Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
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On today's part of my take, we have the legendary Bill Raftery. Great interview with him talking about his career, March Madness, some of the awesome stories from the road. Kind of a bucket list interview because he is someone that we just is synonymous with March and all the big moments. We are going to talk about some college basketball. Incredible day of hoops.

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My eyes feel like they're going to fall out of my head, but it was awesome. When God made the calendar, he made February two days shorter so we could have more March. That's a fact. And thank you for doing that, dear Lord. And also, thank you to Oldie. He's back. Because Oldie's back.

He's in the booth right now. Oldies picks were red hot today. Yeah. What? Five and one? Four and one. Four and one. Fired out of the gate. I went four and oh. We had a bit of a crumbler at the end of there. Yeah. We'll get to that. He knows ball. Yeah, we'll get to that.

Yeah. Good job. Oldie is back. Oldie, what were your impressions from the gambling cave today? Because this was your first time being around us in these high stakes situations. And we should say that if you missed the episode after the four, excuse me, after the all-star game, the NHL all-star game. Oldie is our Canadian. He belongs. He's, he's, you're,

You're representing the entire nation on part of my take. And he kind of belongs to us because the whole tariff situation. Yes. So you're ours. Yeah. And so if you didn't listen to that, go back and also listen to that episode because oldies the man. Yeah. Yeah. Oldie big cats question. What was it? What were your impressions of the cave? Oh, like I told the guys and girls in there tonight. One of the best ever.

ever experienced watching a basketball game ever, ever. I love basketball now. Yeah. The mojo in there was so live. I felt like it was tennis match. Left, right, left, right, up, down. Where am I at? I get lost in so many great games. It's easy to get lost in March too when there's multiple games going on. You just have to make decisions and say, I'm going to zero in on this. I'm going to ignore this game where the second half just started, and I'll get back to it. It'll be there when I'm done with this game.

Right. And then we just go left, go right, back on big screen, off big screen. Yep. And what did you think about some... There was tempers at some points during the day. Oh, it's good. Did you like that? Oh, I love that. Should we play the Max video? We should probably play the Max video. He said that his mom's going to get mad. Well, she probably already saw it. So what are you going to do? I mean, it was an all-time rant, but this is what March...

March is gambling with your friends, but also just losing it. And I'll say this in Max's defense. Everything that you're about to hear him say was all fair play because it was all in the confines of the gambling cave in March where you can say the most vicious things to your friends and it doesn't count. Yes, between the lines. It does not count. It should not count. You can act however you want to act. It should not count.

It must have been, I want to say, like 34 seconds of completely losing his brain. He lost it. He lost it. He lost it. There was zero. He went and he went. Yeah. Well-deserved, though. It also is a nice refresher that for anyone who thought if Max, when Max wins the Super Bowl, he's not going to still be Max. He's still Max. He's still Max. He's still Max. Okay.

Okay, here it is. This is after the end of the Villanova game, which we'll get to. And our friend Rico Bosco said, well, Max, at least I... He bet you, Connie, he's like, at least I didn't rub it in your face. And Max then said this. Max, in fairness, I didn't say a word the entire game. I saw you fucking dance, you fucking cocksucker. Shut the fuck up. Actually, shut the fuck up. You fucking piece of shit pussy. Go suck some more dick. Go...

fucking Danny Hurley the next time he comes on PNT and you can get his fucking shoelace. Oh,

Pussy fucking. That sounded like, you know when in Hollywood there'll be. He's playing it again. He's also so far away from the microphone. It's still so loud. It's one of those TMZ reports Christian Bale caught on live mic freaking out. One of those are David O. Russell. Yeah, Max screams at his the whole thing.

I can't even talk right now. The lighting crew. Yeah, the lighting crew. Quit freaking out on the behind-the-scenes guys, Max. But that was fun. All right. I honestly, because we watched so much Hoops today, I was going to just literally scroll the scores and just anything we wanted to talk about, any games we wanted to shout out. And the first one is Cooper Flagg's

uh turned ankle yeah that looked wheelchair it looked pretty bad it looked bad enough where i think he's not going to be 100 in the tournament so i have a doctor on staff dr dan he he's also a duke fan he said that uh probably out for the acc tournament uh march madness he wouldn't be surprised if they sit him out the first game because they'll win anyway and then uh probably a a

steroid shot, wrap him up. He could probably go in the second round if needed. They might keep him out both games. They could. I don't know. And Malik Brown got hurt too. Separated his shoulder. I think he's going to be out for the year. And he's not like their star player, but he was a key piece. I'm not a doctor, but you can say a sprain is worse than a break. Yeah. It wasn't a high ankle sprain. That's the only good thing. Yeah, because it rolled. It didn't get caught under him or anything. His foot is going to just be...

size of a softball with very black and blue, but the wheelchair. That was a tough look. That was a dupe look. He might have just shat himself. It might have been a Paul Pierce situation. This is why I wish players could stay longer, and I know that it wouldn't matter because he's just a freshman, but when Cooper Flagg got hurt today, if that were Grayson Allen,

or any other Duke players that I hated, I would have reveled in it. I didn't really feel anything because I kind of feel bad for Cooper Flagg. He's an awesome player to watch. I hate Duke, but I wanted to have more hate, and I didn't have it. Well, I don't think he's that hateable of a guy, even for a Duke player. Because he's not there. If he stayed a couple more years, you know he'd start kicking guys in the balls. Yes, that would be very funny. We'd see him cry in the March Madness tournament. We'd get the hate.

They're just so it's so transactional. They're in and out that I just don't even have it for him. I agree. If this was a Mick Roberts, if this was a Plumlee. Yeah. We'd be like. Shout out our guy. Also, now, but he's no longer Duke. Yeah. So we like him. But flag. Yeah, it was. It was a tough look in the wheelchair. I get that. They it was a long way to the training room. Yeah, that's that's their explanation for it. But yeah, I hope you get better. Hey, I want to I want to send a message to the Cooper flag. Cooper.

This is why you got to go to the NBA. Yeah. No matter who drafts you, no matter who is in position to lottery, you're risking injury. If you come back, I know you could get NIL if you came back, but this is the chance to earn life changing money for you and your family.

If the Wizards get the first lotto pick, don't even think twice. Go to the NBA. Don't listen to Andy Staples. He doesn't have your best interest in art. He's got his best interest in art because he's a college guy. Also, you could have a chance to play with Wemby because I don't know if you guys saw, but who got hurt today? Fox. Yeah, Fox. He's having pinky surgery, which just reads...

We're trying to tank. Yeah. Just cut it off. We're taking this whole thing. Pinky surgery. All right. So that was Duke. Duke survived. But I want to see Cooper flag in the tournament. That would suck if he misses extended time. But the wheelchair was the story. St. John's rolled. Good job, Rick Pitino. Yeah.

BYU is a shocker. I know that wasn't like, uh, you know, they're, they're a very good team, but they were underdogs and Iowa state was having a good season. So BYU, the Mormons, we also, there were three and a half point underdogs. I'm going to get you ready for a storyline. PFT one selection Sunday. We're going to have to do the whole discussion of, uh, where BYU gets seated. Did they get screwed because they can't play on Sunday? Yeah. Yeah. So they have to move them around. Yeah. Yeah. So did they lose a seed because they had to fit them in somewhere? They shouldn't have been, uh,

That will be fun. Yeah. Also, just play on Sundays. Yeah. Play on Sundays. Just don't drink water. Just go to hell. Just accept like I'm going to go to hell, but it's worth it because I get to play in March. Also, God is definitely a March Madness fan. So yeah, he'd be fine with it. Amen. Amen. Thank you. The Texas Texas A&M game was insane. Yeah. Double overtime back and forth.

Those two teams don't like each other. They don't rivalry game buzz going after it. Yeah. Buzz, uh, interesting decisions at the end. Yes, I would say so, but put it lightly. Yeah. I, I root for buzz, but sometimes he makes me say buzz. What? Maybe your suits too tight. Yeah. A little bit, a little bit. Uh,

My Badgers beat Northwestern, needed that just for some mojo. Klezmitz back, so it feels good. Yeah, we did. Also, Indiana. Yeah. Oldie was a Badger fan and Villanova fan today, so he went one and one. He's wearing the Villanova shirt right now. Right now. But you got to get the Badger stuff back on tomorrow. Oh, yeah. We're ready to go. Big tilt against UCLA. Top of my backpack, ready to go. Ready to rock and roll tomorrow. The...

Also, Indiana might be out of the tournament now. I don't know if you saw that. I did. They were in the first four out. Yes. With Ohio State and I guess. Was Ohio State one of the. They were one of the first four out today. Yeah. Unfortunately, yes. Yep. And then. Yeah. Let's see. Texas. Texas probably is now in. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm looking at the... Oh, he doesn't even update it on Twitter? No, it was on the broadcast. Okay. He was doing it live on the broadcast. Lenardi. God damn it. But again, Joe Lenardi is not always correct. Joe Lenardi also is probably napping right now. So, all right, I'm trying to look to see if he updated it anywhere. Does he not do a live bracketology update? I think... How are you not doing a minute by minute? I think he only does it on the air, so you have to watch the games for it. Well, I know he writes an article, too, but it doesn't... It should be out...

There should be updates every second. It's ridiculous. Max, don't you agree? Yes, agreed. Wait, what's today's date? Oh, he did update it at 6 o'clock. My bad. Whoops. Sorry, Joe Linardi. He did update it. All right, last four in right now are San Diego State, Xavier, North Carolina, Texas. First four out are Indiana, Ohio State, Boise State, Colorado State. Next four out, Dayton, UC Irvine, Wake Forest, Villanova. Yeah, this is the end of the run for...

for Neptune Kyle Neptune we'll we'll get to that in a little bit yeah we'll get to that in a little minute we'll get to that in a minute um all right uh oh Marquette Xavier was an incredible game too Xavier totally blew it at the end although Marquette was just hitting every shot and then Xavier with the the shot of the day in terms of covering with a with a half court bank shot to cover two and a half that's what March is about it didn't mean anything for the game

But it meant a lot. Meant a lot. Meant a lot. That was real. That's real basketball right there. Yeah, it sure is. Deep woods. Boom. Boom. Shaboom. Shaboom. The room lit up. Bumping and grinding. Everyone was fired up on the coaches. People were going dizzy. I wasn't even fired up. I didn't have any gun to fire.

I was still fired up. Oh, we had two buzzer beaters, too. Or we might have had more. But Ole Miss, buzzer beater on Arkansas. And then Chucky Hepburn and Louisville, buzzer beater on Stanford. Yeah, Stanford chucked that away. Yeah, the ball was just flying around, and he got it. And perfect shot at the end. That was awesome. It is great, man. This is such a fun time to just sit on your ass and watch sports. Watch so much sports. Oh, we got the Kentucky. Oh, that overdone.

Sorry. Yeah. PFT. It's okay. DePaul with almost the upset of the day that they just fought their asses off, but we knew it. They just couldn't survive double overtime. If you're buying stock in any program right now, I feel like you could do worse than DePaul.

Yeah, if Chris Holtman stays. Yeah. Now, if he leaves, then I guess that's the risk that you take. But this is a great penny stock. This is a great shit coin to invest in. Yes. We should actually make Holtman shit coins. Yeah. Someone probably already did. I also want to give a just special shout out to Middle Tennessee because I watched every second of that game. Absolute war. I don't know if I've ever seen that where Middle Tennessee hit a buzzer beater to end the game.

but he got the shot off in time for it to be a buzzer beater, but it was late on the shot clock violation. There was one second left. So you had, you had some of the orange on the backboard light up and then a half second later, the rest of the backboard lit up. They started the possession with 31 seconds left and he got it off for a buzzer beater, but it was shot clock violation. Now, if that was the chief's plan, they would have just turned off the shot clock, right? That's how it worked with them. Absolutely. There's been like good basket. We're just going to go just pretend it didn't happen. Uh,

Also, Arizona looked good against Kansas. Kansas is just broken. They're not going to be. That's going to be one of those ones where they're going to be a five or six and everyone's going to say, oh, my God, down goes Kansas. Are we ready to say? We watched them all year. They weren't good. Are we ready to say that Kansas is going to be the five seed that you should bet against? It might be a six. I got to see where they are. Let me see bracketology. I kind of hope they're a five seed. Because they've fallen down the stretch. Let's see.

Kansas. Six. There are six. I'm taking whoever plays against Kansas to W. There you go. There you go, Oldie. Right now, Lenardi has it San Diego State, North Carolina is the playing game. That would kind of suck North Carolina, Kansas in the first round if North Carolina won that game. It's a playing game for UNC, huh? Yeah. I mean, I know they deserve it, but

that would be shocking to see. That would be very shocking. Like, those aren't playing colors. Yeah. And then the best part is tomorrow is maybe one of my favorite days of the year because, and I know I say that a lot, Hank, but...

It's the matchups are the best. Yes, we got creme de la creme. We got Florida playing. Florida, Tennessee, right? Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama. The Big Ten's got great games. Michigan State, Oregon to start is going to be great. Badgers play UCLA. I think Illinois plays Maryland. And then Purdue versus Purdue. That sucked. USC got screwed. That was a...

That sucks. Titus brought up a good point when we were watching that game, and that's that Purdue still gets the Zach Eaddy fouls. Yeah. And Zach Eaddy's not there. Correct. But it's just muscle memory for the rest. It's institutional. Yeah. Yeah. It's just carryover. But it was a great day of hoops. I don't know what else to say. Oh, we should talk about the Villanova game. Max, that was tough to watch. Yeah. No, that was just the entire season.

Except for Eric Dixon played much worse than he normally played this season. That was the only difference. Go up, look good, 75% of the game, absolute fucking pitfall.

What was the run that it ended on? Because it was shocking to watch. I think a 22-2 or something. Yeah. And Dixon, what was his? Dixon went 2-15 from the field. And how many points did he need to get the record? He needed 16 points to break the all-time scoring record at Villanova. And he's the highest scoring player. And he's the leading scorer in the country, went 2-15 in a way that ended their season.

Ended his career and most likely ended the career of the head coach of Villanova, Kyle Neptune. Which is good. Not his career. His Villanova career. Villanova career. But that's good. You wanted that. Good guy. So who do you want, Max? I don't know. I don't know. The coach of Vandy, JMU. JMU coach who then went to Vandy. That's probably number one on my big board. Okay. Okay.

I'm seeing a lot of the VCU coach, which... Byington? What? For the Vandy coach. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You want Spradlin, the coach of JMU? What about Jay Wright? Jay Wright would... I miss those days. That's a good point. I miss those days, and I'm sorry for yelling. No! My mom, I'm going to get a stern talking to from my mother tomorrow morning. She doesn't like when I say sucking dick.

Can we watch it again? Because I think it was the last pussy. We don't have to watch it again. Let's watch it one more time. We don't have to watch it again. It was the last pussy that felt like... I actually think it was the first one that he said that was the one that starts with the C. Yeah. The C one's going to be tough to hear as a mom. No, I think the last pussy was... No one's meant it more than that moment when he called him a pussy at the end. That was a good sign off. Can you also... My mom also does this weird thing of when I do this...

She thinks that... Max, you follow Campus Cuties? I don't follow... Oh, no. Campus Cuties. I don't follow. Oh, no, Max. This is the for you page. This is the for you page. Oh, no, Max. It's not based on your algorithm, is it? We're going to have to put this in the show again. That's Campus Cuties. This is the for you page. Okay. Going to have to put that in the show.

Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube. You just get Max's the hot girls he follows every single day. Max was super upset about this, and he was in here, and he was all down, and he's like, I just feel like I shouldn't have said that. I said, that wasn't for you. That was for all of Villanova's feelings. That wasn't your feelings, man. The entire team, the entire fan base, that's how everyone felt. They just didn't say that or catch it on camera. Yeah.

That one. That one. Pussy. I mean...

Ask Danny Hurley if you can get his fucking shoelaces. That's better than get your fucking shine box. That was all fair.

Also, shout out Texas Tech and Clemson. They were in dogfights. Those are two very good teams. With Duke Cooper Flag being out, Clemson is very live. I think Clemson plays Louisville next. Yeah, that's going to be a great, great game. And Texas Tech is playing great ball. And we did see, I think the most impressive thing I've ever seen on a basketball court tonight.

I think it was halftime of Kentucky. Yeah, Oklahoma and Kentucky. They brought dogs out onto the court. I think there were two Australian Shepherds and one small dog. And these fucking dogs were jumping rope.

But it was also two of the dogs that were swinging the rope. Yep. Doing double dutch. It was a little dog jumping rope. It was incredible. Red Panda hot seat. Yeah. Although Red Panda still, she is the queen. She's the queen. She's the Big East tournament. Fanta was fanning out for her.

It was a good time. She's, she's been doing it for a long time. She's, uh, she's been great. One of the all time goats, but I mean, I, I'd be nervous about these dogs. No, it was an incredible clip. We should get these dogs to the barstool office. I agree. I agree. Absolutely agree. Uh, all right. So other things, uh,

I'm trying to, I'm just scrolling to see if we missed anything. I got something. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Not college basketball related. Okay, wait, let me see if we have any other college basketball. I think that's it. Hank, did you have a good day of watching college basketball? Oh, does that have anything to do with I did well? Yeah, it might. Oh. Good for you, though. Mr. Marsh. The faders are having a tough day?

Yeah, I just got to trust the process. Hank is... Of fading me? You know what Hank's doing right now? He's doing Father Time is Undefeated. Yeah, he's buying the dip. Yeah. Yeah, just stay invested. Buy the dip. Yeah. We'll come back up. Fading big cats at a discount right now. This happens every year, yeah. The market... This happens every year in the market. Don't panic. Any thoughts from you for... I know you're pretty upset about Cooper Flagg. Cooper Flagg...

No, I mean, seeing Stanford in the ACC tournament was weird. Yeah, well, Stanford Cal was Wednesday night. It was bizarre. Yeah. That was my big note. Oh, okay. That's a good big note. And seeing, was it Illinois in the ACC tournament against Maryland? Shocking. What? Oh, yeah. In the ACC. Maryland's not in the ACC. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. I was confused. Yeah. But we did have a classic matchup of, yeah, USC versus Purdue.

Love it. I love it. Need it. Need it. Maybe there's not more two polar opposites of locations. No, they speak different languages. It's perfect. Oldie, did you want to say something?

No, I was just saying, like, when you said Maryland, I knew. Big 10. Yeah. I knew. Max gave me knuckles on that. Yeah, I knew. I knew. Boom. Okay. PFT can't trick you. Yeah, I was like, that's Big 10. Yeah, you're right. And that's where the knuckles went. Knuckles. Boom. Boom. Bump and grind. Bump and grind sandwich. All right, what's the other thing you have? Other thing I had...

I've actually got two. I've got a couple as well, yeah. They're doing another one of those bracket challenges this year. You know how Warren Buffett says, like, I'll give a billion dollars to anyone that can pick a perfect bracket because it's impossible to do? Yep. Elon...

Oh, no. Is saying that X is launching its X bracket challenge. Okay. If you get a perfect bracket, you win a trip to Mars. Oh, can I get the cash instead? They do have a cash prize, $100,000 cash prize. That's it? If there's no perfect bracket. I think you can also take an alternate like $200,000 cash prize if you get a perfect bracket. Okay. Kind of cheaping out. Kind of cheaping. No one's ever been to Mars yet. Yeah. So although I would nominate Hank to go.

I don't want to go to Mars. Me neither. How far could you hit a golf ball on Mars, though? Far. Very far. To Earth? Very, very far. Yeah. Then the more important thing that I had, also, Hank, this concerns you. Have you seen what's going on at UNC with Belichick? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So apparently Belichick is telling all the North Carolina officials to copy his girlfriend on any emails that they send him.

Hank? Are you still there? Oh, yeah. Oldie, go ahead. What? Yeah. Perfect. That's all I got. I'm out. What? His 24-year-old girlfriend, she's apparently a very smart philosopher, right? Yeah. She is a philosophy major. He's asking his bosses to copy her on all the emails that go to him. Maybe he's just trying to stay organized. He's a busy guy. So he's got his girlfriend as his secretary. Yeah.

Seems that way. Something along those lines. It's kind of what, like, you know, in relationships, you're helping each other out. The shadow coach at UNC? Oh, I think it's, you know, it's a family. They're trying to build a family program, and this is part of it. Are they family? No, but, you know, maybe. You're trying to instill family into the program. It's like Miss Terry. Can I say something? And listen, it's no offense to Bill Belichick. If they have a kid, that's going to be, they can't.

That would be so funny. They can't. They can't. So funny. They can't, Hank. That would be weird. They can't. They can do whatever they want to do. That would be weird. They can't.

It's like Robert De Niro. Doesn't Robert De Niro have a kid like every two years? Yeah, that guy fucks. He just keep popping out kids. Yeah, so originally he was saying that he wanted her to be copied on everything that related to social media and web content, which makes sense. That does. But apparently that's expanded a little bit to other emails, including whether to accept interview requests from people. So we need to email her. Yeah. Yeah.

Did they dox the emails by accident? There was one email that got leaked. Let's see. Oh, no. From Bill Belichick to...

Robbie Evans, CC Michael Lombardi. Thank you, Robbie. Thank you for the email. I am including Jordan on this email so she can also keep up with our postings. Can you include her on anything that you send to me? Thank you, BB. All right. So that's social media. Well, that one's social media, but it's apparently expanded a little bit. So we need to email Jordan asking to have Bill Belichick on the show. Yes.

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I had a couple things as well. Rory McIlroy is the worst. I don't really know what's going on. Did you guys see the clip of him taking a fan's phone? No, I didn't see that. You didn't? I didn't think that was that bad. Hank, that was some... Golfers are so soft.

So here's what happened, PFT. Rory McIlroy is in the Players' Championship this weekend. On Tuesday, he's playing a practice round. He hit one into the water. The guy said, oh, just like the Masters in 2011. He goes and re-tees, hits his second shot. This is a practice round.

then goes and takes the guy's phone and just starts walking off i'm looking at it right now yeah that's soft hey yeah it's soft that's insanely soft like what are you it's a practice round it's true if he can't take that type of heat i mean yeah the guy might be a d you could be like oh that guy's kind of a dick like why would you say that but still that's soft it looked like he was also typing something on the phone i think he was trying to delete the video

But then he's got to then go to the next person who took the video of the video. This isn't the Masters. You're allowed to have a phone at Sawgrass. And it's also a practice round. Like, I would understand if this was a Sunday. He's competing for it's the fifth major competing to win. Then it's like, all right. Yeah, that's a fucked up thing. It's a practice round. So apparently it was a collegiate golfer that did it.

So what? Rory had him removed by tour security. This is so soft. I cannot. This is soft, Hank. And then the college golfer apologized in writing. That's soft.

Written apology. What did Rory say about it? Rory. He doesn't want to answer questions. He doesn't answer questions? Also soft. They asked him, like, do you want to talk about it? He said, no, I don't want to talk about it. And then someone else asked him about it, and he said, I'm happy with my score today. Of course he doesn't want to talk about it. He stole. He stole. Yeah. He robbed a guy. That guy should press charges. There's no difference between him and Patrick Reed. Yeah.

You can't just go and take the guy's phone. No. If you did it on the street, what would happen to you? You'd get shot. Yeah, punished. Punished. Punished. Punished and punched and shot. Or if you want to take it farther, charge. Charge. You stole my property. Yeah. You can't do that. And he's probably got a card on there. He's probably got his digital wallet. Yeah. Probably got some nudes. That's revenge porn. Yeah. Federal crime. Wow. Hank, I can't believe you were going to defend him.

You're too much of a golfer. Yeah. You're not the common man. You're too much of a golfer. You're closer to a PGA Tour pro than the common man. I'm not completely exonerating this guy because, like, yeah, he's a dick. I think if you see red, though, like, it was bad, obviously. No, no, no, no, no. Dude, just walk away. You should have talked about it after. I'm trying to get in the head of Hank right now for why he's being reluctant to criticize Rory for being a prick.

Do you think that one day you could be a professional golfer and you don't want fans to make fun of you? No. But Hank, you know how the internet works. If this, oh my God, Kentucky's about to blow this game. You hit the over PFT. You jinxed it, big cat. I think you said Kentucky playing today, Friday. Yeah, I did. Oh shit. I just heard yelling. Oh, something happened. Okay. Kentucky's no longer playing today.

It's going to be Alabama-Oklahoma. What a comeback. Holy shit. Kentucky might win. Kentucky also might win. This might be a double jinx. I might double jinx it. Wow. What a meltdown, Kentucky. That's a game that Cal would have won. Cal would have won. He would have had a player. Cal would have won this game. You know what? Cal would have had the horses. Yeah.

All right. Well, I guess we'll see. I'm going to get so many tweets about Kentucky playing Bama. Yeah. If this ends up being Oklahoma. All right. Back to the Roy thing. You know how this works, Hank. If this guy posts the video, the internet has brains, and the internet would say, hey, dude, that's lame. He would get shunned.

It's kind of like when someone will DM a player and the player will respond in an angry tone and they'll post it. Everyone's like, dude, why would you DM a player after a loss? Like, you're the loser here. Yeah. That guy would have been the loser here. Instead, Rory flipped it and now he's the loser and it's soft. Yeah, it's definitely soft. He was just seeing it was a moment of seeing red. He should have talked about it after.

And he should have done it. He should have done it. That fan who's been there's fans there all the time at events got in his kitchen and he lost his marbles. Wait, but hey, even now you're like, yeah, he should have talked about it afterwards. And then we said he should have done it. And you're like, yeah, I guess. What?

What is it? What's going on, Hank? No, there's no... What's going on, Hank? It's not that serious. He shouldn't have done it. But when I saw the video, I wasn't shocked. I wasn't like, how could he have done this? I could understand how he was pissed off in that moment. Could you ever see Max Homa doing this? No. Could you ever see Brooks doing this? No. No. I would have done it. You would have done it? Well, if it was Bosco...

You said seeing red. He just kept saying seeing red. I was like, sometimes you see red. You can easily just walk away. You walk away. And again, if he posts that, he's the loser. You can walk away or you can squeal your tires and drive away out of control. Rory, also very good at doing that. Easily do that. Yeah. All right. Kentucky's about to inbound the ball. By the way, they were up 80 to 72 with 119 left. Holy fuck. Jeremiah Fears just took over. Oh, man.

Oh, Kentucky. Oh, wait. There's .5 seconds. Okay, Kentucky-Bama. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Kentucky-Bama. All right, you were right. I got to correct my tweet because I said Cal would have lost this game or would have won this game. Now I'm going to have to say Cal would have lost this game. Cal would have lost this game, yeah.

That will be fun. Up and down a couple weeks for Pope's. Yeah. Big time. Do we have a new one? No, no. He's recovering. Oh, really? Yeah. So he got rid of his double pneumonia. It's probably not like a permanent solution, but he's better now. Yeah. I also watched Conclave, so now I feel like I'm an expert on that. Yeah, I know everything. Yeah. I know everything. What an ending. What a day. That was incredible. Jeremiah Fears did it all there in the end. I feel like he scored every bucket. And then...

Good job, Kentucky. So Kentucky Bama, that's going to be fun. That'll be great. That over is going to be like 170. All right. The other golf related thing I had, we had a big respect the biz. Did you guys see this? Yep. It was... Hold on. I got to find it. It was... Morikawa, right? Morikawa basically said, I don't owe anything to anyone. Yeah.

which is fine. I don't care. Like, yeah. I mean, you do owe answers, but if that's kind of the attitude you want to take, I'm not going to be upset about it. When somebody says something like that confidently, that's one of the...

like most key indicators that they've talked to a therapist at some point. Right. And he's like, yeah, I realize I don't owe anyone anything. That said, you don't want to say that about like fans. You can say it to the media. Yeah. Yeah. In the media, in the media, we've, we've been very consistent on this.

The media complains about it, but what they don't realize is they're not looking in the mirror. And when a player says, I don't owe anyone anything or I'm not going to do media, they're literally just giving you a story. Yes, this is great. You now have a story to write about how Morikawa didn't do the media. And it's better than him giving a cliche answer. Yeah, when Cam Newton doesn't talk to reporters after a Super Bowl loss, then you just get to write for basically like five years. Cam Newton could learn a lot from anything.

any athlete about how to interact with the media respectfully. But I did like, uh, Ian McMillan, who's a senior editor at, uh, sports illustrated, uh, said, uh,

Colin Murakawa said, I don't owe anyone anything. He said, yes, you do. Professional sports and the money that comes with it relies on the relationship between athletes and media. I think it relies on the relationship between athletes and fans. Yeah. But the media, he's saying the media. The media. If they don't talk to the media, then no one's going to watch the game. Then nobody knows who you are. Right. Yeah. So the media is the one. Let's respect the biz here, Colin. You are the media. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, I also... Also, on Rory, as bad as that was, Rory's round today was very funny because he was just constantly driving the ball into the heart of the woods and then somehow making birdies.

Because what it would do, it would force him to lay up on his second shot and not go for a crazy long one and then knock it close. So it was a good thing. The worst Rory is at driving, at least today, the better he was playing on those holes. Maybe he also put a scare into everyone being like, he will take your phone. He will rob you at any moment. We all know that.

We also had a this league between Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence because DeMarcus Lawrence is on the Seahawks now. And he said on the way out, Dallas is my home, but I know for sure I'm not going to win a Super Bowl there. And then Micah Parsons quote to it said, this is what rejection and envy look like. This some clown shit.

And then Demarcus Lawrence replied, calling me a clown won't change the fact that I told the truth. Maybe if you spent less time tweeting and more time winning, I wouldn't have left this league. This league. That's some good. This league shit. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he wasn't a big fan of Micah, even where they were on the same team. Yeah. Maybe not. Maybe not the best of friends. Yeah.

Maybe not the best of friends. I have a national sports podcast. Oh, let's go. I might have gotten got on this. I want to preface this by saying I might have gotten got. I'll back you up. But can we fact check this, Oldie, in real time? It's a hockey story. So can we fact check it? Yeah, he just got to go. Okay, go to www.google.com. There you go. That's the one. Bang. And then what are we going to eat? All right, so here's the story that I read today. Okay. The general manager of the Utica Comets traded his son...

His son is Will McKinnon. Okay. Will McKinnon for future considerations. Trade him to Cleveland. Okay. Not even for anything for future considerations. Okay. Plot twist. What's a consideration? Well, it's like to consider them. Like maybe a player to be named later. Maybe a bag of hockey sticks. Another like box. Yeah. Yeah. It turns out the GM of the Comets is his dad. Oh, okay.

So his dad traded his son to Cleveland, traded him away for future considerations. Good. Fair. Is this a would LeBron do something like this? Is future considerations like a grandkid?

It could be. And I want a grandson. Maybe his son has a long-term relationship, long distance with a girl in Cleveland. Trading him to Cleveland, actually a great dad move. Yeah, that is weird. Also, this could be the mark of an outstanding general manager, though. Yeah. Somebody who's willing to... Cutthroat. Yeah, cutthroat. Just pure analytics. The coldest examples of sports is a business. There has to be more to this story, right? His son probably asked for it.

Or maybe some of the players on the team were upset that his son was getting preferential treatment. Yeah, maybe that is. Oh, yeah. Wait, wait. Utica's last of the HL's North Division and 14th Eastern Conference Conference

The Comets will not be making the playoffs even a league where 23 of 32 teams qualify for the postseason. The monsters are fourth in the North Division. Oh, he's trying to give his son a ring. Yeah, he's getting his son into the playoffs. I like that. That's actually a solid dad. Great dad move. Great dad move. Huge dad move. It went from like, there's trouble. He's not passing the ketchup over at the dinner table or something like that to no, I want you to go grab that ring. Yeah, go get a championship, son. Go get it for us. Get a call. Be proud. Make me proud. Get out of here.

Go over to the affiliates, Blue Jackets, Cleveland Monsters, and Golden Cup. Is that the Blue Jackets affiliate? How was the game out at the SHU? Oh, fire. It was so good. The battle back before both teams right to the third period, and then CBJ just took over and 5-3 finish. Love it. Winner. What do you think about Torts? Who? Torts. Tortorella. Tortorella?

He's not there. Oh, he's not? No. But what do you think about him? That's not what he was asking. Don't try to embarrass PFT. Wait, where's Torch right now? Don't try to...

I think he fires. Yeah. Don't embarrass PFT. What do you think about him? I'm not embarrassed. I'm consistent. I am not a diehard hockey fan. I'm a, I'm a capitals fan. You are. He's right. But it does stand to, if you look at the transcript, you just ask, what do you think about torts? Yeah. What do you think about torts?

He's a hothead. I like that about him, though. He's not scared to tell people what's up. Sometimes things are crazy, but I mean... You didn't let me... I was going to say, what did you think about, like, towards, do you wish he was still there? And how's he doing his job in Philadelphia? He still gives it to the guys, too. Yeah, he does. Yeah, yeah. He's not afraid to tell them what's up. Yeah. Who's going to win the cup?

I said my Blue Jackets from before. I got to ride on that. So you're just sticking with that? Yeah, I'm going to have to, I think. I mean, there's obviously a lot of good teams, but we got to ride with the CBJ bus boys. Is Nasher part of the program, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you got to ride with them hard. Hard. Max, one more question for you here. Paul George being evaluated for multiple injuries, do you think this is it for him?

Yeah, there was also a report that they were looking to trade him in the offseason. Oh, yeah. Max is struggling with the idea of tanking. He said that he can't watch the games. I can't. But he can watch on the... You know why? Because it's a sad tank. Yeah. Yeah, it's very... Well, but it's also the most necessary tank ever. But you should be happy because the Bulls are going to make the 10th seed. They basically have sealed it up. It's insane that they're going to still be in this fucking play-in game when they're so bad and

They traded away Zach Levine and they're still going to like, it's so stupid. But the difference is we, we don't need a lottery pick. We need to be top six. Yeah. We're at the six spot and the Raptors, the Sixers and the nets are all within a half game.

And if we get the seven pick, the Thunder get our pick. Wait, but that's after the lottery. Correct. After the lottery. But like, realistically, we're trying to get to five. Right. Because if you get to five, then one team can still jump you. Right. And we'll still get our first round pick. But we're a half a game back. It's like you have to lose. You have to lose. Here's a compliment, though.

This is a very, very fast tank. Yeah. Most teams, it takes them. You had championship, maybe not championship, maybe just deep playoff aspirations at the start of the year. And to recognize halfway through that year, fuck it, let's just be really bad. It usually takes teams a year or two to get to that spot. You accepted being a loser way faster than most teams do. But then this summer, they're going to be back to champion. You think so? Oh, yeah.

They're going to try and be championship. It's a one-year tank. Correct. Unless Embiid's dead.

Not dead, but knee is dead. Knee is dead. R.I.P. R.I.P. Knee. He's already R.I.P.'d his knee a few times. No, if that is the case. If that is the case. If that is the case. The last thing I had was Virginia Tech, who lost on Tuesday, which feels like 10 years ago. We had one of the best quotes from a player ever. Virginia Tech's Toby Lall said,

on Virginia Tech exceeding expectations because they were 13 and 19 and they were bouncing the first round of the ACC tournament. He said, they thought we were going to be ass. I mean, we were still ass, but, you know, we weren't that bad. Yeah, not a big ass.

It's pretty good. We weren't as ass as people thought that we were going to be ass and we were, but we weren't as bad. Yeah. Suck it. Haters. Yeah. Have that haters. Who does Duke play? Duke plays UNC. UNC has the opportunity to do a very funny thing, which is.

Just beat Duke. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that would be funny. Yeah. Yeah, we have some awesome games tomorrow. Oldie, you ready to strap it in and do it again? I am so stoked. I'm so stoked. I don't even think I'm going to go back to the hotel tonight, I'm at. I just stay here. Just buzz. Just buzz around the office. Buzz around here, no? We got a lot of beyond and down, and just back up at it again in the morning, no? It's basically like getting trapped in a Chuck E. Cheese.

Yeah, I can't leave. I can't leave. I just keep getting tokens and tokens and tokens. The coins don't stop. It doesn't matter. Like, you want this token? Sure. You want that? Okay, go to that game. You're done with this game? Go to the next game. Oh, you want some food? Oh, sure. No problem. Oh, you want this? No, I don't want it. Okay, get rid of it. Send it out. Peace. See you later. On to the next. I'll crush that. No problem. You do seem like you're a little...

thirsty. Did you have a body armor flash IV with you? No, I don't, but I'm starting to decline, I think. Yeah, we need to get you one more. That's why I got to get home somehow, I guess. You had a pretty light day today, huh?

In terms of flash IVs? He did one on the yak and one on the live stream. So only two. Yeah, it's only two today. They weren't feeding me. I don't know. Is something going on with body armor? No, no, no. No, they loved it. By the way, I heard back from them. They loved it. They loved every second of it. You know what I got, too? I forgot to send. I should have sent that to the boys out or like the Twitter or the X thing or whatever or Insta. Yeah, everyone, by the way, Oldie is on socials now. What are your social handles?

Canadian Oldie. On Instagram and Twitter. Instagram's Canadian Oldie. I believe the X is Canadian underscore Oldie. Okay. I should try to readjust that so it's on the same page line. Yeah, so it's the same. So the same page. Anyways, I was driving and I seen a 53-foot trailer body armor. It was not flash body armor IV. Get it in you. It was the original stuff that's been out probably from here like seven years ago. Yeah. And it's new to Canada. It says now in Canada. Oh, hell yes. Yeah, I got a photo of it.

Love it. I'll sell the boys tomorrow. Yeah. Today. That's cool. How many pictures a day do you take? Just so I see some good stuff. Yeah. Some good shit out there. Yeah. It depends, right? Yeah. We had a good video stream today. I got a good video of Wrigley, right? Yeah. Oh, Wrigley. Yeah. Yeah. It was awesome. Yeah. You were going putting in your breaths at DraftKings.

yeah oh that was cool that was you guys it's a lot of great tvs in there yeah it's endless it's endless and then you look and you're like this doesn't stop it just it should do with 360 but 270 is pretty good anyways yeah oldie is there anything that you want to try or see while you're in chicago yeah we kind of are bringing you here and just trapping you inside yeah is there anything like any uh any food that you want to try any landmark you want to see

The being, but that's just like cool reflection. Like everyone. You could see the river on Saturday dying green. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm excited for. Yeah. I got a couple of things that I can wear something down there. Yeah. We'll just hop, skip in a boot down there. Yeah. Get over there. Yeah. Yeah.

Not walking distance. No, probably not. No, no. Some people say they jump. Yeah, you could. You can get a bike. No, I can get one of those e-scooters or something like that. But people jump in the river after they die it? No, you shouldn't. No, you shouldn't. Don't do that. No, no. I wouldn't do that. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't do that. My favorite thing is they say that it's healthy for the environment. When you die the river neon green, I'm going to guess that it's probably not. It looks like ooze. It's got to be a band, color band or something. I'm going to call it a 20-second timeout real quick. Were you going to jump in the river?

No, I didn't think about that. A couple of the boys were talking about it earlier. I feel like you were going to jump in the river. He clearly just said he wasn't even thinking about it. The boys mentioned it earlier. It kind of crossed my mind. I started double-cross thinking. Don't jump in the river. Don't do it, right? Don't do it. Don't do it. Life jacket? No, don't do it. Don't jump in the river. We won't do that. We'll just go down and admire the view. They put a lot of dye in it because it just goes shaboom, shaboom, green, just like that. Yeah.

And it's flowed. And that's the Chicago River, right? Yeah, yeah. All right. I'm getting better at this place. Yeah. And Dan Ryan Expressway. Yeah, there you go. There you go. I've traveled that back about 20 years ago when I came to White Sox versus Red Sox game. Oh. After I left the RCA Dome for an exhibition game against the Colts versus the Ravens. Jeff Saturday. Me and my boy Dan. What a trip. It was funny enough. We were on the highway. He was driving. Yeah.

On the Dan Ryan Expressway. He's Dan, I'm Ryan. So we're like freaking out. We're driving from Indianapolis or Indiana from the game. I was yelling at Jeff Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, freaking. And we got scalper tickets for like eight banger bucks preseason. So you were up in the top? RCA dome. Yeah, we could touch the little domer. And you were yelling Saturday? No, we worked our way magic all the way how I do.

All the way to the bottom barrel, right in front of the back of the Colts bench. Saturday, Saturday. The lady's like, yeah, okay, okay. The guy's giving me the ticket easy, ticket easy. And all of a sudden she's like, you want to come down and see him after? I said, yeah. What? She had tickets, a little skin pass. We got to see the players after.

Gonzalez was there. Just because you were yelling at Jeff Saturday? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got to go down and see all the players after. What's the link to Jeff Saturday? I don't know. He was just center. I was just fired up. My buddy's a Colts fan. That's why we came down. And you just love him. You want to go down? I said, absolutely, Dan. Why wouldn't we go down at the game? But Peyton Manning now?

Yeah, well, he wasn't paying attention to the boys. It was like Saturday. It's a beauty center. So we got to go down and hang out with the players. We walked out of the dome. Everyone's asking, oh, I need an autograph, autograph. My kid's sick. I'm not signing autographs right where the players were.

Anyways, went back to the hotel, crashed out, a couple soda pops, obviously. I woke up like, what are we going to do? Chicago. Oh, let's go to a baseball game. White Sox, Red Sox. We're flying the Dan Ryan Expressway. There's a big flood happening on the road. We get here, we go into this thing, scalp tickets. But when we go up, we think we're late. Dude, it's 1.15, we're late, dude. 2.15, we're late.

Time change. Boom. Got us. Yeah. Got us. Yeah. Wow. Great experience though. So you guys were just freaking out being on the Dan Ryan? Oh yeah. I'm like, dude, this is us. This is us. Then we had combos. Hey, we had combos and the car. Love that. Great snack. So my buddy, my buddy used to dart. My buddy used to dart back in the day, right? He used to dart. So he's got a little ass. He had a little holder in there. We're cruising home. We're back in now, Ontario. We're cruising. I looked down on the ground.

Oh, sweet. Combo. Grab the combo. A little bit soft. I think the cigarette thing fell on the ground was a little bit wet, a little bit soggy, but good combo though. It was at the cheese one or the pizza one. It wasn't the Buffalo hot one. It was like the cheese or pizza. Was there a cracker or pretzel?

No, it was the little ball, the combos. You never had a combo, the stuffed in. Some were crackers, some were pretzel on the outside. Yeah. The pretzel. I think it was the cheese or the pizza one. Yeah, the pretzel one. Solid. But it was soft, but yeah, no. That's a great story. Oh, Ryan Expressway. Yeah, my boy Dan. What up? He's a beaut. He's a beaut out in Texas now. Have people recognized you since you came a few weeks ago? Yeah, yeah. When I left, the guy in the plane sat beside me. You oldie walking in today. Yeah.

Oldie, what's up? What's up, buddy? That's awesome. Gotta go. At the game, stadium game, doing interviews with people. People are like, I gotta get a photo. I'm like, okay, buddy, I'm trying to do an interview. So get a photo. Gotta go on to the next guy. Yeah, it's been wild. So it's been fun. It's been great. I gotta shout out to you guys, too. I also gotta give big love to my boy, Yanzi. Yeah. Yanzi's the best. He's the best. But he backed his words up, though. Yeah. I'm coming in for the boys. He nailed it. He called me and said, I got a guy for you. And I was just like, okay.

He's like, you got to just do it. All right, let's do it. And you guys are like all my boys, all beauts. Yeah. Like, I don't even want to leave. Like, people are asking me, oldie, so how long you in? How long you in? I'm looking at them. I'm like, well, if they kick me out, I'll be gone tonight. If they don't want me here, I'll leave tonight. But if you want me here, I'm here. Yeah. Like I say. He already tried to move his flight.

When's your flight back? Sunday. But I was like, you might have to stay till Monday. And he's like, but if I stay till Monday, shouldn't I just stay for the whole next weekend? That's what I mean, right? I think the only way to get... Oldie, you've never had a bracket day, have you?

You might have to stay. We got to bust your bracket. Yeah. Yeah. Never did that. Yeah. You got to watch the bracket with us. Like I could do a bracket here and then, oh, yeah. Well, how's the bracket looking? Oh, cool. I'm back in Canada watching my bracket on a TV, on one TV. When I could be watching seven TVs on the back burner in the corner beside us. Yeah.

Absolutely. Cheering on my team. Big time. All right, Oldie, send us into Bill Raftery with a little. What do you got in your hand there? Oh, yeah. Billy. We back, Billy boy. Body armor, flash, IV, tropical punch. You guys know it. What do we do? One, two, three, four. Lose the lid. Down the hatchet. Got to go. The combo. That's a memorable combo. A single combo.

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Okay, here he is, Bill Raftery. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. He is a legend of the game, one of our all-time favorites. It is Bill Raftery. You're going to hear him. He is March. We're going to hear him all March. Uh...

Bill, Raft, can I call you Raft? Sure. All right, so Raft, thank you for joining us. It's awesome to talk to you. We're getting into the best time of year. What's it feel like in the Raftery house when we get to March and you're like, all right, here we go. This is it. It's pretty much the same as the rest of the year. I get ignored. Yeah.

At 5 o'clock, my wife says, do you want to eat here or go out? And I always say, well, let's eat here. And she says, well, if we eat here, we'll have to go out and get some food. So we end up going out. So nothing's really changed, you know? Yeah, yeah. For me, it has, though. I mean, life goes on a little bit for everybody else. But pretty much like today was consumed with Zooms. We did a media day.

Yesterday was internal stuff. So the last two days were more catch up on stuff they want to do. Marketing, media, things they've been working on kind of a deal, you know? Yeah. Other than that, it's look at tape. The unknown this week is I've got Big East games tomorrow night. And that's...

You know, whoever wins tonight plays the winner tomorrow, that kind of a deal. Yeah. And then Thursday leave for Indiana, and we've got Big Ten on Saturday and semi-Saturday and final Sunday. Okay.

And then Sunday night, after the teams find out, we find out where we're going. It's pretty much the same kind of a deal as every year. Yeah. And I imagine that you get to know these teams pretty well, especially the ones that you cover in the conference tournament. But I also read that you still do a ton of prep going into each game. You've got binders and binders filled with notes. Do you still do that? I think everybody has their own deal. It's just like you guys.

You know, you learn how to tee it up and what works for you and what's expedient. I guess the nice thing is with all the travel, even though you're not doing their games, you sort of catch up with other teams.

You know, whether it's Auburn or like we even had Duke this year at all. But certainly they catch your eye. You want to see how good they are, that type of thing. So it's you're more into the games you're going to be doing because they're immediate. And then you surface order the rest of them and start to catch up. Like next week, we'll have eight teams to prep for starting Monday morning. Yeah. Yeah.

And probably of the eight, I would guess I'll have had four of them. And the other four you start on right away on Monday morning, you know? I love it. So, I mean, you've been doing this for so long. And like I said, you are like one of those announcers that it just feels right when it's March and I'm hearing you on the call. I have a question about your career and your famous onions call. I want to get into all your calls, but...

Do you remember your first onions? Do you remember the first time you did it and what, and what came to you? I worked with a guy that's a genius and a pain in the neck got by the name of Ian Eagle. And, uh,

The bird remembers everything. He'd be a terrible partner, you know, to be married to. He doesn't forget anything. He never gets over the past. And he claims we were doing an Orlando net game, and it was one of those bad net years, you know, like a 15, 18, and 35 deal. And Kevin Edwards made a jumper against the Magic team.

And I, for the first time, said, onions. And he looked at me like, where did that come from? And basically, I never even thought of it, said it. But it was appropriate, you know, for the moment. And the interesting thing about it, I used it a couple more times. And ESPN said to me, we don't want you to use that.

So I stopped using it, knowing that they were sending the checks, obviously. Right. And then some writers started using it in their articles. And I got a call from ESPN. They said, you know what? You can use that again. So that's how that whole thing started. Yeah. It's amazing, the transformation. It's a nice way of saying something –

That captures the moment when these kids just do uncanny things at so many important moments. Yeah, and it is a great call that some of the most iconic moments, you can hear onions in your head. Do you have a bar for double order? Do you have an internal, all right, can't do it too early, can't do it too early in the game, it's got to be later in the game. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, is there a feel? Yeah.

I think the first, like once in a while I'll say early onions, but it's pretty much a big three late in the game that, you know, you could tell sealed the deal. Yep. But I think the one that people have gotten the biggest kick out of is Ronald Moore at Siena, where he made the three against Ohio State.

to go to overtime. So that was just a plain old...

And then he made the three to win in overtime, and that became the double order. Yeah. Onions, double order. I love it. It is great. I watched a three-minute long video that was just a super cut of you saying onions after big shots. I just listened to you say the word for three minutes, and it was probably the best three minutes of my month. It was fantastic. Boy, you better get a life. My God.

It's the best. It's ASMR for guys. It's fantastic. Yeah, it does. It just goes in your sports brain. You just have these things that just rattle around. And we had Mike Breen on last year and talking about the beginning of yelling bang and double bangs. And they're just, as sports fans, this is how we consume the games. And when I think onions, it's like, oh, it must be March. It must be a big shot. And Raph's on the call.

That's nice of you. Of course, Mike's one of those special guys. I remember doing a game with him back when he was doing Marist basketball. Can you believe it? Okay. That's so far back. So what a career he's had, as you well know. Just a class act, too. Yeah. Yeah. He is. He is. Do you have a favorite call that you've ever made? The favorite call is when they put the lights on about 2 in the morning.

Last call. And they double order you, you know? Yeah. I mean, pretty good, you know, but, uh, not really. I'm more of a reactionary or spur of the moment. Uh,

you know, whatever fits. And I always say, I didn't go to Harvard. So, you know, who knows what's going to come out of there, you know? What about a favorite player or a player that you can look back and like, I just loved calling his games because the way the style of play or the moments that he stepped up to.

You know, the NBA, Jason Kidd. Yeah. I always said that what he did in the Meadowlands, if that was the garden, they'd have a statue in front of MSG for him. You know, every night he did astounding things. He just, you know, just incredible feel for the game.

You know, over the years, you know, doing the Nets. And then CBS had the NBA years ago, as you guys well know. So you got to do a lot of NBA games. And what they could do on a consistent basis, you know, just, you know, Magic, you know, Larry Bird. It's just...

tremendous, tremendous talents. You know, Julius in the early days, the 80s. I mean, it was – so nobody's special, but just so many great players and so many great moments. You know, college, they live for a lifetime for these kids. A lot of them, they're great college players. They don't get a chance to expose or shine on that next level.

So it's fun to see them have their moment in the sun. Yeah. You referenced Last Call, and the legends about you are fantastic. You like to go out. You like to have a good time. I think Jay Billis said that working with you is like going on a three-day bender. That might just be more Jay Billis not being able to drink at all. I told this story recently. What?

We were in Milwaukee, and it was the football championship Monday, college. And we had a big Monday. And Danny Gabbard, who runs the NCAA, basically now basketball tournament, and Dave's son, who's just a super guy too. But he and I got to the table late. So we had like six or eight of us.

And Jay was in the throes of needing glasses but not using them. So when I walked into Moe's restaurant, the owner was a good, the Vassala brothers, great guys. I gave the one boy, Jamie, my credit card. And so we sat down and, you know, we watched the ball game. Jay ordered the wine.

And the check came, then I went behind to look at it, and he claims I almost had a heart attack because he added zeros and numbers in front of the zeros. He thought what was 150 was 450. Like, anyhow, it sort of destroyed my evening somewhat. But other than that setback, we had a lot of fun nights with McDonough and he over the years, but yeah.

Jay's a good friend, great spokesman really for the game that –

You know, you don't have to agree with him and you don't argue with him because he's too smart to argue with. But he just has a great feel for what he thinks should be the right thing in the game. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like you're a lot of fun to hang out with. I've read all the stories about you. You know, every restaurant owner, you know, the best places to go out late at night, you know, great Italian restaurants, the whole nine yards. Do you have a secret to waking up in the morning and maybe have an 11 o'clock tip? Yeah.

I guess it's called responsibility. You know, if you want to play at night, you got to manage the morning, you know, you got something else to do. But I always say I've lost my game a little, but it's still ahead of a lot of people, you know? Yeah. What are you, are you still hitting last call? Are you still making it all the way to last call? No,

Not quite. Not quite. Not that I've become more responsible. I guess it's just that maybe lacking a little more stamina or just, you know, worried about the next event or getting to the next event. But no, I've been really lucky with...

Good genes. Let's put it that way. Yeah, we saw the story went viral last week of Ian Eagle saying that you once came out of a bar after last call with eight beers in your trench coat for everyone. Can you confirm that? I hope it was more like he got it wrong. It was a dozen beers. It wasn't eight, but it was a couple. It's a

I can remember one night, I think it was the San Antonio Net Championship Series. Unfortunately, I think it was 4-zip, as it was with the Lakers too. But Jay Wright came up and we went into the – they had a little after game place at the Meadowlands.

And they closed quickly. You know, a lot of those guys are, you know, other jobs and have to get up early. So anyhow, everybody was really upset, reluctant to leave. And I had the guy go outside and put about eight beers behind a bush right by the door. So anyhow, we went outside and I said, well, good night. I said, well, we got a little nightcap. And I said, the guy threw us out. I said, Jay, go over to the bush and grab a couple of beers. Yeah.

That's fantastic. Yeah, I mean, I read a profile about you that, you know, your move sometimes would be just go to a bar and then you'd buy, you know, 20 beers, have them out on the table. If someone came and said hello to you, they have to have a beer with you. I mean, that's a legendary move. I don't know about that. Usually they were part of the group, I think, more than anything, you know? Yeah, yeah.

It makes for good fodder, basically. But, you know, you try and always be under control. But it's good company. The one guy that's incredible, you know, over the years, a lot of places close in all these towns. Whenever I go to any city and I don't know where to go, I call PJ Carlissimo. Oh. And PJ knows the owner. He knows the maitre d'.

He knows the hostess. He knows everybody. And so he's a great source. If you guys are traveling, give PJ a call. It's utterly incredible. But between the NBA and his college career, he's been all over. Yeah. How many restaurants do you think you have a picture of you up in? Well,

Not as many as Sinatra. But you're up there, I feel like. I know I've seen a few of them. I know I'm about to have a great meal. Yeah, if Raph's been here, then it's going to be good. A lot of places have changed over the years, though. They're going for some upbeat people versus those that are nearly deceased.

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Post game, you know, stay open. And it's still good, obviously. Moe's would be Toscano and Brentwood. What's the other one I like there? Pony's right by UCLA is a good one. Mostly Italian, you know, the Ivy in Santa Monica. I'll be in West Coast a little bit because two of our kids are there and we've been going there a lot more lately.

But pretty much you get direction from the coach or, you know, somebody in the athletic department recommends a place and you end up enjoying it on a consistent basis. Yeah, it's good for team building. Good for hanging out with the boys. La Perla down in Washington, I like a lot. It's not a puppy. It's a...

you know, fine dining place, but that's one too. We go to when we're in town there and Ebbets, Ebbets grill is another one. I don't know if you guys know that one. That's a good one too. Yeah. You got any places in Chicago? That's where we're at right now. I go, uh, I just told this story recently years ago. Uh, we were at Harry carries, right. And it was closing time. We had all the nets, radio and TV. So we have about eight guys with producer, director, et cetera. Uh,

And it's Harry Carey behind the bar with Ernie Banks. It's closing time. There's nobody there. And I said, Harry, would you sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame?

And he looked at Ernie Banks and the two of them sang it. That was like one of the highlights for me of a lifetime. Those two famous and delightful guys singing that song was pretty good. That's incredible. That's a great, yeah. I mean, I wish I could have gotten to hang out with Harry Caray. Gibson's is another one where we went there consistently that we like to go to. Yeah, that's another great one. Good picks, yeah. This is going to be weird for me to ask you. Do you have...

anywhere in the country that has Bill Raftery Day.

Is there any towns or anything that have Bill Raftery? I don't even have a Bill Raftery day in my own house. Okay, all right. That's fair. That's fair. Are you okay? Because I found an old tweet of mine. It was from April 3rd, 2021. I said, we don't appreciate Raftery enough. Someone sent a calendar reminder for August 17th to respect Raftery more. So are you okay if, as a podcast, our show, if we make August 17th the

the official Bill Raftery day on part of my take. Are you okay with that? Is there any financial commitment on my part on this or no? Wait, do you have to pay us? No, you don't have to pay us. Yeah, we're going to need a float. We're going to need a whole meal. Yeah, so you will have to pay a little bit. But yeah, are you okay with us making it? Maybe you'll come back on the show August 17th, Bill Raftery day.

That's a deal. Okay. All right. So that's official. I don't think we've ever had a holiday on this show. I don't think that we have either. But yeah, we'll have maybe a couple glasses of wine. Yeah. Tell some stories. Yeah. See, maybe we'll get a metal detector. See how many beers we can get through a metal detector.

That would be fun. That would be very fun. Yeah. So I want to ask just a little bit about your past because from my understanding, you got started on ESPN when ESPN was not nearly what it is right now. It was kind of a smaller network and you took a chance by going there. What was that like deciding that you wanted to get into media, into broadcasting as opposed to coaching?

My, we had started the Big East for two years and I had said to Dave Gavitt, who was doing the color analysis and as a commissioner too, I said, you know, Dave, someday I might like to do that. Never thinking I'm going to leave. And I, I thought I was going to be John Wooden, but I guess, you know, if you look at my record, I didn't quite achieve that. But the, the,

I guess I want to say October 28th of 81. We're in practice two weeks, and Dave called, and I made this up, but it's pretty typical of what may have happened. Dave called. He said, look, I've watched you coach. I think you should try television. So –

I had two days to decide. I met with the team and I left for nine games, $800 a game with four children. So it was 7,200 bucks. And it just went from there. ESPN was great. They gave me 25 games.

NBC gave me three or four games at a little larger number. And I went with a bank for almost 20 years, believe it or not. I didn't hold the bank up, but they let me go any place I wanted to. We were basically the bank of the Giants, the Jets, the Meadowlands. The casinos were big then in Atlantic City. So we were involved there with...

the roadways, the highway authorities, all that stuff. So we were basically salesmen. And that gave me the opportunity. The next year, I started with the Nets full-time.

I started with CBS for the first time in 82, 83. And, you know, that was sort of the way, you know, I did that for some 20 odd years with the Nets. ESPN until 2013, I left to go when Fox started their FS1 Big East coverage. So I've been really lucky. I mean, you know, not only...

you know, career wise, but this amazing people, most of them considerably younger. And I think that's the big thing too. You know, you guys are young, young people have juice. And I think it just is invigorating for a lot of people. I mean, we get together pregame, you know, the night before these kids are all smart. They love what they're doing. Um,

You know, they're great team players. So I think all that sort of carries you and keeps you going. Yeah, I think a lot of guys, when they work in broadcasting, as they get older, a lot of guys kind of form – I don't know if they're upset with the changes that happen to the game, with the way that things are set up or what it is, but they develop kind of like a bitterness to it. You seem to enjoy watching college basketball more than you ever have. Would you say that's probably because you're around younger people or is that just who you are? I think that's –

I think that's a lot to do with it. And also, I don't get hung up. They make the rules. So why bitch about them? Yeah, yeah. The game starts. You may not like a jump ball, you know, change of possession. You may not like that. But you know what?

people at home could care less. I mean, they, they want to, and the other thing too, you know, the referees, everybody has their angst over them. Uh, and I think you have to say things at times, but basically sitting at home, you don't want to hear about every call lamenting this or that, but key calls. Yes. I understand that part of it, but, uh,

I just think the whole, you know, you come into a town and the thing is so important for two teams, two communities. And we as a group of TV or radio have to match that. I think that's sort of the key. Like that thing is as important to you as it is to both those universities and those kids.

Yeah, it is. It's true. You make sports fun. And I think that when we tune in, we want to be it's entertainment at the end of the day. That's a lot of what our show is, is like, you know, we know that we can't take ourselves too seriously. Sports supposed to be fun and you do a great job of making it fun. That's nice of you. I just feel very fortunate, really. It's it's been a nice little ride, as they say.

I think it keeps you young, keeps you invigorated. And, you know, the challenge of staying on top of it is not much of a challenge, really. I shouldn't even use that word. But, you know, the biggest challenge is getting there, I always say. And you have to be ready when you get there. And the coaches button it up or the pregame practices button it up for you.

Yeah. One of the things that you do that I love the most is you let the viewers know right off the bat if they're playing man-to-man. Right off the bat. There's no question about it. Have you ever screwed up a man-to-man call where you say man-to-man? Oh, yeah. Well, Bayheim, you know, Bayheim, you know, I like playing a two-three zone. That actually started, and I had no idea I was doing it, it was to get out of the play-by-play man's way. Mm-hmm.

So I would do it quickly, never thinking I was connecting the three words. And over the years, I'd be like, I remember being at Newark Airport, and this guy is like a couple of feet away, and I hear him go, and I'm going, geez, what a nitwit this guy is. And he says it a couple of times. I had no idea I was putting the three words together.

But it was Mordy Gannat, the play-by-play guy. Then he identifies who's who and whatever. So I think everything starts for...

You know, just maybe you form a habit, but it just starts because it's convenient or it fits or you want to be as succinct as possible. I do love whenever they come out and zone and you give them the two, three zone with man-to-man principles. Yeah, that was Bayhine. Yeah, yeah. You had to throw him off. Yeah, you can't steal that from me. Yeah, that was...

Jimmy, unbelievable when you think of it and what he did too for a career. Yeah. We love to tease him, but he's amazing. It just is a relaxed way. They just showed up and played and beat people, and he kept getting great players. Yeah. What coach throughout the years have you become closest with or is like, you know, they're genuinely a friend now? Oh.

I, you know, I, I would say a lot of guys, you know, really well and you're really comfortable with, but you, you know, it's not like you're going to dine with them in the spring and summer. Right. Uh, but you know, it's surprising how close you can get and how open they can be about their other areas of life. Uh, you know, whether it's a Bob Knight telling you something, uh, or, uh, you know, uh,

John Thompson telling you something that you know you would never use on the air. But, you know, you're comfortable making a phone call and checking in on them, you know, how they're doing when they retire. And I got, you know, we competed against John pre-Big East and all through to Big East. And I knew him, but almost 10 years of doing the NCAA tournament with him,

We, you know, we had so much time together. It was probably the best time I ever spent with a coach. Yeah. We really, we, we hit on things that you would never even think of discussing as a, you know, a coach TV person or radio person, but it was just natural flow of a conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Which teams are you most excited to call in the NCAA tournament? The ones that you've watched this year that you you're very excited to see where they go.

You mean this particular season or over the years? This year, what are you looking at? Well, I'm curious to see how Duke manages with all these young people. I know they're talented. Grant was talking about it this morning. It's just a different ball of wax. Maybe the first game or two will be one thing.

Uh, but how they react, I I'm curious to see if the SEC, uh, can get three teams in the final four, which would be matched the, you know, the big East in 85. Uh, those are, those are a couple of the things, uh,

I think the biggest thing is how kids become stars. Dante DiVincenzo comes to mind a few years back. He was really a good player. And what he did in that tournament escalated, I shouldn't escalate, elevated him to being a draft pick. And obviously now he's a terrific NBA player. I know he was nicked up recently, but yeah.

You know, he had a good run in New York and now Minnesota. Yeah. But that's the excitement, though. I think we're all of a sudden, you know, Dalton Connect is another one that the world got to see after his play at Tennessee. Of course, now he's with the Lakers. Yeah. Yeah. Our producer's a big Villanova fan, and he texted us when you came on. He just said, Chris Jenkins, how about those onions? It's forever ringing in his head.

So, I mean, that had to have been a thrill. I mean, having a buzzer beater to win a national title is an all-time moment. The big smooth, you know, the interesting thing about that play, that is a play they had practiced, and it really never got the acclaim that it should have, where Archie DiIacono drove at the guy on the right wing and, you know,

Uh, Chris, we couldn't hear it, but he went arch, arch. And then this, I call it a slap back, you know, it's just a pass backwards, but the slap back and the presence of mind to know you could knock it down, the confidence to take it, obviously, but, uh,

Those make your day. I mean, as a fan, you know, it's Keith Smart's jumper down in New Orleans, you know. I was on that angle. I thought he was behind the backboard when he took that jumper in the corner. And yet, as the years went on, I saw it. He had a perfect line, and then his momentum carried him behind the backboard. But those are special moments that –

You know, they sort of live forever. Yeah. Do you have one that you want back? One that you think about keeps you up at night? Uh...

Probably coaching-wise more than anything, you know, where you had a game won and you gave it away kind of a deal, you know. But let me hold it for one second. That was when my daughter called in. But not really. I think, you know, maybe some regrets, maybe some info you thought would have really resonated and you didn't get it in or by the time you thought about it, it was too late.

You know, you either play and move on, kind of. But I think I've been, you know, fortunate to work with some of the greatest play-by-play guys in the world. And, you know, they've all taught me something. And I think Vern taught me a lot about timing, Vern Lundquist, like without having a conversation.

You know, like I always felt like if I have some information that I think would fit at a commercial, I might say something to Vern and he would say, not yet. Let's save that. You know, like his sense of timing was just, in fact, this is digressing for a moment. We have a Louisville game and I think Butler, it doesn't matter, but I think

Louisville's upset in this game, the NCAA game. And the ball went to the left and we're looking that way. And out of the right, I saw an object flying out of the stands and it ends up being a flask, but a plastic flask.

So it slid across the floor. It was almost like God ordained it. It came to my feet, you know? So I go to commercial. I said, Vern, did you ever see that? What are you talking about? And I pick up the flask and I hand it to him. He opens it up, smells it, and he goes, maker's mark. It's not that kind. Yeah.

We sent it. I forget the name. I should know. To the head then of the committee for the NCAA. And thanks for the heavy security during the NCAA tournament. You really protected our butts. Yeah. Anyhow, that's digressing a little bit. I got a weird question. Do you remember the first time you were out to maybe breakfast with Jim Nance and he pulled out a picture of the toast that he keeps in his wallet?

No. That, you know, I don't know that

how it started, but it was like a joke from Jim that got legs. Yeah. So wait, does he have it? Does he have the picture or no? No, no. Oh, wow. He's never showed me. Okay. I'm not saying he didn't have it. Yeah, because the legend goes that he has a picture of the way he wants toast toasted in his wallet, and he'll pull it out.

And he's actually said it. So he might just be getting a prank on everyone that he pulls it, pulls it out and shows the waiter, waitress being like, this is what I want. My money would be on. It became a joke. I think. Okay. You got to ask him, uh,

I'm in his arena with this, but he's got a great sense of humor and he'll go with the flow, kind of, you know? Yeah, because he told the story on Dan Patrick, so he might just be getting everyone. Yeah, he's become part of the Jim Nance legend and giving away the tie. Yeah, do you ever consult with him about the tie when he was about to give away the tie? No, but we...

We were the beneficiary of ties every tournament from Mitchells in Westport. Jim had them sent to us every year. So, Iron Eagle doesn't send me squat. But Jim used to step up and get us those nice little ties. I love it. Do you ever get upset with Grant Hill because he's such a Duke homer?

You're like, chill out, Grant. You know, do you feel that way on the air? We've done Duke games. You know, no question about his loyalty. But doing the Duke games, I think he goes sideways to try and, you know, just be as even-toned as he can.

He actually does. I don't mind Grant Hill. I like Grant Hill a lot. In fact, he does a good job playing it straight down the middle. But no matter what happens, there's always going to be somebody that thinks that they hate your team, except for you, maybe. I don't know. Do people do you ever get people that come up to you like, hey, why do you hate Cal so much?

Right. Yeah. I, you know, people, uh, well, generally speaking, if they dislike the guys means their team beat them on a regular basis, I think. Right. Or they got beaten a recruiting deal or sometimes it's just personality that they don't care for. But, uh,

You know, they're fans, so they get upset when things don't go their way frequently. But, you know, it's funny to walk out of a building and the people will say, great job. You know, they were at the game. They didn't hear you, but their team won, so you did a great job. Yeah, it's true. That's a very good point. Everybody means well. I mean, it's –

you know, wide open world out there, uh, that that's made the college game special. Yeah. So on, uh, on Sunday, you're going to be watching just like everybody else, I guess. Right. Or do you get, do you get the bracket before it comes out? No, we, we will probably be in the air. Uh, we'll find out. I'm sure like with the iPad or something, we'll pick up something, but, uh, we, uh,

They let the schools know or the public and the schools. And then that night they decide where we're going.

They have a meeting between Turner and CBS, all the execs. Is there anything that you're rooting for? Any specific region you'd like to do? Over the years, it's like you can't go wrong. You're going to get one or two teams that are going to get to the semis or quarter lead aid. So it's like wherever they send you, you do the same thing at every town you go to. You're in the gym for eight teams. Yeah.

You know, you have a meeting after to get ready for the next day, have a couple of pops, get up the next day and do the games and come back.

sort of chat a little bit, have a couple more pops and get ready for the next day. Kind of, you know? Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I have one last question. This has been so much fun. We really appreciate you joining us. We're like I said, we're huge, huge fans. A row back a question, RHO, BACK.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com promo code take. So we are on the eve of the tournament and,

Do you have a team that you've watched and you're like, this team's going to win it all? I know you're not in the predictions business, but do you have a team you're like, that team has everything? You know, I don't know if they have everything, but the obvious chalk, I would say, would be Duke, Auburn, Alabama. A team that intrigues me is Florida. Yeah, very good. They intrigue me because they've got size, speed, shooters, everything.

Guys, Golden's a hell of a coach. He did a great job in San Francisco. They're one. BYU intrigues me. Oh, yeah, they're good. Out of the blue. I do think that Houston might be ready. And the reason I say that, they actually have some guys shooting the ball decently.

And I think that's big because you know they're going to show up and guard you and beat you on the glass. And they get extra attempts too, possessions, which is overlooked frequently. But they're phenomenal that way. But those are a couple. Yeah. I have a very important question for you because it's been one that I've been thinking about for, I don't know, 15 years. You're the perfect guy to answer it. Why do we call it college hoops but we call it NBA basketball? Hmm.

Oh, really? I never even noticed that. Yeah, it's always college hoops, which I love. I love saying college hoops. Right. I never thought of it.

Now you will. Now you will. Now you, yeah. You'll have to get to the bottom of that for me. Yeah. I will. That's an intriguing inquiry. Yeah. Thank you. I don't mind searching for facts. Maybe it's an answer that we're not meant to know. Yeah. Yeah. They're keeping it from us. Well, uh, raft, thank you so much. And, uh, we look, yeah, we look forward to August 17th. It's, it's going to be bill raftery day on, on my parade. No parade. Just, uh,

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Dude, you got to get him on line one right away. Yeah. Let's get him on line seven. Memes, change that up. Wait, wait. Memes has him listed on line seven? Oh, yeah.

I don't even know what this is. We only have one, two, three, four, five. I'm a first liner. We only have six microphones. I guess there's technically another one that would be right there. Wow. Oldie knows more about our show, how to produce our show, than we do. Line seven, Hank. Line seven. That's disrespectful. That's not going to happen again, Hank, going forward. Okay, there we go. That's how we fix it. Appreciate it. Yeah, no problem, brother. Let's kick it to line seven.

Uh, no, no big fire fest this week. It's a great week. The weather's, the weather's turning golf seasons approaching. Like I like walking outside and just feeling like, you know, it's golf weather. Uh, that happened a couple of times this week, March madness this weekend, nothing better. I did have, this was, this is just gross. And I wish I had something else to use my fire fest, but I'll just say this one. Cause it's really the only thing that happened this week that was negative, but

I woke up yesterday, went to the gym in my building, sweaty, came down, dropped a deuce, and then went to flush, wasn't working. And then I saw an email from my building. Oh, no. Water was shut down for till like six o'clock at night. So just hung out there all day. So I just had to like dry off the sweat.

come into work and then come home like eight hours later wait what happened with the the deuce i flushed it like last night oh yeah oh no just marinating your bath it was disgusting i wish i really didn't want to even have to say this because it's gross and that's it that was my fire it was disgusting the it was disgusting the water being shut off that's such a and i wanted to shower so bad yeah because i remember like in my old apartment in brooklyn they would shut off the water i don't know like twice a year and when they did it it would be like

how is this possible how could you shut this water i'd go buy a bunch of water and like gotta get ready it's like yeah there's no water for four hours dude you can handle this it was literally and it it it was 1005 and i'm like what happened i see i opened up my email and i was like from 10 to 6 i was like if i was just 20 minutes earlier i was fine did you try to turn on the shower yeah yeah and you get the air coming out oh that's what you get for working out yeah that's what i know never again it's funny because like right after you take a shit your shit's funny

And it looked like, I know there's a bunch of group chats that people have. They take a picture. Look at this gross shit I just took. And they sent it. That same shit, if you wait eight hours, you're horrified by your own poop. Yeah. That's gross. It was gross. That's really gross. It's gross. There's no, I really, like I said, I didn't want to mention it, but. That's really gross. It was gross. Hank, that's really, really gross. But Hank, you know what I got? I think I got this yesterday. Might even be Tuesday. Yeah.

The first email from a golf course saying it's that time of year. We're opening up this weekend. No carts, though. You can go out there and walk, but we will have the course available for play on Friday. That's amazing. Yeah, I think next week, hopefully, if the weather's nice, will be the first round. Get back out there. What are we shooting this summer? Give me some goals. Break 85. That's my goal. By when? By July. You know you could just by filling out the card however you wanted to. It's true.

I'll break 85 first round. Hank's a man of honor. I guarantee I shoot 84 first round out this year. We'll see. When do you think your first round will be? Whenever you guys make me do a video. I'm sure that will come soon. I'm sure you'll be like, hey, we got this awesome sponsor, and I was thinking maybe we play golf.

I'll say, all right, fine. These aren't Hank's ideas. I do have fun when I go out. I just don't have time to go out. It's not Hank's idea that he gets forced into playing golf for work. Literally. I'm pushing to get Hank into the Creator Classic. Yeah. By the way, shout out Trent. Shout out Trent. Trent put out, it was a performance for the ages. He had the best moments of anybody that golfed yesterday. The shot that he took on that hill where it looked like his ankle snapped in half.

And then he just created a new bunker, and his ball came to rest in that bunker. It was so funny, so relatable. And then his performance on 17 was real-life tin cup. If you're going to be in that Creator Classic, what was the prize? I don't know if there was one. Okay, so if you can't win, you know how the old Ricky Bobby, if you're not first, you're last? That's...

Listen, in that type of setting, if you're not first, be really, really last because everyone will remember it. And he had the most memorable performance. And it's literally the creator classic. Yeah, it was incredible. So he created the best content. And the fact that it's the day before a real golf tournament, which is happening, and there's a non-zero chance that that massive divot that he put in the ground might come into play is one of the greatest storylines going. It's a new bunker that he made on that hole. And yeah, it's...

I'd say likely that somebody will find themselves in or around that divot that he took. Yeah. That was huge. That's a huge...

I mean, you could almost, if you brought in a tree, you could put a new shrub in there. Yeah, put it right in. What was the full total distance? You know the science facts when they show the ball tracker, the trace finger? How many would that be? Like 0.1? Did it go backwards? I think it was negative. It had to have been negative. He lost. I think the ball went backwards. He lost, and then it's another stroke, so it just keeps adding up and adding.

And I'd like to also see the total distance on every shot that he took on 17. Like how far it's 130 yard hole. I think he probably hit like 700 yards worth of shots on that hole. Yeah, it was great. But it was it was so I was so happy for him when when it landed. He said he only had two balls left. The guy Grant Horvath. He's not a professional golfer. No.

His name is a professional golfer. You're thinking there's a guy named Horvath, isn't there? Oh, yeah. Billy Horvath or something. Billy Horschel. Maybe Billy Horschel. But yeah, I thought the same thing for a little bit. When I saw it, I was just like, wait a second. How's this guy in this?

He should be a professional golfer. That's a professional golfer's name. I agree. He's a great golfer. If you see Grant Horvat, he's 12th in the FedEx Cup standings. I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. I think he's the biggest YouTube golfer. He was really good, but I couldn't believe that. And he looks like a professional golfer. He should be a professional golfer. I don't know if his game's there, but he checks the look and the name professional golfer. Yeah. Shout out Kyle Berkshire.

Sorry that I wasn't on his bag. He asked me to be on his bag. I accepted to be on his bag in the video, but things come up at part of my take and we had interviews and stuff this week, so I couldn't make it down there. It would have been fun though.

P, that could have been me. That could have been me on his bag too. Oh yeah. I'll send you next time. 1,469%. I would go. I know. He loved you. You started that number. You didn't know where it was going. Oh no. It ended though. It finally ended because it would have been worse because if it didn't end, it would be like .001 and 6 and 7 and stuff. Well, we'll be on Hank's bag next year. There's something brewing. Yes, yes. This is a problem, PFD. I don't think you were here for this conversation. Uh...

Max, for some reason, is like pushing for him to be in the Creator Classic. And I said, well, then he has to practice a ton. And Max was like, but that would be great. He could practice more. I think Hank paid off Max. I don't know.

I was watching Trent. I think Max is going to ask for a vacation or something. Yeah, there's something. Something is up. Hey, Windy Fingers, you just saying, Hank, I want you to golf more. Either that or he's trying to push you out. No. Wrong. I like what he's saying, but I also am a little wary of him. I was watching Trent struggle thinking –

how awesome it would be if I was watching Hank struggle. Max? Because Hank would have taken it so much worse and been so much more upset. That's my porn is when Hank is playing poorly in golf and I can just look at his face. Why couldn't we get you in the creator class?

I know we're not a golf channel, but we're the number one sports podcast. We can't be like, hey, this guy should be in it. I doubt it. I bet you we can. PFT should do it. Next year, we're getting Hank in. Also, I'm now putting it all together. Max wants your seat because now he has Oldie, who knows the one through sevens on the mic. This was yesterday. Oldie can produce. It sounds like you're scared. Yeah. The thing is, time moves really quickly. Time does move quickly. You're scared, Hank.

Definitely. Yeah. He did. He was scared because he sipped the drink there. It was like a nervous sip. What does time moving quickly have to do with it?

Well, all of a sudden he's seventh line and he shouldn't be the seventh line. That's true. You know what I mean? That's right. Matter of fact, the last time I was here, wasn't he on holidays as well? He was. I was on holiday. How much time is this guy going to get? I didn't ask for more time. Sorry I wanted to see Hank fail in front of millions of people. But Hank was here. I was with Hank and you weren't here. I'm talking about Paul. That's true.

Good point. Don't let them put us against each other. I think it's already happened. No, no, no, no. We're too big. We're on the same side here. We're on the same side. Yeah, we are. We're too big. You don't want to roll with us. 2v2. Cut him out. Cut him out. Yeah, cut him out. I'll keep an eye on this guy. Yeah, okay. Keep your hands above. Also, I love that one of the biggest storylines in the players this weekend is that they moved a tree. Yeah. It's so cool. Big tree. There was an iconic tree that blocked a tee shot on, I think, 11th.

And the tree went away because it was dying. And they found a perfect tree to take its place, picked it up, and moved the tree into the tree box. And now everybody's super proud of the tree there. Yeah. Check out this tree. Have you seen the tree yet? My Fire Fest of the Week. There's a couple. One is actually not my Fire Fest, but I think it's a Fire Fest for all guys in general. Okay. And this comes to us from our good friend, co-worker, Hubs. And Hubs tweeted this out last night. Did you see this, Hank? No, I didn't. I didn't.

uh he said my fiance just asked me with a straight face when was the first time i dunked she just assumed throughout our entire relationship i've been dunking was stunned beyond belief when i said none of my friend group can do it i wonder how fast she thinks i can throw a baseball hubs is probably about my height and he's bringing to light the the fact that a lot of women just think that all men can dunk yeah and so it's like when did you first dunk like when did you first learn how to ride a bike

And this is bad for guys. This is bad. I'll tell you what, it's even worse when you have kids because it doubles where my son has asked me, did you play with him? He'll meet a hockey player or NBA player and be like, did you play with him? I'm like, no, I did not.

I did not play with him. I did not play professional sports. That's not what – yeah, I remember when I first took him to a Blackhawks game last year and he got to meet Wayne Gretzky and then I told him he was the best hockey player of all time. He has the most goals. Soon to be OV.

He asked me, he's like, how many goals did you score in the NHL? Yeah. Kids assume that every adult guy is either a former professional athlete, maybe a former firefighter. Firefighter. Maybe a police officer. Big time firefighter. Maybe an astronaut. Yeah. And you're like, no, I sit behind a mic and fart. I'm a podcaster. But yeah, so I do...

I didn't know this until Hubs tweeted out, and then a lot of people replied saying, yeah, I asked my girlfriend or wife, and a lot of women just think all guys can dunk. Yeah, that's bad. That's very bad, Hank. Yeah, it seems easier than it is.

It does seem easier than it is, doesn't it? Yeah, you were basically a chick a year ago. Yeah. I'll be able to dunk. How would you answer that question? When was the last time you could dunk? Would you say I almost dunked once? Probably, I'd say coming up soon. Soon. I haven't peaked yet. Yeah. I would just say, like, when was the last time I played 2K? Like, four years ago? I just have a trampoline in my backyard. Yeah, little basketball hoops all the time. Yeah. And then the other Fyre Fest is...

Actually, Firefest. Firefest 2. It's happening. Oh, yeah. It's happening. Hell yes. In Isla Mujeres, Mexico. Allegedly, it's happening. I think it's May 30th.

And they've got all these packages. I was looking on the website. There's one you can buy a ticket for a million dollars. They have a million dollar package that you can purchase. They haven't announced who's playing. So before I spent the million dollars on the ticket, I hit up Billy McFarlane, the guy that runs Firefest. I was like, hey, what does the lineup look like? And he told me he wanted to announce DMX, but they wouldn't let him yet.

DMX died like four years ago. He was joking. That was a joke. That was a joke from Dylan McFarlane. But he did say, because I said either I or somebody at Barstool should go to Fyre Fest too. And he said that he will give us a ticket if we want to go. May 30th. I don't. I don't. You don't want to go to Mexico? It would be cool.

We'll send Oldie as a correspondent. Yeah, Oldie as our correspondent. Oh, man. Side pouches out on the beach? You want to go to Fyre Fest too? Oh, absolutely. Well, if it's two, that means one was already rocking and rolling then. Yeah, that's exactly what happened with one. They're running it back. I mean, I know that a lot of people... We might have to send him as our international correspondent because you are international. Yeah. If I can get you a ticket, would you go? You can't deny the ticket. That's like...

My only concern with sending oldie is like he would make it fun. And I think people like that was an awesome time because there was this Canadian dude that was making everyone, you know, go balls to the wall. Yeah. So there's also there have been a couple of denials from the local authorities. Some people saying that it's not happening.

I'm choosing to believe Billy until... What has Billy done to make me doubt him? Does he still have the dude that will suck dick for water? He should be there. Yeah. That's a guy that you want on your team. All-time guy. Imagine that, giving the guy all the water, and then you still got to give him a heavy dagger. Yeah. It's fucked up. You thought, like, okay, cool, this guy's water. This guy, they're going to be fine now. He's like, no, no, no, no, no. You're like, what?

That's exactly how it would go. So, yeah, we'll try to get, if this happens, I do want Oldie to go. That would be fun. Wait a minute, wait a minute. What? I'm looking at the accommodations right now. Part of it, it says the luxury room, which I believe is the million dollar room, will contain a minimum of one bed.

Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah. Hey, they're doing a good job now. That's for the luxury package. You get a minimum of one bed or two double beds at the guest choice. At least it's not zero beds. Which makes me believe that there's probably some that have zero beds. Yes. If you say minimum of one bed, though, and there's not a bed, that's a problem. Yeah.

The bet's going to be a blow-up. It's not going to be a soft. Yeah, probably. They'll get the guy that sucked dick for water to come in there and blow up your bed. Where is it? I think it's Isla Mujeres. Yeah, Isla Mujeres. It's a tropical island off Cancun, Mexico. Oh, okay. I thought that was the Jurassic Park Island the first time I heard it. Yeah. Okay, well, to be continued. All right, my Fyre Fest is just the...

it's an age one. I don't know. We, we are two days into like true March madness conference tournament week. I, there's nothing worse that I woke up this morning, uh, feeling like absolute dog shit. And it was not like sick. Uh,

And then I had the moment of, what did you do yesterday? Oh yeah, you sat on a couch and watched TV all day. And it's the most pathetic feeling ever to be like, I'm mentally and physically wiped out.

from watching basketball sometimes when like the less you work out the tireder you get oh yeah it's big time what do you think about getting some of those you know the little pedals that you put under your desk yeah what if we just had those in the cave oh remember the uh the ad machine i put on for a podcast once maybe we get those i mean we should we should try to get some workouts in because yeah it was uh it's just it's we're two days in and i'm already feeling uh and i know i'll be fine because i this is my favorite time of the year but it's just like

It's absolutely pathetic that sitting and watching basketball can mentally and physically drain me that way. You've got a long two weeks, too. Long two weeks. This is March. And I've got to fight against you every day. Yeah. Tooth and nail. Hank, by the way, faded me when I lost.

And then yesterday I won, and he didn't fade me. Isn't that weird? You didn't fade him yesterday? Yeah, but isn't that weird that it was the day I won? Yeah. Well, I missed. He really is a commenter who's just like halfway through a game like bad bet. No, everything I do, I tell you what I'm doing. But you said you were going to fade me, and then I won. Well, yesterday I was doing stuff, and I missed the early games, and I didn't want to hop in. Got it. Got it.

Got it. But it's just interesting. Like, the day I lose, you faded me. The day I won, you didn't. Yeah, good luck. You're like Jim Cramer. You're good at timing the market. I'm a lucky guy. Yeah. All right, Oldie, your fire fest. Oh, it's been a decent week for me, so a good start. Early, early on this morning, though, the flight in. First off, half an hour delayed plane maintenance. So I'm thinking, oh, here we go. Now I'm not even going to make it.

Have you guys ever had to buy a bug spray on a plane? No. Why? Wait, you bought it on a plane? Well, I had to. I was so far back. Like my knees were wedged in the back. There was mosquitoes, flies. What? Right beside the washroom. Yeah, like you guys appreciate you flying me down earlier this morning. Wait, there was mosquitoes on the plane? Yeah. They must be so confused. I don't know. I don't know why they put me back so far in the seats. I'm beside the washroom. It smells like...

You know when you go and drink the next morning and it reeks of like bad alcohol? Yeah. That's in the washroom. I was beside the washroom. There were actual... So did you get bug spray? Yeah, because there was bugs and shit all over the place. Wait, where can you buy bug spray? The stewardess helped me out. She had bug spray? Yeah.

Yeah, because she knows how bad the airline is that I flew in on that she knows it's not good back there. So you sprayed the bug spray on yourself on the plane? Yeah, to keep the mosquitoes and flies off me. That's concerning to me that the stewardess had bug spray on the plane. She must have known. She knew. That's the flight I took. What airline? Can't do that. Why? That's not nice. What does it rhyme with? This is going to be a while to figure out a rhyme. No.

No, I don't know. I don't know. You looked at me like I knew the airline. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I had no bug spray. I'm just bullshitting you guys here. Oh, so what happened? No, I was in... The only disappointing thing was I walked past the first class and then I was in the middle class. Yeah, yeah. I thought maybe I would be with the other people. Wait, so there was no mosquitoes? No mosquitoes. I'm just joking. But look.

Look what I did have to get. Look. Here, I got to show you live, Max. Let's see here. Photos. This is the roll your own dice when you're looking at photos here. I'll do it.

No, you're good here. I won't look until you're ready for me to look. Look at me. Look at my feet. Look how much feet room I didn't have. I know. I took off my shoes. Taking off your shoes off, guy? There's by Toronto. Well, I had to. That's true. That's true. I had to. Do you have clean socks? Donuts? Yeah, it's disgusting here. Wedged them in their seatbelts. And I had to sip these guys. Wait, you had an open seat next to you? Yeah. What?

What? That's amazing. That's an incredible flight. Are you puking? Well, I didn't feel good on the plane. It was rough. He showed me pictures. Now he showed a picture of him in the doggy bag. Picture of him in the bathroom. Barely even move in the washroom. Yeah.

Look, if you guys don't believe, look at that. How much more tight is this plane? Anyone watching on the YouTube will be able to see all these photos. And then look at these. I don't know. That's a party? Party section? What's that? We could use that. There's a party section? It's like a little... He did a full...

It's like a little photo shoot on display. And in here. Sick, guys. Great ride. Look at that. Here. That's a good one. Couldn't get any closer to the shit. I know. I know. That's tough. When you go through security and you go through that big machine that scans you, do they ever stop you afterwards and they're like, sir, please empty your pockets and they check your crotch? The pouch, no. No. I had to do that today. I put my hands up. I guess my hands weren't high enough above. So I said, when my hands go from here, do they go from behind to my back?

And she says, no. I said, I'm not getting arrested. I said, why do I have to do this, right? I don't know what that scan really does. Yeah, I think it's just checking to see if you have anything on you. Yeah. All right, well, so no bugs, but good trip. We're happy you're here. Good trip. I'm glad I'm here. This is awesome. This is great. Yeah, tune into the streams. Oldie will be watching college basketball with us. Oh, I can't wait to bump and grind with you guys out here. This is going to be one heck of a week. How's the snow situation in Canada right now?

Starting to melt. Nice. Starting to melt. Do you get a little sad, though, because that means the plow's going away for the season? The only thing I miss, to be honest, pushing snow back and burying people's driveways in is just absolutely laying on the horn. When someone's in front of you or behind you, just go dizzy with it. Let it go. So when you're not plowing the snow, when there's no snow out there, what do they have you doing? Filling potholes. I was filling potholes all week.

It wasn't good. That sounds like a lot more work than driving the snow truck. Yeah, that's what I mean. You're in the truck. You can just bang on the horn, you know, pump the tunes. Here you're in, out, in, out, filling potholes. People yelling at you, telling you you don't know how to fix the potholes. Yeah.

The lady told me, what are you doing stopping the truck filling the potholes? I said, because it's got to fill the hole. She's like, well, you don't know what you're doing. I said, well, then you get out and show me. She says, well, my husband owns a construction company. Well, then tell him to get his ass over here. Like, I don't care. Drive your Audi out of here, lady. Get your ass out of here. Move on. You remember that house. Snow him in. You're not filling my hole right. My husband does a way better job of filling that hole. Yeah. You know what I say? I said it for years now. Yeah.

Laugh now, cry later, sweetheart. Yeah. You'll be able to get that Audi out. Never, never. Hank drives an Audi.

Yeah, but he's like a bigger, better Audi. She was like a Q3 thinking like she's big time. Is that what you drive? That would be exactly Hanks. Hank, you drive a chick car? What's wrong with a Q3? Would you say an Audi's a chick car? Great on gas. Let's put it that way. Okay, that's a chick car. But Hank's got a sick grill. He just upgraded it. All right, let's do numbers. Finish off with numbers. 17. 33. I got to go 61 here.

77. One. 99 pug. Good odds. Someone's going to get it. 77. A lot of them. I took 77. Lil' Jackie. Lil' Jackie. He took 7, Chuck. He took 7. 32. Also, for everyone out there, his name is now Lil' Jackie. It's Lil' Jackie until he proves he's the man. Until he fights Shane. Correct. Agree. 42. 42. Jackie Robinson. Love you guys.

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