Hello media consumers.

Welcome to the press box.

It's Joel Anderson.

Got producers, Isaiah Blakely, Bruce Baldwin on the ones and twos.

Brian's not here.

He's on vacation.

He deserves a time off.

So until then, I'm going to be shepherding the show. And on today's press box, we're going to bring on my dude, Tate Frazier of the Ringer Gambling Show. And most importantly, Ringer Tailgate, not even your old podcast that's ostensibly about college football. We won't talk about college football here, kind of like we don't do on tailgate sometimes, but Tate is our resident college

basketball expert, and he'll help preview this weekend's final fours, both men's and women's.

He's going to talk about the state of college basketball media coverage, and he'll even face

a lightning round where he'll have to pick an all-time

Carolina starting five. So let's get right into it.

All right. Now, coming to the show, my friend, my pal, my co-host, Tate Frazier, people who have not listened to this show, they don't usually hear me in this role. And so Tate has had the distinct pleasure of hearing me screw up over and over again as I attempt to intro him today. But Tate, if you listen listening to the Ringer, you should know everybody on our

network, but Tate has been a staple of this company for years. Right now, he's with the Ringer

gambling show. But most importantly, and sorry, Cousin, Sal. He's my co-host on the Ringer tailgate.

Tate, what's up, bro?

Thanks for showing up before us today, bro.

Of course, man.

Happy to be here.

I was once upon a time, Joel, I was the producer of this podcast back with Brian Curtis.

So, you know, always-

Are you serious?

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