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Start and strong we'll do this.

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Yeah, I knew that. What's the time?

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One minute forty-five seconds. Skip that. I can't wait that long. You have to. Why? We have to give our viewers time to enter the lobby.

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Oh, that's true. Okay. We gotta make them wait. They're not exclusive. You can't give the people what you want.

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You know what happens when you give people what they want? They want Samoa. You turn into Venezuela.

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I don't know where that's going.

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Tough crowd, tough crowd. Uh well. What happens when you give people No? You turn into India. Turn into India.

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Isn't that America? No. No, people take what they want. Yeah, that's true. They take personally. And we give nothing back. Yes. What season are you on? Uh, I just started season three. Can't believe they kidnapped that kid. I'm like, what the f what is wrong with that dude? Yeah, that's the thing that happened. I was like, that's crazy. That like blew it really quickly.

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Like, this is Montana. What the f Yeah. Oh, I'm going down.

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We're gonna take one too. Kill a Gothers. Oh, I should change the name of the show too when we actually said it was uh how to win your bracket. Yeah. How to train your dragon.

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I never knew. I never knew I would knew what I know. I never do my God ten seconds later.

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You're live. Welcome to a special Sunday night edition. Might be the new norm. I like it. Um it is selection Sunday. We've been off for two weeks prepping for this episode. Big Slick, how is life with you, my man? Uh, life is good. Life is good. Um, busy as hell.

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Like in my current state of affairs.

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Am I allowed to tell people what you've been working on lately? Or uh let me ask a question first. Should we keep it on the on the down low? I don't want I don't want poachers to uh Yeah. Are you referring to the digital age of things that I just showed you? Yes.

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Uh let's keep that under wraps for a minute.

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Alright, we're gonna we're gonna keep that in the matrix for now, people. No, go ahead. Sorry.

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I was gonna say, but the other part of my life is just we have a we have a countdown timer, basically.

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Yeah, no one cares about that.

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We have we have we're on like a 30-day countdown. Yeah. Until the little bun timer goes off.

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Little bun. Little bun. Little bun. What up, little bun?

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Is that how it works? I made biscuits this morning. That's kind of like you had to preheat it and then uh set the timer and uh things got bigger.

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Yeah, there's like your mindset, like going through all this, like is like, oh shit, we're on this big ass roller coaster. And then like when you get to the peak, you're like, shit, there's like 30 days left.

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Now you're like, okay, now we're gonna go and that just reminds me uh Wild Waves is closed. Remember Wild Waves up in Washington? Yeah. This is for if anyone nationally watching, um, you're not gonna know what Wild Waves is, but Wild Waves is a theme park up in Washington State. Like the only theme where we're from, and uh it was cool. Uh, but they're shutting down after like 50 years.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, it's been two weeks since our last show. Um, a lot has happened in two weeks. Uh, we got the dub world baseball classic going on right now. Yeah. Um, there's a war in Iran. That started. That started. That's crazy.

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By our next show, it'll probably be over.

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Yeah. By our next show, there might not be a next show. Coming to you from a bunker somewhere. Uh and uh NFL free agency, that's been going on too. Um, and also today's selection Sunday. So without further ado, let's recap the world baseball classic case. Have you been watching the WBC right now? We got USA versus Dominican Republic playing right now.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

I have watched Cal Raleigh shaft his friends on camera.

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You mean Randy Rosarina, like the the friendliest guy in freaking North America? Willing to bet?

SPEAKER_00 6:28

People are giving him so much shit and he's like, they don't realize that like he's doing that on purpose. Like, I I agree. Yeah, like even he did it to Josh Naylor, and like uh there Josh was like, yeah, I texted him beforehand that we should just I'm gonna try to fist pump you, just ignore it.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

No, I'm I'm super happy Naylor did that because it's so funny. You read the comments on Instagram and stuff, everyone's just like, oh my god, he's such a dick. Or like people just use like I just don't like this age. Like people just use stuff to promote like stupid like racism or just like you don't like promoting racism. I don't like promoting racism, dude. It's not really a thing I do either. Justin Tapp doesn't like promoting racism. No, but it's like it what it's like Gen Z, like they kind of like just fill their agenda or like they use stuff just to fill like their agenda and just fill their ego. It's like dude, like it's old school. It's they're playing for their country, first of all, and it's not that big of a deal.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

They buy into the propaganda of like, oh, it's I want to be hip, I want to protest, I want to like I wanna do all these cool young things, but then it's like they don't know they don't know why they're doing it though.

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Yeah, they just want to be cool. The older they get, the more conservative they turn. Yeah.

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Like, wait, wait, what are what are taxes?

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What are taxes? Wait, I voted for this? Yeah. Like, yeah, you did. Thank you, buddy. Anyway. No, that was crazy. Um, honestly, I think Team USA, I think Team USA, I actually made a bet tonight that Dominican Republic's gonna beat Team USA, and the over is gonna be over nine and a half runs for the team for the game total. And that started when? Uh just now. Same time with us. So okay. Good. I mean, they're obviously losing viewers to us. So sorry, MLB. Sorry, sorry, Cal Rally. Sorry, Bryce Harper. What's the score? Oh, the score? I didn't uh I was reading the chat, bro. I was reading the chat. Oh, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

Little dills, you know what I'm saying?

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Little dill pickles, huh? Little picklers. Uh no, I mean like uh Team Italy come from out of nowhere. Putting Mexico on edge. What is that? And obviously, Team Italy, like the mob doesn't like the cartel, so thank you, Team Italy, for beating Mexico. That's how USA got to where they are right now.

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Mafia, mafia, mafia, sopranos, sopranos.

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Tony, Tony. But honestly, what a what a dumb, dumb comment from Mark DeRossa, the the manager for the team USA. He didn't know the situation. Um, honestly, I don't know why he's coaching. He's never coached in his life. Um, and also he's a good good good analyst on MLB Network. I like him. Yeah. But we we can't like go after like Joe Torrey, Joe Madden, yeah, some some actual like manager that has managerial experience. Tony LaRusa. Uh even if they're freaking paraplegic, just wheel them out there and they're good. Yeah, Stephen Hawking could be a coach. Stephen Hawken, dude. Everyone knows Stephen Hawking was a great manager. Should run the ball. Jesus. What's the oh man score? I can just see him as wheelchair. Nah, I'm happy though, uh, Venezuela beat Japan. That was that was pretty sick. Yeah. So I had a parlay over the weekend. It was Italy beating Puerto Rico, USA beat uh Iran. Iran. Uh Dominican Republic beat the crap out of whoever they played. And then um, yeah, Venezuela capped off last night versus Team Japan versus Samurai Japan. Honestly, I am so happy Shohei Otani lost. Yeah. I'm getting sick of that guy. He's good, but I'm getting sick of him, dude. Why? He paid him 700 fucking trillion billion dollars. He just wins. Like, everyone hates a winner. Oh, he's the Tom Brady. Like, if the Seahawks won 10 Super Bowls in a row, I'd start to hate him. He's the next one Brady. Yeah, honestly. It's like he's good, it's hard to fucking hate him because he's a good guy. I know. He hangs out with kids, he brings his fucking dog everywhere. But now he's getting like uh he's getting cockier too. He's starting to like pimp home runs. Well, bro. Dang, dude. This guy's if you found out how good you were after like a fucking, I don't know, watching yourself on TV, I'm gonna. I blame, I blame Mike Trout for that. Actually, no. It started when he became a dodger. He started, he I've so I blame Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts.

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Yeah.

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They're probably like, hey, showhey, you gotta add a little flair, huh? Mm-hmm. Drives people crazy. But uh honestly, I think if Venezuela beats uh Italy tomorrow night, yeah, and the DR beats USA tonight, which I think they're going to, that lines up insane. Um we might see an actual stadium fire for the championship game.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

Oh fuck.

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The Venezuela fans and the DR fans in the same same arena? I have a question. Same field? I have an answer. What happens if you do something illegal, but your government's not really around to do anything about it? Uh is it then considered illegal? I think it's immoral.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Do they well that's true? Do the Venezuelans have a government? Then again, what are morals? Do they have a government that would punish you for any of these actions? Like, your president's gone. So it's like what's over.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

See, I got you on that one. Was he gone? Is he gone? Yeah. What's his name? Yeah, he's in the USA. Yeah, so that was part of his deal, actually, was that Venezuela could be in Japan.

unknown 12:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

And he's like, hey Trump, yeah, let me community. So uh and he had press, he had sweet tickets. Yeah. Maduro was watching from his Maduro, that's who it was. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Mr. Cigar. That's what I think of like her's name.

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Mm-hmm.

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Got that dark Maduro rapper. Um bracketology, son. Bracketology? Yeah, dude. Already? Dude. It's gonna take us a minute to get through all these. We gotta run down some picks. We got 64 fucking teams to talk about.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

Yeah, well, they can wait.

unknown 13:13

For what?

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No, alright, we'll get into it. Um we got first. I did want to. Headline roundup.

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What do we got?

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Max Crosby. Trey Hendrickson. Yeah, I knew this would get you. It would. Yeah. So what? This is a juicy, juicy topic. Okay. Um, but yeah. I think it's sketch. That is such shady business that the Ravens did that. So, in case you guys didn't know, Max Crosby uh and the Ravens agreed to trade, or the Ravens agreed to a trade with the Raiders for Max Crosby. It was pretty much set in stone. Max Crosby failed his physical per the Ravens. 100%. And the Ravens backed out of it. 24 hours later, or less than 24 hours later, they signed Trey Hendrickson via free agency, keep their two picks. And I don't know, looks like they're gonna get off scot-free. What do you think, Case? My question is, is Crosby to blame or are the Ravens to blame? I think, honestly, in my opinion, it's the Ravens. Like, if you there was an article two months ago, yeah, uh, per Pete Carroll, he wanted to keep Crosby out of out of the game, right? Right, right, right. This is like the last game of the game of the year. Um, if you're Baltimore and you don't know that, you don't do your research and you're willing to trade two draft picks to the Raiders, you shouldn't be allowed to back out of that. Yeah. Like if you don't look at a guy who obviously he had a knee injury, he wasn't good enough to play for Pete Carroll at the time for like the three and thirte Raiders. Um, no. I think the Ravens should be punished somehow, whether that's stripping draft picks, or maybe you give those draft picks to Oakland because you did such a shady thing. Pardon me, Vegas, but that's how it is. Um it's kind of crazy. The Ravens, like a lot of the four or four Ravens, are actually in ball or playing for the Giants right now, too. I don't know why that matters, but I don't know, it just seems kind of it's just so sketchy. Just so sketchy, so shady. It's like, alright, yep, we're gonna just make this shit up. The doctor is gonna be in on it. I kind of want to look into who the doctor is, too. Like, how much of a payment did he receive to like say like fail this guy? What are your takes? What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 15:52

Um it's 50-50, but the Ravens have a history of turning down trades and because of failed physicals. Like they're what was the other one? For what? Oh, they did it in the past, like the first time, like one of the bigger ones they did was 1997. They uh rejected a trade to uh I think it was the Packers. Okay. It was what I read my history on. Um so yeah, they did the same thing, but like my thing is like if you're the Ravens, like what's your expectations? Because like he just had surgery in fucking January. Yeah, like just had a surgery. Um like you want to be fully healthy running like fucking crab hills, like up the fucking practice field. Yeah, what do you want, bro?

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No, I think, yeah, it's I think they they're like, you know what? We can basically get the same person for a lot less. Yeah. And we're gonna do that. That's kind of what they did. Uh anyway, we think it's shady. I think it's shady anyway. Case, you heard him, he thinks it's shady. Um, how dangerous are the Chiefs with uh Kenneth Walker?

SPEAKER_00 16:58

Uh I think that's like the best thing that you could have done. Like, I think I think Kenneth Walker as a person, like that's the best team you could have gone to. Yeah, because I think he will excel as a number one back in that system.

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Um yeah, I think it almost um, if you think back to Andy Reid with the Eagles, yeah. Gives them that Brian Westbrook kind of kind of playmaker where he can like go on screens. Uh Westbrook was great at catching passes out of the backfield, um, even like just not like screens, but like actual like routes. So I think that opens up the Chiefs' offense. Um the Rams actually signed two corners to try to defend Seattle. I think we all know what they're doing. Yeah, it seems like the Rams are kind of going um all in. And uh it'll be it'll be nice if this fails. Because then the Rams are, I don't know, they're set up to be bad for like five years. Because I figure I think this is Stafford's last year. Oh, 100%. This is Stafford's last year. Um, they're the Super Bowl's in LA, so they're probably like, you know, that'd be great. You know, it's so messed up. Like the last Rams Super Bowl victory was in LA. Yep. They got to play in their home home stadium, and then now they're trying to play in their home stadium again. Doesn't seem right. Doesn't seem right. Um, what about Mike Evans? Mike Evans to the Niners. Good luck with your torn ACL because of the electrical substation. I thought, dude, so I I was at work. Um yeah, I honestly didn't even know. Like, none of no alerts went off, and then like I just see like some article, Mike Evans signs with the Niners. I'm like, I just start laughing. Like, why would you like they paid him a lot of money too? Yeah. For this old guy, bro. He's what 32? Yeah. But like, what does that do for your the Niners offense? What does that do? You don't Brock Purdy can't throw the ball 40 yards down the field. Like not in this day and age. Like, what? Evans lost a step. Purdy can't throw the ball more than 20 yards. Uh McCaffrey looks like he's ready to just cry every single game. Oh, yeah. That guy's Ron freaking like his ACL is hanging by a thread. Literally a thread. And then and they're not, they're not gonna sign um that tackle, Trent Williams. They'd rather spend that money on Mike Evans. Bro, what are they doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Anyway, that's uh our free agency recap. Uh WBC recap as well. Hopefully, I'm rooting for the DR. Dominican Republic, like, the world will be a better place if Dominican Republic and uh Venezuela meet in the finals. I just don't think this team USA team, like I like them, but they're just not, they just don't have like that like gusto. You know what I'm saying? They don't have that oomph. They don't have that like like Aaron Judge, whatever. They're kind of boring. Yeah. We're kind of boring. Bunch of white dudes, bunch of just white boys, metabolic Ohio Farm. I mean, we got Buxton, that's about it. Who? Byron Buxton? Exactly.

unknown 20:40

Who?

SPEAKER_02 20:41

No, but our our bullpen's dog shit. Uh I so once Skeens goes out, I think the DR is just gonna freaking. They might drop 15 on us tonight. I'm calling it right now.

SPEAKER_03 20:53

Bro.

SPEAKER_02 20:54

I'm calling it right now. Calling it, calling it right now. Anyway, this is what they've been waiting for, Case. This is what I've been waiting for. They're playing basketball.

SPEAKER_03 21:05

They're playing basketball. By the way, they're playing basketball.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

How much do you think I paid for this Cade Cunningham jersey? $17.99. Ooh, about $30 more. You have the right price. $37.99. I think it's $47.99, actually. Yeah, but no, dude, eBay is where you find them. I just wish Nike would make jerseys for people who lift weights and not like lesbian soccer coaches.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Dude, you know what jerseys I thought were hella sick? Turn forward the clock, Seattle Mariners.

unknown 21:39

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

You remember these? The fucking with the the tanks?

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

The red tank tops. Yeah. That's what they were called. The turn forward the clock.

SPEAKER_02 21:46

I I agree. I I wanted I I want a jersey. I want a hat.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:51

That shit sold out so quick, and then you never saw it.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Did you know that they were predicting at the time, you know what year they were predicting baseball would look like? Look like uh by wearing those jerseys? No. 2027.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yes. They're like, this is what baseball looked like in 2027. And what year did they bring them back? 97. No, but like what year did we wear them? It was warm in 97. No, I know that. But like what do you mean what's your fucking when was the promo? When do they wear them again? Like 2021? Oh, when did Yeah. No, they didn't. Oh, when did they wear them? It was like some random, it was some random year. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They did. I was like, what you can wait till 2027?

SPEAKER_03 22:36

What's your question? What's your question, man? I'm giving you all the answers.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

Okay. No, but yeah, let's let's bring back those jerseys. Any any dude, anytime a Seattle team does red, it's sick. It's sick, it's sick. Like uh, dude, that Sonic's red jersey, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. That one's the best. That's the best jersey in the NBA. Ever.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Ever. I think the Sonic's original jerseys are like the best. Not the yellow and green ones, but like the ones that are like the over there with Durant on it.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

You like those ones?

SPEAKER_00 23:15

I do.

SPEAKER_02 23:16

I see. I'm like the I'm the late 90s guy. That late 90s, like futuristic. Yep. The Sonics. Yes. Yeah, that was good. With the Space Needle. Oh yeah, that was dope. Those were dope. Okay. Um you know what would make me wet?

SPEAKER_00 23:33

Bracketology.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

That. And also if the NBA announced that the Sonics were coming back, case open. And we get to we got the first selection and we picked Darius Acov from Arkansas. That would be that would that would really make me wet, case. You know what makes me mad though? What makes you mad?

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Washington taxes have just imposed a income tax on high earners above $1 million.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

So Washington State is now not going to be a good fun playground for sports people to go sign up with a team. Because they now have to pay a 9.9% tax on incomes after this year.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

Wow. Yeah. The fuck, liberals. The fuck. So sorry, but actually, no, I'm not sorry. What the hell is wrong with you guys? You know how much revenue sports generate for the freaking economy?

SPEAKER_00 24:28

Yeah. What? So now it's gonna be harder for teams to in in Washington to buy free agents and talk them into coming there because it's like they have to pay a 9.9% tax. That's insane. Um speaking of higher earners, let's go to Breck.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

Do a lot of write-offs, guys, millionaires, players, write-offs, tax write-offs. Get another business going. Yeah. Just get some LLCs, charities, panhandle, whatever you got. Yeah. Maybe live in Nevada or like I don't know. Maybe the Seahawks will like uh file. Maybe they'll file like out of state.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

No, no, here's what you do. Switch your headquarters.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

Yeah. Move your HQ to Idaho. Yep. Become the Idaho Seahawks. And then have his play, play in Seattle.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Buy, yeah, operate out of like the very northwest corner of like Nevada.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

Or the very west of Idaho. Yeah. And just put your headquarters there. But then put your practice facility in Seattle.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Dude, Seahawks practicing right next to the Tesla gig factory.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Except come on. It wouldn't work like that though. Because you know Sam Darnold like lost like $77,000 playing in the Super Bowl? Because of state taxes, because he played the game in California.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

What? Yeah, it's a fact.

unknown 25:47

What?

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Wait, how much did Sam Darnold make for the Super Bowl? Oh, I'm sorry. He only made $178,000. How much was he supposed to make? Um, based on his contract and everything, it was like a million dollar bonus for the contract. Oh. Okay. Yeah, so the jock tax rules.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

Wait, so he could have made a million, but he only made $177,000. $178,000, yeah. So I thought he lost $78,000.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Well, he lost like $900,000. Sam Darnold's postseason performance earned him $4 million in contract bonuses, including $1 million for the Super Bowl win.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Except the Super Bowl win was taxed so much that he only made $178,000 for the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_02 26:37

That's not right, dude. Talk to California, bro. Dude, and to think. 1775. We were throwing tea off ships. We were throwing tea off ships.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Burn the witch.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

For uh what? They wanted us to tax. They went from one per 1% to 3%. And now we're like, you know what? Just take my fucking paycheck. Like, you know what? 18% sounds nice.

SPEAKER_05 27:03

I feel bad about this person. Here's my fucking paycheck.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

That guy lives under a bridge. So do we.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

But we still pay taxes. Ism, ism, ism, ism.

SPEAKER_00 27:19

Money. Patriotism. Yeah. Okay. They've been waiting, they've been waiting like 30 minutes for us to do this. Good. God. Call the teaser. There's 11 of them, bro. They're all 11. Call the teaser. That's tall to call the fucking drag out.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

Alright, so I wanted to kind of this is kind of so last year I got sixth place out of a bracket contest that had over 800 entries in it. Kohler. Needless to say, oh I wouldn't say that, but uh Needless to say. Cooler. Cooler. No, so I was I was actually leading after the Elite Eight. Um I could have won had Duke not choked it away versus Florida. Or not Florida, but uh Houston in the semifinals. So I still won. I picked Florida last year. Um and ended up sixth place, one spot outside of the money. So I've been thinking about that a lot lately. For sure. Or well, since last year, basically. So I've been kind of this is my niche. This is what I live for, Case. You what? Is March my niche? Thank you. Niche. No, this is my niche. No, so this is what I live for. It's um out of all the years I've done bracket contests, I've never won one. So I've been close like so many times. I've had like four top five finishes. Oh, dude. Never number one. This is the year, case. You're consistently good, just not great. This is the year. Yeah. So all the other years. So kind of a strategy I use is I was doing some research last night. So elite guard play is always going to be, I'm I'm gonna value that over height every single time. Elite guard play. Okay, so you can have a smaller, smaller team. Uh, because a lot of the wooden award winners they don't win the national title. A lot of them are forwards. A lot of them are six, nine forwards and above and centers. They don't win titles. Okay. You know who the last non-guard wooden award winner to national title national title was? Non-guard wooden award winner. Or you know who the last um wooden award winner to win a national title was? Um give me a give me a decade. Uh it was about six years ago, plays for the Knicks.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

Carl Anthony Towns. Nope. No, that's too no plays for the Knicks. He's a guard.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

He's a guard. Oh, Brunson? Yep. Yeah. So he is the last guard out of the last ten wooden award winners. And he won the national title. Uh Anthony Davis is the last one before him to win a national title and the wooden award at the same the same year. So he's pretty much an exception. Yes. Um, the last couple wooden award winners, we had Zach Eady, Cooper Flag. Yep. Tall, tall, tall, right? Big, big, big. A lot of points. Yep. Who are the teams that they played? Who was the team last year that won the title? Florida. Yeah. What did they have that was elite? Guards. What did Houston have that was elite? You're not letting me answer the questions.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

I'm coming with it, dude.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Gonzaga. Gonzaga made the title, right? They got smoked by Baylor. Why?

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Because Chet Holmrun was gone.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

Nah, he wasn't even playing. But no, because Baylor had elite guards. Yeah. You remember the name Macy O'Teague? I do. OT. Yes. Macy O'Teague. I'm name dropping right now. Full out your bag, son. Kemba Walker. Ooh. Ooh, come on now. Elite guard play. And I think the teams this year who have the best guard play, this is what I'm going for. Because you need, like, it doesn't matter if you have a center. Yeah. Like, sure, he'll get rebounds, he'll get points. Right. But if you have someone who can consistently control the flow of the game via point guard, the most important position all basketball, I don't care what you say about center. Point guard is the most important position in basketball.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

100%.

SPEAKER_02 31:37

Arizona. Yeah. Arkansas. Illinois. Nah, not Illinois. No Michigan. I'm going to say Arizona and Arkansas. No Michigan? No. I want to say Arkansas has the best point guard in the nation. Ooh. Okay. So all those teams. I don't know what I'm getting at. But uh no.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

You're talking about elite point guard as well.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Yeah, no, no, no. Arkansas has the best point guard in the country, has complimentary guards as well. For sure. Arizona, not as good, not like a single superstar, but they do have two or three guys they they can go to at that guard role that will be complimentary to that team that can take over any time. Um, a lot of good teams. Even Yukon. When Yukon had Donovan Klingon, he's number two pick, sure. But they also had three guards, six, seven, and lower, smaller, who shit, Tristan Newton, uh, Stefan Castle, he dropped dropped 15 points a game. So the offense flows through the guards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Like his elite ball handling skills.

SPEAKER_02 32:49

Like same with that.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

Yeah. Same with uh Mr. Davidson, uh Steph Curry. Steph Curry. Exactly. Like their March Madness run. Like, bro.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Like when I think of uh elite guard play, I think of those point guards too that just And this is funny to say because like I'm gonna compare LA Fitness to a tournament right now. To real life. To real life. When I used to play ball, like we'd we'd go play tournaments and stuff, and it was like if your team like if you guys didn't have like a good point guard, dude, you're turning it over way too many times. Like they're not commanding the offense. Like you're you could have like the most athletic guys in the gym, but if nobody can dribble with one hand, you're fucked.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

Well, you need that. It's not, it's not you saw it today. Braden Smith and Purdue. It's not that they're scoring every single time, they're penetrating into the zone, they're causing that defense to crash. And oh, let me just dish over here. Here's a wide open layup, here's a wide open three. Bam. Bam. Got that right there. Them boys is coming. Yep. So we had Darius Acuff with Arkansas. They won the SEC title today. Uh Braden Smith Purdue won the Big Ten title. Elite. Elite point guard play. It'll get you a long way. That's kind of how I value it. Um UCLA. Unfortunately, Donovan Dent. He got hurt uh in the game yesterday, but they almost beat uh Purdue. So it's he honestly, UCLA. If you didn't watch that game, or did you you watched that game Friday night, right? Versus Michigan State. Yes, sir. Michigan State? Yep. UCLA frustrated Michigan State so much that Tom Izzo yelled at his defenders and his defenders yelled back at him.

SPEAKER_03 34:43

Like they're like, I don't know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

So I think Michigan State is gonna crumble. Should we start getting into the picks? Do you want to? I think so. I think we should. I think so. I think so. You've gone down the rabbit hole. I've gone down the rabbit hole. Let's get into the picks. Let's get into the picks. We're gonna start with the south, bro. Oh, the south, okay. Mixing it up on me. The deep south. Uh yeah, I'm gonna go Prairie View over Florida.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

Hold up. Hang on, God. The deep South. The deep South. I'm not Nikki.

SPEAKER_02 35:16

All right. Your first pick. What is it? Prairie View. Prairie View.

unknown 35:21

Over Florida.

SPEAKER_02 35:22

Over Florida? Nah, nah, it's Florida. You know it's Florida. Yeah, it's Florida. Which, by the way, Florida lost a lot of that point guard play from last year. So a little teaser, little teaser, guys. They've gotten back on track, though. They've gotten back on track. I'm also filling my bracket out right now as we go along. Okay. Let's go Clemson versus Iowa. Ooh. Nick Davidson. Shout out to Nevada. Unfortunately, you're a trader. So we're gonna go Iowa. I was thinking Iowa as well. No, uh, I've watched Clemson. Clemson just they look good at times, but they're also really slow. Yeah. They're big. Um, Iowa has sturts that can take over games at times, like we were talking about earlier. Like, well, I didn't let you talk, but I was talking about earlier. And uh no, I think he's gonna be a matchup nightmare for Clemson. Uh, Iowa is a little small, and this is also kind of where I like taking lower seeds. Yeah. So I kind of have a core of 16 teams that I think are gonna make it. And depending on where you're through right now, like if I don't have you advancing to the sweet 16, I'm probably gonna pick a lower-seeded team to beat you. Oh, that's kind of how I strategize. So Iowa, that nine, that nine over eight. Yeah, give me Iowa over Clemson. Yep. Vanderbilt versus McNeese. Oh the Cowboys! We're gonna go Vanderbilt.

unknown 36:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:54

Vanderbilt just proved it um today with their guard play as well. They almost knocked off Arkansas. Arkansas is nasty. Vanderbilt's also nasty. I think I honestly think Arkansas should have been a three-seed. Vanderbilt should have been a four-seed. Okay the way after they were playing, and especially after the way Vanderbilt just destroyed Florida. Yeah. So Vanderbilt, it all depends because they have a they have a point guard who's elite. Um, depends if they're bigs, make threes. Right, right. That's kind of what it depends on. You like McNe McNeese or what? No, I just they're cool. There's gold. They are they are, yeah. No, there's no no they have the aura guy, dude.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

Yeah, there's no hate for that school. They're down in like do you know where McNeese is on a map?

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Yeah, it's in uh Lake Charles, Louisiana.

SPEAKER_00 37:44

Yeah, I was gonna say it's like on the border of the colour.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

I know I was watching their triple over donkeys the other night.

SPEAKER_00 37:49

So you found out information. Yeah. Yeah, yep. They're like the McNeese Cowboys, they're down in Louisiana, but they're like literally the border of Texas and Swampland. Lake Charles.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

I think that's where a lot of football players come from. Lake Charles, Louisiana. Gotta see what's in the water down there. Mm-hmm. Um Nebraska versus Troy? Yes, sir. Let's go Nebraska. Take Nebraska. I'm taking Nebraska. I think just too elite. Too too good. Uh Troy. I don't really, I think they're not really ranked that high via Ken Palm, Ken Palm ratings. So, yeah, we're gonna go Nebraska there. Ooh, North Carolina over versus VCU. I'm gonna go VCU. Alright, VCU coming in. Like I was saying earlier, it's kind of. Do I have North Carolina advancing to the Sweet 16? I don't because I have Illinois advancing out of that. That makes sense. Uh next round. So, yep, we're gonna go Illinois. Um, another thing about North Carolina is that they lost their point guard. Yep. They lost their point guard, so they're lacking depth there. Oh, this one's tough. St. Mary's versus Texas AM. My goodness. Yep. Man, that's just me concentrating, guys. Sorry. Uh St. Mary's. St. Mary's. Oh, am I though? No, I'm gonna go text Sam.

SPEAKER_04 39:29

Ooh!

SPEAKER_02 39:29

I'm gonna go text Sam because I'm doing my strategy. Doing my strategy because I have huge I have Houston beating the absolute piss out of Idaho. Sorry, Idaho. Do you know what's funny?

SPEAKER_00 39:40

I'm glad you said that because I think that's gonna be the biggest blowout of round one. Like Houston's gonna win by like 60 points.

SPEAKER_02 39:50

No, I I was watching the the bracket reveal show earlier. Yeah. And Idaho's just going crazy when they get their name on. They're like, yeah, yeah. I'm like, oh, it's so great, you poor soul. So all right. We can explain. Let's do let's uh do another region. Okay, no. So that'll be that'll be the round 32. So let's go wherever you want to go next. We're going to the west. To the west. Let me find it. We're going west. Starting with Arizona. Yes, sir. Another thing, too. Um, Sharknado, Long Island. That's how I'm referring to them. So they're actually the Long Island Sharks, which is uh Sneado's. It's it's a great name, but uh Arizona is gonna beat the shit out of you. Shit out of you, L-I-U. Uh Villanova versus Utah State. Yep. Utah State. Utah State's been playing very well lately. Um Nova. Trash. Uh solid basketball school, just no like superstars. No superstars. Uh Wisconsin versus High Point.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

This is Wait, who'd you pick for Villanova Utah?

SPEAKER_02 41:06

Uh Utah State. Okay. So Utah State Advanced.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Wisconsin versus High Point.

SPEAKER_02 41:11

Um, we're gonna go Wisconsin here. Didn't Wisconsin just beat like uh Well, they would have made it to the Big Ten title game, but uh oh my god, what's his face? The guy from Michigan, yeah. Super good. Can't remember his name, it's pissed me off. But uh no, he made a buzzer beater. Tall white guy? Yeah. Axel Yaxel, like Yaksel something.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

Axel Rose.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

Yeah. No, but I have Wisconsin. Um, high point, like you remember last year, everyone was on high point too. Ooh, Hawaii's in? Sorry. No, you're good. You remember, like, everyone was like, I have high point. Yeah, setting, and they got they just got destroyed. Yeah. I they dropped the soap. The Big Ten is nasty, dude. Bro, like, you don't think these guys are prepped for these small schools? Come on. Give me Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_01 42:03

Wisconsin. All right, Arkansas.

SPEAKER_02 42:05

Wisconsin has really good guard play as well. Arkansas vs. Hawaii, Arkansas. Straight up. Yeah. Um, this game is in Portland, which I think honestly might be work from Portland that day.

SPEAKER_00 42:20

I have a technical error. Uh, who's playing BYU?

SPEAKER_02 42:24

Uh Texas or NC State. Oh, it's the it's the playing game.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

They oh, okay. For the sixth seed?

SPEAKER_02 42:31

Uh 11 seed.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

So BYU is the sixth seed. Oh, they have it. Okay, so my graphics are wrong here. I have it backwards. Like it says my sixth seed is TBD. Oh, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 42:41

Yeah. So BYU would be the versus Texas or NC State. Okay. NC State, very inconsistent. Texas also very inconsistent. Yeah. BYU is advancing. Okay, so we'll go BYU. Especially with AJ Debanza.

SPEAKER_01 42:55

Just ignore the seeding there. So BYU is a sixth seed on our screen.

SPEAKER_02 42:58

Okay. Well, they are a six seed. I know, but on our screen it's 11. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Gonzaga over Kennesaw State. Uh Zag's been playing really well. They really only have two weird losses. Like. Yeah, one of them was to Portland. Yeah. That was. Bro, I would have bet my future mortgage on every game. Not good. Which is I'm kind of surprised they're a three seed, which like with that loss on their resume. So I think it's kind of historically. You think they should be lower? I think they should be like a four or five. Yeah. In my opinion. Because last year they were like a ten seed. Oh, yeah, they were, huh? Yeah. It's uh they were eight seed last year. Yeah, they were an eight seed, which I thought they were better last year.

SPEAKER_01 43:56

Yeah. I think they have all the talent. I think just I just I don't. I don't think there's just like a missing piece, right?

SPEAKER_02 44:02

Like, yeah. Well, they have EK at forward. EK is a dominant power forward down low.

SPEAKER_03 44:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:09

Um, I think their their guard, their guard play has been good. They're freshman guards. There are so many good freshmen this year. It's insane. Yeah. Just nationally, it's it's nuts. Um, yeah, but anyway, Gonzaga over Kennesaw State. Cool logo for Kennesaw State. 100% the owls. Let's go. Let's go. That's our uh NCAA 25. NCAA 25 team. That's the only school to offer you a contract. That's right, baby. Because we got Miami versus Missouri. You I'm gonna go Missouri here. Damn, dude. You and me are both are so we almost have the same bracket. Fun fact this game is actually in St. Louis, Missouri. Wow. So yeah, Miami is technically the higher seed, but Missouri just lucks out there. It's pretty much a home game.

SPEAKER_00 44:59

That's kind of they would have back-to-back home games.

SPEAKER_02 45:01

Honestly, that is like the I think that's the biggest advantage of the tournament. Yeah. Is Missouri. Uh and then Purdue. We saw that today. Yep, we're gonna go Purdue there. So that'll be Purdue versus Missouri to wrap that up. Perfect. So we got the South and the West done. South and the West done. Let's go East. East.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

Duke.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

Duke. Duke. I am your father. Duke, Nukeham. Yep, I like Duke. Uh to beat Sienna. Sorry, Sienna. It's cool. That's a I mean, I'd I would date a chick if her name was Sienna. That's cool. I would eat a sausage if it was named Sienna.

unknown 45:40

What?

SPEAKER_02 45:42

It's Sienna Sausage. Sienna Sausage. Uh Ohio State versus TCU. Give me TCU, baby. TCU. TCU's been one of the hottest teams in the country lately. So I'm gonna ride the Horned Frogs. Yes, sir. Ooh, give me Northern Iowa over St. John's. Just kidding. I knew you that was St. John's is your sleeper. You just triggered me so hard. I've been working on that for a month. I've been waiting for this moment. It's all about timing, guys. It's all about timing. Nah, St. John's. Uh they're playing really well too. They just won the biggest tournament. I I thought they should have been higher seed.

SPEAKER_03 46:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:27

I think maybe you switch Gonzaga and St. John's. Oh, five and threes. Yeah. St. John's kind of filled though, too. Like fizzled. Or you know what? They could have switched with Kansas. Because Kansas as a four seed is atrocious. I don't know what that does. Like, I don't know. I honestly, if they were playing, I don't know, Cal Baptist, I think they're gonna beat Cal Baptist, but I think they're gonna get wrecked by St. John's next round next round. See up, give me Kansas over Cal Baptist.

SPEAKER_00 46:59

Louisville, South Florida.

SPEAKER_02 47:00

Louisville versus South Florida. Give me South Florida. Give me South Florida. Yep. Give me South Florida. I did. South Florida is one of the best offensive rebounding teams in the country. So for the round of 32, we'll save that little teaser for later. Yeah. Um how did they get so lucky, dude? This is another thing, too. Michigan State, in my opinion, got so lucky with this seed.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

With three seed, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:32

They sh if they were who are the other number 14 seeds? They kind of imploded. Dude, they imploded. They're not playing good basketball. They are playing the North Dakota State. Oh, it is so tempting to take North Dakota State right here. Those flatland boys up in North.

unknown 47:46

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 47:47

The corn feds. Do I want to do it? Do I want to do it? There's always dude. There's gonna be one upset of that. Oh, do I wanna do it? You know what? I'm doing it. Oh, no. We're taking North Dakota State, baby.

SPEAKER_03 48:02

We're taking North Dakota State.

SPEAKER_02 48:07

So we got a 14 versus 11 in that next round. It's March Madness, baby. It's magic madness. Come on. It's magic, Mark. Come on. Yeah, because I was thinking about it. I was like, you know what? I think I do like South Florida. I was I was gonna have South Florida 2 beat Michigan State anyway next round. Yeah. So I'm like, you know what? Might as well just full send. Uh UCLA versus UCF. Um all depends on the health of Bilido and Donovan Dent. Give me UCLA here.

SPEAKER_01 48:39

UCLA!

SPEAKER_02 48:40

Um even without Donovan Dent, I still think UCLA has enough talent and they're playing well defensively to beat UCF. Uh give me UConn over Furman. Furman's dangerous if they make their threes, but after that big East title game, I think UConn's gonna be pissed. Uh Dan Hurley.

SPEAKER_03 48:59

He's a little mad.

SPEAKER_02 49:00

Don. Dan? Don Hurley? Dan Hurley? Don. Dan. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:11

Coach of Yukon. Lynn's basket.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Don versus Dan. Place your bets now.

SPEAKER_01 49:22

Yeah, it's fucking Dan.

SPEAKER_02 49:23

Ha ha! Shit.

SPEAKER_01 49:25

Who the fuck was I thinking of?

SPEAKER_02 49:27

Come at me, bro.

SPEAKER_01 49:28

Yeah, come on, you. This is my domain.

SPEAKER_02 49:31

Okay. East is complete. And South? The North. The North. Midwest. Whatever. Yeah. There's the. Yep, we got Michigan here.

SPEAKER_01 49:44

Michigan.

SPEAKER_02 49:46

Georgia versus St. Louis. Look at graphics, bro.

SPEAKER_01 49:50

The graphics switched the seeds on me again. Uh oh. It's all good. So Michigan's a 16 seed.

SPEAKER_05 49:56

For the first time ever! A 16th seed.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

Do you remember that like almost 10 years ago when that like number one seed lost to uh the 16 seed?

SPEAKER_02 50:07

It happened back-to-back years. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like Yeah, uh who UMBC beat Virginia. Yeah. And then Purdue lost to oh my god, who did Purdue Purdue lose to? I remember the Purdue one too. But I remember like watching those and I was like, bro, there's no way we just witnessed history. Like who's gonna Georgia versus St.

SPEAKER_00 50:30

Louis?

SPEAKER_02 50:30

Yeah, you Google that. What? Who did Purdue lose to? Who did Purdue lose to? Who did Purdue? Who did Purdue? Uh Georgia versus St. Louis man. Gimme St. Louis.

SPEAKER_01 50:48

16 seeds to run round one. The first was UMBC, like you said, who defeated Virginia, 74 to 54. Damn, they won by 20.

SPEAKER_02 50:56

Dude, that wasn't even a close game. I remember the game team was so good, too.

SPEAKER_00 51:00

They were just like missing shots, but like uh UMBC was just drilling like every three years.

SPEAKER_02 51:05

Oh, yeah. Virginia was demoralized.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

The second was Farley Farley Dickinson, who stunned for Deuce 63-58 in 2023, two years ago. So no, it wasn't back to that.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

I didn't get that. Fairley Dickinson. Damn.

SPEAKER_00 51:19

Yeah, it was 2018 and it was uh Fairley Dickinson in 2023, so two years ago.

SPEAKER_02 51:23

And you know why? It's because everyone remembers the first time. You don't really remember the second time.

SPEAKER_00 51:27

No. Making the entire matchups 154 to 2. Ooh. But I think that's just sort of a testament to say that like schools are getting like a lot more balanced out with talent nowadays. Like I think in the coming years, like you'll see actually probably like four more, maybe like three or four more, 16 seeds win.

SPEAKER_02 51:46

Yeah. Oh, for sure. Especially with uh NIL money. Um you can buy whatever you want. Yeah, it's kind of like the best players are actually getting chances to play. Got it, got it.

SPEAKER_03 51:59

Oh, my God.

SPEAKER_02 52:03

Sorry to throw that up. Uh give me Akron to beat Texas Tech.

SPEAKER_03 52:07

Akron!

SPEAKER_02 52:08

Wait, what about Georgia and St. Louis? Uh St. Louis. St. Georgia. St. Georgia. Uh yep, we're gonna go 12 over five. Akron over Texas Tech. Akron's won the Mac three years in a row. Um, I think they're due one of these years to get out of the first round. Um, Texas Tech unfortunately lost Obi Toppin. Um honestly, this is kind of what uh the str the strategy I've been doing because I have Alabama beating Akron next round anyway. Yeah. And advancing to the sweet 16. So you have Akron. Texas Tech has elite guards, but I think it'll be a shootout. Akron versus Tech. Give me Akron. And then Alabama over Hofstra. Alabama over Jimmy Hoffa. Alabama just uh got a little unlucky, uh got freaking had to play the tough oldness team, so they left their SEC tourney really early. Um, but yeah, I think they've other than that, they've been playing really well. So we'll look out for Bama to go a little farther.

SPEAKER_01 53:14

Tennessee.

SPEAKER_02 53:15

Uh Tennessee, yeah. I do think I do think Miami of Ohio is gonna be SMU, though. For sure. I think that Miami of Ohio is gonna be SMU, but Tennessee, they have another freshman that just takes over and hard to stop. I don't think Miami of Ohio has an answer for him. They do have a lot of they do have some pretty good scoring scorers, though. But I'm gonna go Tennessee there. Okay. Um Virginia, right state. Give me Virginia. Virginia. We have Virginia, Virginia sneaky, Virginia Slims. I think what they only have like four losses this year, which is pretty crazy. You all right over there, bud? Yeah, I was just reacting to you.

unknown 54:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 54:07

Uh yeah, then give me Santa Clara over Kentucky. Santa Claus over Kentucky. Yeah, Kentucky. This team, Kentucky team, just doesn't do it for me. Their coach is just, I think their coach needs to be fired. Uh when they start, when they fired Caliper, that was the biggest mistake of Kentucky's basketball career. 100%. Uh gonna give me Iowa State to beat Tennessee State. And that'll do it for the round of 64. Let's go to the round of 32 case.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_02 54:39

Where are we going first? Where will we start?

SPEAKER_00 54:41

Hold up, hang on, time.

SPEAKER_02 54:44

I lost my screen.

SPEAKER_00 54:45

Three seconds.

SPEAKER_02 54:46

It's kinda the south, right? I think it was the south. Or we can start wherever. It doesn't matter. Where's my fucking interactor? Whereactor? Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 55:01

Where's my fucking interactor?

SPEAKER_02 55:03

There it is. God. Oh, you're recording this for uh Spotify too, right? Yeah. Okay, good. And you say what? Tennessee state over Iowa State? Uh Iowa State. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 55:17

Now we're going back to let's continue this one in the Midwest.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

Okay. North, North, whatever. Um you want the top? Michigan versus St. Louis. Michigan versus St. Louis. Um Michigan. Okay. Michigan is just a matchup nightmare, honestly. Yep. Um, Akron versus Bama. Give me Bama. Bama. Bama. Bama. I think uh, yeah, LeBaron Phylon and those guards are gonna be a little too much for Akron. Alabama does get a little too wild that time, so I can see Akron going on some runs, making it close. Yeah. But I think Bama's gonna end up with that one. Ooh, and then six versus three, Tennessee versus Virginia. I like the team. I'm gonna go Tennessee. Ooh, that's what I was gonna say. Tennessee. Because you're the only Tana State. Santa Clara, Iowa State. Uh give me Iowa State in that one. I already knew you were gonna say that. Okay. Yeah, I think uh Tennessee is just it comes down to the conference. I think they've played a lot of people in the SEC, a lot of talent. Um I think that's just gonna overwhelm Virginia.

SPEAKER_00 56:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 56:35

Now where are we at?

SPEAKER_01 56:36

We are on suite 16 of the Midwest North Road.

SPEAKER_02 56:40

Oh, we're still in the Midwest? Yes, we're gonna keep it going. So Michigan versus Alabama. Alabama? Yep. Michigan. Michigan. Just too much size. If you've watched Michigan play this year, big boys. Big boys. Alabama, they're they got good guards, but I don't know. If if they have a ref that uh will let them play, yeah, Michigan's gonna beat them by 20. See, this is a game that I would love to watch because Alabama's pace is so fast.

SPEAKER_00 57:11

Yeah. And like, dude, I would just love to see speed versus like brute strength and size.

SPEAKER_02 57:18

But you know what's crazy though is Michigan wants to play that way. They actually have they lead the nation in tempo.

SPEAKER_00 57:27

So I would I would take the over in that game.

SPEAKER_02 57:29

Whatever they're saying, it probably would be gonna be like 175.

SPEAKER_01 57:32

It's probably 200.

SPEAKER_02 57:33

Take 201. It might be, honestly. I can see it being like 180. Um I would take the under at that point. So give me like, yeah, give me Michigan over Bama. Um Tennessee versus Iowa State. Iowa State. Yeah. Give me Iowa State. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 57:56

Let's go back to the South.

SPEAKER_02 57:58

Alright. Well, we didn't do the Elite Eight, though. We're doing that next. We're gonna save that. Oh, this is why he's the producer.

SPEAKER_03 58:08

Uh Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 58:11

Was that live? Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

This is my pizza from lunch.

SPEAKER_02 58:15

Oh my god. Smell good. Better out than in our sure.

SPEAKER_00 58:22

If that were me.

SPEAKER_02 58:23

He'd be dead.

unknown 58:24

What?

SPEAKER_02 58:26

Okay, where are we at? Florida versus Iowa in the south. Florida! Where's Al. Yeah, Florida.

SPEAKER_01 58:33

Third. Vanderbilt, Nebraska.

SPEAKER_02 58:36

Give me Vanderbilt. VCU versus Illinois. Sorry, corn corn boys. Corny boys. VCU versus Illinois. Oh, give me Illinois. Illinois. Another one of those teams. Very good guard play. Spider-No line eye with the Illist. Very good shooters, too. Uh shout out to Pedro Sloyakovich. Remember him from the Kings? Nope. Pejor Svoyakovic? The three, the freaking three-point menace. Dude. Either way, his son plays. Plays for Illinois. That's cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 59:17

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:21

Texas, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 59:22

Texas. Houston.

SPEAKER_00 59:24

Houston.

SPEAKER_02 59:24

Ooh. Oh, Houston. Battle of the Dallas Stars. Houston, we got a problem.

SPEAKER_00 59:32

That'll be a fun game to be at. Texas versus Texas. Houston. Okay. Florida. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Oh, God. That's a toughie. Vanderbilt's time has come. It's honestly. Oh, this is where you get to the part where it's like, I don't know. I don't know. No, you know. No, I do know. You do know. Come on. Give me Vanderbilt.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:02

What?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:03

Yep. Okay. Give me Vandy over Florida. I just I watched it the other day.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:09

Flighting a line in the game. Actually, you know what? Houston. God, don't do this to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:16

I don't have a back in the game. Give me Vandy over. Yeah, he's Vandy over Florida.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:20

I don't have an undo button.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:22

Illinois versus Houston? Ooh. See, I think I know what they tried to do with these bracket people. Oh, 100%. They tried to have a rematch of the national title game. Yep. Um, so yeah, give me Illinois. It's gonna be Vanderbilt versus Illinois.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

Oh, I see what you're saying. Yep. No Florida versus Houston.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

They're thinking, they're thinking, like, yeah, that's kind of what they want. Okay. And so I'm thinking, nah, it's not gonna happen. Let's go to the West. See, yeah, Vanderbilt versus Illinois in the Elite Eight.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:52

Arizona versus Utah State.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:55

In the West. Zona. Shona. Zona Fasho. Arizona Sunsets. See, this freaking division, bro. This one pisses me off. Wisconsin, Arkansas. Arkansas. This queer. Is this queer? See, but I hate this this West bracket is screw you guys for giving Michigan State the fucking three seed. Yeah. Arkansas should have got that three seed. Cause now Arkansas has to play Arizona in the fucking Elite Eight. Sweet 16. Yeah, Suite 16. Sweet 16? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:36

Yeah, they have to play them around sooner than they should. Oh my god. So, and then you're saying like Gonzaga should have been up there to play Arizona.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:43

As a four-seed.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:45

But now we have BYU versus Gonzaga.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:47

Uh Gonzaga.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:48

And then Missouri versus Purdue. Yep. Purdue. Okay. So now Sweet 16, we have an AA meeting with Arizona and Arkansas.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:57

Who were literally, I have a list right here. Tell me. Fill out the bracket. Top 16 teams. One, two, three. Arizona, Duke, Arkansas.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:11

So you have your top two of your top three teams playing each other right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:14

Playing each other. And then round of 16. Yeah. Dumb. So who give me on the committee? So who the who you who give me on the committee?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:22

Who's gonna win?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:23

Give the people what they want. Give them what they want.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:27

God, Arizona versus Arkansas.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:29

What do they want?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:30

They want to pick. When do they want it? Now so as much as it pains me to say. Call it a tie. Call it a tie, honestly. Uhrizona versus Arkansas Casey. What the hell? Did I ever tell you about a bad bet that I made this year?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:50

Huh? Did I ever tell you about a bad bet that I made this year because I couldn't, like I didn't know it wasn't a rule.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:57

So in my office, somebody walked in and they were like talking about Michigan and they're making a bet with somebody else who's a Michigan State fan.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:04

And I was like, if the game, they were like, bet lunch on it, right? Like whoever wins the Michigan, Michigan State game.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:09

And loser has to buy the other one lunch. And I was like, all right, if the game ends in a tie, you have to give me 10 lunches.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:17

And they're like, you're on. I was like, cool. Next day I come to the officer, like, you know, college basketball games can't end in a tie. Oh my god. And I was like, uh I feel like that's something I should have known. So I'm like, 10 lunches later.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:35

Yeah. We've only fulfilled seven out of fucking ten. They call me the lunch lady. The strawby looks intimidated. Arizona versus Arkansas. Give me the answer. You know what? I'm gonna fill out two, like eight brackets. So two probably two, eight, thirteen, five, seventeen brackets.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:54

What's what you got in your heart? This is your number one. This is your this is your do or die.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:59

I think Arizona, I'm thinking about it. It's it's literally coming down to the depth. Oh my gosh. I just think Arizona just has too much depth.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:08

Let me ask you this.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:10

A little more height. So I think they can bottle up a cuff a little bit. So I think I'm gonna go Arizona.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:14

I was gonna say, if I gave you $100 to bet on this game right now, like they're playing tonight, like who would you go drop your $100 money line? I would just rip the dog.

unknown 1:04:23

Rip it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:24

It's like that family guy scene where he walks up to the freaking scene. He's like, he's like, hey, I'd like to wager on sports. He's like, here's a hundred dollars. He's like, you want to pick a team? He's like, nope, just take it. Nope.

unknown 1:04:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:36

No, honestly, it's that that game's a coin flip. Okay. That's it's such a coin flip game. Um, but yeah, give me Arizona. Just a little more proven track record uh this year anyway. Um, yeah, give me Arizona. They have a little more more depth. Gonzaga versus Purdue. Oh. Line up the colors, red, white, and blue. I see what they're trying to do, man. Make the colors the same. In Purdue.

unknown 1:05:01

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:01

I'm going Purdue. Purdy do. I'm going Purdue because Braden Smith is the the nation's like child. So I have a I have a question. But the final four is in Indianapolis. So there's people next to Purdue.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:19

There's people out there that pick teams based on Jersey colors. Uh-huh. What would you do in a situation where it was like Arizona versus Gonzaga? Because they're the exact same color way.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:31

I'd go we'll go with the font. What kind of font they got.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:37

Arizona's got a pretty basic, classic, timeless font for their school.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:41

Yeah. Gonzaga is I got like the the little seventies like little little trace retro thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:47

Or then would you go buy a mascot?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:50

Bulldogs versus Wildcats. I think ooh, Wildcats, because I went to Central Washington. Yeah, baby. Okay. East. East!

SPEAKER_01 1:06:02

Moving into the East!

SPEAKER_02 1:06:04

This one is crazy. Give me Duke over TCU. I think this game's gonna be really close. Yep. TCU plays really slow. I think they'll frustrate Duke. Um into taking bad shots.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:20

There's kind of a weird thing that happens when you play good competition after you've been playing. If you've just been dominating people all year, look at the Patriots. That's kind of like Duke.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:32

You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 1:06:32

Like their schedule's not as tough as it seems. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:35

And then by the time they gotta show up to the game, meanwhile, TCU is played the Big 12 all year. Yeah. So Kansas, Houston, Arizona. So they're like the Seahawks. So they're like the Seahawks a little bit. And now they're gonna play that easier team. The Duke's like, oh shit, we actually gotta buckle up here. Okay, so you didn't say Duke is what I think. I did say Duke, though. Yeah, I think they're gonna it's it's gonna be like a one-point game.

unknown 1:07:01

St.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:01

John's versus Kansas. St. John's. Give me St. John's. We got Patino. Did Patino coach at Kansas? Or was it Kentucky? Either way, Patino versus Bill Self, that's gonna be sick. Oh my god. Um Edge 4. Edu4 was actually committed to Kansas, backed out, went to St. John's. For sure. So yeah, give me St. John's over Kansas. There's also, I just don't like that Kansas team. Yeah. I don't think they're I could see them getting upset versus in round one.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:35

Uh South Florida versus North Dakota State. Here's where it's fun, case. Double digit seeds. Give me South Florida.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:43

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:45

Stops there for North Dakota State. America's darling. You heard it here first, Fos. Folks. Fos. You heard it here first and first. Uh UCLA versus Yukon. Ooh. Give me Yukon. Okay. Duke. Yeah. St. John's.

unknown 1:08:11

Yukon.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:12

Yeah, Yukon. Duke versus St. John's. Give me Johnny's. Riding high with the Cinderella boys. Yeah. Then South Florida versus Yukon. Yukon. All right. That is all of our divisions. We are now getting into Elite Eight the Elite Eight.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:47

Alright, where are we starting? Um, let's go with the South. Vanderbilt versus Illinois.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:57

Vandy versus Illinois. Yes. We are gonna go with the fighting align on. Illinois. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:15

How are we going? Arizona versus Perlieu. West.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:22

What? What? What? Arizona. Arizona. I think that game will be insane as well, but I think Arizona, they're just too big and too physical. So I think they're gonna bully Braden Smith. Yeah. St. John's versus Yukon. St. John's. Ooh, in your final four. Yeah. Yup. I think it's honestly it's just the bracket, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:51

It's written well for them, huh?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:52

If it was Arkansas, Arkansas. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:57

It's a good bracket for him to get the final four.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:59

Yeah. I think, in my opinion, I'm just going to say it now. Whoever comes out of the West is going to win the national title.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:06

Well, did you know that every year that a new Pope has been elected, the Seattle Seahawks is have made and won the Super Bowl, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:14

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:14

The tradition holds true. Yep. Did you also know that every year a Pope is elected? The following year, a Saint team has made the Final Four. Oh St. Mary's. We have St. John's this year. St. Mary's! That's because I made it up. It's all told it's all.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:38

Dang, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:39

Oh, I could have kept that going.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:41

That was good. Oh, I laughed so hard I think my eyes are bleeding. That was good. North Michigan versus Ohio State. Fucking Michigan. Iowa State.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:51

Iowa State, sorry. Could you imagine that Ohio State in a fucking game? The game.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:58

Michigan versus Iowa State.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:00

Michigan. Give Michigan. Two Big Ten teams. Make the tournaments. Alright, homie. Make the final fours. Alright, homie.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:11

Who you got? Illinois. Arizona. Final four. First matchup.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:24

You're making my brain hurt the way you live.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:26

Ah, my brain hurts. St. John's versus Illinois. God, that's tough. No, can we do the other side?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:37

It's Illinois is Arizona, and then the other one's St. John's versus Michigan.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:42

So St. John's versus Michigan. No, it's St. John's versus Illinois. Oh, is it really? Yeah. Wow, this is all backwards. It would be St. John's versus Illinois. Damn it. Because I've, yeah. So I have Arizona. Either way, I have Arizona Advancing. So you have Arizona.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:00

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:01

And then St. John's versus Illinois. Um.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:08

So Arizona's playing Michigan, then.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:10

Yeah. Okay. And then St. John's versus Illinois.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:15

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:18

Give me St. John's. I think just the coach. Petino. Petino's. But his coaching can only get him so far. Give me Arizona. I already knew it. As your 2026 national champion day to me.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:38

And that's what's this one? That's bracketology with sexual. What's bracketology? With Justin Tapp, with Casey Orr, with Duncan on him.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:48

Gosh, that was mentally exhausting. Standing five foot five. Standing five foot five. What is your height? From the town of Kingster. Yeah, it's uh five foot five on a good day. If I'm wearing Romeo's five foot six. Alright. Thank you. That's the show bracket. That is it. JT. Do you uh you like that pick or what? How many I what are the comments saying? The comments are saying UConn versus Illinois, okay. Oh, who said that? Midnight Loop. Midnight Loop, okay. Yep. Um versus Illinois. Another comment here has Purdue. Ooh, I like Purdue. I like Purdue. Um Yeah, that'd be crazy. Like, especially after the way they play the way they played today. Braden Smith was penetrating. Um yeah, I just like Arizona. Arizona, in my opinion, has they're just physical. Yeah. They have playmakers everywhere. I gotta talk to our graphics department to get that right next time. Um yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:58

Come on. Come on, guys. Come on, guys. Uh yeah, honestly, so that was your bracket. I think it is gonna be Michigan versus Arizona. Yeah. It's just that other side that's like the other.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:13

It's just such a wild card. Yeah. Like there are teams on the Arizona-Michigan side that do should be on the other side. Like the spaceship other. Yeah, because this, I mean, the East is a joke. Like, Kansas should be a lower seed. Um honestly, yeah, you should have swapped Arkansas with Kansas. Um you should have. Yeah, you should have got rid of Michigan State completely. Yeah. Like, yeah, like swap Michigan State for Arkansas, and it's a whole different ballgame because I think Arkansas could beat that Duke team and St. John's. Yeah, true. And so I'm probably, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna finish this bracket, submit it, and I'll also submit another bracket with Arkansas beating Arizona and Arkansas advancing too. That's what I'm gonna do. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:14

Um, yeah, I'm probably gonna make like eight brackets.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:17

Like I said, I think the West, I think the West is gonna have the winner. The West region. Well, let me tell you something. Because you have you also have Purdue in the West region, bro. Yeah. Like they put all the top three teams in the West.

unknown 1:15:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:33

You got Arizona, you have Arkansas, you have Gonzaga, you have Purdue. All in the West. What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:45

Well, that's bracketology.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:48

Yep, and we got two games Tuesday night. Yes, sir. Kicking off March Madness. Um, if you guys need any bracket contests, I know the DM means. The Prince of Palais. DM the Prince of Palaise, follow me on Instagram, follow Big Slick, Big Slick, or on Instagram as well. We'll get to you. Um, hopefully, Dominican Republic is beating the crap out of the USA right now. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:16

But uh, we'll see what the five let's see what this is. We'll see what the score is.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:20

Let's see what the score is.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:22

USA! Ooh. What do you think the score is right now? Um five to two. It's uh fourth inning. Um bottom of the fourth.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:36

Bottom four? Yeah. I'm gonna say two to one. Good job. Nice. It's two to one. DR? No. USA? USA is leading two to one. That's about it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:47

They just scored two runs in the top of the fourth. That's about to change real quick. It is. Once they get their rotations.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:53

Well, once there's a pitch count. So once Skeens is out, I think that DR lineup's just gonna explode. 100%. I wonder who scored for the Dominican. Tell me it was Julio.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:04

Julio! Julio!

SPEAKER_02 1:17:07

Soto. Oh, hang on, hang on. God, imagine that lineup. I'm telling you, dude, Dominican Republic is no joke. Uh anyway, viewers, thanks for watching. Uh thanks for letting us know what you think, too. Uh, it's pretty cool. Um, yeah, continue to follow. We give out stuff every now and then. So uh thanks for watching. What up Camonero? Caminero's gonna be Camonero's tight. I see out of yogurt. We out of here. We all about this bitch. It's March, it's madness, and this is what Sizzler. And that's Justin.