Final Four Weekend As Michigan And UConn Advance, John Fanta Talks CBB + Possibly Taking The UNC Job, Geno Crash Out + National Sports Podcast Topics And Who's Back
Pardon My Take
Barstool Sports
4.8 • 82.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
Final Four Saturday and we recap the games as UConn advances to another National Title and Michigan looks absolutely unstoppable. Big Cat was at the game Saturday and we talk Chainsmokers and basketball in a Football Stadium (00:00:00-00:40:20). Geno crashes out Friday night and the UCLA Women win it all. We talk some national sports podcast topics as Giannis in Milwaukee might actually be over (00:40:20-00:58:48). Who's back of the week including Craig Counsell struggling to dip and the Sabres in the postseason (00:58:48-01:15:14). John Fanta joins us to talk Final Four, preview the National Title game and throw his hat in the ring for the North Carolina opening (01:15:14-02:06:27). We finish with lottery ball and birthdays.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, part of my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts and Spotify. Prime members can listen ad free on Amazon music. On today's part of my take presented by draft Kings, we have the national championship game set. Final four weekend recap. We got our good friend Johnny Fanta on the show who he might be in the running for the North Carolina. Tar Heels head basketball coach job. There's some whispers. There's a lot of circles going on there. So we might have just recorded it after a long weekend and spent half of the interview just trying to pitch him the job and getting the I think he wants the job.. He wants the job. He kept on saying no and then he's like, |
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| 1:40.8 | Okay, let's go. Mama, hey, football guy, Latino, AWP. Pardon my taste, yeah, pardon my taste, yeah, pardon my taste, yeah, pardon my taste, yeah, pardon my taste, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, everything that happened this weekend. Okay, but first the chain smokers the chain smokers Hey, you get the chain smokers. I love the chain smokers. I was I was so confused when that was happening and It just kept going and they kept going and the two guys ran out on stage like, is this the chain smokers? Because they respectfully, I don't want to attract from the body of work that the chain smokers has done. Like the chain smokers. They've been extremely successful. Hank, thought they were podcasters that ran out of stuff. To white guys. Yeah, I was saying that as a podcaster. I was in the building on Saturday night. I feel bad for the chain smokers. That was not exactly the crowd that was set up for the chain smokers for the smokers. I don't think the smokers were going for the crowd. Oh, I know they weren't, but still they've got to be able to check. Of course, they were going for the check and they probably got a fat check, but there's still got to be a little part of them because So Lucas Rdell Stadium where the cults play massive massive stadium I want to actually mention something about that a second. They had they were in one of the end zones. They had I don't know 40 people who I think were just paid actors to come in looking like they weren't at a basketball game and Dancing in front of their their DJ set like boothoth, and the rest of the crowd, because if you've never been to a final four game, just imagine how many middle-aged dudes can you fit in one football stadium with, they just wear, the Q-Zips all the time. Yeah. That's exactly what the final four is. So then you get the smokers out there, and everyone was just looking around like, |
| 4:25.0 | what the fuck is going on right now? |
| 4:26.9 | No disrespect to smokers. |
| 4:28.3 | Yeah, those are the paid actors in front. It was very bizarre. The arena was literally on fire. Yeah. And just like burn the place down. I forgot that there was a basketball game coming up afterwards. I was like, I wanted to go outside and smoke a cigarette after the smokers got off stage. |
| 4:41.4 | The whole thing was weird too because you guys were watching on TV, the pre-game. |
| 4:46.2 | They had the fake James Naysmith. |
| 4:48.0 | Oh yeah, yeah. |
| 4:48.8 | They had like nine people... after the smokers got off stage. The whole thing was weird too, because I mean, you guys were watching on TV, the pre-game, they had the fake James Naysmith. |
| 4:48.0 | Oh yeah, yeah. They had like nine people on a desk. I know that at Barstool, we like to pack people on a desk and as many people as possible, but I think there was nine people at one point. We didn't enjoy the game of Naysmith or No Smith. Yeah, Nase Smither knows a pretty excellent game. Max has taken said like he's upset about something. |
| 5:05.6 | I don't like your tone when referring to the chain smokers at all. |
| 5:09.0 | I don't see- Nate Smith or no Smith? Yeah, Nate Smith or no is a pretty excellent game. Max has taken a said like he's upset about something. |
| 5:05.6 | I don't like your tone when referring |
| 5:07.7 | to the chain smokers at all. |
| 5:09.2 | I don't. |
| 5:10.1 | You're saying you're chaining. |
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