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Well, we made it through February Andy and we are on to March and thank God this was probably one of the lowest rated weekends

On the sports calendar with through the Olympics

Through the all-star game in the NBA

The combine was going on

grown

We're getting to that in a second

College basketball had a number of really good matchups that turned into blowouts on Saturday

And I still don't give a shit about the NBA

This early before the playoffs. So I don't know. What did you watch this weekend?

Yeah, I flipped around. I watched um, I watched a documentary on Paul McCartney, which was good really

Yeah, cover his expensive divorce the most expensive in world history according to many

Yeah, that that one-legged gold digger

Yeah, what is this prose before hose? You don't think she had a legitimate claim

No, she she was she was awful

This was this actually covered the Beatles break up and then his for into wings

Oh, which which was you know the soundtrack of high school and college for me

I loved wings and my impression was he was the most successful of the Beatles striking out on their own

But in fact, uh, he got a lot of criticism for wings

Uh, it took a long time for them to get the respect that they deserved and he put his wife in the band

who

You know, I'm sure she was well-meaning, but this was the one-legged wife who he'd avoid. No, no, no, no

This wife is the first wife Linda Eastman from the Eastman Kodak

Fortune she passed away

probably in the 80s maybe the 90s the second marriage was the was the author one

Uh, and now I guess he's on his third marriage now, but

It it was it was interesting that that they did struggle. I thought that wings was popular right out of the band

I loved them, but uh, I guess not everybody did what why do you think

That maybe people didn't accept McCartney spinning off of the Beatles because the Beatles were so iconic

That they should have done everything in their power to stay together and nobody wanted to hear

Just one member of the Beatles doing something else without the rest of them

I think the bar had been set so high with the Beatles that uh anything that they did

Would not be considered as good

The other thing is that Yoko Ono gets most of the blame for breaking up the Beatles when in fact it was McCartney

Who wanted to go out on his own and he disappeared for a while which led to those rumors that he was dead

And uh all is dead, right

Yeah, wouldn't there up a song if you played it backwards. Yeah, I think you could hear Paul is dead. Paul is dead

Right

I made the walrus. I am the I am the walrus. I think it was that one that you played it backwards

Also on the Abbey Road uh, where he's the only one barefoot of the four crossing the street like that was supposed to be a

Clute there's a bunch of there's a lot of clues that McCartney's actually dead right now, right right

I wonder the most famous song

For wings was it maybe I'm amazed was that wings? Yeah might be I mean

They they chronicle what their biggest hit was per se

Uh, no, they didn't but the first album was ram which was panned people didn't like ram

Uh, and he then he did uh, he did wing and then he did the wings over america

okay

and uh

There's also the part I didn't I think we

There's a great song

It's a good song

All right, so then he does the wings over america tour right and then he goes to japan and they said this was like

1980 and they said if you go to japan

Make sure you don't take weed

He goes to japan

He took weed they found it in the suitcase they threw him in jail and at the time it was like a seven-year sentence

For that and he's he's in the cell by himself

I guess you only spent one night

But he's thinking because his family was with him and he was thinking my family's gonna grow up on the outskirts of japan

Well, I'm stuck in prison for seven years and then they just released him the next day must have been pressure from the american government

Well, that's uh, that's amazing. I'll have to watch that although

Now the sports world's gonna start ramping up because we're now in the march madness

And so things are gonna start happening fast and furious. I want to talk before we get too far down the road

I did see the 80 Olympics documentary on Netflix and

Holy shit Andy. I was I was damn near cry in five minutes in yeah choke back tears the rest of the way

You know, there is something to be said for the arc of young boys becoming old men

And keeping those memories alive of when they were young

And to have the footage and the images and stuff that they had never seen and the way they filmed it

By putting it up on the big screen at the arena and then

Focusing on their faces and seeing the joy

And the tears well up in their eyes. I mean that is brilliant documentary making right there

It was it was really to well gotten think about this most on what 21 22 years old

There was nothing in their lives. They could ever approach that again

Yeah, Ruzzioni was the smartest one to say. I'm not even gonna try

I'm gonna spend the rest of my life living off of this and he's done incredibly well

What blew me away was a Ruzzioni's boyhood home

Oh my god a three-story monster house outside of Boston that had

26

Family members in it something like that or 14 15 and he was rattling the names off. He's like first floor

He was me my mom my dad

Uncle Janet or I mean Uncle Jimmy

And Janice blah blah blah and he went red tada tada tada tada

Like it was a freaking house for people

Do you know that that is somewhat common in the chisida community?

Very worth it. I choose that you see with the long black

No, no, no, no, that what that living arrangement is similar to how

Hasidic people live that several families live in the same house and the

men go out and make the money for all the families and they all, you know,

kind of live together. It's, uh, yeah, it's not something. I mean, I thought

my house was crowded. I'm the oldest of four.

Yeah, it's nothing. Yeah, it's another. I hope that house is still

standing and hope there's at least a plaque outside that said the great

like Ruzioni and his family grew up there. I also love the story about how one of

his uncles, he went to one of his uncles to say, Hey, I kind of borrow 75 bucks.

I want to sign up for a hockey camp. And the uncle said, sure kid, here you go.

He just got to pay me back. And then Ruzioni is like, when it started snowing,

I was like, okay, we're in business. I can now shovel some, you know,

driveways and make the money back. Got 75 bucks went back to his uncle,

said, here, I want to pay you back. And the uncle said,

now keep it. You learn your lesson. You paid me back. I want you to keep it. Do good boy.

Ends up winning the gold medal and scoring the game winning goal.

Unbelievable. And buddy, he also said that, you know, the book of the puck goes six inches

to the right. No, right. He says he says he's painting bridges for a living.

Now they're naming bridges after him. Right. I also liked that they included sort of the

the the rump and sad footnotes to that whole episode, including like

Steve Janisak, the backup goalie, who didn't play a minute because of Jim

and how he said, look, this is sometimes your role in life is to do whatever is asked of you,

even though, I mean, he was a great goalie in college. He was like, I just want all these awards.

We want to, you know, championship and then I'm on the bench behind Craig, but I did what I

had to do, but he met his wife, who was an interpreter. And he said that, but that Olympics,

even though I didn't play the most important thing in my life, because I met my wife.

And think of her Brooks. This is like a reverse Steve Spurrier who had to have Danny Wurfel

in the NFL. Her Brooks wins a national championship with Janisak as his goalie and chooses the

kid from Boston University to do the job. But that's what it that's what it took. And, you know,

it was sort of sad that they said, you know, after it was done, Brooks never really reconnected

with the team in the months and the years afterwards before he died, because he was just wired in a

way that did not allow for nostalgia. Yeah, well, I think that's the way he coached the team too.

He realized, and for going to win now, you know, what's forgotten is he did not expect in his

wildest dreams to beat the Russians. That was not like how he said out in the Olympics, but he was

he was determined that they were going to make a better showing than they had made in like the

last 20 years. And and he also carried with him. How about his dad? He's the last guy cut from

the 60 team. He sits with his dad, watches the little battle. Dan goes, I guess they took the right

guy. Yeah, it looks like they cut the right guy. I mean, what a savage. Wow. Yeah, but what I

loved is they had footage that I didn't know existed. They had some really high-quality film

stock that was run at a high frame rate. So it was very smooth slow motion of the action.

It was not just that the grainy television copy, which was not very good. So the producers found

some great assets to layer in there. And even though the basic shape of the story is not any

different, the way it was told was beautiful. And the footage was great. And hell of a hell of a

documentary, man. It's a clean x one for sure. Yep, all right. Let's get to some weird stories from

today since everything else was kind of boring. You don't want to talk about your terps losing

in Rutgers for the second time. I watched it. I mean, they were the first half. They were

got off with it. Fourteen. Fourteen. And they got three. Got back in it, but but lost. They're

not very good. And the thing about college basketball is these days, you can be really crappy one

year and really good than x. And then go right back to being crappy. There's no such thing as a

program anymore. So you were quite good last year, Maryland. You they were quite good last year,

Maryland went to the sweet 16. But now they're terrible. Their hope is they'll be good next year

because they got a couple of hot shot recruits coming in. Right. But you don't know. Yeah, you

don't know how you know. And people forget, yeah, Michigan has guys coming in. Michigan state has

guys coming in. Everybody has guys coming in. Who says your guys are going to be better than

their guys? Who says that suddenly you're going to have a culture of, okay, we're a good team again.

Right. Well, you know, Duke, Duke every year, they're they're back in and it's all new guys.

They've been playing the one and done game forever. And Andy, I'm going to put my hand on your

shoulder right now. You're not Duke, buddy. I know they're not. Maryland is not Duke. Okay. That

one time they were competitive. Although, uh, yeah, that one time they were one sort of competitive.

Yes. Well, not not at that one. They're one, they're one on that level. No, they were they for a long

period of time when Gary Williams was a coach, they went to the big 10 from the ACC for money. And,

I knew immediately that football was going to be a problem, which it has been. And basketball,

they've been, they've been competitive. But then everything changed with the NIL and they don't

have that kind of money and they don't, I don't know how they're going to get it either. Football is

a sinkhole for that university because it's just not getting traction and it requires so much money

and you're in such a competitive conference, the big 10. I don't know how they turn around. I also

saw a story about Maryland's athletic department finances and they're going the wrong way. That

year, which actually encompassed last year's basketball season, which was a good one was down from

2024. I can only imagine what this year's number is going to be. It's going to be even worse.

I renewed my season tickets, though. And they sent me to this nice lay out of the stadium. So

at least I got that gone for me. What it looks like an album. You're calling there like a 33

and a third RPM. It says blueprints captured the depth of what we built to last for Maryland fans

and for Terps football. This is your foundation. And they show me where my seats are. You know,

I know nothing. I don't know where my seats are. And so, all right.

That's good. All right, guys. Let's talk about some weird things today. Did you see what happened

in the half marathon world championships in Atlanta? Where would you find that? What channel

that on it popped up on my timeline because here's why it's a story. You ready?

Jess McLean had a sizable lead with just a mile and a half to go. But the lead guide bike

took her and another competitor off course. By the time they realized whoops you've made a wrong turn

even though the official race guide bike was like come this way. It was too late and they then

loop back and they ended up not winning. They of course appealed this. And you know,

the organized was said, yeah, you know, that's a legitimate gripe. We shouldn't have had our

official guide bike take you off course, but hands in the air. Nothing we can do about it.

But ceiling style right from the off start. I mean, that is incredible.

What like what do you think they're actually there's some people in the comments that said,

well, as a competitor, it's your job to know the course. And I'm thinking, man, that would be hard

to do. If you're leading the race, the guide bike is taking you one way. And you're like, I'm pretty

sure the course goes left on Elm and then we finish down main street to the to the tape. You sure

we go on the right way. Reminds me of other marathon such screw ups, such as the Rosie Ruiz taking

the subway in New York one year to cheat. I think that was was a New Yorker Boston. Was it

Boston? I might have been raised was the sub was the subway marathon cheater, correct? Exactly.

Yeah, she cheated and she became known as a Rosie Ruiz. Like that was like a became a way of doing

things like a shorthand, you know, a ball of Rosie Ruiz. And then there is this. Maybe it was an

accident. I would tend to doubt it. This was in the Yukon UMass hockey game over time, two minutes

to go. And here's a two on one coming up. This game is at UMass, two on one coming up for Yukon.

And the lights go out. That's really unfortunate for the Huskies. Yeah, you think.

You think that was done on purpose? No, you don't. I just have faith in humanity that someone

someone wouldn't do that. I like to think the best of people. Maybe you don't appreciate the

depths of the rivalry between Yukon and UMass when it comes to hockey in child, child territory

being caught. Is that what they do every year being caught? Yeah. All right, let's talk

combine. The combine is going the way it looks like of the pro bowl. Participation numbers by

the players continues to plummet in some events and some categories. It's almost half of what it

was before. Also, the number one number one pick presumed that would be Fernando Mendoza did not

throw because nothing could help his stock at this point. So he said, I'm just not going to throw.

The guys that did throw his quarterbacks were all guys trying to fluff up their stock like Carson

Beck, who was booed by the way by Indiana fans at the combine. What a sickle you are to be booing

somebody at the NFL combine for God's sakes. Well, wait, back up. What a sickle you are to be in

these stands at the combine. How much of a geek do you have to be to do that? Yeah, absolutely,

right. So there is also from the combine, Aaron Glenn of the Jets falling asleep on the camera.

It's so Jets. I mean, this is like it's one of these things where you don't blame them, right?

Because it's a boring thing that is done. I believe Mike Sherman, who was then the GM and the coach

of the Packers was caught quickly dozing off. And it was talked about for a long time. It's

completely unfair. But then again, when you are Aaron Glenn, and you've had the season you've had,

there he is right here. And if he projects his Aaron Glenn looks out for the Jets,

get out quickly. You know, like somebody must have tapped him on the leg or said something. This was

a long camera shot from somewhere on the concourse. Some director for the NFL network did him dirty

because they probably had an ISO cam on Glem Glenn for a while. They're like, just hold it,

hold it, think he's about to doze off. I think he's about to doze off.

Okay, right now take camera to roll camera to got him. What do you think?

He prospects his Aaron Glenn looks on for the Jets. Fernando Mendoza, one,

Jeremy will also see on screen.

The sports radio version of that was Mike Francesca falling asleep during a

sweetie, murdy report on the Yankees some years ago. Not only did he fall asleep, but he then

angrily denied it. And then after the denials became too hard to sort of sustain, he then

excused by saying, I was up all night with my sick kid. Yeah. And that's why I fell asleep.

That's Mike. Okay. I have fallen asleep on the air. Have you? I don't think so. Okay.

I fell asleep on an overnight shift on. Yeah. I have a young radio. I haven't done many.

It was like five hour stretch that they're doing. And it was up there in Bristol.

Crepe B.S. Bristol, the ESPN radio studio was so pathetic. I worked out of that. Yeah.

You remember that? It was like a closet, truly closet. Yeah. Oh, well, they they designed it.

They would take the TV people designed it. So you couldn't see the producer, at least the

in the original one. I think they changed it. But they they thought it worked like a television

studio. You know, like they're down the hall. No, it doesn't work that way. Yeah. But it was

overnight. It's five hour shift. And I remember falling asleep briefly. And it's a it's quite the

shock and it's quite terrifying to then wake up and go, oh my god, I'm on the air. And I don't quite

know what my last sentence was. So I need to maybe pick it up with something generic, I guess.

But you don't think you've ever fallen asleep on the air. That was probably the days before

Twitter when you did that, right? Way before 99. Yeah. So so nowadays, if you did that,

there would be tweets. Hey, I'm listening to this guy's statement overnight on ESPN. Yeah,

I think he just fell asleep. I don't even know if there would be tweets about it.

These somebody, but they were not running video, by the way, either. Because I don't think YouTube

really became a thing till 2006. I want to say. So yeah. So anyway, the combine is kind of dying.

Is it useful in any way? I don't know. You know, remember Maurice Claret, the guy from Ohio State

and he tried to sue to get into the NFL early and didn't. Two years. He went to the combine.

He didn't even finish the 40. And word was out there. He was having problems. He was carrying around

his own water bottle. Yeah, yeah. And Mike Shanahan still took him in the third round.

Now, I had to cut him before the season opened. But even with this, what he saw in the Emmy

combine and probably the rumors flying, he still took a chance on him in the third round didn't

didn't work out. Well, to me, there's some people that really believe in the interviews as having

value of the combine and I laugh. And I said, you know, these guys are coached up on it. You know,

who also ace the interview was Johnny Manzell. Yeah. So that didn't really help at all. And I remember

Mark Sanchez, who by the way, according to prosecutors was having all kinds of drugs.

When he was arrested and stabbed in self-defense by the truck driver that he nearly beat to death

with his bare hands, including fentanyl was in his system. Oh my God. Mark Sanchez, I remember

Steve Young said he was almost presidential in his handling of the interviews. And I'm like,

who cares? Like you, you're not going to get any good intel out of that. Also, if you run a

slightly slow 40 time and you're a wide receiver, sometimes they'll say, well, wait a minute,

we'll see what he does is pro day and also the hand timer might have been a little bit slow on it

because Carnell Tate of Ohio State ran like a four five something 40. And then they're like, well,

we went back and looked on tape and it was actually a bit faster than that. And so somebody pointed

out the combine was supposed to be the one event where you could get everybody together and get

concrete non-biased data. And now it's become well, as soon as it's done, there's going to be people

going, ah, actually is a little faster than that or his arm length is a little bit longer than

that. Did you see the Reuben Bane junior? Oh, yeah. That's a great thing. He could wind up with

the commanders. And I hope he does. He looks like God, that'd be fantastic. But his arms are two

inches shorter than Aaron Donald, who works all world all pro straight to Canton. Two inches. You're

telling me this is going to make a meaningful difference in whether a pass rusher can be good in

the NFL. I'm not fucking buying it. Doesn't Joe Burrow have small hands? Doesn't seem to be a problem.

I don't know if he does or not. The hand thing is also a bit dubious if you ask me.

You know, it amazed me. I watched just I just flipped over during like the half-time or something

the Maryland game to see what was going on in the combine. I'm seeing three hundred and forty

pound lineman run four four nine. Yeah. If I'm not mistaken, Jerry Rice's time was four seven.

It's so, you know, oh, he can't take a wide receiver runs a four seven. Oh, no. I can't do that.

Also, I guess Carnell Tate measured out at six foot two even and they thought he was a little bigger.

He might have been listed at six three and something. Somebody made the point of, you know,

who else was a little bit smaller and ran a kind of slow-ish 40. Pukinakua. He turned out pretty

fucking good. He's probably the best receiver in the NFL. Pukinakua was like a fourth round draft

pick. It's all still guesswork. I think I could do if I was an NFL person, I could do as well

with three things. Three things only instead of any of this combine stuff. You ready? Game film,

obviously, one, two social media just looking at this kid's social media and getting a sense for

who he is. And the third thing would just be medicals. Just make sure he doesn't have a trick

knee. That's like, off of those three data points, I do as well as all this other stuff.

Probably you know the name Mike Mahmula. Mike Mahmula was the first workout warrior. And he spent his

time at from the end of his season to the combine working on the combine drills. And he crushed him

and he was like a mid first round pick and at a three or four year career. You know who else

crushed the combine drills, although it wasn't other combine as a pro day is Adam Marcioletta.

Adam Marcioletta tweeted over the weekend, Andy, that he had dedicated himself to becoming faster

because that's what he was told. And I just wasn't fast enough and he trained and trained and trained

and trained and trained. And he was a pretty good safety at Arizona State. The workout stuff blew

people away and it up being picked in the first round late first by the Rams. He was a good player

with the Rams, but nothing special played five years. And then Danny Boyd bought him for way too

much money. And you and I were sitting there like every Redskin fan going, is he ever going to play

and we had Gibbs on once a week and we kept dragging Gibbs saying, so are Chaletta?

Is he going to play it all? He said at one point he said, he's in there. He's on the putt protection

team. He's in packages. That was that was a classic Danny move. He was going to go to Chicago

because Lovey Smith had been the defensive coordinator with the Rams and he got the head coaching

job in Chicago. And he said to his agent, oh yeah, I want to play with Lovey. And he says, okay,

do me a favor before you go meet with the Bears, just make a stop in Washington. Bears were

going to pay him six million. Danny gave them 10. So, you know, what do you know? He was like,

don't let him get off the plane because that was winning for Danny. Yeah. Yeah. Danny was outspending

people. So therefore they couldn't have him. Yeah. Yeah. And he didn't understand anything about

the cap or anything. He was just a kid with a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah. Also apparently Diego

Pavia, who is a great a jackass, is allegedly getting advice from Johnny Manzel. That's his

idol. But I would say this, I know, I know he was a complete jackass with when he didn't get the

Heisman. But I watched three or four of his games and there's something there. Man, somebody,

I don't know if he's a quarterback. I don't know what he is. Maybe he's like a guy who comes in

on certain situations. But man, is he a competitor? He refuses to lose. Yeah. But he doesn't

rip and he probably can't play within schedule. He probably didn't have the accuracy to be in the

NFL. The NFL game at quarterback is a two point second, two point seven second, read it and deliver it

up a net's ass with accuracy passing game. That's understand pro game. Understand. But Manzel didn't

flame out because he didn't uptown. That wasn't the reason he watched out of the league. Well,

he was a drug addict. Right. You didn't like it when I said that plainly on the air because

I didn't have like certified proof that he was a drug addict. You thought we were going to get,

you must have thought we were going to get sued because I had an opinion that he was a drug.

No, I didn't. You didn't say it was an opinion. You stated it as fact. Well, they had the photo

of him with the rolled up 20 doing lines of coke in the bathroom. Yeah. That's evidence. But,

you know, it's not, uh, way, way, um, if Johnny Manzel is giving him good advice, like, hey,

don't throw your chances away like I did, then maybe it's not the worst guy to give the advice,

although I'm a little bit skeptical about that. Somebody tweeted, this would be like if Cam

Scataboo got advice from OJ Simpson, my god. Oh my god. That's pretty brutal. Okay. So on the NFL

front, now we're going to enter the free agency period. We're going to enter the period where teams

start declaring, yeah, we're going to cut this guy. We're going to cut that guy. There are going

to be a number of really, formally expensive high profile quarterbacks out there that could be

got. And it's going to be fascinating to see who decides to get in the business of each of these

guys, like Kyla Murray, like to a tongue of Iowa. Kirk is going to shake free in Atlanta. Uh,

it looks like, uh, you know, Vegas is going to get rid of GNO Smith. Guys going to be out there.

And apparently the Vikings are getting out of the J.J. McCarthy business. All right. Are they sure

about that? Cause he's still on the rookie deal. Well, their GM said last week, they're like, yeah,

he's, he's, we're, we're not looking to store. We need to take a step back.

I think, I think that Sam, this, this, what happens in the league is something happens,

and then everybody copies it. So there's the feeling that one of these guys will resurface like

Sam Arnold. Right. So take him in for a year. Let him be your backup. And then, and Kyle Shanahan

has become kind of like what Nick Sabin was for coaches quarterbacks go in there. They don't have

to play. They just kind of resuscitate their career. So it could happen. Yeah. I think there's

going to be some definite reaches of, hey, we can do it. I get the, the, the, the, uh, boyfriend,

I can fix her. Yeah. I can fix too. I can feel changed for me. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Um,

yeah, Kurt Cousins, by the way, four year, hundred and eighty million dollar deal. And as soon,

with the, before the ink was even dry, the Falcon said, hey, we should take another franchise

quarterback. Eighth overall in panic. So he's had three knee surgeries. And he's currently coming

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greatly with, you know, fourth quarter, empty calories. And the team is down big. But he's

had a better career than many quarterbacks. So he's had a great career. And he's made a, uh,

taught the money that, uh, by setting on a self, basically stepping away. Yeah. Yeah. Just because

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CEO that's gone viral? Yeah. Talking about the big arch sandwich and whether or not people believe,

like this guy somehow this actually I want to play this year. Somehow this actually got approved

by the marketing department. I guess it's because in a big company like that, no one is going to

say no, right? They're all going to be yes men. Yes women. McDonald's CEO Chris Kempzinski

was on camera to say, mm-hmm, this new sandwich we got, the big arch. We have tested already

and Portugal, Germany, Canada. I love this product. It is so good. I'm going to do a tasting

right now. By the way, calling your food a product also a little bit weird and cream, but I'm

going to eat this for my lunch just so you know. So first of all, why does he have to say I'm going

to eat it for my lunch? That's what you do. You should eat the food that your restaurants serve.

Here we go. First, holy cow. God. Oh my God. Look at that thing right there. You've got a very

unique kind of sesame poppy sort of bun on it. We've got two order pound patties, a delicious

big arch sauce and of course some lettuce. So oh, there's so much going on with this. First,

well, let's try to get this thing. I don't even know how to attack it. Got so much to it. Oh,

there's also some crispy onions on here as well. I see those kind of coming out. All right.

The burger. Stop filibustering. Eat the burger. Moment of truth.

To go supermodel-sized bite. El McPherson would have had a big job. That is a big bite for a big

arch. No, no, that's not a big bite. No. It's not. You got to get yourself one of those

linemen, those 350 pound linemen. They're used to that. I think the best burger I'd ever

was Verlander's wife for Carl's Jr. The big juicy burger. She was like in a bikini just

housing a cheeseburger. We don't want to see your nerdy ass CEO pretending to like the product.

Give us a hot babe in a bikini, chowin' down. Look at this. It's got two patties on it.

Who does that? It's like, you know, oh, it looks like a pretty good burger. That's okay.

All right. They're like nine bucks, too. They're not cheap. I know. They're not. Nothing's cheap

these days. Speaking of eating and you being a noted fat shamer Andy, because you are, you are.

It's okay. It's your way of motivating, you know. Did you see Demi Moore at the

fashion show in Milan? I did not. Okay. Are you, were you a fan? Are you a fan of her overall look

and vibe? She, to me, was one of the hottest women in Hollywood for a long time. I thought she

was very attractive. Yes. Okay. Quite pleasing to the eye. Yeah. All right. I'm

she much younger than I am, but yes. Okay. I want to, I want to show you a picture of just

how skinny she is now. Also, did you see Kelly Osborne, who has gone viral from this? That's

unbelievable. That's sad. That looks like anorexia. Well, that looks awful. It's not. It's

interface. That's part of the thing that's, you know, and everyone's saying that it's all because

of ozempic overdose, basically, in Hollywood, that these Hollywood sluper superstars are taking

ozempic, manjaro. What are the other drug, different names for the same basic drug?

You wouldn't know. You're naturally skinny. There she is right there. And he, oh my.

Yeah. She, that's I think she's anorexia.

Looks terrible. She's not good. It doesn't look healthy. There, there, there are thin women who

look healthy. She does not look healthy. No, that's not. You, you look good. A number of people have

commented as I've posted these viral clips of the podcast. They're like, wow, I pictured

Andy to be a lot older. You look somebody said like Wilford Brimley. My God. You're

out of here. You'd have to be old to remember Wilford Brimley. And when Wilford Brimley was around,

he was really old and fat and had this big push broom bus stash. Yeah, I don't, I wouldn't think

that. But, you know, maybe people think I sound that old. I don't know. Maybe it's because your

attitude skews older. You're likely to skews closer to 80. So when they see you, they're like,

wow, he's a lot younger. You know, you do sort of have a doppelganger. It's not, it's not the best

doppelganger. I don't know. It's told you that. Who is it? Who? Well, it's a guy who, uh, let's

just put it this way. Almost probably surely did not kill himself. Who's saying? Who's, you know,

like, he died in prison, but nobody really believes he committed suicide. Oh, you see,

I look like Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, my God. Listen, I'm just saying, Andy, there is that the

thin gray beard with a little bit of dark in it. Uh, just, I'm overall, the overall look,

it's, I noticed I was like, Oh, damn. Well, I don't notice that now. Well, I have, I hopefully have

other than maybe partial facial resemblance. I would hope to God that I have no other similarities

to that guy. Of course not. You know what I say? All you Jewish guys look alike. Yeah, that's

right. Yeah. Muzzle, Muzzle. Me and, me and Murray, the cop from the odd couple we look at like,

right? All right. Murray, right. Yeah. So just to end here, it's been one full week now.

And I think I hope that the whole USA men's hockey and the state of the union, non-traverse

has come to an end finally, because it just didn't need to be this way. These men and women should

be celebrated fully, talk about their exploits that became pretty much a political food fight from

the usual suspects online. Last night, Saturday night, Saturday night, the host was this guy who

plays a gay hockey player on an HBO series. And so he was the host and he brought up two of the women,

Hillary Knight and forget the other gal. And they, they capped off, I think, the whole week was,

this was a good way to kind of end it with a little wink and a nod to who got invited wear and

talk. I mean, both of us mean just one of the goals. Okay. The last time the men did that was 46

years ago. And the last time we did that was two whole Olympics ago.

Nice turn. But these gold medals aren't just for us. They're for all hockey fans. Yours too. Oh,

so can I try one on? No. All right. Come in. Let's add to you the last

final word. By the way, I should ask you what happened after the whole medal of one.

The, the thing I want to ask you, you, you, your brothers older than you, right?

I'm sorry. Hold on. Hold on. Yeah. Did you have any final thoughts?

I just, I just was on the hockey. It occurred to me that I should have mentioned last week.

Your brother, he's older than you, right? Yeah. Two years older.

Did you share a room at any point? No, never shared a room. Okay, because that was one of the cool

parts about him talking, you know, about sleeping in the same room, I guess, with his brother,

the night before the, the championship game. And each of them was talking about the scenario

of scoring the game winning goal. I thought that was so cool. Like, I, I have a friend who's,

he slept in the same room with his, with his older brother. And I'm sure those, those kind of

conversations, you know, probably took place. That was really one of the cool moments of the

old thing for me. Yeah. All right. Well, that's put it to rest and let's keep the focus on the

athletes and their amazing performances. And that's what really matters. But Olympics always

get politicized. It's, it's, it's inevitable. It's just the way things are. And the problem is,

we don't really have a neutral place, you know, to, to celebrate national athletic heroes.

Even SNL, let's be honest, they're not neutral. At least it was a funny little lighthearted way.

Also, do you notice the check use hasn't fixed his tooth yet? I know. I'm wondering if, if that

is a moneymaker for him now. It's got to be some commercials to be made, right? I mean,

I think, yeah, once he fixes it, a large part of his instant, I see him in the airport fame,

goes away. Yeah. But I'd imagine there's got to be some damage and you don't want to roll around

with it, a open half tooth like that. No, but, but, but, but wouldn't look at Michael Strayhand. I

mean, it hasn't heard his career that he's got that big gap, has it? No, and it's now, it's now a

thing. And I think there was a woman that also a famous model that had a bar, right? That, yeah,

Lauren Hutton. Lauren Hutton was one and Cindy Crawford never got rid of her mole. So there's

that jewel never got rid of her little snaggle tooth that she could have all these years. So

if you got a hook, go with it. That's right. Andy is always a pleasure. We are through the

doldrums of winter. It is up, up and away from here. We are closing in two weeks from last night

selection Sunday. And the jogging has already begun. Bruce Pearl on TNT, Lobby and for his son,

Stephen, who's currently driving the Auburn Tigers into the ditch this year after he was handed

the team, saying, you know, these small schools like Miami Ohio, they lose a game. We can't have

two bids from the Mac, you know, we got other worthy teams like Auburn. Right. Remember when St.

Joe's got a first number one seed and Billy Packer took off on them and they they screened back

out of them. Shut up. Exactly. And didn't they make a run that year after I think they did. I don't

think they made the final four, but I think they went pretty deep and good run. And I remember

when Maryland won the ACC tournament in 2004, Billy Packer, who was doing that also for like

whatever was Jefferson Pilot, said, oh, yeah, they're going to have to make a deep run to make

the tournament and Gary got ripshit mad and then won the tournament and then basically take that

delete. Two weeks from yesterday's selection Sunday, 26 days away from Zay Vegas, 2026 will be

at the MGM Grand for the sweet 16 Thursday and Friday, Papa Shot contest, hopefully a little

live podcast. We got Mr. X coming out, charges coming out. My man, Armand Sarian is coming out

from Milwaukee. Nokia said he'll be there if Virginia is not in the sweet 16 because his daughter

is the director of basketball ops for the hoos on the men's side. So he's like, if they're in the

sweet 16, I got to be there. Otherwise, I'll be out there. It'll be grand time. He's going

information on it. Just email me, Zay vidyahoo.com, and I'll let you know how you can be part of the

festivities. Maybe next year I'll bring Andy back because he was on one of these many years ago.

We had a great time. I enjoyed it very much. No, it was great. So yeah, I got yelled at by Bobby

Knight. We got to meet Billy Packer. It was a great time. It was fun. We had a room, a special room

that had to watch and gamble. It was fun. I know. Vegas ain't the same though, Andy.

It's changed a lot in 15 years. That was probably the last time you were in Vegas.

Yeah, probably. All right. All right, Andy. Good to talk as always, my friend. We'll catch you next time.

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