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Hour 1 - Brackets & Bennys · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: in our number one, which number one seed Duke Arizona,
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Speaker 1: Michigan and Florida the number one seeds is most likely
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Speaker 1: to go belly up before reaching the final four. Also,
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Speaker 1: this hour we start from the selection committee. Yes, the
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Speaker 1: selection committee. Selection Sunday has come and now gone. The
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six NC Double A men's basketball bracket Locked
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Speaker 1: in Stone, Locked in Stone, And as I mentioned, if
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Speaker 1: you were listening to the Fifth Hour podcast the early
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Speaker 1: Sunday edition with Danny g and Me mentioned that this
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Speaker 1: time of the year is one of my favorite times
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Speaker 1: of the year. Everyone that does this for a living,
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Speaker 1: every bloke, as our friends in Australia say, every bloke
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Speaker 1: that does this kind of work for a living, and
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Speaker 1: we completely ignore men's college basketball unless there's some kind
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Speaker 1: of ridiculous blow up like our friend gottlieb our Old
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Speaker 1: teammate who just starts screaming at the referee. Well, if
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Speaker 1: that happens, we talk about it, right, But the exact
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Speaker 1: same p the exact same plan exactly outside of that though, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: come on, what do we do? We don't talk about it.
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Speaker 1: And now, through the magic of talk radio, we are
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Speaker 1: all bona fide experts, bona fied experts when it comes
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Speaker 1: to the men's basketball tournament, and we are fully guilty.
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Speaker 1: We're no different. We are no different. No, I have
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Speaker 1: occasionally been watching some of these college games because I
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Speaker 1: was so burn burned out on the NBA product that
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Speaker 1: I have watched more college basketball last couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: and during the All Star break in the NBA, which
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Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago, I watched a lot of college basketball.
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Speaker 1: So I have watched it. And so if you didn't
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Speaker 1: keep tracked, these things have been telegraphed for some time,
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Speaker 1: the top seeds in the men's tournament, and so if
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Speaker 1: you missed it for some reason, you've got Duke. So
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Speaker 1: I see a lot of blue blogs. They've got Duke Arizona.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Arizona now moving on to the Big twelve.
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Speaker 1: But Duke Staple, the acc Arizona Michigan and the Florida Gators.
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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all those teams, separated by a few millimeters,
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Speaker 1: but they had separated themselves from everyone else in college basketball.
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Speaker 1: So those are the four pack of the top seats. Now,
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Speaker 1: last year we had all Chalk, all Chalky mcchalk in
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Speaker 1: the final four. I think Florida won last year. I remember.
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Speaker 1: If I think the Gators won last year, I don't
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Speaker 1: even remember. I believe it was the Florida Games. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: the point is that those are the four teams that
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Speaker 1: are head and shoulders by everyone else. Duke the king
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Speaker 1: of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the ACC they won the
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Speaker 1: regular season and then they won the conference tournament. So
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Speaker 1: they doubled up on that. Arizona, the big bad bully
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Speaker 1: of the Big twelve all year, the wildcast. They won
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Speaker 1: the regular season title and the conference tournament as well
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Speaker 1: Michigan and Florida. It is interesting to know, and as
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Speaker 1: the late Vin Scully would say, it's interesting to note
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Speaker 1: that the Florida and Michigan squad did not did not
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Speaker 1: win their respective conference tournaments. However, both considered the cream
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Speaker 1: of the crop by the selection committee from the Big
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Speaker 1: Ten and the Southeastern Conference, respectively, so they are in
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Speaker 1: as the number one season. Now some of the so
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Speaker 1: called experts, these so called experts in college basketball are
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Speaker 1: saying that all four number one number of seeds advancing
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Speaker 1: to the final four is firmly in play again, that
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Speaker 1: this could be back to back, which seems odd to
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Speaker 1: me considering the fact that in college football and the
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Speaker 1: NIL era, you had a team like Indiana, a suck
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Speaker 1: bag football school like Indiana, win the championship because they
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Speaker 1: just bought the right players. So you're telling me that
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Speaker 1: we can't have that same thing happened in men's college basketball,
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Speaker 1: that it's just the top teams get all the top
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Speaker 1: players and that's it and it doesn't matter. And so
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Speaker 1: that's all a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question which top seed again Duke, Arizona, Michigan, and Florida,
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Speaker 1: which are the top seeds, is most likely to go
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Speaker 1: down to go belly up before reaching the final four,
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Speaker 1: not necessarily losing the first three weekend, because very rarely
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Speaker 1: does that happen. When I know there's a plain situation
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Speaker 1: and all that they've had that for years. In beautiful Dayton, Ohio,
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Speaker 1: the home of Dick in Dayton who calls the show
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Speaker 1: after that though, the real tournament begins on Thursday. And
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Speaker 1: so that's what we've got again. Who is most likely
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Speaker 1: of the top seeds to go belly up? That is
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Speaker 1: the question on the panel. And so I've got Rush Limbaugh,
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Speaker 1: to eat at this point, all right, So a to
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Speaker 1: begin the festivus of talk here after a literally minutes
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Speaker 1: long Mallor style deliberation, the team most likely to lose
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Speaker 1: Duke Duke. I'm gone with Duke. I'm gone with that
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Speaker 1: dough case. I'm going with Duke. Oh, here's why that
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Speaker 1: makes plain the Blue Devils. No, I'm gonna hold your
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Speaker 1: hand and walk you through this. Why I believe Duke
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Speaker 1: is of the number one seeds, the one most likely
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Speaker 1: to go down first in the tournament. They're like the
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Speaker 1: I've had friends that have had the land and they
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Speaker 1: are fed up all the time. And from just my
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Speaker 1: I've never her own one. My friends that have had
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Speaker 1: been very expensive, very expensive. The things better be under
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Speaker 1: warrant to you're you're you're completely screwed. Well, I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at Duke here and yeah, Duke's got Cameron Boozer, top
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Speaker 1: five NBA pick locked in stone. He can get arrested
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Speaker 1: with two hookers and some cocaine, he'd still be a
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Speaker 1: top five pick in the NBA. Okay, so top five
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Speaker 1: pick in the NBA in a couple in a couple
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Speaker 1: of months. However, the rest of the roster, if you
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Speaker 1: look at the rest of the Duke roster, and they're
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Speaker 1: all waiting in the not necessarily emergency room that they're
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Speaker 1: going to the walk in clinic, they're in the walk
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Speaker 1: in clinic. A big part of that roster, guard Calen
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Speaker 1: Foster had foot surgery. He's out indefinitely. They say he
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Speaker 1: may be able to come back. If Duke gets to
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Speaker 1: the final four, May is a weasel word the starting center.
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Speaker 1: He's out missed the ACC tournament out of my aching foot,
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Speaker 1: like he stepped on some legos or something like that,
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Speaker 1: So who knows if he'll be back. So using the
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Speaker 1: law of averages here, So two of the starting players
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Speaker 1: for the Duke Blue Devils, if I'm correct here, two
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Speaker 1: of the starting players for Duke are down for the count.
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Speaker 1: One for sure is down for the count heading in
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Speaker 1: to the tournament. So even though they're the number one
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Speaker 1: seed in their region, it's kind of like going to
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Speaker 1: a bar fight and you've got one arm tied behind
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Speaker 1: your back. Now, now they're gonna need a Wiji board
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Speaker 1: going in if they do have both starters out in
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Speaker 1: the tournament. Here and channel the Lake Grit Rush Limba.
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Speaker 1: We're actually broadcasting from one of Russia's old studios here.
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Speaker 1: And because Rush, one of his famous catchers, is he
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Speaker 1: dominated with half his brain tied behind his back, just
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Speaker 1: for just to make it fair. So Duke, if they
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Speaker 1: were able to go to the final four with two
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Speaker 1: of their starters down, well that would be pretty impressive,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it. Yet, And the other problem is you've got
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Speaker 1: that brutal bracket the brutal bracket murderers. Row you got
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Speaker 1: Yukon that psycho coach, Dan Hurley at Yukon fire breathing
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Speaker 1: head coach. You've got Tom Iso lurking at me, Chegan
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Speaker 1: with old Sparty Michigan State of Course, and Bill self
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Speaker 1: and Kansas waiting with brass knuckles. All of those teams
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Speaker 1: are in the East region. So it's a shark tank
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Speaker 1: for the Duke Blue Devils, John Shires Duke squad. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna need pep doo bismol. He's gonna need it. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna need it and some advillain all that and without
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Speaker 1: a loaded roster, opportunity for people to step up, do
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Speaker 1: your job. Do your job now. Meanwhile, looking a little
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Speaker 1: deeper here, another question that we like to ask as
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Speaker 1: we head into the madness of it all here is
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Speaker 1: the selection Sunday has come and gone. So the question
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Speaker 1: which teams are most likely to blow up the bracket? Now?
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Speaker 1: Mention Duke the team most likely to lose early in
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Speaker 1: the tournament as you start filling out your bracket, but
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Speaker 1: the team most likely to blow up your precious NC
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Speaker 1: tournament bracket? Which team would that be? And after a
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Speaker 1: lengthy review of the available teams in this and looking
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Speaker 1: at the teams that are not all that exciting, the
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Speaker 1: teams there at the bottom there. What I did is
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Speaker 1: I took a field trip. Actually, I went to the
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Speaker 1: Apple Store and I went to the Genius Bar at
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Speaker 1: the Apple Store. So I was able to reboot my bracket,
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Speaker 1: and I went there and the Genius Bar helped me
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Speaker 1: out there. I've got three suspects, three of them. I'm
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Speaker 1: never wrong about these things. So I got three teams
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Speaker 1: that are most likely to be able to wear the
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Speaker 1: ski mask and carry the crowbar. All right, So you
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Speaker 1: go in there and just vandalize, just vandalize things. First off,
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Speaker 1: Northern Iowa. What yes, Northern Iowa, number twelve seed. They
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Speaker 1: take on Saint John's and Rick Pattino a number five seed.
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Speaker 1: That twelve five things always always in issue. Now, Northern Iowa,
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Speaker 1: I'm told they're the Panthers and they are the basketball
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Speaker 1: equivalent of quicksand meaning, you step into that game playing
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Speaker 1: Northern Iowa and you think it can't be that hard.
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Speaker 1: It's Northern Iowa, for God's sakes, that is easy. Next
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Speaker 1: thing you know, you are sinking and screaming up just
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Speaker 1: like that, so preview of what's to come here they
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Speaker 1: do based on their season, play defense like a pack
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Speaker 1: of junk yard dolls, and so they do that and
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Speaker 1: they just play ugly basketball. And usually we get so
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Speaker 1: excited for this, and typically it is a brick house,
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Speaker 1: brick house in these early games in the tournament. A
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Speaker 1: lot of mishots ugly basketball. People have tight Tukas syndrome,
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Speaker 1: the players. And so if you're able to win games
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Speaker 1: that are muddied up, I mean really good shape, really
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Speaker 1: good shape here. So I got that circled Northern Iowa right,
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Speaker 1: They're very effective. That's style of play in the tournament.
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Speaker 1: McNee State another team not exciting. You don't get fired
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Speaker 1: up for McNeice. They play Vanderbilt in a regional broadcast
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Speaker 1: here and that match up the Cowboys, I am told
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Speaker 1: McNee State the Cowboys another generic name, hate that and
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Speaker 1: so they don't have the razzle dazzle of the Power
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Speaker 1: Conference teams. Now Vanderbilt doesn't either, but they're in the SEC.
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Speaker 1: And so another team here that likes to play McNee
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Speaker 1: State muddy pig pen basketball. And that's what I'm leaning
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Speaker 1: into here. These are the teams that I'm leaning into
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Speaker 1: and if you can win a rock fight, you're in
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Speaker 1: pretty good shape here to mess up these more established
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Speaker 1: with bigger named players, opponents that you're gonna play against.
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Speaker 1: And then and then there's Santa Clara. That's right, I'm
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Speaker 1: putting Santa Clair out there against Kentucky. Says, no way,
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Speaker 1: there's no coach. Klapar is not at Kentucky anymore. He's
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Speaker 1: at Arkansas. He's not walking through that door to save Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: Not that he did it. They had been underachieving in
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Speaker 1: the tournament anyway. So Santa Clara, though, the Broncos of
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Speaker 1: Santa Clara, they do share the ball, little Scotty report.
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Speaker 1: They share the ball. They stretched the floor. And it's
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Speaker 1: an opportunistic, gambling type of defensive team based on the
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Speaker 1: stats during the season. So that's the kind of team
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Speaker 1: that again you look for, that type of team that
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Speaker 1: can upset early in the tournament. And those are three. Now,
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Speaker 1: none of them are sexy, none of them get you
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Speaker 1: all tingly, and yet it's march ugly does win. It'd
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Speaker 1: be nice if you just made the most three point
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Speaker 1: shots and you played smooth, smooth, silky basketball and you won.
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Speaker 1: But that's not how that works. And these teams are
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Speaker 1: like termites in the tournament. Did they just eat your
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Speaker 1: bracket alive? Just like they're eating the wood in your house?
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Speaker 1: He's oh, yeah, you've been moored all right. Meanwhile, so
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Speaker 1: the last part of this, the last part of this,
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Speaker 1: we go to thirty thousand feet up in the sky.
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Speaker 2: Here.
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Speaker 1: The NCUBA Tournament is actually the annual NBA Scouting Convention.
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Speaker 1: Now it's the ski So a lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: realize this. It's disguised as March Madness. It's got all
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Speaker 1: the marketing and all that, and it's three week though
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Speaker 1: pop quiz, three week pop quiz for a bunch of
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Speaker 1: teenagers who are being paid a ton of money. But
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Speaker 1: they're also auditioning for the billionaire franchises of the NBA
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Speaker 1: while the rest of us pretend that that's not going on.
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Speaker 1: While our brackets are smoldering like a cheap cigar, and
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Speaker 1: there's scouts eating soggy nachos watching all of these games.
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Speaker 1: So the question is this, who are the players that
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Speaker 1: we need to watch? Who are the players that we
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Speaker 1: need to watch? Here? Going into this the men's basketball
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Speaker 1: tournament kicks off the real one on THD. So think
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Speaker 1: of this as a dust devil, like a dust devil,
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Speaker 1: a cloud of dust, a lot of star dust out there.
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Speaker 1: And you start with aj De Banza. Aj De Bonza
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Speaker 1: of BYU, the Cougars men's basketball squad projected as the
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Speaker 1: number one pick in summers NBA draft. The Bonza a
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Speaker 1: smooth operator at the wing and has all the tools
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Speaker 1: that make NBA scouts get a little you know what.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's one. That's the big guy. And then
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Speaker 1: every lottery team that have made an atrocity of professional
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Speaker 1: basketball by not trying to win, the Washington Wizards, the
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Speaker 1: Utah Jazz, all those teams. They have a Sacramento teams
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Speaker 1: that just blow and they have a bullseye on the
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Speaker 1: bonds of BYU. But he's not alone. You've got the
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Speaker 1: magical mystery tour of Darren Peterson of Kansas, the Jayhawks,
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Speaker 1: the men's basketball team there always one of the better
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Speaker 1: teams in the country. And Peterson, if you look at
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Speaker 1: him when he's engaged, oh man, this guy's gonna be
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Speaker 1: a good NBA player. Of course, the problem is his
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Speaker 1: superpower appears to be that of a distant relative of
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Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty who took a spectacular fall and they couldn't
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Speaker 1: put him back together. They've been trying to put him
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Speaker 1: back together. It seems like the perfect modern player doesn't
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Speaker 1: really seem to want to play that much, and so
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Speaker 1: that's a mess. But we'll see how if he shows
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Speaker 1: up and plays at all for Kansas Peterson. And then
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Speaker 1: we mentioned Boozer from Duke Cameron Boozer legit polished all
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Speaker 1: that stuff and NBA bloodlines his daddy. It's the family
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Speaker 1: business there, so the bloodline thicker than the nacho cheese
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Speaker 1: the scouts are eating while they're watching the competition. And
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Speaker 1: also from the all name team from Houston, Kingston Flemings.
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Speaker 1: Love the name like King Flemings. He's just go by King,
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Speaker 1: not Kingston. Go ahead King, right, it's Kingston Flemings guard
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Speaker 1: from Houston. And then Caleb Wilson of North Carolina. Those
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Speaker 1: are all projected to be the top players in the
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Speaker 1: summer's NBA Draft and they will all be on display
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Speaker 1: in the Madness of March, which begins this week. And
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Speaker 1: so we have a bracket challenge. We'll tell you about
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Speaker 1: that coming up in a little bit. So you're gonna
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Speaker 1: want to sign up for that, and we always want
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Speaker 1: one of our guys to win and not one of
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Speaker 1: these other shows. We take that very personally. We want
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Speaker 1: you to win and not the big promoted shows here
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Speaker 1: at the company to get all the advertising and all that.
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Speaker 1: We want one of our people to win, So hopefully
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Speaker 1: you will win. We'll tell you about that coming up
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Speaker 1: in a bit. It is the Ben Malord Show. It
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Speaker 1: know if it's too late for a Benny nomination, but
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Speaker 1: for Call of the Year. Too late, too late on that?
29:27
Speaker 1: Who else do you have Aged Dan from that? On
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Speaker 1: It is the Benny Awards. Want to thank everyone who voted.
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Speaker 1: Hundreds and hundreds of people took time out to vote
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Speaker 1: for the Benny Awards. We thank you so much. Also
30:25
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30:28
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Speaker 1: he said he could send it out to if you
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Speaker 1: have your information. So he's got He's offered Femi a
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Speaker 1: up there as this is an honor on our show.
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Speaker 1: nice things. I don't know I say specific. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if he's locked in on that, but he did did
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Speaker 1: something I believe from from mister irrigation. So he said
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Speaker 1: We'll get a ring. And these are amazing rings. He
31:29
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Speaker 1: and so I guess I think alf got one. But
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Speaker 1: let's begin the first This is very exciting. Are you excited?
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31:48
Speaker 3: Here?
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Speaker 1: Our first category for a twenty twenty six Benny Award.
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Speaker 1: It's a very important category that you helped decide. What
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six many awards the social media, mainly
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Speaker 1: X Benny Award for Social Media Contributor. Now, we started
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Speaker 1: out with fifty two people in this bracket. We could
32:20
Speaker 1: have gone to one hundred and fifty. That's how many
32:22
Speaker 1: people are regularly sending us content and part of the
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Speaker 1: for a brief amount of time and that's it. But
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six social Media again x Benny Award.
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Speaker 1: The nominees. The final four nominees Alf the Alien, O
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Speaker 1: Piner from Springfield, Mass Fird Dog from the Winter Wonderland
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Speaker 1: of Fullerton, Robbie the Mariner fan making the final four.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations Robbie very a big upset there of mister nice
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Speaker 1: guy along the Way Late Night trug testser a fan
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Speaker 1: neck and neck, neck and neck with the envelope, please
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Speaker 1: the envelope, please you. Good luck to everyone. Only one
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Speaker 1: person can be named the social media Influencer of the
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Speaker 1: Year on The Ben Malor Show, the Contributor of the Year,
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Speaker 1: I have the envelope in my hand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah read it, Ben, read it.
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Speaker 1: And the winner of the twenty twenty six social Media
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Speaker 1: Contributor of the Year on The Ben Malor Show, The
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Speaker 1: Benny goes to fer Dog in Fullerton. Congratulations for Dog,
33:47
Speaker 1: as fer Dog is the winner of our first Benny
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Speaker 1: Award voted by you the people. Wow, this was a
33:54
Speaker 1: neck and neck Chris, when I went to bed, well,
33:57
Speaker 1: I went to bed early on Sunday. But when I
33:59
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Speaker 1: a point separating Ferg Dog and Alf the Alien opineer.
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Speaker 1: Early on, Robbie actually had the lead early on in this,
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Speaker 1: but Ferg Dog he broke away down the stretch and
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Speaker 1: he wins by less than seven percent of the vote.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Ferg Dog. The first Benny Award of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six Social Media Contributor of the Year goes to
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Speaker 1: Ferg Dog in Fullerton, the big winner. All right, we
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Speaker 1: will press on here. Take some calls as well. Well.
34:34
Speaker 1: We have many more categories to go. In fact, why
34:37
Speaker 1: don't we go to Lucky Tony. He's been nominated. Lucky Tony,
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Speaker 1: your thoughts on how the Bennies have beengun here, Lucky Tony.
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Speaker 5: Tip of the Bear's cap to Miss Jeanie. Backstage, Bland
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Speaker 5: Scott was telling me he gets nervous in crowds and
34:49
Speaker 5: such as thumb. Can someone tell Scott that's.
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Speaker 2: Not a thumb?
34:53
Speaker 5: And David that ain't right. Davids is such a tea
34:57
Speaker 5: bags to be like. Goddamn, But David Essay is not
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Speaker 5: a racist. When he's in the Dodgers' locker room. He
35:03
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you, all right, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what he's talking about. There, that's Lucky Tony, who is
35:09
Speaker 1: also up. He's obviously not concerned about his status. Lucky
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Speaker 1: Tony has been nominated for some awards down the line.
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Speaker 1: All right, straight ahead, know who am I game? But
35:18
Speaker 1: instead we will give out the Rookie Caller of the Year.
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Speaker 1: Who's the rated rookie, Who is the breakout star who
35:26
Speaker 1: came into the Malard militia surrounded by legends, giants who
35:31
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35:35
Speaker 1: James and Eed Dogg and all these other regular people
35:40
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35:42
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35:45
Speaker 1: of the year. We will tell you who you voted for.
35:49
Speaker 1: The vote of the people will give out the Benny
35:52
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35:56
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Speaker 1: to the Benny's we go. This is very exciting here
37:10
Speaker 1: twenty six Benny Awards. We have our first speech from
37:15
Speaker 1: a winner of the Benny Awards. Let's go to the
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Speaker 1: phones and the man that won the Social Media Influencer
37:21
Speaker 1: of the Year, Benny edging out alf the alien Opiner.
37:27
Speaker 1: We go now to ferg Dog in that winter wonderland
37:31
Speaker 1: of Fullerton. He's actually he stopped digging out of the blizzard. Hello,
37:35
Speaker 1: ferg Dog.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. I wanted to thank the few
37:40
Speaker 2: people and the many bots who voted for me. I
37:42
Speaker 2: couldn't have one without you Bots. And to the people
37:45
Speaker 2: in my life who keep telling me I'm a loser
37:46
Speaker 2: who listens to the Ben Maller Show too much. Look
37:49
Speaker 2: at me now, I'm a loser with a Benny congratulations.
37:53
Speaker 2: That one more thing, one more thing, Ben, And this
37:55
Speaker 2: is very important to me. Like with the Genie and
37:57
Speaker 2: Medford and Beers Drigging Bryan Awards, I think time we
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Speaker 2: name another one of the awards after someone. When it
38:03
Speaker 2: comes to the best crew filling, Benny, it's only right
38:05
Speaker 2: we rename it after the greatest filling in the show's history,
38:10
Speaker 2: the Brian Fenley Award.
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Speaker 1: No, he moved out. He's not living with you anymore.
38:16
Speaker 1: He moved out. He's moved he got married. I was
38:18
Speaker 1: at his wedding. You were not there, so it's all over. Yeah,
38:23
Speaker 1: all right, well, congratulations for got it. Now where's your
38:26
Speaker 1: after party? Which after party you're going to? For? Okay, Brian?
38:31
Speaker 1: Everyone gets apple juice, all right, very nice, and a
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Speaker 1: crow bar and a piano. All right? There he goes
38:37
Speaker 1: our first winter time. Now for the Rookie Caller of
38:41
Speaker 1: the Year, the Rookie Caller of the Year, and the
38:46
Speaker 1: nominees for Rookie Caller of the Year the Benny Award
38:49
Speaker 1: on The Ben Mallor Show. The nominees are Anthony in Louisiana, Hailary,
38:57
Speaker 1: sponge Bob square Pants from Part It's Unknown, Deep under
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Speaker 1: the Sea, Mikey the Insomniac from Tampa, d Block in Miami,
39:07
Speaker 1: A Those Hearts in Chicago, Quinzel from Oakland, Dorko the
39:12
Speaker 1: Comedian from Honolulu, Hawaii, Bugatti the trucker from the Northeast
39:19
Speaker 1: where you know highways and bios exactly where. Snooker from
39:23
Speaker 1: North Las Vegas, not Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Speaker 1: Those are the nominees for Rookie Caller of the Year.
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Speaker 1: The envelope please, it's a heavy envelope. Ben, A lot
39:37
Speaker 1: of nominees, Loraine, a lot of There you go, all right, man,
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Speaker 1: the winner for Rookie Caller of the Year. Congratulations to
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Speaker 1: SpongeBob square Pants. Way to go, SpongeBob, a late tributor
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Speaker 1: in the year SpongeBob swam around the ocean with Patrick
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Speaker 1: Starr and all his other Buddies, and he wins Rookie
40:06
Speaker 1: Caller of the Year, edging out Anthony in Louisiana. Oh well,
40:12
Speaker 1: now to give a concession speech. Is Anthony in Louisiana.
40:16
Speaker 1: But congratulations a SpongeBob SquarePants winner of the Benny Award
40:20
Speaker 1: Rookie call of the Year. And he thought Anthony on
40:23
Speaker 1: missing out on winning Rookie Caller of the Year. Ye, hi, Anthony,
40:29
Speaker 1: how you doing well? I'm sorry that you didn't win.
40:33
Speaker 1: I wanted you to win. You know, no, no, you
40:37
Speaker 1: lost a SpongeBob beacher, you.
40:39
Speaker 2: Know, Hi, Anthony, so sorry about your loss, but you're
40:44
Speaker 2: still a winner in my eyes.
40:46
Speaker 1: How you doing so good? Because well, he doesn't seem
40:51
Speaker 1: too broken up by this. Well, good attitude, Anthony, good attitude.
40:54
Speaker 1: Only one person can win, and you did not win.
40:56
Speaker 1: But you can always be the sophomore of the year.
40:59
Speaker 1: If we had that category, you could be the sophomore
41:01
Speaker 1: of the year. So how was the weekend? How was
41:04
Speaker 1: the weekend? Loraine? It was so good? Next year, next year, Coop,
41:09
Speaker 1: the category would be who flirts the most with Lorraina.
41:11
Speaker 1: That'll be a category on the Betties next year, But
41:13
Speaker 1: not this year, not this year