Molly & Jim

Jesse Nelson and Matt Hamilton roll on for this Hall Monitor Monday, as they continue their conversation about the Badgers dropping the ball in March once again with Friday's loss to James Madison in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Jesse and Matt discuss if we should change the bar/expectations from making the Sweet 16 under Bo Ryan to just making the NCAA Tourney under Greg Gard. Matt also questions if Gard is indeed the rest person for the program in the NIL era. Benny Bets himself joins for an early-week edition of Betting with Brust. Jesse and Matt pick Ben's brain as a former Badgers player on the Badgers extending their Sweet 16 drought to 7 straight seasons, if the Badgers will make the Sweet 16 in the next 4 seasons with Greg Gard still as head coach, and if it's time for AD Chris McIntosh to possibly move on from Gard. Ben also tells Jesse to stop complaining about how much money he lost in Dubuque, and they all give a lock for the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament before picking a side in Primetime's Prop of the Week. Throwing Stones includes a question about what was "lost in translation" related to the alleged theft/gambling debts of Shohei Othani's interpreter. Jesse and Matt wrap up with Cross-Talk with the Great Dane Huddle, hosted by Alex Strouf and special guest Pablo Iglesias of WKOW, and they give their thoughts on today's poll question and bid farewell to Matt before he embarks on his European curling tour.

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton get into the MADNESS on what will be their last show together for a while with Jim heading on spring break with the family and Matt falling back into the international curling schedule. It's also Day 1 of the official NCAA Tournament, so the guys react to some of the biggest results of the day so far and ask a nostalgiac poll question: What is your favorite Final Four team from the state of Wisconsin in the last 30 years. Jim runs down the rosters from the three Badgers squads (1999-2000, 2013-14, 2014-15) and the 2002-03 Marquette squad that included Dwayne Wade. Instead of asking Matt to name how many players from the teams that he can name, Matt just tries to guess between whether or not some of these Final Four players played for the Badgers or the Golden Eagles. Matt also asks if the listeners root for Big Ten squads outside of when they root for Wisconsin or Marquette in March Madness. Ryan our Psychadelic Advisor calls in and wins during the High Life Dive Bar of the Week, which is The Dive Inn off Cottage Grove Road!

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton start Hour 2 on their last show of the week with a question about what really drives sports fans: which college basketball program do you hate the most? Jim, Matt and Primetime come up with a top-4 for Wisconsin sports fans (Duke, Marquette, Purdue, and Kentucky), and Matt gets into his love-hate relationship with the University of Michigan and former head coach Jim Harbaugh. Ben sticks the guys up for this week's edition of Betting with Brust, so they roll on without him! Jim and Matt make due on the fly and give a couple locks for the first weekend of games, along with both a lock and a sleeper to make the Final Four. In Throwing Stones, Primetime empties his bag from the week with questions about popping a significant other's zits/pimples, what part of the Packers franchise would make for the best docu-series, and if it makes sense to put your entire life on hold for March Madness. They wrap up with the fans criticizing Primetime's recent choice on where to get a haircut...

Mark Tauscher joins Jim and Matt. Tausch gives his picks for the best traditional party destinations to take kids on a vacation nowadays. Jim and Matt also hit him with some Packers questions, including what position the Packers will target early in the Draft, who are the remaining free agents that could fill a starting role for Green Bay, and just how much team-agent relationships matter in the free agency and coaching hiring processes. Tausch also talks about his bracket picks for March Madness, how he picks his bracket and if he has any go-to tiebreakers for the tougher-to-pick matchups in the bracket.

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton going full March Madness with their best/worst takes on the NCAA Tournament and the go-to tropes for randomly picking your bracket. Jim also asks the fans which team will survive and advance the furthest: Wisconsin or Marquette? Matt goes into his statistical model for picking teams, which is almost entirely based on who's mascot could beat up the other while Jim counters with picking against the team from the worse state. They field calls and texts on people's worst states in the union. During Minute Win It, Primetime tests Matt's historical knowledge of March Madness with the list of the 10 CBB programs that have won the National Championship dating back to 2004.

Jim Rutledge and Matt Hamilton roll into Hour 2, and Jim follows up on Matt's NCAA Basketball knowledge from Minute to Win It by quizzing him on the biggest names in both men's and women's CBB right now. During Throwing Stones, Primetime attacks Jim for considering going on a family vacation to New Orleans, asking what are the worst places to go on vacation with young kids. Mark Tauscher joins Jim and Matt. Tausch gives his picks for the best traditional party destinations to take kids on a vacation nowadays. Jim and Matt also hit him with some Packers questions, including what position the Packers will target early in the Draft, who are the remaining free agents that could fill a starting role for Green Bay, and just how much team-agent relationships matter in the free agency and coaching hiring processes. Tausch also talks about his bracket picks for March Madness, how he picks his bracket and if he has any go-to tiebreakers for the tougher-to-pick matchups in the bracket. They wrap up by revisiting some of the worst destinations to take kids on a family vacation, including tours related to death or other horrible historical events.

Jason Wilde joins to talk with Matt Hamilton on Alex Strouf live from Dancing Goat Distillery in Cambridge, WI. They begin talking about the evolution of the negative and positive connotations of the word "goat" in sports. They also talk about what players/positions that the Packers might target in the upcoming second wave of free agency, De'Vondre Campbell's Twitter tirade on Sunday about how he was misused in Joe Barry's defense, and the bargain deal to re-sign the simulated farmer AJ Dillon.

Jim Rutledge is re-joined by Matt Hamilton, who's back from his curling escapades in Scotland, and they broadcast live from Dancing Goat Distillery in Cambridge. They're immediately joined by master distiller Nick from Dancing Goat, who provides some insights into the company's distilling process for the best bourbon and whiskey in the area. Nick also gives his GOAT gambling picks and tips for March Madness! Jim and Matt are then joined by Alex Strouf who's also on-site at the distillery. Matt shares a story from being recognized in Scotland by some top-tier curling fans, and Strouf shows his ignorance by bringing up Irish Car Bomb shots. Primetime helps catch Matt up on last week's biggest stories in WI sports during What Matt Missed, presented by Leinenkugel's. Jim wraps up Hour 1 by presenting the guys with his question on X/Twitter earlier in the day, asking Packers fans if they would have been upset had the Packers traded a 6th-round pick to the Bears for Justin Fields, who would then step in to back up Jordan Love next season.

Jim Rutledge, Matt Hamilton, and Alex Strouf roll on from Dancing Goat Distillery in Cambridge. They continue the conversation from Hour 1 about if Justin Fields will find success in new scenery with Pittsburgh, and they talk about some other QBs who could have bounce-back seasons and where Jordan Love's development will take him in year 2 as the Packers' starting QB. Jim hops off the show to go attend parent teacher conferences, so Matt and Strouf answer Primetime's mind-in-the-gutter question about the NBA jersey swap between Toronto's Gradey Dick and Orlando's Anthony Black. Jason Wilde joins to talk with Matt Hamilton on Alex Strouf live from Dancing Goat Distillery in Cambridge, WI. They begin talking about the evolution of the negative and positive connotations of the word "goat" in sports. They also talk about what players/positions that the Packers might target in the upcoming second wave of free agency, De'Vondre Campbell's Twitter tirade on Sunday about how he was misused in Joe Barry's defense, and the bargain deal to re-sign the simulated farmer AJ Dillon. Matt, Strouf and Primetime wrap up with an ode to Jesse Nelson's lack of accountability.

Jim Rutledge is joined by guest host Pablo Iglesias of WKOW, who is in while Matt Hamilton works his way back from curling in Scotland. They're also joined by Mr. Irrelevant Alex Strouf for the first few segments of the show. Strouf and Pablo recap a great weekend of Boys State Basketball coverage from the Kohl Center, and they answer Jim's poll question about how many times per year people go to the dentist. Jim, Pablo and Strouf also preview and share their opinions on the Badgers' region and upcoming first-round matchup versus James Madison in the NCAA Tournament. Jim asks if it's more likely that the Badgers lose in the Round of 64 or make it all the way to the Elite Eight? Jim and Pablo wrap up by getting into some Chicago sports talk content by reviewing the Bears' trade of Justin Fields to the Steelers over St. Patty's Day weekend.