The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Dan Fires Up The Take Machine

Episode Date: March 18, 2024

The Big Suey begins with a discussion about the Chargers' roster turnover. The show breaks down the Keenan Allen to Chicago trade and how the Bears will look with Caleb Williams. Then, it's back to basketball as Dan fires up the take machine when talking about Duncan Robinson's unprecedented improvement. Also, Zach Edey would have been drafted over Michael Jordan in 1984 and Billy unveils the new format for our March Sadness tournament. Finally, more talk about both the men's and women's tournaments, Stugotz is talking senior guard play and Jess has athletes that connote ice cream toppings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now here's the marching man to nowhere, that face, and the habitual liar. Here's another place, Dugats, that this football evaluation shit gets confusing at this position. I know Justin Herbert's good. I know it!

Do you? I get, I know Justin Herbert is good. I've been watching football all my life. I know he can play that position. Now you're going to tell me the Chargers have been so mismanaged for a couple of years that they make me not only doubt whether he's good, but now Mike Williams you get rid of and Kenan Allen you get rid of and I read a report the other day that right before that where they're like Chargers have to make a decision between Kenan Allen, Khalil

Mack, Bosa, you know and they already got rid of Ek Eklund. Like, oh, okay, that window closed. That offense was gonna be good for a long time. They burned up those bodies, burned up those expenses. The only reason you wouldn't get Keenan Allen is because you're afraid of all the mileage the Chargers have used on him. Right. But now the Bears have them.

And I'll tell you this, Dan, the Bears, if they draft a wide receiver at nine with Caleb Williams, with that defense, with what they already have, I am telling you, watch out for the Bears. I'm telling you, NFC Championship game. There it is. It's the Bears. I'm sorry.

I'm not gonna wait and see. The Bears are gonna be good. The Bears. The Bears are the Bears. There it is. Different Bears. I mean, DJ Moore, Keenan Allen, plus your draft of wide receiver at nine, great defense.

Hopefully the quarterback is great. Yes, it's just gonna be 10 Hopefully the quarterback is great. I mean. It's just gonna be 10 wide receivers and Caleb Williams. I was having this conversation with a Bears fan over the weekend and they were like, well at least it seems like the Bears have a plan. Yeah. And I was like,

they do. Does it seem that way? Because I remember when the season ended, they waited to do their like end of season interviews because no one was sure who they were gonna fire yet for like a few days. Like maybe I'm misremembering, but if I recall, they were not sure if they were going to keep Getzi and Everfluce or keep Everfluce and get rid of Getzi, which is what they ended

up doing. And there was like a lot of confusion for a few days, not to mention like all of the show happening the rest of the season with coaches being dismissed for all these sorts of issues that we haven't even really found out what that was yet. Just like a weird dysfunctional football team and not one that I would want to be drafted to. I heard something over the weekend, Stugatz. She just made me think of this

when she talked about coaching turnover, that only in the one out of five coaches in football or still with their uh... college team since two thousand nineteen like you don't last like college football is now just sort of churning through these coaches uh... very quickly because we've sped up right the economies around both n i l in the quarterback positions where you're gonna have to be able to do your job faster because yes because now if I lock in costs at the quarterback

position and I show you the greatest advantage in the sport is that you have the ability to build the rest of your team because your quarterbacks cheap right and you figure it out early and you don't have to pay him for a few years and you can pay Deebo Samuel and you can pay a Kittle and you can pay how do they have all those players how does Russell Wilson play on a team that falls apart as a champion the moment they couldn't pay all the defensive players but salary cap is greater than it's ever been we're more interested in the finances of all of this than we ever have been and the Chargers just blew the early Justin Herbert window.

Cause it's not that easy to get Keenan Allen. But they still have hope for the late window. I mean, they do. At least we know Jim Harbaugh is taking this move very seriously because he had a garage sale over the weekend. Really? Yes, saw some pictures. Look, that's a garage sale I would go to.

He had so many snow globes. We counted what Billy? At least 17. In this one picture there's 17 snow globes. Okay, is Jim Harbaugh indeed living in an RV outside of the facility all summer because he doesn't want to buy a home? Is that a true thing? Because he said it, I heard him say it, but I did not know whether indeed he had gone through with it. And now you're telling me he's trying to sell a bunch of items? And it looks like a bunch of good stuff.

I see a lava lamp in there. Like there's some quality stuff here. Billy pointed out earlier, there's like a promed, like wedding sort of dress there. I don't think it's Mrs. Harbaugh's wedding dress, but there is a very elegant looking white dress with like, I don't wanna say lace, but this is a very formal dress that I doubt

that Mrs. Harbaugh is selling the wedding dress, but it's possible. Dan, you know what, I'm happy because for years, Bud Grant did garage sales. He did it every single year. And we fell in love with Bud Grant and he was fantastic. And if there's a coach to kind of take the torch from Bud Grant who passed away to do a garage sale on an annual basis, it is Jim Harbaugh.

I would love to rekindle our relationship with all of the crazy Harbaugh's now that he has fled with maximum grace from the burning fires of cheating scandal to national championship to Kingmaker who will reinvent Justin Herbert and is giving all the quotes about being awed by being in the presence of this Thor-like creature at quarterback who's a stallion, who's J.J. McCarthy on steroids. He's a flowing hair of Wolverine.

And he will build around that. But does he indeed live still in the RV? Do we know this? I mean, I could see him parking an RV outside of his mansion and staying in the RV there. I don't think that you're going to find Jim Harbaugh at a campsite. He's stealing Baker Mayfield's bit. Didn't Baker Mayfield do this in Cleveland?

Or was it Gardner Minshew? It was Gardner Minshew. yeah, it was Minshew. I feel like I remember an episode of Hard Knocks with a quarterback and an RV. No, there was a dolphin player, I don't remember who it was. It's been done. Was it Seiler? Yes. Get a new bit. Get your own bit.

I have a friend that lives in a van. It's not accurate to what it sounds. His van is nicer than my apartment. What? Yeah, he was like, I don't want to pay rent anymore, so he spent a crap ton of money renovating like a, like a van into a nice apartment. And he lives in San Diego.

So he just parks and sleeps at the beach every night. Lucy, John Oliver did a bit, enraged me with jealousy recently. That's a man who's never been camping. Put it on the poll, please, that Leviton show. Fair to assess that John Oliver has never been camping. John Oliver offered, and I think it's probably expired by now, Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, who loves to just be corrupt.

And he's great at it. And now terrible at it because he's getting caught like he was just being bought by billionaires. It's fun, Dan. He loves, yeah... yes gaming is fun i know it's to that even when democracies at stake and scaring spot right up until it is now it's all great fun until the supreme court justice is obviously corrupt but loves traveling the world in fancy rvs john oliver has offered him but two point something million dollar rv in exchange for him just resigning

his seat on the Supreme Court. And it's funny and it's legal and it's amazing and I believe that if that RV is indeed what Lucy is saying it might be, that we might have the JJ Watt cabin of falsehoods again where this isn't an RV the way you think of an RV this is a two million dollar rolling home of fire that parties at every disco that Jim Harbaugh would go around to listen you know the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald this is how I imagine the tent you said you're staying in in Africa like it's not really like a camping tent. It's a five star tent I mean. Regardless I still think it's interesting but Stugatz brought up something with the late Bud Grant,

and we do need to pass this along. Yes. One of the most uncomfortable moments in show history, I don't know how we were able to wrestle this away from ESPN, I don't know why they wouldn't have wanted this sound forever for their Disney archives, but it's when Stugatz asked Bud Grant at like the seventh one of these garage sales that we had covered.

Right. Stu Gotts, you guys don't know this story. Lucy and Jessica aren't gonna know this story. Okay. Oh, great. I'm gonna have to explain this. Prepare to be horrified. Yeah, I mean.

And if my memory serves me right, you actually try to ask, and then he has to follow up and then Stu Gotts comes in. Dan was embarrassed to ask. I had to just ask the question. Let me set it up. Better or worse than Vince Wolfork? Well, I think this might be. More uncomfortable.

Let's see, we'll leave it up to the perusal of the ladies to see if they're as horrified by this as I think they're going to be when I have to explain this to them. Because you guys are like, eh, it'll be easy. But there was a reason I didn't want to ask but grant this question. He's the legendary Vikings coach, and we, for some reason, have stumbled upon the idea that when it

comes to men and wiping, we have discovered, to our shock, sitters have discovered that standards exist, and standards, as standards have discovered, that sitters exist while wiping. And so we asked the question of the legendary Vikings coach while at a garage sale, but I was too scared to ask it because he's a legendary tough guy and Stu got just barreled in. And in our defense we asked a lot of people this question that week. Just an awkward and delicate question here that we've been talking about all day and I understand it's probably not appropriate but I am curious and we've been doing it with all our guests

here uh... when going to the bathroom bob grant and and and finishing with his bathroom experience uh... the wiping experience uh... sitting or standing uh... i think that i got in korea's so that i think that uh... you want me to tell you try it by one uh... after you have dinner tonight and you celebrate the garage sale, when you go to the bathroom afterwards, not one, but two, Bud, will you sit or stand when you wipe?

Well, that depends on the consistency of what I'm doing. Thank you, Bud. Why was he so honest? Well thought out answer. Weird Disney didn't want that. I miss bud. We need a new garage sale person. We need to find, I wanna get into some things,

Stugatz, I just learned the other day that the sopranos boat that you're named after the said got says for sale like it's available i wanna i want to start uh... doing some of these things that we dreamed of three years ago to buy me a boat i want to know i want the still gots to be pro i want to have ideas that involve going in doing a live remote from bud grant garage sale because we've Made a deal with Jim Harbaugh to cover the Chargers next season and and and Sponsor the area outside is RV. I'd like to do some more creative things there. Can you help me with this?

Absolutely, I would love because we had Jim Harbaugh on the show It turned into a weekly thing and then it quickly went away wasn't a weekly thing It was Jim Harbaugh on the show. It turned into a weekly thing, and then it quickly went away. It wasn't a weekly thing. It was, Jim Harbaugh was on once, and then- Two weeks in a row. Yeah, it wasn't a weekly thing. It looked like it was gonna be a weekly thing, like we had a good relationship with Harbs, but I'm telling you,

Jim Harbaugh would rather you cover his garage sale than cover his football team. I have to, and so Dan, if we went out there and made the effort, if this is an annual thing. Well we should send Lucy. Okay fine. We should send Lucy. We should do that immediately. Yes he would appreciate it and we would get him back in our good gracious. We should buy some things from him there. We should do a report from there. Yeah it's definitely over. Garage sale is usually like a one day thing but I love the idea you guys have going there So we missed it, so we got scooped on it. Ready got it first, what are you gonna do? Bud's was a weekend event, it was. And he did it every single year.

His was annual, but he took donations and he had lots of memorabilia and stuff like that. It was a whole thing in the community up there. By the way, if you wanna buy this boat, Dan, we could do that today, but it's $300,000. I'd like to know more about the boat, the Stugat. It's $300,000. I think that's where the... Can I just say I don't decide this? Don't buy this boat.

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Stugatz, I have a couple of things for the take machine. I have a couple of hot takes here in sports. I like a take machine. I don't do this very often but I'm gonna send some takes into the universe now. Are you excited? Because I want to build this up a little bit because I don't often do this. I've tried to be sort of take-less in a take full time. I'm not aggressively takey but I think I have some thoughts here that will sort of be sports echoing. One, no player in the history of South Florida or the Miami

Heat franchise has done more in the way of improving as an athlete from what we saw at the beginning to what he has become than Duncan Robinson, who has changed the sport, the way the sport works, where there's spacing and threes. Duncan Robinson changing the sport is a take. The three has changed the sport. This is improving. This is how I'm finishing the take.

It's, I'm rusty because I don't have practice at this, but I'm, no player ever has gotten to 1,000 threes faster than Duncan Robinson. And that is emblematic of everywhere the sport has gone recently, Stugats. Well, now you have an officiating problem. You're trying to keep scores down. Adam Silver's drowning under not as popular as he used to be.

What's wrong with your league? Everyone else in sports is thriving. Why are you not thriving? Why have you gone from most popular commissioner, guy who replaced Stern effortlessly, most progressive league to, oh, you don't know how exactly to have your media trained to birth the future stars that we need to be obsessing about

because Stefan LeBron's time is done. Like that's the end of what that brought the league. It did for the league in some ways, what Bird and Magic did for the league. Keep it with stars, stars are important. But if you're not selling tomorrow's stars, because we're still talking about the suns, like they've got a chance.

If you're not selling Duncan's stars because we're still talking about the Suns like they've got a chance. If you're not selling Duncan Robinson, I mean. Duncan Robinson faster to 1,000 threes than anybody. What are you saying there? I mean, that Duncan Robinson has improved more than any heat player ever, right in front of your eyes. Really? Yes.

So no one, that's a great take. I mean, because I've never really like, you know. You're not going to be able to dispute it. Well, I've never measured improvement you know, you're not gonna be able to dispute it I've never measured improvement you you you I'm watching it though What if if you're talking look man, it's too God's if you're following basketball basketball at all Boston's totally overwhelming They're beating everybody by double digits in the history of the league Stu got five times Have all five players had three or more threes in the history of the league. Boston's done it twice in 2024.

They're dragging everybody by double digits. They're a lot better than everybody. And here's to you, Duncan Robinson, We all love how much your game has grown. Whoa-oh-oh. You're hitting threes, Duncan Robinson. Cotton and dishing to our big O. That's Orlando

in Toronto. So this is my other take. This is how much basketball has changed. That if it were 1984, Zach Eady would be taken ahead of Michael Jordan in the draft. Just a big, big slab of skin, a block, a big block of meat. Slab. You've gone too far. No, I have not gone too far. That's the take. In 1984, basketball would have drafted Zach Eady before Michael Jordan.

Great take, absolutely phenomenal take. Dan, maybe your best work. Thank you, Lucy. I'm trying to build out this hot take machine that you were talking about, and the way that I envision it now, and I don't know that we're gonna be able to do this, Dan, so I don't wanna get your hopes up.

I imagine it being like, remember how David Letterman used to throw things off the roof of the building into an alley? So I was thinking that we can like, launch things off of this building, but we shouldn't do that, because it's also copying him.

So I'm thinking, maybe we find like, good things for the ocean, like fish food or something, and we just shoot it out of a cannon into the ocean. So then we have someone over there across the street at the bay, and then you give the hot take whatever it is, and then that person calibrates it on what they think that that take is,

and if it's a great take, that thing's going like a thousand feet. If it's bad, it goes like three feet, it's like a blop. I think it should be one a day that I have to come in and have one a day, a take like that one, where you're demanding that I get sharper come in and have one a day a take like that one where you're demanding that I get sharper in the changing industry

and sharpen up my take game that's very rusty. The Blazers took Zach Eaddy before Michael Jordan. It was Sam Bowie. Now that worked out. No, this is double the slab of meat. This is all skin. Look, man, look. Look, Eaddy, look, you made my life worse.

You in Wisconsin made my life worse. in wisconsin made my life worse though all of you just get in the way of everybody playing basketball by just getting in the way that he just plants himself like a tree i've been seen by like that since you know means and his ankles are bigger than anyone's thighs and and work were distorting the sport have you seen when the yama but he just stands over the six ten people are bigger than anyone you've

ever seen in just places the ball over them in the basket are you saying Zack Edie is going to be better than Michael Jordan oh he's gonna be terrible oh that would be a take he can't move would be a take that I can't have that take that one go far out there it's not the way your brain works it's so unesthetically pleasing. Zach Eady is a plague, I'm sorry. Purdue, you're a plague. You're a plague.

Boilermakers. The Boilermakers. Billy, what's going on with our March Sadness Tournament? That's a good question, Dan, a lot. Aw, man. So today I guess is selection Monday. Yesterday was selection Sunday, and our committee met, and we ranked some teams. So today I guess is selection Monday yesterday was selection Sunday and

Our committee met and we ranked some teams and we have some that we'd like to preview for you now Well, but wait wait wait wait wait wait if we announced to the audience that we're not doing this the way we usually do What have we told anybody that the March Sadness tournament is gonna be a totally different thing this year You're just jumping right in with what the controversies are I was hoping no one would notice that we just kind of changed the format entirely. What happened with the looks like tournament? Well you know we had some meetings and decisions were made and and granted I will tell you this this may not be the most popular move we've ever had but sometimes real leadership accepts the criticism and says you know what this is

a direction that we're headed in and I believe that this is going to be a good direction for the show. Because if I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, that looks like the past couple seasons, I think that we can all admit Dan, we can cop to this and tell our audience and be honest with them. They weren't as good as they've been in the past, the last two seasons. as they've been in the past, the last two seasons. Part of it has to do with the fact that, you know, we don't talk to Tim Kirchner anymore, so we didn't have as large a bank to choose from as we did in the past. A lot of them were getting repetitive,

and that's kind of what we used to do. So we wanted this year, March Sadness, to have some changes. We wanted to reflect more what we're doing now, because it looks like, on top of everything else, was very audio. It was geared towards the podcast, which is what we were, you know, which is what we did. We were on ESPN, but it was a podcast.

So it was more of an audio, you know, tournament where you'd have the voice come out and do it. Now we have the TV presence, the DraftKings network, we have the YouTube, we're doing a lot of stuff on video. So we thought someone just reading a sounder isn't great for video. So we have all of these great video clips that we wanted to do.

We wanted to highlight what it is that the show's doing now. We brought the songs back. The club is back. We have all of the punishments. So we have different, yes? But wait, wait, wait, wait, this is a lot of information. Billy, slow down. Yeah, I'm trying to bury a lot of stuff here.

Slow down. Say it with a positive spin. Okay, and it- I'm trying to tell people I'm excited about this. Okay, it can be positive. And in your role as rising medal arc executive what you're saying is that you're trying the committee To build our tournament into something different that's going to be met with some resistance But you're doing it in the name of our standard you believe because if we're burying this thing I need people to understand Mike sure and Adam McKay comedy writers

If we're burying this thing, I need people to understand. Mike Schur and Adam McKay, comedy writers, haven't been able to get in the tournament because these have been so good. They fill up every March, my email fills up with them trying to get into the tournament, so we've got plenty of good shit that comedy writers can't even get in on, and you're saying we're burying it now

because it lived beneath your standards the last two years. The committee. But I also want to say. It read its course. That's what he said. It's not that. It's just, you know, we want to do more video things. We want to change things.

We want to highlight what it is that we've been doing. You've been very excited. Not you. I mean the show in general, but the costumes have been a big thing. We have new regions, Dan. We have different regions that we're going to introduce. We have different, you know different teams that have been selected to said region, so we wanna try this, see how it goes.

And if you guys don't like it, then maybe in like three days then we have a frantic, everybody freaking out and then it becomes a looks like tournament again, which I'm hoping is not the case. No, let's not lead that way. Let's not lead the way. Look, I really don't like that we just skip past the committee that Stu got is making the claim that tough guy leaders in the NFL should be influenced by chanting fans saying they want a different quarterback I

Don't want to move too far from the stupidity of that I also I also want to point out which I didn't get to before in setting up the tournament is that there's also a very big change in the tournament in that you guys are beloved fans who we love so much and we can't do anything without any of you. Okay, no, but this part, wait a minute. I can't sit or stand after I go to the bathroom without you guys.

I've been in the meetings. This is meant to be interactive. We are going to now celebrate March Madness in a different way we ever have because you're gonna be doing this with the show, correct? What they're gonna be voting on stuff? Yeah, you get to vote you get to decide so we're gonna put out the matchups and instead of us You know attaching someone to Gonzaga and the Zags go on a run and then we have you know Some random team in there at the final four

No, no, no You guys get to decide if we have bad submissions that make it all the way to the championship You guys are to blame for that you guys can put a 16 seed there if you really want to you can vote for whoever You like and that person will advance on to the next region So the fans will be in control of who is there at the end voting for these these tournaments in the championship So what are the four regions Billy? Okay. That's a great question Chris So the first region as I kind of mentioned, we're gonna be highlighting some songs.

We're gonna have the song region. From the last year, songs from the last year. Songs that I found, the committee voted on. Songs that you found. Songs, yeah. Not songs from the radio. If you're looking for Dua Lipa, not gonna happen. Just saying, our best 16 songs from the last year.

Alright, next category. The next category is the region of death. Ooh. What does that mean? It's very similar to what Iowa women's basketball. What does that mean? What's in there? The region of death is going to highlight the 16,

well, 17 because of the play-in situation. Can we move this along a little region, the region of death. We're ranking people that have died in the last year. Really? I actually did think about doing that. We have four of these to get to. I did think of the region of death and it being show friends that are no longer with us,

but thought it'd be in bad taste, so I didn't do that. So instead, the region of death is bucket of death costume payoffs. You're gonna be able to vote for your costumes there. All right, what are the other two categories? Then you're gonna have the club region with the club being back. We have 16, 17, our favorite. Just sounds?

Well, you know, our show moments that we just kind of put under the sounds. Sounds, okay, and the other bracket. The final bracket, the final region. What is it, best one? I'm most excited. This is the best one, what is it? Yeah, but you're gonna hate this one. What is it?

The Greg Cody region featuring Greg Cody. Yes! Yeah! No! No! No! No! Stay tuned, what a week it's gonna be.

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Team mates can't shoot from three. Now they're gonna see a different Jimmy. Now he's just, just playing. Nickelback in the locker room and... Stugats. They'll play D and show threes as they chase the nats for the sixth seed these five words in his head scream are we winning games yet this is the I think Ike Austin improved a lot. Yes he did.

Yes he did. Ike Austin is a good one. Thank you, Stuart. Weird. Ike Austin is a good one, but not better than Duncan Robinson. Okay. Billy, get that take machine working. Ike Austin did improve a great deal for the Miami Heat. So too did Vashon Leonard, but no one has improved more than Duncan Robinson

I ask all of the South Florida to immediate to eat that no one will be able to rebut it or defeat it in an argument How do you measure that? I just made it up most improved so proud of my eyes. I underestimated him He's a lot better than I thought and and still got Stugats, you haven't been watching him. Like it's, it's market. He used to be just Kyle Corver. Now he's, he's got more range than Kyle Corver and he's got total balance in his game. Stop yelling at me, man. I've never been more attracted to you. They're like 42 and nine when he scores 20 points. He's gotten really good at basketball. I'm so proud of you. What's our cannon budget? Just cause I'm, I'm looking up how much we can spend on a cannon. I think $1,000.

Okay, because we have a propane one here, but it doesn't look like a cannon. But I found a used cannon for $2,300 that looks like a pirate ship cannon. I'm going to give you some budget. You build out the take machine. I want to figure out how to do this. You have to love March because Dan Orlovsky right now, as I rate on Twitter, he is screaming, saying the Big East getting three teams into the tournament

is an absolute joke and that St. John's would beat UVA or Michigan State by 12 plus points. Tom Izzo in the tournament, March, get out of here. They would beat UVA. They would absolutely beat UVA. I'm really sad for Indiana State, by the way. The Sycamores. What happened? What happened to Krim Abdul-Jabbar?

Didn't he have a great Ken Palm rating? They lost the conference championship and Virginia got in and they didn't. It's tragic. Yeah. Who'd you feel worse for? Did you feel worse for Indiana State or the kid at the end of that game who had the foul at the end where who were the two teams involved they were up one and he fouled intentionally with four seconds left and they lost their tournament berth because it was like a hugely boneheaded moment that cost his team the tournament. I felt bad for the people that had to clean up the confetti

during the game. I believe we have a video of that, but Kevin Harlan was on the call and he always seems to find himself in these situations where something weird, there's like a cat on the field, there's a dancing squirrel, he's always there for these. So yeah, this was in the middle of the VCU Duquesne game. And how do you think that happens? Like, did someone like cut the thing? Like, was there a big bag of confetti that someone cut

Did it just break I? Need answers someone hit the wrong button no one here has answers for you You seems like you have questions and no one here has any answers I was talking about the end end of the Kent State Akron game, so who's angry is today now who's angriest Is it just no, but they're all Lucy and Rick Patino. I mean, Rick Patino now doesn't want to do the NIT. Tom Kreen is yelling at him for not doing the NIT. Well, he's going to hunt down all the committee members. Honestly, Mike Ryan might be

the most mad because of the Miami women's team. He does not seem to be taking it well. And by the way, I'm not happy either. Notre Dame, the two seed in the women's bracket is in the same Bracket as South Carolina who's the overall one seed? So if they make it through they're gonna have to play against South Carolina who they played to start the season in Paris in South Carolina beat them by 30 points It was the first game of the season. However, I'd like to see a rematch But I I think South Carolina wins that if there is one we have to locally here get behind FAU Don't we With Miami out?

No, they're disappointing all year. Really? Their team is not the same as the rest of them. Tough opening round matchup, Northwestern. I mean, FAU's gotten to the point that they're an eight seed and they had a disappointing season after a magical run. Miami had a magical run last year, and now they're not in either tournament.

I mean, Life Wallet, where are you? They're under federal investigation, allegedly, in the show. Can we do this,. Where are you? They're under federal investigation, allegedly. Can we do this, please? The Wildcats of all the elements, Dad, I'm telling you. Chris Collins, championship pedigree, they have senior guard play Boo Bowie, one of the best guards, and he's a fifth year senior, one of the best guards in the country,

and I am telling you right now, I know they've been a joke in terms of college basketball for many, many years, but when you combine Chris Collins, his winning pedigree, being at Duke, and Boo Bowie, one of the most underrated senior guards in America, and the way they play defense, tenacious, I am telling you, don't be surprised if the Wildcats find themselves in the Final Four. Was that genuine? Chris, I need you to back away from the microphone for a second Chris Chris Chris I believe Stugatz's wife was away this weekend and sort of awakened the March Madness

loins that turned me on I'm not gonna lie hold on I believe what's happening here look Seth Davis will be able to sniff a fraud I believe Stugatz is prepared and this is how he came in today he's like Dan he came in he was like doing calisthenics he's like Mark March Madness that room over there they think they're prepared you're never prepared you're not prepared enough he's been studying he's been watching some teams he's been shaking off the cobwebs and I believe that he's gonna try and bluff his way through Seth Davis. Bluff. We'll see. We'll see.

Seth Davis is doing the bluffing. Look, I need to explain. I don't think Lucy and Jessica have been familiar. This is the stirring of the great giant every March, the legendary media creature of Stu Gotts can fake his way with analysis through the tournament in a way that fools anybody. I've worked here for three years, but I will say, Stu Gotts was awakened this weekend when I texted him sports people who can note ice cream toppings,

because I don't know if you're familiar with the ESPN Women's Bracketologist Charlie Cream, but Charlie Cream is the guy in bracketology, and it sent me down this rabbit hole, so I was texting Stugots, I came up with a couple, Stugots came up with a couple, I think we could do maybe like a top five with some roll up lies. What are you talking about?

Shaken back there. She's awakened by March Madness So you guys I can start. Go ahead. O.L.I. Danny Sprinkle You want one for me? Houston Nut You can do this on the You want one for me? Yeast and nut. Can do this on the fly? We spent the weekend doing this. Reese Davis.

Darrell Strawberry. Heath Schuller. Don Cherry. Don Cherry was number one. Fudge Brown. That's a deep cut. That's a terrible one. Fudge Brown is terrible.

Everyone knows Fudge. Come on, man. It can't be that inside a joke. Eminem. It can't be Fudge Brown. He is a big sports fan. Jeff Gummy Bear. No, that's wrong.

It's just asinine. But I mean, this guy's name's Charlie Cream. And we don't talk about it enough. Her name is Fudge Brown, and we don't talk about it enough, but she works like deep inside the NFL labyrinth. No one knows who that is No one

No one listening to this The five people can't be that inside fudge Brown Come on It's a good one. It is a good one. I can't deny it but do better The only fudge I know. Billy. Hey. Our March Sadness Tournament, what is the sound?

Are we gonna tease the audience with anything here or we're just gonna unveil it over the course of the week? Well, this is what I was thinking, Dan, and you can approve or deny this, it's up to you. I was thinking maybe we could do the one season each of the regions and then maybe have kind of like a little select few from each region. I'll do that.

A little tease. Wait a minute, you're gonna give the best of what we've got? Oh no, not the best. Like right now I have here songs. I have a one seed, I have a 13 seed, and I have a 14 seed. So you don't know what two through 12 is.

Or 15 or 16. Or the play-ins. Before we break down the matchups later in the week, we wanna just kinda tease. Yeah, tease. The Brad Teas can't have the one seeds though. Danny, break down the matchups later in the week, we wanna just kinda tease. Yeah, tease. Can't have the one seeds though. Danny, sprinkle them in. Well, these do.

Well, I mean, the one seeds, you're gonna have an idea for how deep these regions could be, you know what I mean? Which region do you wanna do, Dan? You wanna do songs? You wanna do the Greg Cody region featuring Greg Cody, the club region

or the region of death? Songs, because Greg Cody will be here tomorrow, songs. Could be so happy. All right, so here we go. Not the Greg Cody region. Here's the number one seed in the song region. ["Couple of the Year"] His name is Cooper, good at running curls, but when his hammy got a tear, he saw Pooka

standing there. His blade diminished, hustle takeover. Nakua hopped into the car, McVeigh has maybe found a star, and then that staffer threw him 25 inches. That's Greg Cody. That's a brand new song. Different region. That's the number one.

Different region, though. Greg Cody's the number one seeder in another. Correct me if I'm wrong, though. Is that not a song? It is a great song. It would be pretty funny if Greg has his own bracket and is in multiple featured songs and still doesn't win Marsad does, though.

He probably was the biggest star of the year. I mean, good year for him. Yeah, big year. Don't need the go-go Don't need the go-go Don't need the go-go I'm not feeling great energy from you Dan. That's the one seed in songs, Dan,

not the Greg Cody bracket. Our fans are gonna love this, are you kidding me? We're gonna play songs, play Greg Cody clips. So we're eliminating the looks like game as I demand younger and smarter. And Adam McKay and Mike Schur can't get into difficultly written things. And they're not funny. Because we're supporting Greg Cody? Funny.

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