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Hour 1 - Bracket Buster · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: from the weekend. But here an hour number one. What
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Speaker 2: are the with the tournament underway now, the selection Sunday
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Speaker 2: taking place yesterday? What are you most looking forward to
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Speaker 2: seeing in the twenty twenty five NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament? Also,
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Speaker 2: how have the nil deals changed things from a handicapping
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Speaker 2: perspective in March Madness? And where is your level of
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Speaker 2: interest in the five vintage of the NCAA Men's Basketball
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Speaker 2: Tournament better known as March Madness. We'll talk about all
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Speaker 2: fan of the show. He's in Montana and he's excited
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Speaker 2: because this is the time where we are allowed to
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Speaker 2: discuss something that we don't normally talk about. It's rather
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Speaker 2: taboo these days to discuss it. We are now legally
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Speaker 2: and really contractually bound to talk about a sport that
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Speaker 2: pretty much is ignored the rest of the year. And
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Speaker 2: I think you know what that is right now our
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Speaker 2: lead to begin the festivities here, that's right selection Sunday,
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Speaker 2: Well now it's like St. Patti's Day, but selection Sunday
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Speaker 2: and a right of passage right of passage taking place there.
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Speaker 2: We assume that you watched and or at least heard
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Speaker 2: the chatter the talk, but maybe not, so to give
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Speaker 2: you the thumbnail recap of things you may or may
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Speaker 2: not be aware. Auburn, which occasionally has a good football
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Speaker 2: team and lately has had a good basketball team, the
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Speaker 2: Auburn Tigers, led by the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year,
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Speaker 2: a Real Broom. They were chosen as the number one
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Speaker 2: overall seed for the NCAA Tournament, so theyre at the
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Speaker 2: very top of your big board. Followed after that by
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Speaker 2: from the Atlantic Coast Conference. You've got Duke from the
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Speaker 2: Big twelve. Yes, the Big twelve, Well that was Duke
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Speaker 2: was number two. See but then Houston their number three,
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Speaker 2: So Houston in the Big twelve there and Florida also
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Speaker 2: the Gators from the Southeastern Conference their number four. So
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Speaker 2: do we have we don't have the number four. We don't.
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Speaker 2: Apparently we don't have the number four. So all those
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Speaker 2: the number one seeds for the select committee, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of controversy. I don't know why they're still controversy.
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Speaker 2: But there is anyway. We'll get to that later. But
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Speaker 2: the selection committee favored Auburn at the very top. There
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Speaker 2: they won the SEC regular season, putting more weight on
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Speaker 2: the regular season title. They lost three of their final
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Speaker 2: four games, also a loss to Duke when they went
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Speaker 2: head to head, but the selection committee saying the pearl
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Speaker 2: of college basketball Bruce pearl and Auburn at the very top. Now,
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Speaker 2: the gambling market, which is generally a pretty good gauge,
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Speaker 2: but at least where people's money is invested, the gambling
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Speaker 2: market has Duke and Florida as the popular pick by
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Speaker 2: popular people. It's not surprising Duke traditionally, even though they
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Speaker 2: don't have coach k walking through that door anymore. Duke
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Speaker 2: always one of the more wagered teams in college basketball's
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Speaker 2: March madness. Florida not as much. But the SEC has
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Speaker 2: now if you look what they've done here, they have
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Speaker 2: won a bunch of seas. I think more money coming in.
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Speaker 2: I saw the stack going around, more money for the
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Speaker 2: Southeastern Conference from NCAA tournament teams, setting a record, but
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Speaker 2: they hadn't won the men's basketball championship going way back
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Speaker 2: to twenty twelve. I was a little Kid in twenty twelve,
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Speaker 2: last time the SEC one, but they did make the
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Speaker 2: history with fourteen teams. Fourteen of the sixty eight teams
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Speaker 2: are from the Southeastern Conference. So when you start watching
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Speaker 2: the tournament, most people start on Thursday, although there are
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Speaker 2: games playing games in Dayton prior to that. Now Carolina
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Speaker 2: that be North Carolina and Texas they slid off the
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Speaker 2: bubble and they got in and Indiana the Hoosiers Mike
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Speaker 2: Woodson out as coach and they're out. They also apparently
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Speaker 2: turned down I read turned down the Nit, which is
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Speaker 2: still around also, which is fascinating. I was having a
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Speaker 2: conversation in the hallway with the Saga when he was
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Speaker 2: taken off the go to bed and we were talking
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Speaker 2: about the the Nit and what that that fugazy things
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Speaker 2: all about. That's still around, but any DA is not
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Speaker 2: going to that. West Virginia people up in arms, up
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Speaker 2: in arms about West Virginia. Boise State also not getting it.
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Speaker 2: So let us discuss the question for the esteem pan
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Speaker 2: or what you were part of, what are you most
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Speaker 2: looking forward to as the tournament gets going here in
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Speaker 2: the real start of the college basketball men's college basketball
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Speaker 2: season here in twenty twenty five. What are you most
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Speaker 2: looking forward to? So my observations, I've got biblical, Jackson Pollock,
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Speaker 2: and tagline, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 2: together and we're gonna go Cowabunga dude is what we're
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Speaker 2: going to do. It's a surfing term, all right. So
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Speaker 2: uh naber, that's right. Well, we put these all all together,
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Speaker 2: we'll make the razzle dazzle. But I am all about
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Speaker 2: the drama. As you know. I live for the drama
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Speaker 2: and it makes good talk radio, and so we're looking
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Speaker 2: for that. We're looking for that part of it. And
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Speaker 2: as a general rule of thumb, we don't talk too
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Speaker 2: much college basketball because it's often narrow casting. It's not broadcasting.
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Speaker 2: But we are allowed this week to break it all down,
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Speaker 2: and so we'll dig deep in the past twenty years.
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Speaker 2: This is one of those things that has changed in
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Speaker 2: my lifetime. We have seen famine in this sport. I've
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Speaker 2: witnessed it in my life. When I first got into
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Speaker 2: this business in sports radio, we talked a lot of
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Speaker 2: college basketball. I membered to be this thing called Big Monday,
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Speaker 2: and it mattered, it meant something. It was a big deal.
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Speaker 2: And along the way for multiple reasons. College basketball has
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Speaker 2: gone down, down, down, down down. But what used to
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Speaker 2: be talked about regularly least a couple of times a
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Speaker 2: week has now been whittled down like you're cutting away
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Speaker 2: to a piece of wood, and it's been whittled down now,
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Speaker 2: and it really is just a three week sport. That's it.
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Speaker 2: That's all three weeks now. There's a hardos that watch
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Speaker 2: it all the time, but they're the minority, not the
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Speaker 2: majority of people. And there is a biblical drought of
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Speaker 2: stardust in college basketball. That's the thing. And if you
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Speaker 2: look and I don't do lists, as you know, I
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Speaker 2: don't believe in list. But if you look at Benny's
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Speaker 2: Big Board, which is not a list of must see TV,
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Speaker 2: Benny's Big Board must see TV based on what I
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Speaker 2: believe will move the needle in talk radio over the
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Speaker 2: next couple of weeks, what would be good for business?
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Speaker 2: And we don't have the usual big name coaches that
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Speaker 2: were the staple of college basketball. College basketball is a
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Speaker 2: lot like baseball. There used to be they used to
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Speaker 2: be in baseball, these bigger than life managers and they're
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Speaker 2: pretty much all gone. Every managers vanilla, just boring, dull,
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Speaker 2: no personality, just a zero. College basketball, a lot of
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Speaker 2: that has gone as well, a lot of as going.
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Speaker 2: There's we lost coach k No, he's not dead, but
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Speaker 2: he's not coaching. Jim Beheim, Jay Wright quit early. He
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Speaker 2: didn't want to deal with the nil stuff. He's out.
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Speaker 2: So the big name coaches you look to right away,
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Speaker 2: and there's still some left. Saint John's has got to
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Speaker 2: be at the top. The Johnnies, who haven't been really
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Speaker 2: all that good since the eighties in college basketball. But
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Speaker 2: Rick Patino, old NBA coach, got bounced all over the place. Patino,
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Speaker 2: the Patino effect, if you will, is at the very
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Speaker 2: top of Big Ben's Big Boy. But they wink in
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Speaker 2: a nod to coach cal at Arkansas now as he
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Speaker 2: continues his vagabond coaching career. Dan Hurley and Connecticut Dan Hurley,
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Speaker 2: who believes in all kinds of mystical voodoo type boogaloo things,
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Speaker 2: walking around the court with garlic and different things. I
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Speaker 2: saw somebody sent me a link to I guess he
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Speaker 2: was on sixty Minutes, which apparently is still on, and
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Speaker 2: they featured him a couple of weeks ago, and he
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Speaker 2: has all the crazy stuff off these into to try
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Speaker 2: to try to get the good spirits to support the
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Speaker 2: Yukon basketball program and get rid of the evil spirits.
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Speaker 2: I thought that was that was interesting. And I was
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Speaker 2: at Bruce pearl We we had Bruce Pearl on back
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Speaker 2: when he was coaching at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 2: that was a long time ago, and we had him
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Speaker 2: on as a guest back back in the day. And
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Speaker 2: and there's those are the charismatic characters the coaches in college.
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Speaker 2: So I'm sure there's some other ones. Tom is, oh, obviously,
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Speaker 2: and now flipping the page on that. So from a
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Speaker 2: a handicapping perspective, right from taking a look at the
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Speaker 2: picking of the games, the bracketology of some nerds like
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Speaker 2: to call it, how have the nil deals changed things?
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Speaker 2: From that perspective, when you're handicapping the tournament, so there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of money to be made here, a lot
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Speaker 2: of money to be made regarding name, image and likeness.
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Speaker 2: And if you do well, as a kind of sidebar
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Speaker 2: story in the tournament and you're at one of these
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Speaker 2: smaller schools, you can then get swallowed up by a
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Speaker 2: moby dick school that will pay you a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: To go somewhere else. And you know, back in the day,
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Speaker 2: you were guaranteed roughly ninety to ninety five percent of
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Speaker 2: the top seeds were advanced. There's always been upsets that
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Speaker 2: some years there are a few more than others, but
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Speaker 2: generally the rule is like ninety to ninety five percent
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Speaker 2: of the top seeds would advance back in the day.
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Speaker 2: Now it's often complete, just a complete toss up in
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Speaker 2: a lot of this and the evolution now it is
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Speaker 2: more like a Jackson Pollock painting, if you know the
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Speaker 2: arts right. Jackson Pollock would just toss paint on the
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Speaker 2: canvas and snotty elitist people would pay big money for
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Speaker 2: a Jackson Pollock painting, which is something that you think
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Speaker 2: you're like a three year old could do, and people
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Speaker 2: would pay a lot of money. R I was here, there,
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Speaker 2: and everywhere, and he was the forefather of the drip technique.
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Speaker 2: And when I look at of basketball, a lot of
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Speaker 2: it is the drip technique. That it's just a lot
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Speaker 2: of stuff here, there and everywhere, and that's it. There's instability,
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Speaker 2: and it's all over the canvas. It's all over the place.
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Speaker 2: But if you look at the overall Raty. We mentioned
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Speaker 2: Auburn was at the very top, they were the top
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Speaker 2: seed in the tournament. But when you peak behind it,
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Speaker 2: Duke was there at number two, Houston, then Florida, but
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Speaker 2: I was like the very bottom. And there is a team.
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Speaker 2: I believe it was only one this year that made
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Speaker 2: the tournament with a losing record, and that would be
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Speaker 2: Saint Francis. Literally, some dude named Saint Francis made the
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Speaker 2: tournament and they were sixteen and seventeen. God bless the
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Speaker 2: conference tournament. So they were in our last word here.
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Speaker 2: So taking a couple of steps back and looking at
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Speaker 2: the big picture here, where is your overall level of
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Speaker 2: interest in the twenty twenty five March madness as we
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Speaker 2: get set to get the party started. So on the
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Speaker 2: Malords scale of interest, the number one, number one measurement
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Speaker 2: in all of this. The Mallard scale eventsions one to ten,
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Speaker 2: with ten being O MG, I can't not wait. I
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Speaker 2: can't not wait. I am at a three. Okay, I'm
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Speaker 2: at a three, and I think I'm going high. I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of you are beloved that I think
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Speaker 2: you might be like minus three. I'm at a three,
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Speaker 2: and I mean generous. I am being generous when I
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Speaker 2: say I'm at a three, and it's been this way
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Speaker 2: for the last couple of years, and I'm only somewhat
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Speaker 2: into it. Mentioned the coaches. I'm looking for the story
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Speaker 2: I got to talk show to worry about every day,
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Speaker 2: so I'm worried about that. And it really is the
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Speaker 2: tagline from this old show, the wide world of sports,
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Speaker 2: spanning the globe right to bring you the thrill of
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Speaker 2: victory and more importantly, the agony of defeat. And there's
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Speaker 2: certainly going to be a number of OMG, what the
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Speaker 2: f happened moments in the next couple of weeks and
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Speaker 2: the human drama rama of athletic competition, which is good
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Speaker 2: and that makes it great again. It's been marginalized the
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Speaker 2: NCAA tournament, but it'll be cool for the next couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks. And as I often have done in the past,
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Speaker 2: and I used to bet on a lot of the
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Speaker 2: teams that had the lottery picks, I stopped around the
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Speaker 2: time Kevin Durant was at Texas and they got upset
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Speaker 2: by usc In like their first game. I said, screw that.
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Speaker 2: I'm never never doing that again. And I really have
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Speaker 2: been pretty good about that, but I will watch more.
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Speaker 2: I'll key in more on the players as a public
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Speaker 2: service to you for the NBA Draft, which is coming
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Speaker 2: up in the summertime. It's all about Cooper Flag of Duke,
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Speaker 2: the kid from Maine who's at Duke right now and
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Speaker 2: head and shoulders literally above everyone else in college basketball,
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Speaker 2: projected to be the top pick in the draft, and
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Speaker 2: the teams tanking like the Utah Jazz and others to
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Speaker 2: try to get their hands on Cooper Flag, who was
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Speaker 2: injured in the ACC tournament. But from what I was reading,
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Speaker 2: he will be able to play once Duke gets started.
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Speaker 2: And it is interesting to knowde that if you look
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Speaker 2: at many of the mock drafts in the NBA, A
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Speaker 2: team that is projected to have two of the top
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Speaker 2: five picks in the draft from Piscataway, New Jersey, Rutgers,
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Speaker 2: and they didn't even make the NCAA tournament. How embarrassing
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Speaker 2: is that? How do you have two players that the
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Speaker 2: NBA says are worthy of being top five picks this
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Speaker 2: summer and you suck so much you can't even get
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Speaker 2: into the term. That's embarrassing for Rutgers and then some
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Speaker 2: of the other teams the players that stand out that
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Speaker 2: you're going to kind of keep an eye on. Baylor
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Speaker 2: is in VJ. Edgecombe is a guard who's projected to
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Speaker 2: be a lottery pick and also from Texas, they got
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Speaker 2: in Trey Johnson is also projected. He's also a guard
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Speaker 2: projected to be drafted in the lottery. So those are
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Speaker 2: some of the things I'm looking forward to. Am I
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Speaker 2: right or wrong? I think my level of interest to
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Speaker 2: three is higher than your level of ventures, but maybe
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Speaker 2: I'm not great. If you would like to be part,
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Speaker 2: for Life out Here. So the sixty eight teams have
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Speaker 2: been named for the NCAAA Tournament. There's one team in
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Speaker 2: particular taking a lot of crap and the people are
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Speaker 2: claiming the fixes in. The fix is in for one
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Speaker 2: team and how they got in the back door in
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Speaker 2: the NCAA tournament. What is that all about. We'll explain,
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Speaker 2: I'll give you the evidence and we will decide. We'll
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Speaker 2: I send my name there their bill It's Ben. It's
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Speaker 2: writes in he says a plus plus on the malle
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Speaker 2: monologue once again, Ben terrific undefeated, Well, thank you all
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Speaker 2: undefeated unstoppable. fALS fan Jimmy says, f big Ben who
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Speaker 2: doesn't love college sports except the Overnight crew. Uh, you
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Speaker 2: want to go alphabetically? What would you like me to
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Speaker 2: go with? fALS fan Jimmy, where do you want me
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Speaker 2: to start with that? I can go alphabetically. I can
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Speaker 2: go by age, I can go by location. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I can do the whole thing if you want, I
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Speaker 2: don't mind it. Firk Doog says, great opening monologue, Go
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Speaker 2: Blue Devils, so he says, putting the whammie on the
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Speaker 2: Blue Devils. Bagel Boy writes and says, I was with
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Speaker 2: you until you gave it a three. My team stunk
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Speaker 2: out loud last year, so it's a definitely eight for me.
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Speaker 2: Coaches are still the reason I care, he says. Izzo Petrino, self,
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Speaker 2: Samson Hurley, Let's go Miszoo says the bagel Boy. Jason
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Speaker 2: in Cansaw City is back with us tonight. He says
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Speaker 2: nine out of ten on the Mallor monologue, my interest
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Speaker 2: in the NCAA Tournament is actually at an eight. There
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Speaker 2: are a number of good teams this year, particularly from
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Speaker 2: the Southeastern Conference. My upset pick is a high point.
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Speaker 2: They're good. I trust me, trust me, he says. Anytime
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Speaker 2: somebody says, trust me, I get a little concern. It'll
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Speaker 2: worry there know I thing about high Point? Lorena? Any
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Speaker 2: knowledge on high Point?
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Speaker 4: You know just the higher the points the better.
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Speaker 2: Ben Yeah, would that be like at the top of
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Speaker 2: the mountain high Point? Is that high Point University, by
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Speaker 2: the way, a private college in North Carolina? Fun fact, I've.
20:42
Speaker 4: Been there, beautiful, beautiful campus. You're lying the highest of peace.
20:47
Speaker 1: You are full of crap and students.
20:50
Speaker 2: What part of North Carolina isn't it.
20:52
Speaker 4: The northern part?
20:52
Speaker 2: Bend?
20:53
Speaker 1: What a dumb question? What the most northern point?
21:01
Speaker 2: All right? What what county? Just curious counting there?
21:07
Speaker 1: Nothing Norfolk, Norfolk, No one sounds close.
21:11
Speaker 4: You're gonna have to give me some time on that one.
21:13
Speaker 2: I understand what you were there. I figured you knew
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Speaker 2: exactly because you were there. No, I would like to
21:19
Speaker 2: point out that is a preview of what should coming.
21:21
Speaker 2: I think we have no Do we have a grudge
21:23
Speaker 2: match coming up in our number four? Is it? Is
21:25
Speaker 2: it the Leprechaun versus the FSR Tech Queen? Are you
21:28
Speaker 2: smarter than the FSR Tech Queen? The matchup that everyone's
21:32
Speaker 2: waiting for me.
21:33
Speaker 4: I would love to put him under the Rainbow.
21:35
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, people are claiming that I'm dumbing down the
21:38
Speaker 2: questions and they think that blind Scott through the game
21:41
Speaker 2: last week for you, which I think is kind of
21:42
Speaker 2: obvious that blind Scott did tank the game.
21:45
Speaker 4: I thought so too. But you know they're saying no.
21:49
Speaker 2: No is saying no. People are saying yes. People are
21:51
Speaker 2: saying that blind Scott it was some kind of rig
21:53
Speaker 2: like we're violating game show rules. What blind Scott did,
21:56
Speaker 2: it was unethical when you think ethics, you think blind
21:59
Speaker 2: Scott right at the top, who got absolutely crushed, absolutely
22:04
Speaker 2: like a bug on a windsheet in that local radio
22:09
Speaker 2: contest they had in Boston on the on the morning
22:12
Speaker 2: show on the Sports Hub, got absolutely destroyed. Uh No,
22:17
Speaker 2: no contest, No contest on that, and there was there
22:20
Speaker 2: was controversy everywhere. Anyway, what else do we have to see?
22:22
Speaker 2: Page down? I want to read that one. On the air,
22:25
Speaker 2: Shane in Des Moines says, Ben, my Seahawks lost Geno,
22:29
Speaker 2: DK and Tyler and we're better off for it. We
22:32
Speaker 2: need a new head coach, offensive line and safeties, and
22:36
Speaker 2: then we'll be the third worst in the NFC West.
22:40
Speaker 2: That's all you need. Joe the ghost Hunter says, breaking
22:43
Speaker 2: down the college basketball tournament is like breaking down the
22:46
Speaker 2: pathetic w n B. A snore says, says Joe, Yeah,
22:52
Speaker 2: it is funny. I have some some of my buddies.
22:54
Speaker 2: We're working different websites and and sports websites, and a
22:59
Speaker 2: couple of them have compled plane that they are being
23:02
Speaker 2: requested by the people that run those websites to put
23:05
Speaker 2: a lot of women's college basketball stories up and no
23:09
Speaker 2: one's clicking them. But they have to put them off
23:11
Speaker 2: because they're being asked to put them up and no
23:15
Speaker 2: one's reading them, which is a funny, which is problematic.
23:18
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, yes, uh, Lorraine.
23:20
Speaker 5: I listen to sports radio outside of my job, and
23:23
Speaker 5: I don't sounds very odd.
23:25
Speaker 2: I don't neither. I don't I do my job. I
23:28
Speaker 2: don't want to copy anyone else's material. I move on.
23:30
Speaker 4: I was listening to another show, really and.
23:33
Speaker 2: It was the name of the show.
23:34
Speaker 5: There is no name of it because it's a weekend
23:37
Speaker 5: show and the weekends or just Fox Sports Radio Weekends.
23:39
Speaker 2: Why do they not name the show.
23:42
Speaker 4: What it is? What are the podcast? Why do they
23:44
Speaker 4: have to go to the weekend?
23:45
Speaker 2: Why do they new to the shows on the weekend.
23:47
Speaker 2: That's bull crap. They should have name shows.
23:49
Speaker 4: It's because they fluctuate too much.
23:51
Speaker 1: Real instability, stability, is it?
23:54
Speaker 4: But yeah, there was you know, updates like they have
23:57
Speaker 4: in the daytime.
23:58
Speaker 2: Really we don't have those. We have recorded updates.
24:00
Speaker 4: It may so those live updates.
24:02
Speaker 1: The hope the shows have names. What are you talking about?
24:05
Speaker 2: She says, they don't. She claims list weekend show.
24:08
Speaker 4: It says weekends.
24:10
Speaker 2: And the only weekend show I hear is my buddy Arnie.
24:13
Speaker 2: And and that show's name it's not Fox Sports.
24:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, okay, and then there's Fox Sports Sundays or
24:22
Speaker 1: you know or whatever that is.
24:24
Speaker 4: All put in for the Sunday Yes.
24:26
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the one the Brian does.
24:31
Speaker 6: That.
24:34
Speaker 4: Anyways, what I was trying to say to the point place.
24:37
Speaker 7: I'm trying so during the story when they got to
24:39
Speaker 7: the women's update, okay, silence every other every other update.
24:44
Speaker 7: Oh that's cool, Oh that's fine, women's news crickets.
24:49
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know about that. I'm just telling you
24:50
Speaker 2: from people I know that work in the business. They
24:52
Speaker 2: have a lot of stories up now about women's basketball
24:54
Speaker 2: since Caitlyn.
24:55
Speaker 4: Clark, but no one's interested.
24:57
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, the percentage of people that click on
24:59
Speaker 2: them compared to the story about men's basketball is so
25:02
Speaker 2: it's so embarrassing that they are wasting their time putting
25:04
Speaker 2: them up, but they still do it. So I don't
25:07
Speaker 2: Maybe that'll change. I mean, based on what I'm hearing,
25:10
Speaker 2: that's not changed yet. Even though it was the Caitlin
25:12
Speaker 2: Clark effect. People were into her and her story. And
25:16
Speaker 2: there's opposed to supposedly like a bunch of big star
25:18
Speaker 2: women in college basketball players, but no one's really clicking
25:21
Speaker 2: on that stuff.
25:22
Speaker 1: I haven't heard of a single star women's basketball player, but.
25:25
Speaker 2: Supposedly there's two here in La right. UCLA has got one,
25:27
Speaker 2: in USC's got one. I don't know their names, though,
25:30
Speaker 2: don't put it if you put a gun to my ass.
25:31
Speaker 1: I'm serious. I have no idea. I have no idea
25:33
Speaker 1: who he's talking about.
25:34
Speaker 2: Well, they're getting. The funniest too, is when they get
25:36
Speaker 2: commercials and they're like, they don't say who they are,
25:38
Speaker 2: and you're like, why is that person selling me insurance?
25:41
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, really, you can, you can, you
25:43
Speaker 1: can immediately tell it it's an athlete when the acting
25:46
Speaker 1: is just horrible.
25:47
Speaker 2: Well that's most of the commercials are terrible.
25:50
Speaker 1: But I mean as far as like the pros go.
25:54
Speaker 1: I've still yet to watch a single minute of a
25:56
Speaker 1: w NBA game, but sometimes I do click on the
26:00
Speaker 1: articles you do and read them. Not about the game itself.
26:04
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about the game. Yeah, but you know the
26:06
Speaker 2: other storylines, the drama. Yeah, and the women are fighting
26:10
Speaker 2: with each other, like the men fight with each.
26:11
Speaker 1: Other, right, or angel Ree is saying we're gonna sit out,
26:15
Speaker 1: you know, or yeah.
26:18
Speaker 2: She denied that she said that was taken out of context.
26:21
Speaker 1: Of course it was, of course, Yeah.
26:23
Speaker 2: But whatever. I know, we've gotten no no real reaction
26:30
Speaker 2: on the women's side of things. But who knows. This
26:32
Speaker 2: is not a great great judge that Terry in England says,
26:35
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to football season. Bouncy ball is boring,
26:39
Speaker 2: As s says Terry in England, the Russian Kid writes
26:44
Speaker 2: and says, the scale of my interest on the malord
26:47
Speaker 2: scale of interest for the NCAA tournament is one to ten,
26:52
Speaker 2: and it's one. It's your best opener yet as good
26:56
Speaker 2: as all the other monologues. That's the mal maneuver, he says,
27:03
Speaker 2: Live from the University of Dayton Arena, High Militia and
27:08
Speaker 2: Crewe going going to be doing uber lyft rides from bars,
27:13
Speaker 2: the Airport, Hotel and all around Dayton. There it's a
27:17
Speaker 2: fun time in Dayton. Two and a half hours away
27:21
Speaker 2: from bars opening at five am and Saint Patty Day
27:26
Speaker 2: takes over. Then three days of the NCAA and my
27:29
Speaker 2: little tiny city, Dayton, Ohio, rainy and thirty five degrees
27:34
Speaker 2: beautiful Chamber of Commerce day there for the Russian kid. Yes,
27:38
Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day still not quite on the West coast,
27:42
Speaker 2: but it'll be there in less than half an hour.
27:45
Speaker 2: Saint Patti's Day?
27:47
Speaker 4: Do you celebrate ben?
27:49
Speaker 2: No? Well, I'm not Irish.
27:51
Speaker 4: Most of America isn't, but they sure drink like they are.
27:55
Speaker 2: Nah, I don't really, I mean no, I used to.
27:57
Speaker 2: My mom would force me to wear green when I
27:59
Speaker 2: was a kid.
27:59
Speaker 4: You get pinched.
28:00
Speaker 1: You're not gonna eat corn beef and cabbage.
28:03
Speaker 2: I like corn beef, I don't need cabbage. I'm fine.
28:06
Speaker 4: I'll have a have a.
28:07
Speaker 2: Beer or something like that. The corn beef, it makes
28:10
Speaker 2: you stink.
28:11
Speaker 4: Don't look at me like that. It makes you.
28:14
Speaker 2: Yes, I eat garlic cloth and that makes you fart more.
28:16
Speaker 2: I mean garlic is that's a really?
28:18
Speaker 4: I don't think garlic makes you it does?
28:21
Speaker 2: Want to bet, I'm gonna google this. Google You get
28:24
Speaker 2: very gassy with garlic. If you you eat a lot
28:26
Speaker 2: of garlic, you're very.
28:27
Speaker 4: You're just eating clothes by the day, aren't you?
28:30
Speaker 2: Am? I are you saying I'm gassy?
28:32
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I'm both garlic and cabbage can make people gassy?
28:38
Speaker 2: Not can they will? They will? Absolutely well?
28:42
Speaker 1: Actually, it says, It says cabbage is known to be
28:45
Speaker 1: a gas producing food. Garlic can make some people gassy.
28:49
Speaker 2: No, I don't know anyone that eats garlic regularly does
28:52
Speaker 2: not have gas problems. It's an issue you start tooting.
28:56
Speaker 2: And once you start tooting.
28:58
Speaker 1: Yet, I don't think anybody eats the whole garlic by
29:00
Speaker 1: the clothes like you do.
29:02
Speaker 2: All right, Ferg Doog, we are now, ah man listen
29:05
Speaker 2: model of hell. Ferg Doog rights and says, careful, ben
29:07
Speaker 2: any more mentions of women's college basketball and I will
29:11
Speaker 2: be the only listener left. Are we gonna have to
29:13
Speaker 2: restart the transmitter? Is that it where women ask supermarket?
29:18
Speaker 2: Steve Wrights And says, how dare you put disrespect on
29:21
Speaker 2: Juju Watkins. You know that is coop Juju Watkins. Yeah, nope,
29:27
Speaker 2: apparently that's a big star at USC. You know who
29:30
Speaker 2: that is. But he says you better be careful or
29:33
Speaker 2: Bill Plashki is going to come by and tell you
29:36
Speaker 2: I know who that is. That she's Magic Johnson, Michael
29:39
Speaker 2: Jordan and shack All put into one person. Well, I
29:43
Speaker 2: remember when people used to read the La Times and
29:45
Speaker 2: Plashy actually had some power. That was a long time ago.
29:48
Speaker 2: No one's reading the La we have you know, I
29:49
Speaker 2: have more. I tell my friends that work at the
29:51
Speaker 2: La Times. We have more people that listen to this
29:53
Speaker 2: show than the circulation of the La Times. I'm on
29:55
Speaker 2: in the middle of the fan night and we have
29:57
Speaker 2: a bigger reach than the La Times. How in embarrassing? Yes,
30:01
Speaker 2: how embarrassing is that for the Times? My gosh show,
30:05
Speaker 2: I understand, but they they dominate. Everyone read that newspaper
30:09
Speaker 2: that was like the newspaper record, and no one's reading
30:12
Speaker 2: that Newspaper's completely irrelevant. They don't matter. It's wild. That's
30:16
Speaker 2: another thing that's changed in my lifetime. It's insane anyway,
30:20
Speaker 2: all right, it is the Ben Mahler show. Now we
30:22
Speaker 2: need some comedy, and so we go now to Bennett
30:25
Speaker 2: the comedian kid call her Bennett. We not, We've not
30:29
Speaker 2: heard from Bennett in sometime. How's comedy life, Bennett the comedian?
30:33
Speaker 6: Comedy life has going pretty good? How about you, sir?
30:36
Speaker 2: Oh well, Bennett, listen, hearing your voice, I can tell
30:39
Speaker 2: you're getting older, you're getting better. Have you hit the
30:42
Speaker 2: comedy scene yet? Have you gone to clubs yet and
30:43
Speaker 2: done some open mic nights?
30:45
Speaker 6: I have not, But my sister just performed at my
30:48
Speaker 6: old school talent show where she goes, and she did
30:51
Speaker 6: a joke and it was actually pretty good solid.
30:54
Speaker 2: So it's in the family. It's in the bloodlines there
30:56
Speaker 2: that it's a it's a very talented comedic family.
30:59
Speaker 6: Yep, pretty much good?
31:01
Speaker 2: All right, that's outstanding, well, very exciting. And why is
31:04
Speaker 2: this night different than most other night's? Ben In is
31:07
Speaker 2: Saint Patti's day? Like a day off from school? Like,
31:10
Speaker 2: what are you doing? You're you're up late here? What's
31:11
Speaker 2: going on?
31:12
Speaker 6: No, I'm usually always up late, but baseball, you know,
31:17
Speaker 6: basketball just ended, baseball starting them. So I got a
31:21
Speaker 6: good night's rest last night and was just doing some
31:23
Speaker 6: laundry I'm like, heck, I think I might call into
31:26
Speaker 6: the show, so I had it on. I'm like, why not?
31:28
Speaker 2: How lucky are we have all just because of laundry?
31:31
Speaker 2: And I know, right, thank God for laundry. All right, Well,
31:35
Speaker 2: I'm glad you checked in anything you wanted to add
31:37
Speaker 2: to the show, Benn. And do you just want to
31:38
Speaker 2: say hello and say you're still out there? Not?
31:41
Speaker 6: Really, I'm excited for March Madness. I'm for at least
31:44
Speaker 6: the men's side. I'm excited to watch Juju Watkins and
31:46
Speaker 6: Page Beckers on the women's side.
31:48
Speaker 2: See that, Coop, Look at that he named two women's players. Apparently,
31:51
Speaker 2: Page Paige Beckers. That's a women's player.
31:53
Speaker 6: Too, yeps for Yukon.
31:56
Speaker 2: Okay, see Coop, that's a player for Yukon. Damn.
31:59
Speaker 1: I guess I'm no longer a hip.
32:01
Speaker 2: You're not cool, man, Bennett. Is this is a young guy. Man,
32:04
Speaker 2: he's right there, he's in that demo. Man, he's growing
32:07
Speaker 2: up with it. We didn't grow up with this cool?
32:09
Speaker 1: Is this the era of.
32:12
Speaker 2: Is it? How old are you?
32:12
Speaker 6: Bennett?
32:14
Speaker 2: Sixteen? Man? This guy's in high school. He's worried about
32:16
Speaker 2: women's bag. When I was in high school. We didn't
32:19
Speaker 2: worry about women's college basketball. We didn't. We did like
32:21
Speaker 2: the volleyball team for some reason. I don't know why.
32:23
Speaker 4: But short, baby, short short.
32:25
Speaker 2: That could be that too, That might be part of
32:26
Speaker 2: the reason. Yeah, you enjoy the bad the volleyball too,
32:30
Speaker 2: not bad, not bad. Good uniform choices there in the volleyball. Yeah,
32:33
Speaker 2: all right, Well, Bennett, to make sure you take the
32:36
Speaker 2: laundry out and change it and don't leave now. One
32:38
Speaker 2: of my pet peeves is, do not leave laundry in
32:41
Speaker 2: the washing machine when you wash it. Put it right
32:43
Speaker 2: in the dryer. I hate when there's like damp clothes
32:45
Speaker 2: in the washing machine. That's a pet peeve of mine.
32:47
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
32:48
Speaker 6: I agree with you, all right, all right, I.
32:50
Speaker 2: Gotta go, thank you, go away. All right, there's Bennett
32:52
Speaker 2: the comedian.
32:53
Speaker 1: If you leave it in there too long, then they're
32:54
Speaker 1: gonna smell mildew mill do everywhere.
32:57
Speaker 2: Nasty man. It's just it's just terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible,
33:02
Speaker 2: terrible banit. Al writes in Long Suffering Cowboy Fantas, says,
33:05
Speaker 2: please talk more women's basketball. It's putting me to sleep. Thanks, bro,
33:12
Speaker 2: Bill writes, In, He says a girls college basketball. Contrary
33:16
Speaker 2: to your opinion, I can easily watch college girls games
33:19
Speaker 2: because I it still has the game in the game.
33:22
Speaker 2: I could care less about either of the pro game.
33:25
Speaker 2: Let's see here. Justin in Cincinnati says he would rather
33:30
Speaker 2: watch two ants fornicate than women's college basketball. Well, whatever
33:36
Speaker 2: you're into there, Justin whatever, I know you like ants.
33:40
Speaker 2: You're a big fan of Little Critters. King Roy says,
33:45
Speaker 2: what hour will we get the FSR Tech Queen breakdown
33:48
Speaker 2: of the women's bracket? And will I have to wait
33:53
Speaker 2: for the podcast for that? Right? Will you be breaking
33:54
Speaker 2: down the women's bracket?
33:56
Speaker 4: I was thinking we could have a whole segment for it, Ben.
33:58
Speaker 2: A whole segment.
33:59
Speaker 4: You know, I love women's sports. I know your big women,
34:02
Speaker 4: women women.
34:03
Speaker 1: I would love to hear your insights on what team
34:06
Speaker 1: is gonna make it all the way? Who are gonna
34:08
Speaker 1: pick the women's team?
34:11
Speaker 2: The Okay, all right, wonderful Now it is the Ben
34:15
Speaker 2: Malor Show. As we work our way through straight ahead,
34:17
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34:21
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34:26
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Speaker 2: That is the question? What is the answer? Scrooge in
36:32
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36:35
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36:38
Speaker 2: a while, Junior Spivey. That's a good name by James.
36:41
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36:44
Speaker 2: Dusty Rhodes also solid name Fit Finley from The King,
36:48
Speaker 2: Rory Willie Moepayna batting practice legend from mister nice Guy.
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37:07
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Speaker 2: Female sports legend Sue Byrd guessed by Kelly in Des Moines,
37:15
Speaker 2: John Snow from Benito the long Suffering cowboy fan, Scottie
37:20
Speaker 2: Pippen Junior from Shane in Des Moinese. Who else do
37:24
Speaker 2: we have? Late night drug tester says you are swimmer
37:27
Speaker 2: Katie Ledecki, who is twenty eight today, Roy Hobbs the
37:31
Speaker 2: Natural from I forty Ian, Ben ev a Bopper from
37:35
Speaker 2: Malor prop guy. We do have the Benny the Bopper audio,
37:38
Speaker 2: but for some reason it hasn't been played. Kevin Mensch,
37:41
Speaker 2: What a mench? From Malibu, Rubin Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota,
37:45
Speaker 2: says Aaron Judge, Big Poppy from Justin and Cincinnati. Big
37:49
Speaker 2: Poppy looking good like? I like that? Look, who else
37:52
Speaker 2: do we have a page down? Trinidad Hubbard ak spoonhead
37:57
Speaker 2: Man from Matt air Man. Well rather in Guardina, Jim
38:02
Speaker 2: Gantner guessed by Pauli E. Brewers legend, Doug Descenzo from
38:06
Speaker 2: Big Rig Rob. That's a good name too, Vinnie Castilla
38:10
Speaker 2: from Kyle. When he went to Tampa Bay, he was
38:12
Speaker 2: nicknamed Vinnie cash Steeler. How about now, Derek the Buffalo
38:18
Speaker 2: guy who's a Mallar militia monster, part of Bill's mafia,
38:21
Speaker 2: says Bernie Fratto, is the answer? All who else do
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Speaker 2: we have page down? I can't read that one on
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Speaker 2: the air? All right, Lorena, do you have an answer? Lorena?
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Speaker 4: Yes, ben I do. One of my favorite orioles.
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Speaker 1: Orioles.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, it's really hard work.
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Speaker 2: Miguel Tehta, Oh he said it right, all right, very good.
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Speaker 4: He was one of my favorites. I wouldn't say his name.
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Speaker 2: R Yeah, what scandal was he involved in? Miguel t Hata?
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Speaker 4: There was this really bad rooster fighting.
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Speaker 5: Rooster fighting, yes, either, but actually it was more of
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Speaker 5: an age discrepancy.
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Speaker 2: Oh, is that well it was that or PDS or whatever.
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Speaker 2: All right, the correct answer is Joey Gallo. Joey Gallo.
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Speaker 8: Now, Gallo has t seventy three career at bats, two
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Speaker 8: hundred and forty six singles, and he was fired by
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Speaker 8: the White Size.
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Speaker 2: I actually love this story so much. I'm going to
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Speaker 2: talk more about it later. It fascinates me how fed
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Speaker 2: up Joey Gallow's career was. And I love a good
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Speaker 2: train wreck. I love a good train wreck. So we
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Speaker 2: will talk about that more a little bit later, because
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Speaker 2: it's my show and I have editorial control, and so
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Speaker 2: I will spend time. I will waste time talking about
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Speaker 2: Joey Gallo because I like the story and I have
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Speaker 2: control over what I talk about, and I think it's
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Speaker 2: a good story. Well, also, at some point we'll get
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Speaker 2: we'll circle back to the tournament controversy. There's some accusations
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Speaker 2: in the men's tournament of some funny business going on
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Speaker 2: about one of the teams that was on the bubble
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Speaker 2: that got in that wasn't supposed to get in but
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Speaker 2: they got in and why did they get in? And
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Speaker 2: we'll get to all that