Roger The Engineer’s March Madness Bracket

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All right, so we're going to bring in

hoop head, Roger the engineer shortly.

And he is going to go through his breakdown of his bracket.

You can also participate and go pick your own bracket.

Go to ESPN's men's tournament challenge.

Type in Junkie's bracket in the search bar.

And the Junkie's bracket challenge, 2026 will pop up.

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You can do it that way.

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You can go straight to ESPN as well.

Get your bracket in.

I'm going to get mine in.

I just got mine in.

Make your picks before noon.

That is what makes his picks.

He will make his picks under protest.

We'll submit a bracket.

He doesn't have to participate in it.

If he's against the morality of it, it's okay.

What do they call that?

What do they call that?

You can consciously object.

We might want to try and do some reindeer games too.

If Roger beats any of us.

Come on in Roger.

I don't know that I'm going to blindly just capitulate to that.

It's Roger's job.

Simply at this Roger's long time engineer here.

Probably one of the longest tenured members of the company.

How long have you been with the company Roger?

Over 30 years.

Over 30.

Put your cans on so you can hear your jokes.

He's been there by as long as us.

I can't imagine there are many that are more tenured.

Very few.

I'm sure maybe he said somewhere.

We should have celebrated Roger's 30 years.

We should have celebrated Roger's 30 years.

We should have celebrated Roger's 30 years.

We should have included him in the reads.

Did you start before us or after us?

You wouldn't know that.

I started a way back.

I probably did.

Maybe you were on somewhere else.

You were probably on the year.

No, we were on the year.

Jeff said it when it was in Fairfax.

Right.

We weren't involved with Fairfax yet.

But we were at like BGC over at Durham.

Lanham.

Cook inlet broadcasting.

That's what you do.

What year was that?

That was like 93, 94.

You got us five about two years.

You got us five about two years.

How many pairs of chucks do you own?

Chucks.

That is actually a very good question.

How many pairs?

Oh, two or three.

That's it.

Yeah.

How often do you get rid of them?

Well, they get wear out.

Did they wear out?

Or is it like because they're dirty?

They're dirty.

Hey, Roger, how many teams in the NCAA tournament do you think wear chucks?

The same sort of shoes that you wear to work?

Did you wear them when you played ball?

Right.

I would think maybe a few, you know.

Yeah, yeah, maybe still.

Yeah.

What did you, what kind of, what kind of shoes did you wear when you played basketball?

Just whatever was around.

Whatever was around.

Yeah, nothing special.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

All right.

So we love Roger.

We love having Roger.

Roger.

Roger's like the brain child here behind.

Like anything.

Anything to the brain.

All right.

Are you so tenured at this company that you're just, whenever there's a fire, you have

to, because otherwise there's a lot of just sitting in there and drinking coffee.

I see.

I'm not trying to out you.

But I mean, are you basically just in case of a law or pull Roger?

Right?

In case of emergency pull Roger.

There's times when it, when it really mattered, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, like if there's something like, there's something going up.

Like he's one of the only guys in the company that knows how to go up in the tower and fix it.

Yeah.

Exactly.

He's valuable.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

You can't, even if they said, this guy's just sitting around doing nothing.

We got fire.

He's always, he's always doing something.

Or he can't fire him.

He is the epitome of an essential employee.

Right.

Essential.

Yeah.

30 years of being around radio waves.

Right.

Right.

Like you understand how radio works.

Yeah.

Do you understand?

I just.

Sidebar cider.

Do you understand how TV works?

Because I don't work.

That's incredible to me.

All he does.

Always into TV.

He makes TVs.

How do I sit here and all of a sudden?

Everything's cordless and boom.

Yeah.

How does that even work?

Maybe with the computer or the television?

Anything.

How's the camera work?

I know it.

It's a bit.

How big is the tower?

How big is the tower?

How tall is the tower?

Usually they're like hundreds of feet tall.

Are you, are you scared of heights?

Not too bad.

I mean, depending.

So you have to strap in when you do that.

Yeah.

You do.

You're very safe and conscious.

Yeah.

You have to have.

You're just stealing stuff.

They call it climb a bell.

Right.

Yeah.

Would you, if you had to go up that Dubai, what's that one?

And Dubai?

The top cruise jumped off.

Burj Khalifa?

If you had to climb the Burj Khalifa, that was the Odyssey antenna.

Would you do it?

I'm not so sure.

I'd do that.

That was like 1500 feet or whatever.

Would you do that?

Yeah.

Maybe, maybe not.

You draw one at a couple hundred feet.

Yeah, a few hundred feet.

Do you have the urge to just jump?

No.

I'm saying that because if someone has a fear of heights like me,

you resist that urge.

You feel like an urge to jump.

Right.

Yeah.

You don't have that.

That's good.

Yeah.

I want to gauge his basketball knowledge with something.

I think it's a very basic question.

Yeah.

All right.

On a basketball team, what do you call the player whose primary job is

to handle the ball, distribute the ball to his teammates instead of

shooting himself?

What would you call that player?

What position does he play?

It's just passing.

Right.

Yeah.

He's the lead.

Generally passing the ball.

I'm shooting.

Have you ever.

Have you ever heard of a point guard?

Point guard.

Yeah.

This is what you're guessing.

Bracket talent.

Yeah.

He got to be Roger.

All right.

So we've got it up to beat him.

The junkies.

Bracket challenge.

2026.

You can go to ESPN and search for it.

But we do have a link on Twitter at Junk's radio.

If you click on it.

If you don't beat Roger, you officially don't know ball.

Yeah.

You're not ball, though.

But here's the thing, what I find particularly interesting about this is it's my understanding

based on reading drafts email yesterday that Roger filled out.

We didn't ask him to fill out a bracket.

Is that correct?

No, we did ask him to fill out a bracket.

But he did it all on his own.

Right.

We don't fill out the bracket.

I sat down with Roger yesterday.

Okay.

And I explained to him how the brackets work.

Yeah.

And how the seedings work.

Yeah.

And we went through every game.

And I said, who do you like?

I said Duke or Sienna.

Did you get him seed?

Yeah.

He was able to see the seeding.

Yeah.

I explained to him how there's some upsets.

Right.

Cinderella's.

But usually the higher the seed, the more like or the lower the seed, the more likely they advance.

Have you ever entered an office pool?

No.

Or a family pool?

No, really like the to that level.

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know if you've ever seen a bracket.

This is the first time.

Did you know this is a final game?

Did you know this is a cultural phenomenon?

Oh, yeah.

Well, you watch any of the games.

A few, yeah.

Let me see if he knows how to fake his way through life.

Let me see if he knows arguably the some of the greatest names in college basketball history.

No way.

Okay.

Impossible.

There was a famous coach who coached at UCLA for many, many years and won many championships.

His first name was John.

Do you know who it was?

How about this?

How about John Wooden?

How about it was John Wooden?

He's not going to get it.

John Wooden, you ever heard of John Wooden?

Oh, okay.

Have you ever heard of Bobby Knight?

Maybe.

Do you know where Bobby Knight coached?

Oh, okay.

I heard him.

Is that for a song?

How about John Thompson?

You got to have the town.

Do you ever see a guy who had the town on?

Did you ever name it?

Like a Georgetown?

Like a Georgetown, you have the town on his shoulder.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

I run through the box.

I run through the box.

Georgetown?

blank.

What's their mascot?

Like Washington Redskins.

Yeah.

Georgetown.

blank.

Whatever comes to mind.

Yeah.

Georgetown University.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

You're right.

What's their nickname?

The team's nickname.

You don't know?

Yeah.

All right.

You know, Georgetown Hoyas.

Oh, okay.

You've heard of that, right?

What about Maryland?

No.

There, but you got it.

Yeah.

Okay.

I just want people to know, because I don't want people to think, like, we're having fun

with this, but Roger has his own genius.

Like Roger has his own genius.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I bet you know what I mean?

Like, we all appreciate Roger, because Roger could do something you're noting about.

Roger's mind works differently than ours, because when, when I first introduced the bracket

to him yesterday, after the show, he reversed engineered it.

What do you mean?

It's the first time I've ever seen a bracket filled out that way.

He picked two teams that he liked to advance to the final four.

He just passed them all the way in.

And then just already had them there.

He said, I like this team and this team.

And then reverse engineered it.

That would be a beautiful mind type stuff.

All right.

All right.

I've entered, again, go to Junk's radio on Twitter, and you can enter a Junkies bracket

challenge 2026, or you search for it on ESPN.com.

All right.

How many teams are in the tournament, I believe, Cakes asked before.

I did not ask that, but there's no way he knows that.

You might.

No.

How many toothpicks are on the floor?

You know that?

64.

Yeah.

64 left.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there are four regions.

Do you want to start in the east?

That's fine.

Yeah.

All right.

So who do you have?

Are we going to go through everyone?

No, just jump around.

Whatever looks interesting.

All right.

Dude, look at his bracket.

Dude is the one seat in the east.

Right.

Did you circle the upsets?

No.

Okay.

He doesn't have any crazy picks here.

I mean, he does have my readers.

He does have an 11 and a 7 reaching the regional finals.

You have to.

Yeah.

You have to.

Yeah.

Growing all the way to the final four.

You feel strong about that?

Oh, yeah.

I did.

I seem like it was a likely, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He knows.

He knows.

He knows.

He knows.

He knows.

He knows.

He knows.

That's the way.

No.

I mean, he's got accurate in the split 16.

He's got a lot of shots.

So do I.

Yeah.

A lot of shots too.

Here are some of his first round upsets.

He has high point over Wisconsin.

Okay.

That's 12.5.

That can happen.

Of course.

Right.

He has Troy over Nebraska.

He has Kennesaw State over Gonzaga.

Mm-hmm.

He has.

He has South Florida over Louisville.

I mean, that would be salt in the wound right there for draft.

He has South Florida going on a run.

You know, they're making it all the way to see elite eight.

What was your, is there something about South Florida?

There's not a play or something to be like?

No, he's got South Florida into the sweet second.

No, actually, you're right.

It's fine.

Is there something about there you like their guard play or?

Yeah, just something about you know, they're show up a lot.

You know, where South Florida is?

Yeah.

Tell me about like this way South Florida, like St Peter'sburg,

you know, that stuff or.

My answer is a Florida guy.

He's a Florida guy.

You are a Florida guy, I'm just a Buffalo guy.

You go down the floor a lot?

I have friends in Florida, what part?

It's a long drive down there.

You drive down there these days?

You're a mogul, you own all these places.

From here to Jacksonville, almost 12 hours.

Yeah, right?

You like Jackson, I got friends at Lim and Jacksonville?

Do you guys have to stay there?

He's passed through there.

You do?

Yeah, yeah.

Seven Augustine in there.

Are you a truck guy, do you have a truck?

How about Daytona, you know?

I think he does.

How about Daytona?

Yeah.

I'll split right in some issues, yeah.

It's a misuse.

Crazy spring breakers.

Roger, yep.

Obviously the bike's right.

Bunch of issues.

I've been there for a biker week.

I think the greatest thing.

Roger, explain to the guys why you picked high point over Wisconsin.

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I just kind of thought that the Wisconsin

wasn't really that good.

You know, it wasn't really talked about all that much.

Yeah.

So you have three one-seats.

You're all over it.

You know, it's the right answer.

You have three one-seats in the final four.

The one team that is not a one-seed

you have in the final four is Arkansas.

Can you explain why you have Arkansas coming out of the West?

I don't know.

I can't remember what.

How I came up with that.

He's trying to put something together.

Who let's two teams that he reverse engineered

to the final, so whatever.

What?

Who were the two teams that he immediately gravitated

toward Michigan and Duke?

I mean, how smart they're both.

He might be genius.

He's got Michigan winning it all.

He's got three one-seats on a fourth seed

making the final four.

His bracket is every bit as valid as anyone's on the planet.

His bracket is so live.

What would Roger do if he won the Calgary billion dollars

with a perfect bracket?

If you won a billion dollars, what would you do?

What would I do if the billion dollars, honestly?

I would just do that.

I would just go to go to buy some homes or something.

Yeah.

You want to hold on.

For people who know, like he has a real estate portfolio.

Yeah.

He knows.

I mean, he holds you on.

Currently that you rent out and all that.

Like five.

That's it.

This guy's a love board.

That's so much cash.

Do you keep him up nice?

Well, he's called his love board.

You keep him nice.

Yeah.

Somebody has like a leaky toilet or something.

You make sure it gets better.

He fixes it.

You can put on a bill.

Yeah.

Did they ever try to scam you?

No.

Not really.

Do you think you put a bumper on EV's car?

Yeah.

Could you do that?

Could you do it?

I bet you could.

Are you good with cars?

Yeah.

I like doing cars.

If your bumper looks like a TV, it's a lock.

You could do it.

Because that guy.

If your bumper had a coaxial cable.

And be honest, draft.

Do you want to tell your cheat code?

I think you kind of have a cheat code with Roger.

You have a secret.

You guys have your own relationship.

Right.

Roger and I have a special bond.

But I'm not following.

Don't you have it?

You sometimes traded favors with Roger.

Roger's my handyman.

Yeah.

But he also needs some.

And I help him because I hold the flashlight when he goes

to the radio tower.

Yeah.

I know that.

You actually go up the tower?

No, no, no.

I'll meet him in Winchester.

And I'll go into like the shack and he'll crawl around

on the ground and I'll hold the flashlight.

Right, right.

Tell him what the meter says.

And then you say, but now can you come over?

Yeah.

My shower water pressure is low.

You can fix it.

So he is your guy actually.

He's my handyman.

Yeah.

I can stop by him.

I can stop by him.

I can stop by him.

Yeah.

That's this place.

Oh, he does.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Seriously.

A sincere question.

I'm sorry.

I hate to make this about me.

Yeah.

How long would it take you to put the bumper on?

I have a bumper in my car.

I have a bumper.

I have a big hole in the bumper and embarrassing.

I got to get rid of it.

You would think a baby was within an hour.

You could do that.

See?

He's on top of it.

You could take an old bumper and put a handy one on.

Yeah.

In one hour.

Yeah.

I wouldn't, not taking the old one off.

Yeah.

No, no, no.

You got to take the old one off.

And then throw it somewhere.

I mean, I don't want it anymore.

You could do once you get the rusty bolts out.

The rusty bolts.

Yeah.

That's key.

It's critical.

Yeah.

We got to finish the segment.

Of course.

Yeah, sure.

You could do four hours of a time.

And I can give you, I can give you some of, some of the rationale when we're going through

the bracket.

When I said this or that, A or B, if to Roger's, Roger's pick.

All right.

So we'll do more with college hoops icon Roger the engineer.

We'll do more with him next.

And you can also go to at Junk's radio on Twitter and sign up for the bracket challenge.

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