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 by Draft Kings.

The Crown is yours.

We are an Action Network podcast and I have apparently been talking too much so far in the year 2026.

I'm your host, Brandon Kravitz's back at it with partials of the

crew, the first lady of the pod, Kendra Middleton. We could not drag the prime minister of D-Gen

nation, Stucky out of his March madness celebrations, a Christmas-like day for our friends,

Stucky.

I have put something together for the occasion, but no surprise here.

I woke up genuinely happy, not just because it's NCAA tournament time and this is such a fun time of the year.

But Stucky being one of our besties and the third leg of this pod. I just know how much this day means to him. He left out bourbon and cookies for the March Madness Gods. Very happy for our brother.

I am very happy for him as well. I probably would have left them out for Jay Billis, but that's just me.

So I have curated Kendra Middleton's tweets about the tournament.

Some retweets, but the theme is the same.

I want to read some of these and then get your explanation.

You can just go, just go one by one.

So it says shout out to all the teachers who will let their students watch March

madness during class. I don't remember much of what I learned, but I will always remember the

teachers who let me watch the tournament. Yes, I will always, always, always remember Mrs.

Robinson.

Shout out my goat.

I feel like whenever they would roll out the TV,

it was just because they were hungover.

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