All right, hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller, we have 217 to the 2024 election. It's Monday I'm back with Bill Crystal. Bill how you doing?

Fine Tim, how are you? I'm doing quite well and I am excited. We have to start

with the most important news of the day which isn't about politics. We have what I expect will be the most watched women's college basketball game in history tonight, a rematch of last year's national championship, Caitlin Clark's, Iowa Hawkeyes, against the LSU Tigers who were demeaned as dirty debutants in the LA Times who were assaulted by a profile writer who didn't understand Kim Mulkey's

resilience in the Washington Post. I like you can't bad that's just a joke.

We've been you know kind of turned this into a you know goodness versus darkness, you know,

in the evil empire, the LSU Tigers defending their title.

Should be a marvelous basketball game tonight.

Are you excited?

I'm not really. Many people in the

Bullwork are. The Bullwork is divided, a house divided against itself. You and your

family there rooting for the Tigers and Andrew Egger and his family.

I think his wife went to Iowa.

He told me he was dressing the little, the toddlers

and the infant up in Hawkeyes gear.

So you guys can hash it out tomorrow.

I think maybe a special three or four hour podcast, don't you think? A special three or four hour podcast that you think a special

three or four hour breakdown of the elite eight match tonight probably it's at

seven in the east if you're looking for when to tune in I will say it's interesting how the, you know, kind of the narrative and

stereotypes of the teams are reflected in the Bull Work House divided. You know, people say the

Iowa team is like Milk and Cookies, you know, America's Girls, that's kind of Andrew Eager.

You know, the LSU team was slandered as dirty debutants, so I think I fit that role pretty nicely.

So it is nice that even internally we're living to type so we're

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