Welcome to the Mad Bracket Status Bracketeer interview.

I'm DJ Chapman, co-hosted Mad Brackett Status here with Ethan Crump.

How's it going, Ethan?

Good, very good.

Ethan, we had a crazy interview last time that you missed.

We had Jesse Ventura on and macho man Randy Savage and Hulk Hogan stopped by.

Turns out I was Hulk Hogan the entire time.

It was very odd.

Who knew?

Who knew?

And, yeah, Nando hasn't been around for these.

Just because he's been too busy. He's been booking all the interviews. He's been going out. You know, he's got the face of mad practice on. You know, he's going to be plugging CPAC, which we're going to be at. Why are you laughing? Doesn't matter. How excited are you for Christmas, man? I'm really excited. Only two more days. No, only today, because we're going to be releasing this on Christmas.

Or yesterday, if we're going to be releasing this on Christmas. Or yesterday if we're late or tomorrow. I feel like Christmas is so much, because when you're a kid, Christmas is the kind of thing that does is always just disappointing because it's like you build it up, but as an adult, I wouldn't consider myself an adult, but as a young adult, I feel like I don't build it up at all, so I'm always pleasantly surprised. I kind of feel that, I don't know, well, were you an only child? No, I was like a four. Oh, I was the only child, so I got everything. So, like, Matt's spoiled. So Christmas was, like, bawling for me. but now that i don't feel like i don't get a lot of stuff

that it's not balling like for me now it's more like i like the aspect of like gift giving and

receiving like i just like not in like a cheesy way but like thinking of what like people will

like you know you know like it can be stressful but it is fun fun if you get a gift that's really nice.

Oh, yeah, I got a sick gift from Nando.

I got a comic book that was like a sealed comic book.

It's the new music.

This is the first time with cable.

Oh, here we go.

Here's our guest.

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