What's going on.

And I am D.J.

And this is Matt Brackett status, a weekly podcast where we make pop culture brackets. Woohoo!

DJ, how are you doing in this

fine day, night? So,

at the moment of this recording,

Monday, October 16th,

8.20 p.m. Eastern Standard

Time. I'm exactly neutral.

I'm watching game three of the ALCS

between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees.

It's currently tied zero zero, bottom of the first inning. So I told that, I told Adam Dickens

ahead of time, I'm going to be paying attention as much as is needed, which is probably like almost none.

So I'm just going to sit back and enjoy the ride, baby.

It's going to be an interesting ride today because DJ, as you know, we are about to start our bracket of brackets, best bracket winner, whatever it's called bracket.

But this week we are going to start the pre-bracket to that, which is going to be two weeks long and it's going to be the play-end bracket.

So, you know, like how in the NCAA tournament they got the playing round?

Well, we have our own playing round because we made 31 full brackets during our mad bracket status tenure that's right so this is the beginning

of the end this is the first like this is the first foray into this bracket of brackets you know

the ultimate bracket we'll figure this bit out what the name of it is i think mad bracket status is

like the way to go but that's just that's. That's a good way to name it. To figure out what this name is and to do some other things, we also have a friend of the show hosted after after the thrones, Chris Diggins here. Chris. Hello, hey, Chris. Thank I'm a bit. It's an honor to be here.

You know, I'm hoping that we can, you know, get this all resolve,

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