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Hour 1 - Cal Collapse · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom Shaka Laca. It's our number one and a ding dong.
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  Speaker 2: Talking some college basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona's Wildcats dominating or Arkansas coach John Calipari getting embarrassed,
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  Speaker 1: and boy were they embarrassed. Worst loss in the tournament
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  Speaker 1: for coach cal to the Iowa Hawkuys of coach Ben
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  Speaker 1: McCollum count as a cinderella as they are into the
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  Speaker 1: Elite eight knocking off Nebraska. Who didn't know how many
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  Speaker 1: players need to be on the court? And what are
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  Speaker 1: your expectations outside of the tournament? For Bill Murray's son,
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  Speaker 1: the guy from Ghostbusters and groundhog Day and all those
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  Speaker 1: great old movies, His son Luke Murray has been named
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  Speaker 1: the head coach at Boston College. How cool is that?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and more right now here. It
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  Speaker 1: is our number one. Well, if you had coach call
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  Speaker 1: going to the final four, even the.
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  Speaker 2: Elite eight, you are a loser.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we are back at it here, and
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  Speaker 1: oh what a magical night it was. We're gonna start
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  Speaker 1: with the college basketball and now I I was watching
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  Speaker 1: baseball all day, but I want to start with the
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  Speaker 1: college basketball.
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  Speaker 2: We have moved on.
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  Speaker 1: After a three day hiatus, the twenty twenty six men's
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  Speaker 1: basketball tournament has resumed, and our lead this hour from
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  Speaker 1: the Sweet sixteen. As is per normal, we had double
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  Speaker 1: barrel action. Double barrel action is a four games games
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  Speaker 1: going on, well one at a time or two at
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  Speaker 1: a time, so four total games two slots into the
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  Speaker 1: Elite eight. Of course, as of right now, at this hour,
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  Speaker 1: we're at see We've got still four more games tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: so we're at like ten teams, but eventually we'll get
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  Speaker 1: down to the Elite eight, and then by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend we'll have the final four all score away.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you watched any of this
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  Speaker 2: or not. The ratings are good.
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  Speaker 1: I was told by one of my TV friends they
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  Speaker 1: changed the ratings so that all the numbers are inflated
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  Speaker 1: to make it seem like there's more people watching. So
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  Speaker 1: of course that person's very cynical. We're going to start
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  Speaker 1: in the West. We're going to start in the West
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  Speaker 1: as the number one seed Arizona trying to move on
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  Speaker 1: and advance to the Elite eight, taking on number four Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: And I had circled this game. I gave out some
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  Speaker 1: terrible advice on this game. I was optimistic. I was
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  Speaker 1: Benny Brightside on this game. It was a dud.
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  Speaker 2: It was an absolute dud.
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  Speaker 1: Arizona finally got over the hurdle for Tommy Lloyd, their coach.
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  Speaker 1: One of the arguments, well, they've had good players at
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  Speaker 1: Arizona and they just can't can't get past that speed
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  Speaker 1: bump the Sweet sixteen. Well they have now and they
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  Speaker 1: did it with Gusto, the Wildcats of Tommy Lloyd getting
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  Speaker 1: twenty three points from Bradenbury's and a dominant I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they were Arkansas. I don't know if they attempted to
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  Speaker 1: play defense, it didn't look like it. One oh nine
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  Speaker 1: to eighty eight. That's an NBA style score as they spanked.
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  Speaker 1: They being Arizona spanking Arkansas and advancing to the Elite
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  Speaker 1: eight there, and that's a good jumping off point. So
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  Speaker 1: this is to me, this is the game. I know
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. The Purdue game was the game that came
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  Speaker 1: down to the very end and all that, and then
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  Speaker 1: there was also drama in Iowa and Nebraska and for
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  Speaker 1: this was not This was not drama. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: this was the story. So let's discuss the question. You
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  Speaker 1: make the call tell me the better story. What is
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  Speaker 1: the better story? Here is the better story Arizona's absolute domination,
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  Speaker 1: This was a domination situation, or Arkansas and their coach
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  Speaker 1: John Calipari getting absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Embarrassed, embarrassed in this game.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got the red Sea,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny cochrane and bird dogging, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to pull
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  Speaker 1: the one armed bandit. The biggest moneymaker in Vegas the
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  Speaker 1: slot machine, the penny slot machine. They make more money
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  Speaker 1: on the penny slot machine than anything else. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about the penny slot machine.
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  Speaker 3: So a.
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  Speaker 2: You know how I'm wired here.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to this show even once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: you know how I'm wild wired. This is not about
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  Speaker 1: the Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team being great. They were
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  Speaker 1: a top seed for a reason, So stop with that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about it. That to me
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  Speaker 1: is surface level garbage. And if you think that's the
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  Speaker 1: better story, you should never host a sports radio show.
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  Speaker 1: Bad job by you. The story here is John Calipari
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  Speaker 1: getting absolutely pants on national television. That's the drama, a rama.
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  Speaker 1: The man Calipari is a maestro at recruiting. He looks good,
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  Speaker 1: dresses well. And then this seems to happen quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: And you know how we do things. If it bleeds,
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  Speaker 1: it leads, And there was a red sea on the court.
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  Speaker 1: As to the things we're unraveling for Arkansas, it's all
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  Speaker 1: about the Hogs. Everyone can continue to drool over Arizona
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  Speaker 1: like they just discovered fire out there in Tucson, and
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  Speaker 1: good for them. They played very well, they advanced. That's
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  Speaker 1: not good talk radio. So from a talk radio standpoint, whooptee,
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  Speaker 1: damn do. The story is all the excitement that John
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  Speaker 1: Calipari brought to Arkansas, the amount of money that was
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  Speaker 1: invested in this and that result. Defensively was a crime scene.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like the varsity scrimmaging the freshman. Okay, this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't I don't know how to describe. It was like traffic.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even Mattador defense. It was traffic Cone defense.
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  Speaker 1: And if it seems like that's a pretty bad day
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  Speaker 1: for John Calipari losing by twenty one points, that's not
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  Speaker 1: a loss.
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  Speaker 2: That was a public execution.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, that's the worst loss we are told in
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  Speaker 1: the history of Calipari in the tournament. Now, he's had
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  Speaker 1: some doozies, some real great losses elsewhere in the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: but in terms of the tournament, this is the one.
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  Speaker 1: And so here's the other part of it. As we
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  Speaker 1: continue our in depth team coverage all night. The other
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  Speaker 1: part of it is, it's not necessarily new.
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  Speaker 2: It's not new.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, in many ways, it's a rerun. John Calipari
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  Speaker 1: has been running a basketball clearing house going back to Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Any obviously had some success at Kentucky. Occasionally they were
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  Speaker 1: going to be a big run. But you look at
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  Speaker 1: it overall and it's the same formula. Get the blue
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  Speaker 1: chip player, the top freshman, great highlights. You're selling the
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  Speaker 1: dream of the NBA. You're not selling the banners and
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  Speaker 1: all that, and it's getting your feet underneath you. And
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  Speaker 1: that'll be the counter larrighty as well. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: John caliber. It takes time. But the way Calipari coaches,
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  Speaker 1: and really the modern landscape of college basketball, I think
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  Speaker 1: we can all agree, even though most of us only
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  Speaker 1: really pay attention when the tournament begins. The way this works,
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  Speaker 1: the way all of this works, is it's a year
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  Speaker 1: to year proposition. Everyone's a free and you cut checks
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  Speaker 1: and you've got to pick the right players. And if
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  Speaker 1: you pick the right players, you're in good shape. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: great to go and all that. And mentioned this being
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  Speaker 1: a rerun, and we've seen this a lot, and this
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas basketball, much like many others, but caval Par has
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  Speaker 1: just done it longer.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a drive through.
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  Speaker 1: You order a bag of talent, and then you get
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  Speaker 1: the bag of talent, and then you get bounced, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not that.
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  Speaker 2: Far into the tournament.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's where we are now turning the page
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  Speaker 1: on that I have noticed.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if you've noticed noticed this.
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  Speaker 1: Many of the media people are very upset with this
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  Speaker 1: tournament because the thing that has always been here.
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  Speaker 2: And I say always last year we had all chalk.
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  Speaker 2: But for the vast majority of.
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  Speaker 1: March madness, the thing that has consistently consistently been there
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  Speaker 1: has been that I can't believe that team made it
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  Speaker 1: this far, you know what's going on. So I bring
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  Speaker 1: that up because Iowa in a interesting game with We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk more about this as we go through the overnight.
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  Speaker 1: Iowa getting the win over what had been the upstart
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska that game played in Houston, thanks to a late
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  Speaker 1: ferocious effort there. And so the Hawkeys get the dramatic
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  Speaker 1: win one by six, seventy seven to seventy one, and
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  Speaker 1: because of that, coach Ben McCollum as a result, getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of praise.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm gonna frame it this way.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question, do the Iowa hawkas to the Iowa
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  Speaker 1: Hawke guys of coach Ben McCollum, do they count as
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  Speaker 1: a Cinderella here in the twenty twenty sixth edition of
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  Speaker 1: the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. And the answer, I have
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  Speaker 1: two words for this, Hell no. So enough of the
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  Speaker 1: media dopes. And they're just lazy. They're trying to microwave,
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  Speaker 1: not air fry, because air fry takes a little longer.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to microwave a narrative that just does not exist.
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  Speaker 1: They're desperately they're so used to having this boilerplate story
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  Speaker 1: where you just fill in the names of the players
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  Speaker 1: and the coach and the school and send it out
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  Speaker 1: and it takes up algorithm and it ends up in
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  Speaker 1: the algorithm, takes up gigabytes all that stuff. So they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do a just add water story to the
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  Speaker 1: Iowa Hawk guys. They want Iowa to fill that cinderell
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  Speaker 1: avoid and it just doesn't work. It just did taste
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  Speaker 1: like cardboard. It's not a good meal now for Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: If I was in a Hawkeye fan and a lot
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  Speaker 1: and we have a bunch of people in Iowa. They
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  Speaker 1: are a big Hawkeye fans that are listening to the show.
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  Speaker 1: And some of you guys have sent me. I have
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  Speaker 1: a Hawkeye hat because of you guys. You hooked me up,
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  Speaker 1: so thank you for that. That's more valuable now because
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  Speaker 1: I was advanced in the tournament. So I'm not spitting
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  Speaker 1: Loogi's at their coach. All bends have to support other
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  Speaker 1: guys named Ben. It's not a common name. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people named Ben. So we have people
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  Speaker 1: named Ben. It's like the Brotherhood of Ben. And we
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  Speaker 1: got to support Ben and we do. And the Hawkeyes
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  Speaker 1: are here and they could go to the Final four
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  Speaker 1: and all that wonderful stop in terms of Cinderella. And
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  Speaker 1: here's why last I checked. And maybe I'm wrong on this,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just do the Overnight show. Iowa
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  Speaker 1: is a Big ten school, which means they have resources,
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  Speaker 1: they have nice planes, they have nice facilities. Now, are
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  Speaker 1: they a basketball school? No, they're a wrestling school. Is
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  Speaker 1: that fair to say? I don't think of Iowa not
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  Speaker 1: really a football school unless you like games that are
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  Speaker 1: like fourteen thirteen or something like that. To me, you
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  Speaker 1: cannot be an upstart when you're cash rich and you're
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  Speaker 1: backed by a power conference. Am I wrong on that?
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  Speaker 1: I look at this like the old square peg in
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  Speaker 1: a in a round hole situation. You're trying to put
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  Speaker 1: the square peg into the round hole. And any of
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  Speaker 1: these basketball scribed bloggers whatever you want to call them
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  Speaker 1: these days, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We call them writers.
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  Speaker 1: They're just kind of bloggers and clickbait artists and all that.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to hit this thing with a mallet and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, no, it's a square peg and then
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  Speaker 1: the holes round and all that stuff. And as the
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  Speaker 1: Great Johnny Cochrane, the late great Johnny Cochrane taught me
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  Speaker 1: as a child. He said, and I was paying attention
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  Speaker 1: if you were. If it don't fit, you must have quit.
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  Speaker 1: So it does. I would just not fit as a Cinderella.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot you cannot convince me that that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: This is and I don't know if it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the regular. It's a small sample size. It is a
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  Speaker 1: Cinderella less tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Just deal with it. Just deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: You have a mix of some blue bloods and some
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  Speaker 1: mid level. They're not Cinderella. They're kind of like middling
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  Speaker 1: middle management type people. To call a Big ten team
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  Speaker 1: a Cinderella is an in salt to glass slippers everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: it's both lazy and fraudulent at the same time. So
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  Speaker 1: that's that. We'll talk about some of the other games
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  Speaker 1: as we go through. I did want to mention something
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  Speaker 1: from the coaching carousel. Did North Carolina hire a coach? No?
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  Speaker 2: Boston College did?
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  Speaker 1: No. I don't normally talk about Boston College because they're
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  Speaker 1: Boston College. Why would you. I found this interesting enough
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  Speaker 1: to bring up here and.
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  Speaker 2: To chat with you about.
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  Speaker 1: It rises to high crimes and misdemeanors here as Boston College.
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  Speaker 1: We were told hired or is in the process of
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  Speaker 1: finalizing a deal with Yukon assistant coach Luke Murray as
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  Speaker 1: their next head coach.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, well, is that the guy?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the guy they showed on TV because of
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  Speaker 1: his daddy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that is the.
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  Speaker 1: Spawn of a man who is part of some of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest cinema back before Hollywood went terrible, back when
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  Speaker 1: they actually used to make good movies and original movies,
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  Speaker 1: and many many years ago these movies are still cult favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Murray, that's his kid Ghostbusters and all the rest
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. And so now we'll see Bill
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  Speaker 1: Murray at Boston College games with the question, what are
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  Speaker 1: your expectations, if any, for Bill Murray's son, Luke Murray
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  Speaker 1: as he gets his first big time head coaching job.
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  Speaker 1: I say loosely big time because Boston College is certainly
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  Speaker 1: not a basketball school, but they're not a football school either.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So here's my thought. I'm gonna be Benny
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  Speaker 1: Bryce out on this. Could it be because I grew
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  Speaker 1: up on Bill Murray movies? Possibly? Possibly, I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: this guy credit. And here's why this guy did not
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  Speaker 1: just ride the coattails of his father's fame. I don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that. I looked at his resume. The guys spent
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  Speaker 1: nearly twenty years in the trenches and bounced all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. He's been bird dogging, bird dogging Dan Hurley, the.
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  Speaker 2: Yukon head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Mensa crazy person, lunatic what every want to call him,
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  Speaker 1: and he's been the right hand man for Dan Hurley
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty one credited.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much of this is true or not.
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  Speaker 1: As the architect of their euro style offense and of
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  Speaker 1: course won a couple of championships Yukon did in twenty
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  Speaker 1: three and twenty four, and he paid his dues.
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  Speaker 2: You look, he bounced around.
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  Speaker 1: He's been at a number of schools we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Luke Murray, including Quinnipac. Now, when you're at Quinnepac, that
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  Speaker 1: means you're at the very bottom. And he's been in
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• 18:51
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• 18:57
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• 19:07
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  Speaker 1: conferences are mega mega mega What is the ACC like
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: eighteen teams or something like that. Like for some reason
• 19:23
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• 19:27
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• 19:31
  Speaker 1: near the bottom since they expanded the ACC and for
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: believe I'm correct on this that that's considered a success.
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  Speaker 2: So for for.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Murray, for Luke Murray going in there, the floor is
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: so low that even a five hundred conference record would
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• 19:55
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  Speaker 1: BC has historically struggled with nil that name, image and likeness,
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  Speaker 2: They can't They just.
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• 20:14
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• 20:16
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• 20:22
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• 20:25
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• 20:28
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• 20:32
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• 20:36
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• 20:39
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• 20:42
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• 20:44
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  Speaker 1: their rival more of a football rival, but in advancing now.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time the Hawkeys have made the
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  Speaker 1: Was the last time that a Iowa basketball team got
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Anthony who's in Louisiana and he's on
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  Speaker 1: Hello Anthony, Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: What's that Anthony?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Can you say? How you doing? Ben?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, see that we need that as a Droppley, make
• 26:17
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  Speaker 2: All are you? Are you just jealous because he has
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the hay Lorena drop?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Well, no, no, I feel like that would be a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: great drop and all you know, don't talk to her. No, no,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: don't talk to her yet. Tell us I don't talk
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to her. You're talking to me, all right? You asked
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: how I'm doing? Was that a bogus question? Or was
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that a legitimate question.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: How was your day?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: All right, well, I'll tell you how my day was. Okay,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Okay, I got no sleep.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I got in the car and was zoomed out through
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the desert here.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: And I'm in Vegas.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Hang out with Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm in Vegas.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I'm doing the show from our our home in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: which also.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I'm in.
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  Speaker 1: The studios of our affiliate, which is ninety eight point
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen forty am here in Las Vegas, which is
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  Speaker 1: the home of the Golden Knights. Now do you think
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that Anthony, Louisiana, Now, don't answer this, Anthony, don't answer this.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Let's go around the room here. We're gonna play round robin.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: You can play as well, listening. What are the chances
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: that Anthony and Louisiana knows what sport the Golden Knights
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: are in and what level of sport they are. I'm
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: gonna say there is a thirty percent chance that he
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: will get this right, Lorena, I think he has an
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: eighty percent chance. Okay, Coop, what percentage chance a team
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: called the Golden Knights?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: What sport that is? What league? What you know? What level?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: What are the.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Chances Anthony gets this right, I'm gonna go sixty percent.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: All right, Anthony reveal answers right now? Is hockey? No? Okay?
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: And what league do they plan?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Oh? Look at this guy, nailed it? You never your
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: big stud over there?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Look at you, Anthony? What a stud you are? All right?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Can you name?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Can you name one player on the Golden Knights right now?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Oh? I don't keep what with hockey?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So even if I give you one thousand dollars, you
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: would not be able to name one player on the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Golden Knights. No, no, I neither would I.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Neither would I?
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Go ahead?
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's right. What do you say?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: What was that?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Anthony?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Hey? Hey Lorena, Hi Anthony, you don't shabby.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: You know, people are jealous that we're family.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I love you as Oh my god, that's a very
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: strong emotion.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: My god.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I uh, Anthony, what are we doing here? Hold on
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a sec? Time out, Anthony, time out? What are we
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: doing here?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Buddy?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: And meet my friend?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I like, oh, well, but you just said you you
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: love Lorena?
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Oh she's your friend?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Are you?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Are you on social media? You don't seem like you're
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: on social media.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: To me, well you till I say.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Hello, Okay, I'll let her know.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, bye bye, there you go.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: All right, we've just wished.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Ah, that's love, Lorraine, that's real love. That's a guy
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that stays up all night and calls the show just
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to say, hey, that's it because your cousins. You're not
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: kissing cousins because you've never met him. So that's not
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: how that goes. There's no none of that going on
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: there at all. But hey, you want to go to Louisiana,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: He'll take you like outback or something, right or yeah,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: well they have that on the menu. Absolutely have that
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: on the menu. Let's see who is next here? Oh,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: let me let me pay this off. So the math problem,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the math problem in the NCAA tournament. I was gonna
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: mention this in the beginning, and I say, I'll save
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: this because I think it's Uh. It would have been
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a gigantic deal if it had been a couple of
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: different teams and it had been in the final four
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and the championship game, it would have been something that
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: would have been talked about for years and years and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: years and years. Somehow, though we're not sure how this happened.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: But somehow Nebraska. If you're watching the game, you know
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about to say here, So the corn
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Huskers they in a key moment lad in the game
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: they lost by six to Iowa in the sweet sixteen.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: They had four players on the floor, Loraina, how many
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: players are they supposed to have on the Florida at
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: one time? Uhm's laughing, Coop distracted me. I think they're
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: supposed to have six. Okay, well, you're qualified to play
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: in Nebraska. They No, you're supposed to have five. Five
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: is the number they had four? Four is not enough
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: players on the court.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And name any of the positions? Great, great question, Coop.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Lorraine, right now.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Just for the record, before you begin, oh my god,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? The family sham my kids listening
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to show? Lorena? None, no kids listening? All right, calm down,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: all right, my goodness. Of the positions this is I
• 31:19
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• 31:21
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• 31:25
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• 31:28
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• 31:31
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• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the best anyway, all right, who cares so Fred Hoiberg,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that's a coach. And anyway, he said, I I've never
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: been in a situation like that. When asked what happened,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: he said, I know they always count to make sure
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: there's not six. I don't know the rule on that.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: With four. Again, it was a miscommunication on Unfortunately it happened.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Now I think I'm right on this. Maybe some amateur
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: referee can call me up and correct me if I'm wrong,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: And there's nothing the consumer of sports radio loves more
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: than correcting the blowhard on the radio. My understanding is
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you are allowed to play with fewer players.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: You're not allowed like in football, you could play with ten.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: If you have twelve, it's a problem, right, If you
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: have twelve, it's a problem. That's an issue. And I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: don't know what the call would be if you only
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: have four in basketball, and I don't know college rules. Obviously,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: everything's different depending on the sport and all that. I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: think you are technically allowed, though, to play with fewer players.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: They'll call a penalty if you have more, but if
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: you have fewer, not so much so.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Nebraska season is dun skis and with twenty eight
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and seven their first tournament win.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: In school history.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they won in the first round and then follow
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: that up with I think it beat Troy, I think,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and then they followed that up with a win of
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: ver Vanderbilt, and then they are now eliminated. Had a
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: chance to get to the Elite eight. They do not
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: cross the rubicon and get into the Elite eight eight seven,
• 33:18
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• 33:22
  Speaker 1: six six three sixt nine. Steve writes, and he says, Ben,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: the aura of Caitlin Clark has propelled Iowa men's basketball
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: into the Elita. Are we gonna give Caitlin Clark credit
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: for this? Really?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Is that what we're doing? Now?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, yeah. Raser X says, Heylla Reina, and he's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: everyone's quoting Anthony now yeah, that's uh, that's it there Arena, Okay,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I made the cut on that. Everyone copies. Everyone wants
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to be like Anthony. I need my drop though, I
• 33:57
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• 34:00
  Speaker 1: hey man, Yeah, just like that.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Scrooge says, how is that plane going to take off?
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• 34:12
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• 34:15
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• 34:18
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• 34:21
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be epic.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Those are like the Supreme Court justices of the Malard Militia.
• 34:26
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• 34:29
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• 34:32
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• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Great win by Iowa, but unfortunately their luck is going
• 34:47
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• 34:49
  Speaker 1: mister Luciano, who's we've seen him here in Vegas that
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• 35:02
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• 35:05
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• 35:08
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• 35:14
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• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Again. The Dodgers are off to a hot one and
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: oh start, but so.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Are the Halos. One Ben, Yes, I'm smelling a freeway
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  Speaker 2: Are you making that up?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Tell you that hearn that?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, And the cheating a holes Korea and Altuve did
• 35:44
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• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Bregman played like crap in his Cub's debut.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: He let one go through the wickets, a little league
• 35:55
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• 35:58
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• 36:00
  Speaker 1: So I have to I have to keep track all
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  Speaker 1: these these cheating scumbags to see how they they did it.
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  Speaker 2: Eileen not a fan of Johnny cochrane.
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  Speaker 1: And let's see here there you go, okay show, she's
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  Speaker 1: quoting me from the Tony Sirah Goosa line.
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  Speaker 2: The other day. Well, I was a fan of Syrah Goosa's.
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  Speaker 1: I interviewed him back when he was playing for the
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  Speaker 2: It just didn't work out. Yeah, let's see here, can't
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  Speaker 2: read that?
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  Speaker 1: We'll have Lame Jokes of the Week, the Coop Scoop
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  Speaker 1: on Entertainment, Sports, Jeopardy, all that down the line. Time
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  Speaker 1: now though, for the who Am I? Game? And this
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  Speaker 2: You gotta figure out who I am.
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  Speaker 1: So Pittsburgh's Paul Skiingan got absolutely lit up. He became
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  Speaker 1: just the eighth starting pitcher in the last one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty years to allow five or more runs in
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  Speaker 1: less than an inning in a opening day start. I
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  Speaker 1: was the last pitcher, last starting pitcher to get bombed,
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  Speaker 1: similar to Paul Skeens, the phenom of Pittsburgh, who just
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  Speaker 1: got toasted and defensively was a disaster as well for
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  Speaker 1: the Buckos.
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  Speaker 2: They cannot hang Jolly Roger on that.
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  Speaker 1: So Pittsburgh's Paul Skins became the eighth starting pitcher since
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  Speaker 1: at least nineteen oh six to allow five or more
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  Speaker 1: runs in less than an inning in the first start,
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  Speaker 1: obviously opening Day, and I was the last pitcher like
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  Speaker 1: that to get bombed, similar to Paul Skeins. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: That is the question? What is the answer. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to it and we will do it.
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  Speaker 2: Next.
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  Speaker 1: it we go. Time now for the play of the day.
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  Speaker 1: The play of the day, and and.
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  Speaker 2: Some games that weren't all that competitive.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of non competitive games, but we had one
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  Speaker 1: that came down to the final second as Purdue trying
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  Speaker 1: to get past Texas and this the play of the night.
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  Speaker 2: The tire Iraq player, the night Smith, working against Weaver,
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  Speaker 2: dribbles right, puts up a runner right of the way
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  Speaker 2: and thanks it off. Tip my calls god point seven to.
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  Speaker 1: Go seventy nine seventy seven Perdue, Well that was the
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  Speaker 2: Now for the who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Game?
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  Speaker 2: They advance?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Game?
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  Speaker 2: Where we pretend to be somebody else?
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  Speaker 1: A day to forget for Paul Skiings, baseball's phenom, became
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  Speaker 1: the eighth starting pitcher since at least nineteen o six
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  Speaker 1: to allow five or more runs in less than an inning.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted two thirds of an inning in opening day.
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  Speaker 1: I was the last to get bombed like that on
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  Speaker 1: Opening Day? Who am I?
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  Speaker 2: That is the question?
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  Speaker 1: Who? And what is the answer? Let's see does anyone
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  Speaker 1: know the answer? Stephen Tyler from Rob the Goatman?
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  Speaker 2: Who Else?
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  Speaker 1: Page down? Arthur Green one hundred and nine year old
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  Speaker 1: World War Two veteran?
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  Speaker 2: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: From Alf the Alien opiner throughout the first pitch in Baltimore?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently?
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  Speaker 1: Who is Lucky Luciano? From Mister Luciano? Your actress? Brenda
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  Speaker 1: Strong who was thirty eight today? From Late Night drug
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  Speaker 1: tester Robbie's Airline Pilot Poppy from San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: Guests by Scrooge who Else?
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  Speaker 1: Page down one half of the dynamic duo bert Ward
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  Speaker 1: Guess by Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Whoopee Pie Whippy
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  Speaker 1: from not a burner, Benny the Bopper from the sawman,
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  Speaker 1: and that lollipop curb gets by the sawman.
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  Speaker 2: As I said, all right, the answer do you have it?
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  Speaker 2: Lorena Yellow Tucks Jesse
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  Speaker 1: No, the correct answer Rangers Legend, Kyle Gibson, Kyle Gibson,
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Gibson,