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On today's part of my take presented by DraftKings, we have brackets. It is March Madness time, we have our good friend John Rostin on the show, breaking it all down. We just had an incredible weekend of college basketball, ready to go. One of the best weeks of the year. We're also going to talk some WBC. We're actually watching the game live. Hanks Dominican Republic are down 2-1 in the game. It's been an awesome game so far. Yeah, it's top of the eighth, so we'll update as it goes on. We're going to do Who's Back of the Week and it's all brought to you by our friends at Microsoft Copilot. Before we get into today's chaos, we got to tell you about something that helps people focus on what's most important. Microsoft 365 Copilot, the world moves fast, your work day, even faster pitching products, drafting reports, analyzing data. 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So that job wasn't that hard for them. I think the biggest controversy that you can have, and we can bleep this out maybe because I don't even want to say it out loud, Duke kind of got fucked a little bit. Nah, that's the number one overall. The best. That's what I'm saying. Like if the, if the one knock that you have against the committee is that they kind of fucked over Duke, like you did a great job committee credit to me. There was a clip that I was that I was, I saw on Saturday night. Someone gave John Shires, I think like eight year old daughter of press credential and she was in the she was in the scrum and asked them a question. I didn't comment. That's that's huge. I think she asked dad, how do you win every game? And they've lost two. But I'm not going to say anything more. Also, we don't we don't call coaches dad. We call them coach. Well, in the post his response was because I have the best daughter in the world. Imagine being boozer, seeing that being like, well, fuck me, dude. I guess I had nothing to do with this. Yeah. It was just because you have a daughter. I do like that though, because there's a lot of reporters that don't like it when other reporters refer to the coaches coach. After that's unprofessional. What do they say about dad? Yeah. Say, hey, keep that same energy for an eight year old girl as you have for a 45 year old man. Yeah. So so you guys you guys were in in a perilous flight. But the selection show having to watch Bruce Pearl just squirm as Auburn stayed on the bubble and never got off the bubble was so so great after his politicking last week. But again, I think that this like this bracket and it also worked out kind of perfectly that you had natural seedings for like Arizona out west Duke in in the east, Michigan and Chicago, like the only one Florida got maybe a little bit screwed that they're playing in Houston and Houston is the two seed in their region. But yeah, besides a couple seed lines, the committee nailed it. They got Miami of Ohio in there and we're ready to roll. Yeah. Told you Hank guarantee. Yeah. My guarantee. I said guaranteed. I actually think that I don't know. I think they can beat SMU. Yeah, definitely. I think that if there's one team that they could be an at large, I feel like they could be that I've only watched, I think two SMU games this year. I've watched two Miami of Ohio games. But just from what I know, it feels like that's one that's a winnable game. Yeah, some other teams were playing game. Well, it's in Dayton. It's very close to it's going to be a home crowd for Miami of Ohio. There's another word. There's a couple of teams where it's like, too physical of a matchup might not have worked out for him. I did get to watch the selection show on the plane and yes, Bruce Pearl like sweating and every time every time a different bubble team would get out, he'd just be like, that's bad. That's bad news for the rest of the bubble. And what he was really meaning to say was like, that's bad news for my son for my son. Yeah. Yeah. So good job committee ready to roll. Let's let's do a quick breakdown of each region. And then we'll like I said, we have John Rostin on who I'm excited to hear. I'm mostly excited for his East region because his East region will start there is so loaded with name brands and coaches. If you go through it, the there are seven coaches, I believe that all been to the final four, 22 final fours between them. Shire and Cronin have one Hurley has two one two national titles both times you went self has three, Petino has seven and Izzo has eight and in that group, there's seven national championships. And then if you want to even go further out, like in terms of just name programs, there's 30 national titles for programs in this in this region. It's based and then the teams that don't have it are like Ohio State, which is a pretty big name brand in general. So it's it's definitely the region that has the most blue bloods and name brands and coaches that are absolute killers. And if you wanted to argue about one seed that maybe got screwed, St. John's got a little screwed. I think yeah, St. John's the argument could be made that they should have gotten a better seed than Kansas. Yeah, there's a couple there's a couple four seeds I think that kind of stood out and St. John's was thinking they were going to before it was just more of a testament to the Big East being soft. Big East was very soft this year. But looking at even the high seeds in that bracket, they've still got some history behind them. Yeah, like the high seeds Northern Iowa, Seattle like teams that are perennially like making some noise have provided with some good storylines over the years. Yeah, I was trying to think what John was going to call that region like, but it's impossible to predict Roth's. Yeah, I don't even want I don't even want to guess in years past, I would be like that he's done like the the region of coaches before has been like a name, but I'm sure he's got a new wrinkle for us. The other thing in this region, I immediately saw we're doing the live bracket reveal show. And I was just calling out all the unders that I would potentially take, which I'm not going to because I don't want to bet an under in March Madness, but looking through it, five of the top 12 defenses in the tournament are in this region. So Duke is the second best Kansas is the 10th, UConn 11, St. John's 12, and Michigan State 13 Cincinnati was also top 13. They didn't get they didn't get into the tournament and then TCU and Louisville are round out the top 25. So you have seven teams in the top 25 in terms of defensive efficiency in this bracket, it's going to be a slugfest. It's going to be a brawl. And I'm excited for it because I'm looking at it and like even the Northern Iowa St. John's game. That's a Northern Iowa is a motherfucker. And the fact that I don't think they're that good. They were the six seed in Arch Madness, but they were they play so slow, and they'll slow you down and make it such as low possession game that anything can happen. And so what's the news with Patrick Gongba from Duke? He should play. He should play. He should play. Okay. Because Cale Foster not gonna play most likely. Okay, that's and actually, I actually don't know the answers to this because again, Shire's daughter like took away. I think the next reporter was going to ask that but they were pressed for time. So now we'll never know. Again, I'm not gonna say he took a good step today is what I'm seeing. Yeah. He took a good he took a step. He took a good step trending towards playing in the tournament. We also have in this in this region, something I want to get. I don't like to predict, you know, second rounds. But and we'll see if if Bill ado comes back for UCLA because he's very important and he got hurt on Friday night, I believe it's all it's all kind of one song here with with everything that we watch. But if he doesn't come back and UCF wins and you con wins, we got a civil conflict. We got civil conflict in the second round. That's what I'm looking at. Get the trophy out a good old civil conflict. And if you see if doesn't win, you still have Micron and Danny Hurley second round. Yeah, which is pretty although Danny or Micron and is once again screwed has to go all the way to Philadelphia. He does not like playing in the Eastern time zone. Yeah, this has to piss him off beyond belief. Yeah, he has to fly again. I mean, I'm just thinking like Patino, Bill self in the second round. Yeah, no, that's great. Absolutely incredible. Yeah. And I listen, I kind of like Ohio State played very, very hot. I think TCU is like a big game team. They've stepped up in class a couple times this year. And I think they'll have Bruce Thornton not in hell, but they have a good answer for it. Ohio State and TCU are two teams that are kind of playing at the at the point right now if Duke is not healthy. No, Duke's gonna win it. Duke's healthy. Duke's gonna do something. Can can somebody tell me how many times Michigan State has been in the same bracket as Duke? I feel like I feel like that's every year. They do that right. They just love having Iso go up against the blue devil. I don't know if you can look it up. We don't have the we the computers not set up for we're looking at a beautiful forest right now is a winter landscape. Which looks great. Zach, if you want to if you want to look that up and just tell me I'll trust you. Yeah, I don't know. Zach and Max were talking so I don't know if they heard us. Okay. But Zach, you know what? Look up whatever you think we said. Let's just play that game. That sounds good. Look up as close to whatever you think we said and then we'll just go from that. This is going to be interesting to see what he looks up. Just as many words as you can remember that we said and then go there. Hank, how do you like Duke's draw? It's a bad draw. It's a tough draw. But there are odds on draftings have improved. We talked about that. You said they're a shoe and a win. I think they were 330 and the last week they're now plus 300. Okay. So that's good. That's good. Zach has started with the word Iso. He's stuck on Iso. That's right. Yeah, good start. We're in the right ballpark. Iso versus coach K in March. There we go. This is close enough. I did this. Oh, you just you just looked that up. Well, I yes. Oh, I thought Zach was controlling. Iso has a no, I control 12. I just went in there to change the got it. The TV got in Zach's looking up something on his phone. What are you looking up on your phone, Zach? I had tied down Iso versus coach K total. Okay. Okay. Since 2019, four out of six tournaments were both participated. They were in the same region. Love it. They love doing that. And that's just since 2019. I mean, they are always in the tournament. Yeah. I mean, when they're in, I'm sure they're always they're always in that same bracket. Yeah. Any other thoughts on the east region? Get them so excited for whatever Ross thinks can drop it on us. It's gonna be fucking great. I kind of like the the the poet the heartstrings story South Florida. Brian Hodgson, who's the coach, South Florida is really, really good coach. Part of the NATO Trico Bosco coaching tree. He's from Buffalo was an orphan. I think I saw that his dad has dementia has never been able to see him coach live and they're playing in Buffalo. So he's going to get to see him. That's super cool. So very, very cool. We're also, by the way, we're going to do we're going to run it back. No, South Florida at UCF. Yeah, Brian Hodgson. Yeah, he's from Buffalo. We're going to run back what we did last year because I thought it was great where we're going to each pick pick a region and do fun facts about each team. And I've also told Zach, he's going to do Zach Fax about every team. So he'll clean up behind us one fact about every 60 68 pack. Yes, Zach quick 68 piece to round it off. Yeah, it's gonna be great. Okay. The West region, Arizona. Arizona is really good. That's all I that that was how I wanted to start that one. So fucking good Arizona. I have a staff for you for Arizona. Arizona has 12 wins over ranked opponents this year. That's 38% of their wins. That's the most ever. And I also want to give a shout out to Arizona, Iowa State playing one of the best college basketball games I've seen in a long time on Friday night where there were 11 straight possessions to end the game with a shot made. And it was just peak peak conference tournament, peak March madness. The only thing that would have made it better is if they had played that on an L a L. E. D. TV. Yeah, it was very slippery. Yeah, other than that, it was the best game. I am kind of worried that we're just like one snafu and one minor groin injury is going to scare us away from having L a D. T. V. basketball courts for forever. Listen, all I know is that a lot of the losing teams were complaining, not the winning team. It is a great excuse. I'll say that like if you lose on the on playing on the TV surface, I saw Kansas State players complaining. They think yeah, you don't you should not complain. Right. They're just mad. They just want to blame anything. So when this bracket came out, do you think that the first thing that Arizona fans thought was just ultimate PTSD of Wisconsin? Not the first thing because I think was I think Arizona is just I think Arizona might be the best team in the country right now, especially considering Duke and Michigan's injuries. It was probably like the second or third thing, though. They definitely they definitely had it out there. I mean, Wisconsin's the the back to back final fours. Yeah. In 2014 and 15, we had to go in the West region. We had to go through Arizona and we did that both times. Wisconsin going up against High Point. I was initially nervous and I've calmed down because I looked I did a deep dive into High Point, not the school because we did that last year, which we'll do again this year. But they're just they haven't played anyone. I know this is I mean anything can happen, but they have literally played not a they didn't play a single quad one team. They played two quad two teams. They lost to both of them and their defense isn't very good and they're short. They could listen one basketball game offense could be electric, but I trust I trust my guys. I trust our back court. So did they get wet? They know they're good offense, very good offense, but they don't their defense is not there. They want to turn you over and and Nick Boyd and John Blackwell, I trust them again. And this could look stupid, but I've calmed down because initially I was like, Oh no, and everyone's going to try to pick a 12 over a five. I get it. So it is. It is the team of Chase Johnson. Yeah, then the new goal key that that might be emerging that does not do anything but three. I have a new new goal goal key though. A newer goal. New newer goal key hit that we didn't know was going to be in the tournament because they had to win today. But the newer newer goal key is from Penn and his TJ power, TJ power. I think he had like, what do you have today? Max 40 and he he hits like 44. The one that got over. Yeah, he hits 44% from from three and his name is TJ power. TJ power is pretty sweet. He's a fucking man. 44. He had 44. They also pen. We'll get to pen. The end of the game was absolutely insane. They also have a guy who shoots 41% from three and his name is cam thrower. So they pens got the names. Penn's got the names. So that's my new goal key. But I honestly, my first reaction other than high point, my favorite player in the entire tournament is Darius A. Cuff and the Arkansas and the way he plays. I would be a bad NBA GM if they let me be an NBA GM. I take him one one because I fucking love him. He is a fucking killer. He makes every right decision all the time. He is a a stone cold psychopath. He is the best when when he played that game against Alabama that went over time. Yeah, he was like by far the best player on the court just absolutely dominant. And Cal like Cal has kind of had a second coming for the last couple years. Like there's something different about the way he's been coaching at Arkansas. Well, yeah, he got yeah, it's like getting in a new marriage. Yeah, yeah, Arkansas. And it's been fun to watch and a cuff is I think he's the most definitely the most fun player to watch in college basketball by far he and we we had a moment on Friday night where we laddered his threes to six in the cave. He ended up only hitting five, but he hit four in the first half. And then he hit five again today. I'm retired, but we also laddered again today, but he just takes over games. And we're the point where we would get we'd get mad when he wouldn't take a three. But every time he wouldn't take a three, he was just doing it because he was making a perfect pass. Yeah, like a perfect alley, a perfect, the defense collapses on him and he kicks it out. He just he plays and he's got you know what he's got that you just you just know it when you see it. He's got that like incredible athlete cool guy limp. When he's walking in the tunnel before a game. It's a it's a limp that's not an injury. It's just that I'm cooler than everyone limp. Like a little bit of a gate to him that you're like, fuck, that guy is awesome. You know, he's got that Steph Curry has that. Yeah. He's got like he walks a little off balance. I don't need to worry about matching my steps. Correct. You can tell. So that one that Arkansas is like I said, a cup is my favorite player to watch. It's also going to be very fascinating to watch. So they're going up against Hawaii and Hawaii famously this year, or they've they've been doing this, but they play no help defense, which essentially is just, hey, we're going to we're going to have everyone be in one on ones and not let you know, the kick outs, the collapse of the defense to help. I don't know how you do that against Darryl Seykoff because he will, I mean, he's just so good with the ball in his hands. So that's going to be a hell of a matchup. And then the other things I had in this region, I have a new bet that I'd like to maybe throw out to you guys. I already told memes this a new bet. A new bet. Is it parlay? No. I saw somebody make a joke about this new bet. I don't want to say the joke that I saw. What? Our friend clue Heywood said, Oh, is it one that wins? Oh, that's yeah, whatever. Ha, the I mean, I lose. Yeah. Good one, dude. I lose a lot. This is the roll over over though. Texas NC State are playing in Dayton over whatever we win on that. BYU versus the winner of that game over the roll over over. You take the winnings and you roll over yeah to another over. There's no defense. I like it. I'm a little shell shocked from BYU watching that second you remember that second half against Houston. Yeah, where they just could not score for the last 15 minutes of the game. That's the last guess what I have in my mind. Texas and NC State ain't they're not Houston. They ain't Houston. They're not Houston. The roll over over whoever wants to join with me, we're going to bet the over and then we're going to bet it again. We're take all of our winnings and bet the double it up on the next over. I'm on for the roll over over. Of course, I'm down. Okay, I'm down. I'm in. I appreciate you guys supporting me. I'm interested to see what happens with with Purdue going up against a school that's not going to exist in six months. Yes, Queens, Queens, which is not in New York. It's not a New York. Yeah, that's Colin called that and he was like, I think it's in New York. He's like, no, it's actually in North Carolina. It's North Carolina. It's about to be absorbed by Elon like Starlink. So they're just going to take them over. So they're just going to combine schools. Do they get any naming rights? I don't know what the name of the school. I think it's just going to be remember the Titans like yeah, just Quilon. I think they're going to be a lot sounds kind of offensive. Yeah, I just did this to a to a school. You guys a school. Yeah, we ate a school. Cabrini, Max Cabrini, D3 national champions lacrosse. So you ate an entire school, you get to claim that championship. Are you full? Yeah. I'm full, needled. That's what that's what they should do. Like if you Max is on the needle now and he just keeps saying that we're asking what we want for tears is I already ate needle. Have you been did you shoot yourself? No, my my fiance did it for me. That's nice. Yeah, I'm needled though. Your boy's needle. I'm out to be looking in the in the but yeah in the book. I'm going to be the most proud GLP one guy of all. You're going to be the chicken the yellow dress dancing around. I was going to go around the bar. I was going around the bar yesterday telling everyone and people are like I've never heard someone be this outright on on the GLP one Max is on the gear. I asked Max we were in the gambling S Max. Don't you don't you like shit a lot and then Dana who's been on the needle off and off needle gang. He goes he goes no do that again. What no we just got back on. He was off. He was off. Now he's back on beating it. He's beaten it a few times. He's beaten those epic few times eating his way through. He and stew fire. The only two people beat no zempik. But I was like Max aren't you going to just shit a lot and did it just goes no, no, no, don't worry dude. You don't shit and then you shit a lot. It was like what okay. That's some really good doctor. He said it just it builds up for a while and then once you shit you shit a ton. Oh, you mean Dana. Have you poop yet disgusting. No, I just took it this afternoon. Okay, so you haven't gotten to that point yet. Have you thought about chicken parm? You got to do a poop review. I mean, yeah, did you eat any lunch first? Yeah, I'm not one poop. This is my this is speaking of the roll over over. This is just my region of overs just like the east is the region of unders. I'm just going to love every over in this region because a lot of teams don't play defense. I think so I the there are let's see one two six teams in the top 20 efficiency in offensive efficiency in the country in this region. I think Purdue got a great draw. Yeah, I do. I really do. I mean, yes, I think it's aga and Purdue. I think it's I think that's going to be a great I think I'm going to have sweet 16 Purdue and Gonzaga. It's also got the ends up. Oh man, you gotta let Max do it. Max, you do it. I got to move the mic away from my face here. Oh, hey, come on, get a little more into it. What's going on? I know I try I tried I knew it was going to be I understand doing it for the non Finns team. It's just a vibes thing. Like Max, we just yell it from across the court and everyone just be like, it's just vibes Max just does it and we just do it. Max, how do you feel about about your boys about your cats? I can't say I've watched a ton of Utah State this year, but every every person I've talked to is like this is just the best team of all time. So we're probably going to lose. But I'm going to have fun. I'm going to have fun, you know, supporting my guys. I'm happy they're not a big team. We struggle with size. We just got to get hot from three. We shoot a lot of threes. Sometimes we make a lot of them. Sometimes we don't. We just need this to be a game where we make a lot of them. The Utah State and Iowa are the two nines that are favored over the eights. So not an upset if Utah State beats Villanueville. Yeah, that means we should be able to get them for bracket busters. But yeah, you're right. I agree with that. I agree with that. But it's yeah, that the and Max got the best time window. I got I got one of the worst. So Wisconsin plays fourth game of the tournament, the last game of the first windows are slate. Max, you have what Friday evening? Friday at three o'clock. So perfect. Perfect. I can enjoy all of Thursday. You want that. And then Friday, I can like get myself a little appetizer. And then, you know, just really lock in for probably a loss. And then, you know, it's fine. It's Friday night. What about your pride? When do they play? That's a good question. I don't know when they play. Hofstra, please. I think Thursday. Thunderdome. The yeah, no, the the Thursday early first four games sucks. Yeah, because it's like you could just the tournament. Yeah, I could just be I just be like, I'm going home. Yeah, I'm just don't want to be here. Oh, they're gonna be playing at the same time. What? Hofstra? Oh, no, Hofstra and Nova. Yeah, Hofstra's at. Oh, it's Jersey. Yeah, can we do that? Cut it down the middle? Yeah, I can maybe try and figure that out. Yeah. Well, you just take two jerseys and you cut it down the middle. But then how do I put them back together? So, so, dude, you have needles. You have needles, dude. You're the needle guy. You're the number one needle guy we got. Use those needles. Although I did. I your needle just different needle. I shot my ass perfectly. Yeah. On Friday. It was it was a beautiful shot right in the middle of the cheek. Just right in barely felt it. Wham, bam. Thank you. Needled. Needled. Okay, next region. Before we do that actually real quick from DraftKings. Let's get excited for the tournament with DraftKings DraftKings Sportsbook. The number one sportsbook for live betting is built for March. The tournament is unexpected rewards are guaranteed. DraftKings Sportsbook is delivering the most generous rewards in the market no matter what happens on the court because this isn't a tournament you can you bet and forget. It's one you react to with DraftKings number one sportsbook for live betting. You're not betting what might happen. You're betting what's happening possession by possession play by play live lines props next play outcomes as the chaos unfolds the bracket will break. 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have to play Florida for a third time in the sweet 16 I think Vandy got screwed yeah we were doing uh we're doing blind resumes on wake up barstow last week and I think we had 12 different schools with their blind resume that were like bubble adjacent and out of those 12 schools I think I think eight of them had as like a quality win that they had this year beating Vandy like Vandy is the king of like if you beat them you can you can that's like right at the bubble of what you can claim as being a great win this season um our old coach from JMU buyington yeah we were the we had an era there when we had we had buyington and then obviously in football um yeah JMU credit old coaches but I do root for Vandy and even in that weird gym where they line up the wrong spot um yeah but they're I mean the 12th 12th best team on on Ken Palm they started the season they didn't lose their first game they started season 16 and 0 and they just won the SEC with a beat down of Florida a pretty impressive win on against Tennessee or sorry they didn't beat win the SEC they lost to Arkansas today but they went to the final and they did it in impressive fashion I think they got screwed a little bit you think that would be my take you think there are four I think there are probably a four and then we're again there's a 12th best team analytically on Ken Palm or which of the four would you drop out which are the fours probably Nebraska that's fair Nebraska has not beaten a a tournament they beat Iowa in the last game of the season and over time before that the last tournament team they beat was January 5th so Nebraska had a great start to the season I guess they're kind of similar Nebraska and Vandy where they both were if you looked at you know in this you know January 1st both those teams were like holy shit they're incredible Vandy just did a little bit more in the SEC tournament by beating Florida and Tennessee but this this entire region yeah I mean it's Florida got that's a tough draw to play potentially in the sweet 16 against a team that you just lost to in the SEC tournament and I think that Houston got a very nice draw and I think Illinois too Illinois is going to be in the sweet 16 I don't I don't think North Carolina is very I might pick VCU to beat North Carolina in the first round yeah it's not a huge crazy upset because they're only a two and a half point favorite but I like I like chalk in in in the south outside of I think Vandy is going to go to I think it's gonna be Vandy Florida Illinois in Houston that's my chalkiest region so with Penn I'm sure Ross will bring this up but I did see that he mentioned this is the fifth team that Fran McCaffrey has taken to the tournament so he took Lehigh UNCG Sienna Iowa and now Penn the Quakers the Quakers going to the NCAA tournament pretty impressive yes that friends on that yes and I also think St. Mary's got a little bit screwed just with match-up lies because they have to play last year they went up against Vandy and Alabama St. Mary's one of those schools like just don't don't make them play against a really fast tempo SEC school but they're gonna have to do that they're gonna have to play bucky ball with text saying um I yeah the south is it's an interesting region because I don't think it's the strongest region outside of Florida and Houston and Houston's playing great right now and Houston also gets to play at home if they get to the sweet 16 so but between in that Illinois pin game is that the match-up of the two guys who can get the hottest uh yeah I mean TJ power and mom silage yeah and I think I think Illinois is I think Illinois is significantly better so no duh right they did limp in a little bit I mean Wisconsin we beat them on Friday um but we could have their offense is really really good the number one offense in the country we could have a dude off in that game yeah are you discounting waggler no I'm not it could be okay it could be a few do that would be the dude yeah yeah this yeah we'll see for I liked it with my future with Florida I do like to draw on the fact that they're not going to be surprised by Vandy after what Vandy did to him yesterday no and again I would probably lean Houston to go to the final four especially with the fact that they're gonna have home games if they get to the sweet 16 what do we do in a game like Clemson in Iowa uh what should we do with that under TV under under and don't watch I gotta figure out a strategy for because I do I like to take occasional unders in these games especially if I just lose like three overs in a row that's the one I need a strategy for making it bearable to to watch the games that I bet the unders are under they are the second and fourth slowest teams in the tournament um and Ben McCollum who came from Drake he wants to he wants to grind it out just suck the air I'm also probably gonna take Iowa in that game okay last region the Midwest region Michigan who just lost to Purdue Purdue's playing hot Michigan uh I feel like they got a pretty decent draw because you have Texas Tech who without topping is a different team in Alabama I mean they can get hot but they also can look really not great defensively and at the rim they're a little soft so I don't I don't hate Michigan's draw here no Michigan I think you're happy if you're a Wolverine fan yeah um Iowa State Iowa State got a great draw they got a great draw too yeah I like Iowa State try and I like Virginia's the one team in that in that group that would uh because I I'm not scared of Kentucky I think Santa Clara I think they're gonna beat them oh Hank what was that just put my hands up sorry oh he put his hands up playing a song um watch your watch above your head that thing's about the fall yeah you're about to get brain with a bear smug maybe mount rushmore what if you died by getting brain by mount rushmore Hank what's going through your head right now mount rushmore we're down down to our last strike it's two one us bottom of the ninth this ump is clearly from America yeah he's made some some generous calls I think his name I think it's cam young gotta dig deep I dig deep here you have obviously just because he's from America doesn't mean he's rooting for America yes sure good point Matt really good point based off of the calls that he has made the last couple of things really good point uh I think he I think he is Hank was being so annoying in the car on the ride over here we were watching the world baseball and Hank was just like he was coming himself when Jayrod had that catch that uh that Rob during Judge of a Home Run Hank was like turn it up turn it up in your face disgusting here we go Hank talk us through it to your team you live and die all we took it three two men on third have you loved watching Austin Wells you like that's why that that would be me yeah speaking Spanish in the dugout having fun three three two count men on third two outs oh no I will say this oh you guys are Roman Anthony stepped up to the play and Hank goes like I wouldn't I wouldn't hate it if this guy hit a home run oh wow yeah they're gonna if the US is gonna win it's and it's because of a Roman Anthony go ahead home run I can live with that yeah that's like the best but if they win any other way you hear down in the dumps yeah soggy sorrows it's a minute Republic Blues I don't think so maybe if they lose the finals it's only the the semis there's a hell of a bat there's a hell of a bad hang that you guys are had I mean you guys are having me it's Miller it's how you compete come on Hank oh how far ahead are we we're about 10 seconds ahead so far ahead Hank just watch the TV behind you he's watching it he's now taking out his phone and he's reversing the camera so you can watch it so you could just turn around actually I think it's super smart for the best thing he's ever done and it looks like it's a lefty pitching oh there you go oh got him see oh no that was a ball that was a ball hey what they call it is a ball what they call it that was a ball that's how you get out that's insane that's USA baseball right there sorry for your loss Hank not absolutely insane not oh man what a game that was and will you be rooting for the winner of Venezuela and Italy to beat the US in the finals no yeah you can't refer I mean you don't you don't like definitely not Italy yeah you don't like it that is where it could be fun big van all you gotta do is watch one Venezuela game and you'll you'll be hooked instantly I will say that Dominican Republic they they like change their entire mentality after getting thrown out at third base yeah seemed like they were afraid on the base pads like three or four times they just they put the brakes on they didn't want to get thrown out again it was mentally dominated I will also I've I've never seen Manny Machado run to first base my life and tonight he put his head down and was like a bat out of hell out of the batter's box tonight if you're a Padres fan you're watching this you're like where the fuck is this Manny that she's just swept up in the DR like hey but like I would it took my breath away watching Manny Machado hit a ground ball and immediately head down taken off yeah hey let's go through your head just you just sad it's just a sad run it's just a sad run yeah three more years any regrets no no regret nothing I'm happy for Roman Anthony but you regret nothing in in picking the wrong side the losing side the more fun side out well you know it's fun winning yeah I mean winning is a lot helps when the umps just calling ball tricks that was a huge difference those last two weeks this was this congrats to USA using the car I also but Paul Skeens I like he's a true true patriot such a good tomorrow pardon my take picture right now by the way Ken roses I'll get the fuck out of here dude I'm so sick of this guy ever since that Brure's thing last year he's such a loser get him out I mean he had I don't want him anywhere near me anymore he had maybe the quote of the century earlier tonight he said Fernando Tatis said the Dominican Republic is like a bunch of superheroes nine Batman if you will Paul Skeens is the closest thing we have to Superman so he was saying who wins nine Batman or one Superman that's a terrible comparison yeah Batman would beat the shit out of one Superman I'm so sick of Ken Rosenthal though that should have been like a career ender the way he reacted we're walking yeah yeah he's just a jerk you like you could just tell a guy is it you know I'm all for second chance but you could tell he's just a jerk and so like why why do we why do we let it jerk but he didn't really he didn't handle the second chance that well no no he he tried to explain his way out of it I'm happy for Paul Skeens I am too okay Midwest yeah I think was calling him big Dom that's what he was calling Dominican Republic big Dom you are yeah nice partner big Dom's yeah I just love watching Max win every time big Dom gets brought up okay do you want to take a shot at an early final four again we're gonna do our full bracket breakdown with dumb facts about each team on Wednesday show we also have Mark Titus any you want to yeah my this is my really final four it's my early final four everyone share it go for it memes you got one memes I know you filled out a million brackets uh the first one I filled out I had st. John's coming out I don't have my paper in front of me st. John's Houston in Arizona and Iowa State Arizona win the whole thing okay okay I'm gonna go with Duke Arizona Houston Virginia Duke obviously winning the whole thing I mean it's not even again why not close why play why play I'm gonna go with Michigan State I'm gonna go with Houston Arkansas and I think I'm just gonna go Michigan okay out of the Midwest you have one at all I got Houston win at all okay I'm gonna go fourth year in a row yep I'm gonna go listen you gotta get it you gotta get it eventually you can't stop you gotta get it eventually Duke Illinois Michigan Wisconsin I knew you were gonna do that with Duke beating Wisconsin in indy so you got three of your big 10 teams I knew you were gonna do that okay max okay can we just say that honestly that would probably be the most listened to podcast oh yeah part of my day oh yeah especially if Wisconsin had a halftime lead yeah and beating Michigan would be awesome yeah I mean almost I was the Saturday Austin rap was insane I think he hit five he hit six threes with five in a row in possessions and uh the whole time I was thinking like if the Badgers can pull this off I might I would obviously still be rooting for Wisconsin win at all but I might sneak he have to root for Michigan because then I would raise a banner in our office with an asterix being like but couldn't beat Wisconsin yeah because it would have been two times that we beat them and had Dave here do a banner cutting day or been a ribbon cutting day for the banner all right let's go ahead max st. John's Florida Arizona Iowa State okay and winner the Duke disrespect is disgusting right Hank disgusting disgusting I will do Iowa State over wow st. John's okay Zach finishes off then we'll do who's back in the week I'm gonna go Yukon Florida BYU Akron oh Akron love that I'm gonna take Akron to win just a kid love that you just love the love the zips zip up just I told on my zip up let's get there should I be worried about that knowing that we're on bracket busters together no some things won't transcend the busters we'll we'll bust together memes and I were thinking about letting you just bust I think we got three man bust no you just decide you're in charge of busting yeah you might be just you we're giving you the wheel we should bust together okay now you're davin busters okay before we get to who's back of the week twisted tea twisted tea is refreshing hard iced tea made with real brood tea and five percent alcohol twisted tea is the perfect drink to keep the good times going all day and all season long whether you're hanging out at a friend's house catching a game at the stadium or at the bar or day drinking with friends 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now I guess and are you making excuses no okay no excuses no excuses but it's bullshit okay and I thought you know whatever what they obviously aren't doing the new umpire rules that they're implementing yes why not wouldn't this be a perfect time to implement it you'd think so you would think so but no excuses but no excuses again if we could change that yeah like I would love if I had a magic wand my first wish would be go back and put the robot umpires into this game so that so that we can get so that the us might not win yeah that's what I would love to see so that Hank could continue his uh wonderful ride with Dominican Republic it was a great ride magic magic over over two games watched no two games watched yeah two games and some high lines yeah what a ride magic wand would be a great nickname for we were listening we were listening on the drive tonight the sound was cutting in and out pft was just an outdoing play by play at one point yeah it's painful great no great play by play okay who's back um I who's back speaking of you know not winning is just not being able to win the big one yeah few dominican came on the big one timothy chalamet yeah did not win did you hear uh there might have been someone uh part of the pmt team who'd made a guarantee on timothy chalamet winning that who would it's shame yeah our number one movie guy shane guaranteed it corn dog that's all he does is watch movies I know and he said he literally just we that's all he does we want we were watching it in the cave and he's just like what michael b jordan how could that happen right shane that was a guarantee pulled up shane ah brutal that's tough chalamet it'll win one yeah yeah but he's he's now in that like can he win the big one it's it's I think it's his third time nothing can't win the show as a man katelyn clark yeah can't win the big one as a guy that didn't see either of the movies centers or party supreme he got host I saw marty shell means year I I disagree I don't think he got oh come on it was fine it was a good movie I didn't think it was as good as I don't think it was like the greatest movie no I liked one battle more one battle did you see centers I did not see center I you were about to say centers and then I no I didn't see centers I I saw half of the the debate we're having here and the half that I saw don't think she deserved to win can't speak for the other half to sit it was very good too I'm sure it is I probably watch at some point I liked one battle more than marty supreme but it's best actor I understand should have been penicio thing is supporting I don't know if he won he should have been lead I think he did win I think they should just make it lead actor even for the supporting guys like if you're the if you're the if you're the funniest guy in a movie no I think Sean Penn won supporting for one battle for how it makes sense yeah that would make a lot of walks he kind of had that little limp walk yeah in that movie um yeah they should just have like a chillest dude award benicio would win that one okay so chalamet shall I make them Dominican Republic now I just saw marty supreme I saw one battle too okay did anyone see centers you saw centers max finish this debate for us was Michael B Jordan more worthy of of winning than Timothy shall I make this is great as a collective podcast we saw both these movies one battle one best picture I did it good yeah that's off should have that's the one movie you're arguing no we're arguing Timothy shat we're up basically not arguing you're not arguing Timothy shat you're just arguing that you liked one battle better correct that is what you said and also well but no but he said can't win the big one and I'm saying didn't really deserve it didn't think marty but you're you're just going off of the movie correct but as an individual the big one is best actor right everybody knows that correct right it's MVP debate that should the MVP just go to the best quarterback on the best team every year marty supreme shouldn't have wasn't good enough to as a movie for him to win the big one well let's just say like if you took if you took shall me out of marty supreme and you replace him with uh let's say mccana hey how's the movie do probably fine is it as good I like shall me a lot I didn't really love that movie again this has nothing to do with best actor I'm more clowning on Shane for having a guarantee that didn't come through but max who was better Michael B Jordan or shall I may I like shall I may okay I like sinners as a movie better I like shall may shall may got robbed host I like marty supreme is a movie better than sinners but I like Michael B Jordan you didn't watch sinners uh Zach well yeah that's so I Zach did you watch both these I haven't seen either of those movies but I'm gonna take shall may memes did you watch both these I like Frankenstein okay nice nice if you only go to see one movie in theaters all year and that movie ends up winning best picture that's a hell of a year yeah job well done that's a hell of a year I'm pumped I watched begonia this morning I don't ball oh I did see that but it was in my house begonia is awesome yeah the only one I saw in theaters is marty I didn't see I won't I saw one battle in my house as well oh wow you got you got a fucking you live in a movie theater bro what yeah you heard him I saw it on my couch you live in a movie theater you probably shout out stuff you sleep with onion do we have a comment from Shane how did he we'll get him for lottery ball okay but shall make came in the big one blood big a bear came in the big one yeah big time can't another joke joke to the masters he hit some water joke today huge joke he had a diamond his home course going into sunday joke and I I put him on my list of guys I will never bet again after he choked in the masters and then I forgot about putting him on the list bet him again this week and yeah it was it was a nightmare choke job damn came in the big one mm can't do it was that the big one it's a big one fifth major it's a big one but not the big one can't be a big one and it the big one is different than a big one in golf there's like five big ones six big ones okay but what's the big one depends how do you ask okay I feel like there's the man he couldn't win the masters and then he had another chance to win a big one but there is no a big one is different than the big one okay apologies well not a big one when a big one the big one master shall may not winning the Oscars he can't really win a one yeah has he won a one you can't win a mid one I think he's won a tournament he's won one okay but not a big one it was disgusting but I guess maybe not there's only one big one so I guess I was wrong there a testy Hank just saying what is the big one would the big one be the masters which he didn't win yeah so you can't win that one either yeah he stinks he stinks on Sundays I don't know what it is about him he just for being a robot because he feels like he does have like the personality of a drone just when he gets under pressure he just melts down and most guys that that have that like robotic personality they don't have the the choke gene yeah he's water multiple times right yeah okay pfd your who's back the week my who's back the week is taking medical advice from strangers on the internet nice so I don't know if you got anybody that sent this to a big cat I had a couple people that sent it my way out of concern for a friend Hank on Thursday we're watching the uh we're watching some college basketball on tv and Hank had his foot up for most of the night put his foot down took a step and just completely crashed out onto the ground he had the case the old numb leg fell into the ground um I was glad that you were okay yeah the first question I asked was can I get that clip and then I immediately said wait Hank are you okay and he said yeah I'm fine I'm like okay good now can I please get that clip and uh there's some guy on the internet that's telling Hank that he's 99% sure that Hank has pancreatitis oh because the numb leg but the guy shouts this guy because he's not actually just a fan of the show that wants to get talked about well mr. Accomplished is a sports player in medical danger his name is big pancreas okay which he only changed after this clip yes okay so yeah he says but I've had lots of people reach out to me being like hey is Hank all right in reality Hank's he was just sitting with his leg numb but now everybody's hit me up being like hey is Hank gonna die I hope not no you're fine you have pancreatitis I might 99% sure shit dude that's not good I'm gonna have to go get checked out I don't know how do you get that checked out make you shit in a cup or a doctor I don't know I did we did look up the uh the symptoms and one of the first symptoms was just like your shit smells like extra shit like ugh we're smelling shits that you can possibly have I don't think that's true for me okay you're good your shit smell normal yeah yeah okay my who's back of the week is Joellen beat because he has officially reached the perfect level I have something to say about this 485 games played 400 I have something to say about this is Joellen be the only athlete in the history of sports that like gets clown for that's a crazy stat that's a crazy I just do not just hear PFTs he's just he clowned Hank well I wasn't clowning are you in sports big pink yeah he's in sports media I'm an athlete not an athlete I that's a derrick rose derrick rose I understand and everyone probably missed and everyone is like oh my god that's that's that's a horrible shame what happened to derrick rose's career I'm not going to get started to horrible shame what happened to Greg owns your rear bring up for some reason Joellen beat always gets hurt and it's like ha ha ha what a great athlete that can't stay healthy I let's laugh in his face I don't he's the only athlete ever that anyone does that name somebody name somebody else uh Michael Irvin being concussed at veteran stadium comes to mind that is not the same thing at all because it's like not like a legacy thing what career right what do you mean no but that was like one time that that like Philly fans were assholes about about yeah it was one time I can't yeah Boston racist Boston fans over here being like oh yeah let's talk about Philly fans I can't I know because it's bullshit because so many people tagged me in that and it's like what he it's the he's the only guy ever everyone is everyone is always oh what a shame that that this career wasn't the same thing because of injuries except for Joellen beat for some reason your bring up fair points I just that's a crazy stat it happens how you know what happens but for some reason for Joellen beat it's funny I haven't laughed what what injuries it now he's whatever I don't even know I just want to know some injuries are funny admit it some injuries are funny max you're you get hit in the nuts you guys are you oh no max nobody would ever know I can't think of anyone else that gets made fun of for being injured it happens what athletes get made fun of being injured you're not a lot of guys I'm not talking about me but if we're you I mean I do consider him an athlete and it is funny when he gets injured sometimes that's true yeah I wasn't talking about me max but if you want to talk about PFC we have laughed yeah before you know laugh at injuries Paul George he has an oblique injury people make fun of him you can't stay healthy yeah playoff p Anthony Davis nope yeah I laugh he gets injured like every game big Ben and then he comes back big Ben checkmate big Ben checkmate big Ben is funny because he says that he has injuries and he plays good counterpoint you listen you're making a lot of good points that I'm gonna I'm gonna take into account you change your mind today great 485 45 but that and a lot of those games also were before he even started his NBA career which shouldn't even count I'd agree with that's good counterpoint yeah fake stat so you gotta wait a couple more months for it to be real stat oh no that's that's 82 games right 82 games in the AC yeah you got it you got it you got it I don't trust myself 83 if you play in tournament or actually no those games don't count for any stats yeah they exist outside the realm of reality yeah but they don't count that's where your body no one knows your body does your body knows yeah for sure if you get a torn ACL in a playing game I don't think it does no it doesn't count respawn the next day yeah a cup and is this a real stat that games played since February 1st 2024 Ben Simmons 59 Joellen B 52 that's not real I think I just keep going I think I just got something keep going you keep doing keep doing this also who's back to your McCain yeah playing well yeah killing it yeah and all the thunder you see the thunder they all start doing in celebration it's it is college basketball season it's college hoops we do not talk about the NBA this week ever what are you fucking laughing at over here you haven't what shit ever ever funny it was funny NBA cup it is funny at the kid I was watching the Canadians by the way us beating cannon on Friday night was awesome although it really didn't really like move the meter it's like we have to beat them that was that was one of those wins that's like you can't really flex it's just if a loss happens really bad but memes went on a little tweet storm on on PMT about Canada and just all the replies like this is from the loser Jets fan memes he's never won anything he was just going after memes hard I didn't see that do your job uh to those people I'd say suck my dick yeah just doing your job bro just doing your job okay Zach my who's back of the week this week is the Paris gentlemates a professional call duty team yep they've got the fourth major of the year coming up say that gentle mates a gentle mates yes sir they're out in Europe they secured a venue for the major four it's uh the Paris a lot of defense arena so it's got 45 thousand seats so they're uh it's gonna be the biggest event in uh called the history 45 000 seats for for video game tournament yes sir the most uh some of the more notable stuff that recently happened in the same arena Taylor Swift air is tore and olympic swimming the last time I had the olympic swimming that's pretty incredible so it's going to be just eight dudes on pc's main stage 45 thousand seats I got a pretty cool I got a dumb question um how big is the screen like I would imagine that would be a very important part of going to see a video game tournament live like the jumbotron that everybody could watch I don't have a square foot to jump a tron on hand but we can find it really quick I think it's big I mean it's it's got to be massive stadium I also love Paris love Paris defense state pretty solid chance it's kind of like you know msg has the side mm-hmm we're went to darts well I'm thinking it wasn't but it's like an msg but it's yeah the theater five thousand person yeah yeah my gut tells me that this is oh yeah that thing's huge that's a big screen now if they're in the market for a bigger screen I know a guy that makes basketball court size screens that has one probably looking for a good home oh max do you ever follow up with that guy you guys never answered me do it I said do you want me to follow up yeah do it do it I forgot do it I would definitely make this court an lhc screen it would be so sick yeah there was some slippage though can we get uh can we get oldie in here uh let's get to our interview with John rostin and then after John rostin we'll get some quick thoughts from a canadian on march madness bracket because oldie was watching college basketball a weekend with us in cda in cda all right let's get John rostin okay before we get to John rostin orises is teaming up with basketball titans to build their brackets brackets that will inevitably bust but this year those busts can score you orises so pick along with the pros and just know whenever you bust at least you can win orises will your bracket survive or will it bust for orises get your brackets in early and let's see 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your own Chevy Silverado at Chevy dot com okay here he is John Rosting okay we now welcome on a very very very very special guest for current guests as is tradition it is the one the only John Rosting you can hear him hosting inside college basketball now get it wherever you get your podcast he will be on our tv screens in st. Louis for Friday Sunday action he will then be in studio for the rest of the tournament John we've made it we have a bracket how are you feeling outstanding cat pft always a pleasure one of the best days of the year selection Sunday kind of feels like the first night of Hanukkah but you know for all intents and purposes right now all we have is a bracket and we know that there's 67 games ahead but we don't know what's going to happen between now and April 6th yes we know this is March yes this is March all right so before we break it down we actually we we've done some of our show and we said we cannot wait to hear specifically what John has dubbed the east region but before we do that I have one simple question for you because on Saturday or maybe it was Friday uh CBS sports your your colleagues were trying to do a pajama party on air yes and you said no to the pajamas was that even did you even have like a second thought about it because that was like such a listen we we sleep we sleep in May what are we doing we're not putting on pajamas did you have like a moment we're like maybe i'll play along or we're just like no absolutely not I don't i'm John rossian I don't put on pajamas in March I'm not a pajama guy to begin with but like when you have business to tend to yes not a time to get cozy and feel comfortable like we were dealing at that time I believe with the San Diego state New Mexico game which is like a loser leaves town match that we grew up with with professional wrestling where obviously the guy had to leave the w w f but this was just you know you have to leave college basketball and obviously not be able to play in the NCAA tournament so I wasn't interested in pajamas okay I love that I knew I knew when I saw the picture I was like of course John Rossi is not going to do this come on be serious people we don't need gimmicks this time of year it's March yeah it's March we lock in dress for the month you you want not the month you have yeah listen I I will I will I will I will say this I know I know what you're saying about dress for the month you know you want for the way you are but I am somebody who regardless of what month is if I am going on a college campus or I'm going on the air I am always wearing a suit and tie unless it's in a podcast situation that I'm hosting because I've instructed in those situations not to wear a tie because they want to be more casual but I am somebody who has always believed that it's really important to wear a shirt and tie I remember guys early in my career I was working at the ESPN radio affiliate in New York and I remember I was you know like a fill-in talk show host but I also did updates on the Michael K show so I remember as like somebody who dreamed about living and working in New York I mean I was somebody in college who would watch like three movies in the rotation it was cocktail wall street and like the secret of my success I was like determined to be in broadcasting and like live and work in New York and when I would drive into Manhattan there was this big billboard on the Upper West Side Highway and it said reporting America's story and that's when Brian Williams was hosting NBC Nightly News so I remember I was doing updates at ESPN radio this is probably now close to 20 years ago and Michael K he was the voice of the Yankees was the afternoon drive host and he said to me he goes just the heads up Brian Williams is going to come in to sit in on the show tomorrow with his son and I said well if Brian Williams is coming then I need to make sure that I wear a suit and tie so I with a suit and tie was like doing updates doing my job and I could tell that it made an impression on him and then years later I bump into the guy in Rockefeller Center this is the anchor of NBC Nightly News at the time he said to me I was like meeting somebody for a beer and like a button down he said to me I didn't recognize you without your suit so I will never not obviously wear a suit when I go to a college campus or be in a work setting okay I like that about you John it does become like you know if you if you came on the show and you were wearing a t-shirt and shorts I would feel like the month of March wouldn't feel the same to me right it would affect that's it my calendar like March is John Rothstein wearing a suit and a tie and speaking very authoritatively about what he wants to call these brackets because something has occurred to him when he looked at the coaches he looked at the teams and so we got to ask you about about the east because it's just it's it's a lot of brands it's a lot of coaches we want to know where your brain went the region of bluebloods is the east region because as you mentioned we have brands on top of brands the number one overall seed is the Duke blue devils obviously it's an easy one but also you have a great brand in Ohio State in the eight spot st. John's is your five Kansas is your four Louisville is six Michigan State of three and then UCLA and Yukon guys how about this six of the 16 coaches in the east region have coached in the final four John Shire Rick Patino Bill Self Michigan State Tom Izzo and also UCLA's McCrohn and then Yukon's Dan Hurley therefore the region of bluebloods I love it I love it yeah we went through it it's uh seven national titles between those guys Bill Self with with two Patino with two Izzo with one Hurley with two the the teams themselves have 30 national titles it's pretty crazy like they just stacked this region with some of these teams it's like you grew up on this in college basketball also an incredible region for defense because there's some tenacious defenses in this region tenacious defenses in this region and I think honestly a team that a lot of people are sleeping on in the east region the region of bluebloods is Jamie Dixon's team at TCU I think a lot of people looked at their bracket and they said oh we're going to get a Duke Ohio State brand on brand game in the round of 32 I am taking Jamie Dixon and company to beat TCU I think they could push Duke I don't think they'll beat Duke obviously in the round of 32 but people obviously follow Jamie Dixon at the University of Pittsburgh uh you obviously became familiar with his player development his obviously ability to retain players David Punch is a player on TCU that people will become familiar with later this week and he also did a really really good job recalibrating his perimeter last off season three of the transfer portal Brock Harding Jadon Pierre Latour is Lola Vicious I'd like TCU to beat Ohio State and pull a little game pressure on Duke yeah I was mentioning it like TCU is a big game team they beat Florida they beat Wisconsin they beat Iowa State they took Michigan um you know to the limit so like they have they have played up in level and gone toe to toe with some of these teams and asserted themselves like we can hang so yeah that it's a I think that's the best eight nine matchup those two teams are both playing great I mean Ohio State's playing some great ball recently really good ball but I think if you look at story lines and this is obviously a couple of rounds down the line but it's something that I think I've looked at you know right now for you know since last summer coming into this season you know I really felt that the burgeoning rivalry in college basketball was Yukon and St. John's Rick Patino and Dan Hurley Dan Hurley and Rick Patino two of the three active coaches that have won multiple national championships Bill Selb is obviously the other one and I think if you look at this region right now if St. John's can get by Kansas and get to the second weekend and get back to the east coast in Washington DC St. John's could be the team in the sweet 16 that would match up with Duke without Caleb Foster if we saw St. John's distort this region and beat Duke in the sweet 16 it could set up a regional final of epic proportion proportions I'm talking Ali Frazier type of stuff I am talking about stuff that they will be doing 30 for 30s on because I felt there was a real chance before the season that Yukon and St. John's could meet four times this year they've already met three but if they meet for a fourth time in 2026 it will not be for a big East tournament title it will not be for a big East regular season title which obviously was decided in the last days of the regular season it would be in the elite eight for a chance to go to the final four so there's a lot that has to happen for that to come to fruition but can you imagine in our nation's capital if we have Rick Bettino on one side and Dan Hurley on the other for the right to go to the final four I mean I may need a tranquilizer that'd be great that'd be awesome can you just talk real quick more about the potential second round matchup of St. John's and Kansas because to me that sounds like a very very intriguing game really intriguing game pft we have to also remember that Zuby Ejufor who has emerged as one of the best players in college basketball I had him as an all-american started his career at Kansas under Bill Self and then transferred to play for Rick Bettino at St. John's look obviously Kansas coming into the season had a great deal of attention because of Darren Peterson who obviously when active and healthy has the highest long-term ceiling individually as a prospect in college basketball but guys I have said this ad nauseam here just because you are obviously a great long-term prospect at the next level that doesn't mean by any way shape or form that you are going to have teen success in the NBA in the NCAA tournament remember this the last nine years we have seen three first-round picks Markel Fultz Ben Simmons and Anthony Edwards play on teams that didn't make the NCAA tournament Darren Peterson scheme obviously made the NCAA tournament but Bill Self has had to coach two teams this season one with Darren Peterson one without Darren Peterson I think the round of 32 guys is always the juiciest round of the NCAA tournament because you get matchups like this and because you have one team that's obviously going to be euphoric going to the sweet 16 and the other is obviously going to go home for the season and I look at this dynamic between Bill Self and Rick Bettino it's interesting as tower conference head coaches Rick Bettino and Bill Self have never coached head-to-head the only time that Rick Bettino and Bill Self have coached head-to-head was when Kansas played Iona a couple of years ago at an early season tournament in or in Orlando wow that is crazy you would think that they would they would run into each other at some point over the years I like watching Kansas because I feel like Flea or Badunga Fiori Badunga the big man you may remember watching if you watch the tournament last year not great offensively this year he's become like maybe the most fun interior player in college basketball to watch just the way that he he affects games with his defense and he can just dominate you offensively now I feel like that's it's a guy that if all goes well for him he will be able to take over a game and wreck it himself yeah well that would be the matchup inside right how would Badunga with his defensive prowess deal with the size and the physicality not just of Zubie Eger for but of Bryce Hopkins and guys I really think the guy that's been the game changer for St. John's and I thought this when I went to a St. John's practice in the preseason the guy that has made St. John's the team that it is is Dylan Mitchell now when you look at the way this roster was constructed it was obviously constructed with high level talent Joe Zonsan and Ian Jackson were guys who were really offensive minded players but obviously were not part of high level winning situations North Carolina went to the tournament last year but you know it was in the first four probably shouldn't have been in the bracket Joe Zonsan was at Arizona State at a team that didn't make the tournament now all of a sudden Rick Petino especially without a traditional table setting point guard at the high level Dylan Darling's done a nice job but obviously it wasn't like having Kadari Richmond or Dave on Smith like they had a year ago I watched practice in Queens and I said to myself Dylan Mitchell's a guy that needs to be on the floor a lot for St. John's because he can have a great impact on a team by not demanding shots and I think if you look at it from a coaching perspective the number one thing you think about is shot distribution and who's hands the balls in you never have to worry about that with Dylan Mitchell I felt he was the best blue guy in the big east he's definitely one of the best blue guys in the sport but I'll say this things have aligned perfectly for St. John's the last couple years mm-hmm Rick Petino was out of college basketball he came back from Greece and he started to coach at Iona because he wanted to obviously take a job in his native New York it so happened that St. John's was open when Iona was having success and that coincided with the transfer portal name image and likeness and a billionaire booster in Mike Rapoli who obviously has a major hand in St. John's resurgence all of these things aligned so yes it's been incredible to see St. John's last year win an NCAA tournament game for the first time since 2000 yes it's been incredible for St. John's is to win back-to-back big East regular season titles outright and back-to-back big East tournament titles back-to-back for obviously the first time in program history but when you have Rick Petino as your head coach and look he could coach another 20 years you have to ring out the sponge and that's why I think if you don't get to the second weekend this year you're gonna feel like something was left on the table I'd agree with that uh all right before we go to the next region did you have an upset pick and we'll do all your picks at the end but do you have an upset pick that you like in this or team we should look out for I think if you're looking at the round of 32 game that could be interesting it's obviously and it's another great made for TV game if it comes to fruition it's Yukon UCLA I will say this though UCLA has not played well out of the Pacific time zone yep UCLA and now again UCLA we have to remember is the only team in the big 10 out of the old pack 12 teams that has had real success since they joined the league USC Washington and Oregon have all struggled when you look at it especially this season UCLA has been banged up with Billidow and Dent Mcronin has told me he expects them 100% to play in the first NCAA tournament game against UCF which will be on Friday but I do think that UCLA has been such a poor rebounding team and it's had such a hole in the middle that Tarris we would be a tough matchup so that to me is the most appetizing I think if you look guys I mean if seeds hold and that happens sometimes but if seeds hold and we had Duke against Ohio State or TCU St. John's against Kansas Louisville against Michigan State UCLA against Yukon in certain years those half of the brackets could be the final four and we wouldn't be complaining yeah no you're right you're right that's why it's the region of blue buds a quick break from John Ross Dean this show is sponsored by BetterHelp it can be challenging to make time for therapy BetterHelp makes scheduling and attending your weekly sessions easy because it's all online you can do phone video or message chat according to your schedule with over 30,000 therapists BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform having served over 6 million people globally and it works with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5 for a live session based on over 1.7 million client reviews if your therapist is in the right fit you can switch anytime easily and no extra cost 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years for the first time ever there's pressure on Nebraska to win an NCAA tournament game for the first time ever and I am on record in saying this I said early in the season that if Nebraska were to win an NCAA tournament game for the first time ever before the start of next season I would fly to Lincoln I would put my credit card down in the Haymarket district for one hour and I would give Nebraska fans a happy hour on me love that right now has a lot on the line coming up against Troy later this week Nebraska has tied its record for program wins the most in program history of 06 so Nebraska has to win an NCAA tournament game for the first time ever to break the program record for wins but this is a really really difficult game guys against Troy a team one that won earlier this season at San Diego State you're looking for a name to keep an eye on Thomas Dowdy is the guy for Troy 25 and 19 in that win over San Diego State earlier this year I'm taking Troy to break the hearts oh everybody at Pinnacle Bank Arena and move on to the round of 32 you're mean guy John wow mean guy that's a mean thing that you're doing okay slicing things up I'm fully prepared to pay for that happy hour there's pressure on North Carolina without Caleb Wilson to win a game or two in this NCAA tournament my heart breaks for him it breaks for JT top in two of the five or six best players in college basketball both of them went down with season ending injuries now remember this North Carolina is playing VCU who's an 11 seed what seed was VCU in 2007 when it beat Duke in Buffalo and Eric Maynard made that shot 11 what seed was VCU in 2011 when it went to the final four under shock of smart it was an 11 VCU that year averaged 8.3 made three point shots during the season average 12 in the NCAA tournament and there's pressure on Houston to get to the second week into the NCAA tournament because Houston after playing Purdue last year at Lucas oil stadium in the sweet 16 relinquished their right a genius move by ADN Enunez relinquish their right to be the host school in the south region because Houston then would be eligible to play sweet 16 and elite eight games at the Toyota Center in downtown Houston so this is the region of pressure but get this guys Houston wins two games in my opinion in convincing fashion because they're going to beat Idaho and I think they'll beat the st. Mary's Texas A&M winner that would put Kelvin Sampson in a situation where the basketball gods 23 years later would hit him back what do I mean by that if it's a Houston Florida game to go to the final four at the Toyota Center in downtown Houston a rematch of last year's national title game it wouldn't just be a rematch of last year's national title game it would put Kelvin Sampson into the opposite position he was in 23 years ago because 23 years ago when Kelvin Sampson was at Oklahoma in 2003 he was a one seed he was one year removed from a final four appearance and he had to go to Albany to take on Jim Bayhiem and Syracuse when Syracuse won the national title so this would be obviously a major geographic advantage for Kelvin Sampson he also had to go to Indianapolis to play Purdue last year so there could be a geographic advantage looming there right there for Houston in the South region which is also known as the region of pressure I love that John I want to clear something up real quick with you uh the the rules for the happy hour you're going to march in you're going to put your credit card down are there limitations on on what you can order like fancy martin reed is one hour I saw my clock yeah no it's not just going to be this isn't like you know when you go to those weddings and all they have is wine and beer because yeah sheep yep this is not going to be one of those situations no for one hour I'm going to do it you know for Nebraska fans if they can beat Troy coming up later in the week I did it a couple of years ago how about this guys a couple of years ago and this is Chicago related you guys weren't in Chicago at the time but you know I would have invited you at the time I really felt that Chris Collins had an NCAA tournament team at Northwestern and they lost a bunch of close games and I told Northwestern fans that I would take them to a happy hour if they didn't make the NCAA tournament then after that season Northwestern lost Pete Nance to North Carolina as a transfer and they lost Ryan Young to Duke as a transfer and then they went to the NCAA tournament but it's you know me I'm a people person I enjoy engaging with the people of America that's fact I don't waste calories on alcohol outside the east time zone though yeah you know me you you are a people pizza pizza I don't waste calories on pizza pizza all right uh west the west region is the region of floor generals and look at the point guards in this region jayden bradley at Arizona john blackwell and nick boyd the killer bees at your alma mater wisconsin I love that Darius a cup at arkansas the best freshman point guard that has ever played for john calipari and then you have rob right at byu you have trey donaldson at miami and of course braden smith at purdue this is the region of floor generals now I will say this arizona has not been to a final four since 2001 under lute olsen this might be their best chance to go back since it's going to be through san diego and san jose arizona fans always travel at a high high level but arizona I don't think will be tested in its first two games because I don't think the villanova utah state winner will push them in the round of 32 but that was constant arkansas game and i'm not trying to you know force you to grab a nitroglycerine pill here cat but that was constant arkansas game has all sorts of intrigue and juice and spice but i'll say this if nolyn winter is able to be healthy and functioning I got the badgers going on you take on arizona which would be a rematch of the elite eights in 14 and also in 15 where were those elite eight games played the state of california yep so I think if you're looking at things if you're wisconsin if you can get by arkansas there might be a little bit of feeling right now that this was constant team with the killer bees if you get nolyn winter back could be the team that maybe break open the bracket I think the bottom part of this region is fascinating I'm obviously going to be at the games in st louis byu against texas or nc state whoever wins in Dayton obviously is a brand name match up ginsag against kentis all state guys an update for you guys I tweeted this the other day mark a few told me that braden huff who was playing like an all-american before suffering a knee injury about eight weeks ago is shooting and jogging but he's doubtful for the first weekend so ginsaga is not expected to have him according to mark few but a ginsaga byu or ginsaga texas round of 32 matchup would be incredible the miami missouri thing is interesting you know I looked up the mileage this game's in st louis miami has to go over a thousand miles to play missouri has to go just over a hundred miles in missouri's the 10 seat and then we got perdu at the bottom of the bracket a team that reminds me a lot guys of the 2004 ucon team with gordon oakaford charlie villanova reminds me a little bit of the florida team in 2007 and I really believe this in all my years covering a sport when you bring back a large nucleus of players from a team that went far in the nc double a tournament the year before and they know that the goal is to go as far in march madness as you can and that's how the season is going to be defined you obviously are in a situation where you know that those players know what's at stake at the end of the race so you might have lulls during the regular season to keep them occupied and engaged we've seen perdu turn it on here the last couple of days at the big 10 tournament beat michigan today looked like the perdu team we thought so i've got arizona wisconsin at the top of the region of floor generals in the suite 16 and i got perdu ganzaga i have perdu taking on arizona in a west regional final and arizona is playing great basketball right now in arizona looks like a team obviously that can win a national championship but i'm a sentimental person i believe obviously in the great story i believe obviously in circles become incomplete i believe still in people who have calluses from life and when i think about people that have calluses from life and life experience i think of produced senior class brayden smith fletcher lawyer trey kaufman ren i look at what they went through as freshman big 10 regular season champion big 10 tournament champion and then on the wrong side of the biggest upset in the history of the nc double a tournament when fairly dickinson beat perdu after fairly dickinson was not good enough to win the northeast conference tournament maramax won the northeast conference tournament wasn't good enough to go to the nc double a tournament or wasn't allowed to go to the nc double a tournament because of the transition rule then as soft moors it was the ultimate bounce back exercising the demons getting perdu to the final four with zack eddie for the first time since 1980 and losing in the national title game to uconn then last year it was something in between you make the sweet 16 you go to locus oil stadium and play houston in a war you lose a close game it's produced best chance to win a national title yeah it's a final four-bust season i believe in perdu death taken perdu to go to the final four death in india yeah yeah in india to go to the circle complete it'd be perfect now do you think that this is a better team than the team that went to the final four no because you don't have zack eddie right you don't have zack eddie but i think you know the x-factor is oscar club the record with oscar club is incredible they've only lost three games all season when he scored in double figures so to me that's the guy that's got to be really really good you got an upset coming out of this region i'm a little chalky in this region okay i mean i don't think utah state over villanova is a huge upset and i have too much confidence in wisconsin and arkansas i could see the texas nc state winner beating b yu but i don't think that's a huge upset yeah okay last region the midwest the region of innovation oh coaches in this region and i think about how things are evolving in the modern era of college basketball you have to have great roster composition you have to be able to put together a roster dusty may has done that ryan odum has done that at virginia the three seed nate oates has done that with the style of play that he's instituted at alabama and josh and josh shirts has done that at st louis as well this is the region of innovation i've got michigan playing georgia i like george over st louis i have akron and john gross picking off texas a and m in a 12 five i've got a michigan alabama sweet 16 and then i'm going to take tenancy to beat smu who i think is primed to show miami ohio a different weight class than it's seen all season if you're not familiar with smu you are not familiar with the team i think that has one of the more underrated perimeters in college basketball now somebody can say well why are they underrated they're just back into the tournament bj edwards who had multiple triple doubles this season for smu hadn't played since late february he was a starter on a key player he drawn pierre and boopy miller are three dynamic guards this is smu's guys first at large birth to the nc double a tournament since 1993 i've got them losing to tenancy i've got kentucky iowa state at the bottom then i've got tenancy as a six seed a little of an upset beating virginia okay i'm going to take michigan over iowa state so i've got perdu michigan in the rubber match in the final four and i got yukon against houston on the other side we can't lose you right now john this march it's march john get get yourself together grab that's a little water yeah i know john listen you've been you've been working you know all day all night for the last week especially i need you to take a big yeah but i got sick of water and grabbing nitroglycerin pill i got it sorry i'm rallying so i got in the east region the left side of the bracket is filled with drama like i got we've got the st john's uconn phase four possibility we've got florida houston i'm going to take houston and yukon i've got yukon winning that game and then i've got a rubber match between perdu and michigan i'm taking perdu so for the second time in three years it's perdu and yukon for a national championship dan hurley against matt painter and this time we complete the circle for the boilers wow okay that's part of the year number one in the country wins a national championship wow that's something spicy me that's john that's a take john that is a take that is a big time john do you take well do you uh do you spread any money on these games you you ever put down a couple couple bucks no man i i'm working the tournament objective objective objective he's working the tournament very easy but i mean perdu if you're looking to to sprinkle a future on perdu that pays off pretty nicely so that might be it might be a great tip no man that's that's not my beat john how much college basketball have you had your uh have you had your daughter watch you know we're right now um obviously in an interesting stage of parenthood i'm sure you've been in it we're in the potty training stage yeah so you know now it is literally every day is like its own by game it's like literally like we are in the stage right now where you just have this two and a half year old running around naked because we're trying to potty train there yeah and there's just hands and all stuff and she's drawing on the floor but it's literally like you feel like you're in a situation where you've like bought matt langel and colgate and you're down by 12 at the under 12 the second half perfectly said can i can i give you a tip on potty training just just wait till they're wait till they're old enough where they're just like yeah this is crazy i'm still using a diaper all my kids were potty trained at like three and a half to like an uncomfortable level where it's like all right enough is enough and they picked it up in like a day yeah no it's it's amazing like before you have kids you have no idea i think about how meaningless some of the other stuff you worry about before you have kids are because you know it used to be like i used to love how people like oh like yeah like when you leave and work you're going home to on one it's like unwind this is like buying shaka smart at vcu by the way are we are shaka smart it's not been good for a very long time do any of your do any of your like sayings you have to be like all right we got to retire this one like it's over well time out time out he's went to the nc double a tournament every year marquette except for this year but he hasn't done anything in the nc double a tournament for a long time well he went to the sweet 16 two years ago okay but like he his teams he's had high seats i'm saying like shaka's look it hasn't been great well i mean i think how you're looking at it like should marquette be expected to get to a final four i think marquette every year should be in the nc double a tournament he's four out of five like i mean let's think about this marquette since we've all been following college sports has been to one final four correct and they went to one final four because who was the player on the team tom kreen was the coach that's wainway i know but i'm 29 11 11 a triple double against kentucky in minnesota against marquette sestl jerald fitz and keith bogans in 2003 and who else was on that team steve novak travis dener scott merit robert jackson i mean great players and that was obviously in conference usa so i'm players great coaches this without great players i'm just saying shaka smart is kind of a perfect example of like don't overachieve early on in your career he went to a final four in his second year as a head coach and he's gone to one sweet 16 cents like usually he set the bar too high on himself no i get it but i mean that's what happens i mean that sometimes is what happens in marge madness i don't want to say it's the dark side of marge because that's a different reference that i use but i will say this i will quote mike tyson the brighter the lights the darker the shadows yeah good point that is very very true and in the in the pressure region pressure makes diamonds that's another one that's what i'm saying now that's what i'm saying cat yeah the head coach of florida is the number one sea pressure region his last name is golden yeah how about that have you had any new john rostinisms that maybe the uninitiated should should pay attention to when who is the last coach to get a nickname or a catchphrase you know it's it's not it's not one for bill self but i was just marveling this year at how like and we've said this for years but you know how like you're watching kansas play down on fieldhouse and some of the games that they win there are just so ridiculous like you can't believe it it's like the plot of godfather three it's like how does this happen how does this you know come to fruition so i just went this year when they played arizona at home without darin peterson and they beat them i just couldn't believe it and i could feel the the crowd through the tv and i just tweeted and on the eighth day god created alan fieldhouse yeah that's good that's good well i like that one lot also i don't know what what movie were you referencing there the plot of what's talk about the plot of what movie i've never heard of that movie before i'm not supposed to talk about the godfather you just broke my own rule you just yeah i just broke my own rule i i said i said never acknowledged that godfather part three is part of the original trilogy so i touched on something uh okay john this has been great we love having you on i have one last question for you it's a roback question rhoback.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase q zips polo hoodies joggers shorts roback.com promo code take one thing i love about you john is that uh you're tweeting college basketball no matter what whatever could be happening in the world you're tweeting about it i had a couple that i wanted to just bring up and see if you remember what maybe you tweeted when these things were happening because again it's like the world could be falling apart and john rostin's got uh an update about you know merrimack playing stanford uh in their non-conference do you remember what you uh tweeted on the day that uh prince harry and meghan marco got married i don't may t may 2018 you just this is not during college basketball season you just tweeted during their wedding most underappreciated aspect of villanova's run the last five years going 32 and four and earning a one seed in 16 to 17 when a marie spellman was knowledgeable and the phil booth was injured perfect perfect timing on that one do you remember what about um the the Notre Dame uh cathedral fire april 2019 no uh you said source fordham will host brian as part of its 19 20 non-conference schedule and i went to that game brian won in a by game was the do you have these ready to go at all times you have a file all serious at all seriousness guys this is what has happened i as you know am always laser focused on my job and i don't follow other sports so i'm just focused on the task at hand so like there have been times and i felt bad about this but like i hadn't watched the money night football game since probably like troy ackman and emet smith were on the dallas cowboys so a couple years ago ruckers is playing perdu and camp spencer before he transferred to ucon makes a crazy three and you know they go and they win the game at macchi arena and i grew and i pound you know on twitter grab near nitroglycerine pills that coincided with that incident with the bill's game when uh the marhamlin went down yep thank god he's all right and like you know people are coming at me it's like how can you not know that's like well i haven't watched like emet in a football game since 95 yeah what i know is yeah yeah so then i think what's happened is this there's been like other instances like i remember like i was with a friend of mine we're actually we're living life in our 40s and he like fell when we were playing like touch football with our kids and like he had to go to the hospital so i'm like waiting with him in the hospital he's getting like an x-ray and then like i just got a heads up it's like hey john like you know just a heads up you know iona starting to home and home with four of them so i like tweeted in the emergency room and i have no idea like there's this big like political issue going on so what has happened is this because of that which has all happened organically whenever big world events happen i now get flooded on my phone with like little scoops oh that would be a good time to put that's great i remember this i remember like whenever like the new pope had been picked yeah i got like somebody in northwestern hitting me up it's like yo john heads up we're hosting fair filled in a by game on this date november feel free to put it out i love it i love it i mean my personal favorite because when it happens when it's like not college basketball season because tomorrow hamlin that's during uh college basketball season uh 2019 august 2019 jeffrey hebsen found dead john rossin tweeted joe dually will bring in 11 new players next season in east carolina have never heard of a coach bringing in more than eight or nine in a single recruiting class the epitome of flipping a roster perfect ecu basketball baby you had another one during the super bowl this year indiana will host bellarmine on november 5th yeah part of its 2026 non-conference right there are the breeds against uh doug davin for we look forward to it it's just great it's just like you you just know because you know the world's a cynical place the world's a ugly place but you know that rossin's gonna be there with some college basketball news for you at all times no but like that's the thing like there is no act there is i know like this is this is who i am this is who i am that's the bottom you know i do love the fact that it's now become a chicken and egg situation where now you get like the minute something bad happens in the world people just start to hammer you with buy games i was um i was on vacation i was hanging out with my wife and like co like it coincided when like i guess uh what's her name uh taylor swift was getting engaged with the guy from the uh was the chief's yeah travis calcy yeah yeah him like right away i like got a heads up that robber i remember tweeting this it was like robert morris against drake and i was like oh my god andy tool against eric hinderson money it's perfect it's perfect oh man well john you're the best everyone get ready for march madness you will see him like i said in st louis on your tv screen then you'll see him in studio you can listen to his podcast uh anywhere you want to get podcasts and john rostin is the absolute best we 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cancelled hank pulls a genius move and sprints the other side of the airport to a different end of the terminal books a standby on a different airlines flight that hasn't been cancelled yet that gets delayed like four times we eventually get out of there on this flight we think we're going to get into chicago safe and sound and as we're landing i've never been more scared on an airplane in my entire life we're going in for the landing and then the the pilot just well it was it was it was super foggy up in the air so you can see it at the window and then we just got as we're descending we just got to the point where you could see like you're getting close to landing that we could see the runway as we're pulling up to it you'd see the ground yeah and we were flying in sideways and we started flying in sideways because the wind was 35 miles per hour the pilot told us and it switched at the last minute to like the opposite direction so the plane like makes this huge shutter to the side the pilot hits full throttle to take off and and try to go around so now we go from almost landing to nose pointing up and like going up through the clouds again and the plane is like shaking and like creaking hard turns creaking and people were were screaming on the plane this old lady was sitting next to me i i hope she's okay mentally now but she just reached she just grabbed my arm and she was crying like full tears damn coming down her face there are people like crying on the plane i think hank thought that he was going to die and and i had bet on what big and matt Fitzpatrick and like those were also just going down in flames and i was just like this is this is it the worst moment yeah and this lady she was like crying and like wailing in my ear and i just i looked i was like let's take some deep breaths together what's her name it's okay we're gonna we're gonna be fine we're gonna make it out of this and then there was like a very long silent pause where everyone kind of caught their breath for a second and then a guy that was like two rows in front of me turns around and the whole plane's quiet he goes has ever happened on your simulator pft and then it like broke the ice a little bit and i was like yeah it's it's okay and then the lady was like are you a pilot and then i had to be like not not exactly a pilot uh but no but i was like trying to explain to her we're gonna be okay we're gonna be okay then we end up landing in michigan the bottom line is the the pilot did an awesome job to get us out of there but it was like we i've never been on a plane where i actually thought that there was a chance that we were gonna crash damn and yeah and it was it was like that for a little bit so we we get to grand rapids get off the airplane and then hank drives back through a uh through a flood which was a an all-time move on his part good job good showing hang golf almost killed you guys great showing today hank the players that's you know it's the things we do for our kids right right if you guys had missed the show tonight i would have been so upset yeah that was never an option i mean it's selection someday that's never an option it's a big weekend we had a yeah yeah right a great time on uh on friday uh after after we were done playing some golf with bordels bordels like yeah i'll come over for a drink end up staying over at our place for like six hours and then homa stopped by and basically like homa and bordels got to hang out and i think i think bordels went triple platinum with like nine different one liners that he dropped that night like funny story it was just like an awesome night having max and blake like do their own podcast for us together yeah we'll watch some two good guys watch some some games and eat some pizza so it was fun and i'm just very very glad that we're not dead yeah very glad you're not dead that one sucked a lot oldie what do you got thoughts on march madness uh you know i gotta give it up to my boys ohio state it's been four years like to see that okay gonzaga or gonzaga they got some canadian boys out there yep and then uh i need max's help here we got a lot of canadians on yeah yeah same area oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah hey stop finding funny it's a lot of canadians on the team that's why they are yeah there is hell yeah five of them five of them yeah i like fins up for fins up okay fins up was electric yeah fins up is the place like all the boys doing it together being goofy together we guess we're too serious for it was that yeah i enjoy it i feel like was that a secret until two months ago month and a half ago what who uncovered fins up and brought it to like a national conversation a couple weeks ago i saw the guys went on ryan hammers podcast they were there are guys who are not affiliated with la you didn't go there they live in new york and they wanted to find a team to root for and then they started they like went to a game and then just started doing it so it's awesome it's rather than the tourney it's like literally like a synchronized swimming done to perfection yeah and it's done when it's called out the hands come together boom clap done over crushed it you know what i love is uh the the pictures of like the the tiny gyms at some of these schools plan queens look at queens gym it is a high school gym yeah yeah i mean i've been to the lju it's a great gym you just walk in free tickets free tickets job mission walk yeah absolutely or lower deck or you're in there's not really an upper deck but yeah all right so what what other teams you like uh gun zaga uh i don't want i don't want to say duke so i don't don't i gotta ride Ohio state i think but they're maybe second round they gotta play against duke so it's not looking good so i gotta ride l i l i u with the Cinderella story and uh my boy uh who's on the team uh ryan nemhardt yeah canadian so his dad's a beaut yeah uh who else like a houston maybe houston yeah but there could only be one so we're gonna go ride a houston we'll go houston okay that was a weird that was a very weird way to get to houston because i when you said only one i was like oh shit i love their physical team yeah grinders nemhardt's not on on zag anymore by the way he's not no his brother's not there ryan ryan i think is in the nba right definitely yeah but that's okay they were there yeah a little support still yeah yeah you know it stays on you keep just keep riding with them keep riding with him um okay well it's great having you here oldie uh by the way shame can we keep it shane on real quick of course love being here boys love you guys um shame what happened to shallow may guarantee uh i mean it's tough these these movies these movies they go on they go on these award circuits for months and months so at a at a certain point you can at least over the past few years and get pretty predictive of who would who'd get the Oscars and shallow may swept everything except for like the bath this so i thought shallow may was the the guy and i'd like to think of myself as like the movie guy here and i mean this is a tough look for me very tough back to the drawn boy who did you gotta watch more movies who did you think was better um i think shallow may was better i mean my favorite performs the year was was leo in one battle but the way that the campaigning went and leo wasn't really showing up to anything that was kind of out of the question what do you think about his mustache i think he looked great the last couple years he's kind of just like looked disheveled for this this other movie and he's looking pretty like well camped he had the mustache rocking he was looking he was looking slick so you think that that it does matter if somebody shows up to like campaign for their movie yeah oscar campaigning is a very big thing like if you look at the history of the Oscars yeah like it's a very big thing that's kind of stupid no i mean total total election target that's how like so many directors like they give them honorary ones later on their career because i forget the one the uh what was the movie with gwyneth paltrow it was like it's like shallow how it was like the the shakespeare in love that was like a big one i forget what that won over that was like a big oscar year but that was just because i hate to bring it up like harvey wandstein was like but he like campaigned very hard and he like love you guys this is a really long way of saying you got it wrong no i got it wrong and yeah i have to live with that bad guy good campaigner memes is playing you off yep yep you can do that what you got it wrong yeah got it wrong 19 in your in your defense of yourself you started talking about harvey wandstein and you didn't say numbers no i know but i was trying to bring an example yeah whatever sorry he didn't say he didn't say number don't say sorry don't say sorry all right numbers 19 there you go 23 56 86 17 46 shane if you want you can also give us like a or a quick recap of everything else that the chargers did in free agency what's your favorite move that the chargers had shane favorite favorite chargers move of free agency uh keith michael okay you everyone say their numbers yep you'll hold the same one four 72 72 anyone anyone no one more one more same numbers same again 20 same numbers 56 17 17 someone should have 64 or 68 41 41 41 love you guys and happy birthday to gas my good friend gas wow that's the parmin huge yeah love gas everything about the guy go follow him online he's got funny things to say all the time so sales guy love you guys we