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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: So our lead this hour is from March Madness. Oh
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  Speaker 3: but I can't believe you're starting with college patch by shocking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think I was going to talk about? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So we'll get into it right away.
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  Speaker 1: The upset always takes the lead here, and we came
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  Speaker 1: this close to having the Duke Blue Devil radio roast.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to them in a minute. They ended up
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  Speaker 1: winning the game, so that that ruined the fun. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they had lost, Oh my god, would have been amazing,
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  Speaker 1: It would.
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  Speaker 3: Have been so great. They didn't, so that sucks.
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  Speaker 1: So we move on from that, and there were a
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  Speaker 1: couple of upsets throughout the first day of the opening
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  Speaker 1: round of the tournament. The upset that caught my attention
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  Speaker 1: because I watched it, and I'm of the age where
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  Speaker 1: I recall the glory days of Carolina basketball. But the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Blue that's the game that I circled here. And
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  Speaker 1: if you were watching that, there's a million games going
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  Speaker 1: on and every TV window. But Terrence Hill Junior, who
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's the hero today. Terrence Hill
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  Speaker 1: Junior made a step back dagger three pointer with fifteen
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  Speaker 1: seconds left in overtime and VCU.
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  Speaker 3: The eleven c. The reason this is session amazing story
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  Speaker 3: is they were.
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  Speaker 1: Down nineteen points in the second half and they made
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  Speaker 1: that all go away.
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  Speaker 3: And the stunner from down under not quite North Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: number six seed, no.
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  Speaker 1: No naa goodbye. Yeah, they're out first round of the
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  Speaker 1: tournament yet again. And this guy, Terrence Hill Junior, finished
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  Speaker 1: with a bunch of three points in the set, three points.
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  Speaker 1: It was seven of ten from three point range, twenty
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  Speaker 1: of his thirty four after halftime.
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  Speaker 3: So VCU, who's.
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  Speaker 1: Got a nice record, and no one of these teams
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  Speaker 1: that didn't play anybody, they're all saying, hey, well, these
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  Speaker 1: big schools don't want to play us, and they win
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  Speaker 1: their first tournament game in a decade. So this was
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  Speaker 1: a bracket buster for many that were a couple of bracketbusters.
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, for talk Radio is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room and North Carolina up nineteen points and
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  Speaker 1: Henry Vasser, who's also projected to be a first round pick,
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  Speaker 1: a late first round pick. He had twenty six for
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  Speaker 1: the Tar Hills ten rebounds. But North Carolina they lost
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Wilson, who's projected as a top five, top ten
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  Speaker 1: pick in the NBA draft.
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  Speaker 3: He got out. He was ruled out with injury late
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  Speaker 3: in the season.
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  Speaker 1: There and North Carolina played three games without Wilson and loss, loss, loss.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss that's good jumping up point, let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question, does North Carolina, an iconic basketball program,
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  Speaker 1: get a mulligan because they played without their star player
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Wilson, And so it's okay to lose an overtime
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  Speaker 1: to VCU. So I've got former teammate Carnival Cruise Line
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  Speaker 1: and Casey Kasem, three things that have never ever been
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  Speaker 1: put together, and we are gonna soak them in a bag,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. Now, Hey, speaking in
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  Speaker 1: the bag, North Carolina in the bag as the body
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  Speaker 1: they go down.
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  Speaker 3: The Tar Hills. Now my take here is gonna surprise you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, they absolutely do not get a mulligan.
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  Speaker 3: There's no Malard mulligan.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no no. It's not how this works. That is
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  Speaker 1: not how any of this works. But they're just student athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are all making more than i am. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a middle aged man. I've been in radio thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: They're making more money than I am. All right, so
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  Speaker 1: shut up with that. This is North Carolina. This is
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  Speaker 1: blue blood behemoth, the Cathedral of college basketball, the Dean
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  Speaker 1: Dumb all that crap.
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  Speaker 3: And it's like, come on, as our.
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  Speaker 1: Former teammate Doug Gottlieb, who quit the coach in Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay actually kept the.
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  Speaker 3: Job for a while then quit. This is not nobody you.
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  Speaker 3: There's no moral victories here.
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  Speaker 1: The report card, the Malord report card reads d n
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  Speaker 1: MS did not meet standard. Did not meet standard. That
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  Speaker 1: is what the report card reads. Now ask for Kaylor
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  Speaker 1: Wilson's injury.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, it sucks.
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  Speaker 1: It's the atomic elbow. Yeah, it's rotten exit. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they play the games. You gotta pick it up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you lose a guy, here and there.
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  Speaker 1: I was, well, he's so good, blah blah blah. But
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  Speaker 1: this is the big boy pay to play nil era
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  Speaker 1: of basketball.
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  Speaker 3: The portal.
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  Speaker 1: All these guys are free agents every year, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not shirts and skins at the YMCA on a Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 3: So do your job.
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  Speaker 1: Next man up. Not nobody step up, which is what
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  Speaker 1: happened here. Instead they folded.
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  Speaker 3: It's one thing.
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  Speaker 1: If they were trailing the entire game and it was close,
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  Speaker 1: in a nineteen point lead in college basketball, that's like
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  Speaker 1: a thirty eight point lead compared to the NBA nineteen points.
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  Speaker 1: No excuses, no exemptions, no emotional escape hatch, only the
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  Speaker 1: portal and simply.
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  Speaker 3: Stated, again not good enough. Do better be better.
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  Speaker 1: Although this team will never play again because they'll together,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be a different group of players, and then people
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  Speaker 1: will freak out about that. The following you now on
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  Speaker 1: turning the page on CBS or was it true TV?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I just kept flipping. My right hand was getting a workout.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what channels I was watching. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was some of it was CBS.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you if if you offered me a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. I wouldn't know. It's one of the channels
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  Speaker 1: of the games was on. I was flipping around, so
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  Speaker 1: I think it was CBS, but it might have been
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  Speaker 1: True TV, I don't know. So they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: explain how the Tar Hills gagged and Bruce Pearl, this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Entered the chat. So let me frame the question this way.
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  Speaker 3: So Bruce Pearl.
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  Speaker 1: Claimed that fatigue was a factor as to why North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina lost the VCU in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: Is this acceptable or are we just lowering the bar
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  Speaker 3: yet again? So again, Bruce Pearl, who coached.
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  Speaker 1: A long time and you know so long when he
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  Speaker 1: first started, not one of his first, one of the
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  Speaker 1: early jobs when he was in Milwaukee, we had him
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  Speaker 1: on I was going to show with Looney on the
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  Speaker 1: weekends and we used to once in a while chat
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  Speaker 1: to Bruce Pearl, and he went on to coach at
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  Speaker 1: some big schools, had some success and all that and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of scandals, which is now just commerce in
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  Speaker 1: college sports. So is what Bruce Pearl claimed fatigue? Is
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  Speaker 1: this acceptable or are we just lowering the bar again?
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  Speaker 3: So this is March madness.
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  Speaker 1: I think, I mean every two minutes they're telling us
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  Speaker 1: it's march madness, and they're showing his cheerleaders, and they're
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  Speaker 1: showing his people with their faces.
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  Speaker 4: Painted and the kids crying, and yeah, this is not
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  Speaker 4: a carnival cruise line limbo contest, although it appears to
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  Speaker 4: be based on that commentary how low can you go?
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  Speaker 3: How low can you go? Do the limbo to the limbo.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to excuses as far as.
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  Speaker 1: Fatigue, again, I go back to my main point, your
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  Speaker 1: big bad North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you think you are? You're not Anthony richardson
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  Speaker 3: the Colts.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get to tap out because you don't feel good,
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  Speaker 1: because your legs are like over cook spaghetti. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get to tap out. I don't buy it. They weren't tired,
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  Speaker 1: they were toast stop. They just didn't play well. They
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  Speaker 1: sucked at a time you cannot suck. And if they
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  Speaker 1: were tired, and even if they weren't, really this is
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  Speaker 1: just a referendum on the coach, right, Hubert Davis? Is
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  Speaker 1: he on the hot seat at North Carolina? Is there
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  Speaker 1: some booster that wants to get rid of Hubert Davis?
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  Speaker 1: Or is he going to survive this? Is he running
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  Speaker 1: a country club? Because if they weren't in shape, that's
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  Speaker 1: on the coaching staff to get the players in shape.
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  Speaker 1: They gotta and the training staff there basic cardio, get
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  Speaker 1: them a treadmill or something like that. And how about
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  Speaker 1: halftime adjustments? What were they doing at halftime? Did Hubert
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  Speaker 1: Davis pass out scoops of cookie dough ice cream? And
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  Speaker 1: then the boys could have some caprice sons at halftime?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what are they doing? Seriously? You're up night in.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen and the second half and what do I know?
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  Speaker 1: I just do the Overnight Show. I've been around basketball
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Was out at you know, interview guests
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  Speaker 1: a long time ago, old school basketball guys, and the
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  Speaker 1: line I always got from these guys, I learned a lot.
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  Speaker 1: That person I learned the most from his dad. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Fitch, you know, he can look him up. Who's
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  Speaker 1: the He was a coach of the Celtics and the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: I was around him with the Clippers, and he he
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  Speaker 1: gave me all these little these little fun factoids about
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  Speaker 1: basketball life and all that is. Essentially said that every game,
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  Speaker 1: if both teams, both teams play hard. My man, No,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't say that both if teams play well they're
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  Speaker 1: fundamentally sound. Every game should be decided in the final
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  Speaker 1: like five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: That was in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: But also if you have a big lead, if you
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  Speaker 1: build up a big lead and you just play fundamentally
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  Speaker 1: sound basketball that you play defense, you rebound, you box out,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff that you're gonna win, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: to come back and yet blow.
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  Speaker 3: A nineteen pointly.
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  Speaker 1: So Hubert Davis, I believe he's eight and four now
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  Speaker 1: in the tournament, which is fine. They did make a
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  Speaker 1: final four. There's only been there a few years. They
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  Speaker 1: made the final four.
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  Speaker 3: It's not elite, it's okay. It's just okay for Hubert Davis.
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  Speaker 1: And it's dressed up in that iconic Carolina blue. The
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  Speaker 1: thing that is going to sting. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: you have to put Hubert Davis on the watch list.
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  Speaker 1: At least is North Carolina has now lost in the
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  Speaker 1: round of sixty four, which is really the first round.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody counts those games in Dayton, so the round of
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  Speaker 1: because no one's watching them. The round of sixty four
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  Speaker 1: in consecutive tournaments for the first time since nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was in the White House in nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: That was before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. And
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  Speaker 1: Wowser's all right now last word here, So going up
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  Speaker 1: to thirty thousand feet, it's time now for the sampler plate.
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  Speaker 3: What else? Here's the question?
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  Speaker 1: What else stood out on Day number one DOUBLEA tournament?
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  Speaker 1: So I jotted down on my notes app on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a note pat. I I'm very technical,
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  Speaker 1: tech savvy, tech savvy, and I have a notes app
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  Speaker 1: on my phone. I jot down all notes when I'm watching.
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  Speaker 1: So I jotted down not cornballs. I jotted down corn Huskers.
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  Speaker 1: As Nebraska wins the game, the curse is dead, pigs
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  Speaker 1: are flying.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't just a basketball program, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 3: They were a mathematical anomaly. Now. I didn't even realize
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  Speaker 3: this going into the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't really think about Nebraska as a basketball school,
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  Speaker 1: and you really haven't thought about him as a football
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  Speaker 1: school in many, many years.
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  Speaker 3: They used to be really good at football. But this
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  Speaker 3: is wild.
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  Speaker 1: So a Power five team with a postseason resume of
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  Speaker 1: a j the basketball squad as Nebraska becomes the last
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  Speaker 1: Power five school to win a March Madness Game. Hellllelujah, halllelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Feel good for ned in Nebraska and all my guys
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  Speaker 3: in Nebraska. They are fans of the show. Some of
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  Speaker 3: you don't even care about Nebraska corner. It's just basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw this quote, which I thought was fake.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's legit.
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  Speaker 3: You never know anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Double checked it, and to the best of my ability,
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  Speaker 1: I believe this would be a legitimate quote. A guard
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  Speaker 1: for Nebraska, Braden Fragger, I believe is his name, he
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  Speaker 1: dropped the wackadoodle quote that sounded so ridiculous you thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: this must be one of those parody satire accounts, or
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  Speaker 1: it came from a fortune cookie that was written by
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  Speaker 1: someone who's never seen a basketball game in college. The
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  Speaker 1: quote was we didn't come to win one, we came
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  Speaker 1: to win two.
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  Speaker 3: Was the quote. Vote yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, you have to learn more than that to get
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  Speaker 1: to the final four and all that. I felt like
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  Speaker 1: this was a tribute to the late great Casey case DJ,
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  Speaker 1: famous DJ from.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the day. Keep your feet on the ground
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  Speaker 3: and keep reaching for the middle.
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  Speaker 1: It's not exactly how the quote goes, but nonetheless, now
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  Speaker 1: the big one, the big Cahouna. Here was Duke, the Duke,
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  Speaker 1: Blue Devils, Cameron Boozer and the Blue Devils avoiding, avoiding ridicule,
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  Speaker 1: avoiding disaster and the massive march madness upset as they
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  Speaker 1: took on Number sixteen Sienna And even though they won
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  Speaker 1: the game, Duke didn't come back and win the game.
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  Speaker 1: They had a late charge to win this game. Duke
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  Speaker 1: became the first ever number one to trail by double
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  Speaker 1: digits at halftime against the number sixteen c.
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  Speaker 3: Coach k is turning over in his grave right now?
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  Speaker 3: What happened? What are we doing here? That's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like owning a yacht.
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  Speaker 1: A really expensive luxury a yacht, and then almost drowning in.
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  Speaker 3: A bathtub, like seriously, so history says they're dead.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, teams that have played as poorly as
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  Speaker 1: Duke did, even though they won, they usually do not
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  Speaker 1: end up doing much in the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have the star of Stars in the day.
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  Speaker 1: One of the tournament, a player that will be playing
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  Speaker 1: for some crappy NBA team down the Winnemucker Road next season,
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  Speaker 1: questioning why am I playing in Sacramento?
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand, shouldn't I be somewhere else. Why am
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  Speaker 3: I in Utah? Why am I in Washington?
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about BYU star aj Dibanza, who became the
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  Speaker 1: first freshman to score thirty or more points in the
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  Speaker 1: round of sixty four since Steph Curry, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what happened to him. I think he's Stillingsurance right now.
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  Speaker 1: Right he's just a TV pitchman. Steph Curry. That was
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  Speaker 1: seventeen years ago. Oh my god, what were you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen years ago?
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  Speaker 3: I was doing this.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about Steph Curry. Seventeen years ago. I said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I think that got'll be okay in the NBA out
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  Speaker 1: of Davidson. Well, anyway, the Cougar's lost, so they're out,
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  Speaker 1: and de Bonzo will now run off to the NBA
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  Speaker 1: to make more money.
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  Speaker 3: He's already making a lot at BYU.
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  Speaker 1: Then you had Little high Point, which sounds like a
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  Speaker 1: fake school. Doesn't that sound like a fake school? High Point,
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  Speaker 1: Little high Point from North Carolina took down the Badgers
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  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. So they're out, get out of here, and
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  Speaker 1: now everyone's under the spell of high Point. I can
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  Speaker 1: go my whole rant here if you want to do
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  Speaker 1: it every year about the tournament and how upside down
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  Speaker 1: it is all you people that rant and rave.
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  Speaker 3: I love Sondrella, you just don't want to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: I just want a little bit, you know, It's like,
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  Speaker 3: just take a little bit. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 3: want that much of it. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 3: can handle that much of it.
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• 18:09
  Speaker 1: So we are in the midst of March Madness NC
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: DOUBLEA tournament, So.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about Lebron.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: What what are you doing? Our lead this hour is
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: from Hooray for Holly. Well, well, actually it's in South
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Florida and that's where the Lakers were. So the Lakers
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: won a game in Miami. Who cares about that? It's
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a regular season game. Nobody's watching it because the tournament's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: going on. And Luca had a big game. But did
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: he really have a big game if nobody saw it anyway,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: So the Lakers have had a success without Lebron. Now,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Lebron did play in the game on Thursday night, but
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: overall this year, the Lakers have been pretty good without
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Lebron on the court, and that has led to a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: constant drumbeat of this Lebron's.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: A net negative.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He's not making the team better and there are people saying, well,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the team would be better off without Lebron, and Lebron
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: was asked about this is his name being tossed around
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in a negative light, and he he did react, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: this is what everyone's going to be talking about, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: we get to jump on it because the time we're on.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: But here's the audio. Let's go to the autotip.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Here's Lebron James asked about all of the talking heads,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: gas bags.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: And blowhards that say the Lakers are better off without them.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Miss sells.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I mean his sales papers are a lot easier, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: clippings and podcasts.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: If he said Lebron team's better off without him, a
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: lot of people kind of like to do.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: With So I get wrong, all right, he was mumbling.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: He said it sells papers a lot easier, clippings and podcasts.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: If you say Lebron the team is better off without him,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of people will try to like view it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So I get it. They're absolutely wrong. That's the quote.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: discuss the question as you just heard. Even though he
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: was mumbling, Lebron James says the media is ripping him
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to quote sell papers. Can you parse the words of Lebron?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: So my observations on this one, I have got fax machine,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: boxing legend, Joe Lewis and Scottish and we will combine
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: go Cowabunga.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Dude, So number can I tell you?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I love that quote it sells papers. Oh, such a
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: great quote by Lebron. This is in my top five
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: favorite Lebron James quotes. It's a god don, It's just
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a It's a shame. I was about to say a
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: bad word. It's a shame that this happened on the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: night it did. It's adorable by Lebron, Lebron saying, hey,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: you know selling papers?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Why do he stop there?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Why didn't he say, Hey, this is going to.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Be the facts of the day.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Bring back the fact machine in the nineteen nineties sports
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: talk radio. And it's fine, it's the facts of the day.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Gotta have that fax machine.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to King James. The ink
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is dead. The ink is dead. Nobody is selling newspapers
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: because nobody is buying newspapers. I do an overnight radio show.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I have a bigger reach than the mighty La Times,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: for example.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: There are more.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: People that hear my voice and my takes and what
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I say in the middle of the night, well ninety
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: nine percent of the world's sleeping than that la times.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Just as an example, I can.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Go through name a million newspapers because they're all pretty
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: much dead at this particular point. That's the reality of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the situation in the attention economy, where takes are the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: new currency. Lebron is a blue chip stock that never
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: stops training.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: It never a human click farm click any click any
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: click click any click.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Any click, a walking, talking algorithm that happens to be
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: wearing a headman, and so I will give him this.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: He's Lebron is both right and wrong. It's quantum physics,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: King James. Two things can be true at the same time. Yes,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: you are great for business. You are great for business
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: because you get a reaction. There's this primal reaction people have.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They either love you and run to defend you and
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: lick your toes, or they run to punch you in
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the nose. There's a reaction there. You're a firebrand, you
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: know that. And oh, by the way, while that is true,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it is also true that this season you have not
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: helped the Lakers as much as you supposedly were going
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to help the Lakers. Facts of the fact the Lakers
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: have a better winning percentage, they appear to have better
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: rhythm and timing with Lebron in street clothes. Now regardless,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Lebron has been the NBA's most profitable headline since dial
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: up internet. It's like you gotta go back to AOL
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: online and Netscape navigator.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: He doesn't just move the needle. Lebron is the.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Needle, and people freak out and this is not the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: time to talk about it. People have said, well, what's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: gonna happen when Lebron is done the next couple years.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: He's gonna be playing forever.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And it's like there's always somebody else that comes along, because.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: It's just the way it is.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I remember when Michael Jordan was playing and we were
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: doing this and said, wow, no one will ever be
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: as good as Jordan. And then who's gonna move the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: needle when Jordan's gone? And usually takes a couple of years,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and then everyone moves up a couple of slots, and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: then when Kobe Bryant became the man for a couple
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of years there, and then when Kobe retires.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, one's gonna have a replace, you know Kobe.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: But then Lebron was kind of there at the same time,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: so it was like, that's gonna happen all right now,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: turning the page to Motown to Motown.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Injury update. Injury update.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: All Star guard Kate Cunningham of the top team in
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, the Detroit Pistons down for the count
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: A collapsed left long That is not your normal basketball injury.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: That's an injury you get in a car accident or
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: playing football.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kate Cunningham's gonna miss it.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I love I say, oh, I'm miss at least two weeks,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: possibly more. I'm gonna bet on the possible sibly more
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: part of that. Anybody want in on that action? Yeah,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So Detroit said he will be reevaluated in a couple
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: of weeks, much like Steph Curry's been reevaluated every ten days.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: It's like, come on now, kid.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Cuttingham is having an unbelievably great season. He has gone
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: gamebusters this year for the Pistons. He's averaging almost twenty
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: five points a game, almost ten assists per game, and
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: is on pace to have be the first player in
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: franchise history in a Detroit uniform.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: To put up those numbers.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And he would only be the eighth player ever to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: average those numbers if he finishes the season with as
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: many points and assists per game.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: So he has been a.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Gold bar for the Pistons, and that goal bar right
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: now has a crack in it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: So the question what is the word?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: What is the word for Pistons star Cade Cuttingham suffering
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: a collapse lung and he'll.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Be out for a while.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: So you want a word for kid Cunning him his
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: lung giving out.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with I'll give you two words. Eight
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: ball eight ball why.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Because that is exactly where the Pistons are now pinned
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: right now.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: This is a kick to the nuts, is what this is.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Caid Cunning him having the career year, This is why.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: This is what he was supposed to be. It was
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: really shaky.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: The Pistons were terrible, former number one overall pick, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: it was like, oh, this guy's not good. He looked
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: pretty mediocre. Now, to his credit, he's gotten a lot.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Better this year.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Just looked like he was going to be a second
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: level NBA player and he's found another level, which is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: good for him. So of course, better players around him.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: At the magic carpet ride of a season. And now,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: as the late great Brian Wheeler would say, wheels, it
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is deflating, dented and derailed for the moment. And this
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: isn't some fender bender. This is like a fifty car
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: pile up on the expressway.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: The comps.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: If you look at other players in basketball that have
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: suffered this injury, the last player to have this injury
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: was Dame Lillard, who actually had it twice. And if
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: you look at him and the other people, the average
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: games missed is eleven. So NBA teams usually play four
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: games a week, give or take, sometimes three, sometimes more,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: but usually usually fours the sweet spot. So that'd be
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: two weeks in a couple of days. That's what that says,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: which seems like it should be longer. Of course, every
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: injury is different people. We know how that works, right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: People come back from injury. Some guys just rub dirt
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: on it. Some guys need two years off like street
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: clothes Anthony Davis or Kawhi Leonard.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Guys like that. So it just depends. We're talking. We're
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: not talking about a stub toe though.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: This is a collapse long, right, collapse long, And they
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: say he could be back for the playoffs, could as
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a weasel word, Pop goes the weasel. The other thing
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that no one's talking about with Kaid Cunningham is this,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: if he does miss the rest of the regular season,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: he will be under the threshold. The sixty five game
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: rule will pop up and Pop goes the MVP.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Also the All NBA team he will be ineligible. And
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: he is.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: He's a boxer, the legendary Joe Louis boxer Joe Lewis
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: fist with a shattered wrist at this point, essentially, so
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the power is there, the intent is there, and the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: delivery not looking so good. So even if he does
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: return for the postseason, I'm talking about Kaid Cuttingham of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the Pistons collapse long Is he a decoy? Does he
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: become a ghost?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You don't normally just bounce back from a deflated organ
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: like in the movies.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: You do in real life.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: No, you don't just go all of a sudden, go
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: out there and start dropping thirty points like your moneyball
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Maller in the playoffs. Playoffs, and we're staring at a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: total collapse, not of the heart, a total collapse of
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the lung. And it's gonna be like the the Michigan
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Water Service Center over there in Flint, little cloudy.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: The future is a little cloudy now for the Pistons.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And it's not like they were clearly even though they
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: have the top record, it's not like they were clearly
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the team to beat. And you'll get the Celtics, the Pistons,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers. There's a bunch of teams that are all
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: kind of bundled up there. That said, there's nobody that's
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: guaranteed to really move on up to a higher plateau.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: All right, final point, I want to change it up briefly.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I wanted to mention this in honor of Danny and Nashville.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: A big Titans fan.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: So the Tennessee Titans unveiled their new uniforms last week. Now,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: we normally don't talk about laundry, because who cares about laundry.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Bad teams changed logos, Bad teams change uniforms, that's what
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: they do. So some eagle eyed Internet consumer noticed that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: there was an error, as a small error on the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: helmet of the new logo for the Tennessee Titans.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: That was a subtle mistake.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Let me try to explain this to you, so can
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you imagine the Titans new logo has a T for
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Titans and Tennessee right there, and then there's three stars
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: around it. It has stars on both sides of the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: logo and the helmet. Now, it turns out the logo,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: if you look at the logo that was sent out,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: it does not match the helmet. And I guess somebody
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: didn't get the memo that the stars are supposed to
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: be tilted in the logo. They were tilted the logo
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and the helmet. Two stars that were not tilted on
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: on the helmet. So that's the issue. Now, the question,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I just this is a small thing, but it's it's.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: A bigger issue.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: How does here's the question, how does a multi billion
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: dollar institution like the NFL, and in this case, an
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: NFL team like the Titans, have a logo glitch like
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: this answer, it's just a little thing.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It's just.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: However, it is symbolic of something bigger, and the answer
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: is simple. The answer is simple because nobody is actually
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: minding the store in the NFL. They're just keeping track
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of the cash register, and this is just being brushed
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: off as a small mistake. It's not that big a deal,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: which is nonsense. It is a neon highlighter on the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: modern sports business model, which is to charge you more
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: and me more and deliver less and hope that nobody
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: complains too much and nobody looks too closely, whether it's
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the fifty dollars hats that should be about twenty five
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: dollars at the most, or any other we're in the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: golden era of price gouging.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: We're in the golden era of price gouging right now,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: and the.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Merchandise costs have ballooned into the absurd, the cypress hill
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: insane to the membrane tax on being a loyal fan.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: And yet while that has happened, so you've got like
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: these ships passing.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Then if you look at my malor ven diagram on
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: whatever device you're listening to, you can see that on
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: one side of the ven diagram you've got these these prices.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Which are just through the roof. And then quality control
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: is optional.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So if you're and this is just me and I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: might be completely wrong, and this my position is, if
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: you're going to pick the pocket of the public, which
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: you have no shame in doing, I get it, get
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: that dumb money people are dumb enough to spend this
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: amount of money, then you just take their money. At
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: least pretend like you care about the product. At least
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: pretend like you care about the craftsmanship.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Of the product.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: There's an old Scottish rule which has been passed down
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: through the generations and it's measured twice cut ones. Today's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: version in the NFL and not just the NFL all
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: sports is to print fast, ship faster, and use the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: cheapest possible product you can use and apologize later, but
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: try not to apologize. And the consumer that would be us,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: You and I. We are getting served ALPO and they
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: just put a label for let meon. Well it says
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Filet Mignon. I know it says file Mignon. It's not Filemenon,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: it's ALPO. But it says Filet meon. No, no, no, no,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it is actually alpof ARF. Yeah, yeah, this is This
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: isn't a glitch. It is a business plan, is what
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: it is. And who will be the first sports league
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to say enough is enough, we need to do better.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Who's gonna be that league? Will someone have the.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Hutzba shall I say to say, Okay, you know what,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: we're gonna do our own thing.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: We're gonna go somewhere else.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: There's other companies out there that make sportsman media. Why
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: don't we go somewhere else. We'll figure this out. Who
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: says no?
• 34:17
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• 34:24
  Speaker 3: It's Mallard.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: How about that?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Last week, the Carolina Panthers signed Kenny Pickett to back
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: up Bryce Young, which means they were free to trade
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Andy Dalton. They did just that on Wednesday, sending him
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: to the Eagles. Then would you rather have Dalton or
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: Picket as your backup quarterback?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I would want to have none of the above. You're
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: cooked either way. It's you're damned if you do. You're
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: damned if you don't like. Dalton occasionally has a good game.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I have not seen Kenny Pickett have a good game.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: So if you put a knife to my throat, I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: would take Dalton. I really don't want any one of them,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: because you're screwed if either one's playing next.
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: So before their Round one matchup, Carlos Boozer was hyping
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: up his son this week when he labeled Cameron as
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: a modern day Tim Duncan.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked really good in that first game for Duke.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Did Boozer tap anyway? Yeah?
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: He also said that teams that pass on his son
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: would regret it for the next fifteen years.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: But do you think Boozer will be that big of
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: a star. Well, he's got as I'll be keeping it real.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a chance to be a big time
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: star in the NBA.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Can you be a big time star if we were
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the Sacramento Kings.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Probably not. He's got to end up in the right situation.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So he's got this the family business. I'd like to
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: think he's gonna be better than his dad, Carlos Boozer,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the original Boozer next, but what name Boozer?
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: The Warriors have been without Steph Curry since January thirtieth.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: They've gone six and twelve without him. It's not being
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  Speaker 6: reported that Kurree could return by the end of the March.
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  Speaker 6: Ben how much does the Warriors playoff out look improve
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  Speaker 6: with Curry returning.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, it doesn't matter. They needed Jimmy Butler. He's been
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  Speaker 1: out for a while. He's out for the year. He's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: not coming back. So it's a that's that ship be sinking.
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  Speaker 1: The ship in Golden State be sinking. Curry makes them better,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not going to do anything in the playoffs.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: There is Kopelo Mallarly third degree?
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  Speaker 3: How did we do pass? This edition? That is a
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  Speaker 3: week put on the bar summit.
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  Speaker 2: listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Week? Blame week too,
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  Speaker 2: It's Big Ben's lame Joke of the Week.
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  Speaker 7: And Debby welcome in the Caller of the Year, the
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  Speaker 7: highest honor in overnight sports radio, as voted by the people.
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  Speaker 3: Weed Man hit it. Wow, that's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations week Man, as your life show has your.
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  Speaker 3: Life changed in amazing ways? Your weed Man is being
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  Speaker 3: the call of you. Not yet, no, not yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you did get a bunch of food from the show, right,
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  Speaker 1: that is great?
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  Speaker 6: More food?
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: That was great.
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  Speaker 3: Have you gotten an air fryer yet? You haven't gotten that?
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  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, you wouldn't know what you wouldn't use
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  Speaker 3: it anyway. If you got one, would you? You're lazy? No,
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  Speaker 3: I have microwave.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: But the way the food tastes better in the air fryer.
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  Speaker 1: Though, why it just I don't know why the way
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  Speaker 1: it comes out it tastes better.
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  Speaker 3: You think I'm not making it? Am I making this up?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I'm making this up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't really like five difference. You don't even know
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  Speaker 3: you don't have one?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you don't know. All right, anyway, let's get
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  Speaker 3: to it. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. It is the
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  Speaker 1: segment we call lame Jokes of the Week. First one
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  Speaker 1: from John and Youngstown, Ohio, one of the finalists for
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  Speaker 1: Lame Joke Rider of the Year. He says, what what
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: does Coop's reaction every time heed? What is Coop's reaction
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: every time he answers a call from weed man hippie?
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  Speaker 3: What a long sigh of disgust? That's from John and Youngstown.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio's Actually I think that's actually a hollering James.
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  Speaker 3: Here's another one from John.
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  Speaker 1: How can we end the war and make orand surrender immediately?
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  Speaker 1: How threaten them that the United States is going to
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  Speaker 1: deport weed Man Hippie to their country and that'll end it, right,
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  Speaker 1: you could end it, weed Man. We just send you
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: over there. They'll be all right. We can't handle this.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: We played That's John and Youngstown, Ohio again. Did you
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  Speaker 1: know that weed Man Hippie was sworn or has sworn
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: rather that he'll never use herbal tea ever again?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well it goes back to when he realized
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that he got nothing from smoking lemongrass. That's a Mike
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  Speaker 1: from Providence. That's not a normal name in the jokes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a guy trying to win a Benny Award, Mike
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: in Providence. What is weed Man Hippie's favorite side dish?
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  Speaker 1: What baked beans?
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  Speaker 3: Baked beans are so good?
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  Speaker 1: These are lame jokes, actual lame jokes. You want to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: send lame jokes in for a future episode of the show?
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  Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show.
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  Speaker 3: At gmail dot com. That's Ben Malers Show at gmail
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  Speaker 3: dot com. Put jokes in the headlines. Put jokes in
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  Speaker 3: the headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Why did weed Man lose his hosting job at the restaurant? Why? Well,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: you kept asking people if they had reservations and they
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: all said yes.
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  Speaker 3: But you can see.
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  Speaker 1: Us anyway, and in the smoking section, that's Tom in Indiana.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Uh, Pargo Pete writes in says, hey, hey, weed Man,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: do you know what's more pathetic than a homeless, toothless, unshowered,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: stoned bum. What that would be blind Scott and Marcel.
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  Speaker 1: That's Fargo Pete all right now, Surfer Todd said he's
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: very excited to win his fourth Benny in a row
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  Speaker 1: as the joke rider of the year.
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  Speaker 3: He says, that's a four Pete.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, he's like the Yankees back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And then he sent me a joke which I don't
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: think I can give the punchline. He says, what happened
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the last time weed Man drove a car? What I'm
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: going to clean this up with the radio? He blew
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a transmission?
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  Speaker 3: Is what? That's the line I will use. That's a
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: surfer time or.
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  Speaker 1: More radio friendly. Why do people have a hard time
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: believing weed Man? Why he blows a lot of smoke
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  Speaker 1: that's true in myself. Why as we men going into
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: the octagon. Why because fake weed Man challenged him to
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a laugh off first one to stop laughing at nothing wins.
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  Speaker 3: That's from Tier and mins.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: All right, very nice.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: What video game has weed Man hippie decided to play
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: on the Global Gaming Network? What no Resident Evil from
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Darryl in the Odes Arts? What was what was weed
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Man's favorite creative arts subject in school?
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  Speaker 3: What pottery?
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  Speaker 1: From Michael Etracon? Alright, why does weed Man love long
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: work so much?
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Why there are so many weeds? From Michael Lepracon. What
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: is what is the real reason that? What is the
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: real reason blind Scott changed to Sophie?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Three words female? Four words female caller of
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  Speaker 3: the year. There you go, female caller. That's actually five words.
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  Speaker 3: That was Noah in Austin.