Thursday morning, November 20th, 20, 25.

It is the Beating the Book podcast live from the swanky, swanky serious XM studios here at the Wynn in lovely Las Vegas where it is F1 week.

So we are lucky to squeeze into the studio time here and walking.

We're in a fishbowl here at the wind. People looking in, we can look out. Justin Rose has

walked by already. I guess he's here for the F1 race. Obviously, major winner and golfer,

major winner in golf, major winner in golfer, as one himself majors in golf. Michelle Wee just saw her. So it's a star-studded affair at the win, as is our guest, by the way, included in that, which we'll get to. First, staples of the show from his mom's cork attic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Looking a little dimly lit over there. Todd Wishnev, everybody, star of the Showtime docu-series action.

How you doing, man? I can't get the lighting right over here every time I try something.

But, you know, I don't even know if I can do this podcast right now. I have incarnate word minus

11 and a half over Southern Illinois. It's 6755 with eight minutes to go. So it's going to be touch and go these

last eight minutes. So please don't, don't expect me to be at my best. Todd wished I'm on a

college basketball heater, although last night the bad beats started, didn't they? The bad beats

were unbelievable. A guy makes a three to end the game with 0.9 seconds left, and it's going to be a push.

And the coach goes ballistic and gets a technical, and I lose because of that.

I mean, that's unbelievable.

Then Alabama and Illinois make five three-pointers in the last 120 of the first half of that game to lose the under.

How do you lose on five-three points?

First of all, you know, the kids, I'll tell you this, the teams are getting smarter.

Everybody's doing the physique maneuver where 36 seconds left.

The other team scores, you don't inbound the ball until 30 seconds, and that way you ensure

yourself the last shot.

Well, the Alabama coach was smart.

He calls time out after the shot at 36 seconds, so that way they can't the last shot. Well, the Alabama coach was smart. He calls time out

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