I'm Daniel Alarcon, and this is my friend, is much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm John Green, co-host of the podcast The Away End with my old friend Daniel. On our podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important.

Listen to the away end with Daniel Auerkone and John Green on the are an action network podcast. I'm Brandon Kravitz back at it with the crew. The first lady of the pod, Kendra Middleton, the prime minister of DGN nation.

Stucky pulled out of the deepest depths of his NCAA tournament breakdowns to join us.

Mike Calabrese hopping on today's episode as well.

It's up Mike.

My people here put the mad in madness.

I love swooping in this time of year and cramming for the tournament like it's a final exam in college.

And I feel like I'm almost there.

I have filled out an online bracket, but I have not filled out the once I put pen to paper.

That's when it's officially official.

And that starts tonight.

Kendra, how are you doing in terms of your

bracket? You're already there. You just started. I'm not even close and I've been watching

college basketball. Well, don't we, we have to fill this out within the next. The tournament

starts tonight. So I like to have it filled out before. Oh, you mean filling out your bracket? Okay. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, it's just a crapshoot anyway, but sure.

That's that. All right.

Tonight, that'll do it for us here.

That'll do it for us here. Say something controversial, Kendra.

I think this is the least excited I have ever been for March Madness.

Does anybody else feel that way?

No, no.

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