Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Three Man Weave College Basketball podcast.

It is coming to you live into your airwaves via YouTube if you're watching there.

If not, you're just listening like normal.

Don't worry. No change to you. We will continue to operate as normal. But there will also be

opportunities to jump into the chat, make fun of us, whatever, whatever you like to do if we're

going live here. But I am Jim Root, your host this week, joined by Kai McEwen and Matt Cox in their normal stomping grounds of their Chicago offices pre-Christmas travel. We're going to be all over the place after that. But hey, that's okay. Fellas, how are we doing today? Kai, are you ready for this, this live action we're in? I'm ready, Jim. This is very exciting. I'm sure the YouTube video caught us a little bit behind the scenes saying, oh, we're live.

Hooray, we're in. I'm ready, Jim. This is very exciting. I'm sure the YouTube video caught us a little bit behind the scenes saying, oh, we're live. Hooray, we're live. A whole new world. That's part of it. Excuse me, once I got my throat, see? A peek behind the scenes. My lighting's a bit weird. My TV is on right now on the Morocco France game. I'm not going to apologize. I'm watching the World Cup to the side. Is it, is it, no, no? What's the tally?

No, it's one Cup to the side.

Is it,

is it no,

no? What's the tally? No, it's 1-0. France scored pretty immediately. Not great for the Morocco rooting interests, but I love that we have a chat section here with a podcast. Frankly, it took too long, guys. This is our 285th episode. and it's our first time

ever doing a live show on YouTube, Matthew.

Man, just so... took too long guys this is our 285th episode and it's our first time ever doing a live show on

youtube matth uh man just so lovely to see familiar names and faces i guess just names since

we don't actually have the faces of the the chat mobsters but patten job and scotty mattie

acre is just great to see you guys. Absolutely.

All right.

Yeah, normal episode coming today.

We, of course, do Roots Roundup. We've got, we've saw that. We've got three man thoughts. And then, of course, a little bit of preview. But before we get to that, shout out to J. Pity, the opening tunes, which you do not get on the live YouTube version, but you do. If you are listening on Spotify, SoundCloud, wherever you get your pods. You should, of course, subscribe there and leave reviews. Those are on Apple Podcasts. Kai, do we have any new reviews to do on this episode? We don't. We don't. And if you're new to the podcast, which I'm not sure if you are. but if you are, leave us reviews on Apple, and we will read them on air.

Five stars, of course, and asks us questions in those reviews.

If you feel so inclined, we'll answer them.

We did, however, chart the sports charts in Taiwan somehow.

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