Fade This Episode 16 NCAA Tournament 1st Round

Matt Jones and Drew Franklin are LIVE in Pittsburgh to give you their picks for the 1st round of the NCAA tournament in the most ridiculous way possible.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Welcome everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is episode sixteen of The Fade this podcast. We
are actually coming to you sponsored by DraftKings Live, well
not live, it's actually on tape, but kind of live
like it's live for us here at the NCAA tournament.
It is the day before the first round in Pittsburgh
and we are here. Kentucky is out on the floor

(00:37):
right now doing their practice. Before this podcast is over,
NC State will be out doing their practice, and then
maybe even Texas Tech depending on how long we go. So, Drew,
there's music on in the background. I think earlier Billy
told me it was Travis Scott. I don't know who
is it still Travis Scott?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, this is uh no, it's not you don't know.
All right, Well you'll throughout that. Oh wait, this is
trevs Scott. Yes, it's continuing. Okay, well good. It feels
like a very long song. I feel like it's been
on for he performing here. It feels like fifteen minutes.
So you all in the podcast, you're gonna hear that
in the background.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Just stack like it's the musical accompaniment to your favorite
sports gambling podcast. Drew, we got to Pittsburgh last night
and today we are going to pick all thirty two
first round games.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Against the spread. Are you excited about that?

Speaker 1 (01:28):
I could not be more excited. We did our morning
show and I came straight here. I watched South Carolina's
entire practice. Sitting with South Carolina people, I realize I'm
kind of wearing their colors. I think they adopted me.
They thought you were. I don't want to be with
them anymore, but I did have a good hour as
a game cock earlier. This is by far the fewest
Kentucky fans I've ever seen in one of these Oh

(01:49):
not even close. I mean, why do you think that is? Like?
Why do you I mean, there's like, Pittsburgh's not that
far away. Why are there only like thirty Kentucky fans here?
So I saw the first one, Keith from Paducah. He
was the first to come in during Oakland's practice. And
I've made a point to try to meet every Kentucky fan,
and there's so few here. I think I actually have
I think I can name all their hometown. I think

(02:10):
they'll be here tomorrow, I hope. So this is a
little disappointing because you know it's not a game day,
but these practices usually still get a good good amount
of timon fans.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
The Oakland had I counted six people here. You would
think if you're Oakland, you don't get to come a lot.
Maybe people just don't want to go somewhere on the Wednesday,
like maybe they're all on their way now and they'll
be here tomorrow. But there were more South Carolina fans
than there were Kentucky fans here.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's probably it being the Thursday Saturday, it cuts more
into your work week, where a Friday Sunday game you
can go get to Thursday practices and you're not missing
as Maybe, but I expect to be much better tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Remember when we did our show on the road on
our tour, Pittsburgh was our smallest crowd. Maybe just do
Kentucky fans just like they don't live in Pittsburgh. No
Kentucky fan lives here? Is that possible?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
That? Or it's such a blue collar town literally just working, like.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Do people always like I feel like that's required when
you talk about Pittsburgh, everybody's just like it's blue collar.
I mean, are there cities where people don't work?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I know what you're saying, but it kind of does
feel that way, like if you were if I went
to the nicest restaurant in Pittsburgh Michelin Star or whatever. Okay,
I feel like someone could walk into a hoodie and
hard hat and they would just see them like everyone else.
But if you did that in another city, I just
feel like you think.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
I mean, like, I get it, like it was a
steel town, and when it was a steel town, I get.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
It it was, but it was all that. But like
all I see are I still I see the.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Same paneras here. I see what's in Oh yeah, they're
all just eating gravel.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I don't mean this to be disrespectful, but everyone I've
passed on the street, I assume smoked cigarettes. Okay, I
just I just feel like everyone is grit. That's the worst,
all right, PARADOGM.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean cal Perry I think said the word blue
collar sixty five times. He's during his thing. So anyway,
we're gonna pick the games. We are in the Pittsburgh
Penguins Arena. There you see the uh retired jerseys of
Mario Lemieux and Yahmir Yager, two blue collar guys, and
it's nice they they've won lots of things.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
MVPs.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
You got Lemieux, Yager, Sidney Crosby at Malcoln, so.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
All kinds of big stars. I've had a very eventful
PPG Arena experience so far, not just being a South
Carolina fan. I caught my pants on a metal partition
checking in and they ripped, and I had to ask
a stranger if my rear ends showing, because I thought
I was gonna to uber home and change pants.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
How do you ask a stranger if you're rear it?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well? Is the guy right next to me? And I
felt it rip and I put my hand back there
and it's ripped, and I kind of had to be like,
hey man, am I good or is this I need
to go home situation? You're good, It's just the pocket.
But that was five minutes after walking in the door.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
I do need to ask Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I'm gonna make a motion you moved the airport somewhat
closer to the city.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's billy six and.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
A half hours from here to the airport, Like it
is so far outside of town that what you feel
like you're in a.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Different city, I mean northern attack.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
The Cincinnati airport is closer to Cincinnati, and it's in
a different state than this airport is.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
How's your situation today.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
It's looking good. I have black ones on today, so
they're not I'm saving. I'm saving the really white ones
that I bought in Bowlie Green.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I'm saving those for the game tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
It was a game day. Well, you know, you bought
them for a long Nashville and we didn't get that.
I'm hoping we get a long steel city here. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
You know, I wore my bad buddy white shoes in Nashville.
They didn't stay white. That was a bad decision. It
was it was its time in the rotation and it
was it's you know, Broadway is now just so filthy. Yeah,
like it's impossible to keep anything clean.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
I had some casualties on Broadway. I had a nice
pair of sunglasses. And I'm sitting at a bar, like
bellied up in a chair with friends with my glasses,
just sitting there mining their own business, and someone singing
on the bar just runs and stomps them in there
a thousand pieces and then runs on stage. And the
bartender is like, well you should tell him, and I'm like,
you want me to just go tap him on the
shoulder right now, So that was just those are gone.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, way is becoming like the purge for sorority girls.
Like they're they're falling down and and I'll see group
of groups of girls walking and if one falls, they
just keep moving. They're like, you know, you know what,
see you later. We have to get to Jason al
Dean's you're just gone. You're just gonna have to lay
in the street for a while.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Well, it's because they're the bachelor parties have those like
ropes that you do, like kindergarten field trips, throw all
together so if one falls, it's a it's a group group. Faull.
Let me ask you a question. Do you like pedal bikes?
I enjoyed the day we did it in Lexington, doing
this show. If I'm in Nashville, no, I don't want
to be. I mean because everybody everyone in Nashville has
the same like Nashville ain't ready for us, and like

(06:40):
they're ready. Yeah they've seen you before, you know what
they see they're here you, they're here every day. You
are here every day with just a different face. Nashville
is actually cleaning those up because at one point they
were actual buses. I'm not kidding, they're leaving town. I
passed the dude. He just had his tractor and he
threw some hay and stuff on the back, and there's
just nothing a street legally, but you can have a

(07:01):
golf cart, party wagon. They gotta clean it up. You
can literally have a wagon. This literally it looks like
you got done at the farms, like we all got
an extra hour. I'll hit the Broadway and do a lap.
I mean, that was not a piece of machinery that
should have been on Broadway transporting people. Well, all right,
so we're gonna pick the games. We're gonna start.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm going to go in the order that these games
will be on television starting Thursday. So hopefully you listen
to this on Wednesday night. If not, these games will
have already happened, then you'll know how we did. But
before we do that, Conference tournament week is over. Thirty
two tournaments. There were a lot of upsets. All we
did was pick the winner. So, Billy, how many winners
did I get? How many winners did Drew get?

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, the first edition you had four, Matt and Drew
had one, and we did the final sixteen. Matt you
picked two correctly, Yukon in the Big East and Grand
Canyon in the whack. Oh yeah, and Drew got one.
It was our Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Up came, so Drew got two out of thirty two. Well,
I maintained that first one. You told me to pick sleepers,
so I did four seeds in the lower I I
was running up pill from the over from the beginning.
You took away my totals, so I tell me I
got it very good, though I mean to be fair.
I got five out of thirty two and you got two.
That's not very good.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Six, Matt, I got six.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Hell, then I'm good. I got six. That's really good.
That's like like eighteen percent. That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
It's fine. I feel like starting the real march madness
is now.

Speaker 4 (08:21):
We're gonna be good. Okay, so good at picking.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Whole tournaments, we're good at picking games.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
So I'm gonna give you the game and then where
it is, and then Billy is going to give you
the spread.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Are you ready to get started?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I'm ready. Are we starting with the playing games?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
No? The playing games? Want?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Two of them are over and we're not picking the
one tonight We're gonna start tomorrow and we have in Charlotte,
North Carolina. First game kicks off the tournament at twelve fifteen.
You turn on your TV. You get excited, turn on CBS.
Michigan State, Mississippi State. I feel like Michigan State plays
the noon game on Thursday every year because I'm always like, yes, tournament,
no tom Misso this is boring.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
But what's the spread.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Michigan State is a one point favorite.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
I like Mississippi State. I think they're very good. I
think they're tough, They're they're gritty. I think they do
what Michigan State does, but this year they do it
better than Michigan State does it. I'm hedging on the
Big Ten the whole tournament. I think the Big Ten
is was bad. This year is overrated. I actually think
amongst the power conferences, it might have been the fourth

(09:20):
or fifth best conference. So give me Mississippi State to
beat the Spartans. I love Mississippi State here.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
As soon as the bracket came out, I saw that
matchup and thought they're winning that one. Izzo's a hot
tournament name. Heck, they probably shouldn't even be in the
field if his name isn't tom Izzo. I think Missisipi
State wins that one, and I think they'll give North
Carolina a game. I think they're a sleeper team to watch.
They got the freshman guard Josh Hubbard that played so
well at Kentucky fans. It's a big guy. He always

(09:46):
ss ssmith smith. You got the Dennis Chris Jans defense.
I think Michigan State's in trouble. In that first game,
a half court shot and it was embarrassing. I mean,
like he needs to not do that again. Presumably he
does it all the time. Tyler ew is from half
court and it is nearly money. All right, we will
wait heard John Calipari is very superstitious about this and

(10:08):
he won't shoot. And if they make him, he misses
on purpose. Because I don't remember the game he made
it and they lost, and he's never done it. See
he's never done it. It might have even been the
national champions. I don't know who that man was. He
shouldn't be allowed to shoot again. Yeah, that's doctor Jeff,
he's the trainer.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
Okay, Well we'll let you know who makes it.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Second game, Well, it is Ducaine byu Ducaine, by the way,
is the host of this of this regional and their
media team.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
I heard this.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Their media team has never hosted a regional or been
to the NCAA tournament and they have to do it
on the same day, which is a lot for the
Ducaine media team. So shout out Ducaine media Relations. What
is the spread?

Speaker 1 (10:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Nevertheless, b Yu as a nine and a half point
favorite in this game.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
This is a six to eleven matchup.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
There are a couple eleven seeds that are favored over
the six and yet this one they're nine and a
half point zero underdog, which seems like a lot.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
In my goodness. I think that was Grant Darbyshire that
just made the three. He banked it in from half
court to uh to get it all right? So nine
and a half? What do you got, Drek?

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh, I thought that was gonna be a little lower.
I'm gonna go b What I like. B Yu is
another Darling I'm watching. I think they're gonna play well.
As a Kentucky guy, you got the Mark Pope connection. Uh.
He picked Taylor Swift as his favorite music. She had
a pretty good run through the NFL season. So I
will take the Cougars here.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna take BYU as well. I think Duquane's
media team being distracted is gonna hurt. It is because
you know, you rely on your media team to help
you with the with the interviews, you know all that,
and like half of them are here.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
I'm very confused by that. Normally you would take everyone
with you with your team, like everybody's going to the stop.
Who did they have to like fight to who start?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
They said there are people, They said that the basketball
people are running this.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
It was like the gymnastics sids.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
And I'm sure those are good people, but are they
ready for the spotlight of Omaha, Nebraska and all the Mormons.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
I don't think they are.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm ready, and you know, you know my affinity for
Mormons against the Spread.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
We're a Mormon podcast.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Last year it's a Mormon against the Spread. I'm taking
a Mormon now. The only thing is it's at twelve forty,
which in BYU time is gonna be nine to forty
in the morning.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Do you think that's gonna be an issue?

Speaker 1 (12:17):
They're gonna be sleepy. I don't know that, but I
get up early. What do you know about Mormon sleeping habits? Nothing?
Absolutely nothing. But if I were picking sleep in or
get up early, I would think they're early risers. I
got it.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
So, yeah, if you were talking about go to church,
So let's rank when religions wake up. Okay, I'm gonna say.
I'm gonna say Homish people wake up the earliest.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Would you agree with you?

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Oh, they're definitely up because they don't have electricity, so
they got it.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Follow this up, Yeah, there are.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
So I'm gonna say Homage people wake up the earliest.
I'm going to say Catholics wake up the latest because
they've been drinking. I don't know that. Again, I love all. Really,
this is not this is not meant to be hurtful
South real quick. This is we're gonna do all Protestants
since we're Protestants. I think it's just safer to only

(13:08):
do I don't know, Hindu sleeping habit. Yeah, so we'll
do all Protestants and Catholics. We'll throw them in there too.
So Amish earliest, Catholics, latest, Presbyterians, and Episcopals.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
They're turing. That's me I tried to tell you. Yeah,
but our early church service three people, second service can't
find a seat on my Presbyterians.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
So I'm going Amish and then I think presb Episcopals,
and Presbyterians.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
The next latest, I think Baptist.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Get up early because uh, you know, I got a
Trump rally to go to. I threw my families are
my family's Baptist. I'm allowed to say that. I think.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
So I'm gonna go Amish, then Baptist, no Amish, then
Church of Christ, then Baptist, then Methodist. Presbyterians, Episcopals, and
Catholics are last. Do you have anything you would like
to change?

Speaker 1 (14:04):
It's a great ranking. As much as I'd like to
add more and really stretch this out, I will add
my Presbyterians. I remember times where Kentucky had like a
or not excuse me, been an NFL. But the pastor
is very aware of a game about to start and
would let the crowd know that congregation know that we're leaving.
Because in the eighties Kentucky would play one game a

(14:24):
year at noon. That must be what I'm thinking of.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
CBS and the churches in Lexington would would would meet
an hour early so they could all get done and
go and Kentucky would play. They played Syracuse Saint John's Navy.
It was always like a gen. It was usually Super
Bowl Sunday. They would usually play that game Houston.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I think they played one time with a chem O
Lodge one sollance.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Anyway, that gets you ready for the game. So BYU.
We're gonna take BYU to cover what's next?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Akron and Creighton. Creighton is a twelve and a half
point favorite.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
This game is here, it's in Pittsburgh. I'm gonna say
Akron covers only twelve twelve. Listen, twelve and a half points.
Acron's not far away. You know a thing about across
blue collar It is just like Pittsburgh Craighton. Again, back
to media distractions. Creighton is the host of the of the.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
One in Omaha, so half their media department had to
stay in Omaha. Akron will cover the twelve and a
half just Vegas. Find out all the media situations before Sudneys.
Is it factored in?

Speaker 2 (15:26):
This is the edge we have is that we we've
we've thought about these.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Things in March madness. I pick underdogs usually, but I'm
doing favorites. I'm going Craton here again over the twelve
and a half. Yeah, I think Creighton's gonna put together
a run. I haven't done my final four completely yet,
but they're in the conversation in that region is my
final four pick. And then Akron, of course shouldn't even
be here because of the foul in their conference. Guy

(15:50):
I did, and I've seen the internet saying he's shaving
points and then I mean, we saw that kid's face.
He was devastated. Yeah, he just messed up and didn't
know this school.

Speaker 4 (15:59):
Meanst I stayed in first because he has to go
to Kent State, So start with that.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
And then if you're gonna go to Kent State, then
you have a chance to go to the tournament. And
you foul for people who didn't see fouled intentionally because
he thought they were behind and they were up one
four seconds. So but but the thing is Akron, you
know to who much is given much as expected, They
were given a trip to the tournament.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I expect him to cover. It's not crazy. For so
many times we see a team going a run when
they were split second from being out, So it's not
not impossible. But I think Creighton might actually be a
year where they go far all right.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Next in Salt Lake City, Utah, Long Beach State with
Dan Monson, who was fired last week but allowed to
finish the season and took his team to the tournament.
They have They have not won a tournament game since
the eighties. They play Arizona.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Uh, what's the spread, Billy, Arizona's a twenty and a
half point favorite.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Long Beach State is definitely covered half right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
I mean you have the story of him getting fired
going on that run. You also have the story he
hired Arizona's coach to be his grad assistant in Gonzaga,
Tommy Lloyd at Arizona was his first job was under
this man, So he can't run him out of the
gym in the tournament appearance as a twenty point favorite, well,
they're at least covering that they're not winning, but they
will keep it close for that connection. I just realized,

(17:20):
by the way, BYU, No, BYU's in.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Provo, right, it's not it's all Lake Yeah, okay, yeah,
Long Beach State. I like them. I like this one and.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
A lot.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Arizona has been upset a lot in the tournament over
the years by lower seed teams. I don't think they're
gonna get upset here, but at Long Beach State we'll
do it.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
I've been to Long Beach State's campus, amongst the most
tanned people on a campus in America. Tan, I guess, well,
they're just you know, Long Beach is like the beach,
it's in the sun, and they just walked. I just
remember thinking, everybody, I'm a lot paler than everybody here,
and it made.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Me very self conscious. Also, only campus i've been to
without a campus bookstore.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I'm guessing you're trying to get a hoodie, trying to
get a hoodie and did not have a campus bookstore?

Speaker 2 (18:07):
And I asked, I was like, this was many years ago.
I said, where's the campus bookstore? And they go, it's
off campus. It's well, I mean, on campus, what are
you supposed to do? And they go, well, the students
are told they have to go off campus.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
See what doesn't make sense. I know, like a bookstore,
that's your back. You had to have books, you know,
Now it wasn't It's not like everything was online. So
I think that's gonna affect them.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Where's their media team though, it's a good question.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Next we get to the afternoon games. You have Wagner
against North Carolina. This game is in Charlotte Billy.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
What's the spread twenty five North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Well, first, I would never bet a twenty five point
spread in the NCAA tournament. But if I were going
to I'd probably pick North Carolina because Wagner had to
go to Dayton and then to Charlotte, and they sto
have to play during the day. And what I'm gonna,
I'm gonna and it's in Charlotte, so it's gonna be
full of Carolina fans.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'll take Carolina. Yeah, wager was already an underdog, won
that one straight up to get here. You just got
to wonder how much fight they have left when they
look up and see the number one seed in Charlotte.
So even though that's a huge number, I will also
take the Tar Hills, as I continue to only take
the votes. Rob Dillinghan.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
By the way, but the Kentucky basketball team ended their
practice ten minutes early, and Jordan Burks is shooting trying
to make a three before he leaves, and he is
still out here.

Speaker 4 (19:33):
How long do you think this is gonna take before
he makes one? At some point he should just leave.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
I respect this, though, I won't leave a court without
making one, and there is allright, he gets to leave,
so we're taking Carolina, all right. Next we have here
in Omaha. Wait a minute, I'm not in Omaha. I'm
in Pittsburgh. You've been traveling a lot.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
To be fair, that's true, Morehead State and Illinois. Preston's
Bradland before he heads to Illinois a different part of
it for a job. He has to do this first.
And what's the spread?

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Bill Illinois is eleven and a half point favorite.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I love Preston, but I think his heart is in
Suluki Country. I'm kidding, not really, but I'm taking Illinois
to cover this. I don't think Morehead I pick them
on national radio, but I'm now flipping in same Illinois covers.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I'll be rooted for Morehead, but Illinois's got one of
the best players in the tournament, and they ended the
regular season pretty hot, did well in the conference tournament.
I thought that numer would actually a little higher, and
I was gonna take Morehead. I was prepared to say
Morehead crazy BYU is only a nine and is a
nine and a half point favorite against eleven seeded Duquine.
Illinois is a three fourteen and it's only two points more. Yeah,

(20:49):
I need a little more points there if I'm gonna
take more head, so I'll go Illinois. Terrence Shannon Junior.
He's the afternoon game here in Pittsburgh, Oregon and South Carolina.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
Steve Lapis is on the call.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
We're gonna have to listen to Steve Lapis all day
here in Pittsburgh. Steve Lapis, guy.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's fine. I mean, I don't you know, I don't
have a strong feeling anyway. I saw Evan Washburn earlier.
He'll be on the call. Great hair. Here's the thing
about Steve Lapis, I like, and I think you would
appreciate this. There's two men with large ears. Not that
we're not as big as Steve's. He's got me, dude,
I got a pretty good set here. You do have
big ears, but Steve's are protruding. Okay, mine. I feel

(21:25):
like over time are slowly coming back in At a
young age. They were like, because you don't want them
to go the other way? No, no, no, they're definitely
everyone in grade school that said, hey, Drew, when you're older,
you're gonna have bigger ears, so they don't stop growing.
Ha ha. All those people were right. I do think
they keep growing, but luckily they're going back.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Who has the biggest ears of any famous person?

Speaker 1 (21:45):
I don't want to say his name, but there's a
man out there covering sports on national television that is
fighting the good fight for us.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
No, you're talking about the guy in the NFL New Yeah,
Andrew Cecilia.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
I wasn't gonna call him out. If you look his
name on Twitter, they're only talking about.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
His He has the biggest but it's again, it's more
protruding than it is big.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
They're out more. But I've intentionally searched his name before,
and that's all people are talking about. And that man
sits in front of the camera the next day and
just keeps covering football.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I can't even credit for who else would be in
the big ear Dave Baker local national him, Yeah, nationally,
I mean Andrew.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Billy.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
While we're doing this, first of all, give me the spread,
and then why don't you look up celebrities of big
Ross parou that.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
See when I was like it was broady elementary, those
jokes got real old, you know, I was like the
Ross mean people called you all the time. I mean,
he was running for president and I'm seven frequently that Dumbo.
Oh my gosh, I'm just trying to swing and learn
long division. I realize I have big ears? Can I

(22:53):
just get through?

Speaker 4 (22:53):
You would know that children would know who Ross was?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I have ross Paro trauma. What year did he run?
It lines right up with me being picked on? I
know that much. He ran in ninety two, seven years old,
getting all the ross Paros? Who knew you were at
the ross Paro trumps? All right?

Speaker 4 (23:16):
So what is the spread of Oregon?

Speaker 1 (23:17):
South Carrol?

Speaker 3 (23:17):
South Carolina is a one and a half point favorite,
and quickly a couple of celebrities with big ears, Adam
Driver and all cocks.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Chanting Tatum does have big ears, but like that's a
good proof if you if you're in like good enough shape,
it doesn't matter what your ears.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Like.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
He does have big ears, I've.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Noticed, but he when he walks by, no one's like,
look at those ears. It's look at magic Mike. You know,
when the rest was walking by, it's like, look at
those ears. You're telling me I should get my.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
App I was gonna say, if we were cut like
Chanting Tatum, maybe it wouldn't matter.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
I'll go home and practice dancing to my pony, Courtney.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Cox, that's on this list. Yes, and Jennifer Gardner.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
I met Courtney Cox. I didn't remember having an ear
thought about her.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Women though, they can cover it up with their hair
like they can like they can make it to where
it's not a big deal. I'm gonna take Oregon. I
think South Carolina is we even do that. I think
South Carolina is kind of fraudulent. I know they listen,
they had a great year. But of course I once
said South Carolina was the worst three seed in history,
and they made the first seven seed in history, and

(24:23):
they made the Final four. But I'm gonna take Oregon
to win right here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Uh, this was tough. I thought Oregon was gonna be
a team to watch, but also had a lot of
fun with my new South Carolina friends earlier and watching
that whole practice. You know, I'm a big being loose
playing free guy, just noticing when teams have a little pressure.
They were having lots of fun and they're ready to rock.
So I will go with South Carolina. There's Joel Justice
talking to former Choel Justice is here, Hello, Joel. Just

(24:54):
all right?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Next, the last game of the afternoon in Salt Lake,
Nevada and Date, a game that will certainly be one
I'll skip.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
What's the spread.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Nevada is minus one and a half.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
So Nevada is the ten seed and is favored. Interesting, Well,
I'm gonna take them anyway. I'm big on the Mountain
West in this tournament. They're already one to zero. I
think they'll win to Night. Poisey State will beat Colorado.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
I'm gonna take Nevada to beat Dayton, who kind of
floundered a little bit down the stretch and got in
lost in their conference tournament. Give me Nevada. They lost
to Dukane, but I'll remind you that's when Dukane had
their full media team available. So I'm expecting Dayton to
play a lot better in the NCAA tournament. This will
be another close game. I'm gonna go ahead and call it.

(25:40):
I'm gonna pick Dayton, but I mean gonna say this
one comes down to the last shot. It will be.
It will come down, So you're picking Date Dayton.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
I told you that Dayton's media team is stuck at
the first four and was not able to make the
trip to Salt Lake City for the game because they're
doing the first four.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Well they do that every year. They're used today. Oh,
they're used to it.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I mean that's that's just on the family calendar. Eye
they got the first four. You know who the head
of media is at Dayton, I don't.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Shane White for a former Delta Sigma Phive fraternity member
at Transylvania University.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
He went to school with me, And you thought I
knew that when I was in school Shane White, I
didn't even know he had watched a sport.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Ever, he never talked about it. I thought he was
in opera and drama. And one year I went to
the first four. I walk in and Shane White's working
at the desk and I looked at him and I said, I.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Thought you were in opera, Like how did you become?
And He's like the sid for Dayton just goes to show.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
You never know what people are gonna do.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
And maybe all those times you didn't think he was
watching sports, he was writing up notes.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Over there on the side. He wasn't watching it. He
was information direct there you go, all right, we go
to the night games, Colorado State versus Texas in Charlotte.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
What's the sprit Texas minus two and a half.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Texas minus two and a half. So here's the thing.
One team from the first four always wins their next game,
and I'd like it. You know what, Colorado State going
to cover and I think could win the game.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
What's our travel situation here? I think they just played
Dayton Date. Okay, so true, that's right. Uh, now they're fine.
Then I'm going to Colorado State to win. They got
some confidence by playing a horrible Virginia team that shouldn't
have been there. I always think about that big fat
mascot kid and the Rams outfit from the tournament like
ten years ago. His magic is still lingering around going.
So they went outright against Texas. That was from the

(27:30):
first four. They're moving on.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
When when that happened? No, it was actually Lexington. It
was against Louisville. It was here Louisville won the title.
They were they played Colorado State in the second round.
All right, Oakland in Kentucky. That is obviously our Kentucky
Wildcats playing here in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
What's the spread?

Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's now thirteen and a half for the last lot.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
It opened at what eleven maybe something like that.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
I didn't see the opening.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
This is tough because I either think Kentucky wins by
thirty or wins by six. I'm gonna go ahead and
say we covered because I think, well, I think they're
gonna have a hard time Guardeness with the zone they play,
so I'm gonna take Kentucky to cover.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
I will also take Kentucky to cover just because if
Kentucky is playing well and they flip that switch, it
will be a blowout. I feel like the numbers should
be a little bit higher. Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
I mean, I think there's a chance they I mean
because you know, the Oakland coach said, look if we
catch them on and off night, they don't and that's
all true, but you play, I mean, nobody has played
zone against its Kentucky team.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
They just shoot too well. I don't know how you
can do that right. Yeah, And I watched Oakland's practice.
They just they don't have much size. I knew that
going into it, but seeing them out there after watching
all the other teams, and I know Kentucky's not a
team that's gonna really take advantage of you inside. But
they just don't look like they'll match up. But then again,
on Friday, we could be on our way home saying
that Oakland team is good. U.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
We will now go to the twelve seeded McNeese State
versus Gonzaga. Will Wade said in an interview today, I
like being the bad boy of college basketball. You shouldn't
call yourself a bad boy when you're like a middle
aged white guy, like you shouldn't say I'm a bad boy.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
And wasn't his wife paying players? Like That's not that
wasn't it like their family bank account that got him
caught in my dream saying he's like a bad sugar baby. Well,
I'm just saying, not a bad boy if like your
wife is literally paying the bills for your basketball team,
because when they got caught off, if I'm not mistaken
their personal checks or something involved. So I don't know.

(29:35):
I mean, you're bad enough that you cheated and got fired.
You're bad, you broke the rules. But I don't I
don't think you're walking around like you're the bad guy
in the leather jacket.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
I think he said he was a bad boy, and you.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Know, he is a good basketball coach.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
He is.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Unfortuately, I wish he wasn't, but I think he is.
What's the spread.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Uh good, Zaga minus six and a half.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Oh my goodness. TJ. Burns is so big. He just
went court into end. He started on the BYU game
and he just like, I'm just kidding, but no, he
just went into end for a layoff. That was just
crazy to watch. He's got one of the biggest chests.
I mean, like, look how broad his chest is.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
All right, what were we talking about? Mcneque State and Gonzaga.
Six and a half's not a lot. I'm gonna actually
take Gonzaga. I think this is one of those things
where so many people are picking McNeese a lot of
times in this five twelve matchups, those happen that I
actually think they go too far, and I think that's
what's happened here, and I'm gonna take Gonzaga.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I've got Gonzaga beating McNeese because they're a popular pick,
and then I have Gonzaga beating Kansas, so Gonzaga will
be in my sweet sixteen.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
All right, you got gonzag. You got Gonzaga to cover.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yep. I think that they're playing well and gonna do
well in this tournament. All right. Back to Omaha, South
Dakota State and Iowa State a battle of the Midwest,
I believe it. You know, here's what I think these
two states. I think they border. I actually think South
Dakota State, if I'm correct, is not that far Iowa

(31:01):
like it's like in the south well Hens, well no,
I mean, I guess it could be in the north
of South Dakota, but I think it's in the south
of South Dakota.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Anyway, what's the spread Iowa State minus sixteen?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Oh south. I like South Dakota State to cover that.
This game will stay closed for a great part of it.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
I love Iowa State, but now with that many points,
I think I still haven't finalized my bracket, but I
might have Iowa State instead of Yukon in my final four.
That's how much I like them. But they're not covering
that in round one. That's a lot sixteen and a half,
you know. Yeah, and I think every defensive team might
be a little more lower.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Sometimes when these teams win conference tournaments, people just act like,
you know, they forget that this is a different thing,
right They got to kind.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Of restart, and some teams just want to win this
game and get out and be done with it. Some
teams they're fine winning by eight and moving on to
the next one. That doesn't necessarily need to be a blowout.
So I'll take I'll go against Billy South Dakota State.
South Dakota State, I believe is the is the jack Ratbbits.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
That's correct.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Do you know what the difference is between a rabbit
and a jack rabbit?

Speaker 3 (32:06):
The name of the rabbit maybe a longer tail.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
I mean, are you which one are you going with?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm gonna go longer tail.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Are you looking that out?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Okay? Do you know? No? I was asking you. I
have one and it's actually fitting. Okay. According to Google,
jack rabbits have longer ears.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
So we're talking about Andrew Siciliano, Courtney Cox, Channing Tatum
and jack rabbits.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Those are our biggest ears, says. They're also more of
a hair than a rabbit. What's the difference between a rabbit
and the hair? Sounds like something else and you type
in Google. I could do this all day, just keep moving.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I've never thought about the fact that hares and rabbits
because you always see it.

Speaker 4 (32:56):
Hear about the tortoise and the hair.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Why was the turtle in the rabbit?

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Hairs? Have not been domesticated, while rabbits are often kept
as house pets.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
The good point about the the sort of the tortoise
in the hair.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
We call things turtles and rabbits, Yet for this children's
like story they used tortoise in the hair.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Do you think that was to sound more professional or
because they weren't house animals. Oh, they're out in the wild,
so they're racing each other.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
This is the part, you know, You know, when DraftKings
ask you to take a clip to put on all
the other podcasts, you should use this clip right here
on this talk.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Yeah, no, I don't, but I think this would be the.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Instead of uh, getting Rick Warren? Why don't we get?
Was it in the Fables? Sorry? Bill? Okay, you're Rick?
Why you call? And we'll get to the box.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Can you remember any other Aesop fable?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
I feel like I had a like a VHS full
of Esop cartoons, But no, I can't know. They're coming
to mind right now. I was really cool about I
get done with my Ross Broo jokes and saw. Uh No,
I can't think of any other ones though.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
Okay, so the most famous one is the Tortoise and
the hair.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Uh huh?

Speaker 2 (34:13):
How about that one. Let's see here, here are a
list of them. The frogs and the ox.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
I remember some frogs, but I don't think that it
must have been a different frog.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
The town mouse and the country mouse.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Does he just like pick two animals and put them
to know that these are all the here's one the
hair in his ears? I think I had that one. Wow,
look how many there are? Look at that? Did you
know there were that many? So? What's another famous one?
I keep seeing all these? I don't remember the line
the ass and the fox. Do you remember that one? No? Uh,

(34:48):
I don't remember it.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
The milk Maide and her pail.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I have the full list of the bear and the
beaten None of these sound from I don't recognize any
of these. So did the tortoise?

Speaker 4 (34:57):
And the hair?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Basically carry the water for all of these side fables?
The boy who cried Wolf? Is that? Okay? That one? Yeah?
Here we go to this. This is a very informative
another fade. This the wolf culture we bring to people.
We had Jim Varney a few weeks ago in the
Ernest Movies.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Amazing how many of them he has to have wolf
in it? The wolf and the skinny dog like this one,
the ass carrying his image?

Speaker 1 (35:27):
What does that mean? I don't know, Billy.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
What I would like you to do is for next
week's show, I want you to give us your favorite
reading from the ass carrying his image.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
I'll do that after I watch Ernest goes to Camp.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Did you didn't watch any of that we told you to?

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (35:46):
All right?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I have no idea which what we're on? Okay, Saint
Peter's in Tennessee. Saint Peter's of course beat Kentucky is
a fifteen seed. Now they get another SEC team.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
What what is the.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Spring Tennessee twenty one and a half?

Speaker 1 (36:01):
What do you think? Uh? While I'm thinking on it,
I'll add a little storyline here that's interesting. You know.
Is this guy Ziegler Tennessee's Point Garden. We're familiar with him. Yeah,
Saint Peter's best player is Armani Ziegler, his younger brother.
And when he when they asked if he is gonna
guard him, he said no, he's six or five. Vscobe

(36:21):
can guard him. So we at least have a little
Ziegler off. That being said, I still think Tennessee destroys
them as much as I want Saint Peter's to in
the balls.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
Yeah, I'm at twenty one and a half.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
It's a lot. Tennessee feels like the team, though Kinneck
will get going and they'll try to win by forty
and he'll get.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
So you're gonna take Tennessee to cover that, I think.
So I'm gonna take Saint Peters to keep it within
twenty one and a half. I feel like, uh, I
don't think they'll win by any means. I actually don't
think it'll be close, but I think they'll cover that number.
They'll give me Saint Peter's. Can I just read you
the ass carrying his image? It's a short it's a
short face. Sure, I'm okay.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
Then I love this.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
I would have to turn the music down.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
What you when I read this? I want you to
give me what you think it means. Okay, So I
want you both to focus. Try to tune out. La
Traviscott or Kendrick Lamar, a sacred image was being carried
to the temple. It was mounted on an ass adorned
with garlands and gorgeous trappings, and a grand procession of

(37:20):
priests and pages followed.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
It through the streets.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
As the ass walked along, the people bowed their heads
reverently and fell on their knees, and the ass thought
the honor was being paid to himself. With his head
full of this foolish idea, he became so puffed up
with pride and vanity that he halted and started to
bray loudly. But in the midst of his song, his
driver guessed what the ass had gotten into his head

(37:44):
and began to beat the ass unmercifully with a stick.
Go along with you, you stupid ass, he cried. The honor
is not meant for you, but for the image you
are carrying. And I'm amazed this one wasn't as big
as the boy who cried Wolf Philly.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
The inspirational tortoise in the hair, this man beating his donkey.
I didn't really catch a point to that story.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Well, it tells you at the end what the what
the thing is, do not try to take the credit
for yourself that is due to others.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
I didn't get that out of that message. I did
not get that at all. I just so, did you
watch a videover man just beating I don't think. I
don't think I got to that part. No, I don't think.
I think. I think I stuck with the tortoise in
the hill, and then I would put it in the
VHS rewinder and go back to the beginning and watch.
You know, this is one. I don't know if back

(38:38):
then they had editors, but this is one. If I
was a editor, I would have gone, let's just cut
that one. Is he gonna get canceled over? This?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Tell you what, just cut that one. You don't need
to include that in the book you've got. These others
have so many fables you can leave a few out.
You could leave this one out. N C State and
Texas Tech. Right now, n C State is practicing in
front of us.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
This is like some insider trading here, Billy, what's the spread?

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Texas Tech minus five?

Speaker 4 (39:10):
So I want DJ Burns to win.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I like him. I like his hair the way it
like sprouts up right there. And he's obviously huge, which
is fun. But this is the kind of thing that
always happens. A team like n C State makes a run,
they become like a darling, and then they go get
crushed in the tournament. So give me Texas Tech. I
think this is a coin flip. When I was messed

(39:36):
with the bracket earlier. I couldn't pick one side either way.
So if I'm gonna get five and a half points,
then give me the underdog n C State because I
think either team is gonna win.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
This game, all right, So we're split on this? Are
you four in C State? You know, when I was
in law school, I sort of at Duke. I sort
of adopted n C State because I felt sorry for him.
You know, North Carolina and Duke are both there, they
win all the time, and then there's poor in C
State who has a lot of fans.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
I mean, I will bet you there'll be.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
A lot of inn Z State people here tomorrow, and
yet I don't think they get thought of like Carolina
and Duke. I wonder if Russell Wilson will be here.
He's dude to Pittsburgh. That's his alma mater, right, he can.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
One of them.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Did me finish at Wisconsin?

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, but he did a lap around in C State.
I'm not necessarily rooting for them. I mean I would,
but I don't really love the Joel Justice Cali Perry thing,
not that there's anything there. I just don't want any
drama at any stage of this tournament when we don't
need it. I don't want you could get col versus.
That's just unnecessary. Not that cal should worry about Joel Justice,

(40:45):
he shouldn't. I just for this Kentucky team, I don't
want any Look who's over there or this and that
give me the most random, boring opponent.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
You know, from up here, it looks like Joel Justice
kind of looks like Joey Vado.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
I don't where is that? Don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
He's right there in the black sweatsuit or there at
the free throw line. Okay, yeah, then he looked like
Joey Votto for me.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yes, not striking out, but otherwise he wears the shaved head.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Well, yeah he does. It's hard. It's hard for a
white guy to have shaved head and look good, and
he does. Most people look like a thumb with like
with a and he he actually he looks good. All right,
what's that we have Samford and Kansas Kansas without their
leading score David mccullor.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
What's the spread Kansas minus seven?

Speaker 2 (41:28):
All right, so I picked Sandford to win before he
got hurt. This is the kind of time now I
want to go the opposite way because everybody's gonna be
on Sandford. I'm gonna take Sandford because I picked him
to win in my bracket, but I feel less confident
about it now that that guy's playing not playing than
I did before.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I'll still take Sanford because they can. They can lose
and cover that spread. They are the most popular pick
by far with heck, just the Kansas logo in general.
Everybody wants to begins that. But then you throw in self,
maybe holding that injuryimation till after selection Sunday. So I
will join America and cheer for Sanford. Yeah, all right.
Last one on Thursday, Drake versus Washington State. Drake.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
I'll go ahead and tell you, I don't care what
you say.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
The spread is.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
I'm taking Drake because I have them going to the
Elite eight.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
But what is this? You're gonna love the spread?

Speaker 3 (42:17):
It's minus one and a half Drake.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Oh, then I'm definite. I mean I'm taking Drake easy
like that's that. They are definitely. Uh, they're winning this game.
Drake is good. People are gonna be shocked how good
Drake is when they see them late on Thursday day.
I agree, and it's gonna set up a Drake Iowa
State second round matchup that I think people are already
looking forward to. I know, Drake being the ten. You

(42:40):
think they might be an underdog against Washington State, but
it just shows how good they are.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
And Drake is in Omaha. No, where is Drake.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
It's in that general area. To me, that's all one thing.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
It's in des Moines, Iowa.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
There you go, Moines. It's in des Moines. So it's
in the same city as uh no, wait a minute,
I was in Iowa City and then des Moines. Actually
we went to Drake's campus. That's where we watched that game.
Been to Iowa State and Ames. Yeah, and we've.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
Used the Drake media department before because they did the
de Win regency.

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Responsible Gaming Resources. Well said, I was listening to a
podcast the other day, Billy and the guy said, uh,
see the disclaimers on our web page?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Can we do that? Can we can you look into
if we could do that?

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Well, we already got yelled at for speeding them up
and slowing them down.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
So but there was I'm telling you, I listened to it.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
He was on SmartLess, you know, the thing with Jason
Bateman and Will Arnett and Seth Meyer.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
But that's not his name. Sean Hayes, the guy from
Will and Grace, and they said he was doing to
read and it said see the disclaimers on our web page.
He probably got an email. He probably didn't have it.
He's like, you just go to the website. And then
after the show they were like, yeah, I'll do that again.

(45:24):
I mean that.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
Do you ever listen to that podcast? But I'm familiar
with it.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
I like Jason Bateman, That's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Jason Bateman very like boy. Sean Hayes is fine. Will
Arnett talks way too much, and I like Will Arnett.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
He seems like he would fit right in with it.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
It's just he wants to make a joke. Every time,
and they're trying, like with John Oliver and people, and
it's like you don't have to like make a joke
every time.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
You know, Yeah, he's just trying to hit home runs
too much. Sometimes the singles, all right, Sometimes you just
get a slap bunt and you run down and let
the next person come up and let the next person go.
But all right, who's up next? We've got Friday.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
We start in Brooklyn, Northwestern and Florida Atlantic.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Billy, what do you guys, Fau minus two and a half.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
I'm going to Northwestern.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
The whole world once thinks about Florida Atlantic because they
made the Final four last year. They were kind of
lucky to get out of the first round. This year,
they don't get out of the first round. Even though
I'm anti Big ten in this tournament, I will take
Northwestern in this game.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
This is another one. When I was looking at the bracket,
I had no feeling whatsoever. Fau got pretty lucky last year,
so I'll just go against him. Northwestern here. Northwestern, Yeah,
they ran out of magic with their run last season.
It'll be a quick exit, all right.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Next we go to Memphis with Jim Spinarkle I've become
convinced over the years, Jim Spinarkle is not a real person.
He is a machine that they have plugged in that
every year at the NCAA tournament they.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Unplug him and put him on my television.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Because I don't think Jim Spinarkle exists out of the
outside of this week March. Can you you have any
proof of jim' Spinarkle's existence outside of the first week
of March.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
I don't, and I'm with you. I could see maybe
at the bottom of CBS's headquarters as a basement. Now
March first, they're like, here's the code. Someone go down
there and get Jim, bring him up, and we gotta
we gotta get him out to Salt Lake City, so
it's March Town. And then April, you freak the five reason.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Back they faced to Jim's spinacle and then they go
get Steve Lappas they have to charge him double with
the years.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
And then they unplug them and they just put them
on television.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
For a week. Evan Washburn, who I was down there
with with the great hair, that's another one. I don't
they do it. They do a great job.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
I just this is you know where Jim Spinarkle went
to college.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
I didn't think he did anything. But Mark Tennis, No,
I don't, I don't. I think I think he went
to Wait, yeah, he did go to Duke. I mean didn't. Yeah,
I think he went to Duke. It's Colgate and Baylor. Uh, Billy,
what do you? What do you have?

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Baylor minus fourteen?

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Who? It's a good spring. I'm gonna take Baylor. I
think Baylor's better than people think Colgate. I don't know
anything about him since the Donald Foyle, So give me,
give me Baylor. Uh. Mark Titus made a good take
the other day that I'm gonna use. He said everyone
picks Colgate when they're in seal the tournament just because

(48:18):
the name, and you're like upset, but they've never really
done anything. Everyone gets excited. I've done it fifteen times myself.
I'm like, oh, Colgate's the fourteen. They're winning, but then
they get killed. But we don't do that for other brand.
It's Colgate every time they're in the tournament. I'm like,
there was our school called Burger King.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
I would not pick it right, but there's something about
I mean, Crest, you wouldn't do Armin Hammer but it's
like Colgate makes us happy.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
And we all when we get our bracket, we're picking
that underdog because we want to say we have it,
and you get to Colgate coc Yeah, okay, that's the one.
But then they get killed.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
I think at the SEC tournament we looked up how
Colgate got its name.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Do you know about this?

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Remind me if the college was about to close, it
was called something else and they didn't know what to do,
and so they went to the guy who started the
Colgate Toothpaste and they said, hey, will you give us
some money? And he said only if you change the
name of the school to Colgate, and they did.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
They were like.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Really hurting, damn bad.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
I mean they were just like, okay to be like
UK going all right with Craft. Now I have my
diploma framed at home. I have to take it out
and change it to Craft. Yeah. I mean, but that's
how they became Colgate. Is the is the Colgate Toothpaste
guy was like, if you want my money, the school's
name is now Colgate. Now I DoD You know his

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other demands? What did they know? What God to know
that he wanted? If anything? Or or was that the
deal horrible negotiating to just give away the school. Some
people just wanted building. He wanted the whole school, Like,
how about we start with maybe just the science department. No,
I want one of.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
These days, s you is gonna be called musk and
you're gonna know why.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
It's because Lincoln Bio. If I'm a bitcoin.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Dude, that stuff. We've joked about it a couple of
times out here, but Seve blank in Bio is now
on every post that And I have.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Seen so many people die on Twitter when I'm just
trying to get sports scores like the four like awful videos. Yeah,
like I didn't come up, and they're on there as
soon as I open it, and I'm like, I'm just
here to check scores. I don't need to see this
car rec or.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Just like the other day, I was searching for Jim Varney.
I just put in well because we had talked about
him on here, and I just put in Jim Varney
into Twitter, and a massive erection popped up on my
thing on your Twitter.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
You love Jim Barney that much. It was on my Twitter. Okay,
I didn't know what photo popped up of Jim Varney. Oh,
I thought you meant on my That's what I mean.
You really like that photo of Jim Varney.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Anyway, I'm just saying you would think there would be
some content settings, So if you want to search for
Jim Varney and you can see what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
All right, we're gonna move.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
To Spokane watching Baylor or is he going with you?

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Going with Baylor? Oh no, I'm anti.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
I'm going all right, We're gonna go out to Spokane
where Lisa Bidington, Steve Smith, Robbie Hummel, and Lauren Shahati
are all there. They got a lot of people out there.
UA B and San Diego State. What's the spress?

Speaker 3 (51:29):
San Diego State minus seven?

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Here?

Speaker 2 (51:32):
I think who did Andy Kennedy say was his favorite
music artist? It was somebody weird? Was it like Dave
Matthews Band or something.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I don't remember that one.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Okay, you said seven, Yes, that was seven.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
I'm gonna take you a B. I don't think I
think San Diego State's having the exact same issue that
we had with Florida Atlantic. I think they win the game,
but I think it comes down to the buzzer. So
give me UA B to cover the seven I like
U A b here, got a little nice twelve five.
San Diego State will be a popular pick because of
last season, but you know that that was a bit
of a bit of a good run. This is the

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year they go home quickly. All right? Then we go
to Indianapolis, where Kevin Harlan, Dan Bonner, stan Van Gundy
is back and Andy Katz, who I didn't know was
still employed, is for the NA Yeah, he will be there.
Western Kentucky and Marquette Billy your team. What's the spread?

Speaker 3 (52:26):
All right? Marquette is a fourteen and a half point favorite.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
I like Western to cover. They're playing well.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
You know, Marquette Marquet can score a lot on you,
but they also can go cold. They nearly lost to
to Paul this year. So I'm gonna say Western Kentucky
keeps it close. I'm gonna go Western Kentucky to cover
the fourteen of that.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
I will take the Hilltoppers here too. I don't know
that anyone chokes more in March Madness than Shaka Smart.
He had the VCU run and he's a huge name
for that. But named the last time Shaka Smart in
the tournament when it mattered, Maybe there was one and
I've forgotten it, but I don't have one coming to mind. Yeah,
and I expect that again, So I'll take Western Zucket

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to cover here. They turned the music up, I think
when they heard us. They're there is by the way,
just for those of you that there's no one here,
like in all serious, why are they doing this? I
mean there are I'm gonna I'm not gonna kick. I'm
got Kenny Billy.

Speaker 2 (53:23):
I'm gonna count the amount of fans in the crowd
five six, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty five,
twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Thirty three. There are thirty eight people here, so I'm
gona probably media too. I mean there's thirty eight people,
Billy like, why are we doing this? Oh?

Speaker 3 (53:45):
You gotta get the tunes up, you know, I gotta
get everybody playing me.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
There are more people on the court than there are
in the crowd. Why why are we doing this? Why
are we here? For fade this? Why are we here?
I haven't eaten lunch or breakfast? No, I had breakfast.
You got talking breakfast? All right?

Speaker 4 (54:02):
Stetson Yukon.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Billy, Oh twenty six and a half for Yukon here.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Yeah, I'm gonna take him the time, they're still gonna
cover that. I asked the Yukon player, Tristan Newton was
on My bracket show on ESPN, and I said, you know,
what do you ask? And he was he didn't say much,
and we had five minutes to phill, so finally I
asked him you you're playing Stetson. Have you ever had
a stetson hat? So good question and he said what

(54:34):
is that?

Speaker 1 (54:35):
And I said it's like a cowboy hat and he went, no,
I don't like cowboys.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
And then, thank goodness, byron knew his cousin. No, yron
knew his cousin. His cousin is Aaron Jones that plays
football or played for Green Bay, and he was like,
I know your cousin Aaron Jones, and that got him
really excited. Otherwise I had more stetson hat questions than
I don't think we're going any where because of all

(55:01):
that I'm saying, Yukon covers.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
I think Yukon covers. I have a fun stets In fact,
for our uk audience. Their star player is Jalen Blackman
at twenty points per games. That James Kidd, the son
of James Huh so James Blackman's other son is in
the league. Were in the tournament playing against Yukon.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
That's very cool.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Good, that's uh. That's see.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Do you know what state, Billy, Florida or.

Speaker 3 (55:26):
Florida.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
Correct, that's a hard game.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
I say what state Stetson's in.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
I'm gonna stump him, Billy. Have you ever worn a
Stetson hat? No?

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Never?

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Okay, see five more minutes. You can finish the interview,
which is the Newton what's uh?

Speaker 4 (55:45):
Next?

Speaker 2 (55:45):
We have New Mexico against Clemson. This is eleven seed
in New Mexico. I believe, Billy, they're favored against.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Clemson New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Yeah, well they should be. I'm taking New Mexico. I
think the ACC stunk and the Mountain West was good.
I think the Mountain West I'm gonna go so far
as to say it was the.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Fourth best conference. I think it was better than the
Big Ten, better than the Big Ten. Wow, I think
it was SEC, Big twelve, Big East. Okay, I'll put
the Big Ten for it. I'd say it's fifth. It was.
I think it was better than the PAC twelve and
the a SEC this year. I can't go against that.
And I don't like Clemson, so I'll roll in New Mexico.
I've also noticed I wasn't gonna take many favorites. I'm batting.

(56:25):
I'm about eighty percent on favorites on Yeah. That's unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Next Yale, which is what I do when I screwed,
screamed Yale and Auburn.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Auburn that is thirteen here.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
By the way, two schools that have never had applicants
to their undergrad have to choose between each of them.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Down to Yale and Auburn.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
That's never been I saw that one of Harvard's players
was thinking about transferring and on his list was Mississippi State.
And when I was thinking is I wanted to look
at that kid and go, I don't care how much
you like basketball, you could get a Harvard degree. Do
not go to Mississippi State. Do not spend three years
at Harvard to get your degree from Mississippi State. Come on, man,

(57:09):
the adult in the room, some adult needs to go.
You ain't playing in the NBA. Just get your degree
from Harvard.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Dude, what did you say?

Speaker 3 (57:18):
The spread winds uh thirteen.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
I'll take Auburn. I think Yales.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
I don't know what they are, but I'll take Auburn.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
I say, Yale covers this, Auburn has a little bit
of a scare and then goes on a run. So
a little bit of slipping out of the SEC tournament
here in this first game, yo will be in it,
but Auburn will advance. And I'm not sleeping on Auburn
not getting out of that region. They could. I think
you're right, I'm trying to find my way to get
Yukon out. It just no team wins every game by

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thirteen or more last year and then runs the table again.
Everybody says Yukon has the hardest region. I don't get it,
Like why because they might have to play Auburn in
Iowa State.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
I mean that's I don't I don't understand this. Oh,
Yukon got screwed. They've got the hardest reason. I just
don't believe that. First of all, they only have to
play they only play every team in the region. They
just have to play the couple that get in their way.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
I'm not necessarly saying they're screwed. I just a lot
of people are just acting like Yukon has already won
this tournament and I'm trying to find wearing this bracket.
They're gonna slip up because I think they will.

Speaker 4 (58:17):
Yeah, right, So the.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Next game is the winner of Colorado and Boise State,
who play tonight versus Florida. I mean, I don't really
know how Like, they don't have a spread for that, right.

Speaker 3 (58:28):
I have two different spreads for either if Boise State
wins or Colorado wins.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
If you want that, all right, what are they?

Speaker 3 (58:34):
If Boise State wins, Florida is a three and a
half point favorite, and if Colorado wins, Florida is a
one point favorite.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
In both all right, So if Boise State wins, I'm
taking Boise State. If Colorado wins, I'm taking Florida.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
I know you think that sounds crazy, but I'm kind
of the same way because I really like Boise I
might think Boise but eight in the NCAA tournament never
won a game. Yeah, but did you see the video
of Boise's basketball coach today. Go over to the band
and take the drumsticks and just start playing the drums
with the band. I'm a big, being loose guy. Boys
is ready to go. So I will take Boise It's

(59:10):
a very good point. They're having fun.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Yeah, nevertheless, I'm gonna take Boise. If Boise wins Florida,
if Colorado wins, let's go to just Boise.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Whatever happens, I'm rolling with them even if they're not
in the game. Yep, I'll go sit with them at home.
Texas A and M and Nebraska. Nebraska's never won.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Nebraska is the only Power five school to never have
won an NCAA tournament game.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
What's the spread?

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Nebraska is favored by one.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Get out here.

Speaker 4 (59:40):
You know what records are meant to be broken here.

Speaker 2 (59:43):
Buzz Williams can grow hair, but he can't grow NCAA
tournament victories. I'm gonna take the corn Huskers to end
their streak and make for a beautiful day in lovely Lincoln.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Give me Nebraska to win. I will take Texas A
and M. Obviously they just almost won the SEC Tournament.
I don't know what it is with Buzz and coaching,
but it'll look like A and M is dead and
then out of nowhere at the end of the year.
He hasn't ready to play. He's got to start this
earlier or whatever he does in the end of the season.
Is there ever a season? Texas A and M is
not on the bubble buzz Williams bubble buzz. Williams came

(01:00:18):
out of the womb on the bubble. When he was
in Virginia Tech. He was always on the bubble. He's
always on the bubble. He's never in, never out, always
on the bubble. Every year, every teamh they they lost
the last five games in February and have won five
straight since. Yeah, I mean that's that's just that they're
so hard to figure out. He is.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
He is a human bubble and he is going to uh,
but he's losing. I think in this one Vermont and
Duke hippies everywhere rejoice with this game.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
What's the spread Duke minus twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
I'm saying Vermont covers. They can shoot.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Duke's very athletic, but they like to shoot from the outside.
I want to take the Oakland coach who says that
keeps it close. Give me Vermont to cover but lose.
Keep agreeing with you. But this is another Underwood doog
I like, and I think Duke goes out early. Maybe
it's this one, maybe it's the next one. But this
sport cannot reward Kyle Philipowski and.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Duke for what happened in the regular season.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
I was thinking about I was thinking about this when
I was on the Lehigh campus yesterday. I stopped in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania and went to the Lehigh campus, and I was
thinking about There very few times that a non Kentucky
ANCA tournament game has made me happier than when CJ.
McCullum and Lehigh beat Duke in the tournament that one year.
That was the best.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
That's why when I got here yesterday and you're wearing
a Lehigh shirt, I thought you were just living up
that memory. Do you remember the other high seated team
that beat Duke in the first round the tournament? A
little little NCAA tournament test for no it was it
was a two fifteen, maybe a three to fourteen. I'm

(01:02:04):
not suh mercer. That was such a fun joke for
so long. I can't believe I let it expire. I
got to bring that back.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
Also, and I you know a lot of people know this,
but it's still my favorite. When JJ Reddick was on
that he was on that team that lost to Lehigh
and somebody uh made a sign that said JJ as
Reddick Radicluless Lee good, and the guy in the stands

(01:02:36):
came and hid behind him and made it look billy
like it said JJ is ridiculous, Lee high, And it's
still to me one of the great pranks of all time.
The duke guy doesn't realize he's doing it. He covers
up the good and makes it look like it's high.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
It Isn't that amazing? Is Yeah? I remember? I think
that it was or a screenshot or someone got up
like the perfect picture of it too.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Yeah, no, you know, it said JJ is ridiculous, and
then he covers it up and makes it say Lee Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
There you go, which is brilliant. Still the best, maybe
the best thing I've seen that somebody do with the
sign ever, So shout out to that kid. However, many
years ago, that was Grambling in Montana State against Purdue.

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
Do they have alternate lines for that one?

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
They do? If Montana State wins, it's Purdue minus twenty
two and a half, and if Grambling wins, it's twenty
four and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Montana State and Grambling will both cover. Purdue will win,
but it'll be under twenty what was that number.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Again, twenty two and a half. If Montana State wins
twenty four and a half. If Grambling wins.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
I will take whichever underdoc so you're gonna get the
same as me. We'll take it whoever it is. Got you,
uh last one back to Spokane College and now we
got four five more. College of Charleston versus Alabama. I
don't care what you say. The spread is, Billy, I'm
taking Charleston because I think they win this game.

Speaker 3 (01:04:05):
But what is the it's minus nine and a half Alabama.

Speaker 4 (01:04:08):
Give me Charleston. I love Charleston.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
Put your parents' retirement fund if if you have me.
First of all, well, actually don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Don't take their retirement fund because that's probably illegal.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
But bet something on Charleston.

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Also, if you're in a position to gamble your parents'
retirement fund, you should sit down with them and tell
them to fix that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
Well, unless you might be put in charge of them.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Oh you much older, yes, of course. Oh yeah, don't
do don't do that. Don't do that at all.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
Yeah, take I take that back, but I'm still taking Charleston.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
I'll go Alabama to be different and really emphasize you
shouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
In this nice NC State is taking a picture Billy.
They're taking a team picture together at mid court with
their arms around each other. Isn't that sweet?

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
That's nice. I hope they have the wide Lunes.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Cream on the inside, cream on the outside, stuff like that.
They're not a mid major, but the this is what's
so good about Mark's anxiety. It's just so happy to
be here. Tomorrow they'll be a nervous wreck. A lot
of them will lose by a million points. But today
everyone is just happy to be a part of that.
That's very nice. I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Go in Sea State, all right, we have four more.
These are the late games on Friday night. Let's do
Longwood versus Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Houston is a twenty four point favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
They cover longwood sticks. God, these these twenty five point
spreads are the worst because even in a blowout, it
could come in and I'll take Houston. You wanted to
take Longwood, didn't you. I started to say it, but
when you said they stunk, the battlesto needs a statement
after getting blown out forty two points while I'm taking.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Them, uh, the Battle of pardon my take. James Madison
versus Wisconsin. I love that they put these two together
because it'll be you know, I think that's kind of cool.
That'll be something I'm sure that will make all the
part of my take fans happy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
So what's the spread?

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Wisconsin minus five.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Wisconsin covers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
I think James Madison is one of those teams that
everybody likes because it's cool to like them. But because
of that, they'll come out and lay an egg. Give
me Wisconsin by nine. I'll take the Badgers.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
I'll take James Madison just because it's destiny for that
shot to come down to the end with those two
watching together. I don't know who will win it, but
it will come down to the last play. So I
will take James Madison and I like that. TCU Utah
State again, I'm all Mountain West all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
I don't even care what the spread is. Give me
Utah State.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
But what is it TCU minus four.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Get I'm getting four with Utah State.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Yeah, that's right, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
That's about Bet of the Day.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Oh, write it down, Bet of the Day. We're actually
right down.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
I don't penn time writing it down.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
You write it down Bet of the Day.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
The Utah State Aggies, I'm money lining them to beat TCU.
Well with your enthusiasm. I would be an idiot to
go against it since I don't have any strong feelings,
So take them. They're good. I'm gonna put my parents'
retirement on it. Don't do that, please don't.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
And then finally, I actually don't have what the last
game is, Billy, what is it?

Speaker 3 (01:07:11):
It's Grand Canyon and Saint Mary's and Saint Mary's a
five and a half point favorite.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
I'm gonna take Saint Mary's to cover.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
I feel like this is another one where everybody's like, oh,
it's gonna be Grand Canyon, and that's usually when it
doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 (01:07:26):
So give me Saint Mary's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
I think Saint Mary's might be a team to watch
here in this tournament. I know they kind of stole
agains Zaga Sean way out West this season, and I
think they'll make it a little bit of a run here.
I think they might even take down some Alabama may
see a little Sweet sixteen, so they'll certainly cover this
first round.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
All right, I like it? Well, thank you all very much.
Texas Texas Tech is about to come on to practice,
and I need to really focus on watching them and
getting all the thing to those of you that have
been searching Jim Varney videos on Twitter.

Speaker 4 (01:07:57):
Enjoy and true. It's been nice hanging out with you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
It has it. Uh, it's been fun being a part
of the NCAA tournament again. Hopefully it's a long run.
Cat bar your hat, my hat? Why do you want
my hat? I have to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
I just realize that to do a video for DraftKings,
I can't have on any logos. Well, sure if you
do that, well, and I need to shower, so I'll
use your hat to do the videos.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
Okay, I'm gonna do some videos too, So we'll all
be wearing the same hat. All right, Two guys wear hat.
It's what we do, Billy. We just go one to roam,
wear each other's clothes. It's just what we do. It's
what happens. I've paid this. Uh. We will be back
for the Sweet sixteen next week, probably from Dallas. I swhere.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
We'll be for that. That'll be exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Well we better be hopefully, or else we'll be in
the studio and I'll be going to Opening Day for baseball.
So uh, thank you all for listening. Tell your friends
and your family, and uh, don't.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Forget the faith to se