WEBVTT - Luke Donald Talks Tiger, Greeks, and The Masters 0:00:03.920 --> 0:00:08.559 From the King of sports books comes the Key sports 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:19.000 podcast Unleashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:29.720 Papas and Olivia Harlan Decker. Welcommit everyone to Unleashed one 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.360 an outstanding show we have for you today and and 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.240 hang with me here because I know March Madness is over, 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.040 but the sports calendar doesn't stop. In fact, I think 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.480 April is really an underrated sports month. The NBA Playoffs 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.560 tip off next weekend. I cannot believe that the season 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.479 it seemed fast. The NFL Draft is Thursday April. We're 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.960 gonna be talking about that all month. Baseball's opening day 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.000 is today, and the Master's kick off today. So, oh 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.280 my gosh. Jana helped me out here. I think you 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.120 know we have March madness. Everyone gets into that. But 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.120 what can we call April. It needs some kind of nickname. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.760 All in April, All out April? Help me out? Asked 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:18.480 kicking April? Ask kick in April? April sports? Bring May flowers? 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.200 How do you like them? Apples? I think you can 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:28.160 do better. April sports, bring May chicken wings and trulies 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.960 in the man cave. Baby, it is an ass kicking April. 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:37.080 It is amazing. Baseball's kicking off. Get ready to get 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:43.400 your beers flowing in your good weather, sitting ball game experiences, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.520 the NBA Playoffs, The Phoenix Suns are taking it all. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.920 I am ready. It's also my birthday month and my 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.960 last month of pregnancy, so April is sweet to me. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.600 I like, ask kick in April. Let's get ask kick 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:00.960 in April. And listen, I'm not essen with you right now. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.240 I know you've got baby making chemicals all over the map. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.160 I spoke to Sam, I said, Sam, just stay out 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.280 of the way, buddy, Okay, you probably it's like trying 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.360 to negotiate with Putin this moth. Don't just whatever she wants, 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.880 just do it. She's about to make a person like 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.040 a mortal god. Just stay out of the way. I mean, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.520 I knew kind of the end of pregnancy was supposed 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.720 to be rough, but I just got compared to Putin's. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.160 That was horrible. That's a that's a dark joke. But 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:37.040 luckily I know your Yeah. Well, listen, I just spent 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.840 the whole weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. So I was in Madtown. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.520 I went, I went and visited the Deckers. I had 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.160 a glass of milk, I ate some cheese, and you 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:53.040 know that place is so white, Madison, Wisconsin. It looks 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.320 like it's snowing even when it's not snowing. So it's 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.520 always just You could be in an airplane in the 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.280 middle of July flying over Madison. You're like, why is 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.960 it snowing? And You're like, that's not snow that's just 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:10.880 white people walking around State Street. Okay, in all seriousness, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.400 how did you like Madison. I know you've been there before, 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.919 you recorded your first album there, but I mean, it's 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.560 such a great town, right Yeah. Look at that comedy 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.920 on State the best comedy club in the country. I 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.239 actually decided to record my next special, so I recorded 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.760 my special again in Madison, Wisconsin, because I love that 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.280 club so much. I love the owners so much. And 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.400 so my new special is shot. I shot it in Madison. 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.440 I decided to do it on the fly, so that 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.360 will be coming out. Stand the lookout for that. And yeah, 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.880 I also recorded my my first hour album there, so 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.120 that's called let Me be honest. You can go google 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.920 that and enjoy that and so boom, my next hour 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.040 special will be coming out recorded in Madison in honor 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.720 of the Decker family. I didn't know that. You didn't 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.040 even tell me that. So because you have like three 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.520 straight nights of taping, that makes sense now because you 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.360 were recording, right, Absolutely, yeah, we were recording and then 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.440 we got some more cameras in there. And the crowds 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.080 are just so amazing. And the Midwest is the best 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.080 place for comedy. It truly is. Every comedian knows that 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.880 it's the best place for comedy, the worst place for winter, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.560 that's for sure. Yeah, I hear you on that. I'm 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.039 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin right now. It's brutal, but I I 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.360 agree with Midwestern people are quick to laugh. We don't 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.600 take ourselves too seriously. We're pretty easy going, lighthearted, So 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.120 I would think that's an ideal crowd. I'm glad you 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.320 had fun and you eat somewhere good, amazing. We hated 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.320 all the good spots. We we hated all the good spots. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.800 This place Botanist next door to the club. It was incredible. 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.800 We went to all the recommendations you you gave me, 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.400 and the food is great, the people are great. It's 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.880 a college town, Madison, Wisconsin. The only thing about Madison 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.880 that's funny is like you see that capitol building when 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.280 you first get there, and you're going like, wow, there's 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.360 gonna be a lot to see. This is a big city. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.720 It looks like d C. And then you're like, nope, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.680 it's just the capitol building and the rest is the 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.800 college campus. That's all there is to see. Really, the 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.599 rest of it is just a charming little college town. Baby. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.520 Yeah no, but it's beautiful on the water. Did you 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.840 know that the capital in Madison, Wisconsin is taller than 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.800 the capital in d C. I did know that. I 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.880 did know that, And that's yeah, that's what I'm saying. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:26.679 You get there and your your expectations are a little high. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.760 it's a little deceiving because that is the only impressive building. Yeah, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.400 I don't know about that. Well, that's the campus. The 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.240 campus has some beautiful buildings. The campus is very nice, 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.120 and the lake is frozen for a lot of the year, 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:43.880 so you know, at nighttime I went down there, I 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.520 was hoping to see maybe some white walkers walking across 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:51.640 that bank. I should have warned you don't go in March, 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.200 but yeah, it's a this is kind of a dumpy 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.760 month around here, gets pretty cold, you know, where else 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.080 is supposed to be kind of cold this weekend and 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.599 really unfortunate. It'll make for some bad images on TV. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.640 Is the Masters supposed to be kind of cold and 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.119 wet and windy, And I mean that changes the game 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:13.920 for a sport that's supposed to be played at the 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.800 most beautiful locations and the most beautiful weather. This may 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.920 be an interesting fold. And we've got a great guest 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.160 joining us, former world number one. He's played at Augusta, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.000 even finished third at the Masters in two thousand five. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.000 It's Luke Donald. I'm really excited to have him on, 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.679 so we'll have to ask him about that. Janice. Yeah, 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.039 and this is the first time we're gonna have someone 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.719 with an English accent on, right. Oh, you know, you 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.279 might be right? Should we do the whole interview in 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.159 an English accent? Maybe? I think that's the only way 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:48.080 to properly do this is to welcome him in the 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:52.360 King's so you do more like the royal family, proper 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.960 British English. I'm gonna do like Adele Cockney British English. 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.480 How's that? Yeah? May too, I'm gonna be are you doing, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:08.440 what are you doing? Where's your liday? Like peaky binders. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:15.400 we just I view him like there, hello Governor. Okay, yeah, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:19.240 he's gonna love us. This be a great interview. Have 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.680 you heard on the week of the Masters, there's all 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.840 these events, you know, leading up to it, but Tuesday night. 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:27.520 So it's Tuesday morning right now when we record. But 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.800 on Tuesday night they host one of the most exclusive 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.320 dinner parties on the sports calendar, let alone social calendar. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.400 I believe the only people who can attend the dinner 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:43.120 our Master's winners, and then the year's previous winner gets 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:47.320 to pick the menu. And you know, last year, Matsuma 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:51.280 one Japan's first Master's champ. So I would think they 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.320 always do an ode to where they're from. I would 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.600 think it would be really fantastic sushi. But I've got 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.680 to warn you. I've been to Augusta, and I once 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.240 eight at a restaurant called Taco Sushi, a mix of 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.440 Mexican and sushi. I really hope that is not his 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.920 only option to cater this event. What do you think 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.520 he's gonna do? Yeah, well, listen, he's Japanese, so he's 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:16.360 probably gonna fly in like a five star sushi chef 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:20.720 from Japan unfortunately sushi. I'm just glad you're not picking 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.480 the menu because you're pregnant. You'd be like, give me 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:28.000 fried pickles, donuts, chicken wings, sushi. You know, the thing 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.520 about sushi is did you know that only men can 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:35.360 be sushi chefs. It's very discriminatory. And that is because, Yeah, 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:39.600 that's because the temperature of their hands is a certain 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.440 temperature and women's hands. Yeah, this is the truth. I'm 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.240 telling you right now. I wish we were having him 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.480 on so we could confirm it, you know, but it's true. 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.440 This is not I'm telling you it's true. That's why 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.360 you've never seen a woman sushi chef. It's not because 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.760 of the patriarchy. It's because of the temperature of their hands. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.440 They can't handle the fish. You know, I have horrible circulation. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.360 My hands are always really cold. Can I be a 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.240 sushi chef? Possibly? I mean, you may be the exception. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.800 There's no rule, there's no rule without an exception. God, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.040 I always learned something new on the show. That's just 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.920 not what I expected to learn. That's wild. What would 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.160 you have like as your hometown dish if you were 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.480 a Master's champ and you wanted to pay homage to it. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.839 What would you set the menu? As you know, we're 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.120 going Greek. We're going with a little zat zeki. We're 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.240 going with a little lamb. If I want the Master's 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.400 it's gonna look like my big fact Greek wedding. We're 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.199 gonna have a lamb roasting, smoke coming all over the air, potatoes, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.000 but dot dos guinea statch, We're gonna have sadi, which 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.640 is fish. It's gonna be a Greek feast, and definitely 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.040 you're gonna see some lamb carcasses roasting with their skinless 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.600 face melting in the fire, scaring children. Yeah, that's what 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:55.040 we do. Has there ever been a famous Greek golfer. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.079 I'm trying to think, um no, But I did golf 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.720 with Steph Curry on my old sports show with Joel 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:04.559 who's our producer, and I'm very bad at it. I'm 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.600 very very bad at it, and Steph Curry is very 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.320 very good at it. Yes he is. We'll look in 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.760 the past like Dustin Johnson one. So when he set 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.360 the menu, I kind of like the way his menu sounds. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:21.360 Pigs in a blanket, lobster and corn fritters. Mashed potatoes, veggies, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:26.680 filet mignon, miso, marinated sea bass, peach, cobbler, apple pie, 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.560 vanilla ice cream. But the year before Tiger Woods won 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.360 and he did kind of more Augusta, he did an 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.920 Augusta role, which is timpoora shrimp, spicy tuna, avocado, and 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.400 eel sauce. That's I mean, that's kind of Japanese prime steak, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.920 chicken fajita's I kind of like Tiger Woods menu. I 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.360 don't know it's but it's what a dinner party? My god, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.959 that's incredible. Yeah, I mean those both sounded like incredible. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.719 What would you pick? What would you put on there? 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.520 I was worried you were going to ask that because 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:58.440 I think it is supposed to be like from where 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:09.880 you're from and cheese curds and steak, big glass of milk. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.679 That's embarrassing now because you know, I'm really from Kansas City, 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.599 so like steak, barbecue, barbecue, that's what I would do? 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:21.120 What am I? Yeah? You really are. You're the You're 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.679 the Hillary Clinton of sports journalists. You just claim you're 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.160 from from Wisconsin and you're not. Just like she moved 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.960 to New York to run for Senator. Yeah, you just 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.199 you just have to hometowns. One of them real, one 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.320 of them is fake. They're both real. They're both real. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.199 I own a home in both. I think that counts. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.440 I pay taxes in both. I think that counts, right, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.439 kind of you're the Hillary Clinton is sports journalists, Well, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:48.360 you know the big story here, I mean Tiger Woods. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.720 Oh my gosh, again, we're recording Tuesday. I think the 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.520 news is expected to break Wednesday. But he is trending 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.400 towards plane. The crowd that has practiced rounds have been huge. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.920 It's been seventeen months his last event, fourteen months since 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.360 his near fatal car crash. He had half a dozen 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.680 surgeries on his back and his right leg. I believe 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:12.480 they almost had to amputate that right leg. So this 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.960 would be an incredible feat. And I know once he 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.160 began practicing at Augusta, betters just ran to place their 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.120 wagers on this golf legend. Tiger moved from plus sixty 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.680 six hundred to plus five thousands. That sixty six one 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.000 went to fifty one to win the Masters. So in 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.200 the betting world, this is huge news. But what a 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.560 great story, unbelievable story. And I mean, if he has 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.840 a good masters, it's gonna be a great story. Just 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:49.280 seeing him out there is amazing. It's inspiring and incredible, 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.200 just incredible. It's gonna just it just adds to the lore, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.800 doesn't it. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I mean, this is 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:58.880 the story of the week. So a lot of line 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.920 movement basically around that. But Tiger Woods right now is 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.400 the highest ticket percentage and the third highest handle percentage, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.800 So he's the biggest liability at bet MGM. So if 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.560 he comes back wins it all four rounds of golf 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.040 on a body that he says it's uncomfortable to walk, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.720 let alone play golf, boy, would that be incredible. But 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.800 bet MGM would be crying because they'd lose a lot 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.040 of money on that. That's a that's crazy. But John 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.320 Ram is the favorite at plus thirteen hundred. That's one. 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.840 I don't know if there are any other underdogs. We're 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.640 gonna talk with Peter Andrew to see if he might 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.719 have a sneaky bet there. But yeah, John Ram the 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.280 favorite again plus thirteen hundred. I like it nice. Yeah, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.520 I can't wait to talk to Peter Andrew to hear 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.680 about some of the underdogs. He's in Ontario right now, right, Peter, 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.080 he is, Yeah, bet MGM just opened up in Canada. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.560 So that's huge news for the sports book. So Tiger 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.959 Tiger played the p NC tournament with his son in December, right, 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.760 but that was kind of just messing around and uh, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:04.120 where was that? He looked pretty good, right, yeah, and 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.400 then at his practice rounds he's looked good, like he's 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.960 looking good all week. But he said it's really uncomfortable. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.400 And again he hasn't played this kind of duration, this, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.520 this kind of you know, four rounds is really tough. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.240 Anytime I play eighteen holes, I'm sore the next day. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.960 And I know I'm not a golfer, but if if 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.000 you're someone who just came out of you know, six 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.320 surgeries and I thought you were going to lose your 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.600 life or your leg, and I mean this is this 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.000 would be a story for the Ages. And my god, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.600 we're just coming off of March madness with stories for 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.760 the Ages. So anytime I like turn on the news 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.840 and I see how sad the news is, I'm so 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.400 grateful I work in sports. Oh my god, Like how great? 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.120 How lucky are we honest that we get to talk 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.120 about this stuff that these amazing stories and not not 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.720 the horrible stuff going on in the news. So this, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.440 this would be incredible. So I'm hoping Tiger comes back. Absolutely. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.880 My two favorite things on this planet are sports and comedy, 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.560 and I think they're the two purist things on the 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.680 planet in the human experience, you know. You know, comedy, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.280 it's like, hey, if you're funny, people have a reaction 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:15.080 to it, you know, and the reaction is completely organic. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.720 And in sports, its competition, it's the closest thing to 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.720 the truth. You know, the better man wins. Sometimes you 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.640 know it's not the better man, but all the storylines 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.440 are real. And listen, just seeing Tiger out there is amazing. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.800 But I mean, don't sleep. He is Tiger Woods, the 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:37.960 man who changed the game, who popularized golf. I mean, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:42.000 he's owned this tournament. He's won five times, fourteen top 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.240 ten finishes. I mean, it's hard to bet against them. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.360 It's hard to bet against them. Yeah, before we get 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.840 to the masters and our bets for this week, Olivia, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.360 we've got to get to our bed. The winner of 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:05.120 the week, bad beat of the week, hopefully I just 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.760 did definitely didn't have to do sound, but they did it. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:13.400 They did it? Okay, Our bad beat winner of the 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:19.080 Week this week is Dylan at goose Lover. What a 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.320 screen name the kid? Yeah? The kid loves animals and 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.480 he's probably twenty five years old. Does that mean he 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.000 has to change his Twitter name every year when he 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.080 has a birthday? Yeah? I think so. I think he's 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:37.360 goose Lover twenty six next year, big day. Well, listen, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:42.840 are goose Lover here lost his Big five team parlay 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.920 because a heavy favorite in the NHL lost at home 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.240 outch There's only one thing worse than only hitting three 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.880 out of four on a four team parlay, and that's 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:59.200 only hitting four out of five on a five team parlay. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.640 We feel a paying Dylan, which is why I guess what, 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.960 my friend, we're sending you Hanne Allah's of bet MGM 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.800 credit to help you get back in the wind calling 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.880 my friend. Don't say we don't love you, baby. Now, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:18.800 let's cut down the nets on the college basketball season. 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:25.720 O h d ed it's time too, It's time to leach. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.480 I hope they also brought in this soundtrack for that. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:37.320 We don't need you all right, So major congratulations to 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.840 the Kansas Jayhawks. Congrats to me for picking them to win. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.080 I I kid, do you not? I made a couple 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:44.880 of brackets. I kind of scrapped him as I went, 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.640 but I always haid, k you winning. My dad went there. 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.440 I'm from Kansas City. Depends on what day you asked 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.600 me where I'm from, but yes, I am a Jayhawk 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.240 fan and I certainly was watching on Monday night. They 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.560 rallied from down sixteen at half but sixteen total. As 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.320 Carolina Boy, they went ice cold in the second half. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.679 They suffered so many injuries. A player threw up. I 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.399 mean there was like a I think you're honest in 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.879 all seriousness, someone placed a hex on them. It was 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.960 in New Orleans and we asked Clark Kellogg last week 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.240 if there's any voodoo magic at play. I think there was. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.200 I think in the second half there was a spell 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.119 placed on the tar heels because that was that was 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:30.080 pretty bizarre. I will say there was a notable bet 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.359 at bet MGM, and anytime I read these, I just 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.800 clenched my fists, thinking why did I not do it? 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.760 Why was I all talk and no action? Because one 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.280 person at bet MGM put eight thousand and five dollars 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.640 to win one hundred and twelve thousand and seventy dollars 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:51.520 on Kansas at fourteen to one odds. Ma'am, some people 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.320 have all the luck. I need to put my money 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.080 where my mouth is. But look, preseason, Kansas was plus 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.600 sixteen hundred. Uh, the odds obviously got so much shorter. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.639 They were a minus two hundred favorite to win it 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:06.240 all in the championship game. But that was incredible. They 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:11.040 had under five percent of tickets as the tournament started, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.920 so that's incredible. Four point three of the handle, so 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.640 as sixty four teams were on the slate, that's all 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.639 they had. But people loved him going into this game. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.960 It was a great story. You know, Bill self lost 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.160 his dad two months ago. His dad was a coach 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.560 and an educator and really inspired his life, and I 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:33.120 think inspired that halftime speech because man, they were they 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.320 were in And I want to play a clip because 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.560 at the end when they do the trophy ceremony on 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.520 the stage, the n c double A President Mark Emmert 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:46.600 announced the winners as the Kansas City Jayhawks, and oh, 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.919 that's just so cringe e. And I've got to say, 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.120 there's a little backstory here because as I've mentioned before 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.480 on the show without going into too much detail, but Kansas, 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.200 in a lot of people's eyes, have slipped past um 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.000 level one violations in n C Double A. And it's 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.359 all about recruiting and paying players and all of this, 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:07.920 and I'm not going to get into all that, but 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.359 there are legitimately people serving jail time over this. Like 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.679 right now, there's someone sitting in jail who was a 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.920 mid major or a mid level Adidas rep who was 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.520 serving jail time based on what the Jayhawks have committed 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:27.000 five level one infractions, including coach responsibility. So not to 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:30.800 be a downer, because like, go Kansas, but there are 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.000 a lot of people who are really mad at the Jayhawks, 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:35.439 including the president of the n C Double A, who 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.640 would have loved to hand that trophy to anyone but 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.720 Bill self. He did, and he announces them as the 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:48.640 Kansas City Jayhawks. Let's roll that tapeited for you if 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.040 they have to present the trophies ahead of the basketball 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:58.040 committing to coach self in the Kansas City jails. So yeah, 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.879 that was very cringe e poor guy. I think he 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.359 took a lot of heat for it on Twitter, I'm sure, 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.280 and just kind of a funny way for the season 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.359 to end. All he had to do was announce them, 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.879 and he didn't get their name right. And they're one 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.879 of the biggest blue bloods ever. So no, pretty good. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.840 I've gotten a lot of texts from friends and family 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.280 that they were very hungover Tuesday morning. I think it 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.080 was a really fun night in Kansas City for the 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:27.240 Kansas City Jayhawks. Well look, maybe they were just progressive. 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.399 They were ahead of their time, alright, because now athletes 0:21:29.440 --> 0:21:32.520 are getting paid, so Kansas was just ahead of their time. 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:36.600 They were just you know, they were they inspired, they 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:40.800 inspired change. So yeah, I do not know what happened 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:44.440 at halftime. I mean were they were down, they were 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:50.439 down fifteen points. North Carolina completely collapsed. It was It 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.159 was an incredible game. I mean, it really delivered. Like 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:58.160 Clark Kellogg said, it always delivers this tournament, and it did. 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:02.000 But and amazed thing a Licia's always I want to 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.520 switch genders like Caitlyn Jenner right now and talk about 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:13.520 the ladies. Women's basketball is on fire. Okay, they're in 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.680 commercials now. I agree with the ladies. They need more 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.800 media exposure. There needs to be more commercials. These sponsors 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:22.959 need to start putting They need to start putting their 0:22:22.960 --> 0:22:25.760 money where their mouth is and really start getting these 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.600 ladies some visibility. And I think we're starting to see 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:32.800 that and gas what oh d for the first time 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:37.439 in the history of Jana's pappas. I was excited and 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:43.479 I tuned in for the ladies championship game and I 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:47.720 was expecting a great game. And I was wrong. I 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:54.560 was wrong. Man, did the UKN Huskies get their asses be? 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:57.800 And you listen. It's nice to see because they've been 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:02.000 dominating women's basketball for so long, so it's actually nice 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:04.800 to see some parody now because I think all this 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:08.760 media exposure is gonna inspire a lot of American girls 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:12.159 to start playing basketball, and we're gonna have more and 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.480 more parody in the league because there's just gonna be 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:18.800 more and more great players. And the stands are packed. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.840 It's great to see. And the game, yes, it's different, 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.639 but if you're a basketball fan, there's a lot of 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:29.080 purity in the play running and the defense to really enjoy. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.800 I mean, they don't overwhelm you with their athleticism. Let's 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.480 be honest. I mean when they dunk, it's like a miracle. 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:39.639 It's like Jesus turning water and wine. But they can shoot, 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:44.040 they can play. These girls got handled. They're exciting, they compete, 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:48.639