Bill Raftery, Conference Championship Thursday, Oldie Is Back With The Boys + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Pardon My Take
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 82.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
We recap an awesome day of college hoops (00:00:00-00:26:29). Talk some Players Championship and national sports podcast news plus Oldie the Canadian is back in the booth with the boys (00:26:29-00:53:53). The legendary Bill Raftery joins the show to talk about March Madness, his career, being a legend of the late night game, the genesis of Onions and more (00:53:53-01:34:46). We finish with Fyre Fest of the week (01:34:46-02:00:25).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, part of my take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen, add free on Amazon music. On today's part of my take, we have the legendary Bill Raftry, great interview with him, talking about his career, March Madness, some of the awesome stories from the road, kind of a bucket list interview, because he is someone that we just is synonymous with March. in all the big moments. |
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| 3:46.4 | because all these are men. Yeah, all these big cats question. What were your impressions of the cave? Oh, like I told the guys and girls in there tonight, one of the best ever experiences watching a basketball game ever, ever. I love basketball now. Yeah. Joe in there was so live. Everyone I felt like it was tennis match left right left right up down what what are my at? |
| 4:08.4 | Yeah so many Greek I love basketball now. Yeah. Joe in there was so live. Everyone, I felt like it was tennis match left, right? |
| 4:06.4 | Left, right up. |
| 4:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 4:08.3 | What, what are my at? |
| 4:09.1 | I get so many great games. |
| 4:10.4 | It's easy to get lost in March too. |
| 4:12.1 | When there's multiple games going on, you just have to make decisions and say, I'm going to zero in on this. I'm going to ignore this game where the second half just started and I'll get back to it. |
| 4:20.8 | It'll be there when I'm done with this game. |
| 4:22.7 | Right. |
| 4:23.7 | And then we just go left, go right, back on big screen, off big screen. |
| 4:27.1 | Yep. |
| 4:28.1 | And what did you think about screen, off big screen. |
| 4:27.3 | Yup. And what did you think about some, there was tempers at some points during the day. Oh, it's good. What did you like that? Oh, I love that. We should we play the max video? We should probably play the max video. I don't know. He said his mom's gonna get mad. Well, she probably already saw it. So what are you gonna do? |
| 4:42.5 | I mean, it was an all-time rant, but this is what March |
| 4:45.6 | Marches is gambling with your friends, but also just losing it and I'll say this in Max's defense Everything that you're about to hear him say was all fair play because it was all in the confines of the gambling cave in March Where you can say the most vicious things to your friends and it doesn't count. Yes, between the lines. |
| 5:05.1 | It does not count. |
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