can't believe they made this.
Yeah. And then there was a lot of people being like, I know, this is so fucked up.
And then there was a few people that were finally like, yeah, this is funny. Yeah.
Also. It's not that serious.
Also, shout out to a few people who I assume are AWLs who snitch tagged me. That was nice of them.
It's like, who the fuck made this? And it's right below. It's like, big cat.
It's like, fuck. Damn it.
My other who's back of the week is my back. Have a little back injury that I'm battling through over here.

Ben Simmons?

It's not good.

I stopped doing my stretches because I'm lazy.

I stopped doing my exercises.

So today, as I was cleaning up my pile, the back got thrown out again.

But it's not all bad news because Stu Feiner had reached out to me last Thursday or Friday and invited me to do something really stupid which i was going to do it was oh he hit me up too i did not respond yeah i i replied to it he tried to honeydick me with you did he yeah he honeydicked you he tried good i think i think he honeydicked yeah you say and then i'll say what he said to me Stu Finer reached out and was like hey A bunch of us are doing this half marathon Do you want to sign up For it with us and at the time I was like You know what like I've never wanted to do anything Less in my life than half marathon I hate running Running's the worst it fucking sucks don't do it But I was like maybe Maybe I could be the first person Ever to do a half marathon and not ever tell anybody about it.

So I wasn't going to talk about training.

I wasn't going to talk about it after the fact.

I was just going to do it and see if I could do it just to see if I could do something that I really did not want to do.

But now I have a back injury.

I can't.

That's a week of training.

It's eight weeks away.

There's no chance I can do it now.

If you think canceling a dentist appointment is an electric rush, imagine canceling a half marathon. Yeah, well, I did.
It feels great. He texted me.
He was like, hey, we got this half marathon. PFT's running it.
And I just didn't respond. And then a day later, he was like, you don't love me anymore? I was like, no, I still love you, Stu.
I'm just not running 13 fucking miles on Long Island in like the middle of fucking whatever, March. No, it was going to be May, I think.
Okay, either way. Maybe the first day of May.
But I'm so pumped to not have to train for this fucking thing and then running. And it would have just been the worst of all time.
You got to get back on your stretches, dude. I got to get back on the stretches.
It's like 20 minutes a day that changed my life. I played pickup hoops for the first time in two years on Saturday,

and my stretching before and after was longer than the time I played.

That's just what it is now.

That's just life.

It's so easy to do.

Yeah, this is for us.

Well, the tricky thing is once you do the stretches, you feel better,

and then you stop doing the stretches because you feel better.

Correct.

You're like, I'm good.

My back is good.

All right, my Who's Back of the Week is James Harden,

who is healed of all ailments.

This is a production of all ailments. The new look Sixers look pretty damn good.
Also, everyone's very upset because they're going to break the record for free throws today against the Knicks. Joel Embiid shot 27 free throws and James Harden shot 10.
The game took like four hours. So this is going to be awesome though.
Watching James Harden and I do think the Sixers are very good now. Like James Harden's perfect piece to pair with Embiid but it's going to piss people off especially that James Harden has now done it twice where he's skinny all of a sudden again.
He feels great and he just duped everyone. He's going to do that to Sixers.
Oh, yeah. That's what's so funny about the situation is like a year from now, year and a half from now, they're going to be in the exact same situation that James Harden was with on the Nets.
But you don't care as long as you can win. If you can win and then he turns into a dickhead later, that's fine.
It doesn't matter. But I think everybody in the situation, even Daryl Morey probably knows.
He's like, all right, the clock has started on this right now we have we have about six months of prime harden yes let's let's let's get it done are there any strip clubs in philadelphia yes there are there's a byob strip club in philadelphia oh yeah so that's like two months now love it clocks are two months and then my other who's back is uh buzzfeed because sometimes you just get lucky you're online at the the right time when a tweet gets posted, and you're like, you know this is going to get deleted.

BuzzFeed tweeted at 3 o'clock today.

That was me when I saw Billy's tweet on Friday.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're like, oh, God put me here in this moment, knowing that this won't be here for the next

five minutes from now.

They tweeted, nurses, what is the most haunting thing someone has said to you on their deathbed? my god that's gonna be a hell of a slideshow you won't believe what these people said right before they died how crazy is that tweet take this quiz to find out what sort of haunting deathbed statement you are i'm not even taking it from the perspective of like the like twitter cancellation like fuck dead speed or buzzfeed i almost said dead speed uh buzzfeed i love how buzzfeed just goes so fucking hard in the paint they're like we will make content out of anything i wish they kept that up like why not like go i even said i was like do do paramedics like paramedics what's the like grossest dead body you've ever come across just like the grossest thing you've seen yeah police officers tell us yeah what's the most gruesome crime what's the most gruesome car crash you've ever seen paramedics and there's definitely the thing is there's a market out there for it yeah if they had made that article they definitely would have gotten all the traffic from it and everybody would have like pretended to dunk on it but the reality is people would have clicked on it because they're interested in the in the creepiest shit ever yeah buzzfeed go for it this is why uh what was the old website the uh not live leak uh faces of death remember that yeah that was a website for a while folks i don't know if it's still there yeah upworthy that shit you were just going on to see dead bodies there's a reddit thread about people's last words really yeah and there, and there's a ton of them. So that's probably what they did.
Yeah, it's usually, it was all about people confessing crimes they did when they were younger that they'd gotten away with. And then one guy said where the money was hidden.
Wait, Billy, pull up the thread. And then later on in this episode, there's a cliffhanger.
We're going to do the BuzzFeed article. Okay, cool.
Yeah. That would be awesome, though.
Like, right before you die, you just whisper to the nurse, I did it. It's like, and then they got to figure out what the fuck you did.
Can we backtrack real quick to the dead body website? Yeah, facesofdeath.com. Or rotten.
You remember rotten? Yeah. Rotten was really bad.
This is early internet. Early internet.
I don't even want to look on them anymore. It was just like, could just see.
It was basically, it was actually Rex Chapman's Twitter feed. It was like, watch this guy get electrocuted, block or charge.
You'd go over to your friend's house, the friend that had absentee parents that were never around, after school, and then you would go on the internet, type in rotten.com, and then your fucked up friend would be like, look at this guy who got shot in the face with a after school and then you would go on the internet type in rotten.com and then your fucked up friend would be like look at this guy got shot in the face with a shotgun and then all the sane people in the room would be like okay we're leaving yeah no we don't want to look and then you'd look and be like no i shouldn't have looked i peaked and then i was like i'm above this this was terrible yeah i'm gonna pretend that i'm better than you'd have one kid who would just be like would love it and he'd be like be like, this is fucked up. FacesDeath.com.
Wasn't there a curb thing where he got a death book? Did I make that up? I don't know about that. I was more of a mulletsgalore.com guy.
Yeah. Hank was a meat spin guy.
I've said meat spin a few times. People are like, definitely.
I mean, I meat spin my friends all the time. That's funny.
It was the original one. Yeah, set it in as your homepage.
I was a Lively guy, but not... Lively got a little of that.
That had crazy shit, but not like... Yeah, Lively got a little of that.
I didn't think I was going on there for dead bodies. Am I...
I was a Justin TV guy. Go there, watch some preseason NFL games.
Check out the chat. The chat on the Justin TV streams was always electric.
That was Twitch, right? It turned into Twitch, yeah. It was Twitch before Twitch was.
Maybe? No, it literally, like... No, it did, yeah.
It turned into company, became Twitch. But originally, it was just like people broadcasting, like, I don't know, Univision.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you had just like illegal streams from everywhere on the planet.
So I think I've Berenstain Baird myself. Faces of Death was a movie.
I think I'm thinking of Rotten. You're thinking of Rotten.
Faces of Death was a video series. That's right.
One day I rented a house out in Dewey Beach, Delaware. Went out there with my friends and they had an entire VHS collection of all the Faces of Death.
That's right. It was yes.
Okay. It's fucked.
Yeah, Dewey Beach is a fucked up place. Alright, Billy, you're who's back.
My who's back was the Klitschko brothers, but I think I'm going to bring back the spreadsheet from March Madness. Oh, good.
Look, I know this is ridiculous. Here's how I bet every team and only lost 25 cents.
I'm thinking I'm going to take all the favorites from the first round and bet all of them to win the whole thing as a future, and then

bet the money line on all

of the underdogs so that

the money line pays for all

the future bets.

And then if they lose...

I like it. Let Billy cook.
This makes sense.

But then if they lose, then

in the next round, bet the future on those

teams. Can I ask you a question, though?

Yeah. Not about the spreadsheet, but

have you thought about just gambling?

Responsibly, but like

Thank you. the next round bet the future on those teams.
Can I ask you a question, though? Yeah. Not about the spreadsheet, but have you thought about just gambling? Responsibly, but like I've been doing one pick a day.
It's fun because you're like, this is my one game. I feel strongly about this.
I like to bet on this game, not betting on a game being like, well, if they win, I can also win this one and that one because you're never gambling.

You found a way to just make hedging

a lifestyle. It's arbitrage.

Yeah, he's just hedging constantly.

I have been following

college basketball as closely

as some guys that I really don't have.

You think that

I follow soccer

when I bet on it? You don't actually follow them? No. Do you guys want to do a quick talk in soccer? Yeah, sure.
Yeah, what's up? Did something happen today? Oh, yeah. Caribou Cup.
Caribou Cup. The goalie came out and Baggio'd it into the fifth deck.
It's sick. What does that mean? Hit it really high over.
Yeah. Roberto Baggio.
Yeah. You don't have to be an expert.
I mean, you could be an expert, but even if you're an expert, I don't think you'll win. I just feel like this way, I feel like I have control.
I should have stopped you. I'm sorry.
Okay, so I was with you until you got to the second round, and then in the second round, you then bet futures on any underdog that wins. You do the same thing.
Yeah. That isn't already factored into your...
So if any of the underdogs win, then you bet a future on them. This sounds like what's going to happen is you're eventually going to have one of your futures hit and you're going to make back like 15% of everything that you've lost.
Right. Yeah.
Like Gonzaga's going to win it all. No, or Kentucky's going to win it all and you're going to get them at 6-1 and you're going to win back...
But I'll do the math with the spreadsheet and figure out how to allocate the money so that it all balances out. And if I can figure it out the situation where I always make money then I'm going to ask for a loan.
Okay, I like it. And I'll give you that loan.
Perfect. How much money? I don't think that that exists though.
You can't figure out a way. There's no way you can tell me.
Yes, you can. What's the optimal bankroll Billy tell me don't let them walk me through this long process the thing is I know it doesn't exist but it's like chasing Bigfoot once I find everything didn't exist until someone figured it out right why don't you just try to find this then I'm gonna get like millions of dollars I think I'm gonna need millions of dollars I'm gonna put it all into this spreadsheet oh you're already saying millions until Steve Jobs created it don't you think someone else would have done done this? Right, but everyone thinks it's impossible.
They're not as smart as Billy. You're right.
You're right. Possible is nothing.
But again, why wouldn't you just put in all your energy into one game and having an opinion about one game? Because that's what everyone does. If you go 1-0, you can just walk away from the entire tournament.
Billy wants to break Vegas. How about that? I'm trying to break Vegas.
Billy breaks Vegas. I believe in you, Billy.

Good luck.

You just tell me how much you need in a loan.

The only difference between a genius and what's that quote I once said?

Yep.

Forgot about that.

The only difference between a genius and Billy is the genius doesn't forget the quote.

Forget the quote.

No, I like that quote, though.

Yeah.

The only difference between being a genius and what's the rest of that quote that I said one time? Dash Billy football. It's a great quote.
I want you to do it, Billy. We'll get an update on it.
We'll figure it out. The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has limits.
That's not a good quote for you. That's not it.
No, it's like the only difference between... You're insane.
You're saying you're insane. Yeah.
There's no limit to Billy's insanity, which makes him a genius. It's going to be fun.
Yeah, I look forward to it. You're going to break Vegas.
I'm going to ride with Billy. I said I bankroll.
You don't even have to see the number. You don't have to give me the pitch deck.
You just have to be like, yo, I got a way. I will bankroll.
Sweet. We got to brand it, though.
We got to give it like Billy's... Billy Budget Betting.
That's terrible. Billy's Budget Betting.
No, you need a... Triple B? I made a couple YouTube videos.
Triple B? You triple B, bitch? Oh. Yeah.
Triple B. You baby back, bitch? Or it could be a big baller.
It could be a big baller. Big baller, Bill.
Or it could be the Better Business Bureau. Big ballers make big bets.
Yeah, they don't make, I'm going to hedge and hopefully win 15. No, I'm not going to.
I'm bankrolling. It's going to work.
Will you let me be devil's advocate when you show me the final plan? Yes. Okay, great.
That's all I want. One final.
If you gave me $1,000, Big Cat, and I said I can give you back $1,002. Yeah.
No, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to give you $1,000 You're going to put it out I mean that's 2% return That's what I'm saying That's a great return No it's not Did you say $100 He said $1,000 Okay my bad It's still a profit You know what That's on them for not betting enough to make enough money in the profit.
If you only put that $1,000, he can only get you $2 back. I actually don't think he would keep up with inflation if I gave you that $1,000 on March 1st and you gave me back $1,002 April 15th.
We got to give it a good label, though, like Billy's Quantum Computing. I'm bankrolling you.
I don't need anything more. i don't believe it but i believe it enough to bankroll you it's like an impossible word problem that you're never going to figure out but no fun exercise no no see i don't like this because i'm bankrolling you and you just told me that it's not going to work okay here's what we call it billy's banned in vegas betting formula it's banned in vegas you just say that it's not legal.
Casinos hate him.

Casinos hate this guy.

Try not to come.

Tons of locals

in your five mile radius.

Alright, Jake,

your who's back. My who's back is respecting

Steph Curry. I know we try to come up

with these quarterly reminders,

but there was a viral video today. I saw it.
His warm-ups. Yeah, no defenders.
They did lose. He was just casually sinking threes from the logo.
He's so good. What he did in that exercise, he started with a sky-high finger roll, and then he would take two steps back, hit shots until he got to half court, then two shots in, and end with another sky-high finger roll.
It's crazy. I don't think he hit the rim a single time.
It's got to be so much fun. Like, think about going on a basketball court, just being like, whatever I shoot, it's going in.
That would be so much fun. You think you'd ever get bored, though? No.
No. He just doesn't.
No. Definitely not.
I think I'd get bored. That's why I'm not an NBA player.
No. It would be so much fun.
Every game would be so much fun like what cool shit am i gonna do this time also john moran's uh 360 layup i was a full 360 i don't know against the bulls was i he looked like he was in the matrix like he was mind bending you want to fix the dunk contest make it a layup contest holy fuck that was insane um all right let's get to coach prime deon sanders we'll do a little MLB lockout on the other side, maybe also talk about who's going to be announcing what games next year and also the Billy's, what, on the deathbed. On the deathbed.
Hand up. I botched a question to Deion Sanders, and in retrospect, I'm like, why did I not know that? I asked uh he ever raced against Randy Moss yeah at Florida State because Randy Moss went to Florida State for like I don't know a month or so and I thought that it was during the end but the bottom line is I'm going to throw Coley under the bus because he told me to ask that question yeah afterwards I actually went up to you I was like was that a bit that I didn't understand no Coley was like you should ask him this question call, Coley.
Turns out Coley's trying to get me fired. Yeah.
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Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite guests. He is recurring, I don't know, 15 times now? Yeah, I've been a few times now.
And plus, it's Black History Month, so you guys needed me. Yes, that is the voice, the iconic voice of Deion Sanders.
Will it be when we run it on Monday? Yes, last day. Oh, it's last day.
We're having to close out the Black History Month. We're in a short month, so you've got to get me in.
It's a buzzer beater. You hit the buzzer beater on Black History Month.
There you go. Yeah, it is Coach Prime, Deion Sanders.
Coach Prime fall season is out now,

Tuesdays and Thursdays.

You can watch live on YouTube on the Barstool Sports channel.

I watch both episodes.

I love the show.

I do have to talk to you, though, about,

let's start here.

You were wearing a hat on episode two.

It matched.

It was basically, I don't know if you saw the picture, PFT. It was.
PFT can't say anything right now. Why is that? Expand on that thought.
I can't. He said, I'm wearing a hat.
Yeah. And when he said that, my eyes went over to your hat.
Yeah. And that's it.
I am wearing a hat. He looks like a Newsies slash Peaky Blinders slash Paperboy.
I like that. I like that, too.
Again, you're wearing a ridiculous hat, so you have to defend him. It's a ridiculous hat.
Actually, this is the anti-cancer hat in the NFL. So are you pro-cancer? No, I'm not.
Okay. I'm anti.
But, yeah, the hat was old-school swag, is what you called it? It was old-school swag. Okay.
It was nice. I love the show, though.
If you don't watch it, it is very, very good. Beers is unbelievable.
I mean, the doubleness in him is unbelievable. You would not think.
And oftentimes, Sam, we call him Sam Malone, my trusty right-hand man, he texts me a picture of Dana chugging beers, and he always alludes to, this is your producer. Yes.
Yeah, I actually said it last night, like watching the show and being like, wow, this is an incredible documentary inside look into what you guys are building and knowing that the guy behind all of it is the beer guy. It should win an Academy Award.
No, honestly. Honestly.
he's got to win something it's crazy it is it's crazy that dana has the ability to flip a switch where he's oh my god he's able to produce some decent content sometimes he's got a good eye for things but then you know the second that he hits the power button on that camera he's just like grabbing the nearest beer and dumping it down his shirt and that's like that's what he does he's a different guy in. He's two different men.
What's he like down there? Is he less snake-ish? He's not snake-ish. He's really locked in.
He's focused. He's a leader of Barstool's men and women.
Do you think the locker room has accepted Dana? Oh, they love him. He's a hit.
of Dana, like, you don't let him drink down there, right?

Well, I can't control this grown man.

Right.

But me and Mama Beers have joined together.

To try to get him to curb it?

Yeah.

To do right.

So if you and Mama Beers are, like, the angel on his shoulder, there's got to be a devil.

Who's the devil?

Barsals.

Yeah, I think it's Dana himself.

Just, like, a smaller version of Dana. It's like, no, do the beer tweet, Dana.
Like, maybe me? Dana. Oh, Dana.
Go ahead, buddy. Come on.
Come on. Don't go for it.
Don't flip. Don't jump.
Don't jump. He's got to.
It's our show. Come on, Dana.
Do it, Dana. Do the beer tweet.
Dana, I'm here. You're? I'm right here.
Dana, I'm right here. Dana, I'm right here.
Dana! This is your producer for all season. You've got to be kidding me.
It was that easy. It's 11 a.m.
Who is this guy? Finish it. It's in the morning time.
Oh, my God. I've never seen this live.
Oh, that's your first experience watching. Oh Oh, no.
Is it bottomless over here? No, no. Is it bottomless? Come on, Dana.
Come on, Dana. No, you can't do it.
Just one more. You can't do it.
Just one more. Do not fall for pimp rate.
Dana, come on. Who is this guy, man? It's 11.05 in the morning.
Who is this man? Oh, man. Man, I got to call Mama Beers.
Oh, my God. Is it that easy to get him back? Yeah, there's no real rhyme or reason to.
If you just say the word beer to him, he's like, I guess I got a beer. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Another one.
Just one more. Oh, my God.
Come on, man. One more beer.
One more beer. One more beer.
This show in the Warriors is not about me. All right, come on, Dana.
One more beer. One more beer.
There's no way. One more beer.
There's no way. This show in the audience is not about me.
No. I'm calling it.
Come on, Dana. One more beer.
You got this. That's it.
That's it. I'm done.
I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.
All right. I'm throwing it in my back pocket.
You got to be kidding me. One more beer.
I've never seen him this way. It's funny, too, because I was planning to Dana to not address him until the end of the show, but his presence, you just want him to chug a beer.
He's a very specific type of pet that has one use. It's like if your dog would only let you give belly rubs, Dana's one thing is if I see beer, I chug beer.
I've never seen this guy. Chug that last one.
Come on. Yeah, he's a different guy.
Mama beers. I'm drinking again.
He's drinking again. No, I'm sitting in here doing a podcast, and I've never seen this Dana Beers in my life.
I had to call you. Oh, my God.
Dan is just holding up a beer and throwing it over to him, and he's downing it. Like, I've never seen this guy.

Oh, that's a great sound.

He's a crispy boy.

Bye, Mom.

Go hit him with your Bible again.

Oh, my God. Dion, now, do you know that Dana actually put a beer up his butt once?

Mama Beers, we'll call you back.

We'll call you back, Mama Beers.

My mother's on the phone.

It's getting bad.

We will. I'll call you back, Mama Beers.
Okay. True story.
Good to see you, too. Those guys are not good for you.
They're not good for your son. I'll talk to you later, Mama Beers.
Wait, Dana. Did you put the funnel up your butt? It's not about me.
It was a funnel in your butt. Dana, it was a funnel? A funnel in his butt.
The more important things than they're talking about. Wait, wait, no, no.
Did you go to Home Depot and, like, buy a new funnel and take it home knowing that you were going to put up your butt? Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. He put a funnel in his butt, drunk a beer.
Yep. Coach Brown.
Did you ever use that funnel again? That's your Scorsese. He hasn't denied it.
That's your Spielberg. That's him right there.
That's your Spielberg. Dana, what did you do with the funnel afterwards? Coach Prime, this is not who you think it is, all right? Oh, my goodness.
Well, no, it is. It's Dana Beer.
It's not Dana B. He mowed the beer up, then just flipped it over.
It was that easy. Oh, my God.
All right, we'll let Dana cool for a second. Sam, you've been right, Sam.
You can sip it, and we'll let you cool. But it is a great documentary.
I have some questions, though, about it. Please.
You do something that's genius. When you hit a point, and I can see it in your eyes where you're like, oh, that was good what I just said, and you repeat it.
Yeah. Because then it really hits it home.
So, yeah, your speeches are always electric. Some of those kids are – some of them are like hanging on everywhere.
You can see it in their eyes. Some of them are like, shut up.
Let's go out there and play. Right.
We're ready to go play. Shiloh, my son, is one of those guys.
Do you care? He's probably heard it so much. No, he's not.
He hasn't heard it. He just wants to go play.
He's just always going to do something crazy. There's that arc, though.
You bring it up to a high bubble, and then you just crash at the end. It's like if it's a pot that you're boiling water in, it gets up, starts to boil, boil, and you just smash it and knock it on the floor, and then everybody goes nuts.
I'm just ready for them. I just want to provoke thought and get them to a point where I got them mentally, and then they can go out there and exude the physicality of it.
Who gave the best speeches to you when you were in the NFL or college? I didn't have big speech givers. Really? No.
Bobby Bowden was not a speech giver? No, he just laid out a few points that you had to go do and you had to pull off in the game and you're going to win if you did those several things. But no, I never played for great guys that really relied on speeches.
When you were back at Florida State, were you teammates with Randy Moss for like a week? No, he was AP. That means after prime.
Okay, it was after prime. Because I was curious if you ever had a chance to race him in your prime.
No. Moss was unbelievable, man.
You said he was a lot younger than you. Yes.
But I thought that there was a short period of time that maybe you were around him. No.
Do you think your prime versus his prime, heads up, who wins in a race? I'm never going to say I'm going to lose a race. One of the guys that probably would have presented the biggest challenge probably would have been Daryl Green.
Yeah. Yeah.
I just went to him the other day, too, man. He probably would have been the one that presented the most challenge in the primes.
You think it was like you and him, two fastest players in the league for a while? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not just – see, it's like Randy, to his credit, Randy is arguably the best that ever played the position.
But Randy was fast on the field. There's a lot of fast guys that are not fast on the field.
Like you can't see them play with their speed. Daryl Green played with it.
He played

with it. And a few guys played

with it. A lot of guys running

at the combine, but they don't play with it.

Yeah. And then it's always fun to

see. I love watching all the

compilations of defenders chasing

down speedsters in the

open field. And Daryl Green used to do stuff

like that. Is there any guy that you ever

chased down, you hit him,

and he was like, oh, that's embarrassing.

I just got to top him behind.

No, they don't say that, but you go get him, and they know.

They know it's over.

Their reputation is done.

One of my favorite parts about this fall season and Coach Prime

is you can see the change that's happening at Jackson State. And I'm going to – you're a humble guy.
Not really. But I am going to say like it's incredible to watch it.
Even the little things like – it's a big thing, but the field, changing the field. The field you guys practiced on in the first year was garbage.
Yeah, it was truly terrible. Garbage was an understatement when you had to take a bus 15 minutes away to go practice at a high school field and you're at college.
The potholes weren't even the worst thing. It was a big fall off on the side of the field that if someone were on a fade and ran off the side of the field, you're going to dislocate your leg or something's going on.
And they said it actually happened. That's crazy.
They said then they had like the – what is the thing? Did the water go in on the side of the field? The gutters or something? It was horrible. And so now you have a new synthetic beautiful practice.
Oh, beautiful. Thanks to Walmart.
Okay, so that was Walmart. So you're – and then what's the next thing you're going to upgrade? Because I – We got a new locker room almost done.
I love it. I love seeing it because you can see, you know, a lot of times you'll watch college football and a lot of the coaches will say, well, it's about building men and all this stuff.
It's like, okay, that's kind of lip service. You know what I mean? Like Alabama, they're trying to win national titles.
Yeah. But you're doing things day to day.
That we need. Where you watch, you're watching, you know, like press conferences with one of your players being like, look how many times he says the word man.
Or look how many times he ums. He was an eye guy.
Right. Eye, eye, eye, eye.
Like, dude, come on, man. Come on.
Come on. And those type of little things.
Yeah. So locker room, what's next after that? Well, first of all, we had to rehaul of equipmentarmor came in did uniform so we have several uniforms there are three more coming this year we get on the phone personally cut deals with underarmor not underarmor uh zenith as well as uh ride l for the helmets two different helmet companies the equipment is so many things nfl did a great job of helping us with some of the equipment and the field equipment because you take those tackling dummies and sleds, you take all this stuff for granted.
We got a joining field that now is adjacent to the turf field. It's a grass field that we could practice two groups simultaneously and get special teams done at the same time the offensive defense is going.
There's so many little things like that. Cafeteria, trying to build a whole inclusive cafeteria right now so that we don't have to go across campus and the kids eat right there self-encompassing with ourselves instead of sharing it with another sport or whatever.
All those are huge things. I saw that you're also playing hardball with some of the scheduling stuff that you have going on.
Yeah. Because it actually became apparent to you and there's no way that hustle yeah it's a hustle exactly people don't realize that until like you know you're pointed out your presence there has uh you know aside from the stuff that has happened on the field but the attention that you attract just by being you there i think has educated a lot of people as to how a lot of these things negatively affect the children that are the that go to school there.
So, like, the scheduling thing, you're losing money on some of these trips, right? We're losing money tremendously. Like, this particular classic that you're talking about.
First of all, why would two colleges need a promoter? You're two colleges and you have ADs. Why would you need a promoter? That's number one.
Secondly, I think the fee was like over 30 years, $6 million. That's peanuts.
So by the time you take several buses, seven buses for real for the band, four buses for the players, a couple for the people, assistants or whatever, hotel accommodations, food, you're out of that. That 180, 200 ground, you're out of that.
So you didn't make nothing. So you really came up there on a blank trip, and we got to stop that foolishness.
The first thing we need to take care of as HBCUs is the business aspect of everything, and that's something that we're changing right now. We're taking care of business.
Do you think that your school and all the schools you play against, are they starting to come around to like – because I know that when you showed up, it's like, hey, we're changing things. And maybe people didn't – people don't love change right away.
Oh, my God. Now you own it.
Now you understand it. They have a way of doing it.
So you're the most loved by this section of the people, but you're the most hated by this section of the people because when you start changing things, you expect jobs.. And security and stability.
And the hustle that's been going on for years. So have people become more like, hey, look, what Coach Prime is doing here is like, this is good.
These are good things. People on the outside and some people on the inside, coaches are calling like, hey, man, thank you for saying that because we're dealing with the same thing, but we can't say it.
Right. So that's a positive.
Yeah.

I mean, you're in a unique situation where you do have the power to get a deal where you can get a new field and talk about all these things knowing that you're good. The biggest power is having stability that you don't need it.
Right. Because now you can say what needs to be said

and you're not afraid of losing the job

because, all right, I'm good.

Right.

You don't have to worry about trying to smooth anything over.

Yeah, right.

You're not trying to make any friends.

You just want to work for the kids

and do what's right by the kids.

Like, you guys heard it during the pandemic.

You heard all the Fortune 500 businesses say, we're doing this for HBCUs, we're doing that, right? Where did the money go? Right. Where did the change? I hadn't seen any change.
It went through like three middlemen. So, no, no, I want to know, where did it go? I'm hearing all these endowments to all these HBCUs.
Where did it go? Right. Somebody raised their hand and say, okay, we did get the check and this is what we did.
I haven't heard that yet. Right.
And you are doing things that you can see day to day. Tangibly.
Right. Every day.
Right. So you're a smart guy.
You've always got a plan. And we think, well, first of all, we think Barstool's as well, because now you could actually see the change.
Right. If not for that, you can see it.
You're always a smart guy. You've always had, like, whenever I see you operate, I'm like, that's a guy that's thinking, like, three steps ahead.
You have an ultimate goal that you want to get to. What is that? Well, I want to see these kids have equality, man.
I want to see them have opportunity. Just like something simple as having a pro day.
A pro day is something simple to you. But it's not simple to HBCUs.
It's not simple to have a pro day. And scouts actually come to see what you got.
So I even took it a step further. I said, you know what? Let's just have, I want Grambling, Southern.
Those schools are in Louisiana. They even come to our pro day.
So the NFL said, no, they can't come to your pro day because they have to stay in state. I say, so they have to go to LSU's pro day.
And when they get ready to run their hundreds or forties or whatever they do, their drills, nobody's going to look up at them because they're waiting for the LSU guys. So that's what you're putting our kids through because that's how it's been for life.
So we're having several schools in Mississippi come to our pro day, but I'm fighting for other HBCUs to come to one particular pro day. So you see yourself sticking around in the HBCU environment for a long time? I see myself making change immediately where I am today.
I don't look to tomorrow, man. I'm going to miss today if I look to tomorrow.
Yeah. The pro day stuff and having scouts come to, to your practices.
I, it's like the beauty of sports when I, when I'm watching you and how you coach, because you know, sports are not the most important thing in life, but you said it yourself, like letting these kids feel what it feels like to win and to have success can build them forever. Forever.

And it's just like those are the building blocks. Because having a day where it's like, ooh, I did this, I accomplished this,

now you know how to do something else and accomplish something.

Truly, and these guys are smart, the tough, the fast, the disciplined.

It may come a day that you guys or Erica may say, you know what,

I see the guys you're producing from your program, two employees,

they can start at $75,000 a piece or whatever. Give me two that you'd really trust.
I like that. I want that.
I want these kids to go into the workforce and make a difference, man. Because 95% of them are not going pro.
That's for every program. 95% of the kids play for you are not going pro.
How many pros do you have on your roster though now? I know that's a terrible question after you said that. That just came out or on the roster? That are like you could say, and you don't have to say names, but you're like these off the top of your head, how many kids do you think can play in the NFL? That play for me right now.
Yes. 15.
Wow. That's crazy.
That's got to be. Was it zero when you got there? When I got there was none was none.
Yeah. That's crazy.
None. I mean, we've had the top two classes in FCS the last two years, recruiting classes, and we bring in all these – let me tell you something, the portal now, man, it's free agency.
Yeah. I feel bad for high school kids because we're only taking like four to five high school kids this year, and they're getting the short end of the stick.
The NCAA is going to have to come in and say, we've got to increase the scholarship for high school kids because why would you take the chance when you already have a plethora of kids that's already been to college, made the adjustment, and you know what's wrong with them or you know what's right with them, and you'd rather go there instead of risk getting a high school kid.

Yeah, 22-year-old versus an 18-year-old is a very big difference.

Very big difference.

And coaches are getting fired in a couple years,

so you're trying to get guys ready to help you now.

Right.

No one's red shirts anymore.

Yeah.

You've said that if a major program wants to lose a recruit to you,

let that recruit go to an HBCU homecoming, right? so um we're white guys yeah we probably i'm gonna guess that there are a couple white guys that are also listening to the show those guys right there are white but yep yep beers we got it we got we got a few years egyptian shout out whiteys in here uh can you explain to us what is different about those homecoming weekends. The pageantry, the culture,

they don't just come from the game. They come from the moment.
It's like a darn awards show. That's the closest thing that I can appropriate it to, right? Like not just the BET Awards, like American Music Awards, like a Grammys.
That's what an HBCU homecoming is. And then you happen to have two events happening on the same day, which is the game, and the halftime performances by the bands.
It's unbelievable, man. But the party, it's like a darn bowl, like the bowl game that you guys are going to do in Arizona.
It's like a party for the whole week. It's a week-long festivity.
I never experienced that at Florida State. You didn't even give a darn about homecoming.
It's just another game. You recruit a garbage opponent so you can beat the brakes off of them, and that's what it is.
It's totally different, man. What's the strip called down the center of Jackson? They just called it the set or whatever the strip.
That down the whole center of Jackson school. Dana's wasted right now.
Yeah, he's drunk. His eyes are just completely glazed.
Did you finish your third beer? Did you finish your third beer? I looked at him and I saw his soul. Yeah.
It's like nobody home. Dude, nobody was there.
I looked at him and saw his soul. I don't think Dana even realized that you were talking to him.
You guys were just staring each other in the eyes and Dana was lost in space. You know what? I think I got it.
No, one more. You got to drink your way out of this.
I got one more for him. No, I got one more for him.
No, no, peer pressure. All right.
Listen, that will help you. I'll fix you up.
The HBCU homecoming weekends do sound like a lot of fun. It's not just like a day.
No, it is crazy, but I didn't know. I didn't know myself.

I drove my golf cart through there checking on my kids.

Checking on not my sons, but checking on my football players because I didn't want them to get caught up in the mayhem.

Man, it was ridiculous.

Thousands of people just lined the whole school corridor.

It's unbelievable.

It's crazy, man.

I kind of want to go now. Then we got 60,000 in the game.
Yeah, yeah. Didn't top it off.
Are you looking for a kicker? Yeah. Maybe bring me down on the upcoming weekend.
No, no, we signed a four-star kicker. Oh, I'm only three and a half.
It seems like you signed him in the last four seconds. No, I had to read.
When you say you're looking for a kicker, you always use a kicker, punter. But a kicker, I signed a guy that's pretty darn good.

Okay.

He's really good.

Can you explain how the Travis Hunter, who if you don't follow college football,

he was the number one recruit in the nation, signed with Jackson State.

Everyone then accused Barstool of paying for him, which is not true.

You guys gave him $2 million, right?

Yeah.

Three? I gave him the extra million on top. He closed the deal.
My counter to that is if Barstow was handing out money, Caleb Williams would be a Wisconsin Badger. And Michigan would have awesome recruits.
Oh, my God. It would be insane.
I think that would probably happen first. So how did you get the number one? How did that process go? He came to a homecoming.
That's it? No, that was 70% of it. Really? We just couldn't mess up the other 30.
Right. That was 70%.
He was committed to your alma mater. Yeah.
People were very upset. I don't care.
Very upset. They don't own the kid.
They probably should have hired you if they wanted to. Yeah, there you go.
But what was the pitch? It wasn't a pitch. We don't pitch kids.
We just really, you know what, guys? You're going to have an opportunity to come here and get an education and play some darn good football and have a good time. And we're going to teach you.
Travis' mother just texted me. I wanted you to sit down and talk to him about this, this, and nothing bad because he's a great kid.
You're talking about work ethic and all that.

Unbelievable.

Doing great in school.

He's already on campus.

And I say, I promise you, Mama, you sent me a boy,

you're going to get back a man in three years before he goes pro.

And that's probably the only promise that we have.

Yeah.

We don't promise you.

You're going to get a certain number.

Like the number thing, Travis was going to wear one.

I think he wanted one, didn't he? He wanted his high school number.

So he did it with the other kid that was wearing 12.

They did that.

We don't handle all that.

I don't give a darn what number you are. And he's just a good kid.
He didn't have to be promised nothing. You know, we didn't have to try to buy him.
We don't have any money to buy him, first of all. But the kid just has an insatiable appetite to play football.
And he can do it. Like what I've seen thus far, the kid's a stud, man.
His work ethic, he's working out, putting on weight, getting bigger and stronger faster. But even in the mat drills on Tuesdays, Thursdays, the dude is the first one in the line, I mean, ready to go, getting on the older kid.
Like, come on, get up on the line. Get your hands off your knees.

He's dead.

I had him in the office the other day.

I said, why did you go to left corner?

Because I saw you at left corner instead of right.

I just want to know your thought process.

He said, Coach, I don't give a darn where you put me.

I'm going to cover.

As a matter of fact, just let me play.

Man, I'm good.

Give me the best opposing team's best player.

That's the way he thinks already.

And it's going to have a big impact because he's going to go to the NFL, and then every day, every time he's on a primetime game,

He's going to say,

Thank you. That's the way he thinks already.
And it's going to have a big impact because he's going to go to the NFL and then every day, every time he's on a primetime game, he's going to say Jackson State. And it's like everything snowballs from there.
So it's monumental. I know that when it happened that day, it rocked the college football world.
I felt really good about it, but I didn't want to go all in. Right.
But I said it's a pretty good chance we're going to shock the world. Yeah, and you did.
And we shocked the world. You did.
We changed the whole recruiting game. Now, I'm happy with all HBCUs getting three and four stars, not necessarily five stars, but we've got to change the business practices on campuses.
We've got to change the whole thought process of how we function as a business for HBCUs now to keep those kids. You saw some of the bigger schools and the fan bases and a couple coaches like kind of indirectly seeming frustrated with the fact that you took one of the best players to go to your school.
Well, I got something I want to challenge them. Can I do that? Absolutely.
Okay, tell me this. Now, you got NIL deals and we all know know about the NIL, name, image, and likeness.
Now, NIL is like an endorsement deal. I'm seeing kids that colleges proclaim they have a million dollars worth of endorsements, or half a million dollars.
Tell me what have you seen them endorse? They do. I know Hinden was doing an advertisement for apartment complex but it was like not much money at all a lot of raisin canes what have you seen them endorse to quantify that now see when you see our kids or my son and they say you have an endorsement for Beats or Tarman you.
You see it. You see the tangible endorsements.
But how can you get a million dollars worth of endorsements for a kid at these Power Fives and nobody sees nothing they're on? Yeah. So is that really endorsements or there's some kickback, a kickdown from an agent, not an agent, I'm sorry, from a booster? Yeah.
See, we don't have boosters like that. Because you can say, like, I'm paying this person to do advertisements for my car dealership.
But we haven't seen it. And then you just never produce the commercial, right? We've never seen it.
At least if you say you're going to do something, we've got to at least see it. The NCAA should hold people accountable.
If they say they've got a deal and they're making this, show it. So you've got a little bit of pushback from some of these other Power 5 coaches.
What about from within the HBCU community? Was it like universal support or were there a couple guys that were jealous that you got it? No, universal support because they feel like now. See, now what HBCUs are doing, once upon a time they didn't feel like they could get that kid.
So they never offered that kid. They never offered me coming out of high school.
They never offered some of the guys coming out of high school. They never thought they could get him.
Now they're throwing out offers to people and trying to get them on camp. They believe now that they got a shot.
That's the difference. It takes some guts too for Travis Hunter and Kevin Coleman and those guys.
They're kind of like leading what feels like it could be a major sea change in college football. They're kind of the ones that are saying, you know what,

we're going to be the first to do it.

We're going to go out on our own and try to start something new.

Could you get the sense from – I know you talked about Travis a little bit,

but like with Kevin, could you get the sense that like these are guys that are willing to kind of go out and start something

that nobody else has really done before?

That's what they've done, and that's the kind of players that they are. Everybody don't have that DNA.
Everybody don't have that. And you've got to be willing to say, you know what? This is where I come from, but I know this is where I'm going.
So in between time, I'm going to do this because I know it's inevitable that I get here anyway. You're doing a pretty good job bringing people in to speak to the kids.

You brought in one of my heroes, actually, Brittany Renner.

I'm trying to say Brittany.

I need you guys to help me with it.

We don't do it anymore.

That's the good thing.

You don't do what?

Bonk each other from being horny.

I'm just a massive fan of her work.

I could get her on.

I could get her on your show.

BFT would love her.

How did you get in touch with her?

She was a dear friend of my son, my oldest son, Junior. How dear? Not that dear.
Okay. Brittany is one of the smartest young women that you ever want to sit down and have a conversation with.
As a matter of fact, I'm trying to get her her show here. Oh, yeah? She needs to be on Barstool's.
Okay. She needs to let it rip on Barstool's.
Excuse me? Does she need a co-host? I'm not asking for me, obviously. You said host, right? I thought you said co-host.
Co-host. Co-host.
Co-host. We'll get her to go.
Real slow. People, you had backlash for that, too.
I don't know why, because I'm just trying to prepare my kids for the world. All this stuff you're doing, I love it because it really is.
It's who we are, isn't it? It's breaking down things that, like, going back to episode two that I watched last night where you went through interviews and you showed, like, hey, this guy stutters a little. This guy doesn't say, this guy says like or man.
You have to get that out of your, like, your repertoire. Yeah.
That kind of stuff. I never, like, no one's.
You don't see coaches do it. No, you don't.
You don't. They don't give a darn about it.
But I care, and this is the way these kids are going to have sustainability, and this is the way these kids are going to provoke change in their communities and in their families. We got to be able to step outside the box, man, and make things happen.
Brittany, if I would have had that conversation that Brittany gave gave our kids in college i'll have at least 20 to 30 million more in my pocket from the bull junk that i've dealt with in the divorces and all that foolishness in my life i would have known that's game right that's game oh my god did she break it I mean, the best line that she had the whole show was when she said, and when I look at my DMs, I have more checks than Nikes. Yeah.
Oh, my God, that was so cold. That is.
I was like, Brittany, that is brilliant, baby. Brittany, that is good.
She's very good at what she does. No, she's very smart, though.
She's very smart. Like, you just looking at the external, like, to sit down and talk to her, she's a step ahead of the game, man.
And it's a game out there now. It's not just, I'm going to go here with my friend and meet Tom at the bar.
No, no, no, man. She already understands what Tom likes to drink, what he's going to wear, what he's going to have on, what time he's going to get there.
She already got a game plan together, and she's getting help from her girlfriends. Yeah.
I want you to finish this one for me. You have this saying, kids that play on Sunday, you're going to remember on Monday, cash their checks on Tuesday.
What happens on Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday? They work. Okay.
They work. I was just waiting for you to finish, because whenever start with a saying it could go on forever and that's the best

part. Yeah.
Because you said it you're like yeah

kids will play on Sunday and then you had a beat

and you remember them on

Monday and then you had another beat like cash

checks on Tuesday. I was just waiting for the rest of the week.

There's so many things that I say and

it just it's my they know it is spontaneous

like like I'm like turn on the

camera baby I'm rolling. Yeah.
Let's do it.

Don't don't make a mind me out of a

moment. That's my favorite one.

God God honest truth

Thank you. I'm like turn on the camera baby I'm rolling Let's go let's do it Don't make a monument out of a moment That's my favorite one to send out to us That's the God honest truth These kids man it's so much We could do 10 shows With the content that we have But we had to break it down to You know several episodes And Dana's drunk so he can't Definitely right now he'd have no clue Where he is right now he'd think he's on martyr Drink that last beer Dana When Dana's eyes, so he can't edit.
Definitely right now. He'd have no clue where he is right now.
He'd think he's on Martyr or something. Drink that last beer, Dana.
When Dana's eyes glaze over, it's just the best look ever. Don't do it.
Now, I did actually want to have Dana on to give him a true performance review. Yeah.
So what is he like day to day? He has full access to everything. He has clearance.
He walks has a team everywhere he has people underneath him yes and i mean at night and day everywhere and what and what do you think like is he doing a good job or is he he's doing a great job first it was a bonding kind of stage right that he had to know you know kind of how i move what I like, what I don't like. And he got the rhythm real quick.
I mean, he's a quick learner. He's an athlete, former athlete.
So he got it really quick. 12 and 10.
Yeah, 12 and 10. What's the maddest you've ever been at, Dana? I've never been mad at Boos.
That can't be. Boos, yes, but not beers.
Oh, Dana, what's the maddest that Dion's ever been at you? He's never yelled at me. Everybody else has gotten it, but him.
Sometimes I'll just post something too soon or just, I don't know, not have the best video editor or something, but he's never yelled at me. Huh.
What do you think he could improve on? Beers? Yeah, let's scout him. How about this? What's an opportunity he has for improvement? The only thing he can improve on and is not dealing with anything with the doc is the other day-to-day.
Right. The music selection.
I'm not good at that. He's not good at music.
Wait, did you let him pick music? I've been trying to learn. I was about to say, that's on you.
I'll pick out a music. That's actually on you if you did that.
No, that's so true. I pick out a music.
That'd be like your players calling their own plays and then being like, oh, it's... But if it's a video where I'm really talking and informing and instructing and educating, he knows I like that build-up.
Yeah. That kind of...
Crescendo. Yeah.
What we call it? What we call it? What? You're drunk now. He don't know.
He's so hammered. Yeah, he's drunk.
Just go home. Act out.
I got a lot to do today. Yeah, hopefully not drive.
I have Jimmy Fallon to go on. Yeah.
He'll probably appreciate the beer for sure. Hockey is on.
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At, what, episode five, four, in this season, you have obviously a health scare. Yep.
Five. I was, like, in real time, because we do the Pro Football Football Show together every week, there was a moment where I was like, because everyone was being a little, you know dion's not doing like secret ever yeah we've never been together and kept a secret it was crazy so what what what like can you tell people to watch because it really was like touch and go for a minute i'll tell you what i did i did and uh he did a great job i said look man i don't want to gross people out, but I want three to five seconds.
Show them what happened in three to five seconds and pull back, blur it after that. And then when my kids see it for the first time, the same thing.
Let them see it three to five seconds because my kids, they couldn't believe it. But the first time I looked down the bed and saw what transpired, I had nine total surgeries.
On his foot. Yeah.
On everything. On his foot.
Oh, on your ankle? Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
It's on both sides. Holy shit.
Yeah, so it hadn't been easy. Yeah.
Holy shit. When did you first start noticing a problem with that? It was always a problem with my toe from football.
So it was my fourth toe surgery and it just didn't heal. So I'm sitting up there and I'm like, dang it.
And our trainer, she said, we need to go get this checked. I said, what do you mean? She said, your big toe and your second toe to go to the hospital now i said let's practice we'll go afterwards we cool and that's when it all started when we got to the hospital and and doctors started to look around at each other and you're like oh my goodness something's going on that's a scary look when they don't say anything directly to you and they just immediately start talking to each other and i was there for a month after that and it was it was um you you almost made us feel bad because dave and i gave you a bunch of shit and then you and it got like way worse and everyone's like yeah it's not good right now because you got you you know something happened you went you came back to work we gave you shit for missing like a day and then it was i had a surgery and i came right back i know and then we and then we didn't see you for like a month and it was like oh shit i probably should have said that because it was a threat to my life yeah i know it was life-threatening and this has all never been seen it's gonna be on episode five still to this day people don't know right i think a lot of people don't know my team knew because when i first came back i addressed the team and it was a do we show that yes it's waterfalls coach that was waterfalls yeah that that's gonna be a tearjerker i don't know i know what waterfalls i didn't use profanity but i use other words so did we we did we take care of that there was no profanity i know but there's other words that is no yeah you're all good fame it's i took care of it i'm not sure i'm not even sure how to think about that.
There's words. That is not profanity, but they're profane to people.
Can Dana give me an example of one of those words? Dion had to get penis surgery. No, I'm not talking.
Okay. He's drunk.
But, yeah, it was very –. It was, I remember exactly when someone was like, hey, this isn't good.
Yeah. I was like, oh, fuck.
It was bad. It was really bad.
It got really, really bad. Lost a lot of blood as well.
Got really, really bad. And then I was on so many meds.
I don't think I was awake, but maybe a couple hours a day for weeks at a time.

I didn't eat anything for three weeks.

I lost 35 pounds.

I need to get my toe fucked up.

You don't have seven surgeries.

Yeah, 35 pounds.

I was like my high school size.

And I was just weak.

And I couldn't eat.

This is a Barstool's.

I can say it on Barstool's because that's who we are. This is the toughest thing that happened to me.
I didn't take a dump. Oh no.
For three weeks. What? No, I'm building up.
I'm building up. It's like his locker room speech right now.
Mr. Sanders, you've got to take take the Whatever the thing that make your bowel No I forgot what it was I don't think they call it laxatives Chili, Skyline Chili Milk And I said okay Then they said well can you Use a bedpan and I said ma'am all due respect, I can't trick my mind into taking a dump in the bed.
I can't trick myself to do that. It's no way I could just have my mind and thinking I'm on the toilet, but I'm in the bed and I'm sitting straight, laying straight down.
I can't even push him out. I can't do that.
It's not going to happen. So I said, I'll tell you what, guys, get me a chair, get me to the bathroom because i feel like i'm almost ready so instead of them me letting them get me up i push up on the bed and i had no strength because i haven't done nothing and during the month and i lost all strength there i got dizzy they put me in the chair and when i got to the toilet i tried to push up off the chair a little bit and they set me me on the toilet, but I had exhausted all day.
And I said, you guys, get out of the room, go. I passed out.
I passed out on the toilet. Like, couldn't do nothing.
They ran in there, got me out, and it was just a tear jerking. Like, I could not believe this happened to me.
I was so weak. This is what happened to me.
Damn. And I was mad at myself.
I mean, I was teary-eyed, crying, mad at myself. It put me back in the bed.
And all night, I sat up and thought about it. I failed.
The next day, I said, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it.
I'm serious. I couldn't wait until the next day.
I'm going to take this dump. Like, I'm serious.
Like, the rocking music is on, and I'm like, I'm going to take this dump. You're like game planning for it.
I'm going to take this dump. Wait, give us, yeah, give us, we'll put music behind this.
I'm not lying. Give us a speech of what you're feeling.
I don't know if this is a speech, but I say, okay, they're going to come in here, and they're going to pick me up, and they're going to put me in the bed, take me out of the bed. Okay, I'm getting up.
I'm not going to use my strength anymore. I'm going to preserve it.
So when I need it, okay, I'm going to let them do all the heavy lifting. They got me in a chair, took me over to the toilet, set me on there.
I looked at him, stern in the eye, and I said, get out. Get out.
So now, I'm on the toilet and I'm like, okay, I can do this. I can do this.
I can do this. It was like a woman giving birth.
And when I tell you, it was like a Rubik's Cube. This was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
The SAT, the ACT covering Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, all those guys does not compare to what I pushed out. Dude, it was, I looked down there, it was nine Rubik's Cubes.
And I was just laying, I was laying across the toilet like that when I was that Dude, come on and get me Please Dude That's the toughest battle I've ever had in my life I believe I was not lying That's the toughest battle I've ever had That sounds awful You couldn't even high step afterwards Awful was an understatement Awful was an understatement I'm not lying It was so was so devastating. I had to look.
Oh, you have to look. I have to look.
You don't know what's making you feel that bad. I'm not exaggerating.
It was nine Rubik's cubes. It took a couple flushes.
They weren't going. They weren't going in one shot.
They did not go in one shot. Oh, man.
They had to break up. They had to break the huddle.
Offense and defense. It's no way.
So Dana's got all that footage for episode five? No, he don't have to. He don't have to.
That didn't make it. That didn't make it.
Well, I'm happy that you're feeling a lot better. Walking around.
Alright, so last, last question. Would you like to please rank your five NFL quarterbacks right now?

Because I know that whatever you say is going to be very stupid. Yes.

Okay. Number one.
Tom Brady's

retired. Tom Brady's retired because he

would be one. Yep.

I'm going to go with my homes

just because. Okay.
Okay.

Two.

This is where it's going to get dumb. Yep.
No, I don't agree with you. I'm going to go with Dak.
I told you. I didn't know it was going to get that dumb.
I thought it was going to get other way dumb. That's dumb.
That's very good. You give Dak the personnel that everyone else has.
Wait, what are you talking about? The personnel that he's got loads of talent. His line is garbage.
His line is garbage. I mean, his offensive line is garbage.
Hold on. I hate the guy, but you're not going to pick the guy who just won the MVP two times in a row? Who? Aaron Rodgers? Oh, I'm sorry.
Aaron Rodgers, number two. Okay.
No, no, no. Aaron Rodgers is one.
No. Now he's gone too far.
Aaron Rodgers is one.

Mahomes is two.

You can count on Aaron Rodgers. Okay.

To lose in the divisional round of the NFC Championship.

Mahomes is two.

Mm-hmm.

Dak is three.

Okay.

Still crazy.

That's so dumb.

Yeah, that part is crazy.

This is where.

I'm going to go with.

Oh, no.

Only because.

No.

Only because he had a great playoff game, even though they lost. Because if Lamar would have lost, he said he lost.
No, I'm going to go with my guy from Buffalo. Okay, Josh Allen.
That's actually huge. It's four.
Holy shit. Now, five is a toss-up between several men.
Give me a list. Just throw out the names that you're considering for five.
You can leave five open and give me the considerations. Burrell.
Yep. Okay.
My guy in L.A. Chargers.
He can play. Herbert.
Herbert can play. So you soured on Lamar Jackson.
Lamar didn't have a great year. I don't know what I was expecting from Lamar.
I didn't sour on him. He's inconclusive.
Yeah. What about Big Ben? Big Ben should have retired three years ago.
You know it. Everybody knows it.
Of course we know it. But nobody said it.
Oh, no, he said it. No, we – Yeah, we said it.
Yeah. We don't want it.
We hope he never retired. That's about it.
But three knows. Okay.
And you got to be careful with the young guys. They had great years, but it's a moment.
Don't make a monument out of a moment. There you go.
It's a moment. Matt Stafford.
Where does he fall? He won. He's still Stafford now.
Stafford, I'm proud of him. He won.
Yeah. But there's no way you should win a Super Bowl when you throw two picks.
There's no way. He threw what? No, I'm trying to think who else.
I mean, Roisberger did But it's not normal That's not supposed to happen Defensively with a defensive mind that's not supposed to happen Is Aaron Donald the best defensive player of all time? Not of all time He's one of the best I am Then LT probably Reg. See, those guys are killers, man.
Reggie, Bruce Smith, guys like that. Ray Lewis was phenomenal.
Ed Reed was so dominant. Yeah.
I just like it that the guys that I was able to play with, they're in it. Yeah.
What about between you and Ray Lewis? Who was the guy that was giving the best motivational speeches? I was past my prime then, so that was Ray's team. I was just there.
Did he get you fired up? If I had to get fired up, there's a problem. You can't get another man.
I didn't need that. You're always fired up.
Right. I didn't need that.
I just had a job. I didn't play with emotions.
I just had a job. I wasn't a yeller and screamer on the field.
Never went off on my teammates. I didn't give all those big bravado speeches when I played.
Oh, last, last, last question. Hank just gave me the eyes.
Would you care to comment on that hat you were wearing on the dunk contest? That was beautiful, wasn't it? I had to do something different. What year was that from? It had to be 90s.
90s. Yeah.
One last question for you. Oh, I'm actually getting the he needs to leave.
Okay. One last question for you.
Sorry, I didn't see the text. I'm 54.
I leave when I want to. But anyway.
There we go. What was up with that dive? Like you embarrassed all of us, but you made it right.
It was slippery. Yeah, but you didn't count that in? You in You're a very calculated guy You didn't count that I said it was slippery before I thought my athleticism could overcome that It wasn't able I wasn't able to But I was scared that you was gonna Crack a kneecap I know me too Tear a hamstring I know Just something Here's the thing Here's the one great thing about being As out of shape and fat No you wasn't really fat But here's the great thing is that I don't move fast enough to get injured.
You know how you have to actually kind of move to get injured? I don't have fast twitch muscles. And that looked like a pool back from like the 80s.
Yeah. The hotel where it was Melrose Place.
You ever watch that show? Yeah. It was kind of like that set up there.
Yeah. It was sort of like the pool that Namath was talking his junk on.

Yes.

Yes.

Super Bowl III.

When he guaranteed the win.

Yes.

All right.

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And a drunk guy made the whole thing.

So it's a feat of- He embarrassed me. It's a marvel.
It's an actual modern marvel that it got to air. He really embarrassed me.
Dana's actually the best athlete in this interview right now for being able to drink and edit. Yeah, but he didn't do no speaking.
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What's our predictions for who's going to be in what booth next year? Real quick. CBS is going to stay the same.
Jim Nance and Tony Romo. Obviously, Trey Aikman now seems like he's ESPN.
Yeah, it looks like he's going to be ESPN. I feel bad.
No one's talking about Joe Buck in all this. He's losing his pissing buddy.
I think Joe Buck, he might go to ESPN. I mean, I doubt it, but it's been rumored a little bit.
That would be crazy. It would be crazy.
He does baseball too, though. That would fuck him.
I'm going to go ESPN will be Chris Fowler and Troy Aikman. Amazon will be Collinsworth and Herb Street.
Wait, who's doing play-by-play? Just have Herb. Sorry, not Collinsworth.
Michaels and Herb Street. And Fox will be Joe Buck, Sean Payton.
Ooh. I actually think it's going to be Joe Buck and Greg Olson.
Ooh. They're bringing him up? I think they're going to move him up.
Yeah. I'm going to go on ESPN.
I'm going to keep it with Steve Levy. I like Steve.
Okay. I like him too, but we're shuffling all the decks.
Yeah. I think Steve Levy and then Troy Aikman and then Amazon.
I think you're right. I think they're just going to move over.
I think it's going to be Al. I think it's going to be maybe Herb.
He does want. I mean, I think Herbie wants that.
Which is weird. I don't know.
It's a lot of money. It's less work and a lot more money.
It's like the Sean McVay rumors when everyone is like, Sean McVay might go in the booth. Oh, why would he do that? I don't know.
To work one one hundredth of the amount of time and get paid double? Sounds pretty good. They should do ESPN instead of doing the Manning cast.
They should do the Gruden cast where it's Jay, John, and Deuce. I'd be in.

Would need to have a 15-second delay on that.

If I were Troy Aikman, by the way, going to ESPN, I'd be like, you can't do the Manningcast anymore.

That would suck.

I was thinking about that, actually.

Why would you agree to go there?

Even though the Manningcast doesn't draw that many eyeballs, it's just a bunch of people

that watch it sometimes as a second screen thing.

It could be like, oh, it's better.

Well, the problem you're going to run into with that, it's going to clear.

But if you're troy you're going to espn basically to give the wet suck to roger goodell right so they can get a decent game every now and again on monday night football and the manning cast is at its worst when it's a good game right that people care about it's at its best when it's a team that a game that nobody gives a shit about that's out of hand by the second quarter. And I also understand Trey Aikman, just out of principle, seeing Tony Romo make that much money and everyone being like, he's incredible, when you've won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys and you've been doing it for a lot longer, that would piss me off.
That would really piss me off. Troy probably wants to go to a network that allows him to smoke weed in the booth.
Ooh, good point. Do they allow ESPN? I'm sure, yeah.
Disney, though? You can do anything you want. Disney? Mm-hmm.
I don't know. Disney.
Actually, Fox might be. Well, Fox, though, you could probably.
Could you blaze up? I don't think so. You could maybe take some pills or something.
Definitely pills. Yeah.
All right. What are we doing? Oh, we read an article.
Everyone read an article on MLB Lockout. Shall we go? Yeah.
PFC, why don't you start? Okay, I read an article on the MLB Lockout. Again, I went back to Breitbart Sports.
They always have the fire takes. Basically, where we're at right now is there's a deadline that the owners have set, which is today, February 28th.
It would have been a real rib tickler if they had said the 29th as the deadline. But they just arbitrarily set this deadline on the 28th, which is today, where if they don't come to an agreement, they're going to start canceling games, actual real regular season games.
And then the players are like, no, we can always make them up in doubleheaders. The owners are like, no, we don't want to do that.
Then the players are like, well, if you cancel games and you don't make them up in doubleheaders, then we're going to disagree with the playoff expansion formula that you have in place. And we're not going to let you put advertisements on our helmets.
So you know what? They're playing hardball. They are.
Truly. So that was my big takeaway, too, that tomorrow or today feels like a pretty important day.

I also read that talks were productive but short. Okay.
Like me. Yeah, there you go.
And then the most important piece that I got, I read my article from marketwatch.com. between 1 p.m.
and 6.30 p.m. on Sunday,

Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem made four walks from the offices in the main part of roger dean stadium to the area where players caucus in the cardinals clubhouse building beyond the right field wall okay that's a lot of walks that's a lot of walks four walks now was he going there that was between 1 and 6 30 they have the bathroom there i don't know but that's a lot of walks i love that stat like what something's happening he's walking back and forth and every time i read the name dan halem i think it's i think it's dan heron yeah so he would have had this solved already we should just ask dan heron yeah we'll just pretend that you're the deputy commissioner also what is rob manford doing in all this is he involved man he involved? Manfraud? Is Manfraud just making his number two do it? Manfraud's about to have a serious issue on his hands because one Frank the Tank, Francis Fleming, is planning on locking out the lockout on Tuesday. How's he going to do that? He is going to protest the lockout.
He's going on strike from the lockout. Correct.
You don't lock out Frank the Tank.

Frank the Tank locks out you.

So he tweeted on Saturday afternoon amidst the college basketball mania,

I want to protest the lockout.

Can anyone tell me where?

Well, the irony is that the lockout

would definitely make Frank the Tank's

mental health so much better because he wouldn't be upset about the Mets. No, but I think he's that upset about the lockout would definitely make Frank the Tank's mental health so much better

because he wouldn't be upset about the Mets.

No, but I think he's that upset about the lockout.

Like the Mets, just the existence of the Mets is better than no Mets.

No Mets would drive him insane.

But he wouldn't have anything to get that mad about.

He needs that.

It's true.

Yeah, it keeps him going.

Also, one last thing was they have a document that they're reviewing, 359 pages. That's insane.
No one's read the whole thing. I'd give up.
If I were Max Serger, I'd be like, fuck this. I'm not doing this.
I also read that the players drove cars to these negotiations, and some of the cars were expensive. They are some guys who have some money now.
I think the players should have to walk on foot. They shouldn't have hotels either.
They should have to ride donkeys. They should have to beg for money or hitch a ride in.
No, the bus. They should have to take the bus.
Yeah, I'll take the bus. Take the bus.
Cool Ranch Doritos. Scherzer was holding Cool Ranch Doritos at the meeting.
Those aren't cheap. Those are like 39 cents a bag.
Also makes them great taste. That's actually a great negotiating skill, like to go to a meeting.
I feel like that's a cat-dog situation. Are you a regular Doritos or a Cool Ranch guy? Cool Ranch being the cooler of the people.
Great high stack. Yeah.
Cooler, especially when you dip it in salsa.

Yeah.

Billy, what was your article?

I read Sports Illustrated,

and then I saw that tweet about the Cool Ranch.

All I got was players gave a substantive offer,

and the owners like, nah.

Okay.

Got it.

Good.

I should add one more thing. I guess the owners want 14 playoff teams and the players want 12.
Let's do 13. Why not? Every year, yeah, one side gets more.
Yeah, we'll meet in the middle. Depends on the year.
This year, the National League gets seven teams. Whoever wins the All-Star game.
There you go. Yeah.
Yeah. It means more.
Jake. In addition to what you guys said, Monday will be the eighth consecutive bargaining session.
I've got to think once they enter the fifth or the sixth, they're like, all right, what are we doing here? Let's just play the game. Right.
Come on. It doesn't work like that.
But no, eight straight days, like Hanukkah. Exactly like Hanukkah, but no gifts.
No gifts and no candles. Yes.
And Hank? I read an article on Bluebird.com. John Hatteman said, Is that a real website? Contradictory to all the negativity, upset surrounding the MLB players' talks, one person involved said he believes the sides are now within striking distance and a deal could be done by tomorrow night.
This was on the 27th of this morning. Striking distance is an interesting choice of words there.
Luxury tax remains a sticky issue, but a $225 to $230 million threshold should work. And then Zach Britton, who's a player on the Yankees and is in the meetings, replied and said, this is not accurate.
Got it. So we're not close.
A lot of misinformation out there. It's tough, yeah.
Was that, oh, Bluebird, that's the Bird app. You app you're talking about the bird where the empaths go every day yeah would you consider yourself to be an empath Hank absolutely oh yeah you are sometimes I need to take a break but for the most part I'm like probably 75 empath and then you know I have to take a break sometimes from caring too much Yeah, me too.
Because I'm such a good person that sometimes it hurts to care so much. Yeah.
I struggle only few will understand. This is just a totally unrelated thing, but my son understands take a break.
So anytime I want to go check my scores or something, I'm like, I'm taking a break. He's like, oh, okay, cool.
Take a break? Did I take a break? I'm like, yeah, I'm taking a break. I need to take a break so anytime i want to like go check my scores or something i'm like i'm taking a break he's like okay cool like take a break did i take a break i'm like yeah i'm taking a break i take a break kentucky just hit a three in my fucking face i'm taking a break all right it's just a little break uh but yeah empaths out there shout out the real ones so we're not gonna have baseball i think hank just said that we're within striking distance nope hank zack britain said no yeah but hank reported that they are.
What if Zach Britton was saying this is not accurate? We're closer than striking distance. True.
We're in a phone booth. We're Bernard Hopkins.
Sounds like you, yeah. Everyone out there that thinks that Zach Britton was saying the opposite, you're actually putting words in his mouth.
Baseball, if baseball doesn't start the season and play a full season, they're going to learn very quickly that they miscalculated

the world's need for baseball.

I'm thinking about it right now.

Even when the NBA started late, football was going on, so it was like, okay, football's

the only league where if they didn't start on time, people would riot.

If baseball doesn't start for a month, I'll be like, oh, this sucks.

I want baseball.

But I wouldn't notice fully until late June and be like, where the fuck is my baseball? You're not a seam head like I am. I love opening week of baseball.
But if they really wanted to do it right, they would just have opening week. And then they would institute the lockout then.
Right. And then bring it back after the 4th of July.
Yeah, no, opening day is great and i i love baseball in the summer but if if you're like telling me that there's not going to be baseball where we're watching march madness it's going to be hard for me to to be like damn where's the baseball so that's the that's the problem they run into i will get pissed by the end of june i'll be like where the fuck is my baseball yeah instead of like figuring figuring out all this shit about designated hitters and which games start extra innings with a runner on second base, that's like Manfred's favorite thing to do. To continue to be like, okay, we'll give you another designated hitter.
Is that back this season? I don't know. I can't keep track of it.
Oh, yeah, no, it's universal DH. They ruled on that.
Oh, the extra innings. Oh, the extra innings? No.
I don't know. I don't know either.
I'll look. Who knows? All right.
Let's wrap up. Billy, you got some of these final death? They're all pretty grim.
Well, we're doing BuzzFeed. It's BuzzFeed.
It's not us. They were too chicken shit to do their own articles, so we're doing it.
I found some good ones, though. So this is a Reddit post.
So this happened a couple of years ago. We had an ex-gang guy who was dying of cancer and he confessed that he was the gang hitman.
None of these have been vetted by the way just a heads up. For many years he wanted to confess to all the killings and show the police where the bodies are buried.
He would get closure knowing that the surviving families of his victims find out where they are buried. We had to get to the hospital legal team involved because we had no policies to deal with that.
Cops got involved, and the dude confessed to gang murders from decades ago. I gotta say, like, drawing a map on your deathbed is pretty fucking cool.
Yeah, that is. Also, all of these, I just assume, are made up.
Can you imagine, like, you're laying down, and then you draw, like, a giant X, and you're like, here you go. It's under this tree.
Most of them are just like, like, okay, then there's this one. Sorry.
Did everyone be like, I farted? When I was 16, I worked as a dietary aid in a pretty nice nursing home. There was this one older gentleman that I became pretty good friends with.
He always talked about World War II and how he had lost so many guys in his company. Several days in a row, I had noticed that he wasn't coming down to the dining room for lunch or dinner.
Went to his room to check on him and he wasn't there. The nurse said that he had a spell and fell out of his bed.
His doctor wanted him to go to the hospital for observation. What had really happened is he had a stroke.
He got back to the nursing home about a week later and he really couldn't remember anyone except for me. We talked day after he got back he told me he wasn't doing good he knew this he knew his time was coming to a close said it was time for him to pay for all the horrible things he had done when he was over in europe he wasn't a religious man but he asked me where i thought he was going i said to bed because it's getting close to lights out he said no joe, Joe, by the way, my name is Mike.
I mean, up or down. Now I'm not a deeply religious person either, but I said, Martin, that's not for me to say.
He laughed and said, I know where I'm going. There's only one place for people who have done what I've done.
I've killed so many people, Joe. Most of the time, it didn't matter who it was.
We went into buildings just shooting. There's only one place for me.

It's what I deserve.

I had absolutely nothing to respond with.

When I say that the experience shook me to the core, I really mean it.

That man's face is burned into my memory because of that conversation.

He passed away the next day.

His son kept asking where Joe was at.

I quit that day.

Working in a nursing home is a haunting place.

It takes a special type of person to be able to watch people just die around you.

They make great Buzzfeed uh yeah editors oh yeah we should probably not do this yeah it's it gets worse yeah it's heavy yeah so maybe it was good that they deleted the tweet i think i've i've just realized that i'm i want to learn a really really good joke and just like the ultimate going out on a high note just on my deathbed i'll just say i'll say the joke that I've been rehearsing my entire life. Yeah.
And then people will laugh, and then I'll just die. And that'll be it.
Standing ovation for the joke. Yeah.
What if they didn't like the joke? Well, I don't have to stick around to hear it. Yeah, but that would suck if you died and everyone's like, damn, that joke sucked.
All right, that's our show. We'll see everyone on Wednesday.
Wednesday, we have Duncan Robinson and Aiden Hutchinson.

Two for the people.

Michigan, yeah.

Wolverines, stand up.

Numbers?

40.

69.

Six.

22.

25.

61.

I like the conviction there, PFT, or like the hesitation like, ah, it's going to be a 61.

Oh, 63.

You're close.

93, 93, 93, 93. You were not close.

Felt good.

Love you guys.

Chernobyl has become a great place for endangered European megafauna due to humans not being in the area.

Did it just get taken by the Russians?

Nature is healing.

Yeah, the Russians captured Chernobyl.

Yeah, but there's nothing there. Except for sick plants and animals.
Megafauna. Yeah.
Right. So they conquered a bunch of bears and European bison.
So now they've got an army of bears. Dang.
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