Friday Winners With Stanford Steve, Recapping Day 1 Of March Madness, Bonus Mt Rushmore Of March Madness Things + Fyre Fest Of The Week Including Possible Severance Spoilers (We Haven't Seen The Finale Yet)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Pardon My Take – "Friday Winners With Stanford Steve, Recapping Day 1 Of March Madness, Bonus Mt Rushmore Of March Madness Things + Fyre Fest Of The Week Including Possible Severance Spoilers" (Release Date: March 21, 2025)

Hosts: Big Cat, PFT Commenter, Hank, Max
Guest: Stanford Steve

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1. Introduction

In this episode of "Pardon My Take," hosted by Big Cat and PFT Commenter from Barstool Sports, the team delves into the thrilling first day of March Madness. Joined by their knowledgeable friend Stanford Steve, they break down key games, surprising upsets, and share their picks for the upcoming Friday matches. Additionally, they explore a bonus segment featuring their personal take on the upcoming "Severance" finale, ensuring no spoilers for listeners who haven't caught up yet.

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2. March Madness Day 1 Recap

2.1. Key Upsets and Surprising Outcomes

• McNeese State’s Upset Victory: McNeese State, a 7.5-point underdog, caused a stir by defeating Purdue in a thrilling 125% matchup.

  Big Cat [03:21]: "McNeese madness. Will Wade Madness."

• Drake’s Resilience: After a shaky start, Drake overcame a potential meltdown to secure a win against Mizzou, surprising many fans.

• Arkansas vs. Kansas: Arkansas showcased stellar rebounding and defensive turnovers to best Kansas, ending Hunter Dickinson’s tenure with the Jayhawks.

  PFT Commenter [07:32]: "Kansas is done. They just weren't built for a long run again."

• St. John's Dominates Omaha: St. John’s employed aggressive defense, constantly pressuring Omaha and capitalizing on second-chance points.

  Big Cat [09:24]: "St. John's kicked the shit out of Omaha in second chance points."

2.2. Coaching Changes and Transparency

• Will Wade’s Move to NC State: Will Wade’s transparent approach about his coaching transition stirred discussions. Former Clemson alum Wade openly communicated his intentions to Michigan State (NCC), aiming to bring his team to new heights.

  PFT Commenter [04:19]: "Will Wade is being honest about his move, which is refreshing compared to typical coaching secrecy."

2.3. Kansas’ Struggles and Future Prospects

• Hunter Dickinson’s Departure: Hunter Dickinson’s transfer marked a significant shift for Kansas, raising questions about coach Bill Self’s future amid the team’s performance drop.

  Big Cat [07:53]: "Kansas won 19 of 22 conference titles before Hunter Dickinson transferred. Now they're looking to move on."

2.4. Other Notable Games

• Alabama vs. Alabama State: Alabama faced minor struggles but ultimately won comfortably against Alabama State.

  PFT Commenter [11:19]: "Alabama looked real good, grabbing rebounds and forcing turnovers."

• Auburn’s Unexpected Win: Auburn surprised many by defeating Alabama State with a convincing 20-point lead, despite initial underperformance.

  Max [12:00]: "Auburn didn't look motivated at the start but finished strong."

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3. Predictions and Picks

3.1. Mount Rushmore of March Madness Moments

The hosts engage in a rapid-fire session to identify their top four March Madness moments, selecting elements like:

• Hitting an Underdog Money Line

  PFT Commenter [32:44]: "Skipping work or school."

• One Shining Moment

  Hank [33:07]: "A moment of pure triumph during the tournament."

• Memorable Buzzer Beaters and Unpredictable Upsets

3.2. Friday’s Game Predictions with Stanford Steve

Stanford Steve joins to discuss Friday’s slate, emphasizing the importance of staying resilient after a rough start on Thursday. Key game analyses include:

• Baylor vs. Mississippi State: A tight 1.5-point spread game where Baylor’s tempo against Mississippi State’s slower play style is pivotal.

  Stanford Steve [55:27]: "Mississippi State’s style frustrates Baylor, making this game unpredictable."

• Colorado State vs. Memphis: With Memphis as a surprising five-seed and Colorado State’s hot streak, the matchup is ripe for an upset.

  Stanford Steve [56:13]: "Memphis’s strong season and Memphis’s coach Penny Hardaway's strategies make this intriguing."

• UConn vs. Oklahoma: Both elite free-throw teams facing an over 147.5 total points prediction, highlighting the expected high-scoring nature of the game.

  Big Cat [59:35]: "Taking the over here due to UConn and Oklahoma's free-throw prowess."

Stanford Steve also shares his strategies on bet management during the tournament, advocating for preparedness and adaptability based on initial game outcomes.

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4. Bonus Segments

4.1. Fyre Fest of the Week: Possible Severance Spoilers

The hosts touch upon the anticipated "Severance" season finale, ensuring that none of the hosts have seen the finale yet to avoid spoilers. They humorously discuss their strategies to prevent accidental leaks and share playful banter about potential plot twists without revealing any actual spoilers.

4.2. Personal Anecdotes and Banter

Throughout the episode, the hosts share relatable and humorous stories, such as:

• Locking Out of the House: PFT Commenter recounts a frustrating experience with his garage door lock malfunctioning, leading to him sleeping in his car.

  PFT Commenter [97:06]: "I ended up sleeping in my car for an hour because my garage door wouldn’t open."

• Car Mishaps and Repairs: Conversations about car accidents, duct-taped bumpers, and the challenges of dealing with damaged vehicles add a personal touch to the episode.

• Super Bowl Week Memories: Reflecting on past Super Bowl experiences, including near-drown incidents and interactions with NFL players, the hosts reminisce about the chaotic yet memorable times.

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5. Closing Thoughts

As the episode wraps up, the hosts reiterate their excitement for the upcoming Friday games and the intense action that March Madness promises. They encourage listeners to stay engaged, manage their bets wisely, and enjoy the rest of the tournament while sharing laughs and camaraderie throughout the broadcast.

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Notable Quotes:

• PFT Commenter [04:19]: "Will Wade is being honest about his move, which is refreshing compared to typical coaching secrecy."
• Stanford Steve [55:27]: "Mississippi State’s style frustrates Baylor, making this game unpredictable."
• Big Cat [59:35]: "Taking the over here due to UConn and Oklahoma's free-throw prowess."
• PFT Commenter [97:06]: "I ended up sleeping in my car for an hour because my garage door wouldn’t open."

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Conclusion

This episode of "Pardon My Take" offers a comprehensive and entertaining recap of the first day of March Madness, insightful game analyses, and engaging personal stories. With the addition of Stanford Steve, listeners gain valuable perspectives on game predictions and betting strategies, making this episode a must-listen for sports enthusiasts eager to navigate the excitement and unpredictability of the tournament.

Transcript

[Big Cat]

Hey, pardon my take, listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. I'm this weird part of my life.

[PFT Commenter]

I really am.

[Stanford Steve]

Bill Burr, Drop Dead Years, a hilarious stand up special is now streaming on Hulu.

[PFT Commenter]

I am getting along with my wife.

[Hank]

Better than I ever have. All you have to do is agree to something that you would never do. Farmer's Market. Oh boy, would I. My buddy dies, I show up to the funeral, open casket. You told me he was dead.

[Big Cat]

I believed you.

[Max]

Bill Burr, Drop Dead Years is now streaming on Hulu.

[Big Cat]

On today's part of my take, we recap the first day of madness. Not a ton of madness, but some madness.

[PFT Commenter]

McNeese madness.

[Big Cat]

McNeese madness. Will Wade Madness. We also have our good friend Stanford Steve on to talk exclusively Friday picks. So we're breaking down the whole board. If you got your teeth kicked in on Thursday, you can listen to this. Stanford Steve's a lot smarter than us. We got some picks for Friday. We do a bonus Mount Rushmore out of Mount Rushmore season, but we did a Mount Rushmore.

[Max]

Great Mount Rushmore.

[Big Cat]

Great. Mount Rushmore. And then we are going to finish with Fyre Fest.

[Hank]

Spoil. Also severance spoilers.

[Big Cat]

Also severance spoilers. But not really because none of us watched the finale yet.

[PFT Commenter]

And that's also. And that's also going to be at the end of the show.

[Big Cat]

End of the show.

[PFT Commenter]

The show during the firefight.

[Hank]

So the beginning of Fire Fest.

[Big Cat]

Yes. Just, just, just.

[Hank]

If you, if you're like three episodes behind with severance. Yes, fast forward.

[Big Cat]

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[PFT Commenter]

And the SEC is dead. Yeah, the SEC, not really, but the Big Ten.

[Big Cat]

Congratulations Big Ten and Big east had a nice day. We had not the craziest first day of madness, but McNeese State, I think leads the. Leads the storyboard because what a day for Will Wade. He's announced as the new coach of NC State, then goes out and gives us a classic 125 upset where I know it looks like a two point game, but they were dominating Clemson for the majority of the game.

[PFT Commenter]

Clemson couldn't make a shot in the first half. It was ugly. Towards the end they started to pour it in.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

All came in like kind of all of a sudden. So the two points looks a lot closer than it was, but yeah. Will Wade, Clemson alum.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Beating his alma mater, then going to NCC and new rival. And new rival.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And did it the right way because we've seen it the wrong way and a million times where coaches will say, I'm not talking to them. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm focused on my team. Will Wade said two days ago, yeah. I'm having conversations with NC State. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I heard some people that were upset about it. I think, I think Will Wade probably told his students last year, yeah. Like, hey, I'm going to come back for another year. I probably had some offers. I'm going to come back. I'm going to be talking to other schools. You guys want to transfer at the end of this year too? Probably. If all goes well, if you win games in the tournament, you'll get to transfer to a better school, maybe get some nil money. So I think Will Wade, in a stunning twist, everything that he was doing that was illegal back then is legal now.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And he's just being open and honest about it and telling the kids like, hey, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm going to leave. You're probably going to go look for some money too. Let's win some games.

[Big Cat]

Not only that, but with the new transfer portal rules, he's going to take a bunch of these guys with him. Yeah. So it's like, hey, I'm going to be open with you guys. I'd rather Will Wade be transparent about it. Yeah. It's awkward that he took a new job before his team even played in the tournament. Then Darren Devries. Devries, who went from West Virginia to Indiana in the Bahamas in December and had his son sit out the year for a medical. Red shirt. The game is the game. So it's not like I'm saying, oh, man, he did something so wrong. West Virginia, definitely West Virginia is having a bad week. But I'd rather have the Will Wade where you're just upfront about it and saying, yeah, I'm talking to NC State. Oh, yep, I got a new job.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'm totally cool with that. And I'm also sure that Will Wade told the administration, I'm go. I am going to be listening to phone calls if they come.

[Big Cat]

Right, Right. All right. So game. So McNees was the big upset, so to speak. They were seven and a half point underdogs, so. And they were the 125 matchup. The other big one was Drake. Finally, Drake has staved off the meltdown that we are all accustomed to with Drake in the tournament where they start a game, they're up big and then they slowly melt down. They tried to do it. It was like they were up all game. And it was, I think a two point game with about five minutes left. But they beat Mizzou, which was kind of a stunning upset because the SEC has been the big bad SEC has been the talk of the college basketball this year. And it was that one. And Cal and the boys, Arkansas.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Ending Hunter Dickinson's career.

[PFT Commenter]

And they look good. Yeah, Arkansas looked real good. They were, they were getting boards. They were creating a lot of turnovers. So many turnover for Kansas. It was crazy. Like Kansas felt like they were going to come start knocking at the door and then they just couldn't get the ball down the court. Yeah, it was very strange and I think that Arkansas, the way that they're built, we can talk about St. John's but not only are we going to get Cal Patino like America wanted in the second round, but I think that those two schools can give each other a really good game.

[Big Cat]

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. And it was, it, it was an interesting game because it was. Cal was basically shocked by Kansas being like, hey, we're going to zone you in the second half. And there was that stretch where Arkansas just could not score and Kansas even took the lead with a couple minutes left. But we all wanted this game, and we're going to get this game.

[PFT Commenter]

I have a question for you, big cat.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Is Bill Self on the hot seat?

[Big Cat]

I don't know if he's on the hot seat. This was probably the most disappointing. I mean, I. I would. I would imagine Bill Self is going to do a press conference and be like, I did a bad job coaching, but I also hated the fuck out of this team.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Because this was Kansas all year. They were up and down. They were supposed to be great. They. They struggled at times. They had some bad losses. And I think most Kansas fans saw this coming in the fact that they just weren't built for a long run again. Also, it's the end of Hunter Dickinson's.

[PFT Commenter]

Career, so Perry Ellis still has a Covid year, though. He can come.

[Big Cat]

He does. Here's a stat for you. Kansas had won 19 of 22 conference titles before Hunter Dickinson transferred to KU. In his two years there, the Jayhawks finished fifth and sixth, respectively. Moreover, they won one turn NCAA tournament game in this time there. Now it is a little different because the Big 12 expanded. Houston got added. Arizona got added. So. And Houston's really fucking good.

[Max]

Kansas, though.

[Big Cat]

It is Kansas. That's not the best. So he is. He. I think he's done.

[PFT Commenter]

He's. Yeah, he is done.

[Big Cat]

I think so.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I don't think that there's any sort of exploitable rule that they can do to bring it back. I don't know that they'd want him back. I think they're ready to move on from the Hunter Dickinson experiment.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So obviously Bill Self not on the hot seat, but it's fun to have the conversation. The conversation's being had.

[Big Cat]

People should have the conversation.

[PFT Commenter]

Then Kansas also, they became the second AP preseason number one to lose in the first round of the NCAA tournament. You know who the other one was?

[Big Cat]

Who?

[PFT Commenter]

Also Kansas in 2005 to Bucknell.

[Big Cat]

That's tough. Yeah, I remember that game. Shit pumping. There was a bunch of them.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

UCLA shit pumped. Utah State. That wasn't even close. That was a. That. It was close actually in the first half. I think it was a 25, 23 game. It was point and the final score was 72, 47. That was. That was not shocking, but it was just like. I thought Utah State would be a little bit more live.

[PFT Commenter]

It was just the. The guards for UCLA were so much bigger than the guards.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

From Utah State. It didn't look like. It looked like a High school team playing against them.

[Big Cat]

Purdue handled High Point very easily. I tried to tell Hank to take the under. He didn't listen to me.

[PFT Commenter]

Under vibes though.

[Big Cat]

St. John's St. John's kicked the shit out of Omaha. St. John's is so funny because St. John's they did this in the Big east tournament too, where they have to like go down to, to wake up and, and then just start bullying someone.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they were down.

[Big Cat]

Omaha was up in the first half and then St. John was like, Ah, we're St. John's and you're not. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Right off the bat, they, when they missed three pointers, they really missed three pointers. And I think they ended up shooting like a respectable percentage. I think it was probably in the mid-30s. So at the end of the day, you look at what they shot from three and you're like, okay, that's a pretty good day shooting. But when they miss, they airball. Three pointers.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, they ended up shooting 37.8%, which Rick Patino would take that all day for. St. John's and how they are not exactly a shooting team.

[PFT Commenter]

The thing I love about St. John's is that on defense, if a team is working the ball around, pump faking, getting guys to leave their feet, they pass it to the open guy. St. John seems to have an unlimited amount of dudes on the floor running at the face.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, just. And they, their, their rotation is so good on defense, they just keep cycling. There's always somebody running at your face. If you think you're about to take an open shot, you're not. And if you look at the offensive rebounds. Yeah, I believe they lost the offensive rebounding batt, but they kicked the shit out of Omaha in second chance points.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And that's because Omaha, they would get an offensive rebound occasionally and then just get swatted into oblivion in the lane.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, the St. John's has, I mean, the way they play, they play patino defense where everyone's hands are always active. Every ball gets tipped. You know, nothing is easy. Just, just swinging the ball feels hard. And yeah, St. John's was definitely impressive in the second half. Houston squished. SIU Edwardsville. Shout out. SIU Edwardsville. Remember we learned the big show.

[PFT Commenter]

Yep, that's right. His rightful university.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So that's huge. Alabama struggle a little bit or Auburn. Sorry. Struggled a little bit with Alabama State, but ended up winning pretty easily. 10 FC. I was, I was not offered in the second half.

[PFT Commenter]

I was not super impressed with Auburn today.

[Big Cat]

No, I They've had. They've had weird vibes. I mean, they finished the season losing three out of four, and they were the number one overall seed. And yeah, this. It will be so like today, Alabama State, they.

[PFT Commenter]

They played so much harder than Auburn. Yeah, they would. They were beating them to loose balls. They were picking up every 50, 50 thing. Auburn didn't look like they had a fire lit under their ass before the game. Maybe Bruce Pearl will be able to start it, but. And they ended up winning by, you know, a good amount.

[Big Cat]

It was by 20.

[PFT Commenter]

It wasn't close at the end, but I wasn't super impressed by them.

[Big Cat]

My Badgers handle business. Even though the committee tried to fuck us with the early tip time and the altitude. I mean, that was. Thanks. Thanks for coming out, Montana.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, that was not.

[Big Cat]

That wasn't very competitive.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. I don't think you guys even played your best game.

[Big Cat]

No. Clesmit was. Was not good. And he's got to be good. Against BYU on Saturday, I'm trying to think, are they out? Give them to us. Give them to. Because I was about to say, what.

[Max]

Time do you think, like, the.

[Big Cat]

The games today? There weren't super memorable moments. This happens, you know, you'll have a Thursday or Friday that's not like, oh, my God, that was the craziest day ever. But then you look at Saturday and you're like, holy shit, it's loaded. Give it to us.

[Max]

1210 McNeese versus Purdue.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

240 Arkansas versus St. John. Oh, 515 Michigan versus Texas A&M. 610 Drake verse. Texas Tech. 710, Creighton versus Auburn. 745 BYU versus Wisconsin.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I like that. I like having. Are these Eastern Standard Time?

[Max]

These are all Eastern Standard time.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Max]

8:40, Gonzaga, Houston, 940 UCLA, Tennessee PK.

[PFT Commenter]

What happens if the game keeps going to overtime and going to overtime and going to overtime and it gets into Sunday? Can BYU play 6:45?

[Big Cat]

We should try to. We should try to extend it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Pull a fire alarm.

[Max]

That would be a long game.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. Really long game. Pull a fire alarm. I like having a Nike. I was worried that. I didn't think they were going to do it because it's out. You know, it's mountain time. But I was worried they were going to do like the second game. Need some rest. Get some rest. It's going to be a tough game. BYU is good. They fucking fill it up from three. It's basically going to be the scariest game in terms of just any team can go on a run at any time with threes.

[PFT Commenter]

And we missed a fun fact. We missed a fun fact about byu.

[Big Cat]

No, Max missed the fun. Max missed the fun fact by Maxwell missed the fun.

[PFT Commenter]

Because I heard that on the radio yesterday and I was like, that's a big mistake on our part that.

[Stanford Steve]

How much.

[Hank]

Just look up every fact. This is maybe the funnest fact, the BYU fun facts.

[PFT Commenter]

What was your BYU fun fact? Was it as fun as this one?

[Hank]

No, No, I think it was just.

[Big Cat]

And this is the funnest fact ever.

[Hank]

$7 million on. On a player coming in next year.

[PFT Commenter]

That is fun.

[Big Cat]

Oh, that is fun.

[PFT Commenter]

What was the fun fact?

[Hank]

Probably money from the Tater Tots.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Is it. What is it?

[PFT Commenter]

Is it Tater Tot Trust?

[Big Cat]

No, you say what the fact is you have byu. You say it.

[Hank]

Richie Saunders, his great grandfather invented Tater Tot.

[Big Cat]

That's big time awesome.

[Hank]

That's a sick fact.

[PFT Commenter]

That's quite a legacy.

[Big Cat]

That's a guy who. Yeah. Should have, like, a museum after him.

[Hank]

And do we talk about Jeff Sprouse? Did we already talk about.

[Big Cat]

No, but you should probably apologize. Jeff.

[Hank]

Jeff Sprouse.

[Stanford Steve]

I said.

[Hank]

I said one play.

[Big Cat]

He did. He did. Best player, worst player.

[Stanford Steve]

I did.

[Hank]

Best player. Worst player for, like, six of the teams. And then I. I only said one of the worst players, and it was Jeff sprouse who went six of 12 from three in the playing game. Yeah, 18. Yeah, he was.

[PFT Commenter]

We think that Jeff. Jeff Sprouse probably listens to the show. He probably heard that.

[Big Cat]

Probably.

[PFT Commenter]

And you.

[Big Cat]

Probably from the Sprouse family.

[Hank]

Someone told it. Yeah, I got a reply from a Sprouse. Admit that you've never. That you don't know ball and only looked at the box scores. And I was like. I. I admitted that, as I think you said it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you did.

[PFT Commenter]

Not even the box score. Just the season long.

[Hank]

Yeah, I pulled up the espn, like, stat line for every player, and I was like, this guy's number. These guys. Numbers stink.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. All right, so apologies to Jeff Sprouse. We should also mention Texas. The. The. The reminder today was anytime everyone in the world is talking about one team, just go the other way. Because I feel like that happened with two. Two specific cases. Yale. Everyone loved Yale. Texas A and M, turns out, still very good. Wade Taylor, very good. And then who was. Who was the other? Oh, Michigan, vcu. Byu.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah.

[Big Cat]

Vcu. BYU was. Everyone was like, vcu. Vcu, vcu and byu.

[Hank]

San Diego.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. But they covered the three And a half. I don't know what. Yeah, it started at three and a half. I don't know what UC San Diego is doing with that last possession. You have 14 seconds. You're down three. I would like to try to extend the game a little and go to the rack and try to maybe get fouled there. I don't know. Or a fade away three. It was a. It was a decent look, but it just. You. But you have one shot.

[PFT Commenter]

The play took so long to develop that you. You didn't give yourself an opportunity to get a rebound. You give yourself an opportunity for them to get a rebound and foul.

[Big Cat]

Right?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

It's just the game ended.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Try. Try to get that off you. You. Actually. It could have been even worse, I think, because you could have let. Dusty May get enough time where he could then foul when you're on the floor and take away your opportunity to shoot a three.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And UC San Diego deserves credit. I mean, Michigan deserves credit for holding on and making big plays down the stretch. But UC San Diego, like, they were dead in the water in the first half, and they came out in the second half of that first five minutes, went on that run. That was a very good. That was some good tournament action. That felt fun to watch.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. There's a lot of foul trouble in that game. That's the only thing it was not.

[Big Cat]

Not the best. Tate Jones fouled out with like five minutes left.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Great. All right. What other do we miss? Anyone else?

[PFT Commenter]

Georgia.

[Big Cat]

Georgia.

[PFT Commenter]

Georgia Gonzaga.

[Big Cat]

Georgia didn't know how to play basketball.

[PFT Commenter]

Does Georgia have a basketball team?

[Big Cat]

They don't know how to play basketball. It continues for another year. I don't think I've ever seen for the start of a game. Now, Gonzaga deserves a lot of credit. Gonzaga is under or over, underseeded as an eight seed. I think they. They are a lot better than an eight seed. So they're not your typical eight seed. That game started and Georgia didn't know how to dribble, pass, shoot, anything. Yeah, they're falling on all over themselves.

[PFT Commenter]

Georgia was crazy. Also out of control when they tried to drive.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. There was also another. Was there another Georgia incident? Football.

[Max]

2.

[PFT Commenter]

2.

[Big Cat]

What happened?

[Max]

1 guy drove into a house.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

Are you talking about.

[Big Cat]

Was it his house?

[Max]

No.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[Max]

And then the second one, which I think was. The first one was just a speeding ticket, but I can. I can look it up.

[Big Cat]

It's funny because. Insane when March madness is happening, other stories just don't happen because I also. It was like a bingo Card. We had another two Georgia driving incidents. Yeah. Football program. And then we had a very weird story for Michigan.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, Michigan. Some sort of spying. The former offensive coordinator, Matt Weiss. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

So I have it right here. According to the indictment, between approximately 2015 and January 2023, Weiss gained unauthorized access to student athlete databases of more than 100 colleges and universities that were maintained by a third party vendor. After gaining access to these databases, Weiss downloaded the personally identifiable information and medical data of more than 150,000 athletes. Using the information that he obtained from the student athlete databases and his own Internet research, Weiss was able to obtain access to the social media, email and or cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 target athletes. Weiss also illegally obtained access to social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 1300 additional students and or alumni from universities across the country. That's creepy.

[PFT Commenter]

That's crazy. He sounds like he's an anonymous, like an actual hacker.

[Big Cat]

That's nuts.

[PFT Commenter]

Can you blame Connor Stallions for this?

[Big Cat]

Conor Stallions is going to try, but this guy, not so much.

[Max]

So I got the. I got it right here. Georgia wide receiver Nitro Tuggle. Which.

[Big Cat]

I mean, that guy.

[PFT Commenter]

He should be allowed to speak.

[Big Cat]

I don't. You can't name him that. Yeah, he's going to speed.

[Max]

He got.

[Big Cat]

He's going to be. He's going to speed or he's going to be an American gladiator. One or the other.

[Max]

Arrested on charges of reckless driving and speeding in Athens. And then on Monday, when you recruit Nitro.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And you're at Georgia, he's a wide receiver. It's like you have to have like several conversations. Nitro, you're going to be under a microscope because your name is Nitro. And also you play football.

[Big Cat]

For me, you need to give him a golf cart that goes 20 miles an hour, tops.

[PFT Commenter]

Or just get him a driver.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, like we.

[PFT Commenter]

We're going to get ahead of this. Nitro.

[Max]

And then Georgia offensive lineman Marquis Easley reportedly crashed a car into an apartment complex Monday night, leading to a suspension today.

[PFT Commenter]

All gas, no brakes.

[Big Cat]

Interesting. I would assume if these guys are good at football, they'll be playing in September.

[Max]

What do you think they. Like what. Like how after the. Like, what, 20th time it happens. Like, do you think at any point, like, do you think they joke about it? Because that's what it seems like. They're like, all right, like, this is just our thing here.

[Big Cat]

Here. I don't think Kirby jokes about it. I think some of the guys on the staff definitely joke about it. Being like, you got to be me.

[PFT Commenter]

I do think I. I do think you can point at Kirby Smart and be like, dude, you need to do a better job of making the local police in your pocket like Urban Meyer did in Jacksonville.

[Big Cat]

But these guys are crashing into apartment buildings. Yeah.

[Max]

I mean, there's not. Not much you can do there. Speeding one.

[Big Cat]

Speeding one.

[Hank]

You could put that under the. The cops got to be like, all right, speeding ticket.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, but Georgia.

[Max]

But I think they've had. I think they've had. Yeah. And they've also had so many incidents where it's like, I think the police have to be like, we have to start reporting. Yeah, you and like, like, we've covered up a lot, but when you're going like 140, like, we gotta report, take their licenses.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

When Nitro pulls into the.

[Max]

The first Nitro, he's like, nitro should get a pass.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

When you're Kirby Smart, you see Nitro pull up to the facility day one, probably in like a Dodge Hellcat. You have to be like, hey, Nitro, you're not driving. I'm sorry. You're just not.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Also, we got another story we had was T. Higgins contract. The details. This is a. This is pretty smart by the Bengals, it seems like. So I'm reading the from. Florios broke it down. Of course he did. Flores not watching basketball, he's breaking down contracts. Nothing in 2025 is guaranteed. However, the $20 million roster bonus is earned five days after Higgins puts pen to paper. So I assume he's going to earn that. Like that's actually a dangerous time to earn it.

[Hank]

Right.

[Big Cat]

During March Madness. The only true full guarantee it's signing bonus or signing. Is the 10 million 2026 offseason roster bonus. The Bengals have, as a practical matter, a year to year option. They can pay him 35.9 million for 2025 if he dresses for every game and earns the 2 million in per game roster bonuses. And they can move on before the 2026 base salary becomes fully guaranteed. It's not guaranteed for injury.

[PFT Commenter]

So it's not even a two year contract. It's a one year, one year contract for a good amount of money.

[Big Cat]

A lot of money.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Because the 10 million guaranteed 2026 roster bonus has offset language. They likely owe him nothing if they cut him after one year since he make more elsewhere.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I was wondering how they were able to. Because they said that they were going to keep. Obviously T. Higgins. They're keeping Jamar Chase. They were going to they said they're going to try to keep Trey Hendrickson too, if they can. I had no idea how any of that was going to work out, but.

[Big Cat]

This is a fake contract.

[PFT Commenter]

Well, he's getting a lot of money this year over what would have been the franchise tax.

[Big Cat]

Correct.

[PFT Commenter]

So he's getting a nice raise that's guaranteed for one. It's like a. He got a mega franchise tag.

[Big Cat]

And I guess there's structure that if they want to keep him next year, they've already. They don't have to go back and do this all.

[PFT Commenter]

But essentially, he got Mega Tack tagged.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

He got Meg attacked. That was interesting, though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

What else do we have anything else from the sports world that we might have missed?

[Max]

Scotty Scheffler's masters dinner.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

It's pretty much the same as it was two years ago. Right.

[Big Cat]

He ran it back, except he didn't.

[PFT Commenter]

Do the tortilla soup because he told us on PMT that the soup was too spicy for some of the old timers that were there, and it made their tum tums hurt.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

So out of respect for them, he was like, okay, I won't give you diarrhea this year.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

And he added, like, a little homage to how he cut his finger. Oh, tortellini.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, yeah, the ravioli bites.

[Max]

So that's what he was making when he, like, cut his finger.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

So he added the ravioli bites with meatball. Yeah. I feel like that's a nice touch.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

That is a little joke. Haha.

[PFT Commenter]

I could see Scotty Scheffler playing some football at Georgia.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. You're right up his alley.

[Big Cat]

Also. I. I know. We did. We did. Mark Pope.

[Max]

25 arrests, by the way, in two years.

[Big Cat]

That's crazy. That's nuts. Gotta lead the league.

[Max]

23 wins.

[Big Cat]

Damn. Get those numbers up, Kirby. Not the. Not the arrest.

[Max]

And like, there's gotta be so much stuff that gets swept under the road.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

All I'll say is they. They have so many arrests at college, they make their way to the NFL. They play for the Eagles. They don't get in trouble because they got Big Dom. Big Dom making sure everyone stays high and tight.

[Big Cat]

That'd be very funny if Kirby Smart brought in Big Dom. Be like, how do you do it?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, he should.

[Big Cat]

How do you do it?

[Hank]

Zero suspensions, lease in the NFL.

[Big Cat]

There you go.

[Hank]

I got to find that graph.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. That's. Sure that's true.

[Hank]

100% true.

[Big Cat]

Mark Pope. I know. We. It was a little cringeworthy. We played his rap on Wednesday, but. Shout out Mark Pope. This is pretty cool story. He's paying gas money to any Kentucky fans that drive to Milwaukee.

[PFT Commenter]

That's pretty cool.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So our friend Matt Jones posted proof of it. Someone from Mark Pope's office basically being like. Like, all you do is email and say you're coming, show that you have tickets and you're a Kentucky fan, and then they email you back and they're like, as long as you can prove that no one's between the 9th and 12th grade, because that's. That would technically be, like, a violation of recruitment. They'll venmo you money a flat gas rate.

[PFT Commenter]

Good guy.

[Big Cat]

Pretty awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

I like Mark Pope.

[Big Cat]

That's a cool thing to do. So Big Blue nation should be showing up to Milwaukee.

[PFT Commenter]

Love that.

[Big Cat]

What do you got, Max? Nothing.

[Hank]

I just sent. I just sent the graphic of zero suspension.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you're pretty happy.

[Max]

Did you make the graphic?

[Hank]

No. Dove. Dove climbing.

[Big Cat]

You've been suspended, though.

[Hank]

From what?

[PFT Commenter]

Well, you had to take the test.

[Big Cat]

You had to take the test?

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

You had to take the test.

[Hank]

Big Dom wasn't happy I took that test.

[Big Cat]

And the time you didn't push the.

[Hank]

Button, I didn't get suspended.

[Big Cat]

Well, you got. If you don't push the button again, you get soul patch.

[Max]

You self suspended.

[Hank]

Did I self. I. I vacation. I guess that.

[Big Cat]

I'm so excited for more basketball tomorrow.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, it's gonna be awesome.

[Big Cat]

It's the best. It's just like an entire day. I realized today that I was just sitting in the same spot for 12 hours, and it was. It was awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm gonna put on the old Apple watch tomorrow, see how many steps I take.

[Big Cat]

There you go.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm guessing it's maybe double figures. Maybe like 70 steps.

[Big Cat]

It's also. This hit me at the beginning of the day. It's crazy that when there's one game on, you find yourself being like, where the fuck are all the games? I need all the games.

[PFT Commenter]

Boring. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I can't watch one game. I need four games going at the same exact time.

[PFT Commenter]

There was a moment, though, when I think the first time there were three games on at once. It just blew my mind.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And it was like, this is so much for me to pay attention to right now.

[Big Cat]

Also, maybe shout out to tbs, cbs, Turner, True tv, whoever else it is. They did kind of fix the scoreboard for a little bit. I don't understand how it's still an issue. And when I'm saying this, I mean, if you're Watching four games at once. Half the time you see the scoreboard on one game and it will be ahead of the actual game you're watching. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

My guess is they have some sort of a live feed plugged directly into the scores table. So like when the scoreboard at the arena changes, that gets fed into the other TV channel.

[Big Cat]

Just pause it.

[PFT Commenter]

Just pause that.

[Big Cat]

Just hit pause. I don't want to be spoiled. Like the beginning of the day.

[PFT Commenter]

You have a problem with it? I don't have a problem because I can, I can not look at the scores in the top.

[Big Cat]

I, the, the problem is if you know what's happening and your team's playing. Like when Wisconsin was playing, I ha. I had to look at the score to be like, like Montana would come down the court and be like, oh shit, are they about to hit a 3? And I'd look because I like, if I, if I know it's there, I'm going to look. So that's why I can't stop myself. You looking at me, Max?

[Hank]

Yeah, I noticed that was a thing. I noticed that was a thing earlier today, but I thought we were watching it on YouTube TV.

[Big Cat]

No, I think they, they did. I tweeted. I, I was pretty mean about it. I said I'd skull all of them and then they did. It did look like they actually Jeff D Lo texted me, said it looked like they paused it in real time. You could see it pause. So. But then it kind of, it was like laggy a couple places. Just figure it out. Don't let it spoil us. I. If I, if I know there's a spoiler in front of my face, I'm gonna look at it. That's my problem also.

[Hank]

What happened in Severance?

[Big Cat]

No. Did you watch?

[Hank]

Yep.

[Big Cat]

You motherfucker. Alright, so Fire Fest. So we're gonna do our Mount Rushmore and then we're gonna do San Francisce and then our Fire Fest. And there are Severance spoilers in the Fire Festival. When I say that we, none of us in this room have watched the finale. So there's no spoilers on the finale. It's just we talked about what could happen in the finale because we have not seen it. And we were talking about the fact that it's hard to watch Severance when there's all these games going on. So if you're a couple episodes behind, you could skip Fyre Fest. If you are, if you haven't watched the finale, you won't be spoiled at all.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Because you're at the finale. We have not watched it. So we cannot wear. Literally, cannot spoil it because we don't know.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And our guesses of what's going to happen probably will make you dumber.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And less likely to figure out what's.

[Big Cat]

Oh, our theories are really stupid. But it's still fun talk. We don't really do a bunch of TV talk. We're all watching it.

[Max]

Ms. Wong, brain of an adult.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's a spoiler.

[Max]

She doesn't though.

[Big Cat]

We don't think so.

[PFT Commenter]

I don't know.

[Big Cat]

They're just doing it again. All right, Mount Rushmore, Stanford, Steve, Fyre fest. And then we'll see everyone on Monday to recap everything. Okay. Before we get to Stanford, Steve, in our Mount Rushmore of March Madness things. Game Time. Hank, can you pull up some games maybe for today Friday, as people are listening? The best part of college basketball is here and we know you're as excited as we are to watch some big upsets throughout the tournament. While we're streaming the Cave, you can get out to see the action in person with Game Time, the official ticketing partner barstool sports. Game Time makes getting tickets faster and easier. Prices on the app actually go down the closer it gets to showtime. Plus the Game Time Picks feature makes it even easier to find the great deals of the seats you want. You can even find last minute tickets for the tournament for up to 60% off quickly and easily. Just pull up your chosen event, turn on GT Picks setting at the top of the screen or browse the best local Game Time picks deal near you on your GameTime app homepage. We're looking at Hank Milwaukee.

[Max]

You can get in for as low as $114.

[Big Cat]

Love it. So I think Kentucky's playing there, Illinois is playing there. So go, go check out some games there. They've got great curated deals for all tiers of tickets and you know you're getting the top option when you see the super deal icon. What are you waiting for? Go. Go to the Fiserv Arena. Watch the Kentucky Wildcats, the Illini with Game Time picks. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with Game time. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use code PMT for $20 off. Your first purchase terms apply. Again, create an account, redeem code PMT for $20 off. Download the game Time app today. What time is it? Game time. Okay, we're gonna do rapid fire. Mount Rushmore March Madness thinks. Who wants to go first? Hank. Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Let Hank go first.

[Big Cat]

Okay. Hank. Hank. Yeah. Do it. Yeah. Loser of this Mount Rushmore can't watch for the entire weekend.

[Max]

Let me pull up my notes. Apologies.

[Big Cat]

What?

[Hank]

We're not doing that.

[Big Cat]

No, I know.

[Hank]

Obviously. Which way are we going?

[Big Cat]

I don't. We always go this clockwise?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Hank.

[Max]

Hitting an underdog money line.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, okay.

[Big Cat]

Good one.

[Hank]

Not working on Thursday or Friday.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, yeah, good one. I would. I would say skipping work and. Or school.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Hank]

School is all. You're working at school. You're just not doing anything Thursday, Friday.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I'm gonna say saying my brackets. Busted. Because you it too hard.

[Hank]

Yeah, I had rubbing up your brackets. Yeah, same thing.

[PFT Commenter]

My bracket.

[Big Cat]

Busted. Busted. Yeah, I, I, my. My first two picks survived buzzer beaters and crazy upsets. So you always remember when there's a crazy upset, when there's a 15 seed, a 16C. I mean, 16 seed were like, I can actually close my eyes and see the Purdue. Just Dave screaming FDU is too small for them.

[PFT Commenter]

Or just Virginia.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, those. Those are my favorite.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, My second pick is going to be one shining moment.

[Hank]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The ball is a good one.

[Hank]

That's a good one.

[Big Cat]

Where. Here you are.

[Hank]

I'm gonna go.

[Big Cat]

You're a shooting star. One shining moment. One shining moment. One shot. More tournaments. I actually don't like one shotting moment because it's sad for me because it's over.

[Max]

It's more than a content like I.

[Big Cat]

It's always the end where I'm like, oh, that was a lot of fun. I wish I could do that again.

[Hank]

But if it hits you in the field.

[Big Cat]

It does. But I just like, I. I kind of got. I hit screen like the. Feels like, man, I really should have enjoyed this a little more.

[PFT Commenter]

It's. Yeah, it's kind of sad too. It says you always did your best because inside you knew that. One shining moment, you reach deep inside. One shining moment, you knew you were alive. Implying that you don't know that. That's like the rest of your life stinks.

[Big Cat]

That sounds like something Rickon would write in one of his books.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

That's a little preview for our severance talk after Sanford, he's too much frolic.

[Hank]

That was the great. That was the greatest severance preview. That happened after the fact.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. Just. If you're watching Severance right now and you're behind, there could potentially be spoilers.

[Hank]

But really.

[Big Cat]

But really not because we haven't seen the finale. And also we're. We're dumb. Okay. Who's up?

[Hank]

I'm up. Printing out your bracket on Sunday.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Feeling it. Paper in Your hand touching it. Yeah. Okay.

[Max]

My list sucks. Sideline reporters. Bonk.

[Big Cat]

I had. Say it again.

[Hank]

Sideline reporters.

[PFT Commenter]

You love John Rothstein.

[Big Cat]

Sideline reporters.

[Max]

Yeah, the females.

[PFT Commenter]

Females.

[Max]

And I guess John Rosten. Good one, too. And then my other one is the. The camera on a dolly that they use for the final four. That's like my. I love that favorite shot in sports. They show them running down the sideline.

[PFT Commenter]

That buzzer beater. Yeah.

[Max]

And the cameras following them. They only use it for the final.

[Big Cat]

Oh, I got you. I know you're saying I don't like.

[PFT Commenter]

It live, but I like the replay.

[Max]

I love it.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I do like that.

[Max]

They should use.

[Big Cat]

They got to switch it, though, before a shot takes place.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Because sometimes they'll do the bad angle schmangle. Okay. Max.

[Hank]

Riding a group bet with the boys.

[Big Cat]

Yes. Had it on there. Great call. Pft.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm going to go with cutting down nuts.

[Big Cat]

Good one.

[PFT Commenter]

Cutting down nuts. Iconic.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to go with crying fans. Love that shit. It's always awesome girl. Northwestern kid. There's just always the sad ram. The Colorado State ram.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Psychonic moments. And I'm gonna go with a gambling one. I love the rogue foul when. When a team shouldn't be fouling anymore. And then one tryhard is like, I'm just gonna foul one last time. Then you can cover a spreader hitting over. There's just. It's something about the kids.

[PFT Commenter]

They don't look at the coach before they just.

[Big Cat]

You're you. Because you always got in the back over yet.

[PFT Commenter]

It's not over.

[Big Cat]

There's like 10 seconds left. You're like, if we could just get one guy who just is a little too eager, we could. We get back to the free throw line.

[PFT Commenter]

My last one, I'm going to go with. I am choosing between two. This one no longer applies. But it was such a big part of March Madness for a while, I'm going to include it. Impractical jokers commercials.

[Hank]

I had something I had Finding True tv.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Finding true tv. That was the other one I was.

[Big Cat]

Thinking about talking about. All I saw a Twitter thread today about, and it kind of triggered my memory. That way back in like the 90s, we only got to watch one game and they would just have a live look in for the other games going on. It's crazy. Also, one thing that they did do back in the day that I wish they'd bring back, there was like a like hour dinner window where they wouldn't have a game. It was awesome.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

On Thursday and Friday, let the. Oh, I love that. You just go outside and get a little fresh. But then. But then, like, no, they don't. There's. They're staggered. You'll see.

[Max]

I thought there was still that, like. Like five.

[Big Cat]

There's less. There's less games in the spot. But it's not. There will. I don't think there'll be a moment where there's not a game on the. Yeah, there's a 335 tip today and a 550 tip. Those aren't so. They used to have, like an actual. We can, you know, go eat dinner or go outside. Okay. Max, what was that? Memes.

[PFT Commenter]

I just thought it was funny.

[Big Cat]

Oh, just going outside.

[Hank]

I'll go with raft.

[Big Cat]

Bill.

[Hank]

Rafter.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, good call.

[Hank]

I was gonna.

[Big Cat]

Onions.

[Hank]

Yeah, onions.

[Big Cat]

Double order.

[Max]

I'll just go with memorizing commercials to the point where you can guess. Like, I feel like there's been March madnesses where I'll just sit and just like, guess what commercial.

[Hank]

Hank is in mid season form right now.

[Big Cat]

He's gonna blame us. He's gonna blame us.

[Stanford Steve]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

We weren't even.

[Big Cat]

Whatever.

[PFT Commenter]

Memorizing.

[Max]

I don't really give a.

[Big Cat]

No.

[PFT Commenter]

I mean, he's right. There's usually one very annoying.

[Max]

I said my list sucked at the top. I prefaced it.

[PFT Commenter]

Sideline. Reporters bonked.

[Big Cat]

I love it, Hank. I got.

[PFT Commenter]

I like it. I like it, Hank. I'd support that.

[Big Cat]

One of my friends texted me.

[Hank]

Doesn't even mean anything.

[Big Cat]

One of my friends text me.

[Max]

But he still lost.

[Big Cat]

He was just like F minus from Hank on Sunday. Over day. I laughed so hard.

[Max]

I did my best.

[Big Cat]

I sure did. That was a good list, Hank, what was your picks? The camera.

[Max]

I mean, it's a sick camera.

[Big Cat]

Hot reporters. The camera.

[PFT Commenter]

Memorizing commercials.

[Big Cat]

Memorizing.

[Stanford Steve]

That's what everyone thinks of underdog.

[Max]

Money line.

[Hank]

That one.

[Max]

That's good.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. We have missed wings.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Oh, sneaker squeaking. I just like sneaker squeaking.

[Max]

But you guys are just describing, like.

[PFT Commenter]

This is a Mount Rushmore of March moments.

[Big Cat]

Hank, I said wings.

[Max]

That's every week for you.

[Big Cat]

That was honorable mention.

[Hank]

I thought about that. I almost said day drinking, but then.

[Max]

I was like riding a bet with your boys. That's every Sunday. You guys pick the most general things, and then they're like, oh, he is in mid season.

[PFT Commenter]

What about.

[Max]

What about instead, my favorite part of March is gambling.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, yeah, that's what you said for your first pick.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Your first. That was literally.

[Hank]

That's You've made a brand off that wrap.

[PFT Commenter]

Max, I think you're right with the day drinking, except you got to specify, like, I think when I think of March, I think of drinking out of.

[Max]

My favorite part of March is going to the bar.

[PFT Commenter]

Big beer tooth.

[Hank]

The Towers.

[PFT Commenter]

The Towers. Beer tower in March.

[Hank]

Sitting at, like. At, like, a chain at, like, a Chili's and just.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Beer tower.

[Hank]

Ripping. Beer tower.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Jimmy V. Running around the court hugging somebody.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

My favorite part of March is Friday because it means it's the weekend.

[Big Cat]

Well.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, vasectomies.

[Big Cat]

Wait, hold on. What did you say? Friday is the weekend.

[Hank]

Oh, no. This is fun. I'm glad we did this.

[Big Cat]

That's the best. We've been doing this show for so long that, like, if you. If you try to say one thing, you just. You just trigger a memory to get back into another argument.

[PFT Commenter]

You can't come back from that now, Hank.

[Big Cat]

You just.

[PFT Commenter]

That was. We were right. And say that we were right.

[Max]

Yeah, whatever.

[Big Cat]

There's layers to this. Whatever, man. There's levels.

[PFT Commenter]

Friday's not the weekend. It was one of the more preposterous things.

[Big Cat]

It's the craziest thing ever. It starts 1201. I just. The only other one I had. I. I love when it. Watching a team that's never seen a press. It just always makes you laugh when you can just. And you know, you can get, like. You're like, we can get eight quick points here. Literally never.

[Hank]

Sometimes I see that. I'm like, why don't teams just do this all game?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Like, let's get tired.

[Hank]

Seton hall is honestly a perfect example. Seton hall is a horrible basketball team. Great at press.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Pug's nodding his head. Fuck, yeah. All right, Hank, so you somehow lost this Mount Rushmore and a previous argument that we had for a long time. Yeah.

[Max]

Let's wrap it up. Pretty wonder.

[Big Cat]

All right, let's get. Let's get to Stanford, Steve. Okay, before we get to Stanford, Steve. And some winners for Friday, we are brought to you by our friends at Truly. Truly. Hard Seltzer is the first high ABV hard seltzer that actually tastes good. Truly Unruly is a hard seltzer that breaks all the rules. Drinks, lights, light, parties. Hard with 8% ABV. It hits hard but still tastes amazing. Listen, this is one of the best weekends of the year. It's time for a Truly Unruly Comes in four fresh flavors. Tropical Twist, Berry Blast, Citrus Crush, Strawberry Smash. It's the official hard seltzer. Pardon my Take Find Truly Unruly at a store near you or visit www.trulyhardseltzer.com trulyhardseltzer.com Like I said, they've got great flavors. 8% ABV. It hits hard, but still tastes amazing. Go try that Strawberry Smash. I love it. Find Truly Unruly at a store near you. Visit trulyhardseltzer.com we're also brought to you by our friends at Chevy. You guys know Chevy's been with us for a long time. Chevy has packed more capability into the Silverado Trail Boss so that you can pack more fun into your weekend. Have yourself a Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the truck that says no to nothing. Tailgates, spontaneous camping trips, DIY projects. Bring it on. What about cross country road trips? Silverado was the perfect ride for last year's grit week out west. Recently they helped us give fullbacks the recognition they deserve with the low man award. Well, the Silverado Trail Boss is built like a fullback. We're talking 495 pounds of foot of torque. Hold on to your sodas, Max. Plus the trail boss gives you an extra 2 inch lift. So maybe Hank can finally dunk. Silverado brings the grit, then pairs it with the latest truck tech, inside and out. The result, a truck that can do it all. Then show up on Monday with a story to tell. So learn more about the silverado trail boss. Chevy.com Chevrolet together. Let's drive. Okay, here he is, our good friend, Stanford Steve. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. He is our good friend, best friend, Stanford Steve. We're going to talk Friday's slate because this is going to come out on Friday morning when people are licking their wounds from the first day of the tournament. Chaos everywhere. Steve, let me start with this before we get into the games. What's the setup?

[Stanford Steve]

I got a couple of things.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, yeah. I want to hear your things, but what's the setup for Stanford, Steve, for the tournament?

[Stanford Steve]

Oh, well, earlier in the week we'll have had our Calcutta pool, which is giant auction. It's actually, I mean, if you got a group of guys and big money, it's, it's a different way to do the tournament. And what you do is every team has a number. There's no cap or nothing. And I want to say UConn like last year went for 35, 40k. Like it was around there. So there's a, there's probably 10 to 15 teams every year that get in. We do that Wednesday night and then I'm actually hanging out in Dewey beach. Starboard.

[PFT Commenter]

Nice.

[Stanford Steve]

Starboard. Raw. Nalu. The whole. The whole deal will be there. Family's coming over Friday, so it's kind of scary because we go over there so many times during the summer, but I always have my wife and kids. As this drops, I'll be wondering how I'm doing, because I'm going to have Thursday to myself.

[PFT Commenter]

Is this spring break season?

[Stanford Steve]

No. See, down here, my kids. Spring break is late. Like, it's the week after the Masters.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[Stanford Steve]

So it's. It's all screwed up.

[Big Cat]

Wait, when you said by yourself on Thursday, do you mean your wife's not gonna be around or.

[Stanford Steve]

Correct.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you're fucked.

[Stanford Steve]

Why?

[Big Cat]

So you have the kids or. No.

[Stanford Steve]

No.

[Big Cat]

Okay. I thought you meant you had the kids, no wife. I was like, what are you doing, Steve? All right, and then. So my other question about the setup. How do you navigate text messages, calls, whatever, to our friend Scott if things go poorly with Maryland? Because we know. I actually got to see super bowl week. I got to see the inside look of it because Steve and I were hanging out. We. He had to go do a hit on SportsCenter, which he's on every night. And before the hit was Ohio State versus Maryland, and Maryland lost within a buzzer beater. And everyone. All the producers were watching the game, being like, oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. Because they knew that it will change the mood of our good friend Scott Van Pelt. So how do you navigate that?

[Stanford Steve]

I will wait to hear from him.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Stanford Steve]

This. This. I mean, Saturday was so tough, knowing that the Juice is back here in the DMV for the Terps, and he was on vacation, and I never. I didn't. I didn't reach out. And this is probably. And I don't think. I think we texted until I got to or saw him until we did the podcast Monday. So I could see him having to deal with things differently because he was with all family members, and he was with, you know, his family. His other side of the family's off Florida people. So I. I. As much as I wanted to, I've been there before, and I know that I will wait to be spoken to, and that's how I handle that.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

That's smart. The other thing I wanted to get to real quick was kind of a. A revisiting of our wing date that we had last year with Mark Titus. So Mark H. He ate chicken wings because he's proven he's one of the boys, right? Like Mark and hang. That's what he does. And so he ate. I think 10, maybe 12 wings. And he was out for the next, what, two days?

[Big Cat]

Three days.

[PFT Commenter]

Three days. He had to call. He had to call in ways.

[Stanford Steve]

72 hours.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. He looked like death.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Like, is it that he's that healthy? Where you put a little fried food and good sauce in you and that's what it does to you.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a Cali boy. Yeah. You can. You can eat wings and. And go out for seconds. You can have dessert.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

You know, you get so much sand between your toes when you're in California too long, you know, things start happening, your body starts getting affected outside in, whereas we're building it from the inside out.

[Big Cat]

Right. Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Where we have that strength, you know, the inner strength.

[PFT Commenter]

That's our version of playing in altitude.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Right.

[Stanford Steve]

Just keep adding layers from the inside.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. If you made me eat like Mark for an entire week, where it's like salads, I would just be. I'd wither away. I'd probably. A strong wind would take me.

[Stanford Steve]

I would tap out. I'm out.

[Big Cat]

All right, what do you have for us?

[Stanford Steve]

I wasn't sure. Are we going to talk about the crown? Because I saw Villanova made the crown.

[Big Cat]

Crown is huge. Max, just. Max, plug your headphones. Put your headphones back on. Max, we got a crown question from Steve Brown.

[Stanford Steve]

Do you like Villanova's draw?

[Hank]

Sure. We don't have a coach. We're. We're focused. We're focused on bringing in a coach. Maybe Kevin Willard from Maryland.

[Stanford Steve]

Oh, don't say that down here. Oh, man.

[Hank]

I heard he hasn't signed the extension yet. That's all I'm saying. I heard he hasn't signed the extension yet.

[Stanford Steve]

All right, well, you got pretty good sources, it sounds like. But also, Max, I'm going through the bracket, and there's no teams from the great state of Phil or City from Philadelphia. Like, not one like this hotbed, you know, the Palestri you always hear about. I think it's three straight years, no teams from Philadelphia. Is that right?

[Big Cat]

Whoa.

[Hank]

Yeah. Well, that's three straight years of Villanova not being there to carry the Big Five. So that's everyone.

[Stanford Steve]

That's almost half a decade.

[Hank]

I know.

[PFT Commenter]

It's a long time.

[Big Cat]

I know it's close.

[PFT Commenter]

The SEC took. Took all Philly swagger.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

That's bad.

[Stanford Steve]

Sure.

[Big Cat]

That's really bad.

[Stanford Steve]

This is a combination, too, because I do want to congratulate Max. I saw him the night before the super bowl, and I just told, like, you know, try and enjoy it. Try and enjoy it. And he had nothing. He was on one. And I just want to say congratulations to Max because I know how invested he is, but I do. Then I started thinking, guys, like, we've come a long way at super bowl week. Like, hanging out. Like, you know, the green light guys are on another level. And like, they basically hosted us all week. And they were great, but it was great. Dan and I had a romantic dinner next to a guy who didn't say a word and wouldn't move, and no one knew who he was. But we, we moved on. But like, having, like, no injuries, no fatalities. And I just keep going back, guys, to that house you guys had in Houston.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Do you remember the debauchery of that house of people? I mean, there were some big time people there and they didn't care what they were doing. I mean, Hank was a little pipsqueak back then too.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

But, but like, we've mature. Like, pft. We were out, you know, hanging out. I never know where you're gonna show up. But you always do.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

And I, I, I, I really feel like we've grown for Super Bowl. Like, we, the, the, our, our intake is, is way more established and we know what we're doing now.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Pacing. The pacing is a lot better.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I was surprised that Rosillo was kind. He was the maniac. This super bowl week, I feel. It felt like every time I ran into you, Rosilla was coming in at like 2am, closing the shop down, telling stories about getting into a fight with Warren Sapp, just like holding court in front of the entire house. He was. Brazil's got a second wind in life.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Oh, yeah. Because. And then, you know what? There's, there's, there's no taking the air out of that sale. The second win too.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

That thing just goes. It's going. But, yeah, I think we've, we've come a long way. And like, I compared Dan at the super bowl to Duke. Like, Duke. Duke. I'm a Duke fan. And these Duke teams, you know, whether it's Zion's team, you know, Jason Tatum's team, I love, love those teams. But I always wanted more and, like, to get Dan Solo for our romantic dinner, like, he had nowhere to go. Like, it was just me. So it was like, all right, you ready for another one?

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Stanford Steve]

And he was a trooper. I give him all the credit.

[Big Cat]

Listen, I wish we could do super bowl week in reverse where it's like, I have all the energy in the world on Sunday and Monday and Then by the end of the week, like, it's just zapped. I. I like and I. I think about it because, like, it's. You know what it is, too? It's that we do these live shows after a full day of everything else where, like, we finished a day and it's 5 o'clock, then we got to go sit in a bar and do a live show. And I love it. But then I'm just like, get me to a bed where I can just sit and watch your. Your Stanford Cardinal play it like midnight. That's the thing. We're still trying to give me shit. He's like, oh, you're out like, hobnobbing with people and like, you know, star fucking. It's like, dude, I'm just losing thousands of dollars watching ACC basketball in California. That's what I'm doing. So it was a good week, though.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah, no, it fantastic. It always lives up. We got our crew and. But I have to say, like, we've come a long way.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

That house you guys had, man. Oh, man.

[Big Cat]

I mean, Loud Sean almost died. He almost drowned. He just got in the pool. He was trying to play one on one with Jared Goff, and then he. And then he got in the pool and almost died.

[PFT Commenter]

Glenny Ball is passing out every night at 11pm in the chair with a beer in one hand and the biggest smile on his face.

[Stanford Steve]

The NFL quarterbacks had a weekend there, boy.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they did.

[Stanford Steve]

Oh, my God.

[Big Cat]

The best was Jared Goff called me the next morning and was like, do you know where Blake. Blake is? Blake Bortles. I was like, what? Why would I know? And it's like, why are you calling me to ask where Blake Bor. They had a flight to catch.

[PFT Commenter]

Steve, real quick, though, before we get into the bracket, you. You gave Max some for the crown. How are we feeling about our Cardinal in the nit? I picked you guys to win it all.

[Stanford Steve]

Nice.

[PFT Commenter]

Actually, No, I did. I picked George Mason over you. But you guys, I got you guys going a long way.

[Stanford Steve]

Big win over CSUN last night. Love our coach. Almost came close to 2020 wins. Had Louisville on the ropes. Bad whistle in the ACC tournament. But when you have to travel from Palo Alto to play in Charlotte in your conference tournament, you know you're going to get those kinds of things. So. No, we're on the up. We're on the up. We actually had people at the game for the NIT. Haven't seen that in about 15 years, so it's a process. We're Moving along, we got Andrew in charge of football. That'll. That'll shed light on everything else. So we're good on the farm.

[Big Cat]

Love that. Love that. All right, let's get into some games. So, yeah, this first game on Friday is. I'm going to say it's the most important game for everyone listening right now, because you went through Thursday, you probably got your teeth kicked in. You know, every. Every March Madness goes the same for me. I go in Thursday morning with a. With a well thought out plan. About 30 minutes into the day, the plan goes out the window. I get absolutely smoked. But then you have Friday to wake up and be like, all right, pick yourself up off the mat. Let's do this. And the first game is actually like, it's a great game in the fact that it's a one and a half point spread. It's Baylor, Mississippi State. I don't. I feel like Baylor had the type of season where I was always expecting kind of like what you're saying, wanting more. I always wanted more from Baylor. And Mississippi State is one of those teams like, I love Hubbard. Their defense is very bad. So what? Give us a win. We need a winner in this first game.

[Stanford Steve]

First of all, when you wake up today, make sure you brush your teeth and look yourself in the mirror and say, I'm going to do it today. I'm going to do it today. It's the most important part of the day to be happy with yourself. When you're brushing your teeth and looking yourself in the mirror, have that confidence. It starts right there. This is the toughest game of the day, I believe.

[Big Cat]

I know.

[Stanford Steve]

Like Hubbard. Hubbard is. Has no conscience. Like, he leads. I think he shoots nine over nine threes a game and bailout. To your point, Dan, I. I always look at that, and you look at the eights and nines in this tournament, you know, it's all the. In. In the 7 and 10. There's all the previous national champions, and Baylor's in that category. I love Edgecomb, but again, you wanted more from Baylor. The thing that Baylor does, they play zone over 20 of the time, and Hubbard will just shoot over it. So it's all about Hubbard making shots. I do trust stands in this spot. And Drew has been hot and cold in this kind of deal. But then the other part, and you love conspiracy theories, Baylor's point guard, Jeremy Roach, you know where he played the last four years?

[PFT Commenter]

Duke.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah, against Duke. Nova guy makes me think there's something in cooking in the book, seeing how, you know, the Bracket got set. But I'll stick with the sec. I'm going to go Mississippi State stands a style of play. I believe it frustrates Baylor.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, bad pick. But I respect these guys have Baylor.

[Big Cat]

In the Experian busters pool that we have. So they'll be rooting for Baylor. This is one of those games and I know you know this Steve, from doing it forever. I just have this chalked as no matter what loss.

[Stanford Steve]

Yes.

[Big Cat]

I'm going to pick whatever side. It doesn't matter whichever side. I'm not saying I have a strong lean either way. Whatever side I end up on, that's a loss.

[Stanford Steve]

No. And the problem is that's how I feel about all the seven tens this year too. Yeah, like Scott and I talked about, he loves the 89 matchups because the, the namesake and I just, I just look at trying to pick games and I'm like I hate the seven tens more than the eight nines. But yeah, it's, it, it, it, it'll. It'll kick us off. The tempo's the whole thing in that game. Baylor likes to get up and down. Mississippi State is, is good playing slower. So I can't even give you a total there because it's about who dictates tempo.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so the 125 game. Colorado State, Memphis. I feel like everybody's picking Colorado State. They are the favorite in this game. Yeah, it's like this one and then the Michigan San Diego game. Those are. People are going back and forth between those over the most likely 125 upset. I feel like this one, we've, we've talked about Memphis that the fact that they got a five seed is very puzzling. It's really strange. And Colorado State is probably the hottest team. So I, I like Colorado State but now I'm, I'm double guessing myself and I'm like, oh, I've heard so many other people say Colorado State where now they're becoming a trendy pick to make. So maybe I should go.

[Stanford Steve]

Memphis understood the Hunter injury is enormous. He's a kid that's played at Texas, Iowa State, plenty of experience. The reason Memphis got a five is because what they did in out of conference, they went to Maui and I believe went all the way to the final beat. UConn beat a bunch of teams out there and I actually love what Penny has done. Obviously you carry around the name Penny Hardaway in that area. There's nothing bigger. And he basically fired his whole staff before the season was like we got to change some things because this ain't working and they've had a great season. The issue with this game is I. It is, it's an automatic loss for me because Maryland's in the next round. So I would, I would tend. Like how like San Diego State. You saw that Mountain west, like not great. But is that a one game scenario? Mountain west teams, I'm sure you guys know this when seated 11 or lower going into San Diego State's game Tuesday night were 1 in 29 in their last 30. Now they're 1 in 30. So if, you know, Vegas obviously is dictating here because the 12's favored over the 5. I still think, you know, as a player, like I said, I'm Maryland advancing anyway. I would just take the 12 here. So you have your 12. 5.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Okay. Dumb thing I'm thinking about doing. And I want you to assess Oklahoma. UConn is a good game on paper here on Friday. The total sits at 147 and a half. I'm going to take the over in this game and here's why. I know I always take overs, but listen, I'm just, that's. I'm not going to bet an under in this tournament. I'm sure they'll inflate.

[Stanford Steve]

Not one.

[Big Cat]

Maybe a first half under because I don't want it. So that leads to my point. Maybe a first half under because I don't want to get stuck in the.

[Stanford Steve]

Free throw Tuesday night.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, the free throws. Yeah, the free throws at the end of games are crazy. UConn and Oklahoma are both elite free throw shooting teams. I think UConn's 11. I think Oklahoma is like somewhere in six or seven. Is it crazy to be like, hey, this is a game where like maybe the over is a little too, too low here. Not accounting for the fact that if this is a tight game which is spread says it should be, we're going to get a lot of trips to the line. And these, both these teams know how to make their free throws.

[Stanford Steve]

Did you bet it yet?

[Big Cat]

I have not.

[Stanford Steve]

Okay. Because I heard you guys and Titus talking about the ball. You know, Friday we get a whole day of seeing the balls, you know, Thursday.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Stanford Steve]

So that's key. Obviously with, with the issues that we've seen in balls taking care of, we've never seen. But I more of the belief that's because of a backboard and brand new rims for every site. I love the overhair.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Stanford Steve]

Love it. Both teams are going to be guns blazing. UConn, we know the intensity is going to be There Hurley will have those guys ready. The issue is UConn against good guards and that that's the toughest thing with UConn this year. Forever in my life growing up there, they've had a point guard that just makes plays and could get to the hoop and make shots forever. And they don't have it this year. But on the other side, that's what even hurts them even more is they really struggle defending good point guards and fears for Oklahoma is tremendous. This will be an up tempo game. I think Oklahoma likes to play that style and UConn, you know, could get caught up. It feels like every game you watch them, there's a 100 run each way and then it's just how are they going to respond? So Oklahoma's been really good. Unbelievable cover at the end of that SEC tournament against Kentucky. I mean they had them on the ropes, but yeah, I love the over in this game. The point spreads getting crazy high. Yeah, loved. I mean I thought I saw you, I, you kind of wanted open. I was thinking I took a minus three and now I'm seeing like five and a half, five and a half. So that scares me off there. But I expect UConn to win the game. But I really like your over there.

[Big Cat]

All right. I, I, I, by the way, I just put it in because I was like, basically like if you said, if you said even I kind of like it, I would have put it in. But you said you really like he.

[PFT Commenter]

Was waiting for you to say you, you're crazy and then he wouldn't have put it in. That's the kind of direct action he needs.

[Big Cat]

If Steven said you, you're crazy, I would have waited until right before tip to put it in. The fact that he said I like it, I put it in.

[PFT Commenter]

Now got it.

[Big Cat]

I wouldn't. It was going in no matter what.

[PFT Commenter]

Steve, I had a question for you about that. So you were saying, like we'll see one day of balls on Thursday and then on Friday we can adjust our bets based on what we saw Thursday historically. Do you know how that works out? Like, if there's a trend on Thursday where the under is hitting at a 70 clip, does that hold over through Friday or do the bookmakers adjust overnight for that?

[Stanford Steve]

Well, the one year I will go back that I joined you on the Sunday before the tournament, on selection Sunday, I believe it was a day after. And then that spot got hijacked. I was just gonna, I think I gave out first half unders that day and it crushed like, I think it started 8. 0.

[Big Cat]

Yep.

[Stanford Steve]

And I kind of tapped out after that because I was like, I'll take 8. 0. Because there's that little space before the night games. I'm like, I'm good with 8. 0 on the unders. You could have this. But it feels like it comes around on Friday. It balances out. It always does. If there was that crazy of a trend, the crazy tournament betters would have it. But I look at more of the teams pft, and you know, I'm going down this Friday, so I see a lot of teams that Dan has. Has rode overs of, and I do expect a lot of points on Friday.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, I think, like Norfolk, Florida, which we don't spend a lot of time on a 116. Like, Florida names their number. Like, as long as they're going, your.

[Stanford Steve]

Team totals like 91 and a half.

[Big Cat]

But I don't think it matters. Norfolk's going to try to zone them, which they'll hit threes, they'll rebound. Like, that's going to be a disaster.

[Stanford Steve]

The issue is Norfolk. Like, when does Florida call the Dogs off? Because they have 12 of them.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Stanford Steve]

And you got it. I mean, Norfolk's got to get to 60, I would think.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

For you to be good. And I just. They're so good and swarm. Like, you get the ball underneath the hoop against Florida, you can't even get it over your shoulder.

[Big Cat]

Right.

[Stanford Steve]

Like it. And it just gets punched right back in your face. So good luck to Norfolk State. They've had a great year. They do. They come in scoring a bunch of points. I have looked at that over. So you're going to need like a 95, 55 right around there. I think, because it's in the 160s.

[Big Cat]

I think it's going for 100. That's the thing with Florida. They shoot threes and then when they miss their threes, there's, you know, there's three dudes who are all close to seven feet, just standing there getting the rebounds.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah. And you have to take the ball out of bounds after it just got slammed on your head.

[Big Cat]

Exactly, exactly. Steve, how much do you put into. Speaking of Florida and the SEC in general, of conference and like, these matchups and what we saw in the regular season and like, hey, is the SEC going to just keep being dominant? Is it? Is it? You know, there's a, you know, the ACC's been shit on, but maybe, you know, they only got four teams in. Maybe these teams are better than people think. How much do you play into that when you're looking at these games, well.

[Stanford Steve]

I'm beaten over the head every night watching games with a former ACC guy and just hearing how bad the ACC is year in and year out. And then they had, like, three teams. They've. They've gotten the most wins the last five years, I think I saw of any conference in the tournament, which is mind blowing to me, knowing how everyone shits on it. And I get it. The bottom of the conference is terrible. But I. I still think the top is good. To me, it's the end. No, it's still about matchups. It really is. Now, if you're going with the bracket and everybody's already filled out, like I said, you can't have Florida or Duke. You know, you got to be different and just hope. Because everyone. I mean, everyone has Florida, Duke in the final, and that's. That's scary to me. And if you're trying to get, you know, people go about the bracket different ways, and I just go against the trends. You know, it's tight. It feels like everybody had the ones and twos playing the Elite Eight. So, you know, it's Florida. I mean, as impressive. I mean, the conference that they just stormed, they won every game by double digits. And we, you know, you hear about all the power ranking numbers and everything. I mean, they just dominated that conference. So they're as impressive as, you know, UConn. Last year, you wondered, because I think the Big east only got three teams. So it was like, all right, well, when they start playing some better teams, how are they going to respond? But Florida's played the best of the best, and I, you know, I expect them. They're going to. They're going to have to get tripped up. In a game where a team is an A plus and they're like a C, right? C minus, right? That's. That's the only way I see them losing.

[PFT Commenter]

Big game for conference pride would be UNC Ole Miss. I feel like that. That swings a lot of emotion. Like, if you're an ACC guy, you're probably. You're definitely rooting for UNC to say, like, even when in a down year, we can still beat the. Out of you guys. Unc, do we owe Bubba Cunningham an apology? Did Bubba Cunningham get it right?

[Big Cat]

No, I do. I will apologize. Seth Davis said that. He's like, no matter what happens tonight, it doesn't mean that this was right or wrong. I was like, yeah, fucking does. When UNC wins, then he. Then the committee was right. And if they lose, then they should be banned from basketball.

[Stanford Steve]

That was my. Because as soon as it came out, I bet Carolina goes sweet 16 because of the matchup. Like, I just can't do it with Mountain west teams. And then you look at Ole Miss, who's a six played in the sec, but they don't have like Carolina. You watch them. And the biggest jarring thing, they don't have any bigs that are like pros. Like, forever in your life, Carolina's had pros that are. That are bigs, but Ole Miss doesn't have any bigs really either. So, like, I love the matchup for Carolina here. And yeah, it's probably a conference pride deal. And that's the other thing. PFT is like, you know, the SEC haters having to hear that they set a record for 14 teams. And you know, they are just waiting because they're gonna set the record for most losses in a tournament.

[PFT Commenter]

Right, Right.

[Stanford Steve]

Only one team ends the season with a win. So I just know that that is starting. It's just a matter of how fast it accumulates. But you know, that army is coming to to jump on the SEO, you know, have. But they got the record for the most losses. Yeah. No. Yeah. So no, it's definitely a big conference pride deal. Where is this game? This game is in?

[PFT Commenter]

Let's see.

[Big Cat]

Oh, it's got to be close. It's gotta be in Cleveland. Right. Because they just played in Dayton.

[PFT Commenter]

Fiserv.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Oh, that might be Milwaukee.

[PFT Commenter]

Five serve. Milwaukee.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Milwaukee. Milwaukee. So, yeah, South, South. Got to travel north.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

All right. Two other overs I'm looking at on Friday. You can tell me if I'm crazy.

[Stanford Steve]

Give it to me. There's one I absolutely love.

[Big Cat]

Okay. New Mexico. Marquette.

[Stanford Steve]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

I think both those teams are going to try to get up and down. And then the other one was Arizona, Akron. That's high, very high. But they just fucking run. And I don't know Akron's going to be have trouble. Arizona is not that big, but neither is Akron. I think they're just going to shoot threes and it's going to be one of those games that there's going to be crazy runs both ways. And I'm just expecting the pace to be so out of control that we can get to like, you know, 75 possessions each side.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah, this is, this is one of the probably the most interesting 13, 4. When I look at the matchups, I know you guys were heavily invested in the Mac tournament. It's one of my favorite tournaments. I really think those teams are legit. They played in Cleveland. Every team's from freaking Ohio. So the building's pack, it's an awesome atmosphere. And Akron, to your point that they just want to go like, all right, we gave up a hoop, but they make threes, right? That's, that's the problem with the Mac teams when they get to this level is their three point Shooting falls off. And with that, I love the defense that Arizona guards play, but Akron style, like, it's, it's not like they prefer the three. Everybody prefers an open three. But Akron's like, all right, fine, you want to take away that, we'll go to the hoop. So their pace is incredible and it's getting, you know, it's pretty trendy, dog. I've heard plenty of people pick the upset. I just, I, I like Arizona's personnel and I love the fact if they move on that they already played Duke and they've seen that length in athleticism. So Arizona is kind of a sneaky team for me. I knew, I knew you were going to take the highest over on the board. Like, you just never, you never look at the, you know, an Ivy League over or something like that. You always want to go with the over. But yeah, you, I don't see how you take the under in that game knowing the pace that those people plays. And he's probably the biggest outlier in the tournament because as good as brought a team to a national championship game and as bad as has. Has not, you know, been good. And that's Caleb Love. Yeah, he is. I mean, you talk. I mean, I thought he was really good against Houston in the final. And Arizona made. I was really curious about them in the Big 12 tournament, but they were impressive. And this, that bracket, you know, I do my teams that can win the national title. I have five teams in that bracket that can win it.

[Big Cat]

What are they?

[Stanford Steve]

So give them Wisconsin. Hanging by a thread. Yeah, hanging by a thread. Because of the draw. We will, we will know how, how we're doing there. But BYU is a team that everyone's picking against. But they, they were on the list.

[PFT Commenter]

BYU can win the national title.

[Stanford Steve]

Yes.

[Big Cat]

BYU lever.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, I like it. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's huge.

[Stanford Steve]

Names the Denver spot I like. But though, yeah, VCU thing, it's kind of hard to do now, but our chips are in. Don't worry about it. Yeah, I. The other over that I love is Kentucky. Troy.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Kentucky is not interested in playing defense now with Butler back. He's their like only defense line of defense. Because he is a really good defensive point guard. He's got plenty of tournament experience. But, you know, the shoulder, you know, it seems like it's not to the extent of Malik Brown for Duke, but they need him to go far. But they're still going to shoot. I mean, they're like my favorite team to watch in college basketball. The way they play five out and And Berea is an unbelievable shooter and. And they could shoot it from all over. So I look at that and Troy's a team that beat Rico's Arkansas State team that he quickly jumped off the bandwagon of and they, they gave it to him. I mean, they go the hoop and they're pretty fearless. So I like that. Over.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, so who are the other teams that you think can win at all? You've got byu, Wisconsin, by a thread.

[Stanford Steve]

Yep.

[PFT Commenter]

Who else?

[Stanford Steve]

Duke, Arizona, Bama.

[PFT Commenter]

Duke. Arizona.

[Big Cat]

In that. In that.

[Stanford Steve]

But I have, I have said all year, Duke will not win the national championship if they don't have Malik Brown.

[Big Cat]

Ooh. And he's. He's out. He's. I don't think he's coming back.

[Stanford Steve]

It's dicey. Yeah. So that's, that's. Yeah, I, I have the list every year. Pft. And then I'm doing the, you know, that's when you get the bracket. I go through that and I'm like, oh, my God, the East. So all this talk about Duke having an easy draw, I don't believe it at all. We touched on Baylor and Mississippi State. They're a pain in the ass. And that's the least amount of talk about the 8:9 versus the 1 than any other. Like you go through the other bracket, everyone's talking about UConn getting a rematch or, you know, two time champ going against the last two time champ in Florida. Get Zag is getting plenty of. Of talk. And then Louisville gets to play in. In, in Lexington, but no one's talking about Creighton in that game. So all those eight nines against the one have gotten more steam, I feel. And Mississippi State and Baylor winners is dangerous to me to do.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

All right.

[Big Cat]

Other best bets on Thursday. On Friday, sorry.

[Stanford Steve]

We got the Yukon over.

[Big Cat]

You want to talk about, you want to talk about.

[PFT Commenter]

I got one.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah, go ahead.

[PFT Commenter]

Liberty. Oregon over. Just strictly because it's.

[Stanford Steve]

It's the lowest.

[PFT Commenter]

It's the lowest and it's also the last game. And I feel like crazy shit happens in those.

[Stanford Steve]

Nighttime always in that game too.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Oh, that game they had last year was brutal. Yeah. When they had five guys. The one I'm interested in in here is Michigan State. I look at their team total under because they don't care how they win. Like, does that make sense? Like they're like, you want to shoot some threes? All right, we know we got to shoot some threes, but you know what? You're not going to make three. So we're going to, you know, slow it down and make it methodical, but they're not interested in scoring high numbers. And you know, with Michigan State and plenty of people have picked them to the final Four, they've had a great season. Overachieved from what they were at the beginning of the season. There's a bunch of those teams, but they come to mind at the top. But like it's, it's pretty high. Like it's in the 80s. I think I had.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

That you what you 85 and a half. Like there's no way.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you.

[Stanford Steve]

I don't see that. And Brian's got some guys like Brian's got some size. They got a point guard at 6. 6. That could do it. So that's a really interesting game to me. And I feel like Michigan State, they dictate a lot and if they want to, let's, you know, make this, make that team defend you in the paint.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Izzo is, he's kind of like Saban in that. Once it's over, it's over. He's not going to push it. He's not going to, to, you know, Nate Oats, where they're just still running and gunning up, you know, a million. Like he's, he kind of respects the.

[Stanford Steve]

Game and they don't violate the three point line.

[Big Cat]

Right, right.

[Stanford Steve]

They're, they're pretty methodical and it's been successful. So why are you going to get away from that? So that's one that stuck out to me.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

All right. So who are the other teams that you have overall across the bracket that can win at all?

[Big Cat]

Be careful because one of these might have already been eliminated.

[Stanford Steve]

I know. Well, now we know they cannot win.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

There's only going to be one standing Midwest, Houston, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Florida, St. John's Tech, Terps South, Auburn, Iowa State, Sparty.

[Big Cat]

Okay, let's actually talk real quick about Maryland Grand Canyon in this game. I like Maryland. I think they're a phenomenal team. You got to be a little nervous if you're a Maryland fan, knowing your depth issues. Crab 5 is great, but it falls off after that. And in the tournament, you're always just one bad whistle away from being like, holy shit. How do we have, you know, we got to sit a guy with two fouls five minutes into the game. Like, what are your thoughts on Maryland overall and making a deep tournament run?

[Stanford Steve]

I really like it because they know what they got, Dan. You know. You know, I even look at Florida and it's just Like, I don't even know how they do substitution patterns because you don't argue with who's on the floor. And then you look at it, you're like, oh, so and so. Only played 12 minutes. Well, does it matter? You scored 90 and you won by 20, right? You know, but Maryland knows what they have to get from guys and that's, I think it's only 6 points they get from the bench a game. And I thought that was even high because I watch them every night and it's like no one scores on the bench. Geronimo is a great backup, big man. The issue is, is, is Queen. You saw him get refereed differently in the Big Ten tournament, went to the hoop a bunch against Michigan and didn't get calls. But Willard's got plenty of experience. He is a guy that if, if a player gets two files, they sit in the first half. That, that, that's a fact. So does he change his ways there? But I just love their shot making. Their guards are tremendous. They run great stuff. The issue with Maryland in that starting five is their guards don't rebound. But they're, but they're such an offensive team that I don't think they worry about that. But I really like their draw. And at some point when you're the four, you play the one, hopefully and you know, you get a week to prepare and you roll the balls out. So I, I there. It's been really, really cool. The Crab five thing, what these guys done, how Willard has constructed this roster after, I mean, they were abysmal shooting the ball the last couple years, just, just couldn't do it. It was, it was tough to watch. And now here they are, one of the best scoring teams in a power conference. So. I love the turf.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, Steve, what's your plan in terms of your, your bet management strategy for what you're looking at? Like, I'm talking about like, do you have a pen and a paper? Do you have a physical piece of paper in front of you while you're watching the games? Do you have written down on like a whiteboard or do you just rely on the app?

[Stanford Steve]

This, this is already written. This has been a couple day tally of things we like with the apps. Now it's kind of like, do you want to look at how bad it was? You know, like everything's in there right where you look at it and it's like, oh, I still got this to play and I still got this in play. There's some pen and paper, but you know, if you're going out to the bars with the guys, you know, kind of leave that pen and paper home because you don't want that getting out or losing it because they're, you know, you got to instill it in your head already and you got to have a mindset going in, in. In worry of the. The intake of being, you know, accumulating over the course of a day. And now, I mean, what do we got? We got a 10, 10 o'clock tip and a 10, 10 tip. Safe bet is to be in bed for those.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, my, my. Got to be my plan every March Master's again, I'm a losing better. I lose every year.

[Stanford Steve]

Everyone does. Yeah, everyone does.

[Big Cat]

But you can't. There's got to be a moment where you just let go of all the numbers and analysis and things you've been reading and just let it fly. Just start. Start seeing the ball, throwing it, throwing to open spots. Like that happens early on Thursday where I'm like, all right, I've done all the research. I got all my notes. We got to just go. We got to trust the process.

[Stanford Steve]

And pft. To your point, a lot has changed. I mean, growing up and seeing people, relatives, friends, bet with a bookie and just let the tab run. That is like, those don't happen as long because you're on the apps. It's like, all right, am I going to put another thousand on here? Like, like you really have that come to face moment. All right. When you're. When you're looking at, you know, the deposits and the withdrawals. So I think it's, you know, you got to know what you have going in because again, Thursday and Friday are absolute marathons. And I always just say, try to stay in the fight. Yeah, just try and stay in the fight. And if you get to Saturday, you clear down. You got a couple more hours. I think that first game is not till 140, but stay in the fight and again, wake up Saturday. Positive as hell.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

I like to write it down, though, in. In the first two games because there's so much happening, so much basketball going on. I feel like I'm being pulled in seven different directions. I like to have the pen and the paper in front of me now. You're right. If you're going, yeah, yellow, preferably yellow. No, pet. That's the best one. But yeah, if you're going out to a bar with friends, I don't think anybody likes the guy that keeps, like, pulling out a sheet of paper and like, crossing things off and checking all that stuff. But we're going to be in a gambling rich environment on Thursday and Friday, so.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah. You guys streaming? Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah. Streaming them all. Streaming them all.

[Stanford Steve]

Oldie coming.

[Big Cat]

Oldie is not coming for these ones.

[Stanford Steve]

That would be. I don't know if that's a good mix.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, he's, he, Oldie's electric. He was electric.

[PFT Commenter]

He's also on fire.

[Stanford Steve]

See the video of you working on the car and him helping the garbage guys. I could not stop instantly.

[PFT Commenter]

And it's not for the camera either. Like, that's only, you know, I was videoing. Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

And, and, and the accent, it's like in the way he says boys. Like, I just, I can't get enough. I, I, Yeah.

[Big Cat]

You should see Steve. He literally like the, the, the four days he was here last week, every time I turned around, he was like, he was taking out the trash, he was restocking the water bottles. Like he just doing everything. He can't sit still.

[Stanford Steve]

Like, I listened, I listened to how it all came about when Yan's was talking about how he's friends with Nashville and like, can you imagine him going in the Rangers locker room before a playoff?

[Big Cat]

Yes.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yes, yes. It's incredible.

[PFT Commenter]

They love them too. He showed me the video. The guys went nuts. It's like a stripper. He's like a male stripper for dudes. For straight guys.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

You bring him in and he just gets you pumped up. And he also takes his clothes off sometimes too. Yeah, yeah.

[Big Cat]

And he's got a vagina.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Oh, oh. All right.

[Stanford Steve]

Like that. I mean, you guys have always found these diamonds in the rough, but man, it's, it's, it's said about you guys forever. Like it, you just keep living up to the hype. And it's, I like, I'm like, who the hell is this guy? And I, I can't get enough of him. Love the guy and his enter, but his genuine energy is just incredible. And you like, it's, it's awesome.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

The last two times he's come down here, the only two times he's brought additional pieces of Carry on luggage with him just so he can fill him up with Canadian snacks that we don't have down in the States and then he gets down here and just passes them out. He brought like maple syrup, he brought candy bars that we don't have down here. He brings it all. He brought two boxes of Tim Hortons donuts and they sat next to him on the plane. The guy's just a gym and every.

[Big Cat]

Morning, when he wakes up in his hotel room, he packs all of his stuff back up and brings it to the office because he's like, what if I forget something? So every day he wakes up when he's here and, like, he's like, he's going to the airport, and then he brings it back. It's crazy.

[Stanford Steve]

Those are my worst times when I'm traveling for game day. But the other thing that I heard those guys is like, yeah, he, like, if he gets the call, he just calls his garbage guys in Canada. He's like, yeah, boys, boys called. Gotta go.

[Big Cat]

Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go, gotta go. Oh, it's great. All right, Steve, last question. Roback question. Rho, B, A C, K.com promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. Q, zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code, take. So obviously, we watch Thursday and this is coming out Friday, but you can still bet on this. Two national champions. So people could possibly put a future on to give us two.

[Stanford Steve]

Oh, I'll give you. They're on the same side. Alabama and Tennessee.

[Big Cat]

Oh, oh, Rick Barnes.

[Stanford Steve]

Yes. I love Rick Barnes. I know everyone picks apart Final Fours, but there's plenty of sweet sixteens and elite eights in this. In this resume. And this. I mean, you guys know this tournaments a crapshoots. I think it's the craziest way to win a national championship. And, you know, stuff happened, like, last year, he loses the. Kai Ziegler, his most valuable player connect scores, what, 37. And they lose to Purdue. Like, what do you suppose that's. What are you supposed to do?

[Big Cat]

Right?

[Stanford Steve]

You know, like, there's plenty of those instances. So I do feel different about Tennessee. And they'll probably have already been eliminated by. I mean, Wofford will shoot 30 threes and make 20.

[PFT Commenter]

To your point, they might be a better team than they were last year. They don't have their best player.

[Stanford Steve]

Obviously, they're better offensively. It's not even a question. And Ziegler, like, Ziegler, like, you hear, you know, Billis and those guys talk like, maybe there's not five more valuable point guards. And what he did in the SEC championship would keep going at Florida was. Was super impressive. He shot it better. He goes to the line a bunch and. And they got, you know, some guys in the portal that could score. So I. I like. I really like that team.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. Both 22 to one. So not taking Auburn, are they? Although they're. Yeah, they're 22 to 1, right?

[Big Cat]

Now, it'll be down a little if. Because they. I think they both play or at least Tennessee plays on Thursday.

[PFT Commenter]

Mike Parliam, both to win the national championship. How about that? Also, I don't know if you heard this, Steve. College basketball expert Jalen Rose last night was talking about he was gassing up Auburn and what a great player Johnny Broom is. So I don't know if you want to kind of follow his advice and bet on Johnny Broom.

[Stanford Steve]

Good with that.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Stanford Steve]

I do feel like it's a buy low spot in Auburn.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, it might be.

[Stanford Steve]

It might be women's picks. Oh, women's fix. You want to get those?

[Big Cat]

Yes. Go give it to us.

[Stanford Steve]

There's app. You could find it on multiple apps. UConn and South Carolina to meet in the final, I believe is plus 400. I like Ole Miss to go to the Sweet 16.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Stanford Steve]

UCLA's got the toughest draw. UConn, obviously, to win their region, I believe is around even money. But, yeah, that list is way bigger than we've ever had it in the women's game. So I'm fired up for the one. I got three daughters. Wife's a hoops fan, too. So, like, you guys think you're, you know, you guys are getting the cave with the men's games. We. We got them all.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

What do they start Friday? Oh, man. Yeah, we were. We got iPads underneath TVs, like, everywhere.

[Big Cat]

I love it in beds.

[Stanford Steve]

The next morning, they're all over. You got to make sure they're charged up. Charge the iPads.

[PFT Commenter]

I like that, though. Calling your shot on the exact matchup in the championship.

[Stanford Steve]

Yes.

[Big Cat]

It's a good one.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

What about that? All right, Steve, thank you as always. You're the best. Sorry we couldn't get Snooki to pair you with. We'll do it next year. That is tradition. So we reached out. She's sick. She's under the weather.

[Stanford Steve]

Two things. Pft. Chief and Senko. Met you down in Oxford. Big Caps, guys. Come on down. Rock the red anytime you want. And I want to give good news to Mark Titus that the wing dates not on this year.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you're not gonna be in San Antonio.

[Stanford Steve]

I will not be at San Antonio. So Mark and breathe a big sigh of relief.

[Big Cat]

I'm still going to go with Chenoweth and we're going to turn on the women's game and we'll watch some hoops.

[Stanford Steve]

Final Four. Big night.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Stanford Steve]

Actually, you know what? You could probably watch Scott and I after the game.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Perfect. Perfect.

[Stanford Steve]

What everyone loves to do.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. All right. Thanks, Steve.

[Stanford Steve]

Boys.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

I am too.

[PFT Commenter]

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[Big Cat]

Okay. Fire fest of the week. Do you see that thing I just sent you, Hank?

[Max]

Yeah, I mean, the people will know by now.

[Big Cat]

We're taping this in the morning.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Produce 19 and 13 to the over.

[PFT Commenter]

Sure. Under vibes, though. Per Hank.

[Big Cat]

Per Hank.

[Max]

So it was the ultimate under vibes.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank. If it makes you feel any better, you have just as much college basketball expertise as Jalen Rose does. Like, if you. If you heard that tournament, this is.

[Max]

This is where casuals come to play.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, and there's. That's fine.

[Max]

And apparently not, though. Big cat's trying to gatekeep my ball.

[Big Cat]

No, I'm not trying to gatekeep. I said. You said. I said. You asked me what I had. I said the over and you said ew, Purdue under.

[Max]

No, I said.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you said under. I said I have the over. Oh, no, no, I said I had the over first.

[Max]

So why under?

[Big Cat]

You said the vibes. Yeah, Purdue it like ill Purdue. I mean, E.W. purdue is right. But they do play. They do score points.

[Max]

Yeah, like I said, their defense sucks. But at this point, the people will know.

[Big Cat]

At this point, I got to just double my bet on the over and just make it a personal thing between us. Ooh. Hank. Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Breaking moves. The Boston Celtics.

[Max]

Whoa.

[PFT Commenter]

Have been sold.

[Big Cat]

Oh. Oh.

[PFT Commenter]

Bill Chisholm, the managing partner at Symphony Technology Group. Billy has a. Billy Chizzy has agreed to purchase the Celtics from the Grousebeck family for a valuation of $6.1 billion.

[Big Cat]

What does he do, Billy? What does he do?

[Max]

He's the CEO of Symphony Technologies stg. That's like clarinets and all right.

[Big Cat]

I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna. I was about to say, I feel like this guy did a really good job of naming his company where he's probably like creating drones that kill a bunch of people in foreign countries. But he calls it Symphony Technology. So you think of it and you're like, oh, that can't be that bad.

[PFT Commenter]

The Symphony Technology Group, we leverage advanced solutions to kinetically eliminate challenges.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, exactly.

[Max]

Private equity.

[Big Cat]

All right. Symphony Technology.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, they probably are like investing in companies that are putting everyone in America out of work in the next 20 years for the Symphony.

[Big Cat]

All right, tell me if you can, tell me if you can decide what these guys do. We find, build and scale mid market market software and software enabled tech service businesses. We have tailored our team and approach specifically to these sectors. We believe we unlock the potential of innovative companies by partnering with top management teams to build customer centric market winners.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay, I know exactly what they do.

[Big Cat]

That's just. They just give them. They just.

[PFT Commenter]

Here's what.

[Big Cat]

Buy the team. No, just buy the company and infuse cash and Dell.

[PFT Commenter]

No.

[Big Cat]

Sell it.

[PFT Commenter]

No, here's what they do. They, they buy companies and then they fire everyone and then they make more money.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, well, they, well, no, they, they make everyone work really hard.

[Max]

Like capitalism. PFD is that.

[Big Cat]

No, they make everyone.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm just explaining what he does.

[Big Cat]

They make everyone work really hard for a couple years. They build it really big, then they fire everyone. Then they sell.

[PFT Commenter]

Then they sell it. So this guy is going to be acquiring the Celtics. So. And put that in basketball terms for me. He's going to make Peyton Pritchard play 500 minutes a week and then fire him in two years.

[Big Cat]

Bill Chisholm.

[PFT Commenter]

Bill Chisholm. So it's now the largest sale for a sports franchise in North America. The Commanders were sold for 6.05 billion. The Celtics were sold for 6.1 billion.

[Big Cat]

William Chisum, trying to learn more about this guy.

[PFT Commenter]

Billy Chiz.

[Big Cat]

Hank.

[PFT Commenter]

Hank, what do you think he's managing at Symphony?

[Big Cat]

Symphony.

[PFT Commenter]

He's Billy Strings.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

You love this guy.

[Max]

Legend. I do love this guy. I'm also trying to find out some more information on him, but he seems like a great guy. Clearly a very smart business mind and I'm excited to, to see what he's got in store. Hopefully he likes the Celtics and isn't doing this as a business.

[PFT Commenter]

I'm sure that's what it is. I mean, I'm sure the private equity managing partner doesn't care about making money. There's a passion for him.

[Max]

Well, that's the problem is our current owners, like, they were like, we don't care about the luxury tax. We'll we'll lose a hundred million dollars a year and you just want to be a championship winning team. That's what you want.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

That is what you want.

[PFT Commenter]

Time will tell.

[Max]

Time will tell.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Okay.

[Max]

My fyre fest of the week. Well, I mean, it's snowing today. That wasn't ideal. Wasn't expecting that. Driving into work today and nothing. I mean, nothing major. It's the best week of the year. Only real fyre fest or gripe I have this week is just that. The severance season finale is tonight. Thursday night. It'll be out by now, and I don't know when I'm gonna watch it, but I'm terrified of it getting spoiled, so I'm probably gonna stay up to like 3am tonight watching it.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Why would you say this out loud?

[Hank]

All right.

[Max]

What do you.

[Hank]

But you know.

[Big Cat]

You know people are gonna try to spoil you now.

[PFT Commenter]

It is true. But, yeah, Hank's gonna watch it, so.

[Hank]

Then everyone else is gonna.

[PFT Commenter]

So it's really our fire fest. Is that Hank?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. My firefest is that we just talked about this, and I'm going to get it spoiled.

[PFT Commenter]

So now I have to watch Severance when I get home.

[Hank]

We're keeping it in.

[Max]

I'll figure.

[Big Cat]

Okay, we'll keep it in.

[Max]

No, no, I'll figure something. No, you're right. You're right.

[PFT Commenter]

Hey, fake spoilers only, please.

[Big Cat]

No, we're keeping it in.

[Max]

No, no, no.

[Hank]

Some people do fake ones, some people do real ones. And then you.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. If you mix it up. If you mix it up, it's totally fine.

[PFT Commenter]

And honestly. Yeah.

[Max]

You guys don't deserve that. You guys don't deserve that. We can cut it. I don't.

[Big Cat]

I don't.

[Max]

I don't want that to happen.

[PFT Commenter]

Is coming out today.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Sopranos came out 22 years ago.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

But when I told you I was watching it, enjoying it, you specifically went out of your way for months to fair counterpoint.

[Big Cat]

It's not.

[Max]

It wasn't a.

[Big Cat]

Well, fine. But I. We're just gonna all. No, no, no. We're not cutting it. We're just. I'm just gonna have to watch it after the games today as well.

[PFT Commenter]

Or watch it with breakfast.

[Big Cat]

I'm gonna be up till 2am 75 minutes.

[Max]

I'm excited.

[PFT Commenter]

You know what? This is. This is like a relationship breaker, this severance coming out right now. Because a lot of guys are gonna watch it either late night tonight or early tomorrow morning. So they don't watch it on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday, and Then their girlfriends and wives are gonna be like, what the fuck? You just watched the finale of Severance without me?

[Big Cat]

Well, they're idiots because they just have to. Like, I told my wife, I was like, just watch it without me. I'll figure out when I'm gonna watch it. Because you can't. Like, I got.

[Stanford Steve]

I'm.

[Big Cat]

I'm incapacitated for the next four days. I can't be relied on.

[Max]

No.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. So I told her. I was like, watch it, because, like, come. Come Monday, you're not gonna be like, you're gonna get it spoiled. So just watch it.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you have any predictions?

[Max]

I don't. I mean, we. I don't think we should do that.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. It's not a spoiler.

[Hank]

We don't follow rules on this show.

[PFT Commenter]

No predictions.

[Big Cat]

That's facts. I think it's weird that the. Those brothers made out on the boat.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. But why did that chick stay with him after he unleashed the poisonous snakes?

[Hank]

I also saw the meme of the Duke guy with the gun.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

I was like, it got spoiled. This guy killed himself. Didn't actually kill himself.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And then part spoiler for who hasn't seen that episode yet?

[PFT Commenter]

Everything about that guy and everything about Parker Posey's character.

[Big Cat]

I love Parker Posey so much.

[PFT Commenter]

It's so good. Tar Heel.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Where's my Pam's all gown?

[Big Cat]

Do you know what we're talking about now?

[Max]

I do.

[Big Cat]

White Lotus.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

All right. What's your prediction? Kier wins it all.

[Max]

No, I think they're gonna set up a flashback season.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. It kind of isn't. It's not as big of a deal knowing there's another season. If there was. If this was the finale. Finale.

[Max]

I want death. I want multiple deaths. Oh, I think Helly's gonna kill her dad.

[Big Cat]

Oh, wow. All right. We should put, like, spoil. I. I guess you just want the.

[Hank]

Show to be Game of Thrones.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Max]

No, I mean, she's showing.

[Big Cat]

I want a dragon to come out.

[Max]

No, no. I mean, that'd be cool, like, instead of goats. But she's shown that she can, you know, she wants to kill herself. She's dangerous. She almost. She tried to kill Mark in the first season. She tried to kill herself. Like, they think that she's, you know, her daughter who's, like, the whatever of the company, but they don't know. They don't know heli down there.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[PFT Commenter]

I think he does want to be Game of Thrones.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Like, they make Dylan. That's not a.

[Max]

That's Not a Game of Thrones. That's a realistic take.

[Big Cat]

Are you betting the Purdue over or under?

[Max]

Under.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

You told me to.

[Big Cat]

No, I know.

[Max]

I bet it for a lot.

[Big Cat]

A lot.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Oh, God. This is. How do we always end up in this spot?

[Max]

You scoff at me and then I. Yeah. Personally.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Okay. We'll figure it out. I'm sure I'm gonna have to watch it at one in the morning today.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Again, we can cut it. Because I don't. I don't.

[Big Cat]

No, no, no. Because then we just.

[Max]

But, you know, you would get. Would you not see something in the next three days? Like, you know you would.

[Big Cat]

I'm pretty good at, like, my eyes. Like, when I don't. I didn't watch the last one until Tuesday. I'm pretty good at, like, scrolling and if I see anything that looks like it, I just scroll as fast as I can. Like, I don't. I kind of almost. I kind of look at the Internet, like, with the magic eye where, like, my eyes are a little crossed when I'm. When I'm trying to avoid spoilers.

[PFT Commenter]

I think that that young girl that had the adult's brain inside her, Ms. Huang.

[Stanford Steve]

Huang.

[PFT Commenter]

I think.

[Max]

Which is an adult's brain inside of her.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, clearly.

[Big Cat]

Huang.

[PFT Commenter]

She was the manager. I think she might. She might be Mark's kid. What do you think about that?

[Big Cat]

I don't know if the time they.

[PFT Commenter]

Were doing the fertility treatments.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. She was like.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

10, though.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Timing doesn't match up.

[PFT Commenter]

You don't think so? It's right when they graduate from college.

[Max]

No.

[Big Cat]

What?

[PFT Commenter]

Right.

[Max]

That was like a flash.

[Big Cat]

They're college professors.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, but I thought that it was. I thought the timeline would match up.

[Big Cat]

No, they were college professors. Not in.

[Max]

She died like, two years ago.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Ms. Wong is like, 10.

[PFT Commenter]

Okay. Never mind. That doesn't add up. That was actually.

[Big Cat]

But I like the theory.

[PFT Commenter]

But you never know.

[Big Cat]

You never know. I like the dude. I'm not. I'm not saying they could do anything with timelines.

[Max]

I like the idea that this is my theory. This is on the Internet, but it's a. Gemma is an innie that they released to the real world to, like, make Mark fall in love. Like, she was. She was never a real person.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Twilight Zone stuff.

[PFT Commenter]

She got severed to leave.

[Max]

Yeah. The twilight is always an innie.

[Hank]

Sorry.

[Big Cat]

How pissed do you think I would be if my. If they did the. If I sat down with the therapy woman and she was like, your Audi went 16 and. Oh, I'd be So mad like, you motherfuckers. I want to feel that right now.

[PFT Commenter]

Do you think. I don't think that it's bad that Dylan's wife kissed Dylan's innie. It's the same guy.

[Max]

I don't think. Would you get mad? Like, I would get. I'd be like, yeah, fuck it.

[Big Cat]

I think the problem still got. For me. I think the problem with it is that he's totally. He's totally different. Like she's falling in love with the innie. Because he's totally different than what he's become. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

He doesn't know that.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, no, no, I. I agree. I'm just saying I think that's why she's kind of broken up about it too.

[PFT Commenter]

I say fair play, but it's also.

[Hank]

Weird because you gotta support your bros. Irvin Burt. They treat their. Any relationship like it's their outie relationship. But Dill. But Dylan.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

And the girl do look at as completely separate things.

[Big Cat]

This is the worst recap of Severance ever. But I like it. I like it.

[Max]

I thought we were cutting this whole thing.

[PFT Commenter]

What if Michael Scott just came out and he was. He was here at the end and it was just a big episode of the Office?

[Max]

That'd be sick.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

What are you gonna say, Max?

[Hank]

The Twilight Zone thing is that they have like the same episode names of a Twilight Zone episode about like a mannequin going into the real world. So that's why people back up what Hank said about Gemma was just a mannequin the whole time and that she's like, not even a real person.

[Big Cat]

I don't like to read too many of the theories online.

[PFT Commenter]

I do.

[Stanford Steve]

I read all.

[Max]

I just get ticked off. Tick Tock is just golf swing tips.

[Big Cat]

And the problem with reading them, though is they.

[PFT Commenter]

I think it's helped your golf swing.

[Big Cat]

Fans of a show. I like to just enjoy the show because I think what happens with the show when it's this good, it is this good. They think that every little second of the show is like, very intentional.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

You know what I mean? We're like, what was this?

[PFT Commenter]

But in Severance, I think it might be. That's the difference. Like a lot of shows, you read too much into it. I think that Severance has all that in there on purpose.

[Max]

My personal take. That's not.

[Big Cat]

But it's not all of it.

[PFT Commenter]

Probably not.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

There's probably some crackpot ones.

[Max]

Not Internet theory based. Just my. My own take is that they have. Did not expect the show to be as big of a hit as it is. And they are trying to. Gonna stretch it out and they're gonna do an entire, like, backstory, either season or spin off show.

[Big Cat]

Okay.

[Max]

And I could see it being a season.

[PFT Commenter]

They're gonna. Ted Lasso it. Go on.

[Max]

No, they're just gonna go back 20 years and tell like. They're gonna tell Bert's whole story. They're gonna tell Milichek's whole story.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah, you saw that Cobell's like factory store.

[Max]

Yeah. Like, basically. And then the next season is going to be the. The continuation of this season.

[PFT Commenter]

Do they live in Alaska?

[Max]

People say it's Michigan.

[Big Cat]

It feels like the up. It's just always snowing and dark.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. There's a giant body of water.

[Big Cat]

Well, no, that. I did read that the. The. Like I was reading about the filmography. Is that right?

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Max]

Cinematography.

[Big Cat]

Cinematography. Thank you. Because I thought it's very cool shot show and I'm really stupid about this stuff, but they said that they intentionally like the fact that it's always snowy and the cars and the. And everything they put in. It makes it feel like you couldn't fully pinpoint what, like, time it is in.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Universe.

[PFT Commenter]

The cars are all shitty. They're all from like the 90s or 80s.

[Big Cat]

Right. You can't.

[PFT Commenter]

They have modern cell phones.

[Big Cat]

Right. So you can't fully figure it out where it is. I thought they had iPhones. No, no.

[Hank]

No one on the show has an iPhone. That's a big Internet thing.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[Hank]

Because iPhone doesn't let.

[Big Cat]

Oh, bad boys.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Hank]

Use iPhones. So people are like, is everyone.

[Big Cat]

I kind of have a little weird crush on Cobell. She's like, there's a couple things.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I. I don't know, but I think she's a baddie.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

I'd hit.

[Max]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

There are a couple times when I'm like, oh, what is that?

[PFT Commenter]

I think when she was younger.

[Max]

Huff some gas.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Some ether. Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. All right. Good severance sock. What's your firefest, Hank?

[Max]

That was it.

[Big Cat]

Oh, yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

Good fire fest.

[Max]

That's how he got here.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. That is how we got here. Okay. Pft.

[PFT Commenter]

My fire fest is that earlier this week I was coming home late and my. The lock on my front door, I lost the key to it a long time ago. So I've just been going through the garage. No big deal. But I've got a lock on my back door through the garage to get into my house. And it's been making. It's been blinking red when I enter the code. To get in for the last, like, two months. I was like, okay, that's kind of weird. But it was still working. So I got there on. I think it was Sunday night after we recorded pmt.

[Big Cat]

What?

[PFT Commenter]

And that's kind of weird. And I hit the code.

[Max]

What could this mean?

[Big Cat]

Yeah, let's ignore this.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, I just ignored it. I was like, it's a big red button. I was like, is this good? So. So I entered the. I entered the code in, and it blinks red. But it blinks, like, faster and red this time. And then it makes.

[Max]

Oh, that's kind of cool.

[PFT Commenter]

It makes a pathetic sound like it's trying to open the lock, and it doesn't. And then I just sat there.

[Big Cat]

You ran out of batteries?

[PFT Commenter]

And I hit it again, and it still didn't work. And I was like, this sucks. I think I'm locked out of my house right now. And so I keep entering it. Keep entering it. And then after about. I'd say seven minutes, not. Probably not seven minutes. I'd say probably, like two and a half minutes, it finally opens, and I get in. I'm like, yeah, this is cool. So then I'm going home again.

[Max]

No thought to change the battery?

[PFT Commenter]

No, no. No thought to change the battery. So then I go home again later this week, and I'm trying to get in. Doesn't open. Same thing happens. It's like, okay, I'll just sit here for. We'll give it two and a half, five minutes, and I'll just keep entering the code until it opens, because that's what happened on Sunday. And I keep doing it, keep doing it, keep doing it. And the door just never opens.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

And so then I just go out, and I fall asleep in my car in the garage, and I just wait. And then I got up, like, an hour later, went back to it. Second time, it finally opened up, and I got inside. At that point, I thought I'd look it up, and I had to change the battery on it. So I'm able to get inside now, But I slept in my car for, like, an hour, I think, on Tuesday night. No big deal. It was comfortable in the car.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

But, yeah, that. The. The fact that it was blinking wasn't on.

[Max]

Right. All right. It was the electric.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. The car wasn't on in the garage. It's all good. I. Good. Good point, though, Hank. Don't run your car in the garage. Yeah, but. Yeah, I probably should have known that something was wrong with the garage or with a door. Lock. The first time when it started blinking red a few weeks ago, I was.

[Max]

Just excited to see you.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah?

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah.

[PFT Commenter]

When you have a household appliance that starts blinking red like it's a bomb about to go off, maybe that's cool. Maybe Google it. But now I feel like I'm. I'm on. Like, I. I got a clear path in front of me because I got a brand new set of batteries in there.

[Hank]

Would you be fine since it was electric? If it was?

[PFT Commenter]

It says not to run it in the garage just in case it starts a fire.

[Hank]

Got it.

[PFT Commenter]

So I. I just wouldn't.

[Hank]

It wouldn't be the.

[Max]

I think it's a general rule of thumb.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, that's actually like a funny bit of like, someone trying to kill themselves. Like, what are you doing, dude? Yeah, he just takes like a 8 hour nap. Am I in heaven?

[PFT Commenter]

A guy who owns a Prius catches his wife cheating on him and he just goes to the garage. He's like, I'm ending it all. It just stays in there for like a day. But, yeah, my garage is good now. But that's a good point. Even if you have a. Like a hybrid or an electric car, some of them produce some emissions, so don't do that. Yeah, but I was good.

[Big Cat]

Okay. I don't really have a fire. Oh. I guess, like, the only firefest I have is a. On Saturday, St. Patrick's Day. One, I was obviously just sad seeing everyone go out, and I was like, fuck, I wish I could go out again and still be able to hang. And then two, I got. I got bagels and donuts for my family, and I got a green bagel. And then my kids were convinced that it was poisonous and they made me eat it first. So that was kind of fucked up.

[PFT Commenter]

That's your job.

[Big Cat]

You got to eat that. And then I faked. I faked that dead for like three minutes. That was kind of funny. What?

[Hank]

Max, you're just. You're just a bad guy.

[Big Cat]

Why?

[Hank]

Because the kids were. The kids were probably scared.

[Big Cat]

I ate it.

[Hank]

I know, I know. It's like, you know, fake firing someone.

[Big Cat]

Oh, fake. Oh, the fake death, you mean fake that? Yeah, Yeah, I mean, it's funny. Troll. I was laying on the ground.

[Hank]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

My daughter was like, get up. Get up.

[PFT Commenter]

Isn't that a good precedent set, though, that dad always eats first? Yeah, you have to wait till I.

[Big Cat]

I just thought it was kind of bullshit, like we should have, you know, like, drawn straws to see who could eat the Poison or something like that.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Seems a little like if I go down, there's problems for everyone, so. All right, Max, you got to. You got a fire fest.

[Hank]

I don't. I. I normally don't do fire.

[Big Cat]

I know, but I just asked.

[Hank]

I feel like I did have one.

[Max]

But I can't remember your entire day yesterday.

[Hank]

Oh, yeah, dmv. That. That's actually what it was. DMV sucks. Dmv, Illinois, Makes no sense. Impossible to get an appointment because everyone's trying to get real id. Real id. That's a load of.

[Big Cat]

Oh, they're just let you. Are they doing it again?

[Hank]

Yeah. And May. Starting May 5th, I don't have. You need real ID. And now it's impossible to get an appointment. And then you get an appointment, and then you go to the dmv, and then you still wait in line for, like two hours. And then you go from one line to the next line. There's six different lines you go to at the dmv. Why can't there just be one line? You go to one person, you get everything done, and you leave. You go to eight different lines, and you get an appointment. An appointment means nothing.

[Big Cat]

Good. Good.

[Hank]

I hate the dmv.

[Big Cat]

Good job.

[Hank]

People are nice, though. I will say that people at the DMV get a bad rap for being mean. The people are nice there, but too many lines.

[Big Cat]

Yeah, no, the people are nice because, I mean, also they have a job. That's not. People aren't. People aren't walking to the DMV being like, thank you so much for your customer service. So it's a thankless job. But, yeah, the line situation. You just walk around everywhere.

[Hank]

I swear to God, I went into six different. There's a line outside to get to the line inside. Then you get to the line inside to get to the first person, and then you go. That person says, you got to go take a picture. I don't know why I had to take a picture. I just took a picture three months ago. Then I have to go to another person at another desk. Then they actually fill everything out. Then you got to go to the cashier. They. You just. Just a line to pay someone, and then you go to the final person and they print out your id. There's six different lines.

[Stanford Steve]

Too many lines.

[PFT Commenter]

You have to take tickets at, like, four different places. There's so many number. Yeah. And then they send you right in. I ran into the Illinois Secretary of State last time I was at the DMV because I saw his picture on the wall.

[Hank]

They made that guy look like here.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah. And then the guy that was on the wall just walked past me in the hallway, and I stopped, and I go, you're that guy from the wall. And he looked at me. He was like, yeah, what can I help you with? I was like, I'm trying to register my license plate on my El Camino, and no one's helping me. He's like, okay, I can help you with that. They told me I couldn't put bitching as my license plate.

[Hank]

Bullshit.

[Big Cat]

That is bullshit.

[PFT Commenter]

But what's the guy's name? Alexi.

[Big Cat]

Alexi Janulius.

[PFT Commenter]

Julius. Yeah. Good guy. He reached out later, try to make it better. He's like, I'm sorry. I can't do bitching. If you want his number, Max, I'll give you his number. You can complain to him.

[Hank]

Look, he looks like here. Yeah, they just have. They just have, like, his pictures as you walk in.

[PFT Commenter]

Yeah, there's, like, candles that are lit in front of it. Yeah, that's good. Fire.

[Big Cat]

Fire fest.

[PFT Commenter]

Dmv.

[Big Cat]

That was a good fire fest.

[PFT Commenter]

I. I heard.

[Hank]

Hank, thanks for reminding me. Of what? My fire festival.

[Max]

I mean, that's all you talked about yesterday.

[Hank]

I know. I was pissed. I. Hank just said. He just kept saying too much about the DMV.

[Big Cat]

You get two.

[Hank]

You get two complaints about going to the DMV? I said it, like, 15 times.

[Big Cat]

I love it.

[PFT Commenter]

I heard that they set up, like, a special place downtown that you can go to just for the real ID stuff.

[Hank]

Yeah, I heard that.

[Big Cat]

Oh, I need.

[Hank]

Also, the reason I went to the DMV was because when I lost. Lost my wallet when I broke my foot four months ago.

[Big Cat]

Oh.

[Hank]

I just got my license.

[PFT Commenter]

That's a bad night.

[Stanford Steve]

Yeah.

[Big Cat]

Wait, so you.

[Hank]

I've just been driving around for four months, but I have one now.

[Big Cat]

Okay, so you're back. So try it.

[Hank]

Pug just kept being worried for me. He was like, wait, so you, like. You really just drive around, like, with the possibility of getting pulled over? And I'm like, it's fine, dude. It's fine. He's like, that would be. I would be freaking out.

[Big Cat]

Pugs. A rule for. By the way, memes, are you ever gonna get the. The bumper fixed? I'll pay for it. At this point, I already paid for it.

[Hank]

No, I gave him $2,000.

[Big Cat]

I could. I couldn't believe it when I was watching the pmtv. So for. People don't understand. So when I got a new car in, like, 2018, I sold my car to Hank for $1. Hank then kind of cucked me, and two years, three years later, gave the car to Memes. Made me look like a bad guy.

[Max]

$2.

[Big Cat]

Oh, you did?

[Max]

Oh, actually negative 2500.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. Yeah. So, but Hank.

[Max]

24.98.

[Big Cat]

Hank got in a car accident. It's like, cars.

[Max]

And I drove into a pole.

[Big Cat]

It was like a. Yeah, it was like an eight year old. Like, it was like seven years old, the car that I sold to Hank. So it's like, still got a lot of miles left. And it's. It's a good car. But, yeah, Hank got in a. Hit a pole a week before he sold it to Memes, which was how long ago?

[Max]

Before he moved to Chicago.

[Big Cat]

So two years ago.

[Max]

Two years.

[Big Cat]

And Hank gave him cash to get the bumper fit.

[Max]

I went and got it estimated they told me, like, how much it was gonna cost, and then I just gave that to Memes.

[Big Cat]

And Memes. Memes just has duct tape on his bumper.

[Max]

In fairness, I would do. I would have done the same thing. The only reason I. I felt bad that I was giving you a damaged car. But, like.

[Big Cat]

But also it was if you had given.

[Max]

If. If that situation had happened where you're like, oh, I just got a little fender bender. Here's some money to get it fixed. I probably would have done the same exact thing.

[Big Cat]

But it's not like a little fender bender. It's a big hole on the.

[Max]

But it doesn't. Does it affect driving?

[Big Cat]

No, not at all. I up by not getting it done right away. Is this duct tape, like, holding it together? I saw it on the PMTV with oldie, and I was just like, what the.

[PFT Commenter]

You got to get into another small car accident and then give that car to Jack? Yeah, just paid. Well, I. I thought about getting it fixed one time, and then I did the thing Hank did and, like, backed into a pole.

[Big Cat]

Oh, so that's a different one. No, no, no. It's the same one. But, like, I.

[PFT Commenter]

When I thought about getting it fixed, I was like, oh, this is just going to happen again.

[Big Cat]

So what's the point?

[PFT Commenter]

I'll just wreck it again. What's the point again, by the way, to another act.

[Big Cat]

Got a bad blind spot. Oh, man. That. Yeah, that car's got to stay in PMT forever. So, like, if we ever hire, like, someone younger, you just give it to them and then. But it can never get fixed now. It's just gotta have duct tape on.

[PFT Commenter]

No, I will get it fixed.

[Hank]

No, Hank or muse has to give the next person. 3,000.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. To dent it even more. Pug, you being a little. Little pussy about Max not having a license.

[Stanford Steve]

Some of us are law abiding citizens.

[Big Cat]

He is the president.

[PFT Commenter]

They don't let presidents drive normally.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. True facts. I just love the. Pug was. Was, like, worried for Max. That's very Pug. Like, he's like, what are you doing? So nervous.

[Hank]

He found out on the way back from our drive from Indy. And he was like, wait a minute. So you've just been driving this whole time without a license?

[Big Cat]

I was like, I. I'm surprised he.

[Stanford Steve]

Didn'T have a license.

[Hank]

It's just not on me, Pug.

[Big Cat]

You should have taken it once. That doesn't.

[Hank]

Wait a minute. That doesn't affect the safety of you.

[Big Cat]

What do you say?

[Hank]

He was like. He said, you have two other people in the car. As if, like, I. I, like, was driving drunk.

[Big Cat]

Yeah.

[Hank]

You have other people with real licenses that could not.

[PFT Commenter]

Oh, no. I think Pug was worried about getting pulled over. Max gets found with no id and then in Pug's mind, the cops raid the entire car.

[Big Cat]

Yeah. And you all get deported. Yeah. Italians. You guys are going back to Italy.

[Hank]

Kind of chill.

[Big Cat]

Oh, man. Yeah. The. I just love Pug. You should have taken it a step further. And you should have. Citizen citizens arrested him. You should have, like, literally put your hands on the wheel and pulled it over. Been like, get out. We're taking you downtown. You shouldn't be driving. If we didn't.

[Hank]

If it wasn't a work trip, I.

[PFT Commenter]

Would have maybe thought about it.

[Big Cat]

Oh, God. Pug citizens arresting Max would be so great. Tackle him. All right, good job, boys. Madness Monday will be a recap of everything. Let's do numbers.

[Hank]

3, 1.

[Max]

I mean, I gave. I gave you.

[Big Cat]

He gave you a beat. He gave you a beat. I'm gonna do. Who plays the three seeds? The 14.

[PFT Commenter]

All right, 14. If 14 hits.

[Big Cat]

A three seed's gonna lose.

[Stanford Steve]

Okay, 99.

[Big Cat]

Po 21. I go 64.

[PFT Commenter]

I go 85.

[Big Cat]

Oh, 81.

[PFT Commenter]

Saw the one.

[Big Cat]

81.

[PFT Commenter]

Sorry, memes. It's okay.

[Big Cat]

One day.

[PFT Commenter]

No love you guys.

[Big Cat]

Sa. I'm this weird part of my life.

[PFT Commenter]

I really am.

[Big Cat]

Bill Burr, Drop dead Years.

[Stanford Steve]

A hilarious stand up special is now streaming on Hulu.

[PFT Commenter]

I am getting along with my wife.

[Hank]

Better than I ever have. All you have to do is agree.

[Big Cat]

To something that you would never do.

[Hank]

Farmers market. Oh, boy, would I. My buddy dies, I show up to the.

[Big Cat]

The funeral.

[Hank]

Open casket. You told me he was dead.

[Big Cat]

I believed you.

[Max]

Bill Burr.

[Stanford Steve]

Drop Dead Years is now streaming on Hulu.