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Phobias & College Hoops with Michael Calabrese · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by Draft Kings. The crown
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  Speaker 1: is yours. We are now fully entrenched in the murky
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: waters of the NFL off season, and we'll continue our
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  Speaker 1: trek around the world of sports today with college basketball analyst,
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  Speaker 1: our very own Mike Calabrese joins the show right now.
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  Speaker 2: Let's intro the crew.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Brandon Kravitz, your hosts, joined by the Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: of DJEN Nation Stuckey and the Queen of the Pod,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Miss Kendra Middleton.
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: Take that Swedes.
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  Speaker 1: Team USA continues on in men's hockey and kenjar We
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: got a big one today with the women taking on Canada.
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  Speaker 1: So your world of international hockey is on full display
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  Speaker 1: and we're peaking right now.
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  Speaker 2: My parlay is still alive.
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  Speaker 3: I was sweating so hard into overtime yesterday, but Quinn
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  Speaker 3: Hughes on the ice for like three and a half
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  Speaker 3: minutes scores the game winner. Wasn't seeing ghosts on that one.
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  Speaker 2: What a king.
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  Speaker 1: My producer in Orlando for my weekday show just turned
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, so he's now able to bet legally and
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  Speaker 1: his first bet placed was a three leg hockey parlay.
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  Speaker 2: That was not gender specific. We went.
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  Speaker 1: We went women on one side and then the USA
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  Speaker 1: men on the other, and that is his first dive
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  Speaker 1: into sports betting and.
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  Speaker 2: His parlay is still alive.
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  Speaker 1: I told him he should probably hover his finger over
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  Speaker 1: the app and just delete it, but we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: he can come through on that.
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  Speaker 2: Stucky. How you feeling as the week progresses?
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  Speaker 4: A good, Just getting ready for college hoops weekend, going
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  Speaker 4: through the card, then starting to do some conference tournament work.
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  Speaker 4: We had our first last night. We had our first
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  Speaker 4: conference champion, regular season conference champion, which was Navy, believe
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  Speaker 4: it or not, maybe clinched their first outright Patriot League title.
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  Speaker 4: Will be the one seed in a tournament, but trying
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  Speaker 4: to look for some long shots, and we'll have previews
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  Speaker 4: up on Big Bets on Campus podcast for every single
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  Speaker 4: conference tournament. So yeah, March is gonna be here in
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  Speaker 4: less than ten days. I think we just have yeah,
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  Speaker 4: ten days left of February, so we'll be real quick.
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  Speaker 5: So just grinding along.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we are in a leap yer right, so next
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  Speaker 1: year I think next year's the leapier well anyway, but
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  Speaker 1: the fewer days the better to get to March and
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  Speaker 1: the madness that comes with it all for that the
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  Speaker 1: NBA All Star Break is over and done with. I
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  Speaker 1: finally get my precious NBA back on the screen. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: will be a late one for me. I'm working Magic
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  Speaker 1: Kings tonight and that starts at ten pm on the
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  Speaker 1: East Coast.
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  Speaker 2: Say a prayer for me.
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  Speaker 1: The two worst teams against the spread in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, are the Magic and the King.
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  Speaker 2: So tread lightly with that one.
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  Speaker 1: Stuck you want to grease the wheels for us with
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  Speaker 1: your random question of the week.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, this is a dumb question.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a personal question kind of question?
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  Speaker 2: Is that is question?
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 4: So I'll go first. I'll give you the guy's hort
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  Speaker 4: to think about it. Just keep it simple. What is
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  Speaker 4: what are your fears? Do you have any phobias? So
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  Speaker 4: my I have. I guess I'll say I have like four.
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to think about this. I'm not really
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  Speaker 4: like an anxious person. I don't have like the normal phobias,
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  Speaker 4: Like I'm not afraid of heights or or spiders or
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  Speaker 4: things like that.
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  Speaker 5: My main one is.
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  Speaker 4: Triple phobia and that do you know what that is?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's like fear of holes, Like if you are.
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  Speaker 4: If you at this like picture right here, like like
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  Speaker 4: a load of it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not even like falling into holes.
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  Speaker 3: Just it's like looking at like whole like lots of
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  Speaker 3: holes on like surfaces.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, or like on skin especially, but does the moon
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  Speaker 4: count or does the or does go through the hole.
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  Speaker 5: Like this thing?
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  Speaker 4: It makes me like, it makes me like God, just
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  Speaker 4: google Google image. Go to Google image, type in t.
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  Speaker 7: R y uh.
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  Speaker 2: Uh that I knew what this was, t R y.
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  Speaker 4: P o phobia, and then just go to images and
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  Speaker 4: then see if that like triggers.
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  Speaker 5: You all, then you have that Oh God, I just
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  Speaker 5: saw that on some girl's face.
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  Speaker 4: Like there's bad ones that like they'll just put like
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  Speaker 4: a lotus pot on like a girl's face or something,
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  Speaker 4: and it makes me, it makes my skin. Girl, that
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  Speaker 4: one I've I don't know what the origin of that
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  Speaker 4: or the evolutionary response is, but that one is that
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  Speaker 4: one I've always had my others. I guess I would
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  Speaker 4: say I now have a fear of hot air balloons
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  Speaker 4: because I went up in one in Spain this summer
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  Speaker 4: and I got the call of the void where like
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to jump and I had to like back
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  Speaker 4: up from the ledge because I kept being like, what
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  Speaker 4: if I jumped, I should jump, and so like I
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  Speaker 4: don't want that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't want to have that feeling again.
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  Speaker 4: And this might be common, but hospital, if I think
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  Speaker 4: it's called something.
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  Speaker 5: Fear of hospitals, I gets the only.
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  Speaker 4: Time I get like anxious and I could be there
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  Speaker 4: for nothing, and I don't know, I feel like that's
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  Speaker 4: that's a pretty common one. But I get like I've
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  Speaker 4: gotten like highs before and I get really nervous and anxious.
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  Speaker 5: I can't be there for a while.
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  Speaker 1: I stucky started this by saying, I'm not a very
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  Speaker 1: anxious person. Here are my four fears.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to really think of like
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  Speaker 4: specific ones. And then I think my most the most
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  Speaker 4: thing I worry about is house being robbed. And that's
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  Speaker 4: so like when I'm away, I'm always checking my cameras.
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  Speaker 4: And that's because I mean, I told you guys the
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  Speaker 4: story when I was like home alone, I was sixteen,
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  Speaker 4: and I someone was watching my house and I thought
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  Speaker 4: someone was watching me for hours and then I went upstairs,
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  Speaker 4: turned the lights off late and bed and then my
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  Speaker 4: alarm went off and window broke and someone was trying
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  Speaker 4: to break in. And I don't know if I told
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  Speaker 4: you guys this, but uh, I was pulling all night
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  Speaker 4: er prepping for college basketball.
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  Speaker 5: This was a February or January, and it was.
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  Speaker 4: So it was like, this is I think four or
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  Speaker 4: five years ago, and this is when I still smoked cigarettes.
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  Speaker 4: And I put my jacket on and then I was
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  Speaker 4: going out. I have a cigarette and put my trash out.
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  Speaker 4: It was four thirty in the morning and it was
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  Speaker 4: so cold. I put this like big winter jacket with
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  Speaker 4: like this big hood and I opened my door, stepped out.
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  Speaker 4: I had a trash bag in my hand, lit a cigarette,
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  Speaker 4: looked up and there's two guys with masks standing right
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  Speaker 4: in front of me, and I looked at I froze completely.
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  Speaker 4: They looked at me, they looked at each other, and
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  Speaker 4: then took off ran I have a video.
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  Speaker 5: I'll show you that.
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  Speaker 4: I'll send you the video, and then I just started
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  Speaker 4: taking a video. They ran, jumped over the fence that
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  Speaker 4: separates my O my neighbor's house stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They said, fuck that, I'm out.
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  Speaker 4: Well there like huge quoto on just came out and
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  Speaker 4: then just they were probably like they weren't no chance
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  Speaker 4: were they expecting to see me. I think that they
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  Speaker 4: were just trying to grab cars or something. But that
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  Speaker 4: freaked me out for a while, So I guess that's
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  Speaker 4: like what I worry about most. That's irrational. But so
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  Speaker 4: my main main fear, my main phobia is that tripophobia,
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  Speaker 4: which is the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it used to be betting on the Titans, but
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  Speaker 1: I think you got over that.
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  Speaker 2: So it's good to work through your ship. You know.
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  Speaker 4: My new fear now is that vetting against my Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk about that later, because they just don't beat me. Kendrick,
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  Speaker 4: do you have any phobias?
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  Speaker 3: I have a list in my phone, a continuously like
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  Speaker 3: run list. There's like twelve things on here, so I'm
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  Speaker 3: just gonna read them and you can react. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna make any comment. It's because some of them are insane. Monkeys, fingernails,
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  Speaker 3: popsicle sticks, goats but only sometimes, octopus, hotel room, carpet ticks,
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  Speaker 3: metal straws, unwashed lemons, birth maray eels, cat in the hat,
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  Speaker 3: horses and Santa and the Easter Bunny's so scary.
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  Speaker 2: This is so yeah, but like, when are you ever
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  Speaker 2: faced with that fear?
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  Speaker 3: Halloween?
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  Speaker 5: Murray eels are freaky.
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  Speaker 3: Ray eels are fucking so scary, dude, honestly unwashed lemons.
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  Speaker 3: Think about how many people touch citrus before it gets
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  Speaker 3: to you. And it's not a fruit that people wash,
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  Speaker 3: so like it's been through like everything it's been through
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  Speaker 3: in its life and just like arrives to you like
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  Speaker 3: that disgusting. And then hotel room carpet never cleaned, you
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  Speaker 3: walk on it barefoot.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: No octopus so smart popsicle sticks. Don't even get me started.
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  Speaker 2: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: I think octopus. Octopus are uh aliens.
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  Speaker 3: They're so smart and they're so strong, it's so scary. Straws, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because like I saw a video one time of a
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  Speaker 3: girl who was like walking down her stairs and she
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  Speaker 3: tripped and she had like a thing in her hand,
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  Speaker 3: and the straw went through her mouth and like up
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  Speaker 3: through her nose because they don't break.
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  Speaker 5: Interesting. Ok, you're gonna win the depth of phobias, how
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  Speaker 5: about you, Briana?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? For sure.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that you will learn, Stuck, is your child
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  Speaker 1: gets older, is that all of your fears start to
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  Speaker 1: sort of wash away, because everything that brings you anxiety
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  Speaker 1: is just that keeping your kid alive.
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  Speaker 2: And safe, and it starts to one positive.
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  Speaker 1: There's a huge negative that comes with that because you're
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  Speaker 1: stressed constantly and you don't sleep as well.
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  Speaker 2: But your fears stuck.
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  Speaker 1: You start to detach from the things you've been scared
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  Speaker 1: of your whole life, because like, who fucking cares as
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  Speaker 1: long as my kids, Okay, clowns, spiders, heights. I used
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  Speaker 1: to have all the predictable ones. Lately, though, I've had
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  Speaker 1: this irrational fear I like to ride my bike often
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  Speaker 1: that I'm gonna be attacked by a panther that's just
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  Speaker 1: sort of found its way out into the suburbs. And
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  Speaker 1: the second you lay eyes on a cat that has
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  Speaker 1: that that's that fast, and that has that much power,
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  Speaker 1: you're done.
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  Speaker 2: So there's this.
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  Speaker 1: Irrational fear that, like I drive, I ride my bike
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  Speaker 1: by these bushes, there's gonna be a panther that pops out.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the ones that sticks out to me.
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  Speaker 5: Fear of panthers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get the kid thing, because now that's really
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  Speaker 4: all I care about, although there's not He's still a newborn,
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  Speaker 4: so there's not much.
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  Speaker 5: Like I'm just fearful.
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  Speaker 4: We have like cameras and monitors on them, so like
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  Speaker 4: just making sure that he's always breathing and okay, but
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  Speaker 4: I used my adult things. I used to be afraid
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  Speaker 4: of spiders. I guess, like you know, like every kid is.
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  Speaker 4: But I like spiders now around my house they like
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  Speaker 4: take care of the past that there's like a spider
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  Speaker 4: with a web living outside right near my house.
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  Speaker 2: Like he's fine, but outside is different.
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  Speaker 1: So how are you handling if there's one that's like
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  Speaker 1: at least the size of the majority of your palm
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  Speaker 1: in the house, are you disposing of that or are
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  Speaker 1: you like, oh good, he'll take care of the other
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  Speaker 1: things I don't want here and you just kind of
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  Speaker 1: let him ride.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, I mean the size of my I don't live
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  Speaker 4: in Florida, so like size of my palm. That's I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what I would do there. But if I
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  Speaker 4: if I see like a big if I saw a
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  Speaker 4: spider like across the room, like I'm cool with it.
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  Speaker 5: He can chill there in my like basement, I guess
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  Speaker 5: now like betterom.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be sleeping with one. But ah,
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  Speaker 4: but that's that's about it. But before we go to
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  Speaker 4: is Evan, does Evan have any does Evan even here
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  Speaker 4: to that. Yeah, Evan, did you have a fear of
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  Speaker 4: getting uh community noted?
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  Speaker 5: I saw you got the other day.
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  Speaker 8: I did get community noted. Yeah, no, Stephen F. Austin
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  Speaker 8: in any databases. So we had that crowd coming after me.
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  Speaker 5: It's good.
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  Speaker 8: It's nice to keep me on my toes. Honestly, the
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  Speaker 8: only thing I'm actually scared of is, and this is
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  Speaker 8: just the weirdest thing, but it is very evan, is
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  Speaker 8: just not making it to the end of the season.
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  Speaker 8: So like whenever I end up perishing and not being
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  Speaker 8: on this earth anymore, not knowing who won a title
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  Speaker 8: is something that actually fears me to this.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So if you let's say that you because
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  Speaker 5: I get that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that But there's always something going on, Like.
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  Speaker 5: If I told you that you died a peaceful death.
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  Speaker 4: When you know you are eighty five and you got
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  Speaker 4: to go in your sleep and you get to pick
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  Speaker 4: the date, what would be the ideal dates?
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  Speaker 8: So like, it's probably middle of baseball season. I could
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  Speaker 8: probably get away with not knowing who wins the World
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  Speaker 8: Series as long as it's not a World Cup here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like so uh, we're talking like probably right after August.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, like made me preferably like in that July August
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  Speaker 8: area before camp start, after we've got an NBA champion.
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  Speaker 8: I think that would be right around the good time
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  Speaker 8: for me to peacefully go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, just I'm okay, going like May.
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  Speaker 2: I could see.
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  Speaker 1: It's right, nobody wants to die in March. I could
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  Speaker 1: see Evan on his death that going. Did Joey Chestnut
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  Speaker 1: win the coruct?
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  Speaker 2: How many did he eat?
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  Speaker 8: Is?
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: There you go?
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  Speaker 2: Did he hit the over all? Right, I'm a croak,
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  Speaker 2: all right?
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  Speaker 4: To do want to die because he does, he won't
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  Speaker 4: know what happens to his fantasy team in twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a nice callback.
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  Speaker 2: Still to come.
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  Speaker 1: College basketball talk with the Action Networks on Mike Calabres.
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  Speaker 1: College basketball is about to dominate our sports betting brains
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  Speaker 1: for the next couple of months.
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  Speaker 2: We've already got Stucky.
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  Speaker 1: On the pod, but we figured we would add another
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  Speaker 1: college basketball heavyweight to the discussion, Mike Calabrese, college sports
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  Speaker 1: on BBOC. Before we get to the nitty gritty, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, welcome to the show. What are you
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  Speaker 1: scared of other than listening to Stucky talk about holes?
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  Speaker 5: All Right?
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  Speaker 9: So I have like a diagnosed one, and then I
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: have a weird one, So you choose which one will
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: be diagnosed diagnosed. Yes, So I have rem behavior disorder,
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  Speaker 9: which means I can sleepwalk and do anything sleepwalking that
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  Speaker 9: I can do awake, and I've worked on it my
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  Speaker 9: whole life, and we're in a much better place. But
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  Speaker 9: parasomnia is the fear of doing anything bad when you're
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  Speaker 9: sleepwalking and having to live with the consequences, So that.
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  Speaker 6: One's not great.
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell you I've found myself in some tricky situations.
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  Speaker 9: I've sleptwalk out of apartment complexes, I've driven a car,
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  Speaker 9: I've done the sleep eating all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 6: So there's that one that's real.
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  Speaker 3: Do you just want to change yourself to your bed?
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  Speaker 9: So Mike Birbiglia, the comedian, also has it. He jumped
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  Speaker 9: out of a third story window at a hotel. I
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  Speaker 9: almost did the same thing, because basically it's like overlays
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  Speaker 9: with your dreams that are hyper realistic. So I thought
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  Speaker 9: there was a bomb in the room, and I tried
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  Speaker 9: to like pull open the sliding door and jump out
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  Speaker 9: of the window, but luckily it was locked. And like
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  Speaker 9: it's almost like the fog is lifting. You don't immediately
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  Speaker 9: know that you're sleeping, but then like it comes to you.
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  Speaker 9: And he sleeps in a sleeping bag that his wife
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  Speaker 9: zips up that he cannot get out of, and I
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  Speaker 9: was like, I would rather just jump out of a
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  Speaker 9: building than have to live like that. But my whole
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  Speaker 9: life so over the years.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing that evolution didn't take care of this for all
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  Speaker 1: of us. Yes, how did anybody slip through the cracks
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  Speaker 1: on that?
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  Speaker 9: We had a couple of situations my wife and I
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  Speaker 9: living in New York where we passed on apartments because
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: it had like you know, a little tiny verandah or
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: like you know, porch area outside either the building.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Or our particular unit.
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: I was like, there's a non zero percent chance that
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: I'm going to be a pancake on the on the
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: ground on third third Avenue.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: So wow, I feel really stupid. The third story now.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: The second one is not diagnosed, and at least by
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: my internet sleuthory, I could not find a real name
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: for this.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: But my wife's from Pittsburgh.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: I'm from Philadelphia and we've done the drive a million
• 17:58
  Speaker 9: times and anyone who's gone on seventy six across the
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: state can attest that there's nothing there. It is like
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: the saddest towns you've ever seen. It's like the towns
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: that time forgot. They have like chain restaurants that you
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: thought closed like twenty years ago.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: I have this.
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: Irrational fear if we ever pull off, like to go
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: to Roy Rogers or something that some series of events
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: is going to happen that I am forced to live
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: there and like restart my life and I am locked
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: in place. I guess the only analogy is, like I
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: guess like Beetlejuice a little bit where they die and
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: then they're stuck in that town, in that house, like
• 18:30
  Speaker 9: kind of that element.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: It's an irrational fear of mine.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Wait, the worst thing you've done while sleepwalking?
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Worst is a it's a subjective question.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I did a guy who slipwalk, and he would be
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: like kind of violent if he like if you tried
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: to like stop whatever he was doing. So I would
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: just like lay in bed like with like the fear
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: of God in me.
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: But the current one is that probably like once every
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: couple months, I think that there's a bird in the
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: bed and I will immediately starts stripping off all the
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: sheets and my life gets so pissed naturally with that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: That's the recurring one that puts me in hot water.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: There's nothing like coming out of a fog, and it's
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: like I'm already down like eighty points here. I'm getting
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: blown out in this argument for being a total maniac.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Well, that sounds like an awful feeling. I'm not sure
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that it rises to the levels of asking Mick Cronin
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: a question.
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: Thoughts in the student section, channing Booker's name, I could
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: give a rat's ass about the other team student section
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: overall the way that I would like to give you
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: a kudos. Your worst question I've ever even asked? All right,
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: did you did you like you should take it the preparation?
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: Do you really think I care about the other No?
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: I don't think you care about.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: The other question?
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: You are here, you are come on, dude, no reason
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: the yess you were. Everybody's standing here listening to everybody.
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: This is on camera, they can hear you. I answered
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: the question. I could give a rat's ass about the
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: other team student section. I coach UCLA. I don't care
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: about Michigan State students. Who cares?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Mike your thoughts on.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It seems like the last of a dying breed of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: these coaches that feel like they can get away with
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: being that over the top, rude and acerbic to anybody
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that they talk to. Are you surprised that it still
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: works for Mick Cronin or that he hasn't been Yeah,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Air quotes that he hasn't been phased out of the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: sport yet, because it feels like all of the Bobby
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Knights have been slowly kicked out.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's Bobby Knight without the charm or the championships.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: That's basically what he's going for.
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: And U STLA would fire them, but they're underwater financially.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: They can't afford to fire him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: And I think he knows that I never had such
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: secondhand frustration as I did watching that reporter basically get
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: dunked on. He just keeps like shitting on this guy
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: where it's like the worst question I've ever heard in
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: my entire life, keeps angling at him, keeps going, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: then drops the line are.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: You raising your voice at me?
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: Which anyone who's ever been in a relationship, maybe it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: my PTSD from bad relationships.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Whenever anyone puts you in that box, you have no moves.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: It's it's a great move by Cronin.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: The only problem is the cameras were rolling on him,
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: so he comes off as an asshole.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: But if it's one on one, that's a kill.
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: Shot move in an argument because if you know the person,
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: you're angrier. But then you can't respond because you have
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: to prove that you weren't yelling and you have to
• 21:23
  Speaker 9: be calmer. So yeah, Cronin is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: He's the worst.
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: He's just a yellow belly coward for like bullying a
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: guy for no reason, throwing his own player.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Out of the game.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: But he knows he's playing with house money.
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: They can't fire him because they can't afford it right now,
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: So yeah, it's unfortunate.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: He just seems he just seemed even more miserable since
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: he went out to the West Coast, Like he's he's
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: like a Midwest guy through and through, Like I feel
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: like everything would be better for both parties if they
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: could just amicably and cheaply for inexpensively part ways. And
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: he goes back to like Cincy. I mean, he was
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: at a Louisville, Mary State then he was the head
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: coach for Cincy Prewrie.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: It just doesn't seem happy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think he's ever has ever been happy,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: but he seems even less satisfied with things since he
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: went out to the West Coast.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: But yeah, they're in danger of missing the tournament. They
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: need to start getting some wins here and we'll see
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: how they do on Saturday. Against the juggernaut of Illinois.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So let's kind of peel it all back and get
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: people caught up. A lot of people that are listening
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: right now are just starting to get into the world
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of betting college basketball conference tournaments about to start. The
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament will be here before we know it, Mike,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: if you had to sort of catch people up that
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: are just starting to turn their attention to college basketball
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: on what this season has been all about, mostly at
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the top end, or some of those underdog stories and
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: teams that we're going to fall in love with in March.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: What do people need to know at a base level
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: about this college basketball season.
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: So what you're probably hearing is that this is the
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: best collection of elite teams that can win the championship
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: in recent memory. It's not your imagination because you can
• 23:05
  Speaker 9: look just at ken Pom and look back. Let's go
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: to the first year after COVID in twenty twenty one.
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: The two teams that played in the championship, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: Gonzaga and Baylor both at Ken Palm Net ratings above thirty.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Right now we have eight of those teams.
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: Then you got Miami of Ohio and SLEW who are
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: fantastic mid majors who could make the second weekend make
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: a deep run that wouldn't shock anybody. So it has
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: that nice balance of the juggernauts at the top and
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: the potential cinderellas to make a run to even the
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: final four is not out of the rum possibility. And
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: then on top of it, you're sacking the best freshman
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: class since probably two thousand and seven when we had
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: Katie Odin, Conley, Brandon Wright, Spencer Halls all top ten
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: NBA draft picks. That young was in there too, but
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: just the volume of impactful freshmen and the quality at
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: the top of this class, it seems like there's five
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: or six guys that could go to the NBA and
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: be significant stars within a year or two. That just
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: doesn't happen all that often in this sport. And then
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: you filter in all of the side angles with his eligibility,
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: with players dropping down from the pro leagues overseas dropping
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: in from the pro leagues.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Here in the States, there's so much intrigue.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: And while college football, I think is having difficulty wrapping
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: their arms around the transfer portal and the continuity issues,
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: and football is just a different sport where I think
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: the quality play is a little bit better if you
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: can keep your core offense or defense, keep your play caller.
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: That's becoming more and more difficult. And college shops has
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: always been a situation where if you can get the
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: best five players on the court, I mean it goes
• 24:27
  Speaker 9: all the way back to their AAU days. They're more
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: fine tuned for that kind of experience. I think we're
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: all the beneficiaries of it, because the sport top to
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: bottom right now is as good as it's ever been.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I used that on about the freshman just to show
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: you the depth of how good this freshman. I mean,
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: it's insane, how good this freshman classes.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I mean you can even go.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: To like a guy like Nigel Nigel James on Marquette
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: last night, who was going off against Sint Johns.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: They're not even gonna make the tournament.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: But there's obviously the names at the top that are
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: clear with you know, Boozer DEVANSA Peterson. That's a whole
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: nother story, but those are the you know, the guys
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: are gonna go Caleb Wilson, these guys are gonna go
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: on the top five. But take to show you how
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: deep it is in the history of college basketball, the
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: top three scoring games by freshmen on the road against
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: top twenty five opponents have all happened within the past month.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: A Cuff last night had forty nine against Alabama, Woggler
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: for Illinois had forty six at Purdue last month, and
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Flemings for Houston had forty two at Texas Tech last month.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: All three the three highest scoring games by freshmen on
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: the road against top twenty five teams in the history
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: of the sport that happened within the past month, which
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: just and they're not even the you know, the consider
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: the three best that are going to go at the
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: top of the draft board, although they'll certainly be there
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: at some point.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: So yeah, this this freshman class is.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Historically dominant, and you're gonna hear about a lot of them,
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: and they're gonna have a huge.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Say in March.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I am the definition of a casual when this time
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: of year rolls around for college basketball. So do you
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: have any tips for people like me? I mean, I've
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: been sitting here kind of reflecting on my NFL season.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: What did I learn? What can I change for next
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: year to be better at gambling? Are there any tips
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: that you have for people like me or people who
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: are listening to this show who are kind of switching
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: from the NFL over to college basketball and heading into
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: this point of the season.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: The first one.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: It seems simple, but folks don't consider it all that often.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: When they're in a march madness pool, always consider your
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: strategy visa v. How many people are in the pool.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: If you're in a smaller pool and you want to
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: go really chalky, that's not a bad strategy. It certainly
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: worked last year. The top of the sport this year
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: is looking like, you know, the winner is probably going
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: to come from the one or two line. If you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: in a smaller pool, that's a great strategy.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: If you're in a really big pool, the likelihood.
• 26:51
  Speaker 9: Is a lot of people are going to copy that
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: strategy and you're going to end up, at best in
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: a split situation where you're not going to make a
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: lot of money. So if that's the case and you're
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: you know, over let's call it a hundred entries, you
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: want to get a little bit spicier with it, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: I think there's ways to do it in a responsible way,
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: And everybody loves to have those five twelve upsets, but
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: try to limit yourself in terms of those double digit
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: seeds going to the second weekend. You know, there's ways
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: for you to enjoy it and knock out, you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: a three or four seed in the first round, but
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: you don't necessarily need to keep pushing that team ahead.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: And when you do it that way, you know there's
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: an opportunity as well if all of a sudden that
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: thirteen seed wins and you have that buyer's remorse, you like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 9: this team's going to go. You're still going to get
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: a really good price in you know, live betting situation
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: in the next round if you want to keep riding that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: So don't necessarily think about it siloed.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: I have my tournament bracket and I have my individual bets,
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: and never shell the two cross like you can really
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: kind of play off of each other. And the other
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: piece of it is, and this is just my own
• 27:46
  Speaker 9: personal preference, don't have like seventy five different brackets where
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: you're just, you know, all of a sudden, picking against yourself.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: It's the same issue with fantasy football.
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: If you have too many teams, then you're competing against
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: a guy who's you also have on your team and
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: it gets too complicated, and I think it sucks the
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: way out of it, So try to cap it in
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: single digits and have some fun with it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, it feels like piggybacking off
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: of your point. It feels like the tournament as we
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: know it has kind of died in the last couple
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: of years because of the portal and nil and all
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: of that kind of stuff. It feels like favorites are
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: from here on going to be kind of the way
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: to go. Do you think that it's too late to
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: get any value kind of really getting on favorites in
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the beginning of the tournament, just because these teams that
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: we saw have a lot of continuity, used to be
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: these Cinderella stories like who had a ton of seniors,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: had played together for a long time, been able to
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: hold on to their coach. Do you think that there's
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: any value in just really heavy loading favorites or do
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: you think that there's still potential for you know, the
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Saint Peter's that we used to see.
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: I think at this point, the you know, it's already
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: kind of left the station in terms of grabbing value
• 28:50
  Speaker 9: on teams that are in the Ken Palm Top fifteen.
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: You'll get a team like Iowa State to make the
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: final four. They're five to two out of the market.
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: That's a waste of your money to have it tied
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: up to have so many potential outcomes to only you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: cash a little bit north of.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: Two to one.
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: But there is an interesting way if you want to
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: play some favorites and it Stuck's favorite, you know, two
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: week stretch of college basketball which is before March Madness
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: conference tournament week, and I think there's some really good
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: plays like that same Iowa State team is probably going
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: to go off at three or four to one to
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: win the Big Twelve tournament. So you know they're going
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: to be behind Houston, they're going to be behind Arizona.
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: So if you're enamored with some of these top teams
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: from a value perspective, it's much better to get in
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: on them during their conference tournament play as opposed to
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: waiting for the first or second weekend.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: I would also add on just for general tips betting
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: during much I mean, like, if you haven't been following,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: the market is gets more and more efficient with each
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: passing year, I mean, and you can look at you know,
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: just take the first round. I remember ten years ago,
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: ten fifteen, I mean it was even if you go
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: five or six years ago, you would have these opening
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: round games, the lines would come out that some of
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: these dogs would be way too high. You'd have to
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: get the early they'd move, you know, three or four points.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Now they're opening much lower. The market is much sharper,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: and you know, it's a much more efficient market now.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: So if you're you know, getting into betting in your
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: it's more recreational. He's a much you know, easier way
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: to attack college basketball betting is player props. It's gonna
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: be a less efficient market. We I'll do a shameless plug,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: you know, Nick Giff and Sean Kerner they kill that.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: You can follow along, become an Action Pro subscriber and
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: just follow them on the Action app. They do a
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: good job there. And then just a general piece of
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: advice to always you always want to get the best number. Again,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: you can use the Action app for that, but just
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: shop around, don't cost yourself a half point or a
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: point for no reason, and then don't chase like it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: I've seen so.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Many people get into trouble during the tournament, especially that
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: that first weekend, Like you're gonna have games going on, starting,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: you know, right at noon Eastern, and they're gonna go
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: all the way till midnight, and there's just waves of games,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: and you're gonna have bad beats and you're gonna get
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: bit and then you know, you could be down a
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: lot going into the late slate, and the last thing
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: you want to do is start chasing on something where
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: you don't have an edge on, and then those things
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: compound and then all of a sudden and it's got
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: that they're in conference certain week and the next day
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: games start again at noon, and then you're in a tailspin.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: So anyone like just starting out that is kind of
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: susceptible to that, I would just put make sure you
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: put your bets in before the entire slate and then
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: just roll with them so you never get in trouble
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: that way, because I've seen that lead to some pretty
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: bad things.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: But before you move on, Stuck, I would love to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: get both of your opinions on this, because I think
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you brought up an interesting point that if you're attacking
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: this as a recreational better this is an important lens
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to look at the tournament through and not chasing with
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: all the games. Chasing is a bad idea in sports
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: betting in general. When you have this sort of menu
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: in front of you and all the excitement, and you're
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: around your buddies or people at work, it can get
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: worse because you see, not only are you doing that,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the person that's sitting across the bar from you is
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: having a great day and that can definitely spike that emotion.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: When you mentioned the recreational versus the professional side, and Mike,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I want to bring you in for this, how do
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: professional betters or the sharper betters that bet college basketball
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: all season, how does the tournament differ from the way
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: they're betting college hoops throughout the year at all.
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  Speaker 9: First, the first answer right away is there are so
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: many unique situational travel angles, sandwich games, look ahead spots,
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: emotional letdowns that you would be foolish to not consider
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  Speaker 9: during the regular season.
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  Speaker 6: When you get to March.
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  Speaker 9: What's interesting is that so many of these teams spends
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  Speaker 9: the majority, particularly the power teams, spend the majority of
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: their non conference schedule playing on their home floor. They
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: may play in, you know, in early season tournaments, they
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: may go to or play at the player's era or
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: something like that. But they in a lot of these games,
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: they're paying other teams to come to them, and then
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: they get into the conference slate.
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  Speaker 6: Ends mc cronin complains about this.
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: He thinks that he singled out and UCLA is the
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: only team that has to play back to backs on
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: the road or go cross country whatever.
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  Speaker 6: But for the most part, the major conferences.
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  Speaker 9: Try their best to have it be fair in terms
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: of travel and in terms of rest. And then you
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: get into conference tournament time and you're playing potentially three
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: games in a row of four games in a row,
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: and that is something where you need to look at
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: the historical data about how some coaches are just better
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  Speaker 9: suited at the quick turnaround time, getting their players ready,
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: and how deep their benches.
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  Speaker 6: Those things start to come into.
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: Play in a lot more of a meaningful way during
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: March madness, whether it's the conference tournament or March madness.
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  Speaker 9: Then it does necessarily during the regular season when you
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: go six or seven days between games, you don't need
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: to think about load management as much, and you don't
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: need to necessarily panic in terms of prep because you know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: you know months six months ahead of time who you're
• 33:57
  Speaker 9: going to play on February second and then February tenth.
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  Speaker 9: There's some coaches and stuck talks about.
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  Speaker 6: It all the time.
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  Speaker 9: You look at that certainly have that ability to be
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: able to game plan for multiple opponents and be able
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: to change things up on the fly. Patino can do it,
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  Speaker 9: you know, Oregon has been able to do it over
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  Speaker 9: the years with Dana Altman.
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  Speaker 6: That's when you need to as someone.
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  Speaker 9: Who's placing a bet, whether you're a casual or sharp,
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: you need to have that factored in more than you
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: do during the regular season.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would add that coaching becomes I think more
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: critical matchups, things that are tougher to prepare for in
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: a tournament setting. But I know a lot of sharp
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: betters who just aren't firing as much towards the end
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: of the year, and especially when the tournament markets are
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: more efficient, I know some that are spending more time
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: on You have all these other tournaments going on and
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: right the teams that didn't make the tournament. And this
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: is when because of the era that we're living in,
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: You're because of the transfer portal, because of everything else,
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: You're gonna have lots of guys who don't play and
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: then college basketball that because it comes an information game
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: and that's so trying to figure out who's playing in
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: these games and getting ahead of some of those line moves.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: That's probably a much bigger edge in the terminal, though
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  Speaker 4: not nearly as fun. But that's what I spend most
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  Speaker 4: of my time on for these games, the matchups, the coaching,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: those little angles because for the most part, you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: this time of the year, we know where most of
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: these teams are are power raided. And then for some
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: some teams, that's figuring out, Okay, what what does what
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: does this team look like now with someone back, a
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: key guy back? We don't have a large sample size
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: for or a team that lost a key player, what
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: do they look like now? As you know a perfect example,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: I mean you have there's a lot of key injuries
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: right now. So like BYU without Saunders, who was one
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: of their most important players, U n C without Caleb Wilson.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: We'll see when he returns. And then the biggest one
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: is Texas Tech. I mean, this is a team that
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: was a Giant slayer. I mean they have wins over
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Duke Eras and Houston Houston. It's crazy, like insane and
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: they're well coached, but they were so reliant on the
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: one two duo of Anderson and Top and then Top
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: and opened up so many other things you know out
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: well shooting open shots.
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  Speaker 5: But losing JT.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Top into an ACL injury, and this is a team
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: that had no depth, right, this is what I think
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: among all Power Conference teams, they probably had the fewest
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: bench minutes. He was that important top and now he's
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: out for the year. What does Texas Tech do now?
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean McCastle and their coach has a history of
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: you know, at the previous stops in the past defensive
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: mind to coach playing really really slow, That's what I
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: would do, Play super slow, condense the game to go,
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: increase your three point variants.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: But it's hard for me to.
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  Speaker 4: See them making a deep run now without Top and
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: he was that important and the drop off is his
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: significant Well what does you know? So there's there's a
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: lot of like that with personnel, uh, you know, guys
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  Speaker 4: coming back, guys who were hurt, trying to figure out
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: what does that mean? And then additionally, the last thing
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: I'll mention is what do what do certain conferences? What
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: does it mean, when maybe there's a team that can
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: thrive once they get out of conference play, right, Like,
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: they don't really match up well within their own league,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: but once they get out of conference play, they might
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: be more dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: And then maybe there's certain conferences that were just overvalued
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: in general or undervalued going into the tournament. So yeah,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: there's a lot there's a lot more nuanced when you
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: get out of like the grind and the dog days
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: of conference play.
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  Speaker 5: So that's that's all.
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  Speaker 2: I'll out there, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the top end injury goes for Texas Tech,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: does that roll them out of being a team that
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: you would take deep in your bracket?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, top end was playing at an All American level.
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: If not, I mean, if it wasn't for Boozer, he
• 37:54
  Speaker 9: probably probably would have been right there for National Player
• 37:57
  Speaker 9: of the Year. I have to light again and candle
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: because I had a parlay of Texas Tech football to
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: win the Big Twelve and Texas Tech basketball to win
• 38:05
  Speaker 9: the national championship at one hundred and eighty to one.
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: But that's up in smoke, that's gone. So I'm ryan
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: with my Houston ticket. Seventeen to one. Got some good
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: value there.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: But yeah, mcauslin, I think can impact.
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  Speaker 9: The game in terms of his coaching. Defensively, they took
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: a step back because they wanted to play faster. This year,
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: they cracked the top twenty five in kempom offensive efficiency.
• 38:25
  Speaker 9: They look great in those upsets against major teams that
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: Stuck just mentioned. But I think he can muck these
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: games up and turn them into kind of a half
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: court grind and a slog, and that may impact how
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: you want to bet their totals. But from a perspective
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: of them winning on the second weekend, I think that's
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: out the window.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: Darren feels like sixteen is the ceiling for them now.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm very curious to see what they
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: look like in conference tournament play because the Big twelve
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: is as stacked as any Darren Peterson, what do we
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: do with this guy? You missed another second half with cramping,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: We go their quotes again? Is this more likely to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: impact the Jayhawks in the tournament or the draft stock
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: of Peterson? Because maybe he's doing this and then it's
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: something that he definitely won't do when we get to
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: conference tournament play and then the NCAA tournament, or maybe
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: he does, and then that's something that with a loaded
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: draft class, he's not gonna end up being the presumptive
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick. How do you see this impacting
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: either Kansas or Peterson himself in the upcoming NBA draft?
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: You know, maybe it's because I'm a tortured Sixers fan,
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: but the NBA draft community seems to just be breezing by,
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: you know, these cramps and the fact that he's opting
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: out when he has the cold or flew whatever it was,
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: you know, calling out of games like he made a
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: three last night, turns around immediately basically slaps Bill self, like,
• 39:45
  Speaker 9: get me out of this game. You know, when you
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: live through the embied injuries, Ben Simmons disinterest in playing
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: the weird scenarios like Mark el Foltz just losing all confidence.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: Like I don't want to brush it under the rug.
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: But it seems like NBA draftnecks are like he's either
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: number one or number two, just like I don't overthink this.
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: He'll be fine because he's not dealing with a serious
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: injury or some kind of chronic injury. Although the cramps
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: thing is strange. I think Kansas is likely to be
• 40:11
  Speaker 9: on the wrong side of this narrative at some point
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: later in the year, because even if you were to
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: quote unquote rev it up, I think it's just mentally
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: on the minds of not only Bill self and Peterson
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: and Peterson's entire handlers, but also in terms of the
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: confidence this team has, because if you look at Evan Mia,
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: they play some really good basketball when he's not on
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: the floor. So you can't tell me that in that
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: locker room, a guy like Counsel isn't thinking to himself
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: like player, don't play, just get the hell out of
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: my way. Like at some point, I think it's going
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: to have an impact on their overall chemistry because talent wise,
• 40:45
  Speaker 9: if he was playing thirty four minutes a game, I
• 40:47
  Speaker 9: think they could be a co favorite to win the
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: National championship. But I have zero confidence that he's going
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: to play consistently like that through the Big Twelve tournament
• 40:55
  Speaker 9: and then in March Madness. I think there's going to
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: be a game or two where this is going to
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: rear its head, and I think that's why it makes
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: it so difficult to kind of project where this team's
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: going to go. Their ceiling is certainly the Final four.
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: If not the national championship. But they also could just
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: kind of mess around with a team in the second round,
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: the round of thirty two and get bounced and Peterson
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: at halftimes like, I don't really need this. I'm about
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: to be a multi multi millionaire.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: I'm done. So the range of outcomes for the.
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: Kansas Jayhawks I think are as wide as any team
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: in this projected field.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say nobody knows.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Nobody knows the real answer, so like they're going to
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: be it's I don't even think Bill self knows. He
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: finally showed like the first bit of frustration after the
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: game last night, so yeah, it's definitely something to watch.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: I have Kansas Final four features.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: I'm hoping that he does just lock in come March,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: but it certainly worries and what we've seen.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about the SAC. I think I'm
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: having such a hard time switching from football into the
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: basketball season because the SEC kind of sucks at basketball
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: this year. But because of that, it feels pretty wide open.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on the SEC tournament coming up?
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Is there any way to make money on this? I
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: want to get into basketball again because I want a
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: lot of money on Florida last year. But I'm having
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I think that this is what is killing college basketball
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: for me this year, is that all of the teams
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: that I love and care about blow Well.
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: I'm going to put some optimism put a spin on this,
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: which is Florida is going to be the presumptive favorite
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: for the SEC Tournament.
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: Florida's guard play is up and down enough that they
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: could lose in the first round that tournament.
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: Yes, their offensive rebounding their bigs are incredible. It generally
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: gives them a higher floor.
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: But Boogie Flans.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: Can shoot the way his way out of a game
• 42:34
  Speaker 9: for the Gators, and Lee has not been the kind
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: of replacement at the point that they were hoping when
• 42:39
  Speaker 9: they got them out of the portal from Princeton. So,
• 42:41
  Speaker 9: in terms of a power conference league with a team
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: that's clearly at the top, and they will be priced
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: that way, I don't necessarily have this confidence that they're
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: going to just glide through the SEC Tournament and use
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: that as a springboard into March Madness and get back
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: to the Final Four for the second straight year. I
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: don't necessarily see that. And there's a lot of teams
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: in the SEC and you saw it last night with Arkansas.
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: When everything's working for them offensively, they're an incredibly dangerous team.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: Vanderbilt went into a deep hibernation, you know, for about
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: the last three weeks, and then all of a sudden
• 43:09
  Speaker 9: just woke up. Last night at Missoo almost had one
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: of the most absurd comeback victories where they hit a
• 43:14
  Speaker 9: three in the final three seconds, they get a steal,
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: and they rim out on a half quarter. That's another
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: team that if you just look at how they were
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: playing in the first six weeks of the season, they
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: were clearly a top ten team. So it's not that
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: difficult to talk yourself into some of these teams not
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: named Florida to win the SEC. And really, I think
• 43:31
  Speaker 9: you just second have to embrace the madness of it,
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: in the excitement because a lot of these teams are
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: high variants and not just throw them a three point perspective,
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: which is always across college basketball.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: Anybody can get hot and knock down fifteen threes.
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: But also there's just some singular players like a Cuff
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: that we discussed earlier, who he's got March madness Darling
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: ridden all over him, and with coach cal As well,
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: you know you have someone you can have issues with
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: some of his early flameouts at Kentucky, certainly later in
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: his tenure in the Big Dance, But this is someone
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: who's been through all the battles and I think he's
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: pushing the right buttons right now. It seems like this
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: team is adding confidence. If they can just start rebounding
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: the basketball a little bit better, I'd be all in
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: on Wubig SUI.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Embrace the suck. That's what I took away from that.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this Florida team not quite as good as they
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: were last year, but they are heating up at the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: right time. Darius Acuff, by the way, forty nine points
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in an overtime, double overtime thriller last night, as we
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: are recording this on a Thursday, so all of us
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: here coincidentally are remarkably rated similarly. In Ken Palm, I'm
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: a UCF guy, Kendra's an Auburn girl. Stucky, we're giving
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: you Kentucky thirtieth and Ken Palm for the Wildcats thirty
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: fourth for Auburn, and UCF is forty eighth. And they've
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: got some senior leadership and some salid three point shooting.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: If they get to the dance.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: They could potentially be one of those teams that upset
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: someone in the first round if.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: This was the and then who's your team? Where did you?
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Who do you?
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: I started minorgrad at Miszoo before going to Loyola Maryland's
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: I don't think the Greyhounds are going to knockoff Navy
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: in the Patriot League tournament.
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: So let's keep it with Maszoo here for this conversation.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, Missouri fifty second and Keim Palm if those were
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the final four, somehow, some way we got to a
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: final four with Kentucky, Auburn, Missoo, and UCF, which sounds
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: like a final four that my six year old would
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: put together if I handed him a bracket.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Who's coming out alive?
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: I mean, who wants to jump in and make their
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: case first? I'm not making the case for Miszoo. They
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: turned the ball over too much. They're many cases negative
• 45:39
  Speaker 9: in the turnover margin on a nightly basis. They're not
• 45:41
  Speaker 9: great on the defensive glass. Yes, they can shoot, but
• 45:44
  Speaker 9: they've also been the only.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: Positive thing I can say.
• 45:46
  Speaker 9: They've been snake bit teams are shooting like thirty seven
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: percent from three generally speaking, that returns more to the
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: average they've you know, the three point regression could help them.
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: But this is just a team that I feel like
• 45:56
  Speaker 9: no lead is safe. They can play up or play
• 45:59
  Speaker 9: down to just about anybody. And this hypothetical, they've made
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: it all the way to the final four. That's a
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: lot of them playing up. So I think you know
• 46:05
  Speaker 9: that it strikes midnight on a Cinderella season for the
• 46:07
  Speaker 9: Tigers Auburn.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: But Auburn's in pre fall mode right now.
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Not trustworthy, neither of the Zori, neither as Uc I
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: mean any of those. I mean it would be it
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: would actually be an entertaining pon for because you never
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: know what you're gonna get with any of that.
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: I mean, if we knew we were getting with Keyshawn
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: Hall and like what's going on with that situation, Auburn
• 46:29
  Speaker 9: at their best, I think you can make the argument
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: I've always liked.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Peediford ironically Kish Hall, you see f guy. So we'd
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: have that storyline.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: Although the coaching is that's where Auburn is going to
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: be at a disadvantage because I think Stephen Pearl might
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: be an overse head.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: This and Bruce pro leaving to get into politics was
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: such a crazy move. What is with Auburn coaches and
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: leaving to get into politics. I don't understand.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: It's something about the deep out that just gets here,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: rived up and ready to go. Mike Calvaries, Ladies and gentlemen,
• 47:04
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• 47:06
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• 47:09
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• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and amazing you did this all while you were sleeping.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: This was all done in a sleep state. Amazing. That's
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: off to you, my friend.
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: The key record from your basement can jump out of
• 47:23
  Speaker 9: the window in the basement.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Pro move. That'll do it for today's episode.
• 47:28
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