Junkies 2026 Bracket Challenge

0:00Hey everyone, I'm Josh Radner and I am so excited to tell you about how we made your mother a rewatch podcast looking back at how I met your mother And I'm here with Craig Thomas who co-created the show along with Carter Bayes. Hi Craig! Hey Josh, somehow it has been 20 years since the show premiered I'm going to check the math on that 10 years since it went off the air And we thought that made this a perfect time to look back, see what the hell we did and why the show still seems to resonate with fans around the world today Follow and listen to how we made your mother wherever you get your podcasts You can go to adjunctsradio right now on Twitter, enter the tournament challenge, see if your picks are better than Roger the Engineer This has been a seeding change, the public is clamoring to see Roger the Engineer So go to monumental sports if you're not watching, if you're on the radio, you can multitask, you both Roger's feature team Roger the Dodger Roger he's got three ones in final four His bracket, his every bit is valid, is anyone's on the planet

1:02Now he does have two double digit seeds making it to the Elite Eight This is all I could buy This is all I could buy He also has VCU making it all the way to take on Florida That would be awesome That would be awesome Then Roger's going to take this whole thing down I bet you there'll be two double digit seeds in the Elite Eight You would bet that? Two out of 16 teams? The Elite Eight is my mouth right? Yeah, that's it I bet that's it Don't pay attention to JP's bracket I have a broad attention to Roger He's around off So we move seeds so that people that are watching our YouTube stream they can check out and see Roger Right? Are you comfortable there? Yeah, yeah What were you going to say, Dre? In this room, before we saw his bracket build out, Valdeez and I were talking punishment Because we thought it would be laughable if we lost a Roger on his bracket Yeah Now we're sweating a little bit Because, you know, we're trying to come up with ideas, you guys probably won't be on it But how to punish ourselves if we don't be Roger

2:03But you're going to have your own little bit amongst yourselves What's getting off? Valdeez is going to be a workshop He wants a Roger to solder me I was going to take a soldering iron to our nipples Oh my God That's pretty You are a school of old school radio You are a student of old school radio I actually think it's going to be tough to beat him Three ones in the Final Four I can't remember who it was Maybe Seth Greenberg and his fan had four ones Yeah In the Final Four So that's where you get all the points I don't know We were also kicking around Wearing size 30 jeans for a day How did you even do that? You just had to wear them the way Roger went That's a unique style That's a funny thing I can ask you a question, Roger Listen In fact, yesterday I had to apologize to one of the PGC hosts Because my pants were falling down at sweatpants You had to string under sweatpants And my wallet, my phone And my string came undone

3:03And literally my pants were falling down I was like showing like half butt And I'm getting coffee in my hands But I said, I apologize I had underwear But I said, I apologize You look like Dodger My pants are falling down No, here's the thing His pants are always The shirt is always tucked in How do you do that? How do you keep it? Because you wear your pants I would say On average, extremely low You kind of wear them below the cheeks That's how I would describe it How do you keep the shirt And tucked in at all times Do you have the pen? Did your wife pin it or something? That's a belt That's it? It never gets undone For the most part No, no And he has a magic gift He defies physics He defies physics He defies science He defies science He just got a little wrist Look, he's got a gold chain Yeah Where'd you get that? Let me see that gold chain Yeah, he's got, he's got some wrist

4:04Dude, he's got a wife of kids How many kids do you have? How many kids Roger? How many kids Roger? You got one? One Yeah What's his name or her name? I guess Rochelle Girl You have great kids, right? Yeah How many great kids? There's two Two Yeah Yeah We have Paul Roger Paul Roger, the engineer How are they? They're once three years old Are they stud athletes? Like was your daughter stud athlete? Not really No, no No, no No, no, no That's okay Working I'm just asking Just regular day jobs and stuff Yeah, yeah, yeah All right Regular day jobs Dude, you're in your final four Is this my gone for sure? Yeah One more coaching question for you If I said there was a coach at Duke Who won a bunch of championships And you have Duke in the final four I think you have Duke in the championship game Against Michigan It's a lot of places Yeah It's coach And then there's a letter

5:05It's a letter after J It's coach Palm the black Dude, he didn't know Georgetown Williams Yeah He's not going to get that He was told instead of that That's a letter after J Is that a big name? It's coach K It's the coach K, right? Okay, this sounds vaguely familiar vaguely familiar Yeah, I would say Because he knows more about the bills He knows like Josh Allen He does know a little He does know Yeah, a big marvelous leavey guy Yeah I do I do I mean, you do know some bills They might all be current But you do know something Would it be safe to say He said to say you're basing on a college hoops guy. Is that safe to say you're not really a big college hoops guy? No, right. Okay. Roger, Roger, do you know where Duke is? What's stated's in? Carolina. There? Okay. Roger's reasoning for taking high point over Wisconsin is because it's in North Carolina. That's what he's told me. He's a thing for North Carolina. Just familiar. Basketball hot bed. Well, he's familiar with it. That's for what? That's high point over Wisconsin.

6:06Yeah. His rationale for taking Villanova over Utah State was, quote, it's local. You said Philadelphia. It's more local. You said Philadelphia. It's more local. It's more local. Yeah. But again, what's that? Do you know where Villanova is? Where's Villanova? It's Philly area. Yeah. He knows his cock. Dude, he might. He knows the college. He might beat me in what? Hey, we'll case. Colleges. We'll case get in on the punishments. Huh? We'll case get in on the punishments. Where? 30 jeans down by my knees. I couldn't. I couldn't get a size 30 on one leg. I mean, I can't get a tattoo. Or no, no, no. Or if we do the solder. Or another suggestion was. I'm not getting my nipples. I'm not doing that. Or a dollar suggestion was a low electric pulse that you have to shock. So I get tazered? Basically. Low voltage. Low voltage shock. Roger could set that up in a couple minutes. Yeah. Like, 400 volt shock. Yeah. See, he does no volt. No, no, no. I'm out on that. Do you know where St. John's is? I think we found his wheelhouse.

7:06Do you know where St. John's is? St. John's College? If you had to guess. No, I can't remember it. St. John's is me. Sounds. Sounds like college. Yeah, I just said he's going to beat me in nowhere. We're college. That's it. That's in New York. Sounds. Yeah. Sounds familiar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just trying to find his area of expertise. Okay. So do you feel good about your bracket? Pretty much. Yeah. Do you think you will beat all of the junkies? And our producers? Not necessarily. He does strike me as a cocky guy. This is a good shot. Yeah. I think he has a good shot. Do you know without looking at it. Do you know who you picked to win it all? Well, yeah. This is Michigan and the West. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

8:06Yeah. Why were you high on Michigan? Were you high on Michigan because Valdeez was kind of telling you, hey, they're one of the one-seas. Some people think they're the best team in the country. Well, it was Arkansas in there. You know. And it's still too, you know, like they're going to go anywhere. Right. You don't really have a vibe on Arkansas, right? It's it's. Yeah. I mean, you don't remember. No, you don't remember Nolan Richards in it. It's 30 minutes or four minutes. It's a hell of a hell. Yeah. Well, you'd be watching the games today. Watch the games today. Yeah, good. You know, he's like, he'll be here. He could watch him in the break room. He's gonna go to tap and be mentioned, Finlay. Oh, great. Yeah. Does he actually have to engineer that? We might send him over there. Yeah. All right. What was the last, what was the last engineering disaster that you had to do here? Like what was the last thing you had to do to save the day? The biggest disaster here was, it was the loss of a power supply or UPS power supply that took down everything. It took down, what? It took down a lot of FM stations. Including this one?

9:06I believe it did, you know, at one point. Is this, is this station a poop show? Yeah. Like, do you think it's the end? I don't know. I always be okay. Yeah. You like our signal? How's our signal? Signal's okay. Yeah. It's too restricted. But it's, it's okay though. Yeah, it's a good, it's a good high level signal. Roger sent an all company email a couple of weeks ago, but it said, um, congratulations to Karina, who got nominated for top DJ. And he said, Karina's a top star, make radio grade again. Oh, really? Yeah. I think Roger, are you a big Karina fan? Well Karina's making radio grade again, right? What about the jokes? Are you a fan of the jokes? Sure. Yeah. He's a believer in talk radio. Roger has radio, he's, he's a little questionable about. What? He likes talk radio, the future of talk radio. He thinks. He's questionable, what do you mean his tastes? No, like the formats. Oh. Which formats do you think, in other words, you think there are certain formats that will not survive?

10:08Probably. And there's like, you know, the couple that will survive is the news talk in the sports. Right. You think they're going to go. Do you think our future's okay? Yeah. We're pretty much, people are always going to gravitate to it. Yeah. But what about like, what about the jokes? Yeah. What do you think about this show? This show is going to, this show is going to keep going for a while. What do you think is the appeal of this show? Why do you think people might like this show? Because there's, you know, there's so many different things talked about, you know, the what's coming up and they can call in and talk to you guys. Do you think there's a lot of you guys that were likeable for people? Yeah. Do you think we have likeable personas or do people like to hate us? Well, you got that in between thing going. You have a lot of people love you guys. And then they, they always hate. Who do you think they do? It's love hate. Yeah. Do you think they hate the most? Do you have that guess? No. Really? I don't really know about that. Do you think most people hate cats the most? Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right.

11:08So where do you want to go? So people should they call in or just go ahead and start entering the brackets. Is that the idea? You can go to the junk's Twitter, the link is up there or just sign up to the ESPN bracket challenge and in the search bar type in junkies bracket. And it will pop right up. Yeah. Okay. You'll see it. Easy to do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I like your bracket. I think it's your brackets. Literally every bit as well. Well, you feel awful if Roger beats you. No. Not really. He's got a little bit of shit. I would feel awful. I would feel awful if he's got a bunch of 10 seeds in the box. Yeah. But I was perfectly reasonable. I mean, it's got three ones. Yeah. I don't know how the hell he got there. But he got there with a reasonable one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He said he reverse engineered it. And you didn't coach him up. No, no, no, no, no. I went down the entire matchups. Yeah. And then like he has Duke against St. Johns. I said, do you think Duke will win? Or do you think St. Johns will win? Yeah. And he hammed an odd. Right. And was looking at me for some help. And he would just go Duke.

12:08Yeah. Yeah. That's what everybody does. That's literally like everybody else. That's what everybody does. Give us some thought. Yeah. You gave us some thought. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought. You like I heard a duke. It was to, hey, this is John Rothstein, the host of Inside College Basketball. Now part of the CBS Sports podcast, network reminding you that our show is going ramp up over the next two months. That's because we're counting down a selection Sunday and March madness. We will be coming to you each and every week with multiple episodes, featuring exclusive interviews with the biggest and best names in the sport. It's the all you can eat buffet for college basketball junkies everywhere. follow and listen inside college basketball now in the free audacity app or wherever you get your podcasts. A sports bar and asked probably a hundred people named five college basketball players, they might struggle. That's the state of college basketball now. So different.

13:09Sure. For sure. Yeah. I mean, we talked about it before, but that it feels like it was 10 years ago when Derek Queen and those guys made their run. That was just last year, it was just crazy. Feels like a decade. My Roger well, best, well, not best of luck. Thanks, Rod. Pretty good luck to you because we don't want a bunch. You beating a bunch of us and or the listeners, but we'll see how your bracket fairs. You got three ones. He will be a lot of people getting to the end. Roger has picked Duke, Florida, Arkansas, and Michigan as his final four. He has Michigan winning it all in Indianapolis. You can go to our Twitter at jokes radio and sign up for the tournament challenge where the junks will be right back. Red Wing, the legacy footwear brand that has set the global standard for purpose built boots since 1905 is expanding beyond shoes for the first time, known for its unmatched quality fit and durability on the job site. Red Wing is now taking that same craftsmanship with a new work apparel line. The collection features hoodies, long sleeve shirts,

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