March Madness Has Begun, High Point Upsets Wisconsin, UNC Meltdown, Stanford Steve Giving Best Bets For Friday + Fyre Fest Of The Week
Pardon My Take
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
March Madness is here and Big Cat's tournament is over as quickly as it started. He does soggy sorrows then faces questions from the room (00:00:00-00:25:03). We talk UNC's meltdown, Nebraskas first win as a program, Michigan State, Arkansas, and Houston looking great, Duke's scare and more (00:25:03-00:52:53). We then talk to Stanford Steve about his best bets for Friday's slate, why Duke can't win it all, thoughts on Villanova and more (00:52:53-01:41:05). We finish with Fyre Fest of the Week (01:41:05-02:04:40).
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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 day one of March madness. We're going to go through all the action. We also have Stanford Steve on to talk to you about Friday's best bets. So he's gonna break down if you're listening to this right now |
| 0:25.8 | and you get your teeth kicked in, |
| 0:26.9 | like pretty much all of us, Hank, did you do okay? No, okay. So like all of us. Did anybody in the booth? No, no. No one won. No memes. So yeah, Steve will break down the Friday sleep for you and we're gonna finish with Fire Fest and it is all brought to you this episode |
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| 1:13.4 | Okay, let's go. Mama, hey, football guy, but these are AWM, |
| 1:21.8 | Pardon my sins, yeah, pardon my sins, yeah, bye Welcome to part of my take presented by draft Kings the Crown is yours today is is Friday, March 20th. And the tournament is over for me and sports are dead and stupid and why do we care? Yeah, that's a tough one. I do want to start with that one. I feel like there's a lot of sickos and perverts that are tuning in to listen to the game. Yeah, Hank is tuning in. He bounded into the studio. He was bright eyed and bushy tail. I walked, couldn't wait to record. |
| 2:06.2 | So I'm upset for my good friend Dan. But on the other hand, like watching high point, I actually think that high point is a very, very good team. So A cuff puts 30 on their head. That was it was no job. There were good. There's no clue. They're, they're a very good team. Absolutely not no Hank there was a moment so like hour after the game. I was pretty upset |
| 2:28.6 | Just mad and There's no clue. They're they're a very good. Absolutely not no Hank. There was a moment. So like hour after the game |
| 2:26.4 | I was pretty upset Just mad angry going through all the emotions and then I flushed it because I was like look There's a lot of tournament left got to pick myself off up off the mat So like around five o'clock. I announced I was back and I'm good and Hank's like I could I could get you back mad. I was like what did I but you you just like smart |
| 2:46.4 | He didn't know I didn't I didn't you're like you're making this smile you cuz I was shot weren't you happy that I was back? Yeah, but they like I could you're like why are you smiling? And I just laughed because I thought of something to say But I did not say it. Yeah, we're gonna say well no, it's not I don't I don't they get this is like I'll say it now. |
| 3:05.3 | Just say it now. |
| 3:06.3 | It was a call back. |
| 3:07.3 | I was just going to fill Max Well, no, it's not. I don't want to, I don't, I think this is like this. I'll say it. I'll say it. |
| 3:05.4 | I'll say it now. |
| 3:06.3 | It was a, it was a callback. |
| 3:07.6 | I was just going to fill Max in on the conversation |
| 3:09.5 | in the cave about a potential guest. Oh, yeah, Chase Johnson, who by the way, similar to my Sam Darnold take, I was very prescient. |
| 3:20.2 | Pression, prescient, prescient, prescient, prescient. |
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