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 our good friend Mark Titus on to break down the bracket. Give us his picks. Talk everything, March Madness, getting you ready for Thursday. We also have our internet father for PFT, my uncle, Mike Floreo. He's got a new book out. We do a little guys on free agency. So we talk some football with him. He's got some good insight on to where Deshan Watson will go. We're going to talk March Madness. We're going to talk hot seat cool throne. We got a great show for everyone and on top of all of that. We have a new sponsor hit the sound Hank new sponsor alert Venmo is officially on board. We love Venmo. I listen. I like Venmo I've had Venmo for a very long time. It's been a word we couldn't say for a while But let's just be honest with everyone here. We have Venmo love Venmo In fact big cat just Venmo me earlier today. Can you actually do me a favor pft? This is a little lesson for the people out there go look up my Venmo that I sent you okay and tell me what I put in the message So Venmo is officially a sponsor pft is gonna tell you in one second and I will tell you why Venmo is doing something awesome for our AWLs they're giving away a hundred thousand dollars in the month of March to AWLs all basketball season. What did I put in there? The note for the Venmo exchange was hashtag PMT. And I did that because if you do any transaction on Venmo during the next few weeks, any transaction you use hashtag PMT, you could possibly win free money. So they're giving away $100,000 you can win up to $500 from Venmo all you got to do is have a transaction on Venmo use the hashtag PMT in the payment note and boom you could potentially win free money from Venmo and when you win the money screenshot your winnings post it to Twitter Instagram and tag part of my take will be retweeting and reposting all basketball season so win up to $500 when you include the hashtag PMT in all Venmo payments throughout all basketball season again make sure to post it on Instagram and Twitter for us to see that's unbelievable shout out Venmo round of applause to Venmo yeah $100,000 are giving away to AWL's all basketball season all you gotta, put in that hashtag PMT in your transaction note. Thank you to Venmo. We appreciate they're taking over this whole episode. So we love Venmo. Go download Venmo if you don't have it. And if you do have it, use that hashtag PMT when you make a transaction during the month of March. Remember guys, terms apply for full details on this giveaway and alternative entry methods.

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Spreads don't matter, by the way.

Of course not.

They don't matter.

Spreads don't matter in March. You have to have a 12 over five. These are the rules of the bracket. You have to have it one 12 over five at least, then you can be smart and say it happens every year. I have some stats for you. I'm going to throw some stats real quick. We're going to talk with Mark Titus about the whole bracket.

Your brain is so filthy.

You feel you have to get rid of some of them.

I have to get rid of some of them.

I have to get rid of some top 50 free throws.

Three free throw percentage. Ready? This was going to be the one I was going to ask you about. Okay. A lot of times I like to bet just exclusively on better free throw percentages. Villanova number one in the country. Okay. Okay. I think I have them in my final four.

Yup Colorado State, North Carolina, St. Mary's, Chattanooga.

These are all teams that are top 50 really bad free throw teams.

Boise State, USC, TCU, Houston, just take this information and run with it. It's a fun thing to say to people. Let's though, we have some real business we gotta get to. Should we, should you present it to Billy? Yes. Billy is doing he made a lot of money I think in football season off of his stats right off your spreadsheets Billy. It worked a couple times a couple times What was the return on investment? I think The season I did for the whole season the return on investment was about a hundred fifty dollars So they saw how many units though looking for percentages here. Basically I Turned a hundred dollars a week into $150 by the end of it. So Billy, for people who don't know the backstory of Billy, $100 weeks is that $150? Does that mean that you lost like $1600? No, $50 over the course of 18 weeks. Oh, you were up $50. No, no, that was including the 100. Right. Reinvested it. Right, right. $50 total no no 150 I counted the hundred that was first put in so you started the week was started the year with a hundred you ended the year with 250 yeah okay so just a little tip for you Billy the way to say that is if you are a one dollar a unit better you were up 150 units this year perfect see how that sounds eight dollars a Sunday that's good. You say it like that and people like wow This guy's a tap. Wait, so it made 150 percent Correct 150 units enormous that you broke Vegas. Yeah, right, but it there was a couple places where it got oh you did something you deviated There was a little cup of deviation Billy just hit one Billy realized that it just you could just bet on one game instead of betting on all of them. So Billy's strategy for people who don't know, he's the guy who at a horse track, like everyone's had this moment where it dawns on them, what if I just hit the all button, I can't lose every bet. One of these has to hit, I'll just hit the all button and root for the long shot, is essentially what Billy's done. And that's what you're gonna do for March Madness, correct?

Yeah, it's uh, this is gonna be a fun one, guys. Okay. So you came into this room about 30 minutes ago and you had a look on your face. You even set out loud like, I don't think the system's ready yet. I don't give a fuck if it's ready yet, Billy. We're gonna launch it. this is called Agile Development in the software where we're going to launch it.

And you know what, even the bugs are going to become the features.

It's going to be like thorough. ready yet Billy. We're gonna launch it. This is called Agile Development in the software where we're gonna launch it.

And you know what, even the bugs are gonna become the features.

It's gonna be like Theranos. It's Theranos, yeah. Yeah, no, it's going up. Yeah, it's going up close with it. The system might not be ready, but guess what? March Madness is starting, so it better, Like, we don't have any time.

We have to just, we have to implement the best system

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