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Hour 2 - The New Tourney Expansion! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports. Oh what's going on? Hope
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  Speaker 1: all is well. Mallard, Militia as we've got Coop, Loraina,
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  Speaker 1: greet over there. Hope all is well with everybody safe travels,
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  Speaker 1: having a great weekend, meeting the people. It's all great,
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  Speaker 1: fantastic love that Ben does that. And hey, I get
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  Speaker 1: some extra cash. I can bet first half overs like
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  Speaker 1: I did with the Thunder and the Lakers on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good one. It's a good one. Now
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  Speaker 1: I'll search some the betting lines. You know, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: We'll see as we go into the wee hours. But
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  Speaker 1: what I want to focus in on now is the
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  Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament. So it's official. It's finally happened. Just as
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  Speaker 1: everybody was clamoring like more more, we need more teams,
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  Speaker 1: need more teams for my bracket to fill. I need
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  Speaker 1: more more, please more. I mean I'd go out in
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  Speaker 1: the streets and I was just bombarded with people like
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  Speaker 1: mar Brian, can you do it more? We need more teams.
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  Speaker 1: No one was doing that. Absolutely no one was doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And yet we've got more teams that are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in the NC Double A Tournament. It is growing to
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  Speaker 1: seventy six teams. It starts this upcoming season, twenty six
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven season. We're gonna have a lot more teams.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have twelve first round games, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have eight sixteen seeds and we're all gonna play each other.
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing. We're gonna have eight sixteen seeds
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  Speaker 1: play each other and like the NC double as saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can. You can say you won an
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  Speaker 1: NC double A Tournament game if you win that. What
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  Speaker 1: are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: What? I'm just not a fan. I'm not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, kicking and screaming like this is the
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  Speaker 1: dumbest thing in the history of sports. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know why we're messing with something that's so great. The
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  Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament is fantastic, and all you're doing with this expansion,
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  Speaker 1: you're giving us more reason to not pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: the regular season. Why would you do that? I just
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. The only reason you do it is for money.
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  Speaker 1: It's a straight money grab, and I would have more
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  Speaker 1: respect for the powers that be that are forcing this
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  Speaker 1: to happen if they just came out and came out
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  Speaker 1: and said it. Instead of like, well you can say
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  Speaker 1: you want a tournament game, it's like, oh yeah, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put up banners for one sixteen beating another sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's no, that's not a great sales pitch or
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever. There, Oh this is. This is great
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  Speaker 1: for the student athletes. It's a great experience, and more
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  Speaker 1: get to experience it. It's like, bro, we know you're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to make money. You're making more money. That's
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  Speaker 1: what it's about. So if you just said that, I'd
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  Speaker 1: at least respect it more than Oh no, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: about the kids. It's about the student athletes and their
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  Speaker 1: experience here. No, it's not stop it, man, it's just
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous what we're doing here. But that's where it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you are you're watering down the regular season even more.
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  Speaker 1: You're giving me less incentive to pay attention when football
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  Speaker 1: is going on. Right, like, I'll be watching ball left
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  Speaker 1: and right. I got enough ball to watch. And now
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  Speaker 1: that more teams are getting into the NCAA tournament. Why
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  Speaker 1: exactly am I tuning in in November December? Why why
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  Speaker 1: am I watching? What's the point, right if they went
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  Speaker 1: the other way and they kept it at sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: or you know, I know they're not going to go backwards.
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  Speaker 1: But let's say they're like, we're trimming it back to
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  Speaker 1: sixty four. We really don't need this excess fat over here.
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  Speaker 1: It's like okay, and they're like, another thing that we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do. We are going to have home games for
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  Speaker 1: the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: if they were to do that, it's like, okay, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the regular season means a little bit more. There's incentive
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  Speaker 1: to watch. If you're able to get one of the
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  Speaker 1: higher seeds and potentially have two home games, that's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. But they're going the exact opposite way. They're like, no, actually,
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  Speaker 1: more teams are gonna get into the field of seventy
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  Speaker 1: six right now. And you're looking at some of these
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  Speaker 1: bum teams that are they would have been tournament teams
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  Speaker 1: this last season. If expansion happened one year prior, these
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  Speaker 1: teams would be in We're looking at some of these records,
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  Speaker 1: man it's like Auburn was seventeen and sixteen. I got
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  Speaker 1: to see him actually in the NIT. It was kind
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  Speaker 1: of cool. I went there because I went to the
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  Speaker 1: final four and I got to see the final four games,
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  Speaker 1: got to see the championship game, and then sandwiched in between,
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  Speaker 1: they had the NIT Championship in Indianapolis also, so I
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  Speaker 1: went to that. It was actually really cool. But Auburn
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  Speaker 1: didn't belong in the NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in
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  Speaker 1: the NIT. Same with IU. Indiana didn't belong in the
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  Speaker 1: NC DOUBLEA tournament. They belonged in the NIT, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: actually no, we're gonna not accept a bid and stay
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  Speaker 1: at home, thank you very much. But those teams didn't
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  Speaker 1: belong in the tournament. Now those teams will be in
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  Speaker 1: the tournament. It's just wild, man. I don't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like that. It's I really do wonder the
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  Speaker 1: bracket is such a draw for March madness? How are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna fill out your bracket? Are we gonna still
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  Speaker 1: treat this like Tuesday and Wednesday don't really count and
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  Speaker 1: we just fill it out from Thursday on as Are
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  Speaker 1: we still doing that or do we have to fill
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  Speaker 1: out the Tuesday one Wednesday portion, and you got all
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  Speaker 1: these sixteen versus sixteen games, and well, maybe there's an
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  Speaker 1: eleven that makes a run, and you know, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: do have to fill it out on Tuesday. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: at least for the first year, if you have to
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  Speaker 1: fill it out by Tuesday, I'm not participating. I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out as I'm taking a stand. I will only
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  Speaker 1: fill it out from Thursday on. That's that's the real tournament.
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  Speaker 1: All this like excess a pay us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more cash. No, I don't have time for that. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: And there were a lot of head coaches in college
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  Speaker 1: basketball that were like, yeah, I don't really get it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what we're doing. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: was calling for this. Mark few was against it. John Caliperi,
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  Speaker 1: he was like, if we're gonna expand it, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep the little guys in there. You know, this shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: just be all about power for schools and getting the
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  Speaker 1: big boys. We got to get some of the little
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  Speaker 1: guys in there. That's what makes the tournament so special.
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  Speaker 1: So he was going from that perspective, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: Underwood at Illinois's like, this is dumb. I'm paraphrasing, but
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  Speaker 1: he's like, what are we doing? Why we don't need this?
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  Speaker 1: So like the coaches aren't even happy with it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just it's not good. I don't know why you're messing
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  Speaker 1: with something that doesn't need to be messed with at all.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of that too, there's even more momentum for
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  Speaker 1: a twenty four team college football field. Now this, I
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  Speaker 1: will go kicking and screaming into the night if it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this. We don't need twenty four teams in
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff. The college football regular season is
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  Speaker 1: the most meaningful regular season in all of sports in
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  Speaker 1: this country. I don't know about soccer and this, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe the premier league it's more important.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm talking about sports in this country. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: college football is the premium regular season. It's still even
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  Speaker 1: though it's been watered down a little bit because we've
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  Speaker 1: got more teams in the playoff. We went from two
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  Speaker 1: to four to now twelve. It hasn't been watered down
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  Speaker 1: by leaps and bounds where you can just check out
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  Speaker 1: for most of the regular season once your team has
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  Speaker 1: won you know, seven eight games is like, okay, I
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  Speaker 1: see where it's going. Just wake me up. When when
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  Speaker 1: we know their playoff seating, you know, like that's not
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  Speaker 1: where we're at. It hasn't been watered down to that degree.
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  Speaker 1: The regular season still is meaningful. And think about last
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  Speaker 1: season where my Notre Dame fighting Irish were left out
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  Speaker 1: in the cold. You know, if you don't lose to Miami,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't lose to Texas A and m they're
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  Speaker 1: certainly in the field. So the regular season was really meaningful.
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  Speaker 1: The first game of the year between Notre Dame and
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  Speaker 1: Miami turned out to be completely meaningful. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to get to a point where a twenty four
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  Speaker 1: team field it's just Mulligan City. You know, you lose
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  Speaker 1: the game, it's a Mulligan. You lose another game, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you probably find you probably lose three or four depending
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  Speaker 1: on your brand name. Oh gosh, I hate that idea
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  Speaker 1: and coming up with specifics now with this potential twenty
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  Speaker 1: four team field. Thank goodness for the SEC by the way,
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  Speaker 1: pushing back on this, the Big ten is the one
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  Speaker 1: leading the charge, like we need twenty four teams and
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  Speaker 1: the SEC is like, do we do, we really Greg's
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  Speaker 1: thinking it. The SEC is just like, yeah, not really
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  Speaker 1: feeling that. If the SEC was on board, we would
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  Speaker 1: already have twenty four teams. But we're just speculating and
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  Speaker 1: kicking around the ideas and this and that. But I've
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  Speaker 1: seen some of the specifics that they're talking about and
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  Speaker 1: how the format would work if we do go to
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  Speaker 1: twenty four teams, and I hope we never get there. Sadly,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just a matter of time. Most likely
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  Speaker 1: it will go to sixteen teams first, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: by the following Tuesday afterward, they'll already push it to
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. That's sort of you know how it's gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: We're eventually going to get there. There's way too much
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  Speaker 1: smoke for there to be no fire. But the way
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  Speaker 1: this could potentially work, if you have twenty four teams
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  Speaker 1: in the playoff field, the top eight ranked teams would
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  Speaker 1: get a first round by and how stupid did this sound?
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  Speaker 1: While Seeds nine through twenty four play in the first
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  Speaker 1: round on campus's oh my lord, what are we doing? Man? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you don't belong. There's nothing wrong with saying
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  Speaker 1: you don't belong. I don't know why so many sports
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  Speaker 1: are getting into like the orange slices business, where it's
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  Speaker 1: like everybody deserves orange slices. Though it's like, no, they
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  Speaker 1: don't win more games and you earn your way in.
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  Speaker 1: You don't win enough games. Hit the freaking road. You
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  Speaker 1: don't belong. Get out right, Like, what do we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Like we're talking about doubling the college football playoff field.
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  Speaker 1: We already tripled it. Think about it. We went from
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  Speaker 1: four to twelve. Now we're talking about doubling twelve. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's too much. It's absolutely too much. Now. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: great at typing while talking. That's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not I'm not great at. But I
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  Speaker 1: would like to see the standings, the final rankings from
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  Speaker 1: last season, just to give you an idea. Oh, here
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  Speaker 1: we go. That's not too bad. And I'm making strides
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  Speaker 1: over here, so this is probably the Okay, the final rankings.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to like week sixteen. All right, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to week sixteen, the college football playoff rankings. Week sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's let's scroll down, down, down, down, down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more. Okay, we've got It's ridiculous. James
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  Speaker 1: Madison got in there, but you know whatever, they got
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  Speaker 1: a group of six, group of five, whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: they are right now. James Madison got in number twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: That would be your Iowa Hawkeys. They were eight and
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  Speaker 1: four on the season. We would have a four lost
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  Speaker 1: team in the college football playoff. No, no, no, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need that. I'm sorry, I'm not a fan. We
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  Speaker 1: would have let me count. Georgia Tech had three losses.
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  Speaker 1: Houston had three losses, Virginia had three losses, Michigan had
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  Speaker 1: three losses, Arizona had three losses. Usc had three losses,
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  Speaker 1: Texas had three losses. Alabama, who got into the playoff,
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  Speaker 1: had three losses. So we've got seven three loss teams.
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  Speaker 1: If you add Iowa to the mix, you'd have eight
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  Speaker 1: teams from last season that at least had three losses
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  Speaker 1: that would all be in the playoff. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not for that at all. It would greatly water
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  Speaker 1: down the regular season. I hate all things about this
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  Speaker 1: potential twenty four team college football playoff. I'm not on
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  Speaker 1: board whatsoever. And as much as I love college football,
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  Speaker 1: it would turn off to the point in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be watching games like I do. I really wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I just wouldn't be as drawn to it. I'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, Saturday, I can I can go grocery shopping,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can do some other things. I can
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  Speaker 1: do this, do that, And Sunday is ball. Sunday is
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  Speaker 1: all day ball, baby, But Saturday, if they stretch it
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  Speaker 1: to twenty four teams, I'm telling you what, man, I
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  Speaker 1: would not be watching as many games as I do.
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  Speaker 1: I watch college football games from sun up to sundown
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  Speaker 1: and then some you know, like I'm doing it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching it until games aren't on anymore, and I work
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. I don't even care. I'm a ball
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  Speaker 1: a holic over here. But you stretch it to twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: I would be greatly turned off to the point where
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  Speaker 1: I'm not watching your product as much as I do
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  Speaker 1: right now. Why would you want to do that? I
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  Speaker 1: think this too. Last thing I'll say is this, I
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  Speaker 1: wish that the powers that be, whether it's the NC
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  Speaker 1: double A or any of these committees that are suggesting
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  Speaker 1: this or that college commissioners, you know, all this type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, I wish that they would stop thinking only
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  Speaker 1: about the bottom line. The dollars and cents of everything,
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  Speaker 1: and what's good for the sport? Okay, I get why
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  Speaker 1: the powers that be would want to stretch the NC
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  Speaker 1: DOUBLEA tournament on the men's and the lady side by
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  Speaker 1: the way to seventy six games. They're gonna get some
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  Speaker 1: more cash. Is that what's best for either tournament? Especially
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  Speaker 1: on the ladies' side. You talk about talent disparity, it's
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  Speaker 1: night and day between the haves and the have nots.
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  Speaker 1: It's like who wants to get kicked in the teeth
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  Speaker 1: by U kon? Oh? How about the seventy sixth team
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  Speaker 1: in the nation? Like, what are we doing? Man? Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's not what's good for the game. That's not what's
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  Speaker 1: good for the sport. So what's good for the bottom line?
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  Speaker 1: And I hate that the bottom line keeps winning and
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  Speaker 1: winning and winning and winning, and it's staring you in
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  Speaker 1: the face. This is not what's good for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, the bottom line, though, will make more cash,
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  Speaker 1: so NA, screw it, let's just do it. I wish
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't the thinking at all, and unfortunately it's the
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  Speaker 1: thinking far too often these days. It's just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is now. One thing that I really wouldn't mind
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  Speaker 1: seeing changed. They're talking about getting rid of the conference
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  Speaker 1: championship games in college football. I really wouldn't care about that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're useless at this point, even with a
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  Speaker 1: twelve team college football playoff, if they did away with
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  Speaker 1: those things and sort of, you know, shorten the length
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  Speaker 1: of the season they're talking about, Hey, when the regular
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  Speaker 1: seasons over, boom, we're playing playoff games. Some of the layoffs. Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: they had twenty seven days off. It is a twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven day gap between the Big Ten championship game when
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  Speaker 1: Indiana beat Ohio State, remember that low scoring game thirteen ten.
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  Speaker 1: It was twenty seven days between the Big Ten championship
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  Speaker 1: game and the Rose Bowl when they smacked around Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven days in between those, and then when they
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  Speaker 1: smacked around Bama there were ten more days before they
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  Speaker 1: smacked around Oregon in the semi finals. There's way too
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  Speaker 1: much time off, man, I don't get that. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you went straight from the regular season, got rid
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  Speaker 1: of the conference championship games, go right into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: If you expand it to sixteen, Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I won't go kicking and screaming into the night, but
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  Speaker 1: no hard pass on twenty four. But I'd be fine
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  Speaker 1: with that. You know, I think it's so stupid where
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  Speaker 1: college football is right now, as much as I love
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  Speaker 1: it to have, basically what it's free agency, that's what
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  Speaker 1: the transfer portal is. You've got free agency going on
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  Speaker 1: during the college football playoff. That shouldn't be a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the NFL having free agency during the NFL playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: That's the dumbest thing ever. The NFL would be like,
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  Speaker 1: that's we wouldn't do that, though. That's really stupid. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: exactly why is college football doing that? So if you
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  Speaker 1: shorten the length of the regular season, or at least
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  Speaker 1: start your playoffs right after the regular season ends and
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  Speaker 1: don't have these huge gaps in between when you're playing
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  Speaker 1: and all of that, just get right to it, bro
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  Speaker 1: and you finish the second week in January. That's way
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  Speaker 1: better than the way it is right now. And they're scheduled,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the next couple of seasons they're playing, it's
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  Speaker 1: like January twenty fifth, January twenty fourth, those are the
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  Speaker 1: next two years when they're scheduled to have the championship games.
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  Speaker 1: That's too late in the calendar man. So they got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to work on in college football, and I
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  Speaker 1: hope one of the things is not a twenty four
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  Speaker 1: game playoff or twenty fourteen playoff. It's just we gotta
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  Speaker 1: maintain the integrity of the regular season at some point.
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  Speaker 1: And some of these bum teams don't belong. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with saying that, man, you don't belong. Better luck
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  Speaker 1: next year at winning games. Okay, until then, hit it,
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  Speaker 1: get out, exit stage right, go away, all right? Eight seven,
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  Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox is your phone number? Oh man,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I see one of my buddies is on deck and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he's already hit me up on X. I know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what he's gonna say, and I loathe anybody who has
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  Speaker 1: this to say.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta say.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna do it. I can see it. I can
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  Speaker 1: you got the producers breakdown of the vikings wide receivers.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Now let's hear his take on Vergara or Hathaway. So, Patty,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you you didn't hear this, But man, I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was filling in for Big Ben last night and I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: was with Coop and Lorena. Yeah, and so justin Cooper
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: he told me, he was like, hey, by the way,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: you see People magazine they named Anne Hathaway the most
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: beautiful woman in twenty twenty six. Okay, And for the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: people who listened to, you know, the show last night,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: don't worry, don't worry. We're not gonna do like nine
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: hours of this tonight is We're not gonna run it back.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: But because Late Night drug tester tweeted this, I gotta
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: break it down for my guy, Patti Sweekaser, you know.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: So basically I was like, this is ridiculous. What are
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: we doing here? Right? Like, Anne Hathaway is a beautiful woman.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: She's a beautiful girl, and she's very talented and all that,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: but dude, the most beautiful woman of twenty twenty six,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: We're going a little bit too far over here, you
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: kidding me? And so my example was, if Sophia Virgara
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: is walking on the beach and Anne Hathaway is walking
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: on the beach, are you looking at Anne more than Sophia?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You're out of your freaking mind. If you are so yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that's my take on it, Patty. But if you would
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: like to weigh in, where are you on the Sofia
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: versus Anne debate? Right there?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I mean again, this all comes down to personal preferences
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: everybody and like you know, types and styles. But again,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I this is neither here and there. I do have
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: a take, okay, And if you're having to pick between
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: those two, I think they're both gorgeous.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I like them.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: They're both awesome. That said, I'm not gonna be on
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: the fence here, I will. I'm strictly hard on the
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Sophia For gar Alane, let's go. I have a thing
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: for Latina's come on, Oh she's she's dynamic, she is,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: she's amazing. So that's you know, listen, and she's funny.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: She's really funny, right family.
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  Speaker 1: For anyone who's like, well, Anne Hathaway, she's she's great actors,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: she's really talented. It's like, well, so Sophia, Sophia's got talent.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: It's not just looks, but man, that looks a man
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: looks man man alive the long what freaking do you do?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: You?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Did you see where Tom Brady was linked to Vergara. Yeah,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: they were like they were doing the love boat type thing.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was the the Verabel Russini love boat, right,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: they were. They were doing some sort of boating or whatever.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, Tom Brady was you know, in for
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  Speaker 1: the night or I'm like freaking Brady Man. He's living
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the playboy life right now. It's like, yeah, you know,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I'm free. Oh, Vergara's on the text. Yeah, I'll swing through,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: don't worry. Yeah as well. Yeah, he's like freaking Brady Man,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: freaking Brady Man. He's living his best life. There's no doubt.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: All right. So my guy Gunner is in Minnesota. He
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: already tweeted me in the wee hours here tonight, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's about to tell me I told you, Brian,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Well you right, what do you have to say, Gunner?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Buddy?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Oh Brian just sitting back to your relax on my
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: lunch break. And I'm thinking, oh, well, and Brian's I'll
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: give him a call.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, man. It's always good to hear from you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, Well, Denver to that one game more than
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I thought. Got a few more. Dancer and Jaspers at
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: home they might take one and one more Inania. We'll
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: pay and shop in Minnesota and then we'll give see
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: it rupp the mien give we pull that off. I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: think it's gonna be a finot us in the next.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Now, No, Gunner, I feel like Game two shook you
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: up a little bit because you went from I'm you
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: went from your Timberwolves beating Okase too. If we could
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: give them a run for their money. That's what Game
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: two did to you, Gunner. It shook you up. That's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the truth of this matter right now.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit just we weren't shorting a
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: bad but we take up when we take you up here,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: gun to Spurs. We'll get back into our groove and
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: taking on Okahma City and see the next to the finals.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: That's akay, the Knicks coming out of the East though,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: huh okay.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I got come out of you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I don't have I don't hate that prediction. Yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: little og Yoby a little hamstring string that's not good though,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: not good with og being a little bit nicked up
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  Speaker 1: right there. Not good, Gunner.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: They got a good they'll be fine.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: One more thing though, I go football here. Yeah, Panthers
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: had one of the best off seasons. I gotta say
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: it right now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: By the way, Gunner, how are you? How are you
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a Panthers fan and not a Vikings fan? How did
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: that happen?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Vikings was terrible when I was younger. It was it
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: was brutal. That was that was bad to watch. I
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: cannot watch it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: The only reason why I watched him I was a
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Darren Sharper fanya.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Uh huh.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: And it looks like he goes and does when he's
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: out of football, he goes and does that thing. So yeah, correct,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: one of the best off seasons to get two of
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: the best defensive players in the league and offensive line.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: During the draft, we picked up one of the best
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: offensive linemen often tackled in the college for above and Georgia.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be great for us. I think we'll have
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: a great season.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Goal thirteen wins thirteen wins for the Carolina Panthers. Like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I hate to do this, Gunner, but I gotta keep
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: track of your bad predictions, you know what I mean,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Like you get some of them right, but man, you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: get something wrong. Like they're not gonna sniff thirteen wins.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, it will. We're a two of everyone wrong.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: We're we have We had the best rookie receiver last year.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: He's gonna be upgrading this year and getting almost two
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: thousand yards. I'm gonna say it right now. And we
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: have a great running back. No one's really seen much
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: of Jonathan Brooks. He's a show everyone who he is.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: He hasn't got play much. He'sn't injured, he's healed now,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: he had a whole season. Heel. He's gonna show his speed.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: We'll have another dynamic doing running back with True Behobbard
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: and him. It was like Diato Williams and Jonas Stewart
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: running back to you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Again, it's it's almost too much to keep up with here, gunner.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You just snuck in that Ted McMillan is gonna get
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to two thousand receiving yards when Bryce Young is his quarterback.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You just snuck that in, and then you started talking
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: about Jonathan Brooks and all kinds of other stuff. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: gotta go. There's no chance. I would love to know.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. If I could pull it up right here,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I would let what would you guess? And I don't
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: know this, what would you guess Ted Rowan McMillan, who's
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a great wide receiver, what would you guess his receiving
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: yards is set at for the season like the betting
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: line where you could take over on what do you
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: think it's realistically said at for Ted McMillan. Yeah, I
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: don't know. I'll have to check it out. That's not
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a bad guess. So you're gonna you're on your lunch
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: break right now, Gunner. You're gonna put all the money tonight,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: all the money from a you know, the next handful
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of months here on the over for Teed McMillan. You
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: got to hammer that thing.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I would yeah, yeah, thing I would do. But it's
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: like right now, I have a couple of other apps
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: on going on right now. There's no football on it yet.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I have two other apps that go on for on predictions.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty well on lately.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good, that's good. I'm trying to thumb through.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Oh I found it. Oh, Gunner, Gunner, you your guy
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: who you're you're seeing?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You got hoop dreams of two thousand receiving yards in
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth season, Tedoro and McMillan is at least
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: on DraftKings and I can look at other sports books,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: he is at nine hundred and forty nine and a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: half yards. That's his line. He's not even at a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: thousand yards. God, what is happening over here?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: What a joke that is? They'll they're not they don't know.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: This offensive line will be mail the block bridge down
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: and long enough, he'll be able to get out there
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: fasts and get that receive right now?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Man, all right, are they What are the t Wolves
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: doing on Friday night? Game three? Huh? They they responding
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: after a thirty eight point drubbing.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, they're responding. So Jamie so Rudy Gobert's
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: a play lockdown deep, can stay against Joker, no problems.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: So they're they're gonna win outright. We're going money line
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: on this.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're winning out They're winning out right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right, if I lose, I'm blaming you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry about Louising.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I love you, I love the comience.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Seventeen point win.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: At the least seventeen point win in Game three, okay, Yes,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you to them, right, I'm writing all
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: these predictions down, Gunner, I gotta keep track and stuff.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: All right, man, you have a good evening at work, buddy.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling us on your lunch and I appreciate that. Man. Yep,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: there he is.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: There.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: He is Gunner in Minnesota. Roots for the Carolina Panthers,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: not the Minnesota Vikings. I don't see TETAROA. McMillan listed
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: on draft on bet MGM. I don't see that listed.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: But you could get him at nine to forty nine
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and a half at draft Kings. Wow. Yeah, that's that's lower.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Two thousand would be soaring over that total right there.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe you parlay the McMillan over
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: with the Detroit Lions over ten and a half season wins. Yeah,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: maybe you do that. All right, let's go back out
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: to the phones.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: We've got Andrea. She's on deck. She's over in Berkeley.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: What's going on, Andrea, you're on Fox Sports Radio.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, enjoying your show. And it was interesting. Aaron Rodgers
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: mentioned today that he's thinking of continuing playing, and I
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: heard Benvoyce going Aaron Rogers. He always says that thing
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: about Rogers, And curiously enough, Brian, I don't know if
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: you knew this, but Aaron's really into astrology.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's way into it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, Like if you google Aaron Rodgers astrology, they'll
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: talk about how he's into it. He's actually a client
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: of a colleague of mine, and I have his actual
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: birth time because he's into astrology.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Can I guess? Can I guess what time?
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Go right ahead, I'm going to.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Say Aaron Rodgers was born at twelve eleven PM in
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: the afternoon.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Close. He was actually born December two, nineteen eighty three.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: So he's a free spirited Aquarius two fifty PM in Chico, California.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, is there anything whether you're an
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: AM or a PM baby, is there anything associated with
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: that Andrew at all?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: Changes your rising sign, Brian. So if you're born, you know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: in the morning, say you're born around dawn, you might
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: have the same rising sign as your son's sign. And
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: if you're born in the evening, it might be the opposite.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: So the more exact birthtime the better. And since Aaron's
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: are into astrology, he's happy to give it out and
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: share it. So he's got five planets and free spirited
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Sagittarius and Scorpio moon. I know you can relate to that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: So he's got that intensity there, trus rising. And what's curious,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: he's forty two. He's having his midlife crisis. So when
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: that's thirty nine to forty two, So when we have
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: that rite of passage, we make you know, career changes,
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: some people, you know, change career paths. But he's saying
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: he wants to return. And a couple of years back,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: I wrote his sports astrology for the Athletic and talking
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: about his Ayahuasca journeys and his travels, and you know
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: how he's really very free spirited person, but he's still
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: very ambitious. So there he is wanting to return to
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: the Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, again, forty two is
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: not old, but I guess in the sports world it's
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: somewhat old. So it'll be interesting to see, yeah, the next.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: So this is what I'm curious about. What gets you
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: out of your midlife crisis? You know what I mean? Yeah,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: did you just reach forty three and you're like, ask,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: screw it, I don't even care anymore about what is it?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: What is it that typically happens for people? Yeah?
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: No, that's an excellent question. That's the time of ending,
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: the new beginning. So people leave careers that are unfulfilling,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: they leave relationships that are unfulfilling. You know, there was
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: that joke about, oh, he's having his midlife crisis. He
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: you know, buys a new convertible, takes off with you know,
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: his secretary. That was like old timey and you know
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: it's basically no, not to what you're talkiring, but what's
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: the next step? What else do you want to do
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: besides what you're currently doing. So if you retire from
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: one job, what do you want to do next? Because
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: forty two is still young. So the midlife crisis, it's
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: a rite of passage. Regardless of your birth date, Brian,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: it happens to everyone chronologically between thirty nine and forty two.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: So it's a time of great change. Basically whatever out lived,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: it's creative usefulness. It's a good time to make positive
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: changes in that direction.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: You ever have like a post midlife crisis.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, depending on your individual chart. That's an excellent question.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: So what age range are we looking at here?
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Well, the midlife crisis is thirty nine to forty two. Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: the SATA return is twenty eight to thirty and that's
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: a very maturing transit. And then you can have your
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: own personal transits, like what's happening currently that affects your
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: natal chart, compare and contrast it to the forecast, which
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: is what's happening currently. So beyond your you know, write
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: a passage chronological transit, you can have a personal transit
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: as well. That's very transformational.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: So we've got a lot going on over here.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, it's basically a map of optimum timing
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: and we all have free will. But it's nice to know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: you know, certain things happen twenty eight to thirty, thirty
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: nine to forty two. The second satur return is fifty
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: eight full astrological lifetime eighty eight. So it's always interesting
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: to see these major write a passage transits and then
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: to layer on your own personal transits as well. So
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: you know, never a dull.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Movement, no, no doubt.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Well, Andrew, we got to run. But it's always great
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to hear from you. Appreciate your time, man, yeah, and
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: hope you have a great evening in the wee hours here.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I always appreciate you.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, I enjoy your scorpio energy.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. Yes, absolutely appreciate that. Yes, yeah, it's
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: it's anger masked as scorpio energy. You know what I mean.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: It's uh, it's like how you put that, Yeah, very well.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's passion, it's intensity. There you go, determination, you
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: use it uses.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: You, yeah, no doubt. Well, thank you, Andrew. I appreciate you.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: All right. So eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: That is the phone number. By the way, I'm sorry,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I just wrote something down going back to Gunner where
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: you mentioned Darren Sharper A brief, brief, brief story. But
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: I went to a Saints game. It was actually in
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, that was their Super Bowl winning season,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and there was a guy outside the stadium and he
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: was like, these ain't Joe Daddy Saints. These shop a Saints.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I never forgot that. It was one of my favorite
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: moments of any football game. You just had to be
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: there for that. But they ended up winning a Super
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Bowl that season, and then you know, sadly, Darren Sharper
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: turned out to be a serial rapist.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Horrible.
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  Speaker 1: But man, I'll tell you what, going to that Saints
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: game that year. I've been to every NFL stadium, but
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville Stadium. I haven't been to a Jacksonville Jaguars game.
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  Speaker 1: I do have to go to Levi's. I've been to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a Niners game, but I haven't been to the new stadium,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: so I guess I have to check that off. But
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I've been almost everywhere, and man, that Saints when you
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: got in town, literally the whole town. I got into
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the city and I took the bus. I took the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: bus to meet my friends and everybody was just talking Saints.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: It was like it was like sports radio, but people
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: are like, Hey, what do you think about this? Running
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: back here? What do you think about this matchup this week?
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: It was amazing. I loved it. It was awesome, awesome, awesome stuff.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite experiences going to a Saints game
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: when they were really, really good. It's just a party
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: in the stands. Man, it was really fun. All right,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: We'll get back to the calls momentarily. Also, I was
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: looking up some NBA players doing some research. I stumbled
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the pawn, a nickname I did not know anything about,
• 38:04
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• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a little low on time right here, a little low.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: So I'll tell you what if the militia who's on hold?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: If you can hold on for a little bit longer,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I don't want to, you know, to have a thirty
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: second phone call and it's like, all right, well we
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: got to run and you don't even really get to
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: your point or whatever. So we'll do it in the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: next hour if you're cool with hanging on for a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: little bit. But I just don't want it to be
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: a short, little tiny phone call. That's not cool. So
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: we'll do it on the other side for sure. In
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the meantime, I did see something. I was looking up
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: these random basketball players NBA playoffs, just doing a little
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: bit of I put together these depth charts and I
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: always update them, and I'd like to glance at it
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: during games and stuff like that. I'm a nerd. But
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I ran across something I knew nothing about. Every now
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and then something on Basketball Reference where they'll have the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: nicknames of the players. Every now and then, it'll just
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: catch my attention. And I saw Luke Cornet's nicknames on
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Basketball Reference. So he plays for the San Antonio Spurs, right,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Luke Cornett. And the last one is the best one.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: So they had the green Cornet, which is lame, right
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: because you don't even pronounce it like that, it's cornet.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: So I don't like that one Unicornet, which hm, it's okay.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: This one is the most outrageous, the most ridiculous, and
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the most memorable. Corn on the lob? Are we serious
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: as one of his nicknames? Right? I was a corn
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: on the cop corn on the lob like lob, Doug say,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: all you, I can't believe that someone came up with that.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I'm calling him that from now on, Like that's this
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: what he is. It's not Luke Cornet, It's corn on
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the Lob's. That's what I'm gonna call him from this
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: day forward because it's so ridiculous. That's all I will
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: know him as. All right, coming up next. It's bad,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: it's really bad, but it's not bad enough.