Pardon My Take - CBB With John Fanta, Daymond John In Studio, US Loses WBC + Guys On Chicks

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

We stayed up to watch the WBC Final and Team USA lost in tragic fashion. We give grades for the WBC overall (00:00:00-00:18:00). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Roger Goodell getting a contract extension (00:18:00-00:44:32). College Basketball Insider John Fanta joins us in studio to talk Tourney, Rick Pitino to St Johns, Ed Cooley to Georgetown and tons more (00:44:32-01:42:13). Our old friend Daymond John joins us to talk about his new children's book and teach us economics like we're 5 years old (01:42:13-02:18:00). We finish with Guys on Chicks (02:18:00-02:36:38).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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. On today's pardon my take, we have a twofer for the people, Johnny Fanta in studio electric. He is the college basketball insider. Perfect day to have him on. He came straight from the Rick Petino press conference. He also has a lot of thoughts about Ed Cooley, the rest of the tournament.

Great time with him. And then we have our old friend Damon John in studio. He has a new book, a children's book, and he teaches PFT and I about economics like we're children because we are. It was a very fun interview, one of those interviews where I think his publicist came out was like, that was the best interview he's ever done. So both must listen. We're going to talk world baseball classic.

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Oh, we're gonna rock down to electric avenue and then we'll take it higher. Welcome to part of my take today is Wednesday, March 22nd and the St. Louis Cardinals have lost America. Okay, go on. Yeah. Yeah. Paul Goldschmidt just hitting into a double play when we had a little rally going. We lost.

We lost to Japan for all the baseball crazies who have been yelling at everyone online. We watched the entire game. We taped after the game. I enjoyed the game. It was incredible. Our hero, our collective hero who's been on all of our teams, Kyle Schwerber is the absolute man. That was like my favorite moment because we all have known from watching Kyle Schwerber

play baseball when he's locked in and he hit like four home runs and one at bat. Just one of them had to eventually go fair. But we ended Shohei Otani striking out Mike Trout. The game ends. Was it a strikeout? Yeah, it was a strikeout. Yeah, it was a strikeout. And it was, I felt really the big loser of tonight was the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

because, wow, that lasted bat. John Smoltz said it best. I think there were two strikes and John Smoltz goes and these two guys right now, two of the best baseball players to ever play the sport. It was awesome. It was a great game, though. I loved watching it. We always said we've been consistent on the show.

We weren't going to care about the world baseball classic until the United States started winning and then we're going to become fair weather fans. And it turns out it was an electric atmosphere. And you're right about that Schwerber bat. Everybody in everyone in the stadium knew that Schwerber was about to hit a home run because he hit probably I'd say like three quarters of a mile worth of home runs during that and then one just happened to go fair and shout out to the guy in the outfield that almost killed himself trying to catch that ball and fell over the railing.

Like yeah, that was at that moment, I just thought like if you could build the entire team out of Schwerber, I think we would win this game 15 to nothing. He's the absolute best. He just pissed on the baseball like it was exit velocity of 120. That's my own stat cast sitting on my couch. Yeah, it was it was a fun game. I enjoyed it. I watched the entire game.

Smoltz was I think it's just maybe it's a little early for him because he also had a moment they had to correct himself where he's like, this guy you Darvish is going to be a star in this league. And then he like correct himself. He's like, well, he's already been really, really good. Yeah, no, he's been around for a while. It seems like he was on quailudes the entire game. Just kind of like in a fog, wasn't really feeling the atmosphere.

Schwerber hit a ball probably on a 450 or 450 feet to the right of the foul pole. And then Smoltz was just like, and here's the payoff pitch. Like didn't even talk about it. It was it was honestly bizarre. Listen to Smoltz talk about it. But it was an awesome game. Good tournament. Shout out to great tournament.

Shout out to baseball and I was kind of joking. But I mean, the heart of our lineup was St. Louis Cardinals and they went one for seven. Not great, right? I mean, if we're if we're doing the blame, we can say Hank, I keep finished. I have some more blame. Well, if we're if we're doing a blame, I think I'd start with those guys, get some hits and some big moments.

And maybe this game, maybe we can be sitting here bragging about the US being the best in baseball. I also, the other note was, well, to that point, Big Hat, yeah, there was three Philadelphia Phillies on the team. So well, that was my other point. So yeah, it was it was, I think it absolutely counts as another max second place because the two runs are scored by Phillies. The Phillies tried their hardest.

They were treating it like the World Series. And just like Philadelphia does all the time. We came up second place, right? Yeah. I mean, at least we didn't get no hit this time. So that's kind of nice. Max former national trade turner used to be good until Philly corrupted him. Max thoughts second place.

Tell us, you tell us how to deal with this because you know so well. This is bullshit. I've I've my entire mentions right now are just that I'm a jinx once again. And that my guys are the only ones who fucking showed up. And now it's now it's Philly's fault again. Even though they were the best players on the team tried. They were they were close. They tried their hardest.

They came up just short. I like how all they were doing was hitting bombs. We're doing they when they were playing for Team USA. It's like, but yeah, no, in terms of. So obviously, like we said, PFT alluded to it, we were going to pay attention if the US got far in the tournament and also as soon as March Madness wasn't on. I had my first brush with baseball Twitter. I think they're just they're on high alert this entire tournament.

It's been a great it has been a great tournament. I watched the entire game tonight. I've seen clips from other games. I thought it was very fun. I'm not a world baseball classic hater. But if you tell me, would you rather watch world baseball classic or March Madness and say March Madness a hundred times out of a hundred times, that's OK.

Everyone can like what they like. But it was funny because I had I did tweet like there's no like world baseball classic is stupid anyway, essentially because we lost. If we had won, I would have been like, this is the greatest victory ever. And I had like a little touch of the baseball Twitter people who have been on high alert for the last week and a half, defending the game. Stand down, people, stand back and stand down. I don't I don't actually care that much.

I thought it was a fun tournament. I'm down for the more world baseball classic. It was it seemed like a really good time. Just maybe don't schedule it during March Madness and I'd watch every game. I think that that baseball has become the new hockey in terms of their fan base being like, please, like my sport and being a high alert in case anybody out there seems to be like quasi disrespectful or at least ambivalent towards their sport.

So hockey hockey fans have actually been pretty chill on that recently. There's not a lot of the please, like my sport stuff going on. But man, the world is not even like these people don't even care that much during Major League Baseball season. It was just so it was just during the world baseball classic that everybody was like, you need to respect this tournament. And yeah, there, guess what? I'm telling you right now, don't get mad at me.

You're right. The tournament kicked ass. It was an awesome tournament. It did. But still, but still chill out. Just please chill out. Baseball season hasn't even started yet. Relax. Someone told me that this was more electric. This one game is more electric than the last 10 World Series. I'm going to disagree with that.

I really like the 2016 World Series. Yeah. Personally, I love the 2019 World Series. Like there was some pretty good moments. The 2018 World Series. Yeah. Max, did you like the 2020 World Series? Fuck off. Fuck off. Say yo for that. But yeah, the I here's here's an idea.

Throw this out there. Why don't they play 140 games? Major League Baseball season and then we can have a world baseball classic every year and you can expand the tournament. I'd be down for that. That would be cool. You want to expand? I would be so down for that. You want to expand the tournament right now?

Yeah, right now, half the teams are filled with like American players from double baseball. Oh, yeah, we sent mechanics for pitchers. So let's just say there's an asterisk next to Japan's win. But I'm saying expand the tournament like if you had told me this was a three game series or five game series, I'd be like, I'm in. No, I disagree. I love I love the one game format for a championship game.

You would watch tomorrow night. Come on. It's so much better this way, though. Both teams empty the tank. Shohei coming in to pitch the ninth inning. You would watch tomorrow night. It would be fun if it was a five game series. Baseball is meant to be played. And now you're turning into one of those baseball people

that's like shot being a hater on baseball. No, I'm asking for more. I know, I love this format. The format's awesome. You don't get it anywhere else for the same base amount of baseball. Either way, we give two thumbs up to World Baseball Classic. Everyone can can chill out. You're coming at the wrong podcast because we we actually made the conscious

decision. We recorded the rest of the show around noon today. And we were sitting in the studio and we're like, should we wait till after the game? And we're like, you know what? We respect the World Baseball Classic so much. We respect Team USA so much. Yeah, we're going to wait till after the game. We're going to record like this is an NBA playoff game or, you know, a Sunday night football game.

That's how much we respect World Baseball. We respected so much. I didn't even tweet about World War Two during the game. Yes. So you you. Yes. So you wanted to empty the clip. There were a lot of nuclear bomb jokes being thrown around. I'm not really I'm not really prepared. OK, yeah, right.

It's right here right now for the people listening. He just busted out of school. I'm not I'm not I'm not prepared really. And he told us before I got them all written here. I'm not prepared for for doing these. But the US need to play small ball going base to base. Or as we called it in the 1940s, island hopping. Hey, you guys, if we wanted to shock Japan, we should have started do little.

Nice. One thing I was really afraid of was Japanese sacrifice flies. OK, I liked that one. That one's a winner so far. Boy, boys, the Japanese really have great vibes in the dugout. All the fellas are cheering even for Japan. That's a lot of raw men. Oh, OK.

One of my favorite behind the scenes guys must have been there because I heard one of the vendors yelling, Yosa. Nice. American pitching wasn't great. The US didn't have the flamethrowers this time. Hmm. Where was Aaron Judge? Where was Garrett Cole?

Where was Rizzo? We need more guys who worked on a Manhattan project. And in the Jap and in the end, the Japanese fishermen dealt a crushing blow yet again in an area where the dolphins like to play. And now back to Fat Man and Little Boy, AKA part of my take. Nice. Good job off the top of my head. It's that's what we call improv, ladies and gentlemen.

Damn. Yes, and. All right, anything else from World Baseball Classic? I don't. Yeah, go ahead, Jake. Jake's going to be like this is the most romantic game I've ever watched a baseball in my life. No, I it was obviously in my hometown. I had multiple people.

Either send pictures or text saying that the part of my cheesesteak line was very long, but very worth it. It was in the concourse at the World Baseball Classic. Speaking of which, I also got I've been getting a shit load of what what's that? Oh, Marlins, Texas for Marlins, man. Yeah. But I haven't updated my what's that because I haven't been on a bachelor party in a really long time.

That's pretty much the only time you update your what's that. He said have show this to Dan and it was just a video of World Baseball Classic. Oh, OK, can you can you play it? Oh, that was awesome. That was that was that was a good score. He was at the World Baseball Classic. Hold on, I've just updated my what's that.

He sent me a lot of text to him. Sixty nine getting thrown out of the World Baseball Classic. Yeah, that was that 69 Jersey. That was it. I want to know how Marlins Man decides which app to use to message on any given occasion, because I'll I'll get a DM on Twitter, I'll get a DM on Instagram. He's all over the place.

He texted me saying, check the video I just sent you. And it was a video on what's that. That's weird. So I don't know what he's like. Moving different like a spy, like go to the park and look under the bench. He's doing dead drops. You'll find a video of a guy in a 69 Jersey getting kicked out. He's yeah. And oh, Wisconsin in the final four.

That also happened tonight. And I T the most important tournament out there. I this tonight was a big night for me of watching two sports games where I was like emotionally not going to be vulnerable. And then by the end, I was a little bit pissed about one and obviously happy to badgers one where I'm like, don't do this to yourself. These games don't matter. And then and then when like Mike Trout struck out, I was like, fuck, man,

I really wanted to rally. So I'm going to stick up for our guy Jake here because he's been getting a lot of shit for having just a disaster of a bracket. Just an absolute cluster. Not one region. Correct. Well, he was almost close. And what region was that, Jake? The region where there were no upsets.

Yeah. But I'm going to stand up for Jake because he has been getting a lot of shit. He has almost a perfect in it bracket. So he's very proud of his badgers. Yeah. I'm in first place in an IT stew celebrity region and fourth place overall out of 819 people. And you have the badgers winning it all.

Badgers beating Jelly Walker and UAB in the championship. And I had to protect it. So I could pick if UAB beats Vandy tomorrow, I'll have three or four, the final four in the NIT. Whoa. You need. All right. So we maybe just need to start. Just forget the real tournament. Let's just talk at IT.

Hey, you're on the same train this year. Yeah. Do you think do you think like Shohei and Trout like bust each other's balls? I think like after a week or so, like there's got to be some sort of even in general, like before, no, like even I'm saying, like going into the game, like, do you think they're boys or do you think they're just like, I think they're boys. It would be hard to not be boys with the only other good player on your shitty team.

Yeah. Yeah. You're like suffering together through all this. And like the easy only person in the world that could possibly understand what you're going through because he's like the second best baseball player. And so you guys at least have a shared experience. I was going to say, I feel like Shohei Otani is like 10 times funnier than Trout. Like he probably has so much more personality than Trout. So I think Shohei might try to bust Trout's balls and Trout just sits there

and is like, can't wait for the Eagle season. Yeah. Honestly, that's just all going through his head. Honestly, good for good for Japan, because I feel like they would have taken it a lot harder if they had lost than the U.S. did. Yeah. And it was the most watched baseball game of all time. Is that right, Jake?

I think they were anticipating on that, but obviously take some time to get the numbers. All right, well, let us know, because I want to know if that was four hours well spent or not. Yeah, I need to know that that will determine whether or not it was a good game is how high the ratings were. But yeah, World Baseball Classic, two thumbs up. Maybe play it in the middle of the summer or something. Maybe make it longer. I don't know.

But I liked it. What is it again? Four years from every four years, probably. Yeah. So maybe every two years. That would actually get me a little more juiced up, because I feel like I forget about it. They should do this for hockey. Yeah. How sick would that hockey would be awesome? Why doesn't baseball have a big presence in the summer Olympics?

Well, they do play in the Olympics. Well, because it's in the summer. Yeah. Yeah, I guess that's baseball season. Yeah, it's true. But in the NHL, they pause. They don't anymore. OK. They stopped doing that. They stopped sending our pros, which sucks.

I don't know why I agree with you, Jake. The Olympics should have. Yeah, make the world. Yeah, instead of giving. They gave them gold medals at the end, didn't they? They probably had some sort of award. Yeah. Yeah, I think they got it. I think they had medals.

Yeah. Yeah. OK. Should we kick it to ourselves back in studio for the rest of the show? Johnny Fanta and Damon John. Awesome, awesome interviews and a lot of other stuff. Hot Sea Cool Throne as well. Let's do it. OK, before we get to Hot Sea Cool Throne, we were brought to you by our friends at Game Time, the exclusive ticketing partner of Barstool Sports,

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Okay, hot seat, cool throne, Hank. My hot seat is Scotty Pippin Jr. Oh, Lakers? He's on the Lakers. I'm not sure if he's on the team or if he's on the G-League team. But his mom, Larsa Pippin, formally married Scotty Pippin, came out with a clip that is going super viral saying she had sex three times a day for 24 years straight, which that's a lot of fucking.

But if you're on a professional basketball team locker room talk, like that's just that that can't be fun in the locker room to have your teammates knowing that information and probably talk. And also MJ's son dates her. Yeah, that is tough. Also, if you're a professional athlete and you're having sex three or four times a day, that's that's a lot of sex to be having. That's going to affect your stamina, isn't it?

Wait, it's not tough for MJ's son. Why is it tough for MJ's son? Oh, to hear about Larsa Pippin fucking three times a day. And knowing that you were not four times a night. Four times a night. And then three times a night. Yeah, you got to see. You got there's a big difference between three times a day and four times a night.

Well, we are sex positive. You can't celebrate Will Chamberlain and not also celebrate Larsa Pippin. For so good for her. Yeah. Well, you got Billy, Billy. You got you got something. Something just no good for her. I I'm I'm pro.

Like it sounds awesome. I'm saying if you're the son, like you don't want that to be public. Yeah, it's tough for your mom to be like, I fuck all the time. Yeah. What are you going to say, Billy? And for MJ, Jr. is like, fuck, I thought two times a night was great. Depending on the definition of sex in her context, not a junior either. Sky may have been only having sex once a night.

That's a good point. I think that's what is that makes more sense. Is she saying that she came four times a night? I think that Scottie does have good dick game confirmed. When does when is having sex? When does having sex occur? When do you count as one time? Yeah, I count it personally as every stroke.

So yeah, I count it as every time I jerk off. Yeah. So I have sex. Usually when I have sex, I have sex at least five times during one sex kissing. Yeah. Kissing is sex. I thought that for a long time. Really? Until when? 19, 20.

Pretty much. Yeah. You guys, that's how people got pregnant. Yeah, I mean, probably. Yeah, I was like 13, maybe 14 health classes ago. I also once smoked weed adjacent to Larsa Pippen. That was cool. And Super Bowl in LA, she and Antonio Brown showed up. And Antonio Brown was like, we want to smoke weed at this restaurant.

And the waiter was like, well, everyone's got to be cool with it. We're like, yeah, we're cool with it if you just give us some. And he has a blunt ruler with him at all times. Got to, which is a fucking awesome move. The woman was like, yeah, I'm Antonio Brown's blunt ruler. You guys want one? I was like, yes. Do you think Scotty Pippen could have been having sex?

Do you think he'd be better at basketball if he was having less sex? Or do you think he was so good at basketball because he was having all that? Well, he did have back problems, right? That's true. Yeah. Blew out his own back. Yeah. That happens. Yeah, it does happen. OK, good hot seat. I thought your hot seat was going to be max.

Well, the five breakers no longer breaking moves. Celtics do control their own destiny. Yeah, Celtics or Sixers no longer control their own destiny. Playoff. It wasn't. It wasn't it's the race. It wasn't that big a deal. I wasn't worried about it. Playoff hard and showed up early.

What happened? The Bulls beat the Sixers on Monday night in one of the worst games I've ever watched. It was I think they scored like 115 points in two over times, which is hard to do in today's NBA. Feels like everyone scores a million points. Yeah, Harden didn't have a good game. Oh, really bad. Yeah, really, really, really bad game.

And beat fouled out and spoiler alert. Sixers are not great when he doesn't play. Yeah, I think I don't think he played like 45 minutes. Yeah, well, and he played well in those 45 minutes. So does that game against the Celtics become a must win? Yeah, well, they have to play the Bulls again on Wednesday. Yeah, no, but the that's also is the Celtics one that determines who controls their own destiny, but if they keep, well, no, the Sixers don't no longer control

their own destiny. No, what if they beat the Celtics, though? I think that's the back home. No, I think they would have a tiebreaker. Yeah, you understand how the loss column works. I apparently not. Yeah, clearly. And then my cool throne is 19 year olds. OK.

The number one, the number one tennis player in the world right now is 19. Oh, who is it? Carlos Alcaraz. Oh, yeah, that guy, known as Alcatraz on the show. We call him. Yeah, we talk about that guy like once a year. Yeah, Djokovic will probably whoop that ass. But is he next up? He's he's now. Yeah, Rafa. Rafa, I think, is out of the top 10 for the first time in like a billion years.

They did the this how long Rafa has been. This is how long Rafa has been in the top 10. And they showed like the video game when he first got in the top 10. And then today's video game. Yeah, I love tennis video game. No, I guess they do. I know. Yeah, well, he was Mario in the first one and he became Luigi in the second.

We tennis is the best video game of all time. There's Mario tennis is a good one. No, like, but like, yeah, with real people, there's WTA. Yeah. 20 to 2K 23. Yeah, bro. They have good arcade versions, too. I'd like David Buster's. Yep.

What's what's better than playing tennis, playing video game tennis? We tennis, we tennis electric. It was fun. Yeah. Yeah, we tennis was fun. Yeah. Yeah. I have another one, but I think someone else can use it. No, go ahead. Slamball. It's back. Slamball is back. Officially, we did it.

We brought back Slamball. Credit to us. Credit to us. So there are they going to do a draft? Where are they getting their players? Probably Earth. Yeah. No, we're like. Now, Europeans would suck at Slamball. Are you do you want to play?

I actually absolutely play. I don't. I think we can get your tryout. We can definitely get your tryout. I feel like they're going to get like basketball players. You played college basketball. No, because remember, we talked to the guy and he said that the best

Slamball players are like defensive backs. Oh, yeah, true. So Billy, you would actually be outstanding at being the guy that's getting dunked on. I would be a good good day. Well, no, they said defensive backs, not special teamers. It's true. No, but Billy, I can just see the clips right now.

It's a guy that's built like DK Metcalf. Yeah, just jamming on your face and you falling down. I would watch that. Oh, yeah, I do it. You think? That would be awesome. Talks are currently underway for distribution. Just saying.

They're looking for a broadcast home. Yeah, just saying. OK, be fun. OK. Hank, can you get that done? C-suite, Hank? We can definitely get Billy a tryout. I think we're going to see the product.

OK, all right. OK. Well, Billy's seen the product though. The product exists. If Billy's in the product, you know how much it will suck. I also think, you know, who knows, but they might be like, you know, the Slap League, where it's like maybe too violent and after the first broadcast,

so we can't do this. Billy, I want to see you on a slam ball court very badly. I've always wanted to do it. Yeah. Like, watching on Cartoon Network grown up was awesome. I had a trampoline basketball set up in my backyard. That's why I never won pro. Respectfully, Billy was kind of born.

I spent too much time grinding on the trampoline. How many injuries? Honestly, none. Really? I got launched. We had people get double bounced out of the trampoline. Because I feel like any parent who buys a trampoline, they're just buying a broken leg for someone.

Yeah. There was definitely fights. I got in like a fist fight with one of my best friends. Oh, really? Jumping on the trampoline, like, I still laugh about it. I can see that rage. We got heated. And then we'd like, you know, when

you get to that cross that line, I'm just like. Oh, we're really fighting. We were on a trampoline like jumping. No, did you guys not have like fake cage fights? Yeah. In the trampolines with the nets, because people got nets? I didn't go to the trampolines that had nets on them. No, because we just pretend it was like a UFC ring.

I knew kids who did that, too. We had like a fight club. And they made videos on Google videos. It was like before YouTube was like a thing. It was like only on Google. I wasn't in it, but I. Dude, we had a whole, like, league. Yeah, and there was like a broadcast and everything.

It was so sick. Can we get our hands on that? Yeah, I could hit him. I could hit him. Let's watch that. I feel like if parents get a trampoline, they do it just to be like, this will definitely get the kids outside of the house for a little bit.

Yeah. Just go and this will keep them in the backyard, keep them injured. The double bounce. I'm so scared of a double bounce. You guys ever play break the egg? When you had to like curl up into a little ball, and then people had to like popcorn, slam you so hard

that you broke. Yeah. We call it popcorn because you had to pop. We haven't. I vividly remember getting double bounce. Like double bounce. Of the trampoline and just landing on the ground and just getting up.

Yeah. We haven't into this league because one of the investors is Blake Griffin. Oh, OK. OK. Yeah. Is Blake going to be in slam ball? I don't know.

That would be awesome. Can he still dunk? No, probably not. Is he catten? OK. PFT, your hot seat cool throne? My hot seat is Nate Oates. Yeah.

Nate Oates, Alabama's coach because Nick Saban has just suspended freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell. He got arrested last week, drug and weapon charges in Florida. And Nick Saban said, everybody's got an opportunity to make choices and decisions. There's no such thing as the wrong place at the wrong time. Seemed like a direct shot at Nate Oates for using wrong place, wrong time excuse for Brandon Miller.

So yeah, embrace debate. Is there such a thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Airplane crash. Yes. That feels like not your fault. Yes. McDonald's drive-through at 10.31 in the morning

right after they stopped their breakfast. That might be your fault. Yeah, but it's wrong place, wrong time. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand making a left turn in 1914. Wrong place, wrong time. Wrong place, wrong time.

Who's to say? JFK taking the top down that day. Yeah, apparently it was coincidental that he said that. Oh, coincidental. No, it was very cadental. It was very cadental of him to do that. Uncoincidental? Uncoincidental because, I mean, let's be honest, Nick Saban,

I don't think he's, like, furious at Nate Oates, but any microscope on Alabama sports and the police department and bad publicity, definitely he gets caught in the fray here. So he's sending a message that he runs his program. I run my program. I'm the king. Well, now we need to ask, is Nick Saban in the wrong place at the wrong time being at Alabama when Nate Oates says

that Brandon Miller's in the wrong place at the wrong time? I'd say, man, wrong place, wrong time, exception on this one. Big time. But yeah, it does feel, I don't think that Saban was, I don't think it was a coincidence. No, definitely not. I think Saban knows exactly what he's saying at all times.

He doesn't seem like a coincidental type of guy. No, everything is planned out. It's a process. Part of the process. Also, hot seat, Steph Curry, because Corey Kispert, post all-star break, post part of my take appearance, is now averaging 11.6 points per game and shooting 56.4% from the field.

Pretty good, and 45% from three points after we told him, shoot, just shoot the ball more. My cool throne is hospitality. I don't know how we didn't talk about this a couple of weeks ago when the news came out, but we should cover it, because we are parvots, we're dimpleheads, and Scotty Scheffler released his master's menu for the champion's dinner.

So Scotty Scheffler's master's champion's dinner, appetizers of cheeseburger sliders served Scotty style. He didn't elaborate on what Scotty style means. Imagine if he just licked all of them. Firecracker shrimp. Delicious. Tortilla soup. Yes.

Texas ribeye steak, or blackened redfish. Pussy, if you eat the redfish. And then for dinner, the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie. So basically, Scotty Scheffler has. Gotta have ice cream, but unbelievable. I bet you that there's ice cream. There's ice cream. No one serves the chocolate chip skillet cookie without ice cream.

Yeah, there's a scoop of vanilla on there. That's a la mode. But in terms of master's menus, that was top notch. He basically took a ruby Tuesdays and then moved it to Augusta. Yeah, love it. Which, great job. And I've never been more convinced that a man has grown up around lots and lots of strip balls

than after watching this menu. This is suburb city. I feel like the master's dinner is so overhyped for drama, and nothing's going to happen. This year, it seems like. Everyone's like, oh, the master's dinner's going to be crazy. There's going to be. Well, there was a fake master's dinner

that was going around that was like any live tour, like dinners at the eighth hole at like nine o'clock. They got them all outside. That's funny. But yeah. Oh, on the green? Yeah. I mean, like, is Phil going?

Yeah, Phil's going to be there. Yeah. DJ? DJ will be there. It will be interesting. Yeah. Patrick Reed, probably some of the ninth green at nine thing. Yeah.

From Hoppy Gilmore. Yeah. Classic. Yeah, no, it was a fake menu going around. Yeah. It was pretty funny. Also, Max got caught with a fake quote. Oh, yeah.

Bill Simmons. I said that quote. He was like, he was saying it. I was like, obviously, Bill Simmons would say that. And then it was the most fake thing of all time. Yeah. And I know it's fake because Simmons then quote-treated the fake quote being like I never said that.

Like, remember when Scott Van Pelt got caught by the onion? Mm-hmm. Yeah. He was like, I never said that. It's like, well, yeah, of course. If you look at the account, it's NBA Central. Ah. Instead of Central.

You know what one gets me all the time is the PGA Tour. Yes. The T-U-O-R. Yeah, Erlacher got caught by that. That was the one that Charlie Woods. They said Charlie Woods was going to be featured on next year's Drive to Survive. And the one that got hit with the Spieth's Ball.

And he said he asked for 25 tickets to the Masters. You got caught by that. You know what it is, though? It's actually not us getting caught. It's people tagging us. Because I always get tagged in those. And then my instant reaction is to retweet it. And now I've started to slowly be like, all right,

look at it for a second. No, that's what I'm saying, like the PGA Tour or one. Yeah. That's when I get tagged. And I look at it, I get excited. Right. And then I'm like, well, fuck. They actually should have Tiger on the F1 Drive to Survive.

That would be cool. Just load them up. Yeah, with SUV. Give them, yeah. No rear mirror. Go off-gain. Window, yeah. Yeah, just have Eland chasing them with a golf club.

He'll win every race. Faster than anyone. Yeah, but Max. Yeah, sometimes you get caught. Notes app? Notes app? No, I'm not apologizing. Max isn't a notes app guy.

Yeah, no. Max is a double down and triple down guy. Listen, I've long said that if you are a creature of the internet, if you do a job like ours, if you're not getting got at least a few times a year, then you're not doing your job. You're not working hard enough. It also wasn't like a good thing. I wasn't happy about it, so it was a sort of thing.

Oh, now you're trying to explain. Just say you got caught. No, I got caught, but I'm happy that I got caught. But think about it this way. Right, because that was a bad quote for me. It's not true, but it's just a quote that hasn't happened yet. Right. It does sound like something that the Sixers would do.

I bet you someone in the Sixers locker room has said I can't wait to play the Celtics and lose. I have said the first part of what you just said. Also, I do want to mention the Bulls finally beat Joe Lambi. That was pretty crazy. I was watching the Bulls telecast, but it was quite a stat when it was like Bulls now lifetime or the Sixers are 12-1 against the Bulls when Embiid plays.

Tough, very tough. Do you guys think that in that vaunted matchup against the Celtics for home court advantage, if you guys win, do you think they'll drop Confetti? Oh, the cannons will go off. I'm done hearing about Confetti. Your court is awesome, by the way. Yeah.

Sick court. Sick court. Yeah, very sick. Yeah. OK, my hot seats. Don't you want Confetti? I feel like that's the goal for every team. Yeah, you should be at a game where you guys drop the Confetti.

I would like to win the game where you drop the Confetti. Yeah, that's that's the that's the biggest issue. Yeah. Or you could just do it when you go to overtime. Yeah, that's another thing that could happen. Yeah, yeah. All right, my hot seat is I mentioned him on Monday because he's become like the NBA's most hated player.

But Dylan Brooks had he got he got denied a jersey swap with Kyrie Irving, which is very funny. After the game on Monday night, he took his jersey off, went up to Kyrie, and Kyrie's just like, no. I'm not like I understand that from Kyrie's point of view. Yeah. Like you have to you have to save those jerseys for people that need it.

Also, isn't like if you are if you're Dylan Brooks and you get Kyrie's jersey, isn't that like Tom Segura owning like Hitler's teacup might be my age poorly? It might be. But if I'm Kyrie, like why is Dylan Brooks asking me to swap jerseys? Yeah, well, he's listen, Dylan Brooks, he got it. I think it's 18 technical season.

Yeah. He's he's become the new bad boy. Yeah, I just think that you have to have more awareness of Dylan. But you have to know that you're Dylan Brooks. Yeah. And Kyrie is like, yeah, I've already I already had like my mind was already on the next game to process. Kyrie probably doesn't want to get fined.

Yeah. And then but it's just a bad look to be like, can you jersey swap and not and be denied? You have to know that you are like he already have a shirt off. Yeah, Kyrie already had his shirt off. But I think he either was holding it or give it gave it to his own teammate, like his staff. And then Dylan Brooks took his off and went up to Kyrie.

And I was like, nah, yeah, that's a tough look. You got to know that it's going to happen. Yeah, you have to arrange that ahead of time. Right, right. And then my cool throne is Roger Goodell, who is finalizing an extension. Good. So that's Roger.

Good for Roger Goodell. He actually for everything that he is hated for and he's hated for a lot in terms of his actual job requirements. He does an incredible job. Yeah, it's like he was designed in a lab just to just absorb blows. It's absorbed blows and make a shitload of money for the NFL. And he's done both like basically the best you could possibly do. He's squeezed every dollar out of the NFL.

And every time there's any controversy, whether it be on the field, off the field, he just gets all the shit and the owners get to just keep making money. Yeah, he exists to take shots. Not only from the media and from the public, but also he has to just answer Jerry Jones' phone calls, get yelled at for a while, and then pretend those calls never

happen. It is funny when he gets that extension and everyone gets upset. And it's like, no, you don't understand his job requirements. He actually is awesome at it. Could you imagine if the NFL had a commissioner like the NBA does with Silver, someone who's always like tinkering? Best buddy.

Yeah, trying to be best friends, trying to read the NFL Reddit page and then implement rule changes? No, Roger Goodell is very good at existing and being an asshole that everybody hates. And he's compensated handsomely. Yeah, the point of Roger Goodell's entire existence is that everyone hates him, not the owners. Yep.

And he does it well. Billy. My hot seat is us. There's a new deadly fungus spreading, apparently. Well, you. Yes. You feel like you're the most susceptible to this fungus. Is that what you have right now?

I don't know. Your face looks great, by the way. Thank you. It's been a long road. Once I get out of it, I'll do a face reveal of the original picture. Yeah, it's just it's not funny to me right now. Yeah, yeah. Once I'm able to laugh at it.

Are you currently out of the woods? No. Today's the first day. I didn't take a prednisone. So we'll see how it goes. OK, Billy came in the studio earlier today was like, I'm almost off steroids. Nice.

And I thought that I did not interpret it as Billy taking like medicine. I just thought that Billy was talking about steroids. Yeah, but everyone's just replaying the first scene of the Last of Us series. And with the headline so. But slowly you say also hot seat jets. Why the hell hasn't it like happened?

Why hasn't Aaron Rodgers been signed yet? Yeah, yeah. So yeah. And then Cool Throne, Hustle GPT. Apparently, it can tell you how to turn $100 into a million dollars if you ask it. Huh, did you ask it? Chat GPT, yeah.

Apparently, take people online. Take TCU plus four and a half? Exactly. What did they say? Actually, I'm going to start getting gambling advice from. Yeah. Chat GPT. Oh, you already broke Vegas.

Yeah, I know. Are you just going to say like you know how to make a million dollars and then not share? I'm just going to be like, hey, how do I choose the best March Madness picks? And then what do I do to win? No, no, but you just said a second ago that it will teach you how to turn $100 into a million dollars.

Yeah. Can care to share? Well, you got to ask Chat GPT. Yeah, I think Billy's got side deals going. I don't got a side deal. Why aren't you telling me how to make a million dollars? Well, he hasn't gotten it yet. I haven't gotten it yet.

I didn't pay for it. He needs like he probably. Oh, wait, you got to pay for it? Yeah, Billy needs like a hundred people here to sign up and then he needs a hundred to get them to a hundred people sign up and then they're going to get Billy the million dollars. It'll also be funny if Chat GPT like you sign up for a hundred bucks and it's at you ask him how to make a hundred to a million.

And the answer is just don't sign up for random things online and invest your money instead. True. Yeah. And Larry Tunsel, dude just keeps getting paid. Good for him. Good for Larry. Yeah.

Yes, he's he's the coolest guy ever to smoke out of a gas mask without an agent. Yeah. So it's like, does Lamar actually have a problem? Hmm. It's a good question. I think Lamar is going to I think it's going to go. I think Lamar we're not going to get anything until after the draft.

He's going to just keep going. Lamar is also isn't he doing an interview with himself? Oh, really? I saw that the other day. Yeah. Lamar is going to do. Well, then he should just say it's an interview with his agent. Yeah.

That would be interesting. He asks agent Lamar questions. Yeah. Yeah. But it does feel like it's going to wait. We're going to wait till the draft then whoever misses out on a quarterback in the draft will then be like, OK, now we'll sign this offer sheet because also then you get to use

your draft pick this year. Yeah. So I think that when he first became a free agent, it was the teams that would have been in contact with him would be the teams that really wanted them. And now it's going to be teams that don't have another option. Right. Right.

Jake. My hot seat is Cinderella, Fairleigh Dickinson. Yeah. Their coach is gone. Gone. In a week, a week ago, we saw him in the first four. And now he's gone. Well, he's not.

He's not gone. He's off to I own a life. Yeah. Yeah. He's there. But yeah, it does kind of suck whenever that. Yeah. It happened last year with Sheen Holloway.

Yeah. But good for him. Good for Talbot. Yes. And I'm sure we'll talk about the coaching carousel with Fanta later on. My cool throne is Kevin Harlin. CBS dropped a viral video of his game winning call.

Perfect. Perfect? Yeah. Calling him perfect. And do you see he went over to his partners. He's like, lay out. Lay out? Yeah.

Yeah. So flawless. What game was it for? Virginia Furman. OK. Good job, Kevin Harlin. He was one of the best in the game. Yeah, he was literally holding them back.

He's like, you need to do that to me and Dave more often. I will. Well, during the big moments. Yeah. That's all that matters. Right. Yeah. But yeah, Kevin Harlin is.

He is. He's getting him to like, I mean, he's almost goat status. Like every game that you hear him call, it feels like a big game. Yeah, he's got the voice. He's got the big voice. Yep.

So yeah, I knew you'd love that. Yeah. How many times you watch it? I mean, there's, I think, like 4 million views on Twitter. I'm like 3.5 of them. OK, nice. Nice. All right.

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Great, great watches and 20% off with code TAKE at MVMT.com. OK, here he is, Johnny Fanta. OK, we now welcome on a very special guest. It's the first time on this show, but we've known him for a while. He is electric. He is college basketball. It is the one and only Johnny Fanta, John Fanta.

You can find him on Twitter, John underscore Fanta. He covers college basketball on Fox. He's also the Big East guru. We have some people in this room. We're very excited that you're here. Max is a Villanova guy. He loves Johnny Fanta. Loves Johnny Fanta.

Big Johnny Fanta guy. Big Johnny Fanta guy. 100%. Are we the only ones that call you Johnny Fanta? You know, my grandma did. OK. My grandma was Joni. And she would call me Johnny.

She was Joni Fanta? She was Joni. She was Joni Fanta. Yes. Wow. Don't, Joni Coglin. OK, I was going to say. Mom's mom.

So she would call me Johnny. Yeah, I mean, it's a great name. Johnny Fanta just sounds like that's a person I want to tune in for. Yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah, it sounds like you're a character from what was the singer from The Godfather. Was that Johnny?

What was his name? Oh, I forget that guy's name. I know Johnny Ola, but the singer from Godfather one, that's what I always think of. Either way, you are electric. And we couldn't have had you come in on a better day. You are coming straight from Rick Petino's press conference. New basketball, head basketball coach at St. John's.

First of all, I guess, how quickly did this get done? Because it felt like right after Rick walked off the court, Iona Yukon, he was texting Johnny Fanta like, hey, tweet it out. It's done. Tell us how it all went down. Well, there's no doubting that St. John's primary target was Rick Petino.

How could it not be at this point? You've been in the darkness forever. Right. I mean, think about their coaching wave. Steve Lavin, who is a friend, did a great job with Fox on TV. Now he's at San Diego. It just didn't work out on the sidelines. Then you go from Lav to Chris Mullin.

Which should have been the prodigal son. That didn't work. Didn't work. We know how the prodigal son thing works in college basketball. It usually doesn't happen. Yeah, it doesn't happen. It didn't happen here. So then they go to Mike Anderson.

And as much as he had never had a losing season, he also had never really had the full breakthrough. And that didn't work either. So at this point, you need a winner. You need to win at all costs. You are stuck in the basement of the Big East or close to it anyways. You're almost like in between when

you're going up the basement steps and you get to that halfway mark. Yeah, yeah. That's where St. John's has kind of been. It's like, when are you going to come into the kitchen for dinner? Well, guess what? Oh, they're in the kitchen. Rick Petino's coming to the kitchen.

Yeah, they're in the kitchen. Fax, be careful. He's going to get you on a couple of moves. I mean, you started it. You started it right off the bat. The first thing you said when you sat down was we went to the Italian. Johnny Fenton is now regretting coming in this studio. The first thing you said was we went to an Italian restaurant

right afterwards. So you got me all wound up over here, Johnny. He's hot. Oh, man. Here's the thing. They targeted Rick Petino and Father Shanley at St. John's. Here's where we get into the Big East, the priesthood. Yes.

You know, the Catholic religious. This conference was built on meatballs, prayer, and hoops. Yeah. Oh, I like that. Meatballs, prayer, hoops. That's a great, that's a great tagline. I would also add superstar coaches to it. The Big East has always had the best coaches in basketball.

Big name coaches, big brand coaches. Rick Petino being one of them. He was at Providence with Billy the Kid Donovan in the 80s and all that. So the whole premise of this goes back to you need to find a winner. Father Brian Shanley is the president at St. John's. Shanley hired Ed Cooley to Providence. But at that time, he was thinking about hiring Rick Petino to Providence. Right.

So Shanley has always had Petino on his mind, Petino being a Providence guy. So ironically enough, as the waves change, Shanley ended up having his term as president at Providence end in 2020. He takes the St. John's president job, so he inherits Mike Anderson. But Shanley built Providence College. He helped build it with Cooley. Right. The facilities, the brand recognition.

So now at St. John's, he's like, I'm tired of losing. So where am I going to go? He had a phone call with Billy Donovan. Billy Donovan told Shanley, and Shanley said this is the press conference. Father, you've got to hire Rick Petino if you really want to turn St. John's around. Yes. And that's what happened. So how is he going to solve the big problem that St. John's has, which is

recruiting kids to come play in New York City? So I've never really understood why that's an issue. It seems to me like, or it used to seem to me, like it would be a big attraction for people to want to play, not only in the Big East, but in New York. But then you start to think about it. Being a college kid in New York, maybe not as nice as going to another school. You're getting more NIL money. Your money goes a little bit further.

It's an expensive place to go to college. It is an expensive place to go to college. So how do you solve that? How do you get kids to want to come play in New York City? By showing them that you will win, no matter what. And Rick Petino will. Rick Petino will win. Yeah.

And by showing them that you can get them everywhere that they want to go, because you've done it with everybody. And it's not just messaging. It's not just, well, we play at Madison Square Garden. Well, you played there four times this past year. Like, let's face it. It's not like it was your second home. Right.

So now that's going to change. MSG will be hosting more St. John's games. Is that you thinking it? Or no, that's happening. Oh, OK. I like that. St. John's is going to call the garden its second home again. Madison Square Garden will be a sea of red in January or February

when teams are coming in. No longer will be a Villanova home game in New York or a Yukon home game in New York. Yukon fans will fill it up, but you're going to see a real battle now inside the Mecca. Petino, he has gotten the commitments from the leadership at St. John's that previous coaches could not get.

Why? Because Rick Petino, as much as he's a great basketball coach, he is a dealmaker. Yeah. So, OK, I'm fired up right now for St. John's. What do you think realistic goals here are? Like, what? Rick Petino, check him off.

When does he have to be back in the tournament? Is it next year? Is he going to make this a winner right now? Yes. Yes. And we can revisit this a year from now. I think they will have found a way to make the NCAA tournament.

Look at the bubble. Like, let's be honest here. Did you watch the Arizona State, Nevada game? Yeah. You know what I mean? If that's your last four in, let's face it. I'm betting on that guy in a Big East program where, in the transfer portal, if Kansas State and Missouri

could do what they just did this year, why can't Rick Petino do it at St. John's in the Big East? Now, it's going to be tough because you know you've got to go through. Marquette's going to bring everybody back. So they're going to be like a top five pre-season team. I think people will be surprised to see that. But that's going to be the case.

Yukon's really good. Creighton doesn't slow down. Sean Miller. Sean Miller's got save. You're cooking now. But I still, I really think it's an honest expectation that you could see St. John's ranked next season. And I think they will make the NCAA tournament.

I really believe that. It's like what Dion said at Colorado. He's bringing the luggage with him. He's Gucci, right? Is he bringing it? Do you think anybody on Iona is going to play for St. John's? Maybe. Yeah, I mean, it's certainly possible.

Every coach seems to bring people with them. I don't know anything for a fact. But I'd be surprised if he didn't attempt to. I think for him, this move was about, OK, I'm making the tournament at Iona. But I'm in a one-bit league. Wait, you're giving me a chance to be in a six or seven-bit league? I'm making the tournament in that because he believes

he's the best coach in the league, which, look, I'm going to bet on him over anybody else. Yeah. And he knows that because of the nature of the portal, whether he brings kids from Iona with him or not, he can go get a power conference cast off who needs a second chance and who wants to be coached by a Hall of Famer,

and he could make that kid a star. All right, so another question. Is this forever home? Is this Rick Bettino is here for the next five to 10 years, however long he wants to coach? He's not young. Or is this Rick Bettino, St. John's, go to the tournament a couple of years?

Ooh, a big time school now asks. If that big time school is asking, I guess my question, that big time school is, OK, your big time, why are you now relying on a 75-year-old for like three years? Right. To me, this is the last stop. This is the forever home.

This is the forever home, even Iona was not. Right. No, no, it was clear Iona was not. Now, this is a tough one. Let's say Rick Bettino stays at St. John's for eight years. Yeah. Final four? Yeah.

Oh, I like it. I like it, Johnny Fanta. College basketball is a better sport when Rick Bettino is at the top tier. I just think the climate of the sport, the ability to turn over your roster quickly, when you have someone who's always going to have his team ready, they play harder than everybody.

Yeah. Like, they play. The fact that they were up on Yukon at the half on Thursday, did you hear him at halftime? He's like, I'm so proud of my team. In other words, he's like, we should not be winning this game, and we are. Now, at St. John's, if you're telling me

I get a Hall of Famer who has not lost his fastball, he is just re-adapted and reinvented, and he's like a fine wine, and it fits in New York City. If you're telling me I get him for eight years in New York City playing home games at Madison Square Garden in this big East, yeah, why the hell not? Ripatino in the final four will happen at some point again before he calls it quits.

Love it, love it. Now, what about the other side of the game of musical chairs in the big East? You're going to Georgetown tomorrow, right? Yeah. Ed Cooley, I think it's a home run hire. I think that Georgetown, they're a sleeping giant. They need a guy that has demonstrated

that he can do it before. I thought John Thompson III was a great coach. Sometimes when you get the same guy in the same place for a while, the message starts to fall in deaf ears. You get these interpersonal relationships that get in the way of on the court. Patrick Ewing was a big swing. They took a swing, it was a swing and a miss,

but Ed Cooley, he's a proven guy. I feel like Georgetown could also be in that final four discussion in the next six years too. I think that that's why Ed Cooley is the coach at Georgetown. I mean, at the end of the day, everybody's reading Twitter and people are making their theories and all that. We love, you know, everybody loves all that. It's noise, it's buzz, it's chatter.

Ed Cooley is the coach at Georgetown University because he believes that Georgetown resurrected the program, bringing the brand back to the top of college basketball, winning NIL resources, the priority of Hoops there and the donors in the district area, and if he can get them to a final four, he goes beyond the king of Providence. He turns into, even though he's a villain

in Providence right now and probably will be for quite some time, he goes into a national legacy if he can get Georgetown to a final four. As, this matters too, as a guy who idolized John freaking Thompson, who's a legend, Ed Cooley being a black coach has been an activist in that space and that matters to him. Because if you're the coach at Georgetown,

it goes beyond basketball, guys. It does, it's a bigger than basketball type of job. Yeah, so, and $5 million a year. And a nice paycheck. Yeah, let's just at least say that part because he did get more money. He did get more money. Now Providence offered a comparable thing, it was less.

Well, is comparable $500,000 less? I don't know. I'd say it's comparable, 4.5 to stay at home, and he's a Providence guy, right? Yeah, so. Wouldn't you argue that, like at that point, when Providence owed him over $30 million. Okay.

So, at what point do you say with 500K, like? Yeah, I guess, I guess it's probably more the NIL and the, you put it when we were walking down the hallway perfectly, it's, if Georgetown has their best possible season and Providence has their best possible season, which team is probably going further? It's Georgetown. And which team is getting noticed more nationally.

Yeah, yeah. And I hate to say, look, I love Providence fans. They're the best. They're the best, they're the best. I never have to pay for a meal on Federal Hill. I hope that that still stands. Uh-oh. I don't know.

You don't know? Well, I heard that you were the one who got Ed Cooley to Georgetown. No. Oh, I heard you wheeled and dealed it. Are you telling me that I have to go to Chicago to cover a DePaul game, get a free meal? Yes, yeah, you come, when we move our office,

you're always welcome. You went to Allstate Arena one time. Yeah, oh yeah, that was not nice. That was not nice. Allstate Arena where DePaul used to play and also the Sky champions, not champions a couple of years ago. It was next to a target.

The wind trust is really nice. DePaul needs a coach too. Tony Stubblefield. I know, but it feels like, like PFT said, you now have big time names in the Big East when it comes to all these coaches. Maybe Jay Wright. Jay Wright goes to DePaul.

I miss Jay Wright. I also, here's one. Wait, how much is that gonna be the new thing? Oh, every time. Like is that gonna be your, because now Patino settled in. Is that your new video? Sometimes you have to go.

Yeah, yeah, it's Jay Wright. Jay Wright's everywhere. He's gonna be your new guy. He's gotta be the new guy. Well, here's a question. Providence, what I really want, I want a brother at Providence. I want a Hurley or I want a Miller.

Yes. Archie Miller's already in Rhode Island. Let's have brother fights in the Big East. I mean, we're basically there. Bobby Hurley in the Big East would be a dream, because at Providence, at Providence, let's face it, Providence UConn fans, they despise each other. Despise.

So if you got brothers going at it and you got Bob Sr. in the middle, being like Mother Nature and Heatmizer, Cold Mizer. I mean, and listen, I'll settle for Archie. If you tell me I can't get Bobby, I'll settle for Archie. Miller time. I mean, I like Archie. It was a tough first year at URI.

It was a weird one. All right, so one last question about the Georgetown job. You are an insider. You know every name that gets talked about was Jay Williams ever considered? He was. I mean, he said that he would take the job. No, he was, because he said,

I believe the exact tweet was, since so many people are asking, I'll address it here. Get up, more like get down. So he wasn't. Look, I love Jay Will. I mean, I don't know him at all. He'll probably look at this and think,

what does this guy think? I mean, who's this Drew Carey? I don't get it. Jay Will, Jay Will, no hard feelings. Jay Will, no hard feelings. You were never gonna be the coach at Georgetown. Let's just call Spade a Spade. What was that tweet?

I don't know. I think he just, I think he saw the potential of a job opening and he thinks that it's like, it's good for his name for his buzz to be linked to jobs. Or maybe he got hacked again. You remember he got hacked when he reported that he made a doka as gonna be the first African-American coach of the Boston Celtics?

Yo. And then everybody was like, hey, there's Doc Rivers, just won a championship there. And he was like, I've been hacked. I'm trying to find out who the hacker was. So maybe he got hacked again. That's crazy. So who else was being considered for Georgetown?

If not Jay Will. I mean, I don't, I mean, Mike Ashroosbury at Penn State is being considered by everybody. Although Penn State put out the report last week to John Rothstein that they're backing up the truck. Why not to you? Well, happy valley.

Okay, all right, let's get some of those scoops too. I sense a little animosity when you said John Rothstein. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Jay R's a friend. Okay. Jay R's a friend. I would share any meal with Jay R. He's a friend of ours as well.

Yeah, we love John. Yeah, good. We're gonna get some scoops out of happy valley for Johnny Fanta. We're gonna have to do some scoop. Yeah, what to be. Don't they have a good ice cream over there? Yeah, they do.

They claim that they're gonna back up the truck for him. And at the end of the day, like if you're Penn State, I know that basketball is not first, but do you really want to get in, like do you really want to lose your coach to somebody that's not? No, they're in a weird position where Penn State is like,

they're a big enough state school that's not good enough at basketball. So they are kind of a stepping stone job, but as far as university pride, you don't want to ever think that anything at Penn State is a stepping stone. Do you think that Micah Shrewsbury and James Franklin get together for lunch?

Yeah, being like, where are we going? Wanna go to USC together? I don't think so. I think Shrewsbury probably wins like six games in a row. And then Franklin will be like, hey, congrats to the basketball team. You guys are doing good. He'll do a little video,

then go back to his office. Don't you love the coaches of other sports this time of year when they're at these games? Like Michigan State, Izzo's just got a whole entourage of people, of people behind him. And I'm curious, here's my question to you guys on this show.

By the way, Cooley was the top target for Georgetown. They got the top target. Yeah, makes sense. It seems like both St. John's and Georgetown got their top guy. Yes. Speaking of other sports though, do you guys believe Nick Saban ends up in Houston

if Alabama reaches the final four? I don't know. Not after the comment of the, there is no wrong place, wrong time. That was a message. He was sending a message to Natoats. I believe that. I agree with you.

Yeah. Hardly. I mean, it just, it wouldn't like, it was very clear what he was saying. Because, and when we were talking about on the show, like that, when Natoats has that happen with Alabama basketball program, it looks bad for all of Alabama's sports.

That's absolutely true. And Nick Saban doesn't like that. No, he doesn't. Right. He's not, Nick Saban is only ever, Nick Saban is never going to look bad in Nick Saban's mind, and in the minds of everyone in Tuscaloosa.

Nick Saban, except when he was on the TV desk during the playoff and somebody was talking about, and he got kind of pissed off at that. But Nick Saban's, anything that jeopardizes that is going to have Nick Saban through the roof. Yes. And that did. That did.

It's bad luck for Alabama. We all know that. A great message too, which was by saying wrong place, wrong time, and then having everybody react to it, and then being like, I didn't mean anything by saying wrong place, wrong time. Now, Natoats is like, oh shit,

is Nick Saban living in my head rent free? And I'm just imagining this entire thing. That's Nick Saban with the ultimate mental power play on him. In other words, right place, right time for Nick. Yes, yes, yes. All right, so you're going to Las Vegas. Yes.

Tell me that Yukon can get to the Final Four because I have a future on them. What do you think in this? We'll go through each region, but what are you thinking in this region, which is Yukon versus Arkansas, and then UCLA versus Gonzaga in the lower part? I think you could be jumping for joy.

Yeah? On Saturday night. You do. I am do. I'm very much do. And I've been following you. I'm very much do. I think that you're in a position here.

I think this has a chance to be your best second weekend of the tournament. Ooh, okay. Your performance metrics are on the rise. There's something to be said here, and you haven't peaked. No, I've not, I've yet to peak. I've yet to peak.

Is Yukon going to be my peak? I think they can be. Yeah? And frankly, they're getting Arkansas. So Connecticut gets a draw. What if I had told you, Iona and St. Mary's, okay, you would have said beforehand,

yeah, where do I sign? Yeah. Okay, and oh, I'll knock out Kansas for you. Yeah. Now, Arkansas, don't get me wrong, very talented. They're a top 20 metrics team. So they're not your typical eight seed.

They're far from an eight seed. Yeah, and we love muss. He is the hell of a coach. Love him. I'm wondering if Dan Hurley will take his shirt off if he wins this game. Ooh, okay. Counter-shirting.

Yep. But here's why I love Yukon. Adama Sonogo is playing as well as any big man in America right now. 52 points and 21 rebounds combined in the two NCAA tournament wins. Jordan Hawkins, in five minutes of the St. Mary's game, hit four threes.

Yeah, he's the, he unlocks them. He unlocks them. When he's hitting threes and they're getting tempo, good night. Cause you have to call time out to stop it. It's like an avalanche effect. Yeah. And then you pour in the Joey Calcuttaire,

Alex Caravan, the freshman. Last year, Connecticut's biggest problem was the ball would just stick. They didn't have perimeter shooting. Dan Hurley was like, you know what? I've got these bigs. I've got Sonogo. I know Klingon's coming in.

I've got Andre Jackson to do all the little things. I need some shooting. I need shot makers. Yeah. A Grippettino just got done saying at his press conference. He goes, at the end of the day, right now in college basketball,

I've got to find shot makers. And Yukon has one in Hawkins and everybody seems to benefit when he unlocks something from three. Everybody else plays with confidence. So that's why Yukon can do it. They've got to generate good tempo against Arkansas. Don't get stuck in the half court,

but defensively, if they can contain Devo Davis and keep Ricky Council from having those spurts, Arkansas is a big spurts team. Yup. You have to avoid that patented 8-10-0 run where Musk is just going crazy and they're clicking on all cylinders. That's gonna be a phenomenal matchup

in Vegas to kick off Thursday. It's gonna be great because I also think Yukon, and like I said, I love Musk. So it's one of those things I have a future on Yukon. If Arkansas ends up going to the Final Four, I'll be very happy for them. But I do think Arkansas, their strength is they wanna go to the rim constantly.

And Yukon can actually defend that. They can defend that. Yukon's gonna try to shrink the floor and say, we dare you to shoot the three. Now, does Arkansas have guys that can hit it? Yeah, of course they do. Of course they do. They've got men.

Yeah. Their freshman class is beyond their years. So those are pros. So it's gonna be interesting because to your point, Connecticut's the team that previously wasn't able to beat teams in a game on the perimeter. That gets decided on the perimeter.

But Hawkins is playing like a top 20 pick in the NBA draft right now. Yeah. So if Tristan Newton plays well for Yukon and they can negate what Davis and counsel do, look, I love Arkansas. I really do. And you just said it, if they made the Final Four,

their fan base in Houston would be something to behold. But Yukon as a storyline is very buzzworthy. But the play on the court speaking for itself right now, they have it going. And that's why I give them the edge over Arkansas because of their ability to protect the rim. And because Sonogo can say, the front court is mine. Yeah, I like it.

I'm pumped up. I'm ready for this game. And then the bottom of that though, Gonzaga and UCLA, those two teams are very, very good. Gonzaga, I don't understand like, it feels like people aren't talking about it enough, but they are, when they get humming, you can't really stop them.

No, you can't. You cannot stop Drew Timmy. And when he gets help from a Robin, typically it's been Julian Strother, who I think is the key to this game because of Jaime Hacas on the other side. But Gonzaga just showed it against TCU. When they get going with their tempo,

when they're stringing baskets together, they are a dangerous, dangerous team. But how about the fact that we get Gonzaga and UCLA, 17 years to the day of, oh, what a game! Oh, what a game! UCLA! When the Bruins came back from 11 down against the Zags and beat them.

Morrison crying. What's that? Morrison crying. Bingo. Yeah, yeah. And now Morrison will be doing radio for Gonzaga. Yeah, he's a friend of ours. He's the best.

He's great. He is, he's awesome. I'm curious to, how many times does the TV camera take him on Thursday night? I mean, he's- Over under three and a half. Oh, him or the over. Yeah, over, definitely.

Over, yeah. Over, because he'll come back, they'll do a story like on his mom. They'll do like three shots in the second half, bro. Especially if it's a close game. Yeah. And maybe a match with the buzzer beater two years ago. Yeah.

And the buzzer beater two years ago. So these two teams have a lot of history, high intensity game. Guys, I love UCLA. I love them. Even with the injuries. Even with the injuries. Jaime Hakez is the biggest winner in college basketball.

He's a winner in every sense of that word. Tiger Campbell initiates, he stirs the drink for them. That I love the way that they are playing. I'm going with the Bruins because they're defensively. I think they're in line, even without Clark. And to me, as good as Gonzaga is, I don't trust their back court. And I do trust Tiger Campbell.

Ooh. All right. You want to kick it to the other games? We've got Michigan State, Kansas State. I love Noel, mostly because he's short. And because he's just electric. Like, his passing is driving. He's the guy that stirs the drink on Kansas State for sure.

Yes, he does. And so going up against Izzo, we talked on Monday's show about just how dangerous Michigan State always is, especially when they're not the highest seed. So I'm excited for this game. But I feel like nothing's getting in the way of Tom Izzo right now. Noel's going to try.

But I still love Michigan State in this one. I really badly want to go with the kids from Harlem. Mr. New York City. Mr. New York City. Because I thought Kentucky played well enough. Like, if you were Cal on Sunday, you had to be really pissed off to the point of, man, I really did design a game plan that

could have been fit to win. Yeah. I thought, I mean, Kentucky was up by four inside four minutes to go. I thought they were going to win. Noel just took the game from them. He said, I am not leaving here without a doubt. And I love the way that they're playing.

But I cannot bet against a man who last two times he's been in the second weekend, he's made the vinyl four, who in 28 years at the helm, he's made the second week in the NCAA tournament 15 times. So he's betting over 50% on making it to the sweet 16. I cannot bet against a man who's got Tyson Walker, who's got A.J. Hogard, who's got Jade Nacons playing well. And Joey Hauser is the Brady Manic of this NCAA tournament.

Oh, should have gone to Wisconsin. Should have transferred to Wisconsin. He should have. I DM'd him when the Hauser brothers were leaving Marquette. They didn't answer. It was bullshit. Are you still waiting? I'm still waiting.

Maybe he has a year left? I don't think so. He might. If he has a year left. COVID year, everyone at Drew Timmy has a year left. I mean, it hit me a couple of weeks ago when I was doing Big East Awards at the Garden. And Jack Nungee of Xavier is a really good player,

except scholar athlete of the year. And he walks up to the podium and he goes, I really want to thank my wife. Yeah. Yeah. This is the world that we're living in, in health sports. Joey Hauser should not have another year of health. What if he answers you after?

And he's like, OK, I'll think about it after he declares six years at Wisconsin. Joey Hauser. So with Izzo, I feel like great coaches. I'm going with Michigan State, by the way. I feel like great coaches are all if you're running up against a team with the hottest player in America, if that's your best player

and your offense runs to that one person, I'll take a great coach, figure out a way to hold that guy or to contain that one player. You're right, because he did it with Tyler Kolek. Tyler Kolek was on a roll for Marquette, two early fouls, and then seven points in that game. Tyler Kolek scoring seven points, being held a single digits.

I mean, Izzo said, I'm going to take Marquette's best player. I'm going to take the biggest player of the year, biggest tournament, most outstanding player. I'm going to take him away. And it works perfectly. And I think because of that scheme, it can work with Noel. But not only that, just Michigan State is getting front court play that suffices,

as opposed to what they were getting earlier this year. Matty Soko has been better. Cooper has given them some solid contributions. So for Michigan State, they've come into form. It took them some time. But they're a team with quite the season arc. I mean, let's face it, they went through injuries. Malik Hall is now back.

You go through a non-campus tragedy like they had. Tom Izzo is Michigan State University. He is. Like if I said, the Benetti first person you think of, honestly, I don't think I'd pick anybody over Izzo. And that's one of the few times where the basketball coach, even in 2023, comes ahead of everybody else. Yeah, no, it's true.

We're having a debate of whether or not Michigan State is a blue blood. And I think you've solidified it. I think that I don't think that they're a blue blood. I think that Tom Izzo is a blue blood. I like that. Cut him and he bleeds blue. He wouldn't like that.

No. Cut him and bleeds green. Joey Hauser does have another year. No, he does. Yes, he does. I just looked it up. This is an article from March 8, 2023. So two weeks ago, it says MSU for Joey Hauser says,

unlikely he'll return for another season. That's not a no. Which means to Michigan State, which means to Wisconsin. Joey Hauser, yeah, on his potential for another year, says never say never. But basically says this is the last year in college. I love it. I love that we get like this.

Because part of what people have complained about college basketball is that guys don't stay long or they transfer. Having guys stay for five, six years, I kind of like it. So are you publicly inviting him to make a decision on your air? Yes, he can come on the show and declare for the Badgers. One last year. One last ride.

Unfinished business, Joey Hauser. But not if he decides not to. And he's not welcome on the air. Yes. I also don't know some of these guys. Like Drew Timmy. Drew Timmy does technically have another year. Why wouldn't Drew Timmy just go to like Arizona or UNC?

Somewhere. I know that recruiting and log jams and all that. But how fun would that be to be a guy who owned a small program and then gets to go to a big blue blood and then maybe finally get to a final four? Yeah, I'm with you. Drew Timmy to me seems like a guy that's 17 years from now if he was playing in a college basketball game.

I'd be like, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. He's been in college basketball so long, he's sworn twice on the air in the NCAA tournament. Yeah, yeah. The guy's been around for, yeah, I love him for the game. I love him for Gonzaga. He keeps them elevated.

But you're right, like what if you wonder if the thought ever crosses his mind, hey, I'm going to go to UCLA, or hey, I'm going to go to an Arizona, and I'm going to win the national championship there, and I'll go down a hero there. Right. Now, this is almost like NBA debate now.

Like, what does the title mean? If you ever won the title at Gonzaga, it would be like the Cavs in 2016. It's worth more than one. That's true. We're more than one. Oh, yeah, I forgot you're a LeBron fan. Cleveland sports fan.

Cleveland sports fan. OK, so no longer LeBron fan. No, he's a Laker. OK, all right, good answer. Good answer. I don't follow players. Yeah, good answer. Johnny Fenton, did you like our interview with Kevin Stafansky?

Great stuff. Yeah, he's a good guy. He's a real good guy. He's going to get it going in Cleveland. Yeah, he's going to run the damn ball. Maybe not. If he runs the ball, then it's going to happen. Well, no, I think Kevin Stafansky's a great coach,

but there are some teams, my own team, the Bears are the same way. Like, you could have the best coach in the world. The organization still can fuck up. If you were to power wreck your fans. Third down. Pass completed for 13 yards for a Pittsburgh Steelers first. Brown's number one.

Yeah, Cleveland football town. Hard and soul, Hardland of America, 6am, Muni Lott, beers, fun, pancake, sausage. It's Cleveland Brown's football. Yeah, I like Brown's football. Brown's baseball is actually second for me. OK. OK.

I need a guardian. Sorry, have a very fun team. Fun. Yeah. Love Jose Ramirez and Terry Francona, please. Just stay healthy, Tito. Yeah. You have the job forever.

Yeah. And then Cavaliers. I mean, I love all three teams. Like, you're a great coach. You're a great coach. You're a great coach. You're a great coach. You're a great coach.

I mean, I love all three teams, like your children. I really do. But football comes first in Cleveland. Yeah. Facts are facts. Back to the tournament. Is it Alabama's tournament to lose at this point? Because it feels like their region, especially,

they should be in the final four. They're the most talented team. They've been the most talented team all season. What trips them up besides the Rico box go mush? Because that could happen. So, on their side of the bracket, and I mean, on the total size between the South and the East, there's nobody there that I think can pull it off.

Really, there's nobody there. The interesting team, I would say this weekend for them, is if they were to draw Creighton in the Elite Eight, just because Creighton was the preseason top ten team, but guys, they played like it last weekend. Yeah. They beat Baylor by nine. It was never in question.

No, it was never in question. I was surprised. Yeah. We've just become accustomed to seeing Scott Drew and the Bears kind of make some things happen. Yeah. They got beat. Ryan Demhardt had 30.

They wore the wrong uniforms. Yeah, I think they did. Yeah. They should have worn the highlighters. They should have worn the Grand Canyon uniforms. Oh, yeah. That was a great story, wasn't it? Yes.

You want to share the story? Yeah. You probably have some insight I don't have. No, I think you have more. Okay. You're on the tournament coverage. Like, you're doing a good job. Grand Canyon forgot their uniforms.

You have Pete Gillum still alive, right? Yeah. Yes. Okay, good. But yeah, they forgot their uniforms, right? They forgot their uniforms. Well, the uniforms were not forgotten. I don't know if they were forgotten as much as they were.

There was an air in transporting them. So, there's an air in transporting them. How does that happen? All the band, all the instruments for the pet band got delivered. But the fricking uniforms didn't get delivered. Yeah. What? How does that happen?

So, as a result, Grand Canyon is screwed, but Bryce Drew is the coach at Grand Canyon. So, he says to his brother, Scott, I don't know what to do. You know, we're just going to wear like some random t-shirts for our shoot around. So, brotherly love, he helped out Grand Canyon with some Baylor uniforms. Wow. Maybe those were the good uniforms that would have got him that dub. Damn. That's tough.

Maybe once Grand Canyon wore them. Oh. Oh, they caught. They put a stink on them. Oh, no. That was what it was. That's absolutely what it was. They got pulled low in Grand Canyon.

Yeah. Yeah. Shit. They contracted it big time. That's tough. What about Tennessee? Because our theory on this show is that Rick Barnes is actually in the best position he's ever been to advance to this tournament further than he's ever gone because there are no

expectations on him. Yes. No one thinks that Tennessee is going to be a threat because of injuries. Yes. But now that he doesn't have the pressure of, oh, because if Rick Barnes loses on Thursday the storyline is not going to be Rick Barnes still can't get it done in the tournament. No. It's going to be, well, yeah, it was a banged up team.

They were a flawed team right now. So is this actually where Rick Barnes finally gets to a Final Four? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Johnny Vance is bringing the team. Yeah. You know who we have futures on on this show, Johnny.

Yeah. You're patronizing us. So, yeah, no. He's got UCLA, UConn, and Tennessee all getting to the Final Four, which is not possible. I appreciate it. That's not possible. And Purdue. You've probably got Purdue who's still in there.

That's not possible. I've got UCLA. Ah, screw it. I've got UConn making the Final Four. That's cool. I've got Connecticut making the Final Four. Tennessee, you know, I really look at the way that they're playing. And everybody's like, well, they're ugly.

Yeah. But in the tournament that allows you to win. Yeah. Oftentimes. So it's Virginia's scheme and sometimes it backfires. But when it can click, it can work. And right now it's working. Olivier Camois is on a mission.

Santiago Vescovy. Sometimes when you have two great players, like Vescovy and Ziggler are really good. And I'd rather have them than not. And sad that Ziggler's gone. But like Vescovy now is like, I know I have to do this for my team. Yeah. So I'm going to just deliver. And I felt that against Duke.

Next to the FDU win over Purdue. That was the result I've been most surprised by in the tournament. Really? Because Duke had won 10 in a row. You know, they were hot. But I got bad vibes the moment that we heard Mark Mitchell's not playing today. Like two minutes before tip off, they found out, like, uh-oh. Like this is interesting here when you have a lineup change so late.

Duke never clicked in that game. And Tennessee makes you uncomfortable. Tennessee should be Florida Atlantic. Let's call Spade of Spade. They should beat FAU. I like the story that Dusty Mays put up. Great name, by the way. It's just, it's going to end.

I think Tennessee wins. I hope that I'm wrong and that the owls hoot on. But I like Tennessee. Hoot on. Hoot on. Yeah, hooting on. But what I like about Dusty Mays, what he did after they won, he said, like, we're going to have to study some rugby if we want to be able to beat Tennessee.

Just putting it out there, letting the powers that be know, like, hey, you have to call this game a little bit differently than you called the game against Duke because they're going to come out, they're going to be throwing elbows. You know, Phil Jackson used to do that a lot. He used to make the storyline about, like, him talking to the refs before a big series or a big game. I don't think that Tennessee is going to be officiated any differently in this game than they were against Duke.

It depends on the crew. I mean, it really is crew to crew. Every officiating crew is different. Yeah. Yes. The answer, I mean, does FAUF staying power, though? Maybe they do by being just a random school. I think they got bad vibes, actually.

They had great vibes until that last second miss dunk. Yeah. Bad vibes. That's a karma play. Mark that down. That's PFT's karma play of the NCAA tournament. That's going to come back to haunt them. Not the fact that Tennessee is a superior team with superior players and better scoring

and better defense. It's the fact that he bricked that last second dunk that's going to bite on the ass. Are you also suggesting that had Coach Cade been at the gate last weekend that the officiating would have changed? He was there. He was in the building somewhere lurking. I think that Coach Cade... He was, like, staying up in the rafters.

You know he was. I think after that brick dunk, Coach Cade wishes to God he had been there just so he could go down onto the court and say, hey, you're too good a player to be pulling a stunt like that at the end. Oh, that was a different game. But yeah, it doesn't matter. Going to Tennessee's locker room and coach them up, be like, listen, guys, I don't like how you played today.

He would have done that. Never coach another man's team unless you're Coach Cade. You can coach anyone's team. That's what he thinks. Do you think he'll coach again? No. But I would love to see him back out there because he's a nemesis that I'd love to have. Where would he go?

Where would he go, Johnny? NBA? John, do you have sources? He's not. He's not coaching again. That sounds like a question we would ask. You're stupid as shit and you're smart. What are you doing?

It's not happening. Why would Johnny ask that question? It's not happening. I hope he, like, coaches a grandchildren's game. That's what I'm trying to read tomorrow. That would be great. I would root so hard against him in that game. Well, how about that?

The current St. John's athletic director, Mike Craig, was his right hand man. Remember Coach Cade showed up to a game at the Garden a couple of years ago? Yeah, yeah. Like in the regular season. So does Coach Cade show up for a Rick Petino game at the Garden? Oh, I would love that. Maybe takes a half or something. Okay.

All right. And then in the Midwest region, which we have to talk about because there's really good teams, Houston, Samson said to himself, he's like, a lot of times we just play like shit. They're hard to watch, but man, do they just beat the hell out of teams? Like what they did to Auburn in the second half. That might have been the most impressive performance in the first round or first two rounds. They just killed them. They took him to the woodshed.

And they have a setup where they can ride somebody offensively in a half like they did against Auburn, where it's not just Sasser as good as he is. It could be a Juwan Roberts, it could be Tremont-Mark. Like they've just got dudes. And Sasser being good. Huge. Huge. Because if he's not good to go, then there's real, real concern.

I give him a lot of credit. When he said he was 100% for the game, I've got to be honest with you, I didn't believe a word of that. Yep. And I expected him to struggle because you've got a groin injury. There's been no sign that you're okay. And he played through that. And they played through that. Their defense is relentless.

It's absolutely relentless. But, hot take. Miami can beat them. And I'm going to be the one guy that picks Miami to win. Wow. Because Miami is a bad matchup for Houston. They're a bad matchup for Houston. Nigel Pack, Isaiah Wong can line it up in a second.

They are both players who have spurred ability to a tee. I'm talking, you know, in their first tournament game against Drake, it's Wong who actually was Pack who came up big. In their second tournament game against Indiana, it's Wong who comes up big with the 20 plus point performance. To beat Houston, you've got to shoot over them some. You've got to make perimeter shots. You've got to manage possessions. Jordan Miller is Mr. Steady for the Hurricanes. Northcad O'Mear on the glass, an elite rebounder.

Elite rebounder just sets the tone of physicality for them. So when you have a great backcourt, not a good backcourt, Miami's got a great backcourt. When you have a rebounder in O'Mear, when you have a coach in Jim Laronega who knows how to scheme and who's kind of taken on this role of a friendly grandpa to a point that his kids, I think, play well for him because his whole demeanor is kind of settled. Like Jim Laronega could say, I'm retiring right now. I'm going to go play golf for the rest of my life and it'd be fine. He doesn't have anything left to prove.

He's done it. He did it at George Mason. He's doing it at Miami. They've got the right vibe to beat Houston and I am going to go out on a limb and pick them. I don't trust Houston's offense and there's a reason why Auburn was up by 10 at the half. I don't even think that Auburn team was that great to be candidly honest with you. So when they were up by 10 at the half on Houston, I'm sitting there saying, man, Houston really does have some issues right now.

Like NKU was giving Houston some issues in the first round. I'm going out on a limb. Miami makes back-to-back elite eights. And if you're a Houston fan, you're out there saying thank you, Johnny Fanta, because there will be a graphic that comes up that shows everybody picking Houston. Make sure to add, if they don't have John Fanta's pick on there, add it in in your brain. Somebody did pick University of Miami.

Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, Johnny. Now, you know that Dana Holgerson will be at that Final Four if they make it there. We got to go to his house. Oh, yeah, for sure. I totally forgot about that. Hank will stay over for six days. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Holgerson's a great guy. He's the best. Great dude. Wait, so is Miami in the Final Four? So right now, John Fanta's picks. He's got Alabama in the Final Four. Yes. He's got Tennessee in the Final Four.

Yeah, I'm going out on a limb. Yeah. You got Yukon in the Final Four. Who's your fourth Final Four team? Rodney Terry in Texas. Okay. I like that pick. Yeah.

And that goes back to, right now, Dylan DeSue is playing as well as anybody. I mean, in two tournament games, he's had 45 points and 20 rebounds. He's on another level right now. And they have an all-time starting five team name guy, Sergio Barri Rice. Love Sergio Barri Rice. I mean, the best name. Who comes in off the bench? Yeah.

But has he... But you need one of those guys on your team to make a magical run in the Final Four? Yes. One name that everyone's like, whoa, Sergio Barri Rice? That's his name? Okay, cool. I just think, guys, that this team, this group of players, when the crisp-beard stuff goes down, they had the personnel to get through that.

There's so many other teams. 80% of any other team would have withered or maybe made the tournament and then a first-round bow out. This group has a dude in Marcus Carr who came to Texas for this chapter. This is why he transferred. Timmy Allen, who I think is a guy who leads and a guy who steps up for them in different ways. Christian Bishop gives them a different look when he comes into the game.

Another transfer came from Creighton. A lot of people scrutinized him for going from Creighton to Texas. That's worked out. So I just like their makeup. I think the entire East Hunter. Tyrese Hunter went from Iowa State to Texas for this moment, for this moment with the Longhorns. They got a group of, by doing the portal as much as Beard did, I think a lot of these

kids have a common ground. And they're playing hard for their guy, Rodney Terry, who by the way should be the head coach for Texas. Texas needs to stop thinking about what they're going to do, looking at what they're going to do. Could you imagine the confidence factor right now? Texas basketball. You ever want to win a national championship?

Do you want to win one? I'd argue your chances are as good right now as they ever would be with Rodney Terry. What happens if Chris Delconcie, the Texas AD, says right now, puts out a statement or a tweet today or tomorrow morning and says, you know what, I've heard all the chatter. Rodney Terry's my head coach. If you're a Longhorns player, wouldn't you want to then just run through a brick fire? Counterpoint. John Calipari.

No. No? To Big Cat's point though. No. So in your line of thinking, which is right, I think John's right. I wouldn't hire him if I was Texas. Like logically, you are correct, sir. I agree with 100% of what you're saying.

But the reality at the University of Texas is it's not always the athletic director that's making that call. I know. It's the boosters that have their names on buildings and names on stadiums that are making that call. But what has Cal done in the last four years just to make the donor that excited? No, not a lot. I don't think they know Ball though.

He's on a down side. He's a splashy name, right? And so if you're a big money Texas booster, you see Cal, you're like, oh, I recognize that guy's name. I want him. Look, would I love it? Yeah. Yeah.

It's great for college basketball if we see some massive seismic move of John Calipari going from Kentucky to Texas. I would love it. I think it'd be buzz worthy. And I wouldn't love it for Rodney Terry. I think he deserves it. But you know what? In this business, you think you could be handed something.

That's not how it goes. Yep. Cal at Kentucky has run its course. It's run its course. Ooh. You know, I think for both sides, it might be best for their best versions of themselves going forward to not be together. What about Calipari leaves goes to Texas, Jay Wright to Kentucky?

Well, that's going to be the theory every time. And Max is shaking his head. He's not happy about that. You're not happy about that? He wants Jay Wright back now. You want him back. Jay's not going anywhere. Jay Wright, think about Jay Wright's life right now.

He retired. Well, you could retire. Retired from coaching. Yeah. We know our retirement works around here. I mean, you could say you're retiring. So Jay Wright right now, here's Jay Wright's life. Jay Wright gets to go to the city of his choice for CBS Sports.

He's typically going with Bill Raftery. And if he's not going with Bill Raftery, he's going with a big time play by play announcer. There are many, whether it's Ian Eagle, whether it's Spiro Ditas, I could go down the line, Andrew Catalan. And he basically is going into a town. He gets to sit with the coaches and chat it up. He can go to dinner. And if he's with Raft, they can shut down the bar.

And when I say shut down, Bill Raftery turns 80 in August and owed to Bill Raftery for having the energy that he possesses every single day in college basketball. The guy is still calling a million games a minute. He knows his stuff. His lines are good. It's not stale. It's not. And Jay Wright gets to live that life.

He ain't calling. He retired for this life style, but the counterpoint again, any of these guys who have had that type of success at that level, they miss it a little. The winning games, winning games matters more than anything. You know, there's no winner or loser when you're sitting on the, on the desk. That's why I think a year from now, you got me thinking with Kentucky and stuff. I think, I think a year from now, you'll see Chris Mack get back into college basketball coach.

He's been kind of quiet since Louisville chapter ended. By the way, I do think Ronnie Terry should be the coach of Texas. I just like to play the game of John Calipari going anywhere. I do too. Yeah. And do you think that, so you, are you saying that he's officially on the hot seat? Next season, he's got to go on an NCAA tournament run. Okay.

So that sounds like hot seat to me. That sounds like Luke Warm's seat. No, it's hot because if it was, he's not getting fired right now, but the seat is heating up. But is the seat heating up now or is it heating up next year if he doesn't go on a run? So in my opinion, this is, this is my logic with this. If you make the NCAA tournament again next year and you have a, a one and done or you win a game and then lose, you're now going on five consecutive years of no second week

at Kentucky. Yeah. They're supposed to be Kentucky. If, you're, you are the Dallas Cowboys, right? Of college basketball. Are you not? Well, yeah. Kentucky's won something recently.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, they're the biggest brand. Over a decade now. It's been a while. It's been a while. All right.

What would you compare them to Kentucky? I know. I think you're right in terms of the brand. Okay. The brand. It's a flashy brand and with Cal there, I think it even makes the brand. It's under a bigger microscope with him and he just hasn't got it done recently. Yeah.

I just think it's under a bigger microscope in general. And when you don't go on second week and NCA tournament runs at a school like Kentucky for a half decade, at some point we got to stop worrying about the number of stars next to a kid's name. That's not winning games in March. No. This sport is different now. You have to crush the portal.

You have to figure out a way through NIL, not just dropping bags, but figuring out a way to both drop bags and to make it work for your locker room. This Kentucky team this year was proclaimed to be a national championship contender. And I know Carolina is sitting at home and they didn't even make the tournament. But you know what? They made the national championship game a year ago when nobody expected them to. This Kentucky team was supposed to be a team that could at the very least be sitting here. At the very least be sitting here in the sweet 16.

And the fact that they go home to Kansas State who was picked dead last in the Big 12 preseason bowl, that's sour again. It stings. Nothing against Cal personally. It's just a fact. Kentucky basketball has underperformed now for several years in a row. I like the fire. And I mean, listen, we have a lot of fans at Kentucky.

We get to host Matt Jones show every year. He's been on our hot seat for like five years. So maybe we are actually the true Kentucky insiders. You guys are. And you know what? Big Blue Nation is awesome. They're an awesome fan base. But Big Blue Nation, isn't your expectation level high?

Yeah. Yeah. I actually think that the people from Kentucky will get mad at us for this segment, not because we're putting Cal on the hot seat, but because we didn't go far enough and say like, I think that if you ask like a true Blue Kentucky fan, they want him gone yesterday. They're done. Yeah. They are done.

So who would you hire at Kentucky? Rick Petino. Yeah. Rick Petino. Rick Petino gets a call in two weeks from Kentucky. Sometimes you got to go home. I'm not going to lie. That would be the most St. John's thing ever.

Yeah. It would be. It would. It would. Yes. Yes. They are a New York sports team. Yeah.

Rick Petino writes in a little cocktail napkin. What if I resign? What if Kentucky hired Jim Bayhime? Good laugh for the boys. Breaking. Jay Williams. Yeah. Jay Williams.

Be considered. All right. Well, I have one last question. Johnny Fenton has been awesome. Great to have you on. We're going to see you in Houston. We're going to be invited on Barstool Live from Kirby's Ice House. I think Dave's going to go after you for your coolly water holding.

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I wear the joggers all the time. They're the most comfortable pants you can own. So who's cutting down the nets? The last team. Give us your national champion. Also Wisconsin is still alive in the NIT if you want to just pick that. Oh, man. Um, let's see here.

Are you going to stay out in Vegas for the NIT? No. I'm not doing that. Oh, come on. I'm going to come back to Jersey. It used to be the real national championship. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, in that regard, good luck to your Badgers. Thank you. But man, my national champion. No, don't do it. My national champion. Don't do it. Is the Connecticut. You're pandering, John.

I thought you were going to say help. Yeah, you're pandering. That's fine. That's fine. Listen, I need to. No, it's not a panda. Look, I think everybody and their mother believes Alabama's going to do it. Yeah.

Like, whether you, all the, we all know about what's going on with them. But I mean, real talk, it clearly has not been a distraction for this basketball team as much as that sucks. No, it's basically that South Carolina game they won in overtime. Yeah. That was it. That was it. But I think Alabama should win it.

But there was something I saw from Yukon last week and then made me say they could do it. And so that's why I'm just, I'm going out on a little bit of a limb. I want to see Danny Hurley there. I'm going to take, I'll take Yukon. Can you tell me just how Alabama loses? Yeah. They lose if they fall in love with a three point shot. Yep.

Too much and go like eight for 37 in a game. They need a bad, bad rim. A bad rim. A bad rim. East region, I don't see anybody being able to win it. I mean, I like Michigan State. I like what they're doing, but I don't trust Tennessee in the final four. Up in the, well, down in the South, in the South, Alabama to me is a shoe-in to make

it. So then by that virtue, they're going to be in the championship game. So you know, I think on the other side, could Houston win it? Yeah. But I just don't trust them always with their offense. Tennessee would be a pick too. I'm going to pick Yukon and go a little bit outside the box because I do think Yukon's talent, Yukon's talent stacks up with anybody.

Okay. There it is. There's my pick. John Fanta. Go follow him on Twitter, everywhere. John underscore Fanta. He is the best. See you in Houston.

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OK, we now welcome on one of our favorite recurring guests back in studio. It is Damon John. He's here. He has what he's calling a legacy book. A legacy book, yes. It's called Little Damon Learns to Earn. It's out now. Go buy it.

I actually wanted to start. I was saying to you in the hallway, I don't know if you read Art of the Deal. I read Art of the Deal. So I know how to negotiate better than pretty much everyone. I negotiated with my son this morning. I told him, if you put on your clothes right now, I will bring home a book for you. And it was your book. So your book's already helping my life.

Did he get excited? Yeah, he was like, oh, thank you so much for the book. That's the key. In the back of my head, I was like, I'm probably going to forget to bring it home. But that's fine. Whatever. But that's the key that he actually likes books right now. Because usually, they're like, I don't have a book.

What am I going to do with that? They lie to you when you're a kid because books, when you're young, they're just pictures. And then all of a sudden, you have to start reading shit. And then you're like, wait, wait, wait. This is a bait and switch. Yeah. But this is so you've been working on this book for how long now? I didn't realize I was working on this book for the last 30 years because I was trying

to teach my oldest girls financial intelligence. And I didn't know how to. And when I first made money, I thought the financial intelligence was, you want a car? You go out and you work. I'll match how much money you have and get you a car. I was just teaching her how to work hard. Right. It wasn't financial intelligence.

So I started looking around. And the reason why this is my legacy is going to be my legacy is because there's no book out there like this for kids five to 10 years old, where it shows them how to build a business or what to do with money. All the books are princes and princesses. And now I have a new little girl. She was six, seven years old. And I'm tired of reading her stories about a prince that's going to one day come and check

out her gold slipper or something like that. And I realized this is not out. And then our kids don't have financial intelligence. And at 17 years old, they can acquire $700,000 worth of debt that they won't pay up until the end of the 50s. I always thought that was messed up. When you're growing up, you should. The biggest part of your life is going to be learning how to have money, spend money,

what to do with your money. Your life is going to be centered around that to a certain extent for the next 60, 70 years. And they don't teach you anything about that in school ever. And they teach you math that you're probably, you know, at certain parts of math in high school, I've never used calculus in my life. I've never used trigonometry. I've never been in the same room as calculus. Yeah, that's so bad it wasn't bad.

I took algebra two twice. Yeah, yeah. C plus the second time. I love school so much. I took seventh grade twice. Yeah. But so it's not, listen, it's not a scam or it's not some kind of, you know, kind of like thing people want to do to us.

They're not saying, oh, let's not teach our kids anything about money. Then all of a sudden, you know, let's prey on them. But what happens is the school system is broken. The school system is where the school system was 80 years ago. We needed to be able to build ships and build things and have a trade like that because we're going to war or they were teaching you how to be a good employee because there weren't companies that you started yourself. But the fact is that whoever's listening today who's graduating school 50% of them will retire

with a job title that doesn't exist today. Just like taking somebody 20 years ago, you're going to be a podcaster or be an AI expert or social media person or pay per click manager. So you're going to not be taught financial intelligence. And then at 17 years old, take $700,000 worth of debt for a education you don't know you want to have. Yeah. So this book, it's ages five to 10, four to eight.

Five to 10 parents can read it with their kids and unlike when you think about a book like when I read Catcher and the Riding in school, why the hell am I reading this? Yeah, fuck Holden Caulfield. That book was, come on. He's a phony. Yeah. He is. He's a big phony.

He did too. Just grow up a little. But when you think about your little boy, when you read this book, a kid loves repetitiveness. So what you would do is you would read it every month, right? Because right now the status like 60% of parents are uncomfortable talking about money with their kids. So now I figured because I'm literally the only African American on major television on major network for the last 14 years that don't come from music sports or television,

music sports or politics, I've been in these kids' living rooms for 14 years. So I'm trying to be the new Mr. Rogers and teach them what's going on. And that's what I'm trying to bring this financial intelligence to families and parents and everybody. Yeah. I also think that sometimes people that don't grow up with money, they don't learn how to talk about money. They get like afraid to bring it up because in certain people's houses like you bring

it up, if you don't have money grown up, your parents just tell you don't talk about money like it's a taboo topic. It's bad, right? And it's not, right? So I put it in a real soluble way where Lil Damon wants to earn, he wants to get some stuff and he wants to make his own, he starts his own business fails, then he realizes he needs friends and he needs to tap into his friend's skill set to help him make money and they all make money.

So when your little boy, you know, I don't want him thinking he can only be a superhero because Webb's got to come out of his wrist so he has to fly. But if I can show him like the Avengers, instead of fighting Thanos, what you need to fight is you need to just grab each other and get each other together. And then I use the fact that you could dance, you could sing, you could draw, you're a gamer and we can make money having fun. And that's what people need to understand. So do you explain or maybe you could explain it to someone like we have a lot of listeners

that are maybe five years old, inflation. How does that make sense? Well inflation means that the cost of everything is rising, but you can make money off of inflation. You know, if you buried $100,000 in the ground in 1975, you pull that $100,000 in cash up and you barely get your Mercedes Benz. But due to inflation, if you buried a diamond in the ground that worth $100,000, it would be worth $1.75 million today. So do we print more money when we get out of it?

This is again a question for five year olds. Yeah right. But you guys came in the money right? Well yeah we did, but I'm wondering, I now need some tips on... Well what would you do with the money now? Okay. I would bury it. Because if you...

Camble it, responsibly. I would bury it. Wait, wait. I'll put my hat on because... Okay. All right. Nice. Nice.

Teach us. I see I'm needed here. Bring top hats back. You know, when I'm on Shark Tank, no little kid gives a shit about my $10,000 Tom Ford suits. But when I wear this hat... Oh this is awesome. When I wear this hat, you know, they want me to create magic and I'm going to show them

magic on how to get the hell out of their parents' house at 21 years old or turn $1 to 3. So you're going to use your money gambling? Well listen, you have $5 and responsibly you say if I take one of those dollars and I hit a parlay, now I have $20. And how... What are the odds on the parlay? I'm not a mathematician.

I understood. I really like this team. Yeah. You really like the team. Well, you know, so an asset is what feeds you and a liability is what eats you, right? Okay. So let me ask you something. What do you think is an asset or liability?

Okay. I'm going to give you a choice. Okay. I'm going to give you a choice. Asset. Let me give you a choice. Well, I'll just give you one and then you give me a choice. Asset working with PFT, liability working with Billy.

I kind of nailed that, right? I think so. I think I nailed that. I think I nailed that. I was going to say, you have the walking definition of a liability in this room. He's right there. Right now. It's Billy.

He'll, he'll give you a rash in two seconds. Billy, what do you do? Billy's actually struggling with taxes right now. That's a very interesting question. It's not, it's not a tough question. What do you do, Billy? Stuff. Like what?

I try to help out as much as I can. Sometimes it's beneficial. Sometimes it's content. Yeah. Well, wait, wait. I like the fact that he said. That's the same description as a drug dealer, but I'm trying to find out what exactly did you do here.

Yeah, that is. You're right. Well, they have a product. Yeah. What's the product? That's debatable. Billy is the drug. Yeah.

So, so I think you're accurate about that assessment of what Billy is. He's the liability. All right. So you got some money. All right. Let me ask you what's the asset liability. Um, a 80 foot yacht, paint purple with, you know, just a bunch of TV screens on it and you sit there all day and you gamble watching TV screens on the yacht or a share of Amazon

that may, they may deliver products right to you or they own whole foods. Which one do you think is an asset of liability? I am a, I'm a shareholder in Amazon right now and I'll tell you for the last two years I would much rather be betting on the Can't Lose Parley American. Yeah. Yeah. Purple yacht. Paiso stuff.

Let his employees take a piss break. That's a good boss. Well, you get up and see. So if you, so, so Amazon, you should be doubling down on Amazon right now because right now if, if, if, if, if a Mercedes, if a car you loved was on a 30% discount brand new, wouldn't you buy a couple of them? Yeah. But I mean, you can probably tell by looking at me.

I'm a luxury brand guy and right now Amazon, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like Jersey, Italy, Italy. That's me. Okay. I want that yacht right now. I see Amazon stock. It's like, ew. Yeah.

Gross. So you need to buy when it's down because it's going to go back up. So if you put your money in the bank, you would make maybe 3%. You put, let's say you guys just made some money, you put $100,000 in the bank end of the year, it would be $103,000. You put it in Amazon. If it just goes back to where it used to be, that would be probably about $1,300. Okay.

That sounds better. What about barrier? So it would be $130. Excuse me. I forgot what you said, $100,000. And then the $13,000. Then you parlayed? You parlayed.

You let the windings ride. All right. Do you like your money? Yeah. Now your money's making money. All right. Well, this is the whole reason why I'm writing this book for kids because adults like you are already too stupid to teach.

So I want to teach kids at about five years old to start understanding how to process. You're right, by the way. I'm good at making money. I'm not good at like holding the money. Let me show you what, there's a simple, and none of this stuff is hard really to understand. So let me show you something that you and any listener can do right now for the kids in your life. Just something casual to do, okay?

Your son, if he likes toys and stuff like that, you want to buy him a nice little truck, right? Buy him a little caterpillar truck, right? Buy him a share in caterpillar. And then show him what that truck is equal to and then take a picture of him that day, you know? The next birthday or the next holiday or Christmas, buy him a share in maybe Disney and a Disney and a product that he likes, right?

And when you look at this book, all these shares that he keeps going over and looking at over the course of the next five, ten years, he's going to start to understand. Then you show him how much they appreciated. And how much did the truck appreciate? How much can he sell that for? And how much can the stock be sold for? And if everybody did that with their kids, they would start to understand stocks. But let me show you the exact way that $3 works.

So if you guys made $3, $3,030 million, here's exactly how it's supposed to happen. The first dollar is supposed to go for what you have to pay for, right? Food, bills, whatever the case is. The second is an investment. Okay. Anything, real estate, whatever the case is. And the third dollar you go and you buy, what you would like to have, but you don't have to have.

And if you don't buy it, then you put it back into number two. What most Americans do is they put the money in, they do number three first because they worked hard. They want to treat themselves. Then they never get to number two and then all of a sudden number one is late and they're paying 18% interest on their credit cards. But if you teach your kids what one, two, three is when money comes into the house, because when you look at your kids and go, what the hell are you doing?

You know how hard I worked? They go, no, and I don't give a shit. I came into this world just like this and you were taking care of everything. Why would I give a shit? But when you show them that type of stuff, I did the same thing with my daughter. She's seven. She had $300 at the end of the year. I mean, I don't know, the Tooth Fairy is giving away $40 these days.

I mean, I got... Wait, what? $40? Yeah, I got $2.25 for all my teeth and my tonsils, but no problem. We broke out the $300. I said, baby, here's $100, you got to give that to mommy and daddy because you got to help pay the rent. She said, basically, look at me with the, I don't give a shit.

No problem, take it. The second one, we put it into a little business. She's going to buy seashells, oh, she's going to find seashells and put them into little glass bottles and cellos. Then the third, I said, what do you want to do with this third? What do you want? Anything you want? She wanted a pet.

She started off with a giraffe, but we ended up down to a little fish. We go to the store, we buy the fish, we bring it home. I said, baby, the money just bought you freedom. She said, what do you mean? I said, you didn't have to wait for Christmas. You didn't have to wait for your birthday. You didn't tell me and I went and bought you a fish that you didn't want. This is what freedom is.

So what she started to understand, and all the parents can do this today with their kids, she started to understand that's freedom. Freedom is either going away on a vacation, giving to a charity, you know, parlay, whatever that means, right? Yep. But then we went back to number two. She had bought 30 little bottles to pull the shells, but she went and give away 20. I said, you can't give away 20 because you'll be bankrupt.

She realized if she gives away five, sells 25, she could then buy 60. She has financial intelligence and how things worked at seven years old. Imagine if I kept doing the stock thing with her and that, it keeps growing. Do kids have to pay taxes? Kids do not have to pay taxes because you usually pay the taxes for them at that point. That's actually wrong because there's always the dad tax. Whenever my kids have food that I want, I take a bite. Yeah.

My son, Chris, he's four. He goes to Chipotle all the time because the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia invested in him. And whenever he comes home, I'm like, let me get half that meal. You know the Bureau of Child Welfare could be listening to us right now. Wait, whoa, you don't take dad tax? Like when my son had, last night he had Mickey Mouse gummies and I was like, dad tax, give me a couple of those.

They get taxed. You know, they get taxed in a certain way, but you're giving them a gift. So what do you give taxing them? Yeah, that's a gift tax. Yeah, I'm gift taxing them. All right. So I love the idea about the stock. That's actually genius.

You buy them a gift, you get them a stock, like $5 in Caterpillar. What about my daughter? She's a huge Lockheed Martin fan and I really don't want to have her invest in bombs. Well, I think your daughter should be, I think you should be listening more to your daughter. Okay. She should be listening to you. She's a huge Lockheed Martin fan.

Yeah. Yeah. She's their number one fan. She's only, she's about to be two, but she's their number one fan. It's a good company. It's strong. It's a very strong guy. Yeah.

My son, Chris, again, he loves Halliburton too. Oh, he loves Halliburton. Yeah. Big Dick Cheney guy. I'm curious. What's the worst piece of advice that you've ever received in business besides going, besides going part of my take? Good question.

That's going part of it. The worst piece of advice that I ever got in business was you're not guaranteed tomorrow to spend it all. So back to, now you're talking about like, you have money right now, you don't know what to do with it. Right. You what? You're saying like, if you have money, you might as well get rid of it because you don't

know what else to do with it. That's bad advice. Well, that's bad advice because they're saying spend it all, meaning always reinvest in the businesses, certain ways to reinvest in the business is not necessarily putting money back into the business because there's a lot of people out there that have large businesses and they spend all the money and they don't have anything to take at home, right? Because everybody usually gets paid off your business besides you. The people that are renting the building, the people that are providing the microphones,

all the employees and all that other stuff and you're not taking the money out for yourself. So they say spend it all on the business or various other things and that's not really the best way to do it. What you should be doing is taking that business like McDonald's and using it for more real estate than hamburgers, right? You got to put it in and build something else within the business and let the money work for you in the business. At the end of your book, did you ever think about having a page at the end of the book

being like, and the best business advice is create a book that kids will buy because they never run out of kids. They never run out of kids. They never run out of kids. Think about it. Yeah. It's literally a coin. Yeah, but you know what I mean?

Every time I have sex, I'm thinking of myself dollar signs. Kids. They never run out of kids. I'm gonna make money off this kid. Well, are you thinking are you paying for that sex? You mean? No, I'm making the money. Oh, you're getting paid?

Yeah. So you're breaking down costs per pump? Yeah. All right, I got you. Yeah. Three pumps at the station. Three pumps. I'm very efficient.

I get it. Yeah. All business. I like that. You're more of P&L kind of guy. How much is your cost per pump these days? They call me all business skeet. I'm in.

I'm out. Wait, P&L? That's profit and losses. You're saying your name is all business skeet? No, no. We got a guy named all business Pete here, but it's a long story. I want to know, what are you paying costs per pump these days? I don't pay anything.

They pay me. Yeah. They pay you. Yeah. I pay 20 bucks a pump. You pay 20 bucks a pump. 20 bucks a pump. So what is a good night at home cost?

Usually it's only 40 bucks. What is a good night at home cost you? 40 bucks. 40 bucks. What is a good night at home cost you? 40 bucks. 40 bucks. But I got to show you.

So you got what they call phantom costs around there because are you paying for everything at the house? Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. So you're probably at about $200 per pump right now. Oh, okay. All right.

So you forgot about $180. Because that's what we call phantom cost. What is a phantom cost? That you don't realize that it's costing you more because you're just thinking about what you're doing right there, but there's a lot of other things that are in play. And that's a phantom cost. Okay. So you've got a bed.

You've got covers on that bed. Yeah, okay. No, no, no. Not physically. Well, that too. I mean, but if you're paying all of the bills around the house and then you know everything else, then it's different. The lights are on.

The lights are off. Okay. So what about... So we had a... Yeah, we're talking about children's books today, right? Yeah, we're talking about children's books. I just want to make sure we talk about children's books. The word, we are children's books.

Does little Damon allow his employees to use the bathroom? Yes. Okay, nice. Good. Solid. What about this SBV bank? So we broke it down for the people and we were like, well, it's not really that big of a deal because they'll just print more money.

Is that true? Well, you know, the problem is if you give to that bank, now other banks can say, well... Where's our money? Where's our bailout? Without money. So that's a bigger issue. Okay. And that's way above my pay grade.

Are we about to be in a recession? I feel like... I think yes. We are. Really? I believe so, yeah. Shit. Yeah.

I gotta change some things around. No, no, no. This is when you take that money because cash is king in a recession, right? And this is when you buy things because everything is at a discount, right? So this is exactly why you need to know little Damon learns to earn because you buy things when they're down, not when everybody has money and they're rushing and buying luxury goods. Yeah.

I'm about to buy a house, probably in like the next week or two. My real estate agent keeps telling me, hey, hey, PFT, don't buy this house just because it's around the corner from a wing restaurant that you like. Yeah. Hey, PFT, don't buy this house just because you're walking through the basement and they have a giant TV in the house as they're showing the house. But these are the things that attract my eye. Is that good advice?

Well, I would think that a better advice would just go to a great wing restaurant with a big TV in it and then you can just pay for your meal there and get 50% of it, of course, if it's a business, get 50% of it written off and you don't have to inherit all those other things. So I can just drive to the wing restaurant and watch you there. You could actually walk to the wing restaurants around the corner. Did you say you were around the corner? Yeah, but I'm saying like, I want to buy a more expensive house because it's closer

to a restaurant that I like, whereas I could buy a house that's 10 minutes away from that restaurant that's cheaper and then drive to the restaurant. Right. So this book is for children because adults are already set in their ways because you can only go to that restaurant, man, and take the money and just, you know, look at the game over there and parlay right there. Yeah. And now we're making money.

So this book is fantastic. I am going to read it to my son tonight and my daughter, but again, she's a huge Lockheed Martin fan. So what I had a question about like where social media is going with the economic literacy because you're obviously now part of this doing it for kids. But what do you think when you see these guys on Instagram or Twitter who are like the life hack guys, the like this one guy the other day said that he does four, four work days in one day.

Yeah. He does like he'll just in the morning. That's one work day in the middle of the day. That's one work day. And he's working four times harder than us. I prescribed the 10X theory that if you just do 10X of everything, you'll just be 10X as rich. Do you think we're in a dangerous spot in terms of maybe some people who are full of

bullshit? Yeah, there's a lot of people out there that are full of bullshit, but there's a lot of people out there that are, I mean, there's just no difference. There's a different platform. There's a lot of people that are full of shit and there's a lot of people that honestly are giving you great takeaways, but like anything you're doing, you should compare that life hack to various other professionals' life hacks and find the common denominator in all of them.

Yeah. Don't just listen to one person. Okay. That's actually a very good advice because yeah, you'll see it. You'll scroll Instagram and it will just be like, here's 10 ways that every successful person got to be a billionaire. Oh, the grindset kids. Yeah, right.

Yeah. You know, listen, and here's for the adults too, because of course this book is for adults and children to read together, but a lot of people say, I don't have financial intelligence. I think you brought up a good point. The best thing to do if you don't have it right now is you just load up your phone with 10 or 20 Instagram or whatever accounts that talk about finance. Don't buy anything and try to just scroll through those the same time in the morning when you're looking at bags, shopping, chicks, food, men, whatever you're looking at and

you scroll through those and believe it or not in a year or two years, you'll start seeing common things that you will be attracted to because whether you like sports car trading, Bitcoin is obviously down. I think there could be something there, right? Or you're looking at stocks or flipping real estate. You'll start to see something you're really attracted about and you'll get interested in it without spending any money. Just do that because like you said, there's a lot of people full of shit, so you don't

want to follow one account that's all of a sudden going to sell you something. But if you see 10 and 20 accounts you casually going through, you're going to like, oh, you know what? Everybody's saying this. Everybody's saying that. You know, let me start looking at it for myself. Okay. I like that.

That's good advice. I have this question for you here. What would you rather have, $500,000 or dinner with Jay-Z? $500,000. Okay. Same. But wait, let me finish. At the dinner with Jay-Z, you can pick his brain on how to make $500,000.

Yeah. Because most likely Jay-Z has said it a million times in a various different ways, so it would be like me saving $500,000 just to spend two days looking at every single interview he's ever done and or I can even get somebody to do a whole report and break it, break down everything he's done. So why do I need to listen to him? I could save $500,000. Okay.

How many times have you had dinner with Jay-Z? Never. Really? Never. We hung out once, twice, but never had dinner with him. Yeah. Sounds like you should probably do it. Yeah.

Not do the $500,000. You don't even know. Maybe it'd be worth it. It would be worth it. I would, I could definitely learn from Jay. Is there anyone out there that you would take the dinner with instead of the $500,000? Maybe Warren Buffett. Okay.

You should be eating McDonald's. Huh? Warren Buffett just eats McDonald's. I know. Yeah. I know. Bezos should be a good answer. Bezos.

Oh. Do you know Magic Johnson? I do. Can you text him real quick and ask him if he's going to buy the Commanders? You want me to text him and ask him? Could you? Yeah. I think it's an LA time.

He may not be up right now. No, he's up. No, he's up. Magic's up. I saw him tweeting about the seedlings in the NCAA tournament. Yeah. Yeah, he's working out right now. And why would I ask him that?

Because I'm desperate. But what? I'm desperate for him to buy the Commanders. Yeah. Because I want Dan Snyder to be thrown into the ocean and then run over with a steam cruiser. You just received some money, didn't you? Yeah, a little bit.

Yeah. Yeah. I buy it. I've been trying to. You should be caring about some other stuff other than that. Well, I've been trying to. I'm trying to get involved with Jay-Z's investment group with Kevin Durant and all those guys. Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah. That's a good one, yeah. You know what? And how are you doing that? Just tweeting at him a lot. Yeah. Is he answering you? No.

That's a grind set. Just wake up and tweet. And what do you expect to do with that? Because I believe that that group asks you, well, how can you help contribute? Because we don't want regular money because we all have money. We want smart money. People who are going to add some kind of, you know. Yeah.

So. So I've been thinking about that. I know some of the guys that work on the biggest sports podcast in America. So it would be, I think, maybe good for their brand to be like. You remember when we, in the Iraq war, when they had that dude that was Baghdad Bob that was just saying like, everything's fine. Don't worry. Saddam Hussein's doing great.

Right. That would be me for the Washington Commanders. I would just put propaganda out there all the time. You would just go out there and do that? I would do everything. So let me, well, when you tweet at him, what do you say? How do you, because that's a pitch. Yeah.

What is your pitch? What do you say? Hey Jay-Z, big fan, I've got some money. And I give you some money and then I can buy the Washington Commanders with you and own a suite there. Oh. Okay. Okay.

Well, why don't you just go and get a suite there now and then when he buys it, the suite will probably go up and you can flip the suite if you want. I just want to say that I'm an, honestly, the entire point is I want to say that I'm an owner of the Washington Commanders because when I was 18 years old, I told my girlfriend at the time, one day I'm going to own the Washington Redskins. And so I'm really trying to get back at her for that. Have you tried extortion? Yeah.

Where is she now? Do you know? Yeah. No, I don't know. So how are you going to get back at her? I just want to be able to say that. Oh. I want to be able to say like I own the Washington Redskins.

Yeah. Okay. Well, listen, that's really not a bad, that's really not a bad goal. How much do you think they would go for? Probably about two billion? I think probably six billion. Yeah. How much, how much, what's your piece going to be worth, do you think?

1% of 1% of 1% of 1%. All right. Yeah. I think you may have a tough time with that. Damon's reaching for his pocket. Is he going to take out his checkbook for PFD? Do you want to get involved in my mismatch group? No, no, no.

Are you about to make his, are you about to give him money? No, no, no. I was texting my security. Shit. Get them to give me the hell out of here. I was trying to, I'm sorry. I was trying to. Let's be like your version of Oprah.

It's like look under your chair. You get one Washington Commander. I was trying to say please save me because I'm not sure what just happened. You get a football team. Yeah, you get a football. You get a football team. All right. So, Damon, this is, this book is out now.

Little Damon learns to earn. So everyone should go buy it, especially if you're a parent. I cannot wait to read it to my kids. What's the one last thing that you should, you would tell parents with small children maybe outside of the book that's like, hey, this is another thing to think about. Here's something else that you should try to teach your kids. That they'd have to listen. At the end of the day, they have to control the screen times.

They have to put it on. I deal with a lot of YouTubers and the ones who are creating, like the Macquarie's, the Macquarie's, they're creating a lot of stuff. They say they only look at it 40 minutes. They have an automatic cutoff. I think it's under family usage or you can go down to the store and get it 40 minutes. They cut it off. Now, what happens is this, they go, well, if you want to look at it more or have more

time after that, they can always reward them by putting them on their iPad by going, hey, listen, if you do this, I'll give you more time on the iPad, right? Because instead of having to give them candy or your mother's stuff, let them earn it. Because right now, what's happening with kids is they're basically absorbing all that information on iPad. And when we were kids, our parents cut the TV off, but a kid will sit there and put an iPad on them and fall asleep and keep listening to the same stuff. And what happens is my six or seven year old, she started having anxiety around the house

because there's no shows for basically six and seven year olds. After Peppa Pig and all that, well, now you've got the other shows around 12. So every time that my wife and I got into a dispute, she'd be like, are you getting divorced? Or she'd say, are you going to die? Or when am I going to have a baby? Because she's watching stuff that Hannah Montana may have a great song on it, but they're really adult topics they're talking about in there.

And these kids are falling asleep with these iPads on them when they're going to bed and it's really programming their minds against a whole lot of other things that are not productive for them. So I think that's one thing we're doing with our daughter and we're finding that we take it away. And after about a week, she didn't mind not having it for 40, after 40 minutes, she just decided to play and do something else and use her mind instead of worrying about what somebody's unboxing and worried about all these children on social media that are showing

them how to play with toys. She's starting to do it herself. And then she started to pick up instruments and other things. So bottom line, cut the iPad down because the iPad is extremely dangerous. It's letting basically cartoons and a whole bunch of crap into your child's life where honestly, most cartoons have about 40 acts of violence in them per cartoon. We all grow up with Bugs Bunny and all these kinds of things. This is not something they should be absorbing too much.

Yeah. All right, that's good advice. One last question about your fashion guy. Yeah. Your roots are in fashion. I'm a fashion guy. I can see. I brought Levi's back to the USA.

You did. I started that Levi's trend and the whole NASA trend. That was me too. The what trend? The NASA. People wearing NASA logos everywhere. NASA shirts. I invented those.

Okay. What's next? I want to know what's next. I want to be on the cutting edge, the bleeding edge of fashion. What should I be looking at wearing? As a high-piece. You're a fashion guy, you said. I'm a high-piece, yeah.

But you're a fashion guy. You should be telling me. Yeah, but we're picking each other's brains here. I mean, you're looking at me. I'm opening my kimono telling you what I think is coming next. Why are you opening your kimono? That's how business people, I've heard people say that in meetings before. I've never heard that before in my entire life.

I'll circle back on you and I'll let you know where I heard that. Okay. But what's next? What's next in fashion? Fashion is anything that you want it to be. You know, you can't, fashion is dictated by how you want to wear it. Yeah. You know what?

Top hats. Yeah, top hats are totally in, right? But you know where, you know where like all the couture fashion really started was really the porpoise that used to stand outside the royal palaces when they were getting married. They used to do their own runway shows outside and they used to come up with rags and things of that nature and look like they were royalty walking down the, whatever, right, the street. Fashion is whatever you want it to be. Okay.

Sweatpants. What about crutches? What about, like crutches, people walking around with one crutch. Uh-huh. Like designer wheelchairs? Yeah. Do they even have crutches anymore? Those things that you just put your leg up on and roll around with.

Oh, I like those. Those are cool. Yeah. Those get me around the Golden Corral buffet pretty quick. Yeah, yeah. Those are cool. That's my favorite. He's going to a buffet and seeing people that have eaten their way into like a scooter.

Yeah. Still hammering that buffet. It's still hammering that buffet. Scooter still works. Uh-huh. Well, everyone should go out and buy it. You can buy it everywhere. Yeah.

We started talking about commons and buffets and scooters. Yeah. This is where the conversation usually goes. All right. Little Damon learns to earn is out now. This is the first book of its kind and it teaches financial intelligence in a fun way as well as how to start a business. You read it to your child, you know, every month for about a year or maybe two years,

the same way they want to read, you know, dragons and tacos and stinky wonky donky. But what it does is starts to process their mind on when they have things they want to do. They go, oh, wait a minute. That's just like in Little Damon learns to earn. Yeah. And I gave you some ideas on what to do. Buy it with stocks, buy a stock, buy a toy and buy a stock that matches it, maybe put

a whole bunch of frames up in the house or a nice little portfolio of a book they can look through with great memories. And I show you how to honestly, you know, deal with $3. First of all, of what you have to pay second to invest in third for what you would like to have, but don't have to have. And the second dollar starts to make so much over the years that it flows into one and two. All right.

So you have an automatic deduction of $100 in year 2000 every single month. If you started that and you were 18 years old by the time you're 65, it could average out to be about $1.4 or $1.5 million. That's by just doing an automatic deduction you will never see right out of your check for $100 a month. It would easily be at least $1.4 or $1.5 million by the time you're 60. That's compound interest, right? Yeah, compound interest.

Carl Dassen, you can tell me that. Yes. So I will release a review. I will read it to my kids and I'll release a review, but Damon, thanks always coming on. Thank you guys. We appreciate it. I'm not being funny.

This is really literally my favorite. Yeah. I mean, this is like your third or fourth time on. So we love having you. Stop by. I'm excited. Congratulations on what you guys have accomplished and making a little bit of money and don't spend it on parlays.

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buy me. Should I just keep pretending to like things? I don't want another beer glass. Oh, that's a good gift. It's like Homer Simpson getting Marge this bowling ball. I don't like people that compare gifts. What do you mean? Like in a relationship, like this woman clearly thinks because of the gift she gets.

I don't know. The sense I feel like I always get him great gifts. Obviously, you think you get him great gifts. He probably thinks you get, he gets you great gifts. Yeah, yeah. Get experiences. Yeah. Get concert tickets.

Get some sort of vacation. Do something like that. Yeah. Or like a really nice restaurant and then you maybe like, you know, something after where it's a surprise that experience is a good call or just cash. Cash always wins. Getting someone cash. No one has ever been upset about cash.

I think, I think a girlfriend would get upset about cash. No, not if you give enough cash. She just said, because the thought that counts. You remember when Coach O gave his wife cash? Yeah. That was awesome. Dude, happy Mother's Day. No.

This is on Mother's Day. Yeah. Coach O gave Mrs. O like $500 cash from Mother's Day. Yeah. Like people who get upset about the cash they get is because they just didn't get enough cash. There's definitely a limit where like if you get enough cash, she won't complain. That's a fact.

Guys, get her lingerie for her birthday. She'll love that. A vacuum cleaner. But like one of those really nice ones. Yeah. Get the Roomba. The cordless ones. Hello, PMT crew, long time listener and big fan.

My question is why do you guys dap each other out multiple times? I teach high school and the students I teach dap each other up like four to five times in a row until they think it sounded good enough, even though the previous ones sounded exactly the same. Nope. Thanks and good luck with your bets. You need to have that experience where you feel the perfect dap and perfect connection. It's incredible.

I learned something there today because I think I told you this on the stream. I don't know if you guys heard this. Do you guys know who invented the fist bump? Yeah. Stan Musil invented the fist bump. How crazy is that? It is crazy. And then Dusty Baker invented the high five.

And Bobby Valentine invented the wrap. It all circles back to baseball. Yeah. The perfect dap, there's no better feeling. And they're also just practicing. Let them get their reps in because it's not about like, like with a friend, you're dapping for practice. You got to use it for when you have that moment where you're dapping someone you've never

dapped before and it's like, all right, I've been putting in my reps, hopefully you've been putting in your reps and we can nail this on the first try. Also especially if you're in high school, you're just delaying time. You're just like, oh, we dap up before class but hold on, we got to dap up five more times before we can get started, like hold on, hold on. And an average friend can become a good friend if you have a really clean dap with them. Yes. Bad daps can be bad.

Yeah. Again, yeah, hugs. Shake, dap. Shout out Musks. Dap up Hank right now. Oh, that was tough. Yeah. You kind of missed it.

No, Hank was going a little harder than you were. You went pad on pad on that. You got to get the... Yeah. One of those. Anything's better than Musks. Oh, come on. No.

What are you talking about? You heard this. You heard it. Beat. What are you talking about? Beat. That was better. You hear that snap?

You hear that snap? No, you don't like it. Max, Max. Get over here and dap me. I mean, that was bad. Dap Billy. Dap Billy. Oh, Dap Billy.

Max, let's get a fucking... Yeah. All right. Let's see this. Change the camera. Change the camera. Change the camera. Let's see the dap.

Wait, sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Oh, you go in the middle. Yeah. The snap is... You got a snap.

Yes, a snap. Watch. We'll... We're not in a fucking show tune. Dude, watch this. It's really easy. Watch this. It's a snap right in front of the mic.

Hear that? Hear that snap? Clean as fuck. That's the snap. I don't think I've ever snapped any. I don't think I've ever known. No, we're not actually snapping you moron. No, but...

It's our fucking hands making the snap. You know what the coolest one is? Is if you dap and then you... Finger gun. Finger gun. That's pretty good. Put those things away. The finger gun is nice.

There's a big time finger gun guy. What about the... The Fresh Prince? That one always plays. Nah. Dap and then a... Psst. Unoriginal.

I think you guys are just doing old guy snap. Old guy snap. Yeah, I was going to say that's also from like the 90s. This... The sound is what it's about. You guys missed the sound. I haven't... I haven't tried to do that.

You guys need a bro hug. I don't think... You didn't dap. You bro hug. No, we dapped. And then we hugged. Because then you respect each other's mass. Got it.

You got it. I've been respecting my boys' masses yet. Like recently. You ever dap up a girl? No. Why would you dap? You'll never catch me dapping up a girl. No.

Fuck that. That's honestly the gayest thing you can look. You might get a charge nowadays. Yeah, no. Fuck that. You'll never see me dapping up a girl. Ever. Hank just had a face that makes me nervous about this next question.

It might be a word. He might be making face about a word. No, this is disgusting but believable. How disgusting? Do you wash your hands? Yeah. I don't wash my hands. Less diseases back in the day.

We need to start doing mean girl clips. You know what we should do? We should clip our daps and then hopefully it hits black Twitter and they roast us. That's pretty good. But we should do the mean girl. We should start doing mean girl clips to go viral. Like is it... PFD, I was wondering.

Could you dunk from the free throw line? No, no, no. Is murder that bad? Well, no because... It depends who you're murdering. People murder all the time. Right, like it's methodical when you do it. It's called war.

How come war isn't murders? Like I've... The US government murders people all the time. Are they bad? I shouldn't say this on the pod but I've murdered like 3 or 4 people and I didn't think it was that bad. It's not murder if it's vibes. Yeah, that's true.

Is there like killing the vibe? Yeah. Then you have to murder them. Yeah. No, like one time this dude came over to my house and we were just like chilling whatever. And I honestly just slid his throat. Yeah. And I ate his organs.

It was just like, it was chill. The social team asked me for a PMT clip every episode. Is this the one I sent it? Yes, please send this. I'll have them cut it up. Yeah. I'll have them do the main account. Yeah.

I'm going to find the same font and color that they do for their... Yeah, it's murder that bad. Max, so send me this clip. I'll send it to the social team and then push it on the barstool account. Perfect. Love it. There we go. It's going to pop.

Yeah. Numbies. All right. Hey, PMT boys. My husband is a great husband and an even better father. He does this thing with dirty laundry that absolutely grosses me out. My husband refuses to use Kleenexes to blow his nose. Instead, uses his dirty laundry from the hamper.

He will pull socks and boxers from the hamper, blow his nose, fold it up, and throw it back in. When I confronted him about this, he said, they're going to get washed anyways and don't have to worry if the amount of snot justifies a new tissue. Is this normal? How do I get him to use Kleenexes like a civilized human? No, this is the mean girl clip. Yeah.

Yes. It's honestly weird that chicks don't do it because it's wasteful and you're ruining the environment. If the clothes are going to get washed anyways, it's no different than using a handkerchief. I blow my nose on my socks every day when I take them off. I blow them and then I throw them into the hamper. I go actually one further whenever I have a big... I don't even use toilet paper.

Yeah. No, never. Never use toilet paper. I'll just use socks. I'll use my underwear. Whenever I have a big hamper of laundry, I'll just jizz all over it because you might as well make the washing machine do extra work, right? Like, you're washing it anyway.

So, what the fuck? Yeah, no, I agree. I care about the world. Yeah. You honestly, Hank, that's a little bit weird that you wipe your butt with socks because the human body... Well, shirts sometimes too, sweatshirts, hoodies, hats. The human body actually...

Whatever's on the floor in my bathroom. You don't need to wipe. Do you think that... Do you think cavemen were wiping their butts? I actually... Do you think that people were wiping their butts in the 1800s, 1900s? And if you actually don't wipe your ass long enough, it just kind of builds up. It's kind of like not wearing batting gloves.

Yeah, right, right. And I hate to say this, but I low key kind of miss COVID because I used to wipe my butt with my mask all the time. Yeah. And it's like, just get that, you know, again, if you're not making your laundry machine work, like, these laundry machines have come a really long way. So, they're there to clean, make them clean. And if you use the outside of your mask, it's not even touching your face.

Right. You use the inside too. No, you got to use the outside. I agree with that. That's a little gross. I agree with that, yeah. Let's not judge. The inside is...

I like to... I brush my teeth with the inside of my mask and then I wipe with the outside. Yeah. All right. Last one. Hey, PMT boys. I've been with my boyfriend for over four years now. We just moved in with each other about a year ago.

Everything's going great except for one thing I really don't know about until we moved in with each other. Whenever he goes pee, he tries to flush. Oh, I do this too. This is great. I didn't read this. Oh, yes. I do it too.

We all do it. You try to read. You try to read. You try to read. No, no, no. I'm assuming what he's going to say. He's efficient. He tries to flush while he's still peeing.

Yeah. Time to toilet. To finish flushing exactly when he finishes peeing. Yeah. I wouldn't care if he was better at it, but I'd say more times than not. He flushes too early and ends up having some pee left over in the toilet and doesn't flush it out. Just like a bit...

A little bit of... I never heard of a guy do this before. I don't know why Desi said it's like a little game every time he pees and it's fun. Is it common? So common. So common. It's efficiency. It's efficiency.

You're going to the bathroom. If you pee, wait till you finish peeing, then flush. That's a second of your life that you'd never get back. Yep. I agree. I agree 100%. It's fun. It's so much fun to try to time it out.

It's tempo. You got to be in tempo time. Have you ever started flushing right when you start peeing and then you force yourself to pee extra hard? There's also... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Where you pick up the pace. Yeah. It's a race. Yeah. It's like trying to spell your name in snow. There's also the cousin of this is when you're in a toilet or a setting where it's like, hey, you're at someone's house or something. The flush the minute the shit hits the wall, like just do it quickly so it doesn't smell

as bad. You don't let it linger. That one you have to do sometimes. The courtesy flush. Yeah, but it's like you're literally like pooping and flushing at the same time. Do you ever wait after you do that in someone else's house just to have to pee and then get the skid marks off the bowl? Oh, you wash with the skid marks.

Yeah, I wait. I cold my pee if I'm pooping and then I use it to walk. That's kind of hard to do. It is. It's hard, but like... You can poop and not pee. It's really fucking hard. Dude, I've actually...

That's bullshit, Billy. No, it's really hard. No, it's really hard. I'm gonna back him up because... It's impossible. No, it's really hard. You're pushing. You don't actually have to pee when you're like, but then you wait and then sometimes

it's a little extra longer, but it's like so much more discreet. I've actually... I'm gonna not only back up Billy... Physically possible. No, because I've... I think it's maybe just either getting older... You also have to hold. I'm like tired all the time.

I've had a couple times the last... You really gotta tie it in a knot. Yeah. Well, no, but I... That sounds awful. I've had a couple times the last like month or so where I forgot to pee while I was taking a shit and then I had to pee after. Yeah.

That's weird. I know it's weird. I know it's physically possible. I think... Because it's happened to me multiple times where I'm like, wait, did I pee? Not even a squirt? Well, because you're scared. No, I just forget.

You're scared to poop, which makes you not have to pee. You're scared to poop in the weird place. Be it like someone's house that you're like trying to be discreet at. And then you end up having to pee after and then you get to clean whatever has it after flushing. That's smart. That's so smart, Billy. Actually, you know what the best way to wipe is?

Like most sanitary way? It's just by... You're not wiping. No, you're mass. You're totally mass. Oh, the self bidet? That's what Billy's talking about. Except on the bowl, you just pee directly onto the butt.

And then that wipes away all the shit. Yes, the self bidet. Yeah. Max, you don't think so? And then you come in your butt for... You've got a pretty big dick for that, I think. No, you just pull it back and then it's like one of the super soakers where you can turn the nozzle to the side.

Yeah, and then you come in your butt for the conditioner. Yeah. I just don't wipe and then I build it up and then I wear a bathing suit in the shower to make sure that I'm not getting... Yeah, I never wipe in the clean asshole in the shower. I only just... I don't wipe and then I'll just find a pool. That's the best way to do it.

The other... So everyone, every guy does that. I think the other thing or like another thing... What? I think... No, the peeing in the... Oh, I was just saying, I was joking. No, peeing in the...

Max was like nodding his head to everything that we've been saying. And then we talked about peeing the shit off your own butt and he was like... No, I don't do that. Well, I mean, I was just thinking logistically how that would work. I mean, if you have any real friends in your life, they've also had to pee in your butt when you can't, when you don't have pee. That's just boys helping out boys. Yeah, I've been in a lot of...

Hey, can you quickly clean my butt? Have they peed it for you? I always enjoy... And this happened more like college age, I feel like. But when you and someone you don't even know walk into a stall at the same time, you're always trying to pee longer. Yeah. It's like a race.

Yeah. Or it's not a race, but it's like a competition. When you're crossing swords? No, like you, like let's say me and you walk in the bathroom together. We don't even know each other, but we both walk into a stall and we start peeing. I'm in my head being like I gotta outlast this guy. No, I'm more like you guys start peeing first. I also, if you're in a...

If you're taking a shit in a public bathroom and it's like empty stalls everywhere and the guy sits next to you, I'll always make a noise being like, oh, come on, dude. Seriously? And then I'll put my hand underneath and be like, ready? All right. Good show. Hank, have you ever gotten the lottery ball number? No.

Oh, you're getting sassy with me. You're fucking sassy. I'm not sassy. I asked you a question. I don't remember. I answered it. You're dumb if you don't remember. Numbers.

Six, nine. Seventeen. Oh, you're back. I'll go seven. Fuck you. I'm just going to follow you around, bitch. Eight. Twenty.

This might be the time, Hank. Come on. I don't think this could go to Chicago, by the way. Oh, yeah. Okay. Twenty-eight. Oh, damn. Twenty-eight.

It's like a city thing. It'll be fine. Seventeen's right there. Oh, no, no. It's right on top. You guys, uh, there's something on there. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

That's right. So you're going to do it before, uh, right off before, but we have new shirts on the Barstool store for those who are listening. It's a part of my take lottery ball in the front on the back. Have you ever got this lottery ball machine? I love it. Uh, shout out Shane redemption shirt for Shane. He's, he's bounced back.

It's, it's not about your, uh, losses about your wins. This is an awesome design. I believe it's dropping today. It's dropping today. Go buy a part of my take on the front. Let's, you know, Oh, you know what? This is a nice touch on all the balls that have been chosen.

It's got all the ones that we pick and that went a lot. And then, and then look, and then look, Seventeen is almost, almost going up there. Very good. It's right there. Hey, that's actually, and that's also exactly where Seventeen is right now.

Wow. Should we see if Seventeen comes up? This doesn't count. Yeah. Give it a shot. Oh, no. We're back to the bottom. Seventeen is never going to come up.

Great shirt. Great shirt. We've forgotten this. Fourteen. Fourteen. Fourteen. Go buy it now. If you wear it, I'm spitting in your face.

Those are back-to-back football numbers. Maybe Seventeen will be next. It's a football. No, it's definitely not going to be next. Unless I guess it. Then it might be. All right. See you everyone Friday.

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