Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Happy Wednesday March the 15th. How are you doing?

And how is that coffee tasting on this March madness eve Wednesday eve? I don't know. How's everyone doing?

Dave, did you fill out your bracket? Yep, Purdue. Well, there you go. Now, if you guys want

to have some competition, pick Purdue to win. Yep. I'm not telling my winner. How do you have a lot of

upsets in your bracket? Ah, like five or six. Okay. Okay. So if you guys missed it yesterday,

if you're tuning in just now, we started a Z challenge. March madness bracket, the first annual

bracket. Okay. I posted something on substack zedmead.substack.com. So you will see that on there.

We have 58 brackets entered. You guys, I'm pretty amped about this. I was expecting, you know, 20-ish

30-ish, but I love it. I love that. We got this many people in here. We're going to talk more

about this throughout the show. Super pumped. A lot of smack talk. We're going to get to some of that

too. Gert. I think I saw you say easiest win ever. Come on now. For those of you that don't even like

college basketball, but you want to participate. There is an option to just go in there and auto fill

the bracket. It will randomly pick for you with weighted, so you're not going to get like a 16-seed

beating a one seed, right? I mean, they're going to give you good picks. So you can go in there,

auto fill it. It'll take you two seconds and you can join the fun. And first place gets merge

mountain. And with this many people, we might do, we might do first, second, third place.

So hopefully we can get over 100 brackets. That's what I'm hoping for. Again, this is a Zed member

only. We're not opening it up to everyone else. We were thinking about it if we didn't have enough

people, but we have plenty of people. So this is a Zed member only exclusive. If you're not in the

club, you don't get to play. So, all right. You can become a member at zedmedia.substact.com.

So more on this in a bit, we got to get to the chaos of the world. We got to talk about

all the madness. Stock market crash and everything's going to hell in a hand basket.

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