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Hour 1 - The Thinning of the Heard · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: fourth day of the month of March, we start with
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Speaker 1: March madness. We have thinned the NCAA tournament field down
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Speaker 1: to the sweet sixteen. Did Dan Hurley embarrass himself and
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Speaker 1: Yukon by being a sore loser the way he stormed
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Speaker 1: off the court following the loss to the Florida Gators.
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Speaker 1: Also over the weekend, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and
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Speaker 1: UCLA's Mick Cronin grumbling over the weekend schedule, the late
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Speaker 1: TV starts for the tournament. Do you have empathy for
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Speaker 1: these guys? And how do you dissect the sweet sixteen
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Speaker 1: that is lacking? There's no Cinderella teams left in the
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Speaker 1: NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. It's all chalk. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: man Art, We're not gonna bury the lead. So we'll
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Speaker 1: start with the madness of March. We have made it
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Speaker 1: through the spectacle that is the first weekend, really the
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Speaker 1: weekend of engagement, and it is one of the few
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Speaker 1: events that we have that the excitement goes down, It
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Speaker 1: starts at the crescendo and then goes the other direction.
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Speaker 1: But we're down to the Sweet sixteen now and a
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Speaker 1: rather uneventful, uneventful opening weekend, and that we did have
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Speaker 1: a couple of dramatic, somewhat dramatic Maryland game buzzer beater
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Speaker 1: there to knock down and knockout Colorado State would be
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Speaker 1: the moment of the weekend. The game that A couple
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Speaker 1: of games that got my attention over the weekend. I
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Speaker 1: went down in Flames with Rick Patino and Saint John's
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Speaker 1: he lasted. Well, there's a joke there about how long
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Speaker 1: Saint John's lasted, but I think you know the joke,
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Speaker 1: and I don't need to go down to that level
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Speaker 1: to make the joke about how long Saint John's lasted.
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Speaker 1: And you don't really care about my bracket. You don't
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Speaker 1: worry about your bracket, so it's not really that important.
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Speaker 1: But on Sunday, the game that I circled that I
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Speaker 1: was I kind of want to watch this more than
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Speaker 1: the other games was Yukon and the Florida Gators. I
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Speaker 1: was like, all right, again, we got something here. Yukon
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Speaker 1: coach famously went out and had a little nice dinner,
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Speaker 1: played foot seat with the Lakers and then said, screw you.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying right where I am you losers, and I
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Speaker 1: love that. I thought that was great. He stuck it
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Speaker 1: to the Lakers and talked about Dan Hurley, the coach
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Speaker 1: at Connecticut so trying for a three peat, that the
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Speaker 1: back to back champions coming in to play on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and a game that came down close. Game came down
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Speaker 1: to the bitter nail bier. It was a nail bier,
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Speaker 1: but in the end, the Gator chop gets it done.
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Speaker 1: The Florida Gators the number one seed and they're part
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Speaker 1: of the bracket. There they win seventy seven seventy They
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Speaker 1: said a little we do not have the number one.
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Speaker 1: The rain is busy, she was busy talking. So there
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Speaker 1: we go. Now we have the number one. The number
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Speaker 1: one was down. Oh my god. All right, So that
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Speaker 1: means for Connecticut turn at the last, the parties over.
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Speaker 1: They're done, the number eight seed out as they have
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Speaker 1: been exterminated from the NCAA tournament. Now what happened after
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Speaker 1: the game is to me, the more interesting part of
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Speaker 1: the story. The better story is in the losing locker room,
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Speaker 1: and so there was a viral malm that took place
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Speaker 1: after the game. How he saw it, maybe he didn't
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Speaker 1: see it, but Dan Hurley was caught on candid camera
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Speaker 1: as he was stomping off the court there and he
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Speaker 1: had a profane message to the team that was gonna
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Speaker 1: follow Yukon and Florida on the court there in Raleigh,
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Speaker 1: as a grainy cell phone footage captured Dan Hurley seemingly
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Speaker 1: admonishing the referees, putting the finger of blame on the
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Speaker 1: officials as he entered the bowels of the arena there
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Speaker 1: in North Carolina. As he went viral, he said, I
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Speaker 1: hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. I
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Speaker 1: think you can figure out what the blank is there.
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Speaker 1: I hope they don't do that to you Baylor. And
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Speaker 1: what turns out apparently they did because Baylor was pulverized
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Speaker 1: by Duke in their game. So the story here is
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Speaker 1: Dan Hurley and he's the headliner there for Connecticut basketball.
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Speaker 1: He has been called out by someone say internet trolls.
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Speaker 1: Other people say they're supporting truth, justice and sportsmanship way,
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Speaker 1: but either way, people are upset saying that the head
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Speaker 1: coach there of Yukon. It was unbecoming of Dan Hurley
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Speaker 1: what he did. He acted like a toddler that had
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Speaker 1: a conniption fit. So let us discuss the question did
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Speaker 1: Dan Hurley embarrass himself and Yukon for being a sore
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Speaker 1: loser as he walked off the court. So I've got Bruski, medicine, cabinet,
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Speaker 1: and guillotine, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a to Ducan
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Speaker 1: is what We're going to make, a nice to Ducan
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Speaker 1: to make the agony go away. Enjoy your to Duckcan.
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Speaker 1: So a to answer the question, does Dan Hurley the
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Speaker 1: embarrass himself for being a sort of loser? I'm shaking
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Speaker 1: my head. No, I don't have that. I didn't write
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Speaker 1: that on my note card. I did not write that
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Speaker 1: on my note card. And to me, there's nothing to
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Speaker 1: be ashamed of. I didn't see anything there. He calmed
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Speaker 1: down and gave some poetic quotes to the assembled media
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Speaker 1: later on. But the raw emotion of a lot of
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Speaker 1: competitions Hurley's walking off the court here, now, I wish
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Speaker 1: my take was diff It'd be better talk radio for
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Speaker 1: oh Man. Dan Hurley's a doucee canoe and man, what
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Speaker 1: a what a loser? I don't feel that way. I
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Speaker 1: don't know there's a natural reaction. He's not a gracious loser.
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Speaker 1: Did anyone think Dan Hurley was anything but an angry
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Speaker 1: loser when his team loses? Like? Is this some kind
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Speaker 1: of revelation from basketball nation? Seriously? And I'm okay with it.
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Speaker 1: I'm okay with you. Why last I checked? This is
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Speaker 1: not a Saturday morning at the YMCA teaching little children
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Speaker 1: about how to play basketball and sportsmanship. Dan Hurley all right,
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Speaker 1: for better or worse. His favorite ruski is Modello. He's
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Speaker 1: got that fighting spirit and I like that. I like
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Speaker 1: that passion. It's a passion play and I think it's
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Speaker 1: good as newt Rockney and others have been credited with saying,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to wins and losses, wins and losses,
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Speaker 1: you show me a good loser, and I will show
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Speaker 1: you a loser. And so Hurley's not a good loser.
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Speaker 1: We know that. And let's be real. He's a professional coach.
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Speaker 1: Dan Hurley is a professional coach. He's making eight million
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Speaker 1: dollars a year, over eight million dollars a year to
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Speaker 1: coach in a sleepy college town in Connecticut. And this
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Speaker 1: is the this is the test. The NCAA tournament is
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Speaker 1: the test. No one watches college basketball than the target
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Speaker 1: that you're a degenerate gambler. You're not watching college basketball
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Speaker 1: other than March madness. So this is the only time
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Speaker 1: that matters. And he felt that his team was aggrieved
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Speaker 1: by the referees and he was upset by it, and
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Speaker 1: that was his reaction. But we know, we know about
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Speaker 1: Dan the guy is a convicted whack a doodle. He
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Speaker 1: is a whack adoodle. A lot of these coaches are
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Speaker 1: whack a doodles. Well of the players are wack of doodles.
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Speaker 1: All right, this is not a natural thing. That's the
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Speaker 1: way it is. He's a professional coach, Dan Hurley. The
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Speaker 1: players are making money. They're professionals. Anil deals. It's professional basketball.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. Student athlete, my fat asst. It
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Speaker 1: was never student athlete. They're always getting money in envelopes.
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Speaker 1: Now they're getting it right out in front. Well, Dan Hurley,
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Speaker 1: none of that story. A couple of weeks ago we
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Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit on the air, but
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Speaker 1: they did a deep dive on what makes Dan Hurley tick,
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Speaker 1: and you know he burns sage to ward off bad juju,
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Speaker 1: and he sprits his holy water on the court. He's
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Speaker 1: got bags of garlic balls he walks around with to
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Speaker 1: keep evil spirits away. He's going for it. He's doing
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Speaker 1: all that right. He's got all that stuff in his repertoire,
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Speaker 1: and so that's who he is. He eats the same
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Speaker 1: lucky blue m and ms before every game, like he's
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Speaker 1: got this routine. He only eats the color blue unless
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Speaker 1: the other team has the the opponent has the color blue,
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Speaker 1: and then he's got to switch it up and eat
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Speaker 1: like a red or a green, depending on what color
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Speaker 1: they have. So snapping like Dan Hurley did, on brand,
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Speaker 1: it's it's on brand. We're fine with it. We're good
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Speaker 1: all right now, turning the page. So we also had
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Speaker 1: a number of complaints over the weekend. Michigan State, which
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Speaker 1: is advanced. Coach Tom is Oh, good old Tom is
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Speaker 1: He's one of the old old codgers still hanging out.
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Speaker 1: So Tom is Oh. And then you Cel's mccron was
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Speaker 1: eliminated over the weekend. But both coaches is Oh and
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Speaker 1: mc cronin we're grumbling. They got that grumbling tummy over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. They were complaining about what what were they
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Speaker 1: complaining about? Oh, my god, we've got to play those
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Speaker 1: late games, my god, so late. Yeah, they're complaining about
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Speaker 1: the late start times in the NCAA tournament. And the
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Speaker 1: question do you have any empathy for Tom Is at
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Speaker 1: Michigan State and Mick Cronin at UCLA, both of them
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Speaker 1: giving the bad body language and the grumbling about the
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Speaker 1: start times for their teams, and the UCLA has been
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Speaker 1: eliminated Michigan State plays on so on this one thumbs up,
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Speaker 1: thumbs down, I go thumbs down. I do not do
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Speaker 1: not have empathy. Do not have empathy for either one
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Speaker 1: of these guys. And my advice, unsolicited overnight sports radio advice,
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Speaker 1: is to go down to the medical cabinet, medicine cabinet
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Speaker 1: you have there, and open it up on the second shelf,
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Speaker 1: not the first, not the top shelf, the second shelf,
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Speaker 1: right in the middle, the middle shelf of the medicine cabinet.
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Speaker 1: There's a little white bottle. And you take that little
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Speaker 1: white bottle and you open it up. It's got the
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Speaker 1: child lock on it. You twisted a little bit, you
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Speaker 1: got it squeezed down and then twist you open it up.
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Speaker 1: You take one pill out, not two, not three to
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Speaker 1: one pill. It's a no dose and it's called caffeine
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Speaker 1: and you can stamp. It's an amazing thing. Suck it up, buttercup. Okay, Andy,
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Speaker 1: Why it's a TV show, right, it's a TV show.
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Speaker 1: And if you have a chance to be on a
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Speaker 1: TV show that pays a lot of money, you do
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Speaker 1: it whenever they want you to do the TV show.
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Speaker 1: That's the way that it works. In the NC Double
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Speaker 1: A men's basketball tournament has multiplied television revenue nearly seventy
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Speaker 1: times in the last forty years. Let me repeat that
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Speaker 1: for those of you a little slow in the back
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Speaker 1: of the room. The NCED Double A as a television
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Speaker 1: show has increased revenue nearly seventy times since the early
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties. Is there any other TV show that has
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Speaker 1: seen that kind of revenue increase consistently? Probably not one
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Speaker 1: point one billion a year. One point one billion a year.
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Speaker 1: So this is a teachable moment. Now, what is the lesson?
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Speaker 1: The lesson? Those that make the gold make the rules,
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Speaker 1: and the ones that make the gold are TV, and
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Speaker 1: thus the TV advertisers who have this weird, this weird
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Speaker 1: formula that they have where they spread all the games
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Speaker 1: out to certain television windows and they determine where they
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Speaker 1: can get the most bang for their buck. And that's
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Speaker 1: the way that it goes. And if if they tell
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Speaker 1: you to play at two in the morning, then you
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Speaker 1: should be like you're in the United States Marines and
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Speaker 1: say sir, yes, sir, okay, we're there. We'll be happy
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Speaker 1: to do it. Now that said, there is something that
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Speaker 1: Mick Cronin said. There is something that Mick Cronin said
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Speaker 1: that I completely am lockstep with. He complained about the
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Speaker 1: allsion Air flight back to Los Angeles, did not seem
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Speaker 1: to appreciate the quality of a legionaire. Now, to be fair,
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Speaker 1: I have not flown a Legionaire. I have friends that
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Speaker 1: have and have not said kind things, have not said
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Speaker 1: kind things, So I can't say firsthand that I've had
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Speaker 1: a bad experience. But I have had people in my
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Speaker 1: circle that have not had very kind things to say
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Speaker 1: about a Legionnaire. But you think this is kind of
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Speaker 1: big business and they should be able to, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: afford something that you don't have to pedal power to
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Speaker 1: have the thing take off. But what do I know?
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Speaker 1: All right? Anyway, all right, now, last word here. So
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Speaker 1: we have now whittled down, down, down, down down. We
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Speaker 1: have whittled down the NCAA tournament field from sixty eight
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Speaker 1: teams to sixteen teams. And how do you dissect the
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Speaker 1: clear and obvious lack of Cinderella. Cinderella is not there.
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Speaker 1: There is no Cinderella in the Sweet sixteen of March Madness?
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Speaker 1: So how do you dissect this? So I have, after
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Speaker 1: a special minutes long mallar dissection, I have determined this
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Speaker 1: is industrial strength chalk. Is what this is? Obviously it's
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Speaker 1: industrial straight chalk. So the Sweet sixteen, the total seed value,
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Speaker 1: you know, they add up the seeds fifty five? What
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Speaker 1: does that mean in Layman's terms? So it means the
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Speaker 1: average seed going forward now that we've made it through
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Speaker 1: the first weekend is three point four to four? Is
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Speaker 1: the average seed? The only the only team that is
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Speaker 1: worse than a six is one team worse than a six.
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Speaker 1: I believe it's John Calipari and Arkansas. Does anyone think
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Speaker 1: that at John Calipari Arkansas team counts as a upstart team?
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Speaker 1: Probably not right? And twenty oh seven. You gotta go back.
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Speaker 1: That's I mean. I was barely alive in twenty I
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Speaker 1: was a little baby in twenty oh seven. No, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't here doing shows. No, twenty oh seven was the
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Speaker 1: last time that we had this kind of a chalky
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Speaker 1: micchalk situation in this week sixteen and that was no
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Speaker 1: team worse than a seven seed. That was twenty oh seven.
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Speaker 1: So you do the math on that, and which was
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, And so that's eighteen years ago. That's
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Speaker 1: a long time. So if you were born in twenty
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Speaker 1: oh seven, you've just gotten out of like high school
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Speaker 1: now and you're off the to the real world. So
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Speaker 1: I would say, welcome to the new normal. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: go conspiracy theory guy. I'll go tinfoil hat guy. It
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Speaker 1: was a song years ago that said video killed the
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Speaker 1: radio star. I would argue that Nil took the guillotine
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Speaker 1: and beheaded the upstart Cinderella the mid major, that it's
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Speaker 1: a guillotine to the Cinderella. Here's why, all right, name
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Speaker 1: image like this. I'm not against it. It seems a
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Speaker 1: little bit out of control to me, but I'm not
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Speaker 1: against it. Right, I'm the guy that ranted from the
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Speaker 1: bully pulpit. It's ridiculous, you know, just say it, kept saying,
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Speaker 1: student athlete. These guys should get paid over the table.
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Speaker 1: They got paid over the table. Fine, but name imaging
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Speaker 1: likeness poaching. It's like whaling. Can you hear stories about
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Speaker 1: I don't know how much that's sure or not, but
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Speaker 1: the whaling back in the sixties and they just destroyed
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Speaker 1: the whale population out in the oceans and all that.
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Speaker 1: But the poaching. If you're halfway decent at a mid major,
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Speaker 1: you're not staying at a mid major. You're not. There
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Speaker 1: is a dramatic decline of the underdog, the first sign
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Speaker 1: of life you have if you're a mid major player
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Speaker 1: and they're always on the hunt. They're always on the
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Speaker 1: prowl at these major schools, and they're gonna snatch you
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Speaker 1: away and give you a giant check. If you're a
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Speaker 1: diamond in the rough, you're not going to be in
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Speaker 1: the rough for very long. So for me, I can't
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Speaker 1: count John Cali party, I cannot count as an underdog.
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Speaker 1: So for me, I gotta go BYU. That Tater Tot guy,
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Speaker 1: the Tater top bloodline guy that's got to be the dog. Right,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be the underdog byu. Tater Tod guy
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Speaker 1: grandfather invented of the Tatter Todd the kid for BYU.
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Speaker 1: That's got to be the one, all right. Is the
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Speaker 1: only does this tournament mark the end of Cinderella runs,
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Speaker 1: it probably marks the end of automatic bids going forward.
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Speaker 1: The tournament will probably consist of the best sixty four
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Speaker 1: teams period, and for better or worse, March Madness will
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Speaker 1: never be the same. Well, I'm gonna go the other way.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that they're just gonna add Like the
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Speaker 1: TV executive guys our story of the weekend, I was
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Speaker 1: was like, well, let's just add ninety four teams, the
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Speaker 1: top ninety four teams. I think that is more realistic,
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Speaker 1: and just put the top ninety something in. I think
20:32
Speaker 1: they'd have to put the top three hundred for Gottlieb beginning,
20:34
Speaker 1: but just keep adding teams in there. And just as
20:38
Speaker 1: that cheap shot, was that A Is that a low blow?
20:40
Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean, you know, I'm sure they'll Green
20:45
Speaker 1: Bay turn things. They might double their win tow they
20:47
Speaker 1: might what are they win like eight games this year,
20:49
Speaker 1: They're gonna double their win total something like that. Yeah,
20:51
Speaker 1: probably so, probably so, But I would say that the Yeah,
20:56
Speaker 1: usually I'm not. You know, I'm not a conspiracy guy.
20:58
Speaker 1: I love a good conspiracy, but I have to buy
21:00
Speaker 1: into it, I believe. I mean, based on what I
21:02
Speaker 1: have seen in college sports. If you are halfway decent.
21:06
Speaker 1: There are vultures out looking to pick away from the
21:10
Speaker 1: mid major school. So the same thing goes on in football.
21:13
Speaker 1: If you're a halfway decent wide receiver at a mid
21:15
Speaker 1: level school, you're going to get taken by a power school.
21:20
Speaker 1: Now the question becomes is the money worth it? Because
21:24
Speaker 1: you're not going to be showcased if you're the number
21:28
Speaker 1: one receiver. Your old buddy Eddie at Fresno Eddie Garcia
21:33
Speaker 1: went to Fresno State and all that. If you're a
21:34
Speaker 1: number one receiver at Fresno State, you're getting the ball
21:38
Speaker 1: targeted twelve times a game. Are you better off staying
21:42
Speaker 1: there and not getting the full nil money or going
21:45
Speaker 1: to a place like Notre Dame or sc or Alabama
21:49
Speaker 1: where you'll get more money, but you're not going to
21:52
Speaker 1: be a wide receiver number one. You're going to be
21:56
Speaker 1: the third, fourth, or fifth wide receiver. And and that
22:00
Speaker 1: becomes a question you have to figure out there? Who
22:03
Speaker 1: else do we have? Page on nature? Boy Rights and says,
22:07
Speaker 1: can you imagine how wack a doodle Dan Hurley would
22:10
Speaker 1: have reacted to the Lakers disaster the other night if
22:14
Speaker 1: he were their coach? I enjoyed that man. The Chicago Bulls.
22:18
Speaker 1: The Bulls are bad. I thought the Bulls were tanking.
22:21
Speaker 1: Weren't the Bulls supposed to be tanking? Didn't they make
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Speaker 1: some trades of the deadline, Didn't they indicate that they're
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Speaker 1: not trying to win. They're in it for the lottery ball.
22:29
Speaker 1: They want the Duchie, that's who they want the lottery
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Speaker 1: and they're going for it. And the Lakers got all
22:36
Speaker 1: their guys back, and the Bulls it was the running
22:39
Speaker 1: of the bulls. It's like in your Pamplona the running
22:42
Speaker 1: of the bulls there. Yeah, but Dan, that's one of
22:44
Speaker 1: the things they talked about with Dan Hurley. He can't
22:47
Speaker 1: handle losing at Connecticut. We're in a bad year. What
22:50
Speaker 1: do they lose eight to ten games at Connecticut if
22:53
Speaker 1: it's a bad year. He can't handle that. Imagine coaching
22:56
Speaker 1: the Lakers. Plus, Dan Hurley's not qualified to coach the
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Speaker 1: Laker because we all know he didn't do a podcast
23:01
Speaker 1: with Lebron James, so he's not qualified. The burner account,
23:05
Speaker 1: I wondered what happened to Yes, Lorada would like before
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Speaker 1: we get to the Burner account, Lorena would like to
23:09
Speaker 1: check and Yes, Loraina The last guy's name was nature Boy, right,
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Speaker 1: nature Boy was what? Did I read a comment from that?
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Speaker 1: I did read it.
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Speaker 4: Yes, what do you think about this sound for him?
23:22
Speaker 1: Wow? That would be That would be impressive. Okay, are
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Speaker 1: you gonna have that anytime? Because the nature Boy is selective.
23:28
Speaker 1: He's a couple of nights, I know. But We've set
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Speaker 1: him a couple of times and every time I'm like,
23:31
Speaker 1: I feel like I need a drop for him. So yes,
23:33
Speaker 1: this is what I'm thinking. Okay, cool, I'll measure boy.
23:35
Speaker 1: He does do the day night double header, I will
23:37
Speaker 1: be doing another day night double header. It's such a
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Speaker 1: beautiful day for sports talk radio. Let's play too, So
23:42
Speaker 1: I will be on doing the day night double header
23:44
Speaker 1: yet again. Uh later on on Monday, so I'd be
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Speaker 1: doing in La locally on the flagship of Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: Radio AM five seventy. I'll be in on the Rogan
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Speaker 1: and Rodney Show from noon to two Pacific, and I
23:59
Speaker 1: will be doing the show as Rodney Pete has returned
24:02
Speaker 1: from Japan. He's the guy that took the foul ball
24:05
Speaker 1: away from Max Munsey. He has gotten back from Japan
24:09
Speaker 1: and so I will be peppering him with questions. Now
24:11
Speaker 1: he's claiming this is that viral momut last week from
24:14
Speaker 1: the Dodgers Cubs in Japan. He's the former NFL quarterback
24:17
Speaker 1: that snatched the foul ball away from Max Munsey, and
24:22
Speaker 1: he is saying that he did that in an act
24:25
Speaker 1: of chivalry, that he was protecting his wife from being
24:29
Speaker 1: hit with the foul ball. I do not believe. I
24:31
Speaker 1: think that was muscle memory. I think he was just
24:33
Speaker 1: trying to catch the ball because he's seaball catch ball.
24:36
Speaker 1: That is my belief. But we'll get to the bottom
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Speaker 1: of that later on. We'll take your calls eight seven,
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Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox. The Burner account does write
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Speaker 1: in I wondered what happened to The Burner account says,
24:45
Speaker 1: well done, Benjamin. You're definitely showing your age with that
24:48
Speaker 1: reference to the video killed the radio Star. No, No,
24:51
Speaker 1: that's a phrase that's kind of in the lingo, and
24:54
Speaker 1: I'm not dandy Danny myself. Now, I heard from a
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Speaker 1: source over the weekend, and I don't want to name
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Speaker 1: names here, but on one of the weekend overnight shows,
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Speaker 1: one of the worst portions of the radio was a
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Speaker 1: caller from Minnesota that may or may not work at
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Speaker 1: a Walmart in northern Minnesota that called up three times,
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Speaker 1: had a bad phone connection every single time, and kept
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Speaker 1: calling back. I was told one of the cringeworthy moments
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Speaker 1: in talk radio over the weekend. Now just a coincidence.
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Speaker 1: Gunner writes in from northern Minnesota, and he says, three
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Speaker 1: of my four final four teams are still alive. My
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Speaker 1: final teams are still alive. Let's go terps he says,
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Speaker 1: as a PSA, no one cares about your kids, your
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Speaker 1: Robbie the mayor and her fans says, what you're justin
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Speaker 1: and Cincinnati sound effect? Me? Is there a sound effect
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Speaker 1: for death? Do we have a death sound effect?
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Speaker 4: You put it in?
27:09
Speaker 1: Let's say we have a death sound.
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Speaker 3: Effect bored to death.
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Speaker 4: No, that's a song.
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Speaker 1: There. Let me let me turn off everything except for
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Speaker 1: effect effect. All right, let's try again. No, No, that's
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Speaker 1: just with death. What about dying dying? Let's try dying
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Speaker 1: pac Man dying. I don't think it came to life
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Speaker 1: at the it's too upbeat. Yeah, that's too upbeat. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this one is. J T.
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Speaker 4: Mayas dying to that.
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Speaker 1: JT. The Brick used to work here back in the day.
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Speaker 1: Try it. Why not? It doesn't sound like I do JT.
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Speaker 1: The Brick at all want that. We don't want that.
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Speaker 1: Keep looking, all right, If any suggestions, sure ferg Dog
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Speaker 1: rights and says please do not let Rodney Pete slurp
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Speaker 1: Legroin and Bronnie the whole show. Na, Na, no, oh,
28:10
Speaker 1: there's a great story out. I was gonna lead with it,
28:12
Speaker 1: but I felt like I'd get in trouble with the
28:14
Speaker 1: bosses if I led with it. Lebron caught lion. My
28:17
Speaker 1: intuition was correct. We'll get to it later on through
28:20
Speaker 1: the overnight. But the story about Lebron having no idea
28:23
Speaker 1: about the Luca trade complete bull crap. He's such a liar,
28:27
Speaker 1: such a liar. Man did he do Anthony Davis dirty?
28:31
Speaker 1: And I get why he did it, But the fact
28:34
Speaker 1: that team Lebron circled the wagons and was like, oh, yeah,
28:37
Speaker 1: he had no idea, he was caught blindsided. Well, now
28:40
Speaker 1: we're hearing Lebron made requests on who the Lakers got
28:43
Speaker 1: in addition to Luca from the Mavericks. He such a weasel.
28:47
Speaker 1: Lebron is such a weasel. My god, is he a weasel?
28:51
Speaker 3: Oh?
28:51
Speaker 1: So good? That is so good. Oh love it, love it,
28:55
Speaker 1: love it, love that story. Let's go to the phones,
28:58
Speaker 1: and who do we have here? Any meany miney mo?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't want to go line one.
29:04
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, I jump, I'll put I'll
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Speaker 1: put Henry to the front. Hell, Henry's in Minneapolis. Hello, Henry, welcome,
29:11
Speaker 1: he be Hey, Ben.
29:13
Speaker 4: Thanks thanks for taking my call.
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Speaker 1: Ben.
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Speaker 4: Just really wanted to say I appreciate you, know, uh,
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Speaker 4: you being on the air at this time. I'm always
29:20
Speaker 4: coming home from work love listening to you. Uh just
29:23
Speaker 4: wanted to hear what you taught about Rogers, going to
29:27
Speaker 4: Steelers potential, you know, your thoughts from that, because I just,
29:30
Speaker 4: you know, wanted to hear.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well of course you want on my hot take.
29:34
Speaker 1: Everyone does. I understand? But what are you? Where are
29:36
Speaker 1: you coming from? Where where you at? Right? What kind
29:38
Speaker 1: of work do you do?
29:39
Speaker 4: I'm a restaurant manager, so you know, okay, all work
29:44
Speaker 4: all night and they never let me go. But I
29:47
Speaker 4: appreciate you.
29:49
Speaker 1: But now don't now, don't speed man. I when I
29:51
Speaker 1: was in Minneapolis a couple of years back, I got
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Speaker 1: a speeding to Yogo speed limit. Man. They'll nail you,
29:55
Speaker 1: those Minnesota troopers will get you.
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Speaker 3: Man.
29:57
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful.
29:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're preaching to the choir. But all right.
30:02
Speaker 1: All right, thank Henry. Yeah, so I will be ranting.
30:04
Speaker 1: You'll probably be home sleeping by the time I start
30:06
Speaker 1: ranting about Aaron Rodgers. But Rogers met while we were
30:09
Speaker 1: gone away from our post on Friday, met with the
30:13
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers for six hours, and it seems to be
30:17
Speaker 1: a perfect fit in terms of what's available and the Vikings,
30:21
Speaker 1: assuming the Vikings are really going to go with J. J. McCarthy,
30:24
Speaker 1: which is what everyone thought the plan was in Minnesota,
30:28
Speaker 1: that you put Aaron Rodgers out there. I know, as
30:30
Speaker 1: a talk radio host, I love it. You've got two
30:33
Speaker 1: big personalities there. You've got Mike Tomlin and Rogers that
30:37
Speaker 1: they've had a bit of a love fest publicly. Rogers
30:41
Speaker 1: was slurping all over Mike Tomlin on the McAfee show
30:45
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. So there's some of that
30:46
Speaker 1: out there, and I'm all for it. Why not. I mean,
30:50
Speaker 1: you've got two stud receivers. The problem is the Aaron
30:54
Speaker 1: Rodgers in your head and the Aaron Rodgers on the
30:56
Speaker 1: field are totally different. And Pittsburgh was able to do
31:00
Speaker 1: a relatively good job of hiding the warts of Justin
31:04
Speaker 1: Fields and the mister unlimited Russell Wilson at quarterback last year.
31:10
Speaker 1: Both those guys blow and they're not very good, and
31:13
Speaker 1: the Steelers squeeze as much as they can out of him.
31:15
Speaker 1: So assuming they'll be able to do the same thing
31:17
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, and they've always got a pretty good
31:19
Speaker 1: defense in Pittsburgh, and they'll they'll be where they usually
31:23
Speaker 1: are even if Aaron Rodgers is not anywhere close to
31:26
Speaker 1: being that great. Pittsburgh just made the playoffs the last
31:29
Speaker 1: couple of years with suck back quarterbacks, so they can
31:32
Speaker 1: make the playoffs with Aaron Rodgers. The question becomes what
31:34
Speaker 1: happens once they get to the playoffs and then the
31:37
Speaker 1: AFC's loaded with Baltimore Kansas City, assuming Buffalo is gonna
31:41
Speaker 1: be good again next year, you're gonna play one of
31:42
Speaker 1: those teams and you're gonna get just blitz creaked and
31:45
Speaker 1: boat raced off the field. So that's the problem. But
31:48
Speaker 1: going in. Yeah, it's great. It's good content. I'm all
31:50
Speaker 1: about the content, and uh yeah, so I'm excited about love.
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Speaker 1: The content all right is the Ben Mahler Show. So
31:58
Speaker 1: if you can't beat him, may might as well hire him.
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Speaker 1: Dateline Austin, Texas, where all those wokesters hang out there
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Speaker 1: in Austin and the University of Texas. Over the weekend
32:10
Speaker 1: they lost in the NCAA tournament and they said bye
32:14
Speaker 1: bye to their head coach, immediately parting ways, parting ways
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Speaker 1: with the guy that was kind of interim coach anyway,
32:24
Speaker 1: and the weird glasses kind of had the hipster glasses on,
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Speaker 1: and I said, this guy's probably not that good at coach.
32:29
Speaker 1: He's got hipster glasses. But Texas has hired the coach
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Speaker 1: that beat them in the tournament, Xavier Sean Miller has
32:38
Speaker 1: replaced Rodney Terry. He's the guy that had the hipster
32:41
Speaker 1: glasses on. And that's always ye I see coaches with
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Speaker 1: hipster glasses. Has there ever been a good coach with
32:46
Speaker 1: hipster glasses? Maybe Phil Jackson, but Phil changed his glasses
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Speaker 1: a lot, so he didn't always go hipster glasses. He
32:53
Speaker 1: did that to annoy the NBA media, like the photographers,
32:58
Speaker 1: they couldn't use the old photo. Phil told that story
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Speaker 1: one time famously when I was out there about how
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Speaker 1: he would change his appearance every year because he hated
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Speaker 1: how like the NBA would use the same stock image
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Speaker 1: of the coaches and they'd never changed it. So he
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Speaker 1: figured if he showed up in a beard one year
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Speaker 1: or a mustache the next year, no beard or no beard,
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Speaker 1: no mustache, or different classes, they couldn't use the same
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Speaker 1: photo because it was a dated photo. That's why he
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Speaker 1: did it. Yes, on the Lorraine is asking a question,
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Speaker 1: know if that was on the air or not, but
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Speaker 1: Is a basketball player for the Florida Gators. The number
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Speaker 1: Walter Clayton, junior of the Florida Gators, has had at
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Speaker 1: all four career NCAA tournament games. I'm the only other
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Speaker 1: d one player to start a career doing that this century.
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Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: Mark from Queens says high socks Jason Terry is the answer.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down? Jesus Shuttlesworth from
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Speaker 1: Big reg and Iowa. That's his answer. Miguel on Fire
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Speaker 1: Andy from lion O Lakes, Minnesota says got to be
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Speaker 1: from Rob in Vegas, Richies Esque from mister nice Guy,
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Speaker 1: The octopus? Antonio Alphonseeka guest by I forty Ian. That's
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Speaker 1: Goat Man's drawing of Charles Manson guests by Robbie the Mariner,
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Speaker 1: Morne Byron Houston, guessed by Steve the misplaced San Diego.
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Speaker 1: There's a good random name, roy Eli from Terry in England.
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Speaker 1: Oo Way Lob from Robin, minnesot These are pretty good names.
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Speaker 1: Johnny Q got it right. He's a cheater loser. Greg
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Speaker 1: Brock the successor to Steve Garvey. There the Garve from
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Speaker 1: our friend Manuel in Guardina. Who else do I have?
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Speaker 1: Eileen going with Kelly Tripuka. It's a solid name. Dick,
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Speaker 1: but gis from Mark in Santa Monica. All right, Lorena,
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Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Lorena? Yes, I think it's
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Speaker 1: the Dwarf Dopey Ben is it the Dwarf Dwarf dopey
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Speaker 1: And listen. Aren't a bunch of little people complaining that
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Speaker 1: They used AI or something. Anyway, the correct answer is
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Speaker 1: Stephen Curry of Davidson back at five five straight games
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Speaker 1: with those numbers. That was in seven and eight. So
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Speaker 1: Stephan Curry is the correct answer. So put that in
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Speaker 1: your pipe and smoke it and knock yourself out. So
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Speaker 1: the Power Conferences, if my mathis correct, have filled fifteen
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Speaker 1: of the sixteen spots in the sweet sixteen. The Southeastern Conference,
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Speaker 1: if my mal or math is correct, sending seven teams
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Speaker 1: to the Sweet sixteen. So they used to be when
39:17
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, it was always like Southern
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Speaker 1: Fried football. They didn't give a crap really about basketball.
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Speaker 1: But that is a new record for the men's tournament.
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Speaker 1: All these records going to be going to be blown
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Speaker 1: to bits in the next handful of years as the
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Speaker 1: landscape changes. But the most teams for a single conference
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Speaker 1: in the Sweet sixteen the Southeastern Conference, So Southern Fried basketball.
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Speaker 1: If you deep fry a basketball, it's pretty good, right,
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Speaker 1: It's pretty delicious, not bad tasties, little crunchy, it's all right,
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Speaker 1: not bad