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March Madness Bracket Breakdown with Chad, BlackJack, Paul & Geoff · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome the favorites from the Action Network. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: we have a massive, massive show going on because uh
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Speaker 1: we are all in Vegas and that includes me, That
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Speaker 1: includes black Jack Fletcher, that includes Paul Laduga, That which
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Speaker 1: Jeff Schwartz, that includes Patrick Keene, our CEO, who's standing
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Speaker 1: in the corner. That includes Uncle Matt Mitchell, who's also here.
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Speaker 1: We're in the studio. We are in the Intercom Studios
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Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, Nevada. We are recording the podcast because
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Speaker 1: we were all in town for a big party tonight
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Speaker 1: and then a weekend of crazy good times and more importantly,
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Speaker 1: excellent content from the Action Network. We've gotta talk about
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Speaker 1: some games. Guys, don't what is the matter with you,
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Speaker 1: because it's just you're you're under selling this a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Me and Jeff have been out here for thirty six
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Speaker 1: hours with Paul Laduka. Thankfully we're all still alive in
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Speaker 1: one piece. Paul missed out on today. I always went, yes,
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Speaker 1: he lost the ticket. I lost sixty dollar ticket and
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Speaker 1: then I got knocked out of UH pick five. So
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Speaker 1: it's already been a bad morning. But the issue is
1:19
Speaker 1: is that I look like Dan DeVito compared to Arnold
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Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger over here. Yet I'm fifteen years older than him,
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Speaker 1: so it's a little odd. And then I'm walking around
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Speaker 1: with a guy that everybody stares at and he buys
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Speaker 1: his glasses on Fremont Street, the people that I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to So I'm trying to hold up a reputation here, Chad,
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Speaker 1: And it's really tough too. What what reputation is that
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Speaker 1: I don't have one to generate? I guess that's it.
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Speaker 1: I post my bets on Twitter. At least I hang
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Speaker 1: him out there. Um uh yeah, I'm a d G
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Speaker 1: and I love it. How uh you played? How many
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Speaker 1: parlays did you play yesterday? Uh? Seventeen? And how many
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Speaker 1: of those lays had the same team at the same number?
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Speaker 1: And what team? And what number was that? The marshall
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Speaker 1: thundering hern and what hiding Chad pennies as what happened
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Speaker 1: in that game? They're up seventy to fifty five, but
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Speaker 1: five minutes left they proceeded to get outscored eighteen to
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Speaker 1: eight and got back door. So eleven parlays d d.
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Speaker 1: Now hold on, because you're missing the best part of
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Speaker 1: the story. You don't know it quite yet. Jeff and
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Speaker 1: I were with Paul yesterday and asked him his logic
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Speaker 1: behind putting Marshall in all of these plays. You said
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Speaker 1: you thought the line should have been about two, right,
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Speaker 1: So why would you actually get this Why would you
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Speaker 1: lay the seven and a half when you thought the
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Speaker 1: line should be too Because on my projections, the line
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Speaker 1: should be two two and a half. So when Vegas
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Speaker 1: put out the line at seven, they're trying to tell you. Hey,
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Speaker 1: at the other side, they're knocking outsmart You no, listen.
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Speaker 1: I actually had one units on the app last night.
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Speaker 1: My mother plays one. This is like, so it's just
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Speaker 1: I played the wrong team. Arkansas was the other team
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Speaker 1: played the wrong team last night? It happens. So let
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Speaker 1: me ask you a quick question before I put in
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Speaker 1: the parlays. Mr black Jack Fletcher, who was your best
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Speaker 1: player the night? Marshall? Okay, thank you very much. I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Marshall a lot to listen. We got Mars
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Speaker 1: Madness starting tomorrow, so we gotta record this quickly so
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Speaker 1: people can get it up. But we can give people
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Speaker 1: some upsets, all right, and we give people ideas of
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Speaker 1: what they want to bet over the next couple of days.
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Speaker 1: Here's what I don't want to do. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time. Here's who's gonna win
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Speaker 1: this game in this bracket. Here's who's gonna win this
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Speaker 1: game in this bracket. I want to talk about serious bets.
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Speaker 1: I want to do some serious handicapping. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to talk about you know who's going to win the
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Speaker 1: East Region? Okay, you want serious conversation, you might be
4:01
Speaker 1: in the wrong room. Somebody will delivered for me, no
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Speaker 1: doubt about it. Well, I'll tell you right now. I
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Speaker 1: I think Nevad is a serious player. I know they're
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Speaker 1: down to a seventh seed. Now, they got Florida, and
4:12
Speaker 1: they got a tough way to go. They're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to go through Michigan. Jordan Caroline decided to sit out
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Speaker 1: that game. That's a wash game. Um, And he is
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Speaker 1: their best player. He's their best inside type player. He's
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Speaker 1: a kind of guy that is a great tournament player
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Speaker 1: too as well. That Nevada is a team at seven.
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Speaker 1: Let him set it up a little bit. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: thought you guys were sitting here waiting. It was awkward. Pause.
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Speaker 1: He went, right, you guys needed help with a team.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys are gonna drop. Murray
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Speaker 1: Steed didn't get in or state. I'm trying to start conversation,
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Speaker 1: you guys give me an awkward pause. I'm telling you
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Speaker 1: a team. I like what the fund has been going
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Speaker 1: on with him, like you don't want to know the
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Speaker 1: last three days he feels, he feels betrayed after dinner
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Speaker 1: last night, getting sick and poison fired. It's all fired up?
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Speaker 1: All right? Can we can we corral this thing a
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Speaker 1: little bit? Okay, go ahead. You got Roofi the other
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Speaker 1: night I would like to talk about maybe by himself.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Swart. Yes, Jeff Schwartz, Oh here can you give
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Speaker 1: me in the first round? Yes, the upsets you are
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Speaker 1: most excited to see happen. Well, it's I think it's
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Speaker 1: easy to say Oregon because they're the hot team right now.
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Speaker 1: I went to Oregon. I think they do match up
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Speaker 1: well inside with half Kenny Woon. What do you wonder
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Speaker 1: under your breath? Yeah, Organ is now plus two. They
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Speaker 1: were plus two minus two plus two. I think. I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: everyone's picking Yale over l s U just because the
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Speaker 1: style of play that Yale has um. I think that's
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Speaker 1: most people are taking Yale plus two points. Are you're not?
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Speaker 1: Are you taking Yale plus the points? I was thinking, like, pure,
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Speaker 1: you're talking straight up, straight upset. I think I think
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Speaker 1: that's a decent I'm not try to put that in
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Speaker 1: my bracket, though, because we know that when you fill
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Speaker 1: out a bracket, you cannot fill it out well, you
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Speaker 1: shouldn't fill it out by just making upsets everything, because
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Speaker 1: that's not actually really how it works. Um, I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at my bracket now, who else have for upsets? I don't.
6:05
Speaker 1: Last year we had no twelves fives last year that's
6:10
Speaker 1: six is the new twelve five? Like, you're right, everybody
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Speaker 1: knows that. I like Belmont. I think Belmont beats Maryland
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Speaker 1: out right. I think Belmont is an underrated team. I
6:20
Speaker 1: think that Maryland inconsistent for most of this season. I
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Speaker 1: like Belmont in the six eleven and women rank them
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Speaker 1: for me, rank them for me right now. St. Mary's
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Speaker 1: gotta be up there now, I would say, I would say,
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Speaker 1: if I am ranking my upsets right now, I would
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Speaker 1: say St. Mary's over Nova. The reason why I like
6:39
Speaker 1: the St. Mary slows the game down so much there
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Speaker 1: and like in the three forties or three fifties. When
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Speaker 1: it comes to pays, Villanova can get in functs. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Big East was not that good this year. St. Mary's
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Speaker 1: got a big shot to win that game and and
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Speaker 1: the total is low. Two things you gotta know. Two
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Speaker 1: things you gotta know. St. Mary's three point defense amongst
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Speaker 1: the best in the country. Villanova streaky on the three pointers,
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Speaker 1: and it's all they've done this year. Be the Big
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Speaker 1: East has nobody who can defend the three pointer. So
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Speaker 1: what you got was a Villanova team that is probably
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Speaker 1: overseated because they didn't have anyone who's competition in their conference.
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Speaker 1: They were streaky, and you got a Saint Mary's team
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Speaker 1: that won their conference against a number one seed that
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Speaker 1: is unbelievably good on defense. Black Jack back me up
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Speaker 1: on that. Everything he said, right, I mean, Villanova lives
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Speaker 1: and dies on the three point line. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: there's no team in the country more reliant on the
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Speaker 1: three point shot than Villanova. The Big East down year overall.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I'll say is Villanova veteran team. They've
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Speaker 1: been there, you know. I mean that. I think it
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Speaker 1: does help them seven years roughly, I think that does
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Speaker 1: help them. But yeah, I mean St. Mary's definitely live there.
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Speaker 1: There's a word that St. Mary's hasn't played about two weeks.
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Speaker 1: You could go two ways on that list as an athlete,
8:01
Speaker 1: which I was, you know, of course, yes. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if you guys are familiar with this, but you
8:06
Speaker 1: could either be rusty or you can be healthy. What
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Speaker 1: did you play in high school? Play basketball? How did you? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: How how much did you actually see the court? Quite
8:16
Speaker 1: a bit? Yeah, until I didn't, and then I just
8:19
Speaker 1: said it's probably not for me anymore. This wasn't This
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Speaker 1: was in Chicago, right a Park, Illinois, at the at
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Speaker 1: the Jewish High school. Probably well, there were there were
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Speaker 1: a lot of Jewish gentlemen there. Yes, there were a
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Speaker 1: lot of Jews on the team, predominantly Jewish. But we
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Speaker 1: love basketball, you know, Jews like basically invented basketball. They did.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you, Mr Nasmith. I don't think you
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Speaker 1: don't think that we think of his basketball today. I
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Speaker 1: thought you were saying, no, he did not the game.
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Speaker 1: We're moving on. We're moving on. By the way North Eastern.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty hold on, hold on, we're going We're gonna
9:04
Speaker 1: go there in a second. But I at least want
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Speaker 1: to get through the East because there is another, to me,
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Speaker 1: huge upset that's going to happen in the East. Jeff Beast,
9:15
Speaker 1: we were talking about Bell. No, I'm talking about Liberty. No, wait,
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Speaker 1: am I in the East? I mean where's Virginia. That's
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Speaker 1: the south that's a great job hosting mission. I mean Irvine, Yes,
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Speaker 1: over case State. That line has dropped like five points.
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Speaker 1: You see your Vine is going to the sweet sixteen. No,
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Speaker 1: they're not winning this game, both of you, both of
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Speaker 1: you combined, right, but you're right now. The way the
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Speaker 1: way Irvine, the way Irvine does this, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is if Oregan upsets What's continent, they play organ in
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Speaker 1: the round of thirty two and then that's much easier
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Speaker 1: opponent to play. But they're not winning against Kansas State.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're so winning against Kansas State. We
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Speaker 1: did every year. This happens, right, there's one like really
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Speaker 1: trendy dog. Last year I think it was South Dakota
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Speaker 1: State against Ohio State, and those are the ones you
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Speaker 1: want to stay away from. Last year it was Loyola.
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Speaker 1: There was no trend to your dog last year. And
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Speaker 1: then listen, you're right ultimately, but look, do you remember
10:12
Speaker 1: that South Dakota State Ohio State game. Everyone thought South
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Speaker 1: Dakota is like compared to the fourth thirteen in Kansas. Kansas.
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Speaker 1: At one time before the entrance Winds was number one
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Speaker 1: in the nation, Northwesterns would lost nine of their first
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Speaker 1: ten games. Is now is on a rolls one ten
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Speaker 1: over the last eleven. Kansas is reeling. You got the
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Speaker 1: wrong Kansas team that's in trouble and minus seven. I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you Northeastern is very efficient to and three point.
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Speaker 1: They can score the basket. And Bill self is one
10:44
Speaker 1: of those guys. He's jackel and hide. His team either
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Speaker 1: goes a long way or they're knocked out. We can't
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Speaker 1: even stay in the same in the same bracket. So
10:51
Speaker 1: West just move on. Let's just move on. You're getting
10:55
Speaker 1: a one hour. You just think the Auntie Evadors have
10:59
Speaker 1: at and they don't. But I do think they have
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Speaker 1: a shot. And we've already made a bet. You just
11:06
Speaker 1: made a bet. Do you realize you know you and
11:07
Speaker 1: I made a bet. That's fine, just check it. It's fine, everybody.
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Speaker 1: Let me know how much later black jack, and I
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Speaker 1: bet you see your vine. I don't want to take
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Speaker 1: some Wisconsin action. I'll take Wisconsin. Who are they playing?
11:25
Speaker 1: I'm gonna root for you. I I can't root against you.
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Speaker 1: I'll take Wisconsin, although they might score nine points total.
11:31
Speaker 1: And you Arizona State tonight St John's, are you? I mean,
11:34
Speaker 1: here's the thing. My father went to St. Johnn's, and
11:37
Speaker 1: so me and my father already made a bet. Hold on, now,
11:41
Speaker 1: I gotta start making notes because I gotta remember everyone
11:43
Speaker 1: knows make more than one bet. I'm gonna chat and
11:47
Speaker 1: a tribute question. My father went to St. John's an interception.
11:50
Speaker 1: Guess whose baseball coach was? Kind of second? Great call?
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Speaker 1: He was the baseball and how good was that legend?
12:01
Speaker 1: But that's like trivial pursuit, right, Like if they give
12:02
Speaker 1: you a question, generally got me the one thing that
12:05
Speaker 1: is true. He was the baseball. The only thing I
12:07
Speaker 1: know about St. John's is like Louis Karna sca um.
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Speaker 1: All right, So right now, Schwarz and Blackjack are on
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Speaker 1: the opposite side of Wisconsin, Oregon, and I am on
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Speaker 1: opposite side of You see Irvine in Kansas State? I
12:19
Speaker 1: have you see Irvine, black Jack and Paul both of
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Speaker 1: Kansas State. Uh, we can move on to the next region,
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Speaker 1: which includes Paul Duca in Northeastern. It's just a funky line.
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Speaker 1: I mean checking on your phone. No, I'm just looking
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Speaker 1: at the four thirteen and like you know, to me,
12:42
Speaker 1: I thought that the SEC was so good this year
12:46
Speaker 1: and for Auburn to go win the SEC and they
12:48
Speaker 1: did it pretty convincingly to get a five seat against
12:50
Speaker 1: New Mexico State, that's gonna be a high scoring game.
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Speaker 1: But like I said, maybe twenty semi games in the season,
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Speaker 1: Kansas was the best team in the nation and now
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Speaker 1: they're reeling in Northeastern. Come on, black check, don't look
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Speaker 1: at me like that. Before the injuries, they're the best team.
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Speaker 1: I don't know they were the best team in the country.
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Speaker 1: They were not the one number one team in the
13:07
Speaker 1: country for about three weeks in a row. Now they're
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Speaker 1: reeling in a four seed and only a seven point
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Speaker 1: favorite against Northeastern. If you would have projected that three
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Speaker 1: months ago, yeah, I just think it's a line that's
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Speaker 1: pretty low. But do you think they're gonna win. I
13:21
Speaker 1: think it's a chat that they get. They're gonna lose
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Speaker 1: that game. I'm gonna play Northeastern in a couple of
13:24
Speaker 1: brackets will to beat them. How many brackets do you do? Oh?
13:27
Speaker 1: I played like fun brackets stuff like that, but I
13:31
Speaker 1: rather bet the game out right. Those brackets are for kids,
13:34
Speaker 1: It's true. It's like fantasy sports, kid, unless you're going
13:38
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars a sheet and we're gonna have a
13:39
Speaker 1: little fun here, right, Yeah, fantasy sports is like half
13:42
Speaker 1: our business. I like, I like. I would like to
13:44
Speaker 1: know brackets that feelings get hurt. I would like to know, Luduca,
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Speaker 1: the biggest bet you've ever made. Oh, that was just
13:53
Speaker 1: actually here. I was on a rehab at the Intercome
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Speaker 1: studio I was at in Vegas. I was in rehab
14:01
Speaker 1: and I was staying there rehab basically, yes, rehab assignment
14:06
Speaker 1: people get it. That was clear. I both looked each other, like, like,
14:11
Speaker 1: we have to make sure this is. Some of the
14:13
Speaker 1: most popular videos we've done at the Action Network the
14:15
Speaker 1: past month have been you dancing holding thirty two months
14:20
Speaker 1: beers in front of some sad stage in downtown Las Vegas. Listen,
14:27
Speaker 1: if you can pull shapes, you can. You just gotta
14:29
Speaker 1: show it off, Okay, to get back to it. I
14:31
Speaker 1: don't even know what that means. Shape shapes is like
14:33
Speaker 1: a style of dancing exactly. How do you know? My
14:37
Speaker 1: wife goes a rehab assignment in two thousand one and
14:41
Speaker 1: Bob Badford had called me and told me this this
14:43
Speaker 1: the best horse that ever trained. He lost the derby.
14:45
Speaker 1: His name is point given a twenty thou dollars to
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Speaker 1: win on Yeah he went by a pole. No way, Yeah,
14:52
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. I called my man trip a manager,
14:55
Speaker 1: and I said, uh, make sure you let to know
14:58
Speaker 1: the big big boys that I would there at two o'clock.
15:00
Speaker 1: And he's like, what do you mean you're supposed to
15:02
Speaker 1: be here? Just like, like, don't worry. So I greased him.
15:06
Speaker 1: You gave him five? How much did you win? It
15:10
Speaker 1: was you bet? How much did you win? I got
15:13
Speaker 1: back like sixty four. You gave him five gees. I
15:16
Speaker 1: greased him so they wouldn't have to say that under
15:18
Speaker 1: the brass got a couple of knocks that night. I
15:20
Speaker 1: was in a good nude the matter of fact way,
15:25
Speaker 1: since I was like yeah, just like, yeah, I just
15:30
Speaker 1: increased my manager. I got three hits that I don't
15:32
Speaker 1: asked for a marker to hide it from my wife.
15:35
Speaker 1: So I bet five, so she thought five, and then
15:37
Speaker 1: I asked for the fifteen marker and then and then
15:41
Speaker 1: I remember the guy mocked me at the cage, so
15:44
Speaker 1: I put an extra five because he mocked me. What
15:46
Speaker 1: did you do with all the cash? I told the
15:48
Speaker 1: guy to hold it. And you know how the Italians are,
15:53
Speaker 1: somebody picked it up for me. I don't know what
15:57
Speaker 1: that means. You can listen when you make the score
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Speaker 1: that big, the other half doesn't need to know. I'm sorry,
16:05
Speaker 1: that's just the bottom line. It was my money. Just
16:08
Speaker 1: f y I. She apparently listens to this podcast. Oh no,
16:11
Speaker 1: she does listens to this podcast. She loves the podcast.
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Speaker 1: This is also eighteen years ago. Yes, and yeah, and
16:19
Speaker 1: she knows. I'm not that big of a moron. I'm
16:21
Speaker 1: just half a moron. I mean, so the brackets, so
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Speaker 1: the practets. Let's get back to Northeastern. I think Northeastern
16:30
Speaker 1: is gonna win this game. I think they are experienced.
16:33
Speaker 1: I think they are well coached. I think their offense
16:37
Speaker 1: is really really good. I think Kansas is so inconsistent.
16:41
Speaker 1: I don't think they know who they are. And I
16:42
Speaker 1: think this has prime to upset scenario written all over it.
16:50
Speaker 1: It could. I mean, I listen, I don't hate it.
16:52
Speaker 1: I think the better plays Northeastern in the first half.
16:55
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna come out hot if Kansas. If
16:57
Speaker 1: Kansas has a shot to get this together, I think
17:00
Speaker 1: it will be in the second half. Northeastern make it
17:01
Speaker 1: a little bit tired. Um. They really can shoot from
17:05
Speaker 1: anywhere though. I mean, they've got five guys that can
17:07
Speaker 1: can hit from anywhere on the floor. I mean, they're
17:09
Speaker 1: dangerous team. It's not a it's not a game I'm
17:12
Speaker 1: gonna play full game. But I do like them in
17:14
Speaker 1: the first half. Northeastern just a defense too. Yeah, not ideal.
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Speaker 1: I think some points obviously scored in that game. Yeah,
17:22
Speaker 1: what do you think about the bottom are now? No?
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Speaker 1: The other part is is Kentucky and Abilene Christian on
17:27
Speaker 1: the bottom half of that bracket? I guess we're going on.
17:31
Speaker 1: Oh no, I thought you were staying on in the Midwest.
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Speaker 1: We can move on from this game. No. The thing
17:35
Speaker 1: about Kans, like I said, Kansas could, there's such a
17:40
Speaker 1: tough team to read. Go to Kentucky app Christian. It's
17:44
Speaker 1: a giant line. I hate playing giant lions. Earliest Abilene
17:47
Speaker 1: Christian almost seventy of their offenses threes, Kentucky's length is
17:53
Speaker 1: going to bother them to the ump degree, and those
17:56
Speaker 1: teams get buried in the tournament. So I think that's
17:59
Speaker 1: the one team that you can lay the points. Kentucky. UM.
18:03
Speaker 1: And they've seen Calipari's team plays, so they played great defense,
18:06
Speaker 1: and the fact that they got buried in the SEC
18:08
Speaker 1: tournament don't come out playing good defense. I like Kentucky
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Speaker 1: a lot. UM. I think that's another one that I
18:14
Speaker 1: think you could see an upset in that region. I
18:16
Speaker 1: like Seaton Hall to beat Wofford. I know Watford has
18:19
Speaker 1: been the darling of everyone, including every Rachel in the
18:22
Speaker 1: somewhere on the floor in this studio. Um. But Seaton
18:25
Speaker 1: Hall has quietly put together a very nice season. They
18:28
Speaker 1: beat Kentucky earlier in the year, a nice little run
18:31
Speaker 1: in the Big East Tournament for them, and they're a
18:33
Speaker 1: team that hangs around in games, right. I mean they
18:34
Speaker 1: were talking they are a tough, tough Yeah we were. UM.
18:41
Speaker 1: Paul had a Seaton Hall ticket last week that he
18:43
Speaker 1: just loved more than almost anything in his life. They win,
18:46
Speaker 1: they did. Um. I like Seton Hall to beat Wofford
18:49
Speaker 1: out right. That is interesting. Not a single person I've
18:52
Speaker 1: spoken to and said that there's the thing. Everybody you've
18:54
Speaker 1: heard it. I think the Big East is bad. But
18:57
Speaker 1: when you talked when we talked about NOO Nova losing St. Mary's, Yeah,
19:01
Speaker 1: the conference as a whole didn't have a great year.
19:03
Speaker 1: But I think people are going to look at Providence
19:06
Speaker 1: getting buried by Arkansas on the first n I T game,
19:09
Speaker 1: like people look at that stuff before the n c
19:11
Speaker 1: g A tournament and we'll maybe we'll swing lines, but
19:14
Speaker 1: you gotta be careful. I think Seton Hall is a
19:16
Speaker 1: hot team right now. I'm with him. Wow, here's the thing,
19:20
Speaker 1: Miles Powell, one trick pony. That team has one asset,
19:25
Speaker 1: one weapon. Wafford is spread all over the court and
19:30
Speaker 1: they have great offensive weapons, great mascot. You like Wafford
19:35
Speaker 1: Terriers about this one too? I like Watford and Minus Sure, yeah,
19:41
Speaker 1: they're fifty. Let's do it, Okay, Paul, you went in
19:43
Speaker 1: on that. Oh I like the Pirates. Wow? Alright, so
19:50
Speaker 1: Jeff and I will both bet you together. I don't
19:54
Speaker 1: know how we do that. I don't really know how
19:55
Speaker 1: that work. Whatever are all over Watford today? All right?
20:07
Speaker 1: All right, um, here's another question. I have the spreads
20:13
Speaker 1: for Duke over you and see uh Central North Dakota State.
20:19
Speaker 1: When is that playing tonight? Tonight? Duke is favored by
20:24
Speaker 1: thirty five and thirty and a half. Gonzaga is favored
20:27
Speaker 1: by twenty six and a half over Fairleie Dickinson. Virginia
20:30
Speaker 1: is favored by twenty two and a half. North Carolina
20:34
Speaker 1: is favored by twenty three and a half over Iona.
20:37
Speaker 1: I think you take Virginia first half and hammer Virginia
20:39
Speaker 1: first half. They're gonna come out guns blazing after last season. Well,
20:44
Speaker 1: he's the last couple of seasons. Gardner Webb might not
20:46
Speaker 1: score ten points in the first half and they're gonna
20:48
Speaker 1: come out. You gotta play in the first half. Roy
20:51
Speaker 1: Williams always takes his the pedal off in the second half.
20:55
Speaker 1: He doesn't like blowing teams out. Um, so I with
21:00
Speaker 1: Jeff Virginia just have some great play there to twelve
21:06
Speaker 1: or something. But yeah, I played in a full game
21:08
Speaker 1: and I put more units on first first half is
21:10
Speaker 1: a great bed And I would take the points with FAIRLEYE.
21:12
Speaker 1: Dickinson really and might put up a hundred against him.
21:18
Speaker 1: Take two point him. I mean, we watched them yesterday
21:22
Speaker 1: and they're playing game hafru there streaky. You know team
21:26
Speaker 1: can put some points on the board with twenty six points,
21:30
Speaker 1: we saw them. You might want to you know what?
21:36
Speaker 1: It's because fucking rebel had me for sweating all morning
21:40
Speaker 1: because he tried to poison us. You listen, You think
21:43
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's up to? All right? He
21:46
Speaker 1: invites me, Paul, and Jeff out to dinner with him,
21:49
Speaker 1: the three of us out of everyone else who's out
21:50
Speaker 1: of here. He wants to break bread with us. Know
21:53
Speaker 1: it's weird, okay, but we went out of curiosity. And
21:57
Speaker 1: then he ordered the food for us. Okay, he chose
22:01
Speaker 1: all of the dishes, and suddenly me and Paul are
22:04
Speaker 1: sick all night long. Do you think I don't know
22:06
Speaker 1: what his game is? He wants us off our game tonight.
22:09
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, I know what's going on. He knew
22:12
Speaker 1: the chef. He left at one point to go back
22:14
Speaker 1: and talk to him. Come on, just picture his phone
22:18
Speaker 1: was being charged. He get his phone because he's on it.
22:20
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, his phone's messed up. He took a picture
22:22
Speaker 1: every piece of food they came out. His phone's all
22:24
Speaker 1: messed up. Every piece of food that came out, he
22:27
Speaker 1: might have took a picture of Should we put a
22:30
Speaker 1: total on the number of Instagram stories Revel will have
22:35
Speaker 1: tonight now and uh the end of the weekend in
22:39
Speaker 1: Vegas would be seventies. Oh it's more than that. I'd
22:43
Speaker 1: go over. He's over seventy by the time Friday rolls around. True. Yeah,
22:51
Speaker 1: so let's get back to the show. I'll fix my test.
22:53
Speaker 1: Speaking of speaking of streaking fairly Dickinson, yeah, I was
22:57
Speaker 1: impressed by them yesterday. Gonzaga is going to blow him out.
23:01
Speaker 1: But here's what's interesting. The if Duke plays u n
23:04
Speaker 1: C Central, The coach for UNC Central the other day
23:07
Speaker 1: said it would be such a joke. It's like my
23:10
Speaker 1: team playing against sixth graders. That makes me feel like
23:14
Speaker 1: I am going to be all in on Duke and
23:16
Speaker 1: minus thirty five when they play and Central. If you
23:19
Speaker 1: Central wins that game, he's got to really wish he
23:21
Speaker 1: could take that one back. Do you worry that when
23:25
Speaker 1: in such a big line with and Duke, they can't
23:27
Speaker 1: shoot fouls, can't and can't shoot three pointers? I mean
23:29
Speaker 1: they can have long periods of time shoot Because I
23:35
Speaker 1: don't want about it tomorrow, But what if what if,
23:37
Speaker 1: the what if and whoever they're playing, because they obviously
23:40
Speaker 1: one of the n C schools whatever, just packing it
23:42
Speaker 1: on zone all night. I mean they could just they
23:44
Speaker 1: in theory, and theory I'm saying theory obviously doesn't mean
23:46
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. They just packing in the zone
23:48
Speaker 1: and say, just I dare to shoot and just see
23:50
Speaker 1: what happened. Now. Zion of course can dunk over all
23:53
Speaker 1: of them. I'm just waiting to see Zion and Taco
23:55
Speaker 1: Fall go at it in the second round game. Hopefully
23:57
Speaker 1: you ce F wins, Beats beats v c U, and
24:00
Speaker 1: Zion tries to dunk on seven seven Taco fall. That's
24:04
Speaker 1: all I want to see it again. Bets, all right, fine,
24:10
Speaker 1: let's do it. Bet like l Duke in here, exciting that.
24:17
Speaker 1: I feel like the West region, the Gonzaga Region, has
24:19
Speaker 1: a lot of volatility, is gonna win that division. I
24:23
Speaker 1: got Florida State in the final four, the best team,
24:26
Speaker 1: Leonard Hamilton's had his best defensive team, and they actually
24:28
Speaker 1: run a better tempo and even though they lost a Duke,
24:31
Speaker 1: they do somewhat got Duke's number. They always play them
24:34
Speaker 1: very tough, so I Tony Florida State's gonna go along.
24:39
Speaker 1: Leonard Hamilton's seven years old. Jesus, I've never seen a
24:45
Speaker 1: seven year old man. Seven year old man. Look that
24:48
Speaker 1: good Carols letter. Hamilton's does not have a wrinkle on.
24:54
Speaker 1: Damn you asked me what. Here's a good Florida State
24:58
Speaker 1: set for you, guys. Under dog is fourteen to want
25:00
Speaker 1: to get to spare with eleven outright wins in Florida
25:02
Speaker 1: States last fifteen n C Double A tournament games and
25:06
Speaker 1: Leonard Hamilton's last fifteen Turney games as a head coach.
25:09
Speaker 1: The underdog is fifteen and four, so that's actually nineteen
25:11
Speaker 1: games with eleven outright wins. He's three and eight against
25:14
Speaker 1: the spread with six sherriff losses. Is a favorite that
25:18
Speaker 1: nothing changes said, Nothing you said changes my mind. I
25:23
Speaker 1: like text check out there. Those things are meant to
25:25
Speaker 1: be broken up. I kind of like Buffalo, Buffalo can
25:30
Speaker 1: pour on a ton of points. We gotta reset. We're
25:33
Speaker 1: jumping all over there. We're in the West now, I know,
25:35
Speaker 1: but I just want to reset for people. So like
25:37
Speaker 1: if they want to take breath and like want to
25:39
Speaker 1: write some things down, to tell them, like, hey, go
25:42
Speaker 1: ahead and write down that in the South region. Uh,
25:47
Speaker 1: we like you see your Vine to beat Kansas State,
25:49
Speaker 1: Um we don't. We like St. Mary's to beat Villanova.
25:54
Speaker 1: Uh we like and these were talking about like upsets
25:57
Speaker 1: in the first round, right, we like in the in
26:01
Speaker 1: the other region, what is that? The Midwest? Now North Carolina?
26:05
Speaker 1: I don't have listed on my screen. That's why, Um,
26:10
Speaker 1: we like Northeastern to topple Kansas. We like Watford. When
26:16
Speaker 1: you say when when you say we like, we we've
26:20
Speaker 1: we've we've we've generally suggested these possible upsets. We've got
26:25
Speaker 1: bets on almost all of these games because we're on
26:27
Speaker 1: opposite sides. So the Jews like Wafford only because I
26:33
Speaker 1: used to train there for training camp for the Panthers.
26:35
Speaker 1: I have a little spot on my heart for the
26:36
Speaker 1: Watford Terriers. Bat Mitchell is just shaking his head every
26:39
Speaker 1: time you say the Jews like Wafford. Well, what I'm Jewish,
26:43
Speaker 1: I can say it, Nay Smith, That's all I know.
26:50
Speaker 1: You too. The two non Jews have their heads covered
26:53
Speaker 1: in here, by the way, I appreciate it. That's true.
27:00
Speaker 1: Respective for Autumn. I um, all right, so I think
27:04
Speaker 1: that's that's where we are so far. Sounds about right, right?
27:09
Speaker 1: Sounds right? Do you want to talk about Buffalo, Jeffrey.
27:12
Speaker 1: I just think that they're a low key pretty good
27:15
Speaker 1: sixth seed Buffalo against who won last night, you know
27:18
Speaker 1: they played a night. I think I think St. John's
27:21
Speaker 1: wins the Pack twelve not very good, um, but Buffalo
27:26
Speaker 1: and half point favorite over either of those. Buffalo can
27:28
Speaker 1: score points fast. I think they're one of the best
27:30
Speaker 1: second half scoring teams in the country too. They can
27:33
Speaker 1: just pour it on. I think they they've they're just
27:35
Speaker 1: the one last year in the first round against another
27:37
Speaker 1: Arizona last year, right, so they feel good in the
27:41
Speaker 1: in the tournament. I just think that they're one of
27:42
Speaker 1: these teams. If you're looking for like a team outside
27:45
Speaker 1: of the top four seed to kind of make noise,
27:47
Speaker 1: I feel like Buffalo is that team. I think Buffalo
27:50
Speaker 1: wants Arizona State to win the night because Arizona State
27:52
Speaker 1: runs and guns and plays their offense, where St. John's
27:56
Speaker 1: can be dominant because they got a lot of athletes,
27:58
Speaker 1: and then they can beat Buffalo. I really do get.
28:02
Speaker 1: But St. John's can be one of those team because
28:03
Speaker 1: he beat anybody but Arizona State listen, I'm a lum
28:07
Speaker 1: and I get it. They got Remy Martin is a
28:10
Speaker 1: nice little player. They darts a nice little player. But
28:13
Speaker 1: they just don't play good enough defense. And if they
28:16
Speaker 1: play Buffalo, Buffalo play ninety on them. So I mean,
28:19
Speaker 1: they may got a shot against St. John's tonight, but
28:21
Speaker 1: I'm with you. But I'll tell you what. If St.
28:23
Speaker 1: John's beats them, they might get Buffalo all they can handle.
28:27
Speaker 1: I think St. John's got the athletes. It seems so
28:30
Speaker 1: up and down. Man. And if that's why it's jack,
28:32
Speaker 1: what do you think that line would be? I don't know.
28:35
Speaker 1: Are you Buffalo eight? Okay? Now, if Arizona State wins,
28:40
Speaker 1: what's the line? Jesus Deely? The lines are four and
28:45
Speaker 1: a half against both teams right now. I think that's crazy.
28:49
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. It's crazy. It doesn't matter who
28:51
Speaker 1: wins the game. Base. I mean, either way, I'm taking
28:52
Speaker 1: Buffalo in that in that region to Buffalo will play
28:57
Speaker 1: Tech most likely in that the thirty two texts number
29:01
Speaker 1: one defense in the country. That's what people. Yeah, but
29:05
Speaker 1: here's the thing that still plays better defense, and you
29:07
Speaker 1: think they do, but they are more known obviously for
29:09
Speaker 1: what they could do it off and they poured on
29:10
Speaker 1: the stecon. I think they have to take forty five
29:12
Speaker 1: points in the second half. Um and and but Tech,
29:15
Speaker 1: I mean most people I think don't have Gonzag on
29:18
Speaker 1: the final four? Do they They have tech win in there?
29:20
Speaker 1: They have tech win in there. The yeah, defense is
29:24
Speaker 1: always carries actually going to the elite eight. Do you
29:28
Speaker 1: haven't beating Tech. I haven't beating Tech, and then I
29:30
Speaker 1: haven't beating Michigan, and then I haven't losing to Florida State.
29:34
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about Michigan. John Belon is probably this
29:37
Speaker 1: is the best tournament coach saying that. Let me ask
29:41
Speaker 1: you a question because he never got Kevin Pitts snuggle
29:44
Speaker 1: almost to the final. Farn look good one, alright, great name.
29:49
Speaker 1: Never he hasn't won a title. You can't be the
29:52
Speaker 1: best tournament coach if you haven't won a title. Number
29:55
Speaker 1: one hasn't won a title. Becauesn't have lottery guys, though
29:57
Speaker 1: he's got plenty of guys who end up in the NBA.
30:00
Speaker 1: But the difference Betu having Zigoned Williamson having Jordan Pool. Yeah, well,
30:03
Speaker 1: by the way, recruit better. It's not like he had
30:06
Speaker 1: a school where you can't poe root. But we're not
30:08
Speaker 1: asking if a campus. We're asking you rather the University
30:14
Speaker 1: of Michigan. Have you been then all the other schools.
30:17
Speaker 1: Plenty of people are interested in going in Michigan campus. Yeah,
30:20
Speaker 1: it's great and play football with John B. Line. I
30:24
Speaker 1: would say, in the last ten years, how many McDonald's
30:25
Speaker 1: all Americans do? Is he got? Here's my point. I'm
30:27
Speaker 1: as we're talking about tournament coaching, not overall recruiting. We're
30:31
Speaker 1: saying he cannot be called the best tournament coach when
30:38
Speaker 1: there are guys like my Showski who have won five
30:42
Speaker 1: different n C Double A titles. And don't tell me
30:44
Speaker 1: that it's because of the talent. You still need to
30:46
Speaker 1: coach in the tournament you do. But I think there's
30:48
Speaker 1: also the argument, like you mentioned Schefski, like there's a
30:51
Speaker 1: lot of years where he's got maybe the best talent
30:54
Speaker 1: the country and they get bounced earlier. But that doesn't
30:57
Speaker 1: really happy become like a thing or John belin best
30:59
Speaker 1: tournament and coach, and like he has two chances to
31:02
Speaker 1: beat Michigan State within a week and his team collapsed
31:05
Speaker 1: at the exact same time. A tournament. I don't care.
31:11
Speaker 1: That's I'd state Francis. Last night, I was so ext
31:13
Speaker 1: Indiana the amount Michigan and both games against Michigan State
31:16
Speaker 1: and all the best tournament. They're a thirteen, like with
31:21
Speaker 1: ten minutes left, all three games against Michigan State. That
31:25
Speaker 1: that is why one of the many reasons why I'm
31:27
Speaker 1: like you think Nevada can beat them in the second round, Chan,
31:30
Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think Florida beats Nevada. By the way,
31:33
Speaker 1: I think Florida beats Nevada. Nevada, and I actually think
31:35
Speaker 1: Florida beats Michigan. I'm with you. And then we get
31:38
Speaker 1: Buffalo Florida and we get Buffalo going to the elite.
31:42
Speaker 1: Guys are all wrong. Nevada is gonna beat Florida. I'm
31:44
Speaker 1: telling you, Florida's playing well right now. Man, Yeah, I
31:47
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't get the same feel off of
31:49
Speaker 1: this Nevada team I did last year. We'll see you
31:53
Speaker 1: look at you so sassy today. Jordan Caroline is gonna play.
31:57
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's gonna play. They're gonna win that amount,
32:00
Speaker 1: right they got built with Michigan favorite. Yeah, don't worry.
32:04
Speaker 1: We'll cover the two of the two and a half.
32:05
Speaker 1: Now they went up to two and a half. A thing.
32:08
Speaker 1: I actually have Syracuse beating Gonzaga too. It's gonna be
32:12
Speaker 1: very interesting Beheim Zone. Like you always gotta look if
32:16
Speaker 1: it's always so hard in the tournament. That's why I
32:19
Speaker 1: last the last two years he's won the playing games.
32:22
Speaker 1: So now, what do you got on bail Or? I mean,
32:24
Speaker 1: that line's probably gotta be mischal all those Their defense
32:26
Speaker 1: is as good as it has been in the past.
32:28
Speaker 1: But do you guys, don't you guys think Marquette's the
32:32
Speaker 1: phony team? I got my restate. Yeah, okay, here's the
32:38
Speaker 1: other one. What what do we do with the Liberty? Liberty?
32:41
Speaker 1: I mean, are they for real? Lips everybody thought was
32:45
Speaker 1: for real? They beat Lipscomb twice and a lot. I've
32:49
Speaker 1: heard some people like, no one is picking Liberty. Why
32:52
Speaker 1: are they? We're now back in the East region. By
32:54
Speaker 1: the way, people, I'm just saying, like, we just haven't
32:57
Speaker 1: brought that one up, Like, and they seem like a
33:00
Speaker 1: team that's snuck in at twelve. You would think they
33:01
Speaker 1: would be thirteen fourteen. Man, Lipscomb's was pretty good. I'm
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34:42
Speaker 1: Let's get back to it, all right. I want to
34:44
Speaker 1: move on to the next bracket, which one. I feel
34:47
Speaker 1: like we're going to the MOE with Duke in it.
34:50
Speaker 1: What's that? That's where Liberty is? So I guess we
34:53
Speaker 1: moved down to the east. See I was projecting Paula
34:59
Speaker 1: Duke of the visionary Tricky Brackett. We can talk about
35:05
Speaker 1: Mary State for a second. I mean Mary, stay you
35:08
Speaker 1: talk about a one trick pony. It's Jay Moranton. It's
35:10
Speaker 1: nothing else, nothing Mary States also known in this region.
35:14
Speaker 1: But sure, all right, so we're bouncing back, don't do
35:20
Speaker 1: you don't have like the bracket in front of you.
35:21
Speaker 1: He's look at it. I'm looking at it right now.
35:23
Speaker 1: It just doesn't have the labels of the regions on
35:26
Speaker 1: the top. Yeah. That should probably get Matt Receivo on.
35:30
Speaker 1: That should have fixed that. Yeah, I should do that. Um,
35:34
Speaker 1: this to me is a Justin Robinson dominated Okay, give
35:42
Speaker 1: me the Hokies, give me the Hokeyes, running rough shot
35:46
Speaker 1: through this bracket. I think the biggest challenge for them
35:49
Speaker 1: in this bracket. It's not going to be Duke Mississippi State.
35:55
Speaker 1: I mean that. That's a bold statement you just made.
35:58
Speaker 1: You like the Hokeyes, Duke's not the biggest challenge, but
36:01
Speaker 1: it's the Bulldogs. I have the Hokey is going to
36:04
Speaker 1: the finals against Virginia. Wow. Yikes. All right, So you
36:08
Speaker 1: have the team that that that underperforms more than any
36:11
Speaker 1: other team like ever Virginia again too, to be fair,
36:16
Speaker 1: I also have Virginia the final. There you go. So
36:18
Speaker 1: I'm in the final four. I don't have them, but
36:20
Speaker 1: even a stretch for me to do. But you want
36:25
Speaker 1: to get to that. My final four is Virginia Houston.
36:31
Speaker 1: Virginia's going to bring up Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech in
36:36
Speaker 1: Florida State, and that guy just who makes it, just
36:39
Speaker 1: makes the final four. That's never gonna happen. I've got Virginia,
36:43
Speaker 1: Kentucky Duke, and Texas Tech. I have Virginia, North Carolina
36:49
Speaker 1: do context, which is probably too many one seeds, but
36:53
Speaker 1: I really do. There's like six teams that can maybe
36:57
Speaker 1: win it about it, I'm with you. I'm good with
36:59
Speaker 1: having the one seeds in there. Like I think North
37:01
Speaker 1: Carolina wins at all m h. I think the middle
37:04
Speaker 1: of a lot of these conferences this year is soft.
37:07
Speaker 1: I don't think you've got as many teams that can
37:10
Speaker 1: really make a deep run. I think the teams at
37:12
Speaker 1: the top are clearly the best teams in the country.
37:16
Speaker 1: I mean, Virginia has given up fifty four points a game, man,
37:18
Speaker 1: and I don't want to hear about last year because
37:20
Speaker 1: they didn't have DeAndre Hunter and they do now. And
37:22
Speaker 1: that's a huge difference. That's the guy that when when
37:25
Speaker 1: Virginia's offense stagnates, he's the guy that can create a
37:28
Speaker 1: shot on his own. They didn't have him last year,
37:30
Speaker 1: they do now. It's a big deal. You look at
37:33
Speaker 1: the in the region with U n C in Kentucky.
37:36
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, Whey, how you go anywhere else? Right?
37:40
Speaker 1: I mean those two teams to me, you go to Houston,
37:43
Speaker 1: you don't listen. Houston is nice, but Kentucky is so
37:47
Speaker 1: damn long. I mean, you see the way that team
37:49
Speaker 1: plays too. They're one of the only team's top twenty
37:51
Speaker 1: five offensive offensive nd defensive efficiency. I mean, where are
37:55
Speaker 1: you finding that? That teams incredible? I think it's one
37:58
Speaker 1: of Caliperi's best coaching job. I mean they've got PJ. Washington,
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Speaker 1: but they don't have that true like one and done
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Speaker 1: superstar that sometimes they get in Kentucky. I think he's
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Speaker 1: done a great job there. A lot of people have
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Speaker 1: given Virginia, why not Tennessee. Tennessee is pretty good too.
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Speaker 1: Rick Barnes has got a pretty good tournament record. So
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Speaker 1: I'm Duke Florida State Tennessee in Kentucky. Duke Florida State
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Speaker 1: Tennessee and Kentucky. That would be interesting. You'd have rematches
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Speaker 1: from conference play in both final four senis. But we
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Speaker 1: are all all over the board. That is insane. Uh
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Speaker 1: Like Tennessee's game they don't want They shoot almost from
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Speaker 1: the floor. I mean they're shooting percentages. When you when
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Speaker 1: you have a game against Auburn when you just can't score,
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Speaker 1: you have no other options to me about if you look,
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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna I'm trying to find these acts
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Speaker 1: that are on a different show. But I think something
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Speaker 1: like if you look at the historical data based off kempalm,
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Speaker 1: like who wins the championships? You have to be mostly balanced.
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Speaker 1: You have to be like in the top fifteen offense
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Speaker 1: and defense even have a chance to win. And so
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Speaker 1: we have a team like Tennessee, who I don't think defensively,
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Speaker 1: I'm looking them up right now. You know they're they're
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Speaker 1: they're thirty third defense that they're out like as much
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Speaker 1: good they are on offense, they they're historically not going
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Speaker 1: to win this tournament. All right, Uh, let's recap our
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Speaker 1: bets here right right now. I have I have a
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Speaker 1: bet with Paul and Blackjack on you see Irvine to
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Speaker 1: beat Kansas State. I have a bet with black Jack
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Speaker 1: and what else? Oh? Here on Watford over because who
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Speaker 1: likes Watford? I do? I M your voice? Here? Here's
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Speaker 1: here's the stat. Here's the stat. Ready. Since keim Palms
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Speaker 1: started tracking data in two thousand to sixteen of event
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Speaker 1: teen national champions have featured a top twenty offense adjusted
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Speaker 1: offense and twelve a bit rates at the top seven defense.
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Speaker 1: All seventeen ranked in the top twenty and seven in
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Speaker 1: the last uh and seven in the last seven winners
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Speaker 1: right to the top eleven R Yes, because they can
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Speaker 1: play offenses year like like, that's the difference between this
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Speaker 1: year and last year. Virginia is winning the title. Everything
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Speaker 1: else is sort of you know, like four play chat.
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Speaker 1: I actually agree on this, we do. We totally do.
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Speaker 1: I think there's also an Oregon Wisconsin bad happening, right,
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Speaker 1: Jeff and I are Okay. We got Oregon Wisconsin, we
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Speaker 1: got Watford and Seton Hall, we got U C Irvine
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Speaker 1: and Kansas State. That's it. That's it. That's where we
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Speaker 1: wrapped it up, folks. We got March Madness starting tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: We all think Virginia is gonna win the title. We know,
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Speaker 1: we do, not chat and Blackjack. I think Virginia is
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Speaker 1: gonna win the title. Paul has Marshall, what is the
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Speaker 1: seed t I T tournament? I don't even know when
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Speaker 1: you said they were. Did you bet Marshall yesterday to
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Speaker 1: tournament game? In an n c A tournament game, they
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Speaker 1: pay the fucking same things. Well if you win, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So it's just like anything else in the world. Jeff,
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Speaker 1: who do you have winning it all? North Carolina, North Carolina. Polly,
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Speaker 1: he's asleep. We just put Patrick keenep. Our podcast has
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Speaker 1: been so invigor on the floor. Alright, Paul, who you got.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Kentucky. All right, we got Kentucky
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Speaker 1: to Virginia's into North Carolina. This has been the favorite
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