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[SPEAKER_00]: Well done to sports are dumb the podcast that has its brackets filled out and ready to be busted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Joey and I'm Sean and Sean what a hectic Sunday we had.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the selection Sunday show for the men's and women's basketball tournaments as well as the Oscars.
[SPEAKER_00]: As well as the Oscars shout out to Michael B and shout out to the weather because that was a
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it was 95 degrees yesterday in Austin, a high of 95, and then today a low of 28 degrees or something or something and people wonder why everyone's getting sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: The windshield, which is if the wind wasn't blowing, it would be fine, but obviously the wind was blowing in the shade, I had to walk across campus, I'm like, what are we doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just you could hear it and like, do I turn on the heater?
[SPEAKER_02]: I did not turn on the heater, but questions arose.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as of this recording, it's going to get really cold again tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I have another decision to make.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do I want my gas bill to go up or no?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's awful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's also South by Southwest here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's tons of visitors in town who are really getting the full Texas experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all in all kind of a few days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, Sean, that could be a great jumping off point.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've texted me, I believe it was after Texas lost in the SEC tournament to Ole Miss who then went on one of the most memorable runs I can, I can, I think of off the top of my head.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ole most as the 15 seat, almost winning, which I was starting to root for that by the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: They would have been, I think, 17 and 19 if they, 16 and 19 maybe if they had pulled off the five games
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to go in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well over a month without winning at all during they just, they ran out of gas.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was rooting for them until I realized who their coach was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's the one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, wait a minute.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't need to win anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and it was like this team is very entertaining to watch, but also, yeah, it's tough to support.
[SPEAKER_00]: the coach is a person not only that used to coach at your school, but also has some I'm not great personal things go I got as far as I want to remember Chris Beard, the coach at Ole Miss, was formerly the coach at the University of Texas.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was fired from his job for a suspected domestic abuse.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a partner at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Calls up, please.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then try to take it back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess once they understood the ramifications, but it was too late and he was fired.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's at Ole Miss, who made the sweet 16 last year with everything and then we're very happy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess, and I, and everyone, everyone, but Sean, you texted me after that loss after Texas loss.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Texas is not in the tournament and your prayers, your prayers were sort of answered because for the second straight year, Texas, the men's team is in the first four, the
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like soon after this recording drops, Texas will be playing a basketball game and they might already be out of the tournament.
[SPEAKER_02]: How would you determine that if you lose in the first four, does it count that you've made the tournament?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it does, I think it does, but it doesn't feel like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it doesn't make it like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were just in the tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although, you could argue, Sean, that it's actually...
[SPEAKER_00]: more eyeballs on you during the term because you're the only game at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, only two games that day and you're one of them by yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I guess it's just, you know, it's, it's, yes, more eyeballs, yes, but like when game for happening at one more than one time and you're, you're, you're seeing the 12 C that's up by 10 and the middle of the second half and but you're flipping because there's a potential buzzer beater, but they got a review in another in the 13 and four, like it's just like, that's Mars Men is not, not the, the two say night first for game,
[SPEAKER_02]: on the same channel that in practical jokes, jokes, there's a moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A very interesting choice too from the selection committee Texas taking on North Carolina state who I like to think is playing in the first four because of a game against Miami where they blew a
[SPEAKER_00]: Under two seconds to go and Miami despite being one of the worst free throw shooting teams in the league made all three free throws Snuck out to a Miller-esque and yes, very Jordan Miller It was except they shot quite poorly throughout I think they shot like 50% for the game, but happened to make all three It's something it's other ridiculous like that like pretty
[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty brutal, but Texas and NC State have already played once this season.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, who wants to seem like there is Texas one.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, or, oh, not that I say this, I was a guy, what was the choppy guy on NC State from a couple years ago that led them to me?
[SPEAKER_00]: DJ Burns.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was in the crowd at the, uh, the, uh, the ACC tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Texas did when I was right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: High scoring game and they're doing a rematch where they could have easily just I feel like swapped SMU and NC state so that you could have an all Texas match up and then you could have Miami of Ohio's the other first 14 playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: They put my me home first four.
[SPEAKER_00]: they did enduring the broadcast when they were unveiled.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was, this was proven to be incorrect.
[SPEAKER_00]: They, my name is Ohio was the first team of the first four.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the other three were below them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But on the broadcast, I think Seth Davis said something like, oh, they were the last.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I see mint.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Texas, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think SMU was actually was the last team.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, they were all,
[SPEAKER_00]: worse because the way the seeding works is your results based metrics get you into the tournament, but then your predictive metrics are a large component of your seeding.
[SPEAKER_00]: So a team like my amovahayo who won virtually all of the games they played.
[SPEAKER_00]: They lost some of the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: They won all of their regular season games.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like you can't keep them out of the tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: MSG's and LOLs are also rough They are in the play and apparently a heavy underdog against SMU already who really as one man We should have played my way higher one game.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know sexes could have had magic yeah Okay So we got
[SPEAKER_02]: NC State, DJ Browns, he's still got some eligibility left.
[SPEAKER_00]: SMU, and he does not have eligibility, but you have to say sarcasm because if I'm at 60 or players, they're all still in college.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like you can't like people that like everybody was upset about one in Dunn's a few years ago college basketball players are coming back at the college because of the NIL they know that they can get instead of being a second-round pick They might as well get it right up with the age requirement because the NIL has fixed the NBA's problem of having children in their league.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you'll look at a player who's a senior and it's like
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just like, oh, yeah, it's just, you know.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the word with, there's no point in complaining.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess we can combine about whatever we want.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you just got to realize this is the new world that we live in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like AI stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can play about AI all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that doesn't mean the AI is going anywhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to read resumes from my job and hired people.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, y'all didn't write none of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: AI just, I know at least try to mask it a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or make a note that you said.
[SPEAKER_00]: you know, this was AI-assisted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would appreciate that even more, I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had someone request a zoom for a career advice in the sports industry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I mean, I can help.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can drive, like, like, I don't really work in sports.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was talking to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess this is related to sport.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was like, you're trying to get it into being, he wants to be like a sport agent.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got no assist for you there, but I mean, I was like, are you interested in going in law school?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no interest is going in law school.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we started talking about, well, like, well, there's these, there's local teams in the area.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got the round round express.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got the Texas stars.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got sports shirts like the crossover where I play hockey yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have these adult leagues like sport time and all these other places like get your foot in the door with the sports agent do like game ops or ticket sales or whatever and meet somebody because everybody got everybody's in a sport agent is there because they know somebody's not because they were
[SPEAKER_02]: some genius negotiator, they developed to that point probably, but like just getting to those sports field meet somebody and they can keep introducing you to more folks.
[SPEAKER_02]: So sports, dumb in that portion, it's very hard to get into because it's not very traditional way.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's no traditional way and working in sports.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I think that's good advice for any career in general.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, most of my jobs and or freelance gigs throughout the years have been meeting someone and then they either recommend me to someone else or they're like, hey, you were, you were nice to talk to.
[SPEAKER_00]: You want this job.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, or you could start your sports podcast and just run up on people and say, hey, I like sports.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we got a we got a print of some flyers really hand them hand them at around time.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should have been very good to ourselves by if we were.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, the wind would have blown flyers away.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was trying to throw the the foster dog scampy has a pretty good heat for eating sticks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can hear him in the back.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's driving in.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, what do you mean all the dog teeth are in the tunnel or?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he loves to eat both sticks and he's gotten like plant fronds lately too, so
[SPEAKER_00]: less I cumbersome on the teeth and sticks I would imagine, but they had one like comically large one yesterday, and I was just trying to like drop it over the fence on the other side, so he wasn't getting at any more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, three times because the wind would carry at a dash into the ground and I'm just, I'm like this can't be this difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, I'm an athlete.
[SPEAKER_02]: How do quarterbacks throw into the wind?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you see Sean, you take a sea shape normally and you make it a you or I think I have the backwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: You take a you shape normally and make it a new a sea.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember which way is the right way per Tom Brady's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tom Brady's advice instructional advice during again, but chaos all around.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sean, we're going to get into your bracket because I think you're more excited, especially based on your alma mater.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I the the the women side of things because Texas,
[SPEAKER_00]: Despite being in the first four two years in a row in the men's bracket is a one seed in the women's bracket, but I would also just quickly like to share
[SPEAKER_00]: My picks based off of fun, different types of things.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about this before we got online.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can certainly pick your bracket based on teams you think are good.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the one seeds this year, very good.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of them have injuries, though.
[SPEAKER_02]: Injuries.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alabama.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, that could potentially be a dark horse because they shoot very well if they get hung.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're leading score, second leading score.
[SPEAKER_00]: is under a rest for felony marijuana possession as of like three hours before this recording two hours like, oh, fact still coming out about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's going to be unavailable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seems like I read something that it's like up to 10 years in prison and it was something like,
[SPEAKER_00]: more than like a recreational amount of you like it was like possession or like intent to distribute or something was oh yeah was that I don't want to get that into it because I haven't looked
[SPEAKER_00]: into the legal reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a lawyer, but I did see someone say that there was a there was a failure to include stamps or something which apparently is like a attack like you you need to put proper postage on are you in drugs?
[SPEAKER_00]: Infinite legal drugs, I guess.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not only are you telling the legal drugs, you're selling illegal drugs illegally.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're not even paying the taxes on the
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, fill out your bracket, you can use your head, you can use your eye test, you can use, no, I like this team's colors, I don't like this city that I've been to, so I'm going to pick against that you can, like you can fill it a bracket in any way and you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd say just as equal on someone who has watched every college basketball game this season and knows what they're talking about, which is I think what makes March madness so excellent is that kind of just madness for lack of a better word.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's too easy.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to share some ideas if you're if you're stumped if you're like, I don't know what to treat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, first of all, this is the least fun one, but it is fun to play around with.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's still, actually, maybe it's the most fun if you like tinkering with sliders, but there's a tool.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been out for like 15 years.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's called Algebrakit.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll put a link in the show now, like Algebra, but with bracket at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can pick either the men's or the women's tournament, which is nice.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like a lot of these
[SPEAKER_00]: tools just do the men so you can do both brackets and then you pick what's important to you as far as stats if you're like I want a team that plays with a fast pace you can move your slider down to that make that way more heavily if you're like I love teams with good turnover margins you can weigh that and if you're like I don't care at all about offensive rebounding percentage yet don't put that anything you keep that at zero so you can weigh what's
[SPEAKER_02]: It's all like legit stats or does there's some funky stuff like I like team that don't have red trim on their jerseys.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing to that level.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are some interesting like things I don't look at as, like a justed scoring margin and like true shooting percentage, I think are kind of ones that opponents free throws.
[SPEAKER_00]: and like attempts per game, I think it's kind of random.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're in Fallen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can be falling.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do like that seed is also one of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, couldn't you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, couldn't you be all right?
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You need algebra's help or like AI's help for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: we are turning into Wally.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's, so that's a fun tool.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll throw in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're picking by mascot, we will also do this for the women's bracket, but before we move on to that, the men's bracket, my picks for mascot, you've got Yukon with Jonathan Husky, the gorgeous dog.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know the name of Jonathan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he's named after Jonathan Trumbel, I believe, who's a,
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously Miami Sebastian the Ibis who might be playing the very last game of The Friday night so of round one On the East Coast boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's late.
[SPEAKER_00]: The game is also against Missouri in St. Louis So that's something else you can look at when you're filling out your breath.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is one of these teams actually playing virtually at home Cuz that usually favors them
[SPEAKER_00]: And then the final mascot, the Akron Zips have Zippy the Kingaroo.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have that before at a work event, and she has an enormous tail, and is very welcoming, very, very friendly mascot.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there you go, you come, VCU Miami, Akron.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a year final four.
[SPEAKER_00]: final four if you're picking by a mascot.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were talking about AI, Sean.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm sure you've heard about data centers as well, which are being built in communities.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so thirsty.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the community's not getting any input.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like been not.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is, this is frustrating.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sean is, Sean is getting keyed it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you want to do a men's bracket entirely of the hottest data center hub in the country, which is the Virginia North Carolina corridor, you can pick Duke, North Carolina, high point, and Virginia, all in different regions.
[SPEAKER_02]: High point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three of them in North Carolina.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could also pick VCU instead of UNC since they're playing each other.
[SPEAKER_00]: I either one of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: How many men's brackets do you have?
[SPEAKER_00]: I just have the one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I was doing this for work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, we've said everybody has Duke winning, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, I don't have my actual bracket.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then one other thing that I think is fun is I filling out brackets based, and this requires some research unless you travel quite a bit, but I, you can look at the strange tourist attractions that are in the cities and or states that you pick.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for that, I went with UCLA, which has the Liberia tar pits, which is a feature in L.A.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nor, if you ever get back to it, Sean, you can walk around.
[SPEAKER_00]: From one of the levels, and then Nebraska has car hinge, which is a stone hinge homage featuring classic cars sticking straight out of the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, you're banking on Nebraska winning, not only it's first tournament game ever, but four games to reach the final four.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you make that pick, but hey, we're picking based off of tourist attractions, not vibes or talent or anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'd also throw Arkansas in the final four because that's home to the world's largest Christmas pickle and then St. Louis, which has the world's
[SPEAKER_02]: Why it's a loop?
[SPEAKER_02]: It should be overseas and where I don't disagree say Lewis Yep, there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be shocked if really any of those teams make the funnel for actually, but You know what stranger things
[SPEAKER_02]: So I have George Mason, will ABC you, you know, you never know, a U.T., not U.T., who's the golfer that upset you and B.C.
[SPEAKER_00]: you and B.C.
[SPEAKER_00]: are the retrievers.
[SPEAKER_00]: The retrievers are the dogs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: The dogs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, at RIP sister Jean, they'll go on a run like you never know.
[SPEAKER_02]: things that happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had that in the sweet 16th lawyer, the Chicago.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying I was close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Close to pick in the funnel for run, but not quite.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might remember, Sean, they defeated Miami at the start of that run on a bus theater that was reviewed for 10 minutes and then they put three times a second back on the clock.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was in Dallas and that was a long boring wait for nothing to happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just ready to see a basketball.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe or maybe not go off the last thread of a short and for that 25 minute review in the call.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sean, you will be ecstatic to learn.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you have not been following college basketball that much but this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Final minutes of the game
[SPEAKER_00]: can cause a review.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not every they can review.
[SPEAKER_00]: They can review clock, but out of bounds, which is, which still, yeah, is still adds to things.
[SPEAKER_00]: But out of bounds calls, if the coach doesn't have a challenge, they can't challenge it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If they do, they can.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if they get a wrong, that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, what I'm talking about is a touch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where is he?
[UNKNOWN]: Where
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably he's he I I think you said me.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was he was on a publicory finds out Which is great we can drop we can drop that in the show now.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's too That's a that's great if you if you remember this sportsmanship commercial.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really just a fascinating story All around so we'll drop the commercial and the interview with the actor
[SPEAKER_00]: in the next.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, a fictional scenario shouldn't raise me like this kind of thing, but I'm not the only one I feel this way, like it may seem an entire country.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: My women's bracket.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to go through everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Women's brackets are normally pretty chalky, so I'm going to talk about the upsets I have.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like me having and also apparently Joey also having.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love and see fairfield beating Notre Dame.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Notre Dame has struggled this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't have a little bit of miles.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you figure
[SPEAKER_02]: They lost some random games, why not lose this one?
[SPEAKER_02]: Who's fairfield's mascot?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because all they have is that, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: The zags, the zags, the stags, the stags, a horse or deer, that's a deer.
[SPEAKER_02]: The deer will beat the Catholics or the fighting Irish.
[SPEAKER_02]: In that matchup, I also have,
[SPEAKER_02]: a Gonzaga beating Ole Miss, that's a 25 matchup in this, and Region 2 of the, uh, of the women's tournament.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why am I picking Gonzaga over Ole Miss?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I don't like the Ole Miss's mascot.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, that's, that's why we got there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sean, that's a, a foreshadowing to the women's bracket mascot picks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, oh, another upset I have is villain over a tin seed over a 17-tex-tec, why did I pick that one?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just, as I was picking teams, I was reminded of the villain of a pick-a-low player in the worst time.
[SPEAKER_02]: who was very sad after Villanova lost a game, but still playing the Piccolo.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was in a mince game, but, you know, same school, and so I wouldn't have, I picked Villanova to win it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wonder where she is these days.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe, you know, had her 15 minutes of family was living a normal life.
[SPEAKER_02]: Any more first round, let's see, no, that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's all for the, cause, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, no, I have Tennessee, beating in NC State, another 10-over-seven.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because Pat Somit Coast at Tennessee, and she hasn't in over 20 years, but maybe her spirit will come down to the arena and lead them to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only has she not coach them, she is not coaching anyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: No longer being alive, but a legendary career.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe King's Parker will show up on the sideline.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tennessee is also, they lost like six or seven games in a row.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: But no time better than the present to turn it around.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is also what's silly about March madness is you can have a team that's playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's no poorly going into the tournament and then all of a sudden they turn it around and vice versa.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's always like one team that just comes in
[SPEAKER_00]: sweeps their conference tournament and you're like, look at that momentum.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, momentum I died in the first track.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to fake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't believe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm fortunately for my bracket.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and the next one I have number seven Georgia beating number two Iowa.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because Clayton Clark does not play for Iowa.
[SPEAKER_02]: So,
[SPEAKER_02]: But then after that, it's just pretty chalky.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the only other upside I'll have is Duke beating UCLA in the Elite Eight in my final fours.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, you con.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, South Carolina.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number one, Texas in a number three, Duke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at you, go Sean.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a pretty robust.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who do you have of those four reaching the final and wait?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a homerific bracket.
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll be a Texas Yukon matchup in the championship game where I have Texas winning in the total combined points will be 135 because that seemed nice and even despite not being neither number being even in that number.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some would say it's an even flow, in fact.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pretty similar to my total score as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have 132 for that one, which is as pretty delightful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course you have a picture.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and you got a tip to talk about your mascot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got to talk about the mascot.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I have Yukon over UCLA.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm hoping Duke does not beat them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys, which is the chalkiest effects.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like that's not
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a limit off, but... Oh, Chuck, women's Chuck.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't go talking women.
[SPEAKER_00]: In previous years, I've tried to get cute, and it doesn't work for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do like most of the upsets that you had in the early round.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like, yeah, I'm like, fight it for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, in the women's bracket,
[SPEAKER_00]: I was picking based off of mascots and and one of these teams is also in the men's side, but I like zippy more to be than him, at least I made, I don't know, I like Camelot side of the cardinal for Iowa State.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has big old teeth and then got some big old teeth reminds me of my, I mean, the first year they ever made the elite eight, which was back in 2022.
[SPEAKER_00]: Miami, of course, being the hurricanes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was state being the cyclones.
[SPEAKER_00]: They faced each other in Chicago, known as the Windy City.
[SPEAKER_00]: Would have been quite fitting for this weekend with that windy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in Austin, it's across the nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and then UC San Diego is in the tournament.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have King Triton, who's their mascot, who just looks like a zoo, basically, but in the water, so whatever the water got, it's yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Try to do the guy with the dad from the little mermaid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so that's exactly what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's exactly like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Sean, the mascot, you hate Tony the Land Shark for Ole Miss, which is just the weird look in shark with a human-looking body.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know they had a Land Shark, is it?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what they look at.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they were tired.
[SPEAKER_00]: They used to have a bear, and they were tired of the bear less than a decade ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then my fourth mascot is the Oregon duck.
[SPEAKER_00]: a mascot, so classic you don't even need a name, just the Oregon duck.
[SPEAKER_02]: I never really did Oregon duck doesn't have a name.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is correct.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tony, the land shark looks like a hammer with teeth.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't, I still don't like him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to fill out the bracket best of mascots that I like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure, I'm kind of surprised you weren't an extreme homer with Texas though, because you could have picked Texas, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then your pick of Baylor or Texas tack, TCU, and UTSA, and have an all-taxis.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, UTSA, a 16-seat and a 54-and-a-half-point-under-knock.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't have TCU and it lead eight losing to South Carolina, but no, excellent.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have that as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at a scow and Sean, if you want the weird attractions of the women's bracket, I've got you covered in the I the top left for getting the names of the preachers now, but I wester Illinois is home to Mekomopoli, Western Illinois plays in Mekom, Illinois.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's the world's largest monopoly game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Western Illinois.
[SPEAKER_00]: South Dakota State is home to Corn Palace.
[SPEAKER_00]: West Virginia has the mystery hole, which looks like a hole with a bunch of stuff in it, apparently.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've never been, but it looks interesting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Villanova, you're upset teams there, has it's about half an hour from Philadelphia, which has the mootermuseum of medical oddities.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a bonus fact, I have a t-shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: from that museum because I went it's a lot of so you got to pick them a lot of bones a lot of like hands and deformity is and stuff it's it's a real weird museum it's kind of yeah it's kind of gross feel but but they kind of lean into it too they're like you know asking people to leave feedback they're like do you think this is weird that we we have like a skull from a real person here and i was like
[SPEAKER_02]: uh, back to the uh, the monopoly, it's in Western Illinois, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you been there?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have not been there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm, I'm looking up now.
[SPEAKER_00]: How far?
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess, you know, that would mean there's not a small, but now it's, it's approximately five and a half hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh wait, no, no, no, it's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's pulling up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, there's a McComb, Michigan as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about four hours, but Sean, you know what we could do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I don't think this is that close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Never mind.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to say we could go to a St. Louis Cardinals game.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then head on up five and a half hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, well, what's going to say my feet closer?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just say lose, but it is not.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is even further away.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_02]: I like how you put, ask somebody how far a drive was between like here in another state and they told me in miles, and I'm like, well, that's correct, that is the correct way to respond to that question, but...
[SPEAKER_02]: You're supposed to say how many hours is that's how we measure just as in time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sean, we're going to, this is a seamless, shameless, seamless and a shameless self-promotion, but we've been talking about AI, AI tools, and
[SPEAKER_00]: What of my many side projects is a website that's called wacky travel and it highlights just weird things weird things out in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be sculptures could be like weird travel days like just I think it's fun when you go to a city and you see You you did not see this in Denver, but when we were there the giant bear that's downtown is just a giant blue bear that's looking into the convention center of town and he's just like here in in like hello.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going on in there?
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought, did I see his butt?
[SPEAKER_00]: You might have.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I showed you photos.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess delightful.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I used a tool.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give a shout out to the folks at Wright blogger who I have a bunch of different, all kinds of things, all kinds of tools and stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they have like an AI tool generator.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know what I'll play around.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what we can do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's fun to measure distances by time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I also think it's fun, I probably inspired by Taskmaster, Alex Horne does this all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll measure, he'll be like, it's 1.38 meters or approximately a possum stacked on top of each other, something weird like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the tool that I built with this AI a little tool generator is, it's called Where in the World?
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it'll calculate the distance, it'll tell you how far it takes to get there either by playing driving or boat if applicable.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it also gives you a fun little comparison like this is eight hours or 76 episodes of friends or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be too many episodes of friends for eight hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe maybe when it's on TV as and they super speed it up so that they can put in more commercials.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a appreciation.
[SPEAKER_00]: what a treat.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll drop that in the show notes as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you can you could look up something you're like, how far is it from Austin to Macomb, Illinois?
[SPEAKER_00]: And how many games of monopoly could I play in that interim?
[SPEAKER_02]: The answer is one.
[SPEAKER_02]: After so-so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's one game of monopoly because it's the longest game.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then we're finishing a monopoly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Never ever, I've never, I don't really care for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we did, I didn't college the first ever got in Monopoly.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were playing in our accounting class as a project.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it took several class days, and we never finished.
[SPEAKER_00]: The entire class was playing, or you like split into groups.
[SPEAKER_00]: We split into groups.
[SPEAKER_00]: OK. No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: The entire class was in one game.
[SPEAKER_02]: We split into groups as different pieces.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember what piece you were?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't remember the dog.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the last monopoly I played was dox and dopily.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all of the cards are I think I don't think they were all doxens because I don't think there's that many Varieties that you could have that many properties of dogs, but really spread through that game because you can there's all kinds of
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, quick monopoly versions.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I believe with that one, everyone just was randomly assigned two or three properties to start.
[SPEAKER_00]: So already like half of them are off the board and own so that that really helped speed things up a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I fully support that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maya, my grandma, she had a regular Nintendo interface that she never played, but I did every time I visited it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And one of the games she had was monopoly on NES.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would go in and I would play.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just thought it would be funny if I ever got to jail.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was in, I had no clue what I was doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just pressing buttons until I got put in jail.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would lose my mind in laughter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because everything's like a little animation on the screen.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you get locked up when I thought it was hilarious,
[SPEAKER_00]: That is, doesn't, isn't funny like the random like silly animations that stick with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was just thinking about this, there's some motocross game on like old PC.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't even remember the name of the game, but I remember if you took a hill,
[SPEAKER_00]: Too fast.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'd crash and if you crashed badly enough, you'd be in the hospital and there'd just be this little animation of your guy like given the thumbs up but his leg is It's like up in the air and like one of those like suspended casts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's got like a broken arm and everything and it's And then you just missed several races because you have to record.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yes, oh, yes, the childhood.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the child head.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Sean, I'm thinking both of us are going to just sweep through our bracket pools.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, emerge victorious.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to win the, I don't know what it is this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Dodge Stratus, the Chevy Silverado.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what the giveaway is in ESPN's brackets.
[SPEAKER_00]: I or I think CBS is a trip to the funnel for next year.
[SPEAKER_02]: You want to see, look at this, this is ASP in this show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Accurate over Texas Tech as the most popular 12 over 5 seed ups.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you have that?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because everyone loves zippy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Zippy!
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody loves zippy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, we'll see, time and baby, this is, I see why this is your favorite time of year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking forward to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm ready to get to show it real.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am looking forward to it, too, because the NCAA Tournament, not dumb!
[SPEAKER_00]: Sports are done.