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We did. And by players only meeting, I mean that after the show, Titus called me over and said, hey, idea.

Why don't you facilitate the show a little.

Still estate. Facilitate the show so that you're not setting up the topics and then talking about the. So I'm not the guy that asks the questions and then answers the questions before anyone else gets a chance to answer. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to try it today. All right. Try it. So I think you're going to hear my voice less and pitch things to you guys and then you guys will explain. That's that's what we're going to do yeah um starting off we're going to start with feast week uh some people argue that feast week is the best week of the year better than the first

weekend of march madness uh we'll get into the whole thing players era maui individual teams and players

as a whole but mark feast week were you satisfied with thisast Week? Or did it leave more to be desired? I was satisfied. We had incredible games. It wasn't just the MTEs, as they're called, which I don't, MTE's is multi-team event. Is that what it's? Who came up with that acronym? How did we allow?

Who did that? I don't like it. I don't like MTE. I want to just say tournament. Why not just say like, I don't know. Anyway, the MTEs is, I've never really liked that acronym. But anyway, the player's era I thought was awesome. The format makes no fucking sense. and I'm glad people are taking that event to task and saying,

what the hell is this?

And next year it's supposed to get even more complicated. Is that right, Rick? Yeah. It's going to take place over three weeks next year, I guess, and they're going to do it all across the country, and then the last week. They're just trying to, the players there is just trying to own the entire non-conference schedule is kind of their plan. They're just like stop having non-conference games. Just

make your whole non-conference schedule is kind of their plan. They're just like, stop having non-conference games. Just make your whole non-conference be players there. Anyway, I thought the games themselves were incredible. And it wasn't just like that or, you know, Maui Invitational. I watched a little bit of that even though the teams weren't that good. But actually some good games there. Like Duke Arkansas. You just get like these random Illinois, Yukon, like random games like that. I thought the entire week was great, but I do have a controversial take. And you guys can kill me for this. I welcome pushback. I welcome confrontation on this show. I kind of wish Feast Week wasn't during Thanksgiving because I found myself, and I think this is a problem as I'm getting older and I have more of a family and I'm not just like a single dude in my own house like with full control over my own TV.

When you're at the Thanksgiving situation and the Kansas City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys are playing in a pivotal NFL football game

and you just want to watch North Carolina, Michigan State. It is a tough task to get the television

changed. And I don't blame anybody, but I like that we get these great games during the

holiday week. But at the same time, I found myself in a tug of war.

And then they'll change the channel over.

And then part of you's like, you're just doing that to appease me.

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