Welcome back to another episode of the three-man weave college basketball podcast. I am your host for the week for the episode, Jim Root, from Las Vegas, Nevada.

I'm looking at two colleagues back in Chicago.

They are not together.

I got Matt the Madman Cox and Kai Big Dog McEwen.

How are you doing Big Dog?

Big Dog is not the first time I've been called Big Dog.

I appreciate the nickname, Jim, and I'm doing very well. My wife's working on a dog puzzle. How ironic, Big Dog, Dog Puzzle. And I'm just chilling, Jim. I just got done with some real work, ready to get into the podcast episode. I'm excited. I don't appreciate you saying real work as though this isn't real work,

Kai. Come on. You're right. That was poor nomenclature on my part. Yeah, that's diminishing

Jim. Yeah, it's diminishing me and Jim who have treated this like a real job for quite some time now.

Kai did gloss over the fact that he was clearly pumping some iron when I saw him about 90 minutes ago.

We did a little pop filter exchange, little equipment drop off, making sure we're hearing those social distance procedures,

and he was wearing a very, very skin tight, you know, slim cut cutoff. And you can start,

those gains are really starting to show through so quarantine

kai has not taken any days off and that's i'm just i'm glad to see that yeah this tank top is actually

10 years old um there the date on it is 2010 so that's that's pretty cool kha speaking of quarantine kai

kai is rocking the the shaggiest of the three facial hair here.

Matt, you're in the middle.

You're looking normal.

I just shaved despite Kai's testaments against doing so.

It just makes me feel more professional if I don't have that just disgusting facial hair.

Makes me a little more focused, keeps it more like a normal rhythm of life.

Oh, man, you got to let it loose. See what you can do. Grow it out. See how far you can possibly go. You're not going to see any girls right now, Jim. Your roommate doesn't care. Let it go. I care. Frozen. It was gross. All right. Let's get started. We are going into a mailbag episode today. We threw the creativity ball at our listeners for this one, and you guys responded, thankfully, giving us plenty of questions. They always respond. They always respond. They always respond. When we challenge them, they respond like clockwork. Come up in the clutch. That's right. We appreciate it. So we got a lot to get through there. I have a little bit of a roots roundup to catch up on. Not a lot going on there, though, which is kind of nice. Just one big bomb in the coaching department we will get to. Self-promotion. What's up? Jay Pity. Our Joe Pascov, the producer of our fine, fine intro music. We always enjoy

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