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  Speaker 1: lead this hour. We start from the selection committee. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the selection committee. Selection Sunday has come and now gone.
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  Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six NC Double A men's basketball bracket
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  Speaker 1: Locked in Stone, Locked in Stone, And as I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: if you were listening to the Fifth Hour podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: early Sunday edition with Danny g and Me mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: this time of the year is one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: times of the year. Everyone that does this for a living,
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  Speaker 1: every bloke, as our friends in Australia say, every bloke
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  Speaker 1: that does this kind of work for a living, and
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  Speaker 1: we completely ignore men's college basketball unless there's some kind
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  Speaker 1: of ridiculous blow up like our friend got lead, our
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  Speaker 1: old teammate who just starts screaming at the referee. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if that happens, we talk about it, right, But the
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  Speaker 1: exact same thing, playing the exact same plan exactly outside
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  Speaker 1: of that though, yeah, come on, what do we do.
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  Speaker 1: We don't talk about it. And now, through the magic
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  Speaker 1: of talk radio, we are all bona fide experts, bona
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  Speaker 1: fied experts when it comes to the men's basketball tournament,
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  Speaker 1: and we are fully guilty. We're no different. We are
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  Speaker 1: no different. No, I have occasionally been watching some of
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  Speaker 1: these college games because I was so burn burned out
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  Speaker 1: the on the NBA product that I have watched more
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  Speaker 1: college basketball last couple of weeks and during the All
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  Speaker 1: Star break in the NBA, which wasn't that long ago,
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  Speaker 1: I watched a lot of college basketball. So I have
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  Speaker 1: watched it. And so if you didn't keep tracked, these
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  Speaker 1: things have been telegraphed for some time the top seeds
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  Speaker 1: in the men's tournament, and so if you missed it
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, you've got do so. I see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of blue ballags. They got Duke Arizona, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Arizona now moving on to the Big Twelve. But Duke Staple,
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  Speaker 1: the ACC, Arizona, Michigan, and the Florida Gators. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's all those teams separated by a few millimeters, but
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  Speaker 1: they had separated themselves from everyone else in college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the four pack of the top seats. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last year we had all Chalk, all Chalky mcchalk in
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  Speaker 1: the final four. I think Florida won last year. I remember.
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  Speaker 1: If I think the Gators won last year, I don't
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  Speaker 1: even remember. I believe it was the Florida Games. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the point is that those are the four teams that
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  Speaker 1: are head and shoulders by everyone else. Duke the king
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  Speaker 1: of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Of the ACC, they won
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  Speaker 1: the regular season and then they won the conference tournament,
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  Speaker 1: so they doubled up on that. Arizona, the big bad
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  Speaker 1: bully of the Big twelve all year, the Wildcat. They
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  Speaker 1: won the regular season title and the conference tournament as
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  Speaker 1: well Michigan and Florida. It is interesting to node, and
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  Speaker 1: as the late Vin Scully would say, it's interesting to
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  Speaker 1: note that the Florida and Michigan squad did not did
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  Speaker 1: not win their respective conference tournaments. However, both considered the
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  Speaker 1: cream of the crop by the selection committee from the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference respectively, so they are
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  Speaker 1: in as the number one season. Now some of the
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  Speaker 1: so called experts, these so called experts in college basketball
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  Speaker 1: are saying that all four number one number of seeds
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  Speaker 1: advancing to the final four is firmly in play again,
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  Speaker 1: that this could be back to back, which seems odd
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  Speaker 1: to me, considering the fact that in college football and
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  Speaker 1: the NIL era, you had a team like Indiana, a
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  Speaker 1: suck bag football school like Indiana, win the championship because
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  Speaker 1: they just bought the right players. You're telling me that
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  Speaker 1: we can't have that same thing happened in men's college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: That it's just the top teams get all the top
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  Speaker 1: players and that's it and it doesn't matter. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's all a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question which top seed again, Duke, Arizona, Michigan, and Florida,
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  Speaker 1: which are the top seeds, is most likely to go
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  Speaker 1: down to go belly up before reaching the final four,
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily losing the first three weekend, because very rarely
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  Speaker 1: does that happen when I know there's a playing situation
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  Speaker 1: and all that. They've had that for years in beautiful Dayton, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: the home of Dick in Dayton, who calls the show
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  Speaker 1: after that though, the real tournament begins on Thursday. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's what we've got again. Who is most likely
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  Speaker 1: of the top seeds to go belly up? That is
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  Speaker 1: the question on the panel. And so I've got Rush Limbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: Apple Store and dust Devil, and those are the three things.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of those things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make a smash burger with delicious melted
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  Speaker 1: lava cheese on top and some onion rings and some fries. Man.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like a good, good meal to eat at
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  Speaker 1: this point, all right, So a to begin the festivus
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  Speaker 1: of talk here. After a literally minutes long Mallar style deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: the team most likely to lose Duke Duke. I'm gone
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  Speaker 1: with Duke. I'm gone with that dough case. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: with Duke. O. Here's why that makes Fain the Blue Devils. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold your hand and walk you through this.
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  Speaker 1: Why I believe Duke is of the number one seeds,
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  Speaker 1: the one most likely to go down first in the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: They're like the land Rover of this. Now, the land.
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  Speaker 1: People love land. I've had friends that have had the
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  Speaker 1: land and they all have issues. Right, there's a very
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  Speaker 1: expensive defix, very expensive to fix. And whether it's that
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  Speaker 1: luxury off road system or the air suspension or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, things are fed up all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: from just my I've never owned one. My friends that
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  Speaker 1: have had been very expensive, very expensive. The things better
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  Speaker 1: be under warrant to you're you're you're completely screwed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at Duke here, and yeah, Duke's got Cameron Boozer,
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  Speaker 1: top five NBA pick locked in stone. You can get
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  Speaker 1: arrested with two hookers and some cocaine. He'd still be
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  Speaker 1: a top five pick in the NBA. Okay, so top
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  Speaker 1: five pick in the NBA in a couple in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months. However, the rest of the roster, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the rest of the Duke roster and
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  Speaker 1: they're all waiting in the not necessarily emergency room. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to the walk in clinic. They're in the walk
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  Speaker 1: in clinic. A big part of that roster, guard Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Foster had foot surgery. He's out indefinitely. They say he
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  Speaker 1: may be able to come back if Duke gets to
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  Speaker 1: the final four. May is a weasel word. The starting center.
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  Speaker 1: He's out, missed the acc tournament out of my aching foot,
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  Speaker 1: like he stepped on some lego is there something like that?
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  Speaker 1: So who knows if he'll be back. So using the
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  Speaker 1: law of averages here, so two of the starting players
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  Speaker 1: for the Duke Blue Devils, if I'm correct, here, two
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  Speaker 1: of the starting players for Duke are down for the count.
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  Speaker 1: One for sure is down for the count heading in
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  Speaker 1: to the tournament. So even though they're the number one
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  Speaker 1: seed in their region, it's kind of like going to
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  Speaker 1: a bar fight and you've got one arm tied behind
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  Speaker 1: your back. Now, now they're gonna need a Wiji board
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  Speaker 1: going in if they do have both starters out in
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  Speaker 1: the tournament. Here and channel the Lake Grit Rush Limbo.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually broadcasting from one of Russia's old studios here
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  Speaker 1: and because Rush, one of his famous catchrays is he
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  Speaker 1: dominated with half his brain tied behind his back, just
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  Speaker 1: for just to make it fair. So Duke, if they
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  Speaker 1: were able to go to the final four with two
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  Speaker 1: of their starters down, well that would be pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: It yet, and the other problem is, you've got that
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  Speaker 1: brutal bracket, the brutal bracket, Murderer's row. You got Yukon
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  Speaker 1: that psycho coach, Dan Hurley at Yukon fire breathing head coach.
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  Speaker 1: You've got tom Izzo lurking at me, Chagan with old
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  Speaker 1: Sparti Michigan State of course, and Bill self and Kansas
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  Speaker 1: waiting with brass knuckles. All of those teams are in
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  Speaker 1: the East region. So it's a shark tank for the
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  Speaker 1: Duke Blue Devils, John Shires Duke squad. They're gonna need
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  Speaker 1: pep do bismo. He's gonna need it. He's gonna need it,
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  Speaker 1: and some advilla and all that, and without a loaded
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  Speaker 1: roster opportunity for people to step up, do your job,
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  Speaker 1: Do your job now. Meanwhile, looking a little deeper here,
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  Speaker 1: another question that we like to ask as we head
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  Speaker 1: into the madness of it all here is the selection
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  Speaker 1: Sunday has come and gone So the question which teams
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  Speaker 1: are most likely to blow up the bracket now mentioned duke,
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  Speaker 1: the team most likely to lose early in the tournament
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  Speaker 1: as you start filling out your bracket. But the team
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  Speaker 1: most likely to blow up your precious NC double A
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  Speaker 1: tournament bracket, which team would that be? And after a
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  Speaker 1: lengthy review of the available teams in this and looking
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  Speaker 1: at the teams that are not all that exciting, the
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  Speaker 1: teams there at the bottom there, what I did is
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  Speaker 1: I took a field trip. Actually, I went to the
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  Speaker 1: Apple Store and I went to the Genius Bar at
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  Speaker 1: the Apple Store. So I was able to reboot my
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  Speaker 1: bracket and I went there and the Genius Bar helped
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  Speaker 1: me out there. I've got three suspects, three of them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these things. So I got three
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  Speaker 1: teams that are most likely to be able to wear
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  Speaker 1: the ski mask and carry the crowbar. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: you go in there and just vandalize, just vandalize things.
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  Speaker 1: First off, Northern Iowa, what yes, Northern Iowa, number twelve seed.
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  Speaker 1: They take on Saint John's and Patino a number five seed.
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  Speaker 1: That twelve five things always always an issue. Now, Northern Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told they're the Panthers, and they are the basketball
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of quicksand meaning you step into that game playing
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  Speaker 1: Northern Iowa and you think it can't be that hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's Northern Iowa, for God's sakes, that is easy. Next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, you are sinking and screaming, just like that.
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  Speaker 1: So preview of what's to come here they do based
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  Speaker 1: on their season, play defense like a pack of junk
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  Speaker 1: yard dolls. And so they do that and they just
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  Speaker 1: play ugly basketball. And usually we get so excited for this,
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  Speaker 1: and typically it is a brick house, brick house in
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  Speaker 1: these early games in the tournament. A lot of mishots
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  Speaker 1: ugly basketball people have tight Tukas syndrome, the players. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you're able to win games that are muddied up,
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  Speaker 1: I mean really good shape, really good shape here. So
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  Speaker 1: I got that circled Northern Iowa right. They're very effective
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  Speaker 1: that style of play in the tournament. McNeese State another
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  Speaker 1: team not exciting. You don't get fired up for McNeice.
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  Speaker 1: They play Vanderbilt in a regional broadcast here and that
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  Speaker 1: matchup the Cowboys. I have told McNee State the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: another generic name. Hate that and so they don't have
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  Speaker 1: the razzle dazzle of the Power Conference teams. Now Vanderbilt
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  Speaker 1: doesn't either, but they're in the SEC. And so another
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  Speaker 1: team here that likes to play McNee state muddy pig
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  Speaker 1: pen basketball. And that's what I'm leaning into here. These
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  Speaker 1: are the teams that I'm leaning into. And if you
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  Speaker 1: can win a rock fight, you're in pretty good shape
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  Speaker 1: here to mess up these more established with bigger named players,
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  Speaker 1: opponents that you're gonna play against. And and then there's
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  Speaker 1: Santa Clara. That's right, I'm putting Santa Clair out there
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  Speaker 1: against Kentucky. Say's no way, there's no coach Klapar is
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  Speaker 1: not at Kentucky anymore. He's at Arkansas. He's not walking
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  Speaker 1: through that door to save Kentucky. Not that he did it.
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  Speaker 1: They had been underachieving in the tournament anyway. So Santa Clara, though,
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos of Santa Clara, they do share the ball,
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  Speaker 1: little Scotty report, they share the ball. They stretched the floor.
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  Speaker 1: And it's an opportunistic, gambling type of defensive team based
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  Speaker 1: on the stats during the season. So that's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of team that, again, you look for, that type of
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  Speaker 1: team that can upset early in the tournament. And those
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  Speaker 1: are three. Now, none of them are sexy, none of
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  Speaker 1: them get you all tingley, and yet it's march ugly
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  Speaker 1: does win. It'd be nice if you just made the
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  Speaker 1: most three point shots and you played smooth, smooth, silky
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  Speaker 1: basketball and you won, but that's not how that works.
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  Speaker 1: And these teams are like termites in the tournament. They
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  Speaker 1: just eat your bracket alive, just like they're eating the
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  Speaker 1: wood in your house. It's, oh, yeah, you've been moored,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Meanwhile, so the last part of this, the
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  Speaker 1: last part of this, we go to thirty thousand feet
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  Speaker 1: up in the sky. Here, the NCUBA Tournament is actually
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  Speaker 1: the annual NBA Scouting Convention. Now it's the ski So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize this. It's disguised as
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  Speaker 1: March madness. It's got all the marketing and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And so three week though pop quiz, three week pop
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  Speaker 1: quiz for a bunch of teenagers who are being paid
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money, but they're also auditioning for the
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  Speaker 1: billionaire franchises of the NBA, while the rest of us
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  Speaker 1: pretend that that's not going on, while our brackets are
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  Speaker 1: smoldering like a cheap cigar, and there's scouts eating soggy
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  Speaker 1: nachos watching all of these games. So the question is this,
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  Speaker 1: who are the players that we need to watch? Who
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  Speaker 1: are the players that we need to watch here going
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  Speaker 1: into this The men's basketball tournament kicks off, the real
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  Speaker 1: one on Thursday. So think of this as a dust devil,
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  Speaker 1: like a dust devil, a cloud of dust, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of star dust out there. And you start with Aj
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  Speaker 1: the Banza, AJ de Bonza of BYU, the Cougars men's
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  Speaker 1: basketball squad, projected as the number one pick Summers NBA draft.
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  Speaker 1: The Bonza a smooth operator at the wing and has
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  Speaker 1: all the tools that make NBA scouts get a little
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  Speaker 1: you know what. So that's that's one. That's the big guy.
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  Speaker 1: And then every lottery team that have made an atrocity
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  Speaker 1: of professional basketball by not trying to win, the Washington Wizards,
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  Speaker 1: the Utah Jazz, all those teams, they have a sacrament.
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  Speaker 1: Teams that just blow. And they have a bullseye on
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  Speaker 1: de Bond's of BYU. But he's not alone. You've got
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  Speaker 1: the magical Mystery tour of Darren Peterson of Kansas, the Jayhawks,
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  Speaker 1: the men's basketball team there always one of the better
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  Speaker 1: teams in the country. And Peterson, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: him when he's engaged, oh man, this guy's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a good NBA player. Of course, the problem is his
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  Speaker 1: superpower appears to be that of a distant relative of
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  Speaker 1: Humpty Dumpty who took a spectacular fall and they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: put him back together. They've been trying to put him
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  Speaker 1: back together. It seems like the perfect modern player doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really seem to want to play that much, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's a mess. But we'll see how if he shows
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  Speaker 1: up and plays at all for Kansas. Peterson, and then
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  Speaker 1: we mentioned Boozer from Duke Cameron Boozer legit polished all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff and NBA bloodlines his daddy. It's the family
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  Speaker 1: business there, so the bloodline thicker than the nacho cheese
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  Speaker 1: the scouts are eating while they're watching the competition. And
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  Speaker 1: also from the all name team from Houston, Kingston Flemings.
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  Speaker 1: Love the name like King Flemings. He's just go by King,
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  Speaker 1: not Kingston, go ahead King, right, it's Kingston Flemings guard
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  Speaker 1: from Houston. And then Caleb Wilson of North Carolina. Those
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  Speaker 1: are all projected to be the top players in the
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  Speaker 1: summer's NBA Draft and they will all be on display
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour, talking bays Mallah. We'll go to
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  Speaker 1: Miami South Florida and the legend of Marlin's Man was
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  Speaker 1: in the Hissy that's his home ballpark, not that he
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  Speaker 1: goes very often because the Marlins sucked, but there he
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  Speaker 1: was Marlin's Man. He paid five grand. He sent me.
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  Speaker 1: I was texting him during the game because I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of cool. I know the guy sitting
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  Speaker 1: right behind home plate, might as well text him. So
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  Speaker 1: I was a texting Marlins man and he's like, hey,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: he spent five thousand dollars for the seat right behind
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: home plate so he could watch the semi finals of
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, Team USA against an absolute wagon
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  Speaker 1: from the Dominican Republic squad. It was on FS one.
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch? Will you check it?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: You were not watching? All right? Well you missed out.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Uh maybe maybe you didn't pay any attention. You didn't
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: know what's on. I don't know what was going on. Well,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: we watched you and I have to Gunner Henderson, who
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: was in the lineup because the cheating astro Alex Bregman
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: was given the day off there so Gunner Henderson and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony of the Red Sox. He had an Oriole
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and a Red Sox teaming up hitting home runs and
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  Speaker 1: Usa USA contained the high powered Dominican Republic's offense the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: very robust offense there in a game that came to
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  Speaker 1: the final pitch two to one the final as Team
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  Speaker 1: USA wins and they are now one win away from
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the second World Baseball Classic Championship. This thing's only been
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: around for twenty years, and they got some help from
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the inflated strike zone. There is no replay in the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic on pitches, so the final pitch which
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: was clearly low, was called the strike and that was it.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Turn at that's the parties over for the team from
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic now the NL reigning Cy Young winner
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: from the Petsburg Pirates, Paul Skins. He got the ball
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  Speaker 1: for the Americans. He went out there. He's two and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: zero in the Baseball World Baseball Classic. He gave up
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  Speaker 1: one run on six hits in four and a third innings,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and the USA bullpen came in a hodgepodge of relief
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  Speaker 1: pitchers and held the Dominicans high powered offense scoreless the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way. So the team representing America, wrapping
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: themselves in the flag now will take on the winner
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: of the game which will be played later today on
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: this Monday, Italy the Italians Americans, the Italians versus Venezuela,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and that'll be in the winter. That game will play
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Tuesday night, Tuesday night for the championship of the World
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Baseball Classic. The story here, though, for many, has been
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Paul Skeins and his performance in this game. Lot of love.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good jumping off point the Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher
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  Speaker 1: Paul Skins. So let us discuss the question, does this
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: WBC performance solidify the legend of pitcher Paul Skeins? Does
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: it solidify it as he dominated? Many are saying he dominated.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I'll trust that in a minute. So I've got Planet Fitness, Supersized,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and Twilight Zone and we will combine all of these
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to break dance, is
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. So number why? Number why?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So this was billboarded, it was billboarded as
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Paul Skin's most important start since becoming a professional pitcher,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that this was it. This was the most pressure that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: he's been under playing in Pittsburgh. The season ends when
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: they leave Florida to start the regular season. The Pirates
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: have been eliminated from playoff contention. So in terms of
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: how he did and rising to the challenge and that
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  Speaker 1: he dominated, I don't eat dominated. Oh you're such a buzzkut.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think he dominated. Am I supposed to lie?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Do you want me to lie? I don't think he did.
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  Speaker 1: So pump the brakes on the ticket tape parade. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: here's why everybody's acting like Paul Skins just walked out
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of some cornfield in Iowa. Like to feel the dreams
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and saved baseball. Yeah, pump the brakes on that right,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: slow your row. What are you doing now? It's the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: middle part of march as we're talking here, it's the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: middle part of March.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Was Paul Skins good? Sure? He was good? He was good? Yes,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he was good. I said that he was good. Legendary
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: is that the stuff of legends? Not where I come from?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe where you come from, but where I come from.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: That is not the stuff of legends. It's not He
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: went four and a third innings, seventy one pitches for
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Paul Skins. That's it, seventy one. What was you Rambo?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: He's not Rambo. That was not a Rambo performance. That
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: was a guy jogging on a treadmill that Planet Fitness. Okay, good,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you're on a trademill. Congratulate, but you're not running the marathon.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: That's not the marathon. You were on a treadmill at
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Planet Fitness. That's it. Part of the issue that we
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: have with the World Baseball Classic is that it's training
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: wheels baseball with the pitching. It's training wheels baseball that
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: they're not buying in. Everyone's worried about liability and protecting
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the players and all that, and there's a lot of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: money involved. I get it, but you can't sell this
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: as the end all be all when you have caps
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: on everything. When it comes to the pitching, you can't
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: do it. It's training wheels. Baseball said, well, you're not
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: going to win the Tour de France if you got
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the training wheels on, You're not. That's not it. Now,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the crowd was pro Dominican, even though the game was
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: in Miami and it was like a home game for
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the team from the Dominican Republic there, and it seemed
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: like a great atmosphere watching on TV. I don't know
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: if it was actually in the ballparker on it. Sometimes
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's misleading. It looked like it was pretty cool in
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the ballpark and all that. Now that said, the Legends
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of Team USA didn't nominate, didn't I didn't see a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: lot of domination. I did not. They were dodging a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: lot of bullets. They did that. Bryce Harper and Aaron
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Judge combined to go two for eight in this game.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Judge did have a home run taken away by Jay
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Rodd in center field, so we got to hit it
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: further than just at the base of the at the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: very top of the wall, otherwise there's a chance the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: ball will be taken back and he will lose a
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: home run. And those guys batting two fifty in this game,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: they were upstaged Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge upstayed staged
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: by Gunner Henderson and Roman Anthony as they hit the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: home runs. And Roman Anthony was on the postgame on
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: FS one, there didn't seem all that thrilled to get
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a T shirt from Big Poppy. They might want to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: upgrade the prize on that. Those guys never seem all
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that excited to get a T shirt from Big Poppy
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: on the FS one pre game anyway or post game.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: So page two the losers side, Now, you know, the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room and many
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: questioning the integrity of the umpire in that final pitch
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: to the Dominican Republic and the two to one loss
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: to the United States there and the pitch was clearly
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: not a strike, but it was called a strike that
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: ended the game. There is no reviews, so that's it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And imagining next time they do this in a couple
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of years, they will have they will have the review available,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: they didn't have it this time. So that was it,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: and the Dominican Republic losers. Now Albert Pulos, who's getting
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: paid ten million dollars a year by the Angels to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: manage the Dominican Republic game. So Albert there is out
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: there and he didn't put blame. He said he didn't
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: put any blame on the umpires. The manager of the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Dominican Republic says, I don't want to focus on that
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: last pitch. Albert Pulo said, I'm not going to criticize
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: any of that. It wasn't meant to be close. Quote Okay,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So question here it is who gets the biggest bowl
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of blame Stu? The biggest bowl of blame Stu for
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic stars, an all star squad not getting
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it done. So I would consider that scoring one run
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in a game to advance to the championship for a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: roster as loaded as the Dominican the World Baseball clas
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it's only been around for twenty years, that's got to
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: be greatest choke job, greatest choke job by a loaded
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: offense in the history of the World Baseball Classic. Does
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: any disagree with that? No one disagrees with that. Okay,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: good good. That roster. You look at the line up
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: there for the World Baseball Classic, the Dominican Republic team,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: it was like the The Avengers movie is what it was.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: And the pitching, which is supposedly the weak spot for
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic, they only limited the USA squad to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: two runs. You figure, if us A only scores two runs,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the Dominicans are going to win the game. It's not
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: like Paul Skeen's pitched the entire game. He went, as
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: we said, four and a third innings and that was it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: This roster if you didn't see the game loaded, if
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: you hadn't watched the Dominican Republic team, you can't watch
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: them now because they're out. But roster loaded with MVP
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: candidates literally in the air everywhere. You had chest puffing,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: pelvic thrusting, bat flipping like they'd already won the whole
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: damn thing. Early on in the game, they were very
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: excited and then poof squad douche. You get Squad Doush.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Six of the top ten most Valuable player of voters
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: in terms of the guys he got the votes for
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the MVP six of the top ten were playing in
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: this for the Dominican team, and those guys mostly went
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: about as quiet as it's like going to the library
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: during finals week at to pick your favorite university. Back
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: in the day, the Supersized Bowl, the supersized Bowl of suck. Stu, Well,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that goes to one. Soto, come on down one. Congratulations, Yes,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty five million. The Mets are paying
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this guy. I don't know. It wasn't a Mets game.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I get all that he had four bats, he went
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: over four. Juan Soto. The lights bright. Now the Mets,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: who knows if they're ever going to make the League
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Championship Series of the World Series with Juan Soto, there's
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: no guarantee. One one of the great bag chasing stories
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: of my lifetime, and based on the money he made
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the great bag chasing story. Good for him. He also
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: butter fingered in error fielding a ball out in the outfield.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: So not exactly a superstar performance on the big stage
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: here for Juan Soto. More like a ghost, more like
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a go seven hundred and sixty five million. And there
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: was a gunfight and he brought a butter knife. That's
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: not that great, but what do I know? I just
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: do the Overnight show. What do I know here? And
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the how about the Padre bash brothers? How about these
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: twos for Broni's. Did you see what they were up to,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Fernando Tatiz and Manny Machato. They went two for eight.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: My computer like brain tells me that's a two to
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: fifty batting average. The Big Boppers turned in two floppers
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in this in this game, and eight guys left on
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: base for the Dominican Republic team eight. And again they
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: were strutting around here. At the beginning of this game.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: They were like Pete Cox with their feathers up in
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the air, and even early in the tournament and they
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: were hitting all I think they set a record for
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: home run in the World Baseball Classic. And then the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: bill came and they shrank. They had alligator arms, is
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: what they had. Not Kyler Murray, but they just had
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: alligator arms. That's it. And so the last strike was garbage.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and argue it and say, well,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the umpire got it right. No, But however, it should
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: never have come down to that. I'll concede that was
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: not a strike, which is obvious you cry about it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: How do you only have one run going to that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: point again, Paul Skames did not pitch into the eighth inning.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You had the flotsam and jetsam of the team USA
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: bullpen and a lot of okay pitchers, not great pitchers
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: out there, and you didn't do anything in terms of
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: scoring runs. Bad job by. You had plenty of chances
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: to avoid leaving the game in the hands of the
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: umpire in the ninth inning. So loser talk. USA was
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: better in the moment, only by a little bit. A
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: couple of home runs. That's all it took to win
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the game. Final point to pro bouncy ball. Why we
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: need to pause and celebrate one of the great hustles
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: of the modern world. You talk about getting the bag.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: We talked about Juan Soto getting the bag. Well, this
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: is next level as well. After sitting out the game
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: on Sunday for Philly, congratulations clap here. Congratulations to sixer
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: star Joel Embiid, who has now officially missed as many
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: regular season games as he has played in during his career.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: So very hard to do, but Joel Embiid has managed
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to do it. Somewhere on the other side, Bill Walton
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: across the pearly gates is shaking his head. So yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: let's let that marinate for a second. Joel Embiid has
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: missed as many games as he has played in in
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: his NBA career. So the question for the panel, how
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: do you react to Joel Embiid and that amazing factoid
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: that he has now missed as many games as he's
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: played in during his NBA career four hundred and eighty
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: five games missed, four hundred and eighty five games played in.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's it, that's all. So my first thought is this
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is something out of the Twilight Zone. It is out
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: of the Joel Embiid is a living, breathing, fifty to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: fifty raffle ticket. You never know what you're gonna get
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: when you show up to the arena. Will Joel Embid
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: play or not? Now, remember the old slogan they were
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: shoving down everyone's throat in Philadelphia. Trust the process, Trust
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the process. That was not a rebuilding plan. It was
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: not a rebuilding But that was a late night infomercial
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: is what it was. And they were selling snake oil
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and it was a bogo buy one, get one freeze
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: snake oil deal. Come on down, everybody. Now you just
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: wait three to five years and prestale, you're gonna win
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a championship. The championship will magically appear. Trust the process.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: We don't want that. No, just listen, it's gonna work.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: And we said no, no, no, Well listen, we've now gone
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: way more than five years and the results are in.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: They suck, and when they don't suck, they blow. There
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: she blows the seventy six ers. Joel Embiid. Remember he
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: came into the NBA with a medical report that was
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: thicker than a cheesecake factory menu. Philly knew it, everybody
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: knew it. Now the guy had to get for gap.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Coming out of Kansas, Joel mb He's like, wow, this
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: guy's got that star aura. However, in the modern NBA,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you think about where we are right now, in the NBA,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: where they baby and coddle the players, and they never
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: expect you to do more than the bare minimum. Joel
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: embid has failed to meet that threshold, which is hard
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: to do. All right, bubble wrap you spoon feed you minutes.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Early in his career, he didn't even play the first
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: couple of years getting paid. He didn't even play load
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: management to infinity and beyond load management, the whole spa treatment,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the manny, the petty, the whole thing. And now congratulations,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: happy birthday today as we're doing this in real time,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: is Joel Embid's birthday, So happy birthday to Joel Embiid,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: one of the great scam artists of our time. Thirty
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: two years old now, Joel Embiid, and in big man
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: years in the NBA. A lot of gray hairs in
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the beard, yeah, a lot of gray hairs. It's not
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: no gray, no, no, there's a lot of gray, a
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: lot of gray. And the athletic prime, the hour glass,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the sands of the hour glass running out in the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: athletic prime of Joel Embiid as he gets hemorrhoids on
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the bench. Now, when he's played, has he been great? Sure,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: most of the time. The numbers are good. Play fantasy basketball,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: very very good, absolutely one rather bogus MVP didn't win it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Nicole Jokic should have, could have would have won, but
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: it went to Joel Embiid. And he's played, he's mostly
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: put up dominant stats and all that. But in an
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: era with Kawhi Leonard, in an era with Anthony Davis.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is the epitome of what this era is. Drafted,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: missed two years and gotten paid all this money good
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: for him, the riches of Solomon, and he doesn't seem
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: bothered by it. It's like he just doesn't seem to
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: care that he doesn't play. It's like I must be
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the generation I like when I miss work, I feel guilty.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I shouldn't they need me,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: you know, like I need to be there. These guys
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: in the NBA like we don't care. It's so good.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: I wish I was wired that way. It'd be great.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Live your life like that. Who cares if he show
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: up to work? You know? If we getting paid thirty
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: forty million dollars year, doesn't matter and embid for all
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: the numbers. When the playoffs come around, the Sixers keep
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: waiting for Superman to show up, and instead they get
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Johnny Thunder. An ordinary human is what they get.
• 38:56
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• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Let's give out another Benyward. What do you say here?
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Let's come on, we gotta get on track, Stay on track?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: And what is up next? Here we have two back
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  Speaker 1: to back to give out here female Caller of the Year.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Let's see we have well, we have the Intoxicated Caller
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  Speaker 1: of the Year and Female Caller of the Year. Next up,
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: let's see what's say this is. We have Intoxicated Caller
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. The nominees are this is our most
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: competitive category. The nominees are keg Drinking Steve jay Dot
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  Speaker 1: in Utah, now working with dreaded day shift mouthwash, Mike
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: from Las Vegas, always fresh, What a legend. Mike in Tucson,
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  Speaker 1: who famously gave his wife the phone while she was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in the hospital, called us up, screaming like a lunatic.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: The Black irishman who also woke his daughter. These cats
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: are so hammerdo his daughter of so she could say hello,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god. And a man who found our show
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  Speaker 1: wall in jail, Jed who fled. Those are the nominees
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  Speaker 1: envelope please right now here you are Ben all right,
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  Speaker 1: thanks said paper.
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  Speaker 4: Don't rip off.
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  Speaker 1: She's got to ruin it all. Let me get on
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  Speaker 1: my things. And the winner of the Intoxicated Caller of
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  Speaker 1: the Year on The Ben Malors Show Congratulations to Jed
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: who fled. Lifetime Achievement Award for Jed. This guy is
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: he's really hit it hard. I really has. They're in
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: the red Neck Riviera of Florida. So congratulations to Jed
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: who fled. And it wasn't even that close. It wasn't mouthwashed.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Mike finished in second place, but Jed dominated. Oh let's
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  Speaker 1: give out another one. Here we go meet Female Caller
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. The nominees for Female Caller of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: We have Andrea the Astrology Insider and Robin from Ventura, California.
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  Speaker 1: Every here we go the Female Caller of the Year envelope.
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  Speaker 1: Please this was a little light, but it's still beautiful.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: That's what she said. Here we got small but mighty.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: What does it say?
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Ben?
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  Speaker 1: And the winner, the Benny Award for Female Caller of
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the Year, as voted by the Malin Militia, goes to
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Andrea the Astrology Insider. Female Caller of the Year, Andrea
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  Speaker 1: in Berkeley. Congratulations, you have kept the female gender alive
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  Speaker 1: and well on the Ben Mahlor Show this year. Congratulations
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  Speaker 1: you are the big winner as voted by the people.
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Andrea, Yes, well, thank you to the Ben Mahlor show
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  Speaker 4: an organization, the Malar Militia, all those who voted and
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: tuned in, and you know.
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  Speaker 5: Coop and Lorena Ben. It's a real team effort, as
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: you know, so thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: We love you, Andrea. You do a great job, Andrea.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: People love your astrology and you always let us know
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: when there's big cosmic events like you name it full
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: moons or mercury and retrograde all that stuff. So such
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: great information and congratulations Andrea. And again our friend Femi
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier, but he made a digital certificate,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: so if you're interested in that, oh, let us know. Yes,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: And that's.
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  Speaker 5: Just great to share my two passions of sports and
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: astrology with the Malor Militia and your loyal listeners. Yeah,
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: I'd love a.
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: They get this out all right?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Cool? Well, very good. We will let Femmy know and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: anyone else who's won tonight on the Overnight who wants
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: that let us know. If Emmy's on X so he'll
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: he'll figure that out, all right, Thank you so much.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I would like to say, yes, we need more female callers.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I know we're scaring them all the way. Tammy and Montana,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: She messages on Twitter all the time. I love Tammy.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I want Tammy to call. We missed Tammy's car in Vegas. Sorry,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: oh well, I missed Tammy in Vegas. I missed Tammy.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: I'm you know, anyone you feel free to. It's intimidating, though, ladies,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: all right, you feel free, come on down. We can
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: have a ladies night, like once a month, strictly ladies.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know but that. But we can have more
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: women call the show. Idea. It's a terrible idea, but
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: we can have more women call the show, you know,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's mostly dudes. But that's fine.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: We have women calling too. I don't do it, ladies.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: The greatest call in the history of the show is
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a woman, Genie and Medford and a lot of people
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: spend years. Geenie passed away a number of years ago,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: but she was amazing and we loved you she was
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: I thought she was fake. I didn't think Genie and
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: metfor was a real person for several years. I thought
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I was getting catfished or punked or something like that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: I thought there was no way. And it was effortless too.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: It wasn't putting on an act. Yeah, she wasn't doing stick.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: No, maybe you want to hang out with me, she'd
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: better getting me that good stuff.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: One of the great nights was when Pete and Pittsburgh,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: who's an all time great caller, and Genie and Medford
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: went into the octagon and Genie started doing like gangster
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: rap and that's and it wasn't bad. We were all like,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: what the f is is the old woman in Oregon
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: doing gangster rap? Like, and why is my head bobbing?
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: It was pretty It was pretty wild. It was pretty wild.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: My my goodness are congratulations and Andrea the astrology inside her.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: She wins the Female Caller of the Year. And next
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: up that damn that that Oh hey, time now for
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: the nominees for the twenty twenty six Beer Drinking Brian
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Worst Caller of the Year. The Beer Drinking Brian Worst
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Caller of the Year. The nominees are from Long Island
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: E Dog tremendously terrible calls. E Dog is a non
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: sequitur guy. He just talks about random crap from the
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Commonwealth and lives out in the Sticks, but loves Boston
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Mike the leprechan They also love suntan lotion and and
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Dad jokes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, hollering James. His claim to
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: fame is snoring on the show and taking thirty six
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: pills in the more wanting thirty six pills at night,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: which means he should have been well, I guess he
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: was a No, he wasn't. One of the nominees were intoxicated.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Call of here. Interesting clear oversight by the committee. Other
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: now hollow and James for intoxicated call year because on
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: those meds. You know, I told you that, I mean,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I told him I did all right. Other, Yeah, but
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're like, you know, recreational. No, No, well,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: let's I don't know if we want to get into here.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Let's just say that sometimes people in the medical industry
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: take advantage of certain people and give them pills they
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: may or may not need, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: all right. We have Poppy in San Diego, who I
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: believe is one back to back, Yes, Poppy, I've three
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: times a three in a row, shoying for four in
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a row. Poppy Man. Dorko, the comedian from Honolulu, Hawaii.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: We kept waiting for Darko to say something funny, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: we're still waiting all right, and the person who's been
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: attacking us on social media throughout the show, blind Scott
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: from the North End of Boston. Those are the nominees.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Envelope please, Lorena, and here you are, Ben. I tried
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: to keep some of the beer off of it. Thank you.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: This is the Benny Award for the twenty twenty six
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Beer Drinking Brian Worst Caller of the Year. Many of
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the people that love the show think this is the
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: most competitive category. Here we go and the Benny Award
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: for the Worst Caller of the Year. The Beer Drinking
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Brian Worst Caller of the Year goes to Mike dileprekah O,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: my lord, all really, congratulations Mike dielepre con you are
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the winner. Congratulations Mike, you're the worst caller, the Beer
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Drinking Brian worst caller on the show. Actually, I guess
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: that's sense. Mike. Are you there, Mike, Mike speech speege
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: speech speech speech right.
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: I'm I'm very honored. Thank you, Matther Militia. I hadn't
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: any box, but anyways, I will be back tomorrow with
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: my regular dad jokes and anyways, I'm flattered, and congratulations
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: to all the nominees.
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: And to my kids who write my jokes.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Here, you edged out a very close competition. You edged
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: out blind Scott for the worst caller of the year.
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: Well that wouldn't okay, do you know what Bland Scott
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: should have been up for.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: The female caller of the Earth.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Just well, next year we'll make sure Scott is all
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: of the Earth Caller of the Year, because that'll of course,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: nothing will make Scott have you anyway? Right there you are,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: Michael lepre God, does this mean Poppy is growing on people?
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: What? Uh?
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Poppy's got to really get back to his level of suck.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: He's he's actually occasionally he makes a good phone call. Well,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: giving a concession speech is e dog? E dog? You
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: did not win. You were right there, but you did
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: not get it done. E dog?
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: All rights real quick?
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead?
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: This is what gud Barns and blue and one too.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: I can't believe win. I'm so sorry you really you
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: really deserve to win some terrible calls this year, and
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: it's shocking you did not win. You're pretty much every
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: call sucked, but it was amazing you did not win.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: What I have great jokes.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And you tell stories about that, right, and you know
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: you're different women that yeah, yeah, you are any of
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: these women real or they all imagine they yeah, you don't.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Actually you don't know, they're just imaginary. Care I got
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: you you dog, you didn't win, but better luck next year, dog. Yeah,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: all right, all right, thank you. There he is and
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: one category left and oh my god, I cannot believe
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: that we are almost do We're not gonna right now, No, no, them,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the Crown Jewel, the Holy Grail, It's coming. Who is
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: going to win the twenty twenty six Geni in Medford
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: were the top caller, top caller on the show, top
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: caller on the show. We'll find out. We're minutes away
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: from that. Stay tuned, Wake up the kids, wake up
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: the family, gather around the radio like it's the nineteen thirties.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing. We'll get to that and we
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: will do it next.
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• 50:51
  Speaker 1: We now present the Ultimate The Crown Jewel, the Geni
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: in Medford Memorial Caller of the Year. I want to
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: thank everyone that voted hundreds and hundreds of votes. You
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: guys did a great job. Everyone that participates in the show,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: we cannot thank you enough. The nominees for the Genie
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: at Medford Memorial Caller of the Year Lucky Tony from
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, Blind Scott from the North End of Boston
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: who's currently mfing us on social media, Marcel in Brooklyn
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: who's won multiple times as the call of the Year,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Jed who fled Rick in Maryland, morning time legend on
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the show Rick and Maryland, weed Man Hippie from Hollywood, Florida.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: And Mike in New Hampshire, one of the great trolls.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Mike in New Hampshire busting the balls of Marcel and Brooklyn.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: The envelope please, Lorena's the big golden one here. It
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: is good luck to everyone. I have no idea who's
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: going to win this, This is so close.
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: Here we go.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Who is it? Ben and the winner of the twenty
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: twenty six Benny Award, the Genie had meant for Caller
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: of the Year. Oh my god, we got an upset
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: weed Man hippie. We mad Hippie. Collar of the Year.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable upset by just a few votes, edging out Marcel
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. Congratulations to weed man hippie. His name Billy,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: and the great thing is he has no idea. Don't
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: worry right who he has no idea he won because
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: we'll have to let him know. But that is it.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: The caller of the year, our buddy. We've had thanks
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: to everybody. Unbelievable job by all of you.