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Chuck & Buck 3-19 Hour 1: Let the Madness begin! ONE WEEK til Opening Day and WNBA raises. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Something complete? This is Chucking Buck in the Morning. What's up, folks?
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Speaker 1: Why you people are beyond Let's go, Let's get the
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Speaker 1: game on.
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Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Welcome into the radio program here on
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Speaker 5: a Thursday. It is Chucking Buck in the Morning. Sports
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Speaker 5: Radio ninety three point three k j R. F m
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Speaker 5: Ashley Ryan is here. Former Mariner Bucky Jacobson. My name
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Speaker 5: is Chuck Powell. We welcome you into this day where
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Speaker 5: we introduce the madness into everybody's lives.
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Speaker 1: And I say week ause we're the only people working
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Speaker 1: today at KJR. Correct, yeah, yeah, So we take on
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Speaker 1: that awesome responsibility to get you ready for the madness.
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Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson made sure that we were properly nourished here
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Speaker 1: this morning, sat that true madness. March Madness mcmuffins.
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Speaker 3: Uh huh.
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Speaker 4: I figured it was a celebratory day. You're right, a
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Speaker 4: celebratory day we have. You would hire heading up to
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Speaker 4: the Layla's right after the show, so you know, I'm
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Speaker 4: planning on getting there and starting to gamble and booze
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Speaker 4: and party. Yeah, I don't know time for eating. I
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Speaker 4: gotta get some nourishment first, yeah, although they do have
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Speaker 4: food there.
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Speaker 2: Imagine you nourish first, then you can start drinking.
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Speaker 1: Then you renourish.
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Speaker 2: Okay, but you got to build the base, right, build
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Speaker 2: your base.
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Speaker 1: Always renourish, always replenish. Yep.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, always recycle.
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Speaker 4: And I have noticed the handful of times that I've
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Speaker 4: done this, there is not much of a line at
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Speaker 4: McDonald's at five am. Yeah, is that right through there?
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Speaker 4: Tell you what it was? Something else? And I'm a
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Speaker 4: big fan of March Madness mcmuffins. I'm very often eating.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a wonderful new tradition to begin all.
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Speaker 2: Rankly, I'm appreciative of you for starting this tradition.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 4: I'll do it every March Madness tip off day Madness starts.
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Speaker 1: There you are snacking on your mom in. You're an
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Speaker 1: eating star.
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Speaker 4: I've never been called anything that I love more than
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Speaker 4: an eating star.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, well there you go. Oh well, congratulations, you're
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Speaker 1: our little eating star. Pinch my cheeks. Well, the ball
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Speaker 1: is tip today at nine to fifteen will be the
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Speaker 1: first game, So we are going to take you till
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Speaker 1: nine o'clock. So even though we're the only people working
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Speaker 1: at kJ ARE today, we will get an hour off
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Speaker 1: of our show. So we go till nine o'clock today
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Speaker 1: as opposed to ten. So we've got plenty of things
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Speaker 1: to discuss on today's program. And look, I mean, March
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Speaker 1: Madness is really just it sort of is an American
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Speaker 1: holiday in and out itself. I you know, I always
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Speaker 1: hear people say we should have the you know, everybody
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Speaker 1: who's a sports fan, you know, wants to say that
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Speaker 1: that sporting event is such a national holiday, we need
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Speaker 1: that day off. Well, obviously we can't have them all off.
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Speaker 1: Riz wants us to have opening day of Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball off. You know, I've heard Ian say that we
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Speaker 1: need the Monday after the super Bowl needs to be off.
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Speaker 1: And then other people have said for a long time
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Speaker 1: that the first couple of days of March madness, we
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Speaker 1: should have off, And yet I would push back just
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Speaker 1: from this standpoint, none of you work on this day anyway.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, you get two days off.
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking about just our people. I mean I
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Speaker 1: remember back in the day working in Phoenix, and we'd
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Speaker 1: get done in the mornings, and then we'd go out
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Speaker 1: to go watch basketball together and we'd get there and
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Speaker 1: the entire sales staff would already be yeah yeah, everywhere
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Speaker 1: was packed. Yeah yeah, I have to legally get it off.
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Speaker 3: You take it off right, No one No one's checking
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Speaker 3: you and being like who is your is their mouse
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Speaker 3: moving at at eleven am?
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Speaker 1: The only thing that that really matters is, you know,
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Speaker 1: we don't need a national holiday, because I know because
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Speaker 1: this is the only time I've ever gone to a
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Speaker 1: sports bar to watch basketball all day long, and half
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Speaker 1: the people are there in suits and ties holy time.
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Speaker 1: So it's not like you need it to be recognized
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Speaker 1: by our government as a national holiday. You're all taking
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Speaker 1: the day off anyway. So to me, that's kind of
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Speaker 1: half the fun, trying to figure out how to watch
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Speaker 1: as much college basketball as possible here. Before you know,
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Speaker 1: you go to sleep tonight.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm, yeah, I mean I can just I haven't
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Speaker 4: had a lot of jobs in my life. The one
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Speaker 4: before this, the baseball gig that I was doing. They
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Speaker 4: would give us a little bit of a shorter day
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Speaker 4: on today because they knew that everybody was, you know,
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Speaker 4: I don't know, had their brackets and everybody wanted to
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Speaker 4: get out and start watching some of the madness because
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Speaker 4: the first couple of days is it's different. It's it's
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Speaker 4: just you're hoping for upsets or you're and you have,
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Speaker 4: you know, four different games going on at the same time.
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Speaker 4: You're constantly watching something and the trickle how it's like
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Speaker 4: one game's coming down to the final few minutes and
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Speaker 4: then another one shortly after that. That whole thing is
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Speaker 4: just it's like this never ending crescendo almost, if you will.
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Speaker 4: And so it was that we would get a little
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Speaker 4: bit of time off, just a shorter day. But boy,
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Speaker 4: I remember, instead of the normal milling around in the
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Speaker 4: clubhouse getting ready, everybody was rock and wrong, because you're right,
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Speaker 4: I mean, even at that point at noon and you
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Speaker 4: were trying to get out of there, and every bar
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Speaker 4: was going to be packed because no one is working.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much, celebrating pretty much. You like college basketball
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Speaker 1: at all. You're taking You're just taking the Hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to head to early lunch today. It's nine o'clock there, Bud.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I'll be I'll be back for lunch.
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Speaker 1: You're health early brunch. I can't go back into the
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Speaker 1: office now I'm drunk.
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Speaker 3: I remember when we used to, like early days, when
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Speaker 3: I was at the early days of me being at KJR,
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Speaker 3: we wouldn't go, we wouldn't leave the office, but we
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Speaker 3: had TVs in everyone's little offices, so we would just
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Speaker 3: gather around the little TVs and watch them in everyone's offices.
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Speaker 3: And then I think one of the sales people was like, well,
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Speaker 3: this is dumb. Why don't we market this and have
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Speaker 3: an event at a bar and then we can all
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Speaker 3: go there and then the listeners can come. And then
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Speaker 3: we started going to this sport restaurant. We would do
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Speaker 3: the big events there, and yeah, it was packed every
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Speaker 3: single time. Nobody was working these.
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Speaker 1: Our sales staff have one of those watch party things tonight.
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Speaker 3: No, but we're doing that. They're doing that staff party
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Speaker 3: tomorrow tomorrow. Queen and beer.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so there's a half expectation to work today and
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Speaker 1: then not at all tomorrow. That's the madness for you.
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Speaker 1: That's the madness for you, I tell you. And this
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Speaker 1: is not just you know, older guy talking about things
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Speaker 1: were better in my day. The bottom line, College basketball
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Speaker 1: was a better product when I when we were growing up.
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Speaker 1: When I say we, I guess more Bucky and I.
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Speaker 1: It just was. I mean, the player stayed for three
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Speaker 1: to four years and you got to know them, and
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Speaker 1: it was you know, it was. I mean there were
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Speaker 1: times during the regular season where there'd be a Thursday
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Speaker 1: night game where you just didn't leave the house and
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Speaker 1: they'd put it on national television and you'd watch, you know,
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Speaker 1: Ralph Sampson take on Michael Jordan. You know, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it just it just was. It was just it was
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Speaker 1: just a better product, more familiar. I mean, it was
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Speaker 1: our probably my second favorite sport when I grew up
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Speaker 1: as a kid. And yet you know, you don't have
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Speaker 1: the mass television coverage that you have today, and so
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Speaker 1: it would start during the course of the day. But
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Speaker 1: in my household, I didn't have cable television. Dad never
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Speaker 1: sprung for cable television, and we lived out in the
8:21
Speaker 1: you know, a bit of the Sticks growing up, and
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Speaker 1: so we would we'd watch it and watch as much
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Speaker 1: as we could, as much as was made available to it.
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Speaker 1: And I say we my older brother and I because
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Speaker 1: he's an even he's a nutbag basketball fan, but in general, yeah,
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Speaker 1: in general, yeah, I mean he is a Powell. And
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Speaker 1: so one year we took our first vacation as a
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Speaker 1: family ever, again going back to the dad cheap thing,
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Speaker 1: so we'd never taken one. But my grandparents had moved
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Speaker 1: to Florida. And if you thought my dad was cheap,
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Speaker 1: oh you should have met my Grandpa Powell. Oh my gosh. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, we used to call them Grandpa Penny and
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Speaker 1: Grandpa Pincher, Grandma Penny and Grandpa Pincher. And so they
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Speaker 1: had moved to Florida. And so my dad's like, all right,
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Speaker 1: road trip to Florida. We're gonna go, shay, mom and dad.
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Speaker 1: And so we got in the Clark Griswold family station wagon,
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Speaker 1: six children, and then had it our way down. And
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Speaker 1: of course all dads have to Like my brother Joe said,
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Speaker 1: he made them seventeen hours, so we're gonna make it
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Speaker 1: in sixteen. So we start our way down there and
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Speaker 1: never taking a vacation, had all sorts of mishaps. You know.
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Speaker 1: By the time we get down there, it was like
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Speaker 1: two days later, three days later maybe, and tired. We
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Speaker 1: roll in the tournament. We were like, my brother and
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Speaker 1: I are panicking, we were gonna miss some of the tournament.
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Speaker 1: And we walked into my grandparents' house in Florida. And
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Speaker 1: since when they got down there they started to spend
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Speaker 1: their money, they just didn't want Yeah, they didn't want
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Speaker 1: us to see them spend their money. Yeah, makes sense. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so they start spending their money down there in Florida.
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Speaker 1: So we walk in and they have cable television, and
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Speaker 1: I could not have been more gobsmacked. And at the time,
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Speaker 1: that's how you could watch all the college basketball. So
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Speaker 1: here we are on our first family vacation in history,
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Speaker 1: and my brother and I walk in see that Grandpa
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Speaker 1: Pincher has sprung for cable. We settled onto the couch.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we showered anything from the trip. We
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Speaker 1: set on the couch, put our luggage by the couch,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think we moved. So that's how we
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Speaker 1: spent our vacation. It was like you gotta be kidding me.
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Speaker 1: We can watch every single game and that's sort of
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Speaker 1: what we did, you know, And Mom's like, are you
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Speaker 1: ever gonna go outside? Like nope, that the tournament is
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Speaker 1: on and it's seen this battery game. Now, that was
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Speaker 1: true madness back in the day. I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: quite as what it used to be, but that was
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Speaker 1: true madness. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean times are change and that's for sure,
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Speaker 4: but boy, this is something that if you're a hoops fan.
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Speaker 4: I mean I'm not the biggest hoops fan period. I
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Speaker 4: used to be bigger college and way bigger NBA, but
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Speaker 4: it still is when it comes around. I mean, when
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Speaker 4: you all of a sudden get to where, Okay, there's
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Speaker 4: this tournament, and this is different than most tournaments because
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Speaker 4: of how many teams they led into the whole thing,
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Speaker 4: which kind of dilutes it to some extent, but also
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Speaker 4: brings just the idea of a Cinderella more. It's more,
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Speaker 4: it's more possible. I mean, when you have fourteen NFL teams,
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Speaker 4: is there really a Cinderella? I mean, I suppose if
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Speaker 4: somebody makes it an eight to nine, then you know,
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Speaker 4: they knock somebody off, but it's not the same as
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Speaker 4: this where it's like every other day you're playing and
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Speaker 4: if you all of a sudden, if you know, fifteen
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Speaker 4: you knock off a two, I mean, it's a huge
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Speaker 4: that's way bigger story than a number one going out
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Speaker 4: there and dominating by forty in the first round. And
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Speaker 4: so it's just it's kind of that it's got different
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Speaker 4: factors to it to me that that are exciting, and
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Speaker 4: I don't know, I mean, I like, obviously when it
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Speaker 4: gets down to the end, you know, the Elite eight
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Speaker 4: and the final four, when you have the best teams
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Speaker 4: and you're you're starting to see the storylines develop of
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Speaker 4: who is just kind of coming out of nowhere. You know,
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Speaker 4: the second you know that the number two guy in
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Speaker 4: this team has been shooting fifty percent from threes, and
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Speaker 4: you're kind of done, usually with the the Cinderella story.
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Speaker 4: Typically at that point you're just looking at the best.
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Speaker 4: That's one part of the tournament. But then right now
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Speaker 4: March Madness. The crazy part is, like I said, the
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Speaker 4: one game after another coming to its conclusion, and you know,
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Speaker 4: when you have some upsets in the works, it's one
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Speaker 4: of those you can't wait to see that.
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Speaker 1: But all of a sudden.
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Speaker 4: You hear cheering over here, and there's another game that's
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Speaker 4: getting closer or a team's taking the lead.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's fun. I'm looking forward to watching today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is my favorite. This is how March. This
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Speaker 3: part of March madness is how three TVs came about
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Speaker 3: in our house. Oh you got to you gotta have
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Speaker 3: all of it. Yeah, yeah, you're cutting yourself short. And
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Speaker 3: then it stuck around the Foreigners run and we were like, well,
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Speaker 3: why would.
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Speaker 2: We get rid of that?
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Speaker 1: And can't take Bravo off?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 2: You get it?
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Speaker 1: Oh, below Deck we don't.
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Speaker 2: Watch below Deck anymore. There there's too many of them,
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Speaker 2: more than one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like below Deck, med below Deck, down under
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Speaker 3: below deck, regular sailing.
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Speaker 2: I mean there's too many. Yeah, taking a toll on
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Speaker 2: my mental health.
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Speaker 1: I mean, don't. I don't think it's the event that
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Speaker 1: it was. I'll just give you an example, Like I
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Speaker 1: got sports talk radio buddies of mine, and we still
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Speaker 1: get together once per year, and just last year we
13:23
Speaker 1: just sat around a few drinks in US And though
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Speaker 1: I'm entertaining to rattle off the starting fives of teams
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Speaker 1: that we grew up with in college basketball, and yet
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Speaker 1: those are sports talk radio people, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: they could do that for one team in today's game.
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Speaker 1: So it just kind of shows you, like the love
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Speaker 1: affair and the attachment that you had once upon a
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Speaker 1: time with the product because of the familiarity aspect. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it is quite the event. I
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Speaker 1: heard a conversation this morning about what's this best single
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Speaker 1: day of sports today, and they were they were all
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Speaker 1: talking about that it's this. I'm not sure it is anymore.
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Speaker 1: I don't certainly don't think it tops the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it tops Opening Day in Major League Baseball.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it tops Opening Sunday in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League. For a two day stretch during the week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if I could specify something a two day span during
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Speaker 1: the week, yeah, I would say it's still number one.
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Speaker 1: But I think there was a time where it was
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Speaker 1: done number one sporting event that we look forward to.
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Speaker 1: I think I don't think that it's even close anymore.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there I will take a nap today for example. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you know, once upon a time down in Florida, Grandpa
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Speaker 1: Penny and Grandpa Pincher, you know, there was no nap.
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Speaker 1: I will take a nap today and I'll miss a
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Speaker 1: chunk of the action which would have never happened a
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Speaker 1: few years ago. But it's still over the course of
14:52
Speaker 1: the next couple of days, it's still a beloved event.
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Speaker 1: It's an excuse to go out in your suit and
14:58
Speaker 1: tie to the sports bar watch games. Everybody's on an
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Speaker 1: even keel. You know, you've got just as good a
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Speaker 1: chance of winning your bracket as the guy in the
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Speaker 1: office that thinks he knows the most of anyone there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it just it's an even playing field for gambling,
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Speaker 1: and it's just a lot of fun. It's still fun.
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Speaker 1: It's still just as fun as it's ever been, even
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Speaker 1: though it might not be the must see event that
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Speaker 1: I think that it once was.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the familiarity to part of it, I think he
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Speaker 4: is probably why, like you said, because it does.
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Speaker 1: It does.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I can just save for myself. There's there's
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Speaker 4: about three or four teams that I know a couple
15:34
Speaker 4: guys on. I mean I'm not I let alone the
15:38
Speaker 4: starting five of you know, five or six, seven, eight
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Speaker 4: teams like it used to be. Just it's I'm not
15:43
Speaker 4: near as familiar with it, and part of that's probably
15:45
Speaker 4: my issue. But the other part of it is if
15:48
Speaker 4: the guys don't stay as long, there just isn't that
15:50
Speaker 4: the history of all. I remember this guy from last year,
15:52
Speaker 4: even if you hadn't seen him, you saw play through
15:54
Speaker 4: three or four rounds of the tournament. You were like, oh,
15:56
Speaker 4: I remember that guy from last year. Yeah, that just
15:58
Speaker 4: isn't the way that it happens nowadays. And so you're
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Speaker 4: you're looking at the teams and the blue bloods, and
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Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, who's the Cinderellas, And
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Speaker 4: like I said to me, it's the one after another
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Speaker 4: of the finishes that I love.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, the possibility of the upsets.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it is fun to watch, just especially in
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Speaker 3: a bar like setting with people's bracket. You know, there's
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Speaker 3: a game that could make or break a bracket on
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Speaker 3: day one.
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Speaker 1: It's fun. Yeah. Yeah, Well, and then.
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Speaker 3: They're the team that is the favorite narrowly escapes, and
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Speaker 3: everyone's relieved and high fiving, and it's camaraderie.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome, it's great. We are now under three hours
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Speaker 1: away from the ball is dipped. There you are, You're
16:39
Speaker 1: sitting next to Bucky. He's the Eating Star.
16:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. I still can only think of jim Nance. But
16:47
Speaker 2: it's a great song.
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Speaker 1: Yeah pantsless, yeah yeah, yeah, oh no.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, definitely.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Every time you hear that song now, oh.
16:53
Speaker 2: He's sitting next to you pantsless in this version of
16:56
Speaker 2: the song though, while.
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Speaker 1: He's winning, winning the poo in it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, feeding you not need that Sliders.
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Speaker 1: Six seventeen in the morning. He's got a mock turtleneck
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Speaker 1: on with no pants. He's just winning the pooh in
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Speaker 1: it all over the place, all over your all over
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Speaker 1: your mentals. Yeah, thanks a lot.
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Speaker 2: Bring in.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's find out what's on tap for the
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Speaker 1: rest of the show today. What's on top? What's on top?
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: First, games going to tip off at nine point fifteen.
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Speaker 1: As I said, it will be an eight nine matchup too.
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Speaker 1: It'll be Ohio State versus TCU, so pretty good to
17:34
Speaker 1: even matchup to get us going. And then at nine
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Speaker 1: point forty will be a thirteen seed in Troy taking
17:40
Speaker 1: on number four Nebraska. And as we pointed out earlier
17:43
Speaker 1: this week, neither of those teams, including Nebraska, has ever
17:47
Speaker 1: won an NCAA tournament game. Nebraska eight appearances in the
17:52
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament have never won one. Troy's had three. AI
17:56
Speaker 1: has already recorded into history that Nebraska wins by seventeen.
18:02
Speaker 1: So just so you know, I wrote it down.
18:04
Speaker 3: Here so we'll remember after the game happens.
18:07
Speaker 1: The field of sixty four is set. And that's why
18:10
Speaker 1: we can really sink our teeth into this. Miami of
18:13
Speaker 1: Ohio one last night to prove we belong all along
18:17
Speaker 1: eighty nine to seventy nine winners over SMU. Why was
18:20
Speaker 1: there any doubt that they should be in the tournament?
18:22
Speaker 1: Why do they even have to play a play in game?
18:24
Speaker 2: Great question.
18:25
Speaker 1: Prairie View A and M also won sixty seven to
18:28
Speaker 1: fifty five the final over Lehigh. So yes, we now
18:31
Speaker 1: have the field of sixty four and that's a really
18:35
Speaker 1: great perfect number. Shouldn't have one more team than that
18:39
Speaker 1: or one fewer leave it alone. NCAA Women's brackets or
18:45
Speaker 1: tournament will start, of course as well. This week. You'dub
18:48
Speaker 1: taken on South Dakota State. That'll be tomorrow at eleven thirty.
18:52
Speaker 1: Sounders top Vancouver last night. If you didn't see it
18:56
Speaker 1: on your MLS schedule, you haven't gone crazy. It is
19:01
Speaker 1: a CONCACAFF tournament game against another MLS team.
19:07
Speaker 2: I still don't get how it works.
19:08
Speaker 1: I don't either, but it is important, yes, and so yeah,
19:13
Speaker 1: Sounders do win, and they advance in the CONCACAFF tournament
19:17
Speaker 1: against another MLS team, and they will play an MLS
19:22
Speaker 1: game this Sunday, correct against Minnesota United. So they're not
19:26
Speaker 1: staying in the tournament.
19:28
Speaker 3: It's just the tournament that gets sporadically placed throughout the season.
19:32
Speaker 1: But the MLS game, at least on Sunday will not
19:35
Speaker 1: be against a team that's not from the MLS.
19:39
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, all right right.
19:42
Speaker 1: Kracking and Predators will play tonight on the road, the
19:45
Speaker 1: start of a six game road trip for the Kraken.
19:48
Speaker 1: They did lose their last game. They have won two
19:51
Speaker 1: of their last three though, so seems to be a
19:54
Speaker 1: pretty pretty crucial six game stretch on the road. I
19:58
Speaker 1: don't want to put a number on how games that
20:00
Speaker 1: they need to win, because this team never ever makes sense.
20:04
Speaker 1: So I mean, we could say, oh, you gotta win
20:07
Speaker 1: two out of four, and then they don't, and then
20:10
Speaker 1: they go on a seven game winning streak and it
20:13
Speaker 1: didn't matter what we said about how important the road
20:15
Speaker 1: trip was. So I'm gonna stop attaching things like that
20:18
Speaker 1: to the Kraken great good idea. They're an outlier and
20:21
Speaker 1: they'll take on the Predators tonight at five o'clock. Mariners
20:24
Speaker 1: spring training Julio is back in Peoria. I would imagine
20:29
Speaker 1: that the Venezuelan Mariners and the American Mariners will be
20:33
Speaker 1: returning today to the facility. JP Crawford got a courtA
20:38
Speaker 1: Zone shot yesterday and his ailing shoulder, and that was
20:41
Speaker 1: reported as good news. We'll have to talk to Bucky
20:44
Speaker 1: about that a little bit later on. And we are
20:46
Speaker 1: six days away from the start of the season. By
20:50
Speaker 1: the way, there is another really cool Major League Baseball
20:54
Speaker 1: event that starts today. So you go from the WBC
20:58
Speaker 1: just getting everybody back and then they start the Spring Breakout,
21:02
Speaker 1: which is this new event that they introduced a couple
21:06
Speaker 1: of years ago that just showcases all the top prospects
21:09
Speaker 1: in the game. So that starts today, starts today at
21:13
Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Three day event, actually four days. It tucks
21:17
Speaker 1: into Sunday as well. Four day event in which the
21:20
Speaker 1: top prospects in all of Major League Baseball will be
21:23
Speaker 1: playing games against one another. For the Mariner's part, they
21:26
Speaker 1: will be taking on the Brewers at two o'clock tomorrow,
21:30
Speaker 1: two o'clock tomorrow, and that is a matchup of two
21:33
Speaker 1: of the best farm systems in the entire sport. I
21:36
Speaker 1: think MLB Pipeline just rated the Brewers as the best
21:41
Speaker 1: farm system in the entire sport, and the Mariners are
21:44
Speaker 1: around the best as well. So fun, I love this event.
21:49
Speaker 1: And so you go from WBC into the Spring breakout
21:52
Speaker 1: and before you know it, it's going to be Opening Day.
21:54
Speaker 1: Speaking of that, we count down the days till Opening
21:58
Speaker 1: Day with a very important opening day question that this
22:02
Speaker 1: show has yet to discuss this entire spring. We'll do
22:06
Speaker 1: it next. Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R
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Speaker 1: f M actually introduced it to me. I think it's
22:11
Speaker 1: because it's verbiage people.
22:13
Speaker 2: Understand because the way it has to be a lot.
22:15
Speaker 1: Of people are confused. Do you count this day or
22:16
Speaker 1: do you count the next day?
22:18
Speaker 2: So, yeah, I need sleep six sleeps, yeah.
22:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, six sleeps. Opening day bunting. When do you start
22:24
Speaker 1: putting your bunting up?
22:25
Speaker 2: It's been up for a week.
22:27
Speaker 1: We're gonna have oh really yeah? Yeah, a bit premature
22:30
Speaker 1: and celebration. I got swaddled in it last night. Nicorn,
22:33
Speaker 1: I would have held me in her arms and swallowed
22:36
Speaker 1: bunting and bunting.
22:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, if I would have brought in March Madness mcmuffins
22:41
Speaker 4: two weeks ago, would that have been right?
22:43
Speaker 3: Or you can't have the mcmuffins early. But the bunting,
22:45
Speaker 3: it's like a Christmas tree. You don't put Christmas trees
22:48
Speaker 3: up on Christmas.
22:49
Speaker 1: No, you got around Halloween, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Jesus, Well, good
23:00
Speaker 1: morning to you. Yes, next Thursday, we'll be down at
23:02
Speaker 1: Jimmy's on First Star annual tradition to welcome in the
23:06
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball season. Cannot wait for it. And one
23:09
Speaker 1: conversation we've not had, and I give our I give
23:13
Speaker 1: the show credit for the restraint that we've shown, because
23:16
Speaker 1: people were talking about this months ago, trying to figure
23:19
Speaker 1: this out. I think I think Purple Sheet brings it
23:21
Speaker 1: up damn near every meeting on a Monday. But we
23:24
Speaker 1: have not brought this annual sports topic up yet. And
23:28
Speaker 1: yet here we are at the one week mark, and
23:30
Speaker 1: I think that we dusted off who's your opening day
23:34
Speaker 1: starter for the Mariners, who's taking them ount, who you're
23:37
Speaker 1: giving the ball to on opening Day? I'm giving it
23:41
Speaker 1: to Wu. How about that? Yeah, I mean it's not
23:44
Speaker 1: like Logan didn't pitch well. I mean pitched well, but
23:47
Speaker 1: didn't pitch as well.
23:49
Speaker 4: And the year before, I mean it was Luis Castillo
23:52
Speaker 4: and then and then he passed the torch or have
23:54
Speaker 4: handed the ball literally to Logan Gilbert last year. I
23:58
Speaker 4: think you do the same thing. I think you can
24:00
Speaker 4: keep that little bit of like you know, inside the
24:02
Speaker 4: clubhouse competition, like of who gets it is who earns it,
24:08
Speaker 4: you know, I mean who last year pitched like the
24:11
Speaker 4: ace Brian Wou so to me, you know, if all
24:16
Speaker 4: things considered, everybody's healthy and you know, and starts the
24:20
Speaker 4: season on track where they're supposed to be. Brian Woo's
24:23
Speaker 4: the dude that I'm giving the rock to the first.
24:25
Speaker 3: Day, Ashley, I think, I mean, I definitely understand the
24:28
Speaker 3: argument for Brian Wu, and I wouldn't be surprised if
24:31
Speaker 3: he gets it.
24:32
Speaker 2: But I do feel like.
24:34
Speaker 3: The Mariners are a little bit of a team of tradition,
24:38
Speaker 3: and I mean like Luis Castillo got the ball, got
24:40
Speaker 3: the ball, got the ball even maybe the year when
24:42
Speaker 3: he's the thirty year, I think it was when he
24:44
Speaker 3: could have been debatable if he should have gotten it
24:46
Speaker 3: or not.
24:47
Speaker 2: So I think they're going to give it to Logan again.
24:48
Speaker 1: I think Logan Againeah, I don't really know what they're
24:52
Speaker 1: going to do. I wouldn't be surprised they gave it
24:54
Speaker 1: to Kirby. Yeah, I you know, when we got to
24:57
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year, who did they give the ball to?
25:00
Speaker 1: We were all saying, Oh, you gotta go with a
25:02
Speaker 1: veteran Castillo, or you gotta go with Gilbert Gilbert is
25:05
Speaker 1: your best strikeout pitcher, or you know, and they went
25:08
Speaker 1: with Kirby.
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Speaker 3: Ye.
25:10
Speaker 1: When given the chance to this is the game we
25:12
Speaker 1: have to have, they went with George. And maybe they'll
25:15
Speaker 1: do that again. Maybe it's all right. There's Castillo and
25:18
Speaker 1: he's in a category by himself, but he's already relinquished
25:22
Speaker 1: the opening day starter, Crown and the other four guys
25:27
Speaker 1: that we have, or maybe the other three guys, WU, Kirby,
25:30
Speaker 1: and Gilbert, we kind of consider them the same. So
25:34
Speaker 1: maybe they give it to Kirby. I'd give it to Wu.
25:37
Speaker 1: To me, I'm I'm gonna give it to the person
25:39
Speaker 1: that's coming off the best season from the previous year.
25:43
Speaker 1: I'm going to reward them with that opportunity, and so
25:46
Speaker 1: I would give it to Brian Wu myself. But I
25:49
Speaker 1: have no idea what they're going to do, and I
25:52
Speaker 1: don't know, And I think there's even an element Bucky,
25:55
Speaker 1: And as crazy as this sounds, I think there's even
25:57
Speaker 1: an element of Wu might be a bigger health risk.
26:03
Speaker 1: You might worry about him getting through an entire season,
26:08
Speaker 1: So they might even try to buy three days, as
26:11
Speaker 1: crazy as that sounds at the beginning, and go with
26:14
Speaker 1: one of the horses who might have to start one
26:17
Speaker 1: more game this year. I think that they break it
26:21
Speaker 1: down that granularly. I don't think that they should, but
26:25
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even be surprised if that factored into the conversation.
26:29
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I don't I think that Luis
26:31
Speaker 4: Castillo's time, IFO we were going to do kind of
26:33
Speaker 4: a deduction thing. I think Louis Castillo's time as the
26:36
Speaker 4: starter here is coming gone, and so it's between the
26:39
Speaker 4: other four. Well, Bryce Miller obviously coming off the injury
26:42
Speaker 4: and then being injured, he's not even gonna be ready,
26:43
Speaker 4: so he's out of the mix. And so I think
26:45
Speaker 4: it's Wu Logan and I think Kirby's in there because
26:48
Speaker 4: of what you said. They just chose to use him
26:50
Speaker 4: in the biggest game of the season. That was also
26:54
Speaker 4: because Wu wasn't healthy, right, Yes, it's because if Wo's healthy,
26:59
Speaker 4: I actually was, that's for sure last year. I would
27:02
Speaker 4: think that's for sure who was going. And if you
27:04
Speaker 4: go based on you know, usage, who was healthiest last year?
27:08
Speaker 4: Who made the most starts Brian Wu? I mean not
27:10
Speaker 4: only were his numbers the best, he made the most
27:12
Speaker 4: starts he had. I think it was fifty innings more
27:15
Speaker 4: than anybody, with the exception of Luis Castillo, who made
27:18
Speaker 4: even two more starts than him, But he he had
27:20
Speaker 4: more innings than Luis Castillo even too fewer starts, so
27:23
Speaker 4: to me, I mean, you know, Logan Gilbert last year
27:25
Speaker 4: had one hundred and thirty one innings, Brian who had
27:27
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty six. I get what you're saying
27:30
Speaker 4: that that one eighty six ended up being too many
27:34
Speaker 4: when it came down to the end of the year.
27:35
Speaker 4: And so would they be like who's built more for
27:38
Speaker 4: the long haul, a bigger injury history, And I don't
27:41
Speaker 4: know if they baby him even buying three days here
27:45
Speaker 4: having him be the four starter coming out of the
27:47
Speaker 4: All Star break they do stuff like that. Yep, you know, yeah,
27:51
Speaker 4: we were sure that, we've been sure, like two three
27:54
Speaker 4: years in a row, that you would use the All
27:56
Speaker 4: Star break to reset your starting rotation so you have
27:59
Speaker 4: your best sky to start the second half.
28:01
Speaker 1: And they've never done.
28:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't I don't understand that. What happens coming out
28:05
Speaker 3: of that, Well.
28:06
Speaker 4: If you we go based on just the recent part,
28:08
Speaker 4: I mean looking at the spring training stats up to
28:10
Speaker 4: this point, and all of these starters basically stayed. None
28:13
Speaker 4: of them went to the WBC anywhere. Louis Castillo, Logan
28:17
Speaker 4: Gilbert both have four starts, and everybody else has three.
28:21
Speaker 4: Of the people that we're talking about that are in
28:22
Speaker 4: the mix for this thing. Yeah, So, I mean I
28:25
Speaker 4: think that if they started spring training where they're like, Okay,
28:28
Speaker 4: here's how we were going to plan.
28:30
Speaker 1: This thing out.
28:31
Speaker 4: Well, Frankly, Gilbert your starter, Louis Castille's your two, and
28:35
Speaker 4: then you're going on Kirby you know, wu whatever.
28:38
Speaker 1: Frankly, they're on such a tight schedule see Trek Scooble
28:42
Speaker 1: that they probably we probably could figure it out based
28:46
Speaker 1: on where they're at with their rotation in spring training,
28:49
Speaker 1: like who times out to be the guy that is
28:52
Speaker 1: scheduled to pitch the next day on opening day. We
28:55
Speaker 1: probably could figure it out right now, maybe, I mean
28:57
Speaker 1: we will do that. We'll do that, We'll provide service
29:00
Speaker 1: for you.
29:00
Speaker 3: We did also put a pull up on X to
29:02
Speaker 3: see who our listeners think will be the starter.
29:05
Speaker 2: So early results are Brian wu Is is leading. Yeah,
29:09
Speaker 2: a second and you'll get no votes.
29:12
Speaker 1: Right now, we're like Jim Nance, we all want to
29:14
Speaker 1: make whoopye See that's yeah, that's two segments in a
29:17
Speaker 1: row that you're bringing that night.
29:19
Speaker 2: See how many more we can do it?
29:20
Speaker 1: Coming up next? W NBA got pay raises. You know
29:24
Speaker 1: what that means? Easier to seduce Jim Nance.
29:28
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, it doesn't even make any sense.
29:32
Speaker 1: Yes it does. Yes, he always has been more interested
29:37
Speaker 1: in women with more money.
29:38
Speaker 2: I love it.
29:39
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. Sports Radio ninety three point three
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29:55
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29:58
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30:01
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30:05
Speaker 1: I think that I do want to spend some time
30:07
Speaker 1: on this. The WNBA, it looks like saved its season
30:10
Speaker 1: by reaching a collective bargaining agreement overnight, and it I
30:14
Speaker 1: think would have been just a disaster to come off
30:17
Speaker 1: the two most promising financial seasons of their existence. After basically,
30:23
Speaker 1: and this is the truth, been a charity for a
30:26
Speaker 1: quarter of a century, the NBA just taking care of
30:29
Speaker 1: them even though they weren't really turning a profit. But
30:32
Speaker 1: in the last two years they kind of showed on
30:34
Speaker 1: the strength of Caitlin Clark. But obviously there were other
30:37
Speaker 1: factors as well, because Caitlin didn't even play last season,
30:41
Speaker 1: and still there were, you know, getting good crowds and
30:43
Speaker 1: getting pretty good TV ratings and things of that nature.
30:46
Speaker 1: And they used that moment, that opportunity they seized it,
30:50
Speaker 1: and boy did they seize it. I mean, they went
30:52
Speaker 1: from an average annual salary of one hundred thousand dollars
30:56
Speaker 1: a year to six hundred thousand dollars a year there're
30:58
Speaker 1: gonna be several million playing in the WNBA this season
31:03
Speaker 1: and beyond. And I gotta give them credit because you know,
31:07
Speaker 1: that was a little bit of a slippery slope, and
31:09
Speaker 1: they used the leverage when they had it, and they
31:11
Speaker 1: got themselves a pretty good deal, even though I don't
31:14
Speaker 1: know if they're one hundred percent happy with it. And
31:16
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the biggest impact that I think it has,
31:19
Speaker 1: and it's that, you know, there was a big surge
31:24
Speaker 1: for female athletics with the success of the US women's
31:29
Speaker 1: soccer team, Mia Hamm and Brandy Chastain in that group,
31:32
Speaker 1: and they and then Title nine stimulated more interest in it.
31:35
Speaker 1: And so there have been a couple of kind of
31:38
Speaker 1: ground swell moments to promote the popularity of women's athletics
31:44
Speaker 1: and to say to that six year old that wants
31:47
Speaker 1: to play sports that not only can you do it,
31:51
Speaker 1: it's cool, really cool to do it, all right, And
31:54
Speaker 1: so there's been a ground swell. But now, I mean,
31:57
Speaker 1: and don't underestimate this. Now you're telling that six year
32:01
Speaker 1: old and that parent of that six year old. For
32:04
Speaker 1: a long time to be a woman's at that usually
32:06
Speaker 1: you were just getting a scholarship, and then the scholarship
32:10
Speaker 1: would turn into if you were good enough of the WNBA,
32:13
Speaker 1: well congratulations, Now all you got to do is also
32:16
Speaker 1: play in Russia in the offseason to make ends meet. Right. Well, now,
32:21
Speaker 1: what this does is they're telling every six year old
32:25
Speaker 1: and every parent of six year old, you can get
32:28
Speaker 1: rich doing this, you know. Big motivating factor. Yeah, a
32:33
Speaker 1: big motivating fact. Not wealthy. I mean, you're not NBA players,
32:38
Speaker 1: you're not NBA owners, you know, but you can you
32:42
Speaker 1: can make a you can be rich playing professional basketball.
32:46
Speaker 1: And I think what you're going to see as a
32:48
Speaker 1: monster jump in interest from the lower ages of young
32:54
Speaker 1: girls in playing this sport and getting better at this
32:58
Speaker 1: sport and improving the sport. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean I think, first and foremost, thank God
33:03
Speaker 4: that they got something done, because if they there's some
33:05
Speaker 4: sort of work stoppage, I don't know for sure if
33:08
Speaker 4: the health even as healthy as it it's as healthy
33:10
Speaker 4: as it's ever been. And I don't think it's healthy
33:13
Speaker 4: enough to withstand that, right because I reel. But you know,
33:16
Speaker 4: they had more of a leg to stand on than
33:18
Speaker 4: any other sport, and you know guys' sports out there
33:21
Speaker 4: that when you have these work stoppages, and they're all
33:24
Speaker 4: millionaires to begin with. I mean, one of the things
33:26
Speaker 4: that changed the minimum salary in the WNBA was sixty
33:30
Speaker 4: six thousand dollars coming to this now it's three hundred
33:32
Speaker 4: thousand dollars, so four and a half times benefited. The
33:35
Speaker 4: team salary cap went up like four or five times.
33:39
Speaker 4: You know, you talked about the average salary jumping way
33:42
Speaker 4: up there the Supermax. So yes, you've they the players drastically,
33:47
Speaker 4: drastically won. And yet it was it's one where Okay,
33:51
Speaker 4: long time coming, I suppose, and yet it really is.
33:54
Speaker 4: You just now got to the place where you have
33:57
Speaker 4: this gigantic, you know, marketing budget or the budget that
34:01
Speaker 4: you get for your TV deal is so much bigger
34:04
Speaker 4: now that they can afford to pay you more.
34:06
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I think it's changed.
34:09
Speaker 4: It would be crazy to think that you're a professional
34:11
Speaker 4: athlete and you're making sixty six thousand dollars. That doesn't
34:13
Speaker 4: spread very far. Like you said, you're gonna have to
34:15
Speaker 4: go play in Russia to make ends meat just to
34:17
Speaker 4: make ends meet.
34:18
Speaker 1: So good for them.
34:19
Speaker 4: I'm glad that they got it, because I don't think
34:21
Speaker 4: that the sport would have handled a work stoppage very
34:23
Speaker 4: well well.
34:24
Speaker 3: And that's the thing too, is you've got your stars
34:25
Speaker 3: who are making more in endorsements and things like that,
34:28
Speaker 3: and so they haven't been struggling for money. But those
34:30
Speaker 3: people that are making the minimum, they're not getting endorsements
34:35
Speaker 3: and things like that. So that's that is, that's life changing.
34:38
Speaker 3: To go from sixty six thousand dollars to three hundred
34:41
Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year.
34:42
Speaker 1: I'd like to do it.
34:43
Speaker 2: I would love to do it. I'm jealous. So yeah,
34:47
Speaker 2: you're right. It will only help grow the sport.
34:49
Speaker 3: And even if the players aren't one hundred percent happy
34:52
Speaker 3: with where this is, it's a stepping it's a it's
34:54
Speaker 3: a good place to start right, A good a good growth,
34:57
Speaker 3: and you don't want to you don't want to grow
34:59
Speaker 3: too fast or too much too fast, because you could
35:02
Speaker 3: hurt the sport. So take it in your strides, take
35:05
Speaker 3: it in your steps, and then as the sport continues
35:08
Speaker 3: its success, now you've got more of a bargaining chip
35:10
Speaker 3: for the next time.
35:10
Speaker 1: Well, i'd like for KJR, when do we get to
35:14
Speaker 1: do our collective bargaining. I'm in the middle of mine.
35:15
Speaker 1: Right now. Apparently it's a very lucrative thing.
35:18
Speaker 4: I'm not expecting a four or five time increase, but
35:20
Speaker 4: there better be some sort of increase.
35:23
Speaker 1: I'm jealous headlines next plus are you a madness bracket changer?
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