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What do you want to talk about, Brandon?

I want to talk about, I want to talk about the sweet 16.

I want to talk the first two games of the sweet 16.

Actually, I don't.

I think coming out of the last night, we had two excellent games.

Iowa and Nebraska.

And then we had Purdue, Texas, an excellent game.

The latter stages of the night, not as good as games.

But I do come out of there wanting to talk about Arizona first

because I believe Arizona is just last night was an exhibition

of just how scary good they are.

Yeah.

And how we came into this tournament.

And obviously, we're going to get either a three seed or nine seed

in the final four from the one region.

But we came into this tournament wondering if the one seeds

were far and away better than everybody else.

And for Florida, that wasn't the case.

They weren't.

But Michigan and Duke have a chance to prove it tonight.

Arizona is just fucking throttling teams, throttling good teams.

And I was looking at the box score this morning.

I did watch the first half last night with you guys.

And then I watched by the time I got home,

it was 10 minutes left in the game.

I watched the rest of it.

But the box score, in this case, tells the story of exactly

how fucking good Arizona is.

They're playing Arkansas as Darius A.C. of junior.

Arizona played last night.

They played one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven guys basically.

Seven, yeah.

There's about seven.

Seven guys played double digit minutes.

Right.

And then you had a couple of guys play one minute each.

Okay.

Seven guys, six of these players scored at least 14 points.

Six, seven.

Here's how their points go.

21 points, 15 points, 14 points, 23 points, 14 points, 14 points.

That is balanced to a shocking level.

But not just that, Mark.

Here's their field goals percentages.

Or field goals attempted in a eight of 11, four of six, six of nine, seven

11, four of eight, six of 10.

Every single one of them shot over 50%.

Every single, they went, they went seven guys deep.

And all seven guys were over 50%.

There was no, like Darius A.C. of the good example.

Great player score 28 last night.

Right.

Took 19 shots to do it.

Eight of 19 had three assists.

Which is not a bad game.

Not a bad game, but not a bad game at all.

Yeah.

But that's 11 possessions where he took a shot and they did not score.

Right.

You look at this group.

Co-epeat, eight of 11.

Carchinkov, four of six.

Krivas, six of nine.

Berries, seven of 11.

Like, they're so goddamn efficient and good.

This is what modern basketball is.

Get open shots with great shooters.

And they do it better than anybody in college basketball.

They were so fucking awesome.

They get to the rim.

They get out in transition.

When they miss Krivas, just grand shot.

Brandon, they shot eight threes in the game.

And I think two of those were late when it was the last few minutes of the game.

They shot basically six threes.

I picked Arkansas.

They scored 109 points.

I picked Arkansas a couple of weeks ago to make the final four as a hot team.

And I do feel like Arkansas is a very good team.

Had the good player.

But they just got blitz last night by a fucking great team.

And now I'm anxious to see Michigan and Duke if they keep past the night.

As far as just, you know, stuffing their opponents in the locker the way Arizona.

Yeah, I mean, Arkansas doesn't play defense.

And so like there is that element of it that Arkansas do.

We'll just if they played another, they could play another game today.

And Arkansas knowing what they know about Arizona and how Arizona dismantled them.

I think it would go the exact same way.

Because Arkansas at no point in the game last night.

No point the game last night was Arkansas.

Like, should we stop letting them dunk on us?

Should we just, you know, should we, should we force them to shoot threes?

Because this obviously isn't working.

So there is that element that I think that like Arkansas just kind of one gave up.

But two just did not have the the style of play or the the personnel to stop Arizona.

But you're absolutely right.

I've thought Arizona is the best team in the country for most of the season.

And it is.

So the idea of the ones he's being better Florida was always kind of the other one.

Right. Florida was always it was always the top three.

First couple of months.

It was always the top three.

So like I think because Florida lost to Iowa.

That doesn't necessarily shake up this idea that like the top is better than the rest.

Yeah.

You know, until Duke Michigan or Arizona lose.

I'm still going to believe that.

And last night's a good example.

Why?

Because a lot of people that are just tuning in to college basketball are on the dairy's a cup train.

Arkansas is really hot.

They have a ton of athleticism.

For all their flaws.

They do have guys who are like long and athletic and highlight reals.

Even last night.

Like I could very entertaining brand.

Arkansas down 20 most of the game.

But like they are still putting up highlights that left hand to put back.

Like over.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was crazy.

Yeah.

Crazy.

So it's easy to like get swept up in that.

But Arizona just.

This is what they've done all year.

They're so balanced.

They're so like a good.

They're so good at everything.

And this idea that like they can't shoot three is just not true.

They can.

They just don't need to.

Yeah.

You know, which is kind of refreshing.

And if they need to shoot three is they have shooters.

But it is fascinating because like if you look at.

If you look at lists that people put together of like the best players.

In college basketball or the best players in the sweet 16 or whatever.

Yeah.

Arizona's best player.

First of all, Jayden Bradley won big 12 player of the year.

I don't think he's the best player on the team.

I think Burries is.

Um.

And then but like Bradley's the most important.

Whatever.

That's.

That's what kind of team they are.

Is like they have those designations.

They're the team where they're like.

That guy's the best player.

Yeah.

That guy's probably going to be the best player at the next level.

That guy might be the most important.

That guy's the heart and soul.

And that guy's score 30 tonight.

And that guy's the score.

And then this guy does all the dirty work.

And we can't lose him either.

And like that's how they're.

I love.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like create like.

I mean, knock on wood.

I'm just like crevasses.

If you're power ranking their best players, he's probably fourth.

And yet like if he went down for some reason, they might be fucked.

Yeah.

But also they might not be fucked because they have so many other great guys.

Like Toby a walk.

It comes off the bench.

Just a six nine bruiser that grabs every rebound.

They're loaded, dude.

They're so fun to watch.

They're just they're very, very good college basketball team.

But it is interesting that basketball.

Basketball in 2026.

Maybe you don't feel this way.

I do though.

You get caught up in this idea that it's the team with the best player is going to.

The best player is going to carry you.

Yeah.

You got to lean on it.

You got to have a team that has like an elite talent that's going to carry you.

And then the other thing is that you need three point shooting.

And Arizona is winning these games.

They have obviously elite talent, but they're winning the games with balance.

Yeah.

Without three point shooting, Brandon.

And that's what's fascinating.

So now let's transition to another question.

I have a question for you because we just talked about John Calipari kind of.

We alluded to him not really making adjustments and whatever.

That's that's neither here nor there.

I thought last night was one of the more shocking adjustments I've ever seen.

And this is you obviously are on the cutting edge of analytics.

Ebo.

If you want to join this conversation.

Yes.

Cutting us six point lead to seventy one sixty eight with about a minute and a half left.

And then confounding your opponent by throwing four defenders on the ensuing in bounce pass.

Is that is that where basketball is going or is that just never seen this before?

Right.

I need to study the the thought behind it a little more.

Yeah.

Ebo what are the analytics on this?

Yeah.

So far from the the data set we have it say zero percent success.

Oh, it's not good.

Yeah.

It's not good.

We have to focus on the process.

Yeah.

And the thinking behind it like is there is a rationale behind it that might make sense.

It didn't work this time maybe next time it will.

Maybe it's like one of the things where it's like you can bring someone down.

There's two there's a phrase.

It's like if you're fighting with the dumb guy.

Yeah.

You look like two dumb guys fighting.

Uh-huh.

Maybe that's what it is.

So what you're trying to be the dumb guy you make them look like a dumb guy fighting with you.

If we do it long enough and I come out of the huddle with four guys.

Then the other team will respond by sending four guys.

Maybe.

And that's how we fundamentally changed basketball.

It is a gentleman's game.

Um, I thought as far as coaching goes and not in that one.

And I was saying, by the way, is that confirmed that we have a we have a good camera angle that shows us they were actually there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

100%.

Um,

McCollum for for Iowa.

Right.

I'm saying his name aren't been McCollum.

Uh, been McCollum last night Iowa was behind the entire game up until the last three minutes.

But they just kept staying there and kept going and kept.

I thought been McCollum coached his ass off.

You could tell going in a half time.

He was the message was like, you know, we're second, but we're right there.

And he was the Iowa guys afterwards said, I believe, um, what's Iowa's best player? Start.

Start goes to the bench at one point.

They have a time out and they asked him in the aftermath, you know, what happened there?

And he said, well, he pretty much broke everything in the huddle and told us we were garbage.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the last three minutes for Iowa was an incredible flurry of basketball.

Nebraska finally just ran out of juice and ran out of shot making.

And, um, there are nine seed, but goddamn Iowa was fucking impressive.

Iowa, let me pull up some, uh, let me pull this up because I want to get there.

They're just going to hang around, hang around, hang around and then hit four threes in a row and, and, and, and you're just fucked.

Iowa plays very slow.

There are three, there are three wins in this tournament, Brandon.

They scored 67 points, 73 points and 77 points last night, which was actually a ton.

Like I anticipated Iowa Nebraska to be played in the 50s.

Like they had a game earlier the year where they were playing the 50s.

But, uh, I point that out to say that if you just look at the final scores, you might not notice what Ebo you sent this last night to the chat, right?

Yep.

Three of the top four, now did Arizona jump them after this was tweeted before Arizona, Arkansas.

Yeah, I don't know Arizona scored 109 points, but anyway, three of the top five maybe at the very least.

Uh, best offensive performances in this tournament have been from Iowa.

Yeah, it turns out efficiency.

Yeah, adjusting for the difficulty of opponent.

And that's a, I feel like that's 100%.

They, they absolutely know who they are.

They're like, Sturch is going to have the ball a lot.

And he's either going to shoot or find an open shooter.

And all four of the other open shooters, trust, trust that implicit.

They're just all on board with it.

So, so they're not like, you can't get them out.

You can't make them try to reinvent the wheel.

They don't get out of their selves.

Yeah.

Um, in Nebraska, Iowa, that was a great scene too.

Just two big 10 teams in Houston, the great crowd from Nebraska.

Yeah.

And now I will ask this question.

And this might be more of my expertise as the number one cultural ball expert in the world.

Um, Matt rule was shown on camera.

The coach of Nebraska, who is who took over football a couple of years ago and has done not a goddamn thing.

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He was shown in the stands with about four minutes to go.

Nebraska had led the entire game.

Oh, the moment he was shown on the stage, I didn't make that connection, Brandon.

The second he was shown, Iowa finished the game on a 15 to six run.

Oh, thoughts.

And Nebraska just bricked everything.

Everything.

And again, before they showed him, they were hitting everything.

Everything.

There was a stretch, like as Iowa pulled, pulled away towards the final couple of minutes or whatever.

Um, they, they, they shifted into don't foul mode.

Yeah.

But then like Nebraska was bricking everything.

You could see Iowa almost shifted into like, we don't have to guard him.

Right.

Like holy shit.

Let's just walk.

They're bricking literally everything.

They had a possession with five shots.

It was wild.

It was Matt Rules fault.

That's a great, that's a great call.

I mean, we could blame the football coach who was sitting in the stands or maybe there's

a little bit of blame for the basketball coach has sent out four, four defenders.

So what's how the fuck does that happen?

What's interesting about that is like, obviously, Toyberg's fault.

But also, like, I don't, you'd be surprised.

Like, that's not something that really gets talked about.

It gets talked about if you're on offense.

Like, if you have the ball and you're drawing up the play, you're going to write the initials

of each player.

So then the players will see their initials and they'll be like, all right, I'll go there.

Defends generally in those spots.

Coaches aren't like, all right, Brandon, I want you standing here.

Ebo, you standing.

They're just kind of like, all right, we're going to pressure the ball.

Let's stay back with, you know, like, keep this in mind, whatever.

And they just kind of talk in generalities.

So like, I don't know who ultimately, I don't know how this happened.

I guess is what goes on.

I don't care.

Cause like, what I'm saying is like, this isn't like in seventh grade, you might be like,

now as a reminder, Johnny, you're in the game.

Sure.

And at this level, if you were in the game and a timeout happens, you work under the assumption

you're in the game unless someone comes up and is like, you've been subbed out for, you know,

so like, I don't.

So why would a kid not go back out?

I don't know.

That's what I wonder why the kid thought he wasn't in.

Also, it does fall on Hoiber because even if that does happen,

you have to notice that there's four guys out there.

Yeah.

Start screaming and stomping your feet and get the ref's attention.

Um, this was, this was brought up in mostly Hoops last night and we were talking about the game.

Uh, how do you feel about the referee's role in four players on the court?

If hypothetically, if the ref had stopped and been like, in a brass, you got four out here,

you should get another one out here.

Is that fucked up?

Is that unfair to Iowa?

I think that would be unfair.

I think the ref's job is to officiate the game on the court.

And if, if only if 80% of the team shows up, that's, that's on them.

That's on them.

I can't, I can't babysit Fred Hoiberg.

I can't go over there.

Um, no, obviously from the movie Hoosiers, there's a coach.

Right.

Uh, we need a fifth guy in my team on the floor.

Uh, but what if that's what Hoiberg was doing?

That would be amazing.

And this is why, but I think it's, it's easy to score five on four,

but in that situation, seventy one sixty eight, you're on your own baseline.

I think it's a well coached team to recognize it and trigger the, and throw the pass.

Yeah.

A lot of guys aren't going to have the nuts to throw that pass in that situation.

Even though it was, it was wide open.

And the one, I mean, yeah, the one guy who was supposed to be out there that wasn't,

is the big man who would have been deep.

Like if the, if the point guard doesn't go out there, that just means that you don't have someone in the back.

Like it ultimately doesn't matter that much.

So it wasn't just that they had four.

It was that the one guy who didn't go out there was the most important player in that spot.

Brutal.

Brutal way to lose.

Uh, Nebraska.

I think for most of the season, so Nebraska started like seventeen to know I want to say.

Yeah.

It was more than that.

Maybe it was less.

Yeah.

At Michigan, they, but they, they started out extremely hot.

I think they got up to the top 10, at least.

I don't know if they ever touched top five and they people, but, uh, even as all that was happening,

I think Nebraska fans were like, we just, we've never wanted to say turn of the game.

Yeah.

Like let's just, uh, listen, we're not talking national title.

I said one time on the show, like in December or January, I was like, I think Nebraska go to the final four.

And I, you could just, you could hear the collective coming from Lincoln, just like people were like, what?

Yeah.

They never let themselves get ahead of, of like what they were actually trying to do this year.

But Brandon, to make the sweet sixteen and then you look up and it's Iowa.

Yeah.

It's a nine seat Iowa.

Yeah.

A conference team that like you, you know, that, that's a fucking nine seat.

That's a rival that, uh, and then you're playing better than them for most of the night.

Yeah.

The Iowa doesn't.

You're in control of the entire game and to lose it in that manner is crazy.

And I think that like, if you were to told Nebraska fans at the start of the season, you're going to make the sweet sixteen.

You're going to lose a close game and you're going to be that close to going to the lead eight.

But like hell of a season, you'll, you'll be top five at some, they would have lost their minds.

And yet now that we're here, they're, they got to be six.

It's got to talk.

They got to be sick.

They, they made it to 20, you know, 20, you know, okay.

And yeah, they were number five was the, they were number five.

And sports are cruel.

You can never win a tournament game for 150 years.

And then you can come into the tournament of reasonable expectations.

Just give me one.

Just give me two.

And then you get to the sweet sixteen and that sweet taste of success is just on the tip of your tongue.

And you just, you just want to take a big bite and all of a sudden you're just, you did nothing.

You just got nothing.

And it's going to hurt regardless.

It, it, it comes for everybody.

Yeah.

It comes for everybody except for one team a year.

I, I will say out of that game, I came away the most impressed with, with the future North Carolina coach at Iowa.

And I think he's going to do great.

I think he's going to do amazing.

I do kind of want him to just coach one year everywhere and just keep climbing the ladder.

Go to North Carolina.

Yeah.

Do well there.

Go to Duke.

Yeah, go to Duke.

Then go to, I guess the NBA.

Yeah.

And then just slowly work his way up until he's.

No, I want to do every blue blood for a year.

I do every blue blood.

Uh, North Carolina Kentucky, Kansas, Duke.

Just, just do the blue.

True video game style coaching.

Yeah.

Every offseason.

He's gets to the coaching carousel.

And he's like, I'm just going to look.

I'm just going to look and see what I got here.

Um, that was my, that was my fantasy idea for the baron was to sign one year contracts.

Like I went once he left for everybody.

Just like play for every, be a mercenary.

Just every offseason.

Just look at.

I thought that would be funny.

He gets accused of ring chasing.

But he's like, oh, fuck it.

I'm just going to go play.

I'll bring a ring to every single franchise.

Um, Iowa versus top 40 Kempom teams.

Three in nine entering the tournament.

Now three in a while.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

They're really hot.

Who's the last, like, who's the last team to beat him?

Uh, Ohio State.

Oh, like on a neutral floor.

Oh, like a week ago.

Oh, okay.

Well, I guess I'll have to get that banner.

Yeah.

That's prepared.

Iowa.

Um, the other game.

And I, you know, I often, uh, I often get accused of taking people, fans, response online,

a little bit too seriously and paying too much attention to it.

But I did feel this kind of groundswell of, uh, people turning on the way,

Purdue plays basketball.

That's right.

Um, I think so.

This unethical hoops, this, uh, the fact that in the last five minutes they had no interest

in scoring an actual basket.

They just, they only wanted to get fouled.

They're, you know, um, Braden Smith, Braden Smith is just driving and hooking people to

try to get a foul and getting rewarded.

Yeah.

Um, the last tip in, you know, kind of some, some rough housing going on down there.

That one, I don't mind because listen, it's the last second of a tournament game.

Yeah, yeah.

I, I'm not, I'm not wanting, I'm not wanting a foul.

I don't mind it too much without, but then the context, I think it's, is what bothers people.

Cause, and then like even on the last play, you can see Traykov and Rin is, is hooking on

the last play.

Yeah.

I think it's like when you watch 40 minutes of that, people just lose their minds.

Yeah.

It's not a, it's, it's, uh, it's, you famously are, you know, you don't like it when it happens

at the pro level with the current MVP.

Uh, and, uh, it's, for all of my defenses of modern basketball, it's the one thing I can defend

is the foul baiting and the, and the throwing your head back and grabbing and hooking and,

and refs just to have just not been intelligent enough to keep up with it.

Yeah.

I don't know how they don't see it.

I think they just must not watch basketball the way the rest of every, all of us watch it.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It must not like actually know going in that like these players are going to try to do this.

Keep an eye on that.

Um, yeah, Purdue, good win.

Yeah.

Peru is, uh, produce, produce early stage Duke right now.

Purdue is Duke without this.

It produced like Duke in the, but there's no guarantee of developing into Duke.

Right.

Right.

But it's like, you know, like when, when Duke first burst on the scene, even, even though

they had won the national title by 91 and 92, like by the time they were winning, I, I mean, I was,

I wasn't born yet.

So you mean, but my understanding the situation.

Can I tell you a secret?

1986 was my first year of knowing and, and, and watching and knowing sports and remembering.

So the first NCAA championship game I ever remember was Duke and Louisville and 86.

And I was rooting so hard for Duke.

Yeah.

I love their blue.

I love.

Yeah.

And I was rooting so, and I woke up the next morning and looked at good morning America.

And they had, uh, Denny Crumb.

I believe that was Louisville's coach.

Yeah.

They had him on.

I was like, so disappointed.

I was just heartbroken by 91.

What's your saying?

What I'm saying?

Yeah.

They had moved on to the next stage.

And Duke fans would, we'll tell you that everyone hates us because we're better than you.

And everyone else would be like, we hate you because of the way you play.

We hate you because you're like, the, the people of that time would, would watch Christian

Layton and Bobby Hurley and be like, you're not that fucking good.

How do you get away with this?

Christian Layton or should have been kicked out of the game.

Yes.

Where he hit the shot.

Yes.

He stopped on him.

He stopped on him.

And that's what drew, that's what drove everyone insane about Duke, right?

And I think that's what, uh, I think that's where people are at with Purdue.

Purdue just hasn't gotten over the hump and won the national title yet.

Yeah.

Like last night was, because I think Edie took a lot of that.

Yeah.

You know, Edie took a lot of the blame.

And then now he's gone.

You know the reason there's a hook and hold, you know, like that's a flagrant foul in college.

I don't know what the NBA rules, but like if you're posting it, if you're guarding me and I like hook you like this and then like pretend like I'm,

I just snap a guy.

Yeah, like break your fucking arm.

You know why that's a rule?

Why?

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Like literally, it's Isaac Hoss used to do that.

He used to like, like that was, that was a part of the start enforcing it again because they were doing all night last night.

So yeah, the people that have paid attention to Purdue and Purdue fans are like, you have a bias against it.

You know, why, why, why is everyone at bar still hate us?

Why does, I don't know.

I don't know.

Why, why, why do we?

Yeah.

How did we get here?

I would,

yep.

No, I, I, you know, Purdue for, it is, it's been a weird season.

Purdue is preseason number one and had the preseason national player of the year.

It's been a roller coaster.

They, they lost, I think six of the, or seven of their last 13 games coming into the tournament.

And then they won the big 10 and now they're just been topsy-turvy.

Now they pop up in the elite eight and it's, you know, I think Arizona's way better than them.

And I think like this is where their right ends, but it is fascinating because just when you think you've got them figured out,

and that they're done or that now they're really hot and can they win it all?

I don't know.

That, that being said, I don't think they can beat Arizona, but the, the all big 10 final four is still on the table.

We're getting it, we know we're getting one.

Michigan's the heavy favorite in another.

Michigan State has some work to do and Purdue has some work to do, but it's, it's, it's on the table.

I got one more thing and then, but first of all, I got to tell people yesterday we did opening day.

And as always, we have about 10 packages outside the door that either arrived yesterday or that we got lost in the,

so at the end of the show last 15 minutes, we're going to, going to clean that up and, and finish that.

And then real quick, I just wanted to say yesterday, you know, we had that moment where I, I got unexpectedly caught off guard

and buy an incredible gift from Josh from Arkansas.

This is, this is all I want to say real quick.

And then we'll move on no more sentimentality.

We've been doing this three years.

I think we have the best audience on the internet.

I think we have the best audience and, and, and, and bar stool.

Our Reddit mostly is always positive.

They actually enjoy the show.

They talk like they enjoy the show or YouTube comments are always very, very favorable.

The people that watch this show really like this show and, and yesterday,

Josh, I don't know how you fucking pulled it off.

I'm still, I'm still trying to figure that out.

I think I'm guessing he was looking up West Point High School football programs and he got lucky that this was,

but then he recognized it and he got it and he sent it to me.

It's one of the great gifts not only from a stranger from anyone in my life ever.

And I appreciate that.

But I just want to take this very short moment to think our audience as a whole because yesterday coming in,

me and Mark both looked at each other with that big pile of boxes was like, is this going to be the last time

do we need to do this opening day?

It's kind of stale.

And like seven or eight times yesterday, we opened boxes with the most heartfelt fucking gifts from our audience.

And I just want to say I appreciate how fucking awesome our audience is.

It was almost, it was almost too good, Brandon.

It really was.

I wanted, I wanted to stop doing it because I was like, this is.

I feel bad.

It feels like a little weird like asking people to send us gifts.

But it's not really the point.

We don't want gifts.

We just want to like, you can send us literally anything.

We just want to open shit and, yeah.

Like you, you pointed this out.

It's like a connection to the audience.

Yeah.

And it doesn't have to, we don't want you to spend money or, you know, just, just send us some shit and we'll open it, right?

Yeah.

And then it was getting to a point where I was like, this is, we should, we should stop doing this because this is like,

not hitting.

And then after yesterday, I'm like, this has hit a little too much.

I think we got to stop doing this.

Yeah.

I think we got to stop doing this.

I don't think we can talk.

Listen, and I got him right here.

I put everything else, you know, up and I got him right here.

I'm going to frame him and put him, put him back there.

But like, like next year, Connor's girl bully is going to be in a box.

She's going to apologize.

Yeah.

Like, we're just going to do like, I almost saw her in San Francisco.

But no, I do think that yesterday was.

Stop right there.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

I want you to continue that sentimental thought you're about to share.

You almost saw your girl bully in San Francisco?

She lives out there.

Did you actually almost see her?

We were in a contract.

You knew her.

Third day night, we were potentially going to meet up and it just fell through.

Why?

The fuck?

Did you let us go to San Francisco for a week without telling us to throw a bully?

I can tell you guys that.

You did?

I said it on the show.

But why, why did we not, why did you not do anything?

Like, I didn't know.

Because Thursday night, we were planning to get together after the day.

Why did you tell us that?

Because I, maybe it was a surprise.

If we hadn't actually, but then it turned out to be nothing and I didn't want,

I already couldn't get Rassilo on the show.

I didn't want to come through.

Rassilo was nothing compared to you.

I couldn't get a whole point on another disappointment of me saying,

hey, I'm going to meet my girl bully and then it fell through.

Hang on a second, Brian.

Brian, I didn't say that.

Brian, I didn't say that.

That's hard.

Hang on.

Wait.

No.

No.

That's it compared to his girl bully.

You got to tell us these things.

I mean, I knew I knew I didn't want to.

I know she was in San Francisco, but I didn't want to like press the issue

and put you in an uncomfortable spot.

I didn't know you were like talking with her and stuff.

Yeah, we're texting back and forth.

You kiss?

No, we didn't see each other.

But we were potentially going to see each other after the dozen on that Thursday night.

All right, continue your sound.

I was just going to say, when we, the first year we were a show

and we did all these things for the first time,

it's very hard to recapture the magic.

Like the first opening day was awesome.

Yeah.

I still think that yesterday's opening, it probably was my favorite that we've done.

Yeah, I mean, Josh, I mean, what an incredible that incredible moment

and then you get in the counter-gripping box.

That's great.

And it put the woodwork that everybody was doing.

Like they spent a lot of the custom basketball, the football.

People put a lot of time and effort to put together these really creative things for us

and that is not lost on us in the slightest.

I really didn't realize that was counter-gripping.

Because I opened the Binghamton box and I saw baseball.

And I just saw CG as his signature.

And I jokingly said, this is counter-gripping.

And then you lost your mind.

I forgot that that guy existed.

We got to get to a game.

Mid-April.

There are too many counter-grippins out there to keep going.

Yeah, the counter-gripping, we were already talking about counter-conner-conner-conner.

The counter-gripping baseball tour is stacking up.

Whether it's going to Indianapolis and seeing counter-gripping,

the number one prospect playing in the Triple A league.

We should actually go.

That would be fun.

Victory field is awesome.

At least it was back in the day.

I don't know if they've kept it up.

Got a little lawn in the...

You a fan of the outfield lawn?

Yeah.

Do anything for you?

Yeah.

Take a little blanket.

Take your squeaky pie.

It's getting my neither roots.

It's all juice up, yeah.

Should we say it in Airbnb at the old field?

Oh, yeah.

You could do that.

Oh, is that where that is?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You built a website, by the way?

That was not me.

I did not make that.

I can find...

I think somebody DM me and said that they put something together.

While we're feeling sentimental, and I just did what I did,

and you did what you did, I would like to balance that.

I would like to balance that by saying,

Kong Palm the other day was an abomination.

It was really bad.

It was fucking terrible.

It was fucking terrible.

Spider.

It was one of the worst.

I want more thought to go ahead to go ahead.

Yeah, you talked about that.

That was half-ass.

Spider came up to me afterwards.

It's like, dude, thank you so much for showing love to Connor Zillich.

She's 19 years old.

He's next up.

You just Googled Conners.

Yeah.

You just did that.

I saw a story in the week leading up that he...

Also.

His massive spin-out of this big kerfuffle,

and it was kind of bad-ass, and I wanted to show him love.

I want more categories.

I want, like, sex appeal, cue score.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sports success.

Luck rating.

You luck rating.

We could do that.

Needs luck rating.

Also, you just used first-name Conners.

You could have used an ex-con.

You could have used Tony Con.

You could have used...

There's so many Conner Conner Conner Conner Conner Conns.

And you just chose to go first-name only.

And I think that's bullshit.

Yeah.

No, yeah.

There's no space for any of those things that you just...

What?

Tony Con?

That is a con.

In sports.

It's actually a con, yeah.

It's a con, actually.

It's a con.

He's a con.

Right.

Con.

And it feels like you're kind of making a political statement.

No, not really.

It really does.

Kind of does.

I'm not making a political statement.

That, I think, is a differentiation in the name tree.

That I'd have to look into.

But yeah, maybe we could...

Listen.

You guys go up in the first time.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

The actual nature of the whole event is you allowing for the

differentiations and the name tree.

No.

It's Conner Conner Conner Con.

So you're going to say this Conner is good.

This Conner is good.

This Conner is good.

This Conner is good.

But this Con is not.

I think...

Who do you think you are?

You guys got on me the first time.

You want to talk about...

Having any LBGDQ for any real differentiation in race or

anything like that.

We resolve that in this one.

It is an inclusive list.

I'm unsubscribing, I think.

Yeah.

I'm unsubscribing.

I'm out on Compom.

Or me.

You guys got a next go over Compom.

I want my money back.

I actually...

We will do a next.

You say...

You say...

Me and Mark are doing Compom next month.

Let's...

Yeah.

24th of the month.

Everybody knows it's been Compom.

I won't be here.

Are you getting it?

I won't either.

Right.

Wait, what?

I won't be here with 24th.

Everybody knows that.

Yeah.

I'm moving back to Los Angeles.

We need dog race.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

So...

Do you ever think about that?

Shit.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then I guess I'll take it next month.

No.

No.

The rankings are going to stop.

They come the 24th of every month.

Can't stop me.

Regardless of who puts them together.

I learned it from watching you.

Rank is coming out.

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Up top.

Dad catch.

Throw it again.

Right here.

Up top.

Why?

Oh.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

It's spilled.

And...

We're going to get ants.

What happened?

You just knocked over his drink.

That throw wasn't close.

And you got it all over the pub of Sanchez.

I mean...

Can you not throw it to my hand?

Throw it to my hand.

There's my hand right there.

Ebo.

Ebo, please?

It's happening.

Ebo.

We're going to get ants.

We're definitely going to get ants.

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Uh

I don't know if this comes to fruition. All I know is on Twitter this morning

It was reported that Aiden Holloway

The Alabama guard who has been out for the whole tournament due to getting arrested with mountains of marijuana

and no tax stamp

It is reported that a judge

I don't know what you've got to do to be a judge in the Tuscaloos Alabama area, but a judge in Alabama

Has been granted his motion to travel out of state by Tuscaloos a district court judge per court docs

Alabama plays Michigan tonight in the sweet 16th. I'll I'll start with this

I'm almost to the point where I don't know that we need sitting judges in college towns

Yeah, because they're making a fucking mockery. They're making a fucking mockery of if you have an SEC school

And I'm just gonna say SEC because it's the worst place for this time

If you have an SEC school, you're not allowed to have judges in town because

Ole Miss is taking advantage of it to a lesser degree because that's not a criminal thing like you know

The quarterback didn't didn't do anything criminal. He's right, but

Alabama is doing criminal thing right and judges continue to step in and be like hey

Alabama did the again not criminal, but Betty Ako. Yeah, the same sort of idea of yeah

Temporary restraining order. Can I say something controversial Brandon? Sure. I would like to right now. Okay

I hope all the way plays. Mm-hmm. I badly hope you place. I think

Not that I not because I want Pamela to win the game. Not because I think he deserves to play. Yeah

I just like when you're right about something like I like when you're you're read on a situation. Yeah

I want I want NATO to lean into it. I guess is what I'm saying

I don't care if Pamela wins or not. How can the man lean anymore? Yeah, I would I just like it just

It would be very funny. It would make the stream tonight. Even funnier, I think and

It honestly might make the game more interesting. So

I don't think I don't think he should play obviously, but I hope he plays that would be great for content

I know you probably didn't see this pull-up Davis tweet from this morning in 2001

WrestleMania X7 was about to happen and it was going to be Rock Austin and WWE put out what is regarded as the greatest video package of all time

For Rock Austin. It was set to my way by Lent biscuit

It might have some competition from what Dave put out for the Bosco for that today. It's got music

I thought it was like stock music now

We can't play a tweet by Dave Portinoi. No, he doesn't play other roles

All right, we can see the visuals. It's worth watching. It doesn't work without the sound

It is like the my way from yeah, we need heroes and villains in sports brand and you know this yeah and and

Bama just ripping the mask. It's already off

Yeah, this Bama just finally just going fuck you all. Yeah, we're bad guys. We don't care

would be

Would be something would be absolutely something in the fact they're doing it for for basketball

When when for for years and years and years the knock on them was they don't care about basketball right?

They don't find and now they're just like you know what fuck the law. Yeah, we don't give a fuck

We're selling weed. We're we're taking guns to wherever they don't need to be and god damn it. We're gonna only lose about 12

Oh a good game tonight, you know, I mean Bama

Bama style of play is such that like they're never really out of a game, but but that's you just kind of never know

What you're gonna get from them watching watching

Arkansas get dismantled by Arizona. Yeah, makes me kind of feel like that's very much on the table here because Michigan

It's just oh yeah ruthlessly good across the board

Alabama

Can score

Right and like if you can score that's great, but Michigan can do everything

They can defend they can score they can do everything if you're trying to beat a Michigan team that doesn't have a ton of weaknesses

And you're obviously outclassed and you're not as good as Michigan

Bama's the way you go about it. Just shoot a bunch of three hit a bunch of threes like Michigan when when they don't look that great

They have it's because like like like Wisconsin's a good example Wisconsin

Beat them in an arbor and if you watch that game

I mean, it was just Wisconsin was hitting everything and Michigan's defensively

Running around try like they like the Lithuanian on Wisconsin was just fucking bomb and three stepping out and uh

Pulling the rim protectors out. So if Alabama can do that. Yeah, they might be in business

But they're just as likely to miss everything and lose by 30

And it's just like Alabama's impossible to predict spreads don't matter without the Bama

It's like if you're looking at this and you're saying Bama's like what I eat a half nine and a half word. I don't know where it is now

Yeah, um, it's around there. So Michigan's going to roll

Maybe yeah, maybe maybe not, you know like Bama doesn't play by those rules, but they don't play by any rules

But they don't play by those no, they sure don't you don't play by those rules

They don't play about basketball rules or society like if if I or an Nebraska was like a nine and a half point dog

You'd be like all right. Yeah, they're they're just out in that they just don't have the the

But Bama Bama's spread reflects like they could win by 20 they could lose by 20 and you just don't know um

I guess St. John's Duke is on the on the other side. Yes, St. John's Duke Michigan State UConn

I think that is

Ever since we saw the bracket that held up as the most fascinating region. Yeah, and uh tonight. I don't know

Give me your give me your fantasy final four. Give me your like uh

This would create the most entry. This would so I the blood pumping for you the most. I mean, I think I think uh

The way the brackets are set up an Arizona, Michigan semifinals the most fascinating result on that side

I don't then now the

Because I what do we got it? We got Arizona Purdue or Michigan Bama Tennessee. I was state. I mean, that's not even close

I want to see the Michigan Arizona now that we're here and now the ones he's having gone out

I guess we're not here because we're just in the sweet 16 for one side

But uh, Michigan Arizona needs to happen in the final four those are two of the best

Both of those teams spend about seven a couple of weeks as unquestionably the best team in college basketball

That's right sure uh on on the other side though. I can see a little let's let's do a little fuckery because I don't think Duke

Getting there is the most fascinating. I think St. John's to me brick patino redemption brick patino redemption

The St. John's returning to the the biggest stage

Uh, I think St. John's and then on the other side. We're down to what I will Illinois St. John's Illinois St. John's Illinois

Yeah, I think I think St. John's Illinois if I'm creating the perfect final four out of what's left

It's Michigan Arizona St. John's Illinois. That means that I you know, Duke is obviously the best team in that region too

But they got a lot of hate to put in the barn with these teams. I got a deal. Yeah. I think St. John's

Yeah, they're the most they're the best story. They're the they're the best story

The story with the most upside. Yeah. Yeah, you can't beat that

I guess I can't let me say it's all getting back to the final four wouldn't wouldn't be without use. Yeah, I'm gonna have some juice

Continue. Sorry. I can't get over Illinois

Yeah, they were good. I mean

That was such a disappointing game and like good on Illinois for making it a disappointing game

But like I thought that was gonna be the best game in the sweet 16 Houston let down and Houston just could not make shots at all

Well Houston's the opposite of Alabama right like like uh, you can they can be a 10 point favorite

But if if they're not scoring then they're going to it's going to be ugly and stupid and that was there's only what was the final score of that game

What Arizona? No, no, no, no, the Illinois Houston is 10 point 65 55. I think

So Arizona almost outscored both of them combined air zone scored 109

I guess that's 120, isn't it 120? I mean still still a game. No 120 total in that game and Arizona

Yeah, they all scored about half because they both went to halftime at the same time

And I think it was 46 points at half

In the Illinois Houston game and Arizona at 49 more than that

20 22 or something and this is what I didn't like last night

The refs with their constant reviews in Texas Purdue

It started at 610

The next game started at 630 Iowa and Nebraska and the second I have vine Nebraska. I think there were four files called in total

I want to Nebraska finished about three to four minutes ahead of Texas Purdue

And then instead of the TV networks or somebody saying all right. Let's just stagger these a little bit coming out

They tipped at the same goddamn literally the exact same they tipped at the same fuck how does CBS not say not grab somebody in one of those arenas

I hate it's just let's get to the first media and this one and then we'll start this one. Yeah

I just and that kind of the rhythm of last night was often weird

I I hate the the slate. I hate how late these games are starting and you're the people in charge are going to say

We we have to care about the West coast Brandon the the West coast we have to keep them in mind and I I'm someone who believes that the the West

Coast is the best time zone to watch sports. I loved it when I lived out there. I loved everything started a little bit earlier

Where'd you live the people

The the people that live out there are used to it Brandon. They're used to they're used to like they change their day around it

What I don't understand is if if the people on the West coast are so important and that like we have to we have to bend over

Backwards with the start times and push everything late so they can get off work which by the way

I don't really work normal hours sure they're at the beach surfing and like yeah

They go to a coffee shop type of emails close the laptop go surf come home at 2 p.m. They're on the day wriggling

That's what they do right

So uh if those people if we're so concerned about like we have to make it start at you know the tonight's game starts at 4-10

West Coast time yeah first game the first game starts at 4

If you're so concerned about that

Why why did why did the like pack 12 dissolve? Why did why why do all of the conferences on the West Coast?

Why why why is like everything that's like tried to exist on the West Coast? Why does it go away? That's what I don't understand

Good good question good question. I don't understand that part. I don't understand the uh

Like is the is the West Coast watching sports or not is what I'm getting at I think are they watching sports or not Arizona is

Okay, Oregon is in football season

Yeah, but um no they're a pie they're definitely pie. I don't mean to say they're bad sports fans

I'm saying that like yeah on the one hand a lot of these decisions with conference realignment are

Predicated on like you have to get east you have to like tap into this east market and the TV is like

We have to do everything to make sure we're not upsetting the West

Maybe the country's just too big man. I think that's it

I think we need and if you will do me a favor

We need to champion to get ahead of this to be on the West Coast and speak up and say listen

You guys can start earlier so when you move to the West Coast in a couple of months. Yeah, and you be that guy

Yeah, okay, just started earlier who cares. Yeah, let's try to win ever. Oh, yeah, let's try to win ever bro

Yeah, that's gonna be our campaign

Yeah, it's it's hell it's it's hell a cool man if you start it whenever it's

It's it's used to work hell uh you do one. It's we need a wrap. It's hella fine by me need a wrap

Yo bro

Stop stop stop I'm gonna stop you there. I'm I couldn't I couldn't watch that unfold

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That's permission go watch it go watch go watch the bba these games are too late though

And and thankfully I think this is the last day the bba games are too late the no I would never do that

Okay, I as a commissioner. I would never do you put yours out like 9 a.m. Yeah, yeah, Matt nays

Yeah, we we we care about the oh, yes, but I think tonight's the last night of late games super late games

Yeah, usually Saturday and Sunday or like five and seven. Yeah, they figure it out a little bit. Yeah

Anyway, um, Ebo what was the story of

Opening second opening day

The fact that there's

Paul screens opening day still hasn't happened for a lot of teams. Yeah, the braves and the royals open today

There's three I believe there's three series that kick off today and then there's you know, we talk about

College basketball doing fuck shit with their schedule

Majority baseball having opening day for a lot of teams and the next day having an off day

Remains one of the craziest thing the whole rhythm is all so stupid the whole rhythm of opening day is off

And the giants are saying that tomorrow is opening or today what the giants just said fucking open. We didn't we didn't play it

So so

There's also a joke here for being actually Robbie Ray being your opening

But

So they're just saying that was like Netflix's opening day that wasn't theirs

Maybe that yeah, I don't add this is opening night and this is opening day. I don't know actually. Yeah, that was opening night

This is ridiculous when does this game when it was opening day the sun was out. I agree with you in the day

That games that games at one 30 local. That is a day game opening day. What time was the first pitch for the the first game

There was seven in here. So it was five or thirty four thirty five

That's four thirty that's day seven here for 30s day. No, that's that's that's that's that's the night game. That's evening night

That's four thirty in the evening

What were those four thirties not the evening Connor five thirty is though that's right, but it's not that's the person

They played at four thirty, right? Then you just say that. You know, that's very day right there. I'm looking at day

That's day. I'm looking at that's that's that's that's five 18 five eight. That's five 18 pregame

So yeah, I'm looking at day right now. Listen, you you could get to a ballpark in the summertime at seven o'clock

Even eight o'clock and it'll still be light out

If it if sunlight is the metric of it being a day game or a night game, we're all fucked

I've got a damn there is in a single don't go to fucking sweeten. Yeah, exactly. Midnight son. Why would I go to sweeten for a baseball game?

Midnight son. What time what time is night?

Anything past five. I think you have to consider starting at five happy hour cannot happen at night

Let me ask you a question SEC football game in November, Alabama and Arkansas started two thirty

By the end of the game. It's blackest can be it's about the start of the game

Okay, so that's a day game. Oh, oh fuck. Yes, pinstay got a night game. We kick off at five fifteen. Yeah

Yeah, are you are you excited about that? Yeah, it's different in college football pre-thirty eastern

We got a night game in the second half huge huge well actually in that case. Yeah kind of is I think he's right

I'm just I'm just being a bitch, but still I think but that was hard time

I think if that was neither a night game nor day right like you can't call that a night game

That's not a night game. It's not a day. That's an evening game

That's a later late afternoon late afternoon. So opening evening

Is what that was and now they did opening day it?

Did you see so Paul Skulls didn't get it and I don't want to I'm never gonna make this a thing

but

I did invite Ebo to my homies fantasy baseball league back in Mississippi

He did join in his first pick was Paul skiing bruh anyway

What do you look at me like why would you take Paul skiing Paul skiing to all people he sucked

So he didn't get out of the first inning yesterday. Did you see how he didn't get out I did yeah the O'Neal crews

O'Neal crews is fascinating to me. He doesn't own a pair of sunglasses apparently three or four years ago

He was like the next thing. It was Tim and Ellen Ellie day that cruise right they were there were cruises

Yes, and and he was was he was he always an amphibious shortstop at first. They moved him to outfield

He's the best athlete on the field but he can't feel almost any given time and somehow he cannot play defense

How can you not feel to that level like the key he he

He had to those those runs against schemes were earned because he couldn't even close enough to make an error on the ball

And this one this is I mean I will say

These day games in early April. It's hard to sure like the next play after this was like two pictures later

He literally just let a ball drop. Yeah, but he's a major league baseball player

Correct

Yeah, like he just doesn't he just doesn't own sunglasses. Yes

Paul skiing's ERA 6750. Oh, I think that'll go. That was your number one pick. Yeah, they batted around against it

I think that'll go down whoo

I mean

He didn't have his best stuff yesterday and

Yeah, I mean he even you can play with partially on O'Neal crews, but Paul skiing is definitely was a lot of America's fault

Yeah, both the world baseball both the team USA guys getting lit up and basically back to back

Well, who's the other one Logan Wad, but he has his team hasn't started the season yet. They had opening day today

So what are you talking about great point didn't happen the great point Brandon good and then Aaron judges his cursed and yeah, yep

Is he washed Titus? Did you say anything stupid on wake up bar still this morning? I did not you then and I have video proof by the way of

Titus and Tate both coming to me in the break yesterday and saying that was a totally fine question time counter

Where is it? Where's the video proof on my phone? We don't have time for it. Sorry

Okay, we have to keep the show moving along, but uh

You know schemes. I felt bad. It seemed like he was finally enjoying baseball

I shared finally joined his life he's smiling and everything and then he has that performance yesterday and I felt terrible

I shared this on WUB uh did not share it here yesterday because we were obviously obviously busy with with other stuff going on

But I wanted to let the people know if you would like to tell

The option is there Brandon. I have placed my parlay for this major league baseball season

Oh my gosh, yes, the Colorado Rockies to win the N.O. West

The Washington Nationals to win the N.O. East

Which by the way top of the standing right now top of the table top of the table

The Los Angeles Angels to win the A.O. West by the way top of the table. Huh

Is I uh 20 cent wager. Yes, we'll pay out 249,000

I have the option to cash out for 18 cents right now

There it is wow there it is. I placed it uh the other day

Locked that in Rockies Nationals Angels

Plus 124 million

I love to get like a sponsored bet on the Draft Kings app with Mark's face next. Yeah, if anybody wants to tail

We're that's what we're doing this year, and you know, it seems crazy. It's a long shot. No question about that injuries happen in sports

Surprises happen

Last year the Marlins were one of my teams. Yeah, they were pretty they finished almost 500

Yeah, I'm just like third in the and then all you see people forget you only lost that bet by like 40 or 50 games

That's right. That's right. So

And again T.J. Would you like to pull up the standings right now please? Yeah to show the people the naysayers out there

I would like to let them know

Right now

Everyone saying you're you're throwing away your 20 cents those two that's two dimes. You can't get back well

Look at look at us now

There's the uh

Nationals and angels and angels right there

Angels or yeah, nationals want to know uh-huh angels want to know it was the other team and the Rockies haven't played yet

I don't think so they haven't lost yet. So they have not lost and uh they're currently

Zero and zero right there half came back to the Dodgers realistically if I told you you could take 20 cents and turn it into

$250,000 and and you're half came back to the Dodgers. I'll take it you have to take it

If you told me at the beginning of the season the Rockies would be a half game back of the Dodgers

The only thing keeping you from turning 20 cents to 250 grand is this one half game back of the Dodgers

That's not that's incorrect because you never know what'll happen over the next 162. Yeah, yeah, just don't know

Realistically what cash out what do you take?

Uh 45 cents

Yeah

$1

You had a pretty decent cash out last year

When you just did the two teams

I think I could I think for like a month in the season

I could have got my my entire money back

I think that's what the cash out was yeah

Because the white socks it was white socks marlin's last year this year I went with three 20 cents. It's such a money

It was the max wager

I tried to do five dollars in draftings like

Sir you're gonna put us out of business. I know what

We can't handle a high roller like you

Before we get to our new box openings to they're going to show with um and we have to do two grids today

We have to do two great you want to do yesterday's now. Yeah, we knock out. Just want to do it now

So do yesterday's now and then we'll let the end so yeah, let's just do yesterday's now

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Uh-huh here we need some black hawks here. Give me a black coffee black hawk. Give me a black

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And then Ronik's pretty much the only shark. I know

Thornton Thornton. Yeah, Thornton Joe Joe. Joe Thornton. Was he a goal score? I think so. Is it Joe? It is Joe. Oh, certainly has to be. Okay, Joe

What is it Ronik? Yeah, a lot. I don't know. It was Ronik good on the sharks. I just know he played for the sharks and I know Ronik was I think he was

Forties a good season. Okay. I don't think it's a historic season. It's a very good good season. I think Thornton probably would be the better. You think Thornton's better. Thornton Joe Thornton might be more alive. It's Joe Thornton. I mean

We're gonna have to come up with two other sharks by the way

All right, okay, and

God try Ronik. What was that? What was that Connor?

No, okay, who is it? Who is it? Who is it?

Who is it? Teemo Salani four people. Wait, he was a duck. They got it. Who's putting these grids together, dude? Who's we have more than four players available. That's got to be Kane

Mandor Kane kind of a maugher

That's kind of on the on the sharks. How do you have you existed that long? You have four guys with 40 goals. Yeah, we should have called Joey Avery wait has has

Has a new kid done it yet this year

What does that mean?

Has a new kid done it this year. Celebrity. Yeah, if if Celebrity was the answer that would have been embarrassing. Yeah, um really bad. She what's his name? Cheecho?

Chachu. What's his name?

Where's Chichu? Chichu. Where's Chichu? It's Pokemon. Chichu. Chichu. Chichu.

Go back. Go back. You know what? Fuck Jonathan. Chichu. I just hope he's still. Go back to the list of the four.

He do. He do. Pavellski is a guy, right? Yeah, we should know him right. He's good. Oh, I remember his name. What why do I know? Look at his nicknames the big Pavellski

Also little Joe Captain America. That's probably why I know him. Yeah, and Pokey. He can't be little Joe and big Pavell

Nobody's ever called him Joe exotic. I'm sorry. Nobody has ever once called him Joe exotic

You don't want to do you want to start like a few of us one of these guys that cost us a great like should we just should we team

Fuck Joe Pavellski

Just like God loves you off if we see him. Yeah, it's on site. It's on site if I see Joe Pavellski. Remember when Pavellski hit her part

You what did you want to do before you start opening stuff? Um

I just see this on the and I haven't seen this previously old video of Kevin Harlan from high school calling a football game emerges

Yeah, I said in the chat. Kevin Harlan is if you ask me top five favorite people in sports Kevin Harlan is fighting for number one

I fucking love Kevin Harlan. I think he's far and away the best

Play-by-play announcer we have and should be a bigger star than he is

I this is him from high school. Mm-hmm. He was in high school

Correct. He's the best. I think he's a junior in high school in this video. Let me I think I have it. I think he's the best ever doing

Who's got it? Uh, I got right here. I'll send it to you in the DMs. It's always

And this is just for future reference because we've only been doing to show for three years

It's always better if TJ does have access to the video

Before we it's yeah, just it's in the chat oh

TJ you did have access to videos what I've been told when

I'm recent in it I like you both know I do still have a box cutter and I'll fucking cut you

I already cut my my fingers yesterday accidentally you had the plastic box I had scissors

I cut myself in the scissors. Do you notice your box cutter was plastic? Yeah, it's weird

Yeah, we weren't allowed to have two box cutters I think it's like a ceramic blade. Oh, okay. All right, all right on Thursday, Iowa fans

We'll hear Kevin Harlan on Thursday's game between the Hawkeyes and Corn Huskers before his decades of success on a national stage

Harlan was just a high schooler and Wisconsin. That's where he caught up with TV nine sports director emeritus John Campbell go

I'll put in the backfield now you're straight back in the pocket as good time punks now he's on the run to the right side

nine out throwing on the run

That's Kevin Harlan you're listening to he's the voice of the Permanente cadets and WGBP FM the school radio station

Now the station doesn't have a big range, but Kevin's getting invaluable experience

Last year they were looking for a play by playman

For the football team and I was a junior last year and what they did was a show to film on the wall

And we talked into a tape recorder and things like that summer right there. I was select out of

I

How does voice change so much

I know he was just 17 but I

Doesn't sound like him at all. Hmm. It was great. No, what a piece of play it again

And Kevin does a darn good job. He's well prepared accurate and descriptive

It's about 10 yards in the line of scrimmage running backs. Just put in the backfield. Oh, I'm sorry to air on first down in 10 yards to go

A second man through this will be Dennis Gillis pulling his way past the 25

He spends a lot of his time listening to and studying other sports casters as he tries to develop his own style

I've set up in the NBC booth many times

J Randolph and Tim Ryan when he when the Cleveland people were in for the preseason game and

I picked up many pointers and how they carry themselves through the broadcast how they won't get upset if something technically would go wrong or something like that

and

I think it's been a great experience the fact that I've been up there and been able to watch these professionals

Why does the TV 9 logo look like the LA Rams backwards? It does

We call brainer. Okay. I think it I think you got to listen close and you got it comes through a couple times

Yeah, and listen, I guess 17-year-old and 50-year-old voices are different probably a little bit

But Connors your voice change you're the you're the only one on the show that has clips like this out there

Yeah, my voice changes a shit ton way with a lovely

Well, yeah, that's also when I broke my nose. It's shifted

So maybe Kevin Harlem broke his nose. Yeah, you broke your nose. How again? I get in curb-stopped into a basketball floor and losing my two

That's right. Yeah, are you almost like advocating it like you know

They're like trying to get pictures to tear their UCL early so that they can just get it out of the way

Maybe like if you're an aspiring broadcast out there break your nose

I mean, I never got flat-out advice, but there were people who said like I got my voice deeper because I smoke cigarettes all the time

Yeah, that's very in smoking cigarettes. Yes

I'm a knight. I don't recommend it. I have never done that you know who chain smokes and has an incredible voice

Is Jean Honda? I don't know if that's a name. He smokes you he smokes like he's smoking

Jean Honda right this second of smoking a cigarette. He has bet my life on it

He has the PA and that's my life right this second. He's smoking a cigarette

He was he does the voice. He's a voice to the Maui invitational too

He goes out to Lahaina Civic Center does and I and I watch this man every time there's a time out

Just like it up and walk out just smoke him hit a cigarette and come back

Uh, he's incredible. What a voice. I saw him wait. That's the secret sauce. Yeah, you ask him

He's just like yes smoke yeah, he was walking out in between every every media break. Oh, he does the way

So every media break dude you give give the people at home try to find a clip of Jean Honda

I was in awe seeing him in person. I was like oh my god. There's genius. He'll do the final four talking about

I don't know if he's retired from that

But for a million years he might still do it the final four to like the really the leaders in gentleman

Welcome to Indianapolis in the 2026 but the gene Honda stacking paychecks, huh? Yeah. Yeah, he's

He's incredible

Sorry, some ways I've been well for all the years in this building and for two years across the street one of the things I love about this job

Free candy, huh mark. He's not smoking cigarettes in this book. There he goes

Wait

Wait back from a cigarette

Two three tests one two three four

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And in the community with a white socks and playing right field number 47

Joshua Palsios World Series champion pitcher number 20

John Garland. We got it. Good. We should get him here. Yeah, he's just a good guy

We could get him here. You think he would do the interest for the best show ever. Oh, yeah

I mean he does everything brain and I feel like he would right. Yeah, just got to fit it in between smoke bricks

We can get sakes. I can't smoke in here. I don't care. That's true. Yeah, let him smoke a little light up

And then for forever we'll have a you know, a smell like cigarettes in here because of gene Honda

I'd be honored. That would be awesome actually. I'll be fucking honored. There's a musk of cigarette

We should invite famous people with the caveat they can smoke in here if they want. Yeah, they can do anything

Fuck on the couch. I want to

Well

As long as I'm not sleeping on it at the time. Yeah, that would that'd be preferable

Do you guys are you guys are too yawning to remember a time where places just smelled like cigarettes? No

You're not Virginia up until I was like 13 maybe 12

There was smoking and nods, but the first thing you'd have the hostess would ask you is smoking or not smoking section

Like the bowling alley if you went to a bowling alley, I was just the entire bowling alley was

You go to a restaurant and they'd have like a divider that's like this

Brandon smoking cigarettes that I'm in the non smoking section just off in my ass

It is crazy to think about because yeah, you would you just go out to eat and it would just smell like cigarettes

Yeah, I think the TGI Fridays we went to every Friday when I was a little that was a sick place and you had to specify there too and bars

I do think that I

Don't smoke cigarettes. I've never smoked cigarettes. I think cigarettes are pretty gross probably is where I lean

Yeah, but I do like the idea of like allowing dive bars to have cigarettes

Like I do I do like the idea of like you should be able to smoke inside in some places some places

Some places could use it can get away with it right because you do like a smoking like there are smoking lounges

Right, yeah, you're naked on one. Yeah, yeah, it's best true, but

Yeah, I even as a guy doesn't smoke I wouldn't hate like walking into some of these dive bars in Chicago

And there's just like a bill of

cigarette smoke I wouldn't hate it. I know what I'm signing up for. Yeah, I know if I'm going to this bar

So there's gonna be some cigarettes. I'm gonna move to go to go sit in some cigarettes smoke. Yeah, why not? Okay

There was one in our college town that was like grandfathered in or something after sure an hour. You could do it and

I would just leave the bar with my hair smelling like cigarettes and yeah, stick to your clothes and

Yeah, why are you 50 old time or why is he just coming back? I don't know. I don't know what's happened in there

He can't just fist bump. He didn't even say anything fist bump. Where are they smells like sick? Yeah, he's like, yeah, just fucking

Went home to smell like cigarettes hair clothes everything. I don't know. That's just a sentence though. You can't just

All right, yeah, yesterday

I used the bathroom and then I then I played on the internet for a while. Oh, yeah

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All right, we'll clean up from yesterday

Um, let's you get something we want to know that's that's probably it I would say. Yeah, we'll get there

Um, we'll get there as we Connor's getting the rest of the boxes

I think we got about eight boxes that didn't get to this was here yesterday. What's in front of me? It was behind me and

When Josh knocked me on my knees, it kind of threw my entire I just was useless for the rest of the show

But this is I

Connor

Connor this one's for mark

Connor

This one's for scoop

And I I'm just gonna assume the rest are for me because they're all

Oh my god, it's a baseball sign by Scotty Sheffler

No way wow

Is it and not even then he just wrote it all in print Scotty Sheffler look at this

That's incredible

Holy not a signature at all. It's just a sign by Scotty Sheffler. It's Scotty Sheffler's name on a baseball

Oh my god, oh, all of these are Atlanta Braves Bobbleheads. I got Ronald Acunia in a pink suit

I've got the great Ronaldo Lopez

in some sort of

Cape I've got

Andrew Jones all Braves Bobbleheads right here. Oh that we got Aussie Albeys we have Erscher

What Erscher Erscher baby you don't know Erscher always got peace up

And that is hat that's right is a town down. That's for correct. Oh my god wait. Yeah, no hold on. Yeah

No hold on his hat is is a town

Up

Oh, there it is that's confused now pieces down pieces down. Yes. Yeah anyway. Oh, so I got us for us here

Chipper Jones. I have a Braves race car. I have

um

Russell Eglaceus. I believe it's their closure this year and there's a box here that says nothing and

Oh, I got a world 95 world series ring. So looks like I just won the 95 world series champion. Yeah, you know that's 96 team mark at the 2015 one

I did. Yeah, 2015 one right here

This is the third year in a row. Oh, that's

Yeah, 2015. I don't know if I caught that yesterday

I don't know

Third year in a row. I've gotten a wander franko card. Yeah

Just Bryce Harper

Dap it up wander franko before a game. So that's yeah someone sent in Pokemon card yesterday and wanted me to rip them

So I'm gonna do that real quick. I got rock rough

Is that real? That's a real thing. Yeah

Uh

Katerpie

Magmar

Dissoctude

Wooloo

Verizon

Hopps choice band

Articuno

That's a good one. Whoa

Kling

Uh-huh

Tad bulb

This one's shiny. So it must be good. Oh, do that do the

ludicolo

And then basic energy. Oh my holy shit basic. Oh

No way. Oh my god. Oh my god

Use this code unlike your online reward visit Pokemon comms. I got holy shit. I got the QR code

So there that's I don't know if any of these are good or not. Connor you just

Just put the boxes out there. Yeah, so that I gotta go all the way around my test

So I gotta get my ass up. I'll just keep doing Pokemon cards. I guess. I don't know. What pack is it Mark?

This is the Scarlet and Violet journey together nice pack. Don't know what that means. You have mark a box

I'm uh, I do collect Pokemon cards. I think

You think you collect Pokemon? Well, I have a bunch under my desk. I don't know what any of them are

I was trying to

Well those were Tommy in first. I was trying to bond with your son. Yeah

Didn't really work. Now the secret is Tommy's kind of unbondable. He has to bond to you

Pedal pedal little

Pedal pedal little

Bless you pedal pedal pedal pedal

Pylos wine. That's a good one. That sounds delicious. Kufa Kufa

Kufa

Sporgate Sporgate Sporgate Sporgateo Sporgateo's

Uh hops Cramorant Crat John Merant

John Merant or something Cramorant

Uh Miraculous

Sincensio

Bam Marjera

That's that one. Bam Marjera. I don't

Margarina Mar

Sandaconda that sounds pretty cool. Oh, that does sounds fucking awesome. Yeah sounds like a oh

This guy looks sweet. Who the fuck is this? Rufian? Is that you?

What is this guy? I was like Ryan the production guy

What is this guy? I've never seen that in my life. What is this guy? Maybe one of the trainers or something

And then I got basic energy whatever that means um

For Brandon or Mark if he gets into a barbecue competition versus Donnie the best rub ever created applied

Generally to a butt or ribs and smoke to the eternal temperature of 198

Also, great on chicken. Love the show. Uh, so this guy just I don't know if it's his or if he just uh likes it strawberry's

Shake on barbecue seasoning. It's a great kid. Yeah, it's fantastic. I've got a lot of seasonings. I got one more pack

Rimmer raid

I think it's Rimmer ride Rimmer ride uh care of blast

Just

Keck Leon this one looks stupid. That looks that looks stupid

Torchick

Stupid oh

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What the fuck is this brocks scouting?

What does that mean?

I don't know. What does it say the the effect is search your deck for up to two basic Pokemon or one evolution Pokemon

Revealed him and put them into your hand and shall we I want to play Pokemon. How do you can we play if I want to play?

Let's play let them rush. He's got a bunch of extras. Oh rush is busy. How Dean Wooper

There's that one another miraculous

Like like and rock. I won't look kind of cool shiny. So that's cool. And then basic energy

Lot of basic energies. Hell yeah. All right, Jack. Let's go this to see Jack. Oh

Is that a honor? What is in there?

Do you want to tubby Smith Bobblehead? Yes, okay, tubby Smith

Oh, monkey. Do you want a deflated Kentucky basketball sign by

Work on that signature for me. Okay, here we go. This is

This didn't have a note in it, but I assume this guy's from Kentucky dolphins hat

Jack

Kentucky Jack

Jack Daniels

That would be could it be Jack Daniels? He's more of a Tennessee guy's he not

Of a bat from the Louisville slugger factory Louisville slugger museum. Josh Josh. Josh Harrelson

Josh Harrelson. This is Josh Harrelson. Holy shit. You have a Josh Harrelton sign best Harrelpen sign basketball 55 Josh Harrelson. Yeah

Yeah

Yeah, we're just finishing finishing up the string here on the opening day

Thank you very much for the of a puck here from the Kentucky thoroughbreds and then I have another puck from the

2002 Salt Lake

Winter Olympic Games and now think about Salt Lake you would think you would think that

It's called Salt Lake City. Oh, yeah, and so by the name it means salt the great salt lake is right by the city now

That's not that's not the case now like Manitoba. It's not even a reminds me of Winnipeg

Close

You have scissors in your hand

You don't think Winnipeg

Manitoba Katana

My god Michael from Virginia sent a package with a bunch of dungeons and dragon stamps right?

That's kind of oh wow a lot of a lot of nerd stamps if Aiden Holloway had those stamps. He wouldn't be in jail right now

This is not in jail. He's going he's in walkthroughs

Michael from Virginia writes a note and he says the following he says

Thank you so much for what you do think you'll appreciate these more than I do

Some early 90s bow Jackson and Randy Johnson cards. Oh, hey, I think the bow breaker card is actually decent would love for y'all to

Get it graded or for big cat to eat it

Also a big variance if Brandon needs a producer for more cowbell. I'm your guy. He says. Oh wow. What's his name?

Michael. Yeah, here you go

His uh his twitter's uh, it looks like he's a Virginia tech fan. Mm-hmm Virginia

Oh

Bow breaker. This is the card that he says might be worse something bow Jackson breaking his uh his bad over his knee

I think holding it close to the camera is hopeful. It's actually not it makes it so I'm gonna hold it back

It's focused on your face. Yeah, there you go bow breaker breaking

That a lot of cool cards

Bow Jackson Dale Murphy's in here Brandon just took forever to get in Eddie Murray

Oh

Brandon Mark and the mostly crew this is a long letter, but I'm going to read it even though it is signed by no one

Okay

Oh

Okay, oh wow. Oh, that's sweet. Wow. That is what is that what's the screen do?

Oh, that's good for you. I saw it perfect. Yeah

Uh, I wanted to write and say how much I enjoy this show. I started watching mostly sports a couple years ago

It's become part of my daily routine the mix of real sports talk random bits and the way you both bounce off each other

How do they hear about that? You'd be bouncing off

Guys be bouncing off

Makes it one of the most entertaining sports shows out there

I'm a junior at Western Kentucky majoring in sports management minoring and coaching

It's been the last two seasons working as equipment manager for WKU football this year

I transitioned to coaching role with quarterbacks and tight ends being around the program has been unbelievable experience

I'm gonna skip forward a little bit

Just I know you love college football

So I got to talk about the top first second Western Kentucky has some guys this year as people keep keep an eye on

Uh, more like that marks that you're the basketball brain of the operation

I got to bring up Kentucky basketball being in ball and grain used around about Kentucky fans everywhere you go

Um mostly sports has become something I throw along after long days around the facility

It feels like sitting around talking about sports with your friends

Which is probably why so many people enjoy it shows like yours make the grind of working in sports a little easier

Well, that's nice if you guys won't WKU gear

I'd be more than happy to send a care package your way. I thought that's what you just did

Oh, it's a nice note

Um, he didn't put his name on it bowling green a Corvette museum there is it I've stayed in bowling green a couple Corvette

I think we've been to both maybe I'm wrong. I haven't been to the Ohio one. I've been to both

I've been to bowling ring Kentucky bowling ring Kentucky surprisingly big and our nice a nice town

Yeah, quite an interstate runs right through it. I think the Corvette museum is there. Yeah, every serves. I don't

I don't know what you're talking about but I

I've served

Uh, I've stayed there. It's like the national Corvette museum. I've stayed there. That seems to be the more important thing here

Brandy ever stayed uh bowling green before yeah, because there's a national Corvette museum

I heard of the fucking the Corvette dude. Do you like Corvettes? You're gonna love the national Corvette museum

If you don't like Corvettes stay away

You're not gonna like it as much you're gonna hate it

There better not be a Corvette in there

I'm afraid

Did he send us a Corvette?

I bet deathly fear of that would be sweet. He has letters said. There's a little something from my hometown

If you ever joy and it's a Corvette if you guys ever want some WKU gear

I'd be more than happy to send a care package yet when I opened the box they sent

Well, he wants to know that you want it before he sends the WKU gear I think but no he doesn't. Oh, he still did his first

Bass service

Wow, that was quick ask

So I'm not real wow. I'm not real sure what the question was for um, I mean you said

Yes to the question that you wanted more gear, right? Yeah, it's offers

Oh, this is a hoodie again. I just I what is that maybe he just it's a bunch of stickers to say tops on it

That's probably what they the helmet decals those are probably left over. Oh, yeah

That's sick those do look like they go on the side of

The helmet thank god. I said yes to the question. Yeah, cuz I got Hill topper's hats for everybody. Oh, that's awesome

Yeah, send him my way Hill's topper you want a Tanner black

Uh black. I mean hat. Yeah, yeah for the clip. I'm gonna say black

But give me a tan one too

Conner to what you know what I didn't realize I

You know what I didn't realize I wanted it until you open up the decals

We should have a helmet with like the senior bowl helmet like I have all the decals all over it

We should just have a

Mostly sports helmet that we just slapped decals on what about that idea? That's a phenomenal idea mark. You like that Connor? Yeah

I'll take a tan hat, though

All right, uh, this might be the last box we open. I would just open the rest off camera because

There's some over here, too

TJ has has has one

That was a great throw and you Connor

Um tightest. Yeah

Ebo

Cody

Blutman

Kate

Nick oh

Shay

KB really big cat

Seriously and then what the fuck dude these are decals more decals. How about that and be no you here you have to be up to be one

You

Okay, that box is just gonna be all western Kentucky shirts

I think we all get the point of that and I appreciate him sitting in them

But there are hundreds of WKU shirts in here. So I'm not gonna bore the rest of the audience with the

Probably more western Kentucky merch that is in the actual state of western Kentucky said if you want western

Kentucky merch. Let me know also. I just sent you everything 45 pounds of western

Western Kentucky. Yes. Incredibly nice. Um

James in New York and a heavy box with a lot of shit. So I'll go through this real quick

So Jersey wrapped in a or a book wrapped in a jersey the game

By Ken Dryden. Oh, I like that. This is a can in a reads 2012 selections

So we might have to read this one. Maybe we'll learn a thing or two about hockey if we read this

Um

They might be years to be a

What did you say to you? I need that. This is this is a AC. I think that's C.A. This is C.A. commercial

America, Colorado, avalanche. Oh, I don't know

Who's on who's this cost 31 dollars?

Thank you to thank you for buying that

Saying that is fucking mark 31 dollar jersey. How about that?

Oh

Oh, this must be for me being a the Vegas night span. I am. Yeah

This is this is of course Neil. Uh-huh. Curly Neil and Neil was able to pre-stay that for you. It's right there

Neil had a nice chocolate ice cream cone. That's baseball. Uh, what else

We got some hot a hodgepodge. This is a sign by Mickey Rork a baseball, I think

The actor

We got some souvenir cups for Brandon. Here's uh, here's a note in here

Yeah, let's see. Let's read the note. I do love being a souvenir cups guy

Thank you for receiving my box. That's not the nicest box, but hopefully you like something in it

Brandon you were nice enough to take a picture of me at Army Navy game and I'll always appreciate that your beard looked better

Even better in person mark. I went to Michigan, OSU hockey game last year in solid balls

Signed by you. Wow. Okay

The air around the glass case was heavy with greatness and is something I'll never forget

Conner the way you talk about Philly sports and figure it to me to no end respect watch band of brothers

Ebo you bring a balance to the couch the same way princess lay and spark brought balance to

Arrakis when they defeated the ice king. That's beautiful. T.J. You the fucking man. Thank you family James

You the fucking man James is it the James you the fucking man? Yeah, is that James from the James sports or is it like a patch of 9-11 patch

A bunch of cards

There's a hodgepodge baseball cards

It's a lot of stuff. Um, can we do a check in with Cody real quick

What up Cody, did you like the western Kentucky box? Yeah

Why does that weirdly look good does look good

Okay, all right good stuff Cody sports illustrated Orioles magazines. Oh, here you go. Ebo some some Orioles

Uh, yeah, all right James in a lot of stuff. Thank you. Yep. Yep. James sent a lot of uh

You the man James

Oh, I see England to be the number one James on the show because that's gonna be tough James

Must be a cop. Yeah, or he has killed cops

The evidence. Yes

I don't have a box in front of me

Oh

Branding the poster thing have you opened that I've tried and failed Conor's gonna open it

Okay

This is from Alexis for brain walker here are some autographed brain walker baseball cards. What what I haven't always read anything

Oh prospecting brain walker. Is that so? Oh, I'm a goddamn

It's something I hope you enjoyed as much as I enjoyed when I found them last year I sent in Roger Maris this year

Enjoy the pirates logo bobblehead for the studio

Wait, it's a logo bobblehead. It's a oh, yeah, I love the guy. Yeah, it's the pirate. Yeah, he's hoisting the cone

That's baseball. Give up the good work. I enjoy the show more and more every day

I can't wait to see what this year shenanigans bring it brings especially to the Star Wars day

Alexis. Yeah, pressure is starting to mount on you by the way. We're not we're not far from it

Open this weekend is a big writing weekend opening day means we're right around the corner from Star Wars day

This is uh, this is the elimination chamber to you know Conor you realize we were just sitting at your desk you're sitting at your chair

You'd have a mic you wouldn't have to I'm trying to get the the poster back from TJ

This is one of those beat up boxes. I've ever seen

You of de athletics

University of Denver. I don't know. We'll find out

Delaware

Is there some blue hand merch in there?

Oh, yes, that's nowhere and that is the best looking blue winged helmet in college. What this is a great helmet

That is a iconic helmet. That's what a helmet should look like. Yeah, you think blue hands. Yes. Yes

That is that is just a great great. You see that football helmet. You think Delaware football

Just like that out the blue hands. We do have a conflict now

We just back-to-back conference USA teams. We also have an FC. AFC South conflict. Where are we? Who are we siding with?

Four paint customers this one's for you. I'm so excited. It might be Delaware. Oh my god. I love Delaware

Yeah, Newark is a great city grotto pizza

Shout out Delaware

Destined to bowl and then D.E. I think I'm a blue hand. All right. All right. We got some we got some blue hands hats

Shout out Delaware. You're telling me Delaware and West. We can talk here in the same conference. Yep. Okay

Conference USA. Oh, we got some Delaware football bucket. Oh look at her. I want that. Blutman and TJ. I think uh

Cody wants you put the helmet on

All right

Cody wants you just go ahead and put that helmet on. Okay

See how you want

That's it. By the way, that's that's just a helmet helmet. It's a real deal. Yeah, that's a helmet helmet

Dry fits shout out Delaware. This is a shout out Delaware. Shout out Delaware. They call it Newark. Not Newark. The 302

Conner

Oh, that was almost sick Connor. It almost caught it with my foot actually TJ

That would get close. That's fine

We

Happy opening day. Please enjoy this stuff courtesy the Delaware football equipment staff family go hands. There we go

All right. I'll ride with Delaware. They're in the same conference. I was western Kentucky. Mm-hmm

That's right guys. You say roll hands roll hands. I think I make a noise of him. Why don't I look like the sun man

Sunmade raisins cow. Mm-hmm a little bit. You do a hand not really like a hand

No, I can't do it. I just went to it a Delaware. I love what you look like the sun made raisins gal

Hey Cody, did you do your assignment? You do that joke. I gave you the friars club roast book

Take a number. I said bring a joke

This envelope had my name on it. I have no idea where it came from yeah, I'm opening it up

It says a lot of letters from Eric. It has it's like

Eight pages. I'm not gonna read it all obviously

Uh, Oregon high school hoops lore and introduction

And it's written in like script font like yes, not cursive, but like you know like as you would see a a movie script written

Uh

The hoops scene I grew up watching my era of hoops

Getting personal is one section

All right, well Eric I I will read this I promise, but

I can't read this on air. Yeah, this is just simply too long of a letter, but um happy opening day

Yeah, here's a happy opening day. It says just nice letter. I'll read it. I promise you I'll read it Cody 157

Okay, it looks that up you want to do the sports clips sports clips game changer moment. Yes, I will. I don't think um

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I'm gonna do it. That's what I'm gonna do

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Watch the stream tonight. I have a feeling this will go down as Rico Bosco's week

Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna call Rico Bosco. He's the MVP in the world of sports. I'm gonna say Rico Bosco is the MVP right now in sports

There's too many opening days in baseball. We can't possibly circle there

Basketball it gets you know, there's there's 16 sweet 16. There's 16 games left

So there's just no way to to figure out who's who's the MVP there?

It's Rico Bosco and this might be the last time you get to see Bosco wearing an Alabama shirt

He's gonna be in baby. Maybe it might be blue might be in baby blue bread and um Cody

You did say it character issues. Yeah, how do you looking? I said 157. Yeah, I'm here

Uh

A traveling vaudeville troop visited a small town well at their hotel a man visited and said

He was a town self-appointed morals keeper

He'd heard that the troop used dirty jokes in their act the troops manager assured them that they did not

I don't know. It's not the man said he'd be sitting in the first row with his wife

And if you heard any dirty language, he'd shut down the show

That night the star of the show came out with a co-star and they began their act

Say do you know what the best part of a woman is asked the star no replied to co-star

What's the best part of a woman the man in fact the man in the first row leap to his feet and declared firmly if he says cunt

I'm stopping the show

157 ethics and morals really good. That was really good. It goes by section of joke. Yes. Is there

What was the categories?

All right, we got celebrities. We've got babies

Birth control deaths death and dying. Is there a racism section? I'd like for you to read from that

There's not Connor. What'd you have?

You're gonna love this okay poster sent in a love of poster

It's shaggy DA oh wow

We got a shaggy DA poster for the studio. We got to frame that up. That's incredible. I'm a real shaggy dugs

That is fantastic shaggy DA the only candidate with a law degree is and a pedigree

Was this a movie or a television show I think it was a movie. It's impossible. Should we watch the movie? Yes. Yes

Probably watch along. Should we do a watch along? Yeah, Dean Jones. I think we should at some point. All right. Um, is that everything?

I think that's everything we got all the we got it

Thank you to ever if box anything else. We'll open it off the air and then highlights. We'll we'll put on the air. Yeah

Sorry, all right, let's do the grid get out of here black hawks black hawks

That's I need a black hawk. I didn't get one. All right blue jacket, so go uh

Rick Nash top middle. Okay, Rick Nash top metal

We can do uh Lemieux was an assist guy or just a goals guy or both

Let me you

Fuck

Yager was a duck, right?

Right Yager Yager top left top left or middle or I can see the middle middle left middle left, yeah

Oh, blue jackets wild. I blew the fluino

Right, but Nick Flino was a blue jacket. He's a wild now. He's a wild now. Yeah, Flino Flino. Yeah, you're right

He is a wild bottom middle is a wild now

Flino Nick

Fuligno

Fuck, I can't think of the

Elzado is a duck ranger do it. Yeah, I liked into Delzado recently. He's played for a lot of teams

That might be a name. Should we just do the people assist? I think I think it's got to be the music wait is duck

It's cross me it's cross me far right. Oh cross me cross me is duck ping one not

Crosby no jogger with me cross me. Did we play for the ducks?

I

I swear with why don't we look him up? I thought I did one time and he played for the

Easy one cross me do cross me do cross me we'll save we'll save with for don't do it. Well, I mean let's let's wild

Let's try to

Where's what you mean? Oh this quit to Quinn use have a 50 plus what was the guy who's the name of yeah, Paula

Parisa Parisa is the good was the good one, right? Messier

Pretoperate messier

50 assist a lot. Yes, but then just not come to work anymore. I don't know. I he said let's do

I'm in white boy Rick drink each other under the blue jacket penguin blue jackets penguins um

All right blue jackets penguins. Oh, I should know one

But it's like one of the best rivalries in hockey. So like a lot of people won't play for both

Yeah, oh you don't you don't get somebody to play for the

I think I think you gotta go with your Whitney, right?

Got it. I think Whitney's a is Whitney the best we have right now

Wow, Whitney already placed in the auger anywhere Whitney played for the penguins, right? Yes, I have

I'm like 40% sure he played for the dog. That's enough. Is that enough to go? Yeah, middle left. Yeah. Okay, do Whitney all right

Do Whitney middle left

Ray

There we go

We got to get him a face

Yeah, that's crazy. What gets you the secret live more than live while ducked up

Chase

Is Miranda's ex husband and he's like Messier. He might be sleeping with Jesse

I think we gotta go top right. We got to we got to pull the trigger on something top right

We gotta see we're getting frisky in the club. Messier center, right? Messier was was awesome

Yeah, and he played his best hockey for the Rangers. Did he not? It has to be messier. Yeah, it has to be messier

Show me Messier

There we go. All right

Yes, it's what position is perise

Quint quint used place for the wild correct. Right. Does it happen to be for that team? I

Believe so Brandon the grid

Brandon can't see shit right now

Should we wait was yogur wild duck at all?

Frank. Oh, he could have been I don't know right right wild something funny about a wild duck. He could have been

Anybody have any penguins they some penguins and I'll tell you if they played on the

Chili Willie Latang

Latang

Kessel

Kessel. I don't know

Morgan Freeman. I I don't fucking know as wild copper. Wait. We're right there boys. Mr. Popper. I actually don't know

I don't know all right while while the sis you said the keep mountain hotel. He uses no the pee body

I that's ducks

I don't think you want to play for just put breezy

Bottom right bottom right pretty. Yeah, I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that

You're not fine with it. You're shit. You're

Is it gonna be Quinn Hughes do do well drop a yogur then do you auger bottom left? There you go drop a yogur

Go go back and do you auger drop his joker uh Brandon. I got bad news what

Um

You don't know you're good. Yeah, the auger would have worked. Yeah, good. We got to we got to learn some stuff

Would Jeff Carter have worked for we out middle middle now. We're good. What would have we lost three different ways

Yeah, Jeff Carter

Could have been nice if you spoke up. I was gonna save him. I was gonna save him

Carreel the company's off

What are we gonna save him for you? Why were you saving for the same? What was that? What are you saving for?

I was gonna save him till after we got the wild. I thought I was more confident

Preze for that one than I was with Carter. Prezoves. You can rail out. We'll see you guys Monday. Have a great week and everybody see Monday

That's how balls done love my bucket hat

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