Junkies 2026 Bracket Challenge

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Roger's feature team

Roger the Dodger

Roger he's got three ones in final four

His bracket, his every bit is valid, is anyone's on the planet

Now he does have two double digit seeds making it to the Elite Eight

This is all I could buy

This is all I could buy

He also has VCU making it all the way to take on Florida

That would be awesome

That would be awesome

Then Roger's going to take this whole thing down

I bet you there'll be two double digit seeds in the Elite Eight

You would bet that?

Two out of 16 teams?

The Elite Eight is my mouth right?

Yeah, that's it

I bet that's it

Don't pay attention to JP's bracket

I have a broad attention to Roger

He's around off

So we move seeds so that people that are watching our YouTube stream they can check out and see Roger

Right?

Are you comfortable there?

Yeah, yeah

What were you going to say, Dre?

In this room, before we saw his bracket build out, Valdeez and I were talking punishment

Because we thought it would be laughable if we lost a Roger on his bracket

Yeah

Now we're sweating a little bit

Because, you know, we're trying to come up with ideas, you guys probably won't be on it

But how to punish ourselves if we don't be Roger

But you're going to have your own little bit amongst yourselves

What's getting off?

Valdeez is going to be a workshop

He wants a Roger to solder me

I was going to take a soldering iron to our nipples

Oh my God

That's pretty

You are a school of old school radio

You are a student of old school radio

I actually think it's going to be tough to beat him

Three ones in the Final Four

I can't remember who it was

Maybe Seth Greenberg and his fan had four ones

Yeah

In the Final Four

So that's where you get all the points

I don't know

We were also kicking around

Wearing size 30 jeans for a day

How did you even do that?

You just had to wear them the way Roger went

That's a unique style

That's a funny thing

I can ask you a question, Roger

Listen

In fact, yesterday I had to apologize to one of the PGC hosts

Because my pants were falling down at sweatpants

You had to string under sweatpants

And my wallet, my phone

And my string came undone

And literally my pants were falling down

I was like showing like half butt

And I'm getting coffee in my hands

But I said, I apologize

I had underwear

But I said, I apologize

You look like Dodger

My pants are falling down

No, here's the thing

His pants are always

The shirt is always tucked in

How do you do that?

How do you keep it?

Because you wear your pants I would say

On average, extremely low

You kind of wear them below the cheeks

That's how I would describe it

How do you keep the shirt

And tucked in at all times

Do you have the pen?

Did your wife pin it or something?

That's a belt

That's it?

It never gets undone

For the most part

No, no

And he has a magic gift

He defies physics

He defies physics

He defies science

He defies science

He just got a little wrist

Look, he's got a gold chain

Yeah

Where'd you get that?

Let me see that gold chain

Yeah, he's got, he's got some wrist

Dude, he's got a wife of kids

How many kids do you have?

How many kids Roger?

How many kids Roger?

You got one?

One

Yeah

What's his name or her name?

I guess

Rochelle

Girl

You have great kids, right?

Yeah

How many great kids?

There's two

Two

Yeah

Yeah

We have Paul Roger

Paul Roger, the engineer

How are they?

They're once three years old

Are they stud athletes?

Like was your daughter stud athlete?

Not really

No, no

No, no

No, no, no

That's okay

Working

I'm just asking

Just regular day jobs and stuff

Yeah, yeah, yeah

All right

Regular day jobs

Dude, you're in your final four

Is this my gone for sure?

Yeah

One more coaching question for you

If I said there was a coach at Duke

Who won a bunch of championships

And you have Duke in the final four

I think you have Duke in the championship game

Against Michigan

It's a lot of places

Yeah

It's coach

And then there's a letter

It's a letter after J

It's coach

Palm the black

Dude, he didn't know Georgetown Williams

Yeah

He's not going to get that

He was told instead of that

That's a letter after J

Is that a big name?

It's coach K

It's the coach K, right?

Okay, this sounds vaguely familiar

vaguely familiar

Yeah, I would say

Because he knows more about the bills

He knows like Josh Allen

He does know a little

He does know

Yeah, a big marvelous leavey guy

Yeah

I do I do

I mean, you do know some bills

They might all be current

But you do know something

Would it be safe to say

He said to say you're basing on a college hoops guy.

Is that safe to say you're not really a big college hoops guy?

No, right.

Okay.

Roger, Roger, do you know where Duke is?

What's stated's in?

Carolina.

There?

Okay.

Roger's reasoning for taking high point over Wisconsin is because it's in North Carolina.

That's what he's told me.

He's a thing for North Carolina.

Just familiar.

Basketball hot bed.

Well, he's familiar with it.

That's for what?

That's high point over Wisconsin.

Yeah.

His rationale for taking Villanova over Utah State was, quote, it's local.

You said Philadelphia.

It's more local.

You said Philadelphia.

It's more local.

It's more local.

Yeah.

But again, what's that?

Do you know where Villanova is?

Where's Villanova?

It's Philly area.

Yeah.

He knows his cock.

Dude, he might.

He knows the college.

He might beat me in what?

Hey, we'll case.

Colleges.

We'll case get in on the punishments.

Huh?

We'll case get in on the punishments.

Where?

30 jeans down by my knees.

I couldn't.

I couldn't get a size 30 on one leg.

I mean, I can't get a tattoo.

Or no, no, no.

Or if we do the solder.

Or another suggestion was.

I'm not getting my nipples.

I'm not doing that.

Or a dollar suggestion was a low electric pulse that you have to shock.

So I get tazered?

Basically.

Low voltage.

Low voltage shock.

Roger could set that up in a couple minutes.

Yeah.

Like, 400 volt shock.

Yeah.

See, he does no volt.

No, no, no.

I'm out on that.

Do you know where St. John's is?

I think we found his wheelhouse.

Do you know where St. John's is?

St. John's College?

If you had to guess.

No, I can't remember it.

St. John's is me.

Sounds.

Sounds like college.

Yeah, I just said he's going to beat me in nowhere.

We're college.

That's it.

That's in New York.

Sounds.

Yeah.

Sounds familiar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just trying to find his area of expertise.

Okay.

So do you feel good about your bracket?

Pretty much.

Yeah.

Do you think you will beat all of the junkies?

And our producers?

Not necessarily.

He does strike me as a cocky guy.

This is a good shot.

Yeah.

I think he has a good shot.

Do you know without looking at it.

Do you know who you picked to win it all?

Well, yeah.

This is Michigan and the West.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why were you high on Michigan?

Were you high on Michigan because Valdeez was kind of telling you, hey, they're one of the

one-seas.

Some people think they're the best team in the country.

Well, it was Arkansas in there.

You know.

And it's still too, you know, like they're going to go anywhere.

Right.

You don't really have a vibe on Arkansas, right?

It's it's.

Yeah.

I mean, you don't remember.

No, you don't remember Nolan Richards in it.

It's 30 minutes or four minutes.

It's a hell of a hell.

Yeah.

Well, you'd be watching the games today.

Watch the games today.

Yeah, good.

You know, he's like, he'll be here.

He could watch him in the break room.

He's gonna go to tap and be mentioned,

Finlay.

Oh, great.

Yeah.

Does he actually have to engineer that?

We might send him over there.

Yeah.

All right.

What was the last, what was the last engineering disaster

that you had to do here?

Like what was the last thing you had to do to save the day?

The biggest disaster here was,

it was the loss of a power supply or UPS power supply

that took down everything.

It took down, what?

It took down a lot of FM stations.

Including this one?

I believe it did, you know, at one point.

Is this, is this station a poop show?

Yeah.

Like, do you think it's the end?

I don't know.

I always be okay.

Yeah.

You like our signal?

How's our signal?

Signal's okay.

Yeah.

It's too restricted.

But it's, it's okay though.

Yeah, it's a good, it's a good high level signal.

Roger sent an all company email a couple of weeks ago,

but it said, um, congratulations to Karina,

who got nominated for top DJ.

And he said, Karina's a top star, make radio grade again.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I think Roger, are you a big Karina fan?

Well Karina's making radio grade again, right?

What about the jokes?

Are you a fan of the jokes?

Sure.

Yeah.

He's a believer in talk radio.

Roger has radio, he's, he's a little questionable about.

What?

He likes talk radio, the future of talk radio.

He thinks.

He's questionable, what do you mean his tastes?

No, like the formats.

Oh.

Which formats do you think, in other words,

you think there are certain formats that will not survive?

Probably.

And there's like, you know, the couple that will survive

is the news talk in the sports.

Right.

You think they're going to go.

Do you think our future's okay?

Yeah.

We're pretty much, people are always going to gravitate

to it.

Yeah.

But what about like, what about the jokes?

Yeah.

What do you think about this show?

This show is going to, this show is going to keep going

for a while.

What do you think is the appeal of this show?

Why do you think people might like this show?

Because there's, you know, there's so many different things

talked about, you know, the what's coming up

and they can call in and talk to you guys.

Do you think there's a lot of you guys that were likeable

for people?

Yeah.

Do you think we have likeable personas

or do people like to hate us?

Well, you got that in between thing going.

You have a lot of people love you guys.

And then they, they always hate.

Who do you think they do?

It's love hate.

Yeah.

Do you think they hate the most?

Do you have that guess?

No.

Really?

I don't really know about that.

Do you think most people hate cats the most?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

So where do you want to go?

So people should they call in or just go ahead and start

entering the brackets.

Is that the idea?

You can go to the junk's Twitter, the link is up there

or just sign up to the ESPN bracket challenge

and in the search bar type in junkies bracket.

And it will pop right up.

Yeah.

Okay.

You'll see it.

Easy to do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I like your bracket.

I think it's your brackets.

Literally every bit as well.

Well, you feel awful if Roger beats you.

No.

Not really.

He's got a little bit of shit.

I would feel awful.

I would feel awful if he's got a bunch of 10 seeds in the box.

Yeah.

But I was perfectly reasonable.

I mean, it's got three ones.

Yeah.

I don't know how the hell he got there.

But he got there with a reasonable one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He said he reverse engineered it.

And you didn't coach him up.

No, no, no, no, no.

I went down the entire matchups.

Yeah.

And then like he has Duke against St. Johns.

I said, do you think Duke will win?

Or do you think St. Johns will win?

Yeah.

And he hammed an odd.

Right.

And was looking at me for some help.

And he would just go Duke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what everybody does.

That's literally like everybody else.

That's what everybody does.

Give us some thought.

Yeah.

You gave us some thought.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I just thought.

You like I heard a duke.

It was to, hey, this is John Rothstein,

the host of Inside College Basketball.

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A sports bar and asked probably a hundred people

named five college basketball players,

they might struggle.

That's the state of college basketball now.

So different.

Sure.

For sure.

Yeah.

I mean, we talked about it before,

but that it feels like it was 10 years ago

when Derek Queen and those guys made their run.

That was just last year, it was just crazy.

Feels like a decade.

My Roger well, best, well, not best of luck.

Thanks, Rod.

Pretty good luck to you because we don't want a bunch.

You beating a bunch of us and or the listeners,

but we'll see how your bracket fairs.

You got three ones.

He will be a lot of people getting to the end.

Roger has picked Duke, Florida, Arkansas,

and Michigan as his final four.

He has Michigan winning it all in Indianapolis.

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