March 24, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the notion that Dan Hurley embarrassed himself and UConn by being a sore loser, Tom Izzo & Mick Cronin both grumbling over the weekend about the late start times in the NCAA Tournament, the lack of a Cinderella in the Sweet 16, and more!
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But as we start the new week on this twenty
fourth day of the month of March, we start with
March madness. We have thinned the NCAA tournament field down
to the sweet sixteen. Did Dan Hurley embarrass himself and
Yukon by being a sore loser the way he stormed
off the court following the loss to the Florida Gators.
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Also over the weekend, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and
UCLA's Mick Cronin grumbling over the weekend schedule, the late
TV starts for the tournament. Do you have empathy for
these guys? And how do you dissect the sweet sixteen
that is lacking? There's no Cinderella teams left in the
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NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. It's all chalk. We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
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start with the madness of March. We have made it
through the spectacle that is the first weekend, really the
weekend of engagement, and it is one of the few
events that we have that the excitement goes down, It
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starts at the crescendo and then goes the other direction.
But we're down to the Sweet sixteen now and a
rather uneventful, uneventful opening weekend, and that we did have
a couple of dramatic, somewhat dramatic Maryland game buzzer beater
there to knock down and knockout Colorado State would be
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the moment of the weekend. The game that A couple
of games that got my attention over the weekend. I
went down in Flames with Rick Patino and Saint John's
he lasted. Well, there's a joke there about how long
Saint John's lasted, but I think you know the joke,
and I don't need to go down to that level
to make the joke about how long Saint John's lasted.
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And you don't really care about my bracket. You don't
worry about your bracket, so it's not really that important.
But on Sunday, the game that I circled that I
was I kind of want to watch this more than
the other games was Yukon and the Florida Gators. I
was like, all right, again, we got something here. Yukon
coach famously went out and had a little nice dinner,
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played foot seat with the Lakers and then said, screw you.
I'm saying right where I am you losers, and I
love that. I thought that was great. He stuck it
to the Lakers and talked about Dan Hurley, the coach
at Connecticut so trying for a three peat, that the
back to back champions coming in to play on Sunday,
and a game that came down close. Game came down
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to the bitter nail bier. It was a nail bier,
but in the end, the Gator chop gets it done.
The Florida Gators the number one seed and they're part
of the bracket. There they win seventy seven seventy They
said a little we do not have the number one.
The rain is busy, she was busy talking. So there
we go. Now we have the number one. The number
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one was down. Oh my god. All right, So that
means for Connecticut turn at the last, the parties over.
They're done, the number eight seed out as they have
been exterminated from the NCAA tournament. Now what happened after
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the game is to me, the more interesting part of
the story. The better story is in the losing locker room,
and so there was a viral malm that took place
after the game. How he saw it, maybe he didn't
see it, but Dan Hurley was caught on candid camera
as he was stomping off the court there and he
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had a profane message to the team that was gonna
follow Yukon and Florida on the court there in Raleigh,
as a grainy cell phone footage captured Dan Hurley seemingly
admonishing the referees, putting the finger of blame on the
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officials as he entered the bowels of the arena there
in North Carolina. As he went viral, he said, I
hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. I
think you can figure out what the blank is there.
I hope they don't do that to you Baylor. And
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what turns out apparently they did because Baylor was pulverized
by Duke in their game. So the story here is
Dan Hurley and he's the headliner there for Connecticut basketball.
He has been called out by someone say internet trolls.
Other people say they're supporting truth, justice and sportsmanship way,
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but either way, people are upset saying that the head
coach there of Yukon. It was unbecoming of Dan Hurley
what he did. He acted like a toddler that had
a conniption fit. So let us discuss the question did
Dan Hurley embarrass himself and Yukon for being a sore
loser as he walked off the court. So I've got Bruski, medicine, cabinet,
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and guillotine, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a to Ducan
is what We're going to make, a nice to Ducan
to make the agony go away. Enjoy your to Duckcan.
So a to answer the question, does Dan Hurley the
embarrass himself for being a sort of loser? I'm shaking
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my head. No, I don't have that. I didn't write
that on my note card. I did not write that
on my note card. And to me, there's nothing to
be ashamed of. I didn't see anything there. He calmed
down and gave some poetic quotes to the assembled media
later on. But the raw emotion of a lot of
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competitions Hurley's walking off the court here, now, I wish
my take was diff It'd be better talk radio for
oh Man. Dan Hurley's a doucee canoe and man, what
a what a loser? I don't feel that way. I
don't know there's a natural reaction. He's not a gracious loser.
Did anyone think Dan Hurley was anything but an angry
loser when his team loses? Like? Is this some kind
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of revelation from basketball nation? Seriously? And I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with you. Why last I checked? This is
not a Saturday morning at the YMCA teaching little children
about how to play basketball and sportsmanship. Dan Hurley all right,
for better or worse. His favorite ruski is Modello. He's
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got that fighting spirit and I like that. I like
that passion. It's a passion play and I think it's
good as newt Rockney and others have been credited with saying,
when it comes to wins and losses, wins and losses,
you show me a good loser, and I will show
you a loser. And so Hurley's not a good loser.
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We know that. And let's be real. He's a professional coach.
Dan Hurley is a professional coach. He's making eight million
dollars a year, over eight million dollars a year to
coach in a sleepy college town in Connecticut. And this
is the this is the test. The NCAA tournament is
the test. No one watches college basketball than the target
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that you're a degenerate gambler. You're not watching college basketball
other than March madness. So this is the only time
that matters. And he felt that his team was aggrieved
by the referees and he was upset by it, and
that was his reaction. But we know, we know about
Dan the guy is a convicted whack a doodle. He
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is a whack adoodle. A lot of these coaches are
whack a doodles. Well of the players are wack of doodles.
All right, this is not a natural thing. That's the
way it is. He's a professional coach, Dan Hurley. The
players are making money. They're professionals. Anil deals. It's professional basketball.
That's what it is. Student athlete, my fat asst. It
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was never student athlete. They're always getting money in envelopes.
Now they're getting it right out in front. Well, Dan Hurley,
none of that story. A couple of weeks ago we
talked about it a little bit on the air, but
they did a deep dive on what makes Dan Hurley tick,
and you know he burns sage to ward off bad juju,
and he sprits his holy water on the court. He's
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got bags of garlic balls he walks around with to
keep evil spirits away. He's going for it. He's doing
all that right. He's got all that stuff in his repertoire,
and so that's who he is. He eats the same
lucky blue m and ms before every game, like he's
got this routine. He only eats the color blue unless
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the other team has the the opponent has the color blue,
and then he's got to switch it up and eat
like a red or a green, depending on what color
they have. So snapping like Dan Hurley did, on brand,
it's it's on brand. We're fine with it. We're good
all right now, turning the page. So we also had
a number of complaints over the weekend. Michigan State, which
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is advanced. Coach Tom is Oh, good old Tom is
He's one of the old old codgers still hanging out.
So Tom is Oh. And then you Cel's mccron was
eliminated over the weekend. But both coaches is Oh and
mc cronin we're grumbling. They got that grumbling tummy over
the weekend. They were complaining about what what were they
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complaining about? Oh, my god, we've got to play those
late games, my god, so late. Yeah, they're complaining about
the late start times in the NCAA tournament. And the
question do you have any empathy for Tom Is at
Michigan State and Mick Cronin at UCLA, both of them
giving the bad body language and the grumbling about the
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start times for their teams, and the UCLA has been
eliminated Michigan State plays on so on this one thumbs up,
thumbs down, I go thumbs down. I do not do
not have empathy. Do not have empathy for either one
of these guys. And my advice, unsolicited overnight sports radio advice,
is to go down to the medical cabinet, medicine cabinet
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you have there, and open it up on the second shelf,
not the first, not the top shelf, the second shelf,
right in the middle, the middle shelf of the medicine cabinet.
There's a little white bottle. And you take that little
white bottle and you open it up. It's got the
child lock on it. You twisted a little bit, you
got it squeezed down and then twist you open it up.
You take one pill out, not two, not three to
one pill. It's a no dose and it's called caffeine
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and you can stamp. It's an amazing thing. Suck it up, buttercup. Okay, Andy,
Why it's a TV show, right, it's a TV show.
And if you have a chance to be on a
TV show that pays a lot of money, you do
it whenever they want you to do the TV show.
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That's the way that it works. In the NC Double
A men's basketball tournament has multiplied television revenue nearly seventy
times in the last forty years. Let me repeat that
for those of you a little slow in the back
of the room. The NCED Double A as a television
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show has increased revenue nearly seventy times since the early
nineteen eighties. Is there any other TV show that has
seen that kind of revenue increase consistently? Probably not one
point one billion a year. One point one billion a year.
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So this is a teachable moment. Now, what is the lesson?
The lesson? Those that make the gold make the rules,
and the ones that make the gold are TV, and
thus the TV advertisers who have this weird, this weird
formula that they have where they spread all the games
out to certain television windows and they determine where they
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can get the most bang for their buck. And that's
the way that it goes. And if if they tell
you to play at two in the morning, then you
should be like you're in the United States Marines and
say sir, yes, sir, okay, we're there. We'll be happy
to do it. Now that said, there is something that
Mick Cronin said. There is something that Mick Cronin said
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that I completely am lockstep with. He complained about the
allsion Air flight back to Los Angeles, did not seem
to appreciate the quality of a legionaire. Now, to be fair,
I have not flown a Legionaire. I have friends that
have and have not said kind things, have not said
kind things, So I can't say firsthand that I've had
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a bad experience. But I have had people in my
circle that have not had very kind things to say
about a Legionnaire. But you think this is kind of
big business and they should be able to, I don't know,
afford something that you don't have to pedal power to
have the thing take off. But what do I know?
All right? Anyway, all right, now, last word here. So
we have now whittled down, down, down, down down. We
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have whittled down the NCAA tournament field from sixty eight
teams to sixteen teams. And how do you dissect the
clear and obvious lack of Cinderella. Cinderella is not there.
There is no Cinderella in the Sweet sixteen of March Madness?
So how do you dissect this? So I have, after
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a special minutes long mallar dissection, I have determined this
is industrial strength chalk. Is what this is? Obviously it's
industrial straight chalk. So the Sweet sixteen, the total seed value,
you know, they add up the seeds fifty five? What
does that mean in Layman's terms? So it means the
average seed going forward now that we've made it through
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the first weekend is three point four to four? Is
the average seed? The only the only team that is
worse than a six is one team worse than a six.
I believe it's John Calipari and Arkansas. Does anyone think
that at John Calipari Arkansas team counts as a upstart team?
Probably not right? And twenty oh seven. You gotta go back.
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That's I mean. I was barely alive in twenty I
was a little baby in twenty oh seven. No, I
wasn't here doing shows. No, twenty oh seven was the
last time that we had this kind of a chalky
micchalk situation in this week sixteen and that was no
team worse than a seven seed. That was twenty oh seven.
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So you do the math on that, and which was
twenty twenty five, And so that's eighteen years ago. That's
a long time. So if you were born in twenty
oh seven, you've just gotten out of like high school
now and you're off the to the real world. So
I would say, welcome to the new normal. I'm gonna
go conspiracy theory guy. I'll go tinfoil hat guy. It
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was a song years ago that said video killed the
radio star. I would argue that Nil took the guillotine
and beheaded the upstart Cinderella the mid major, that it's
a guillotine to the Cinderella. Here's why, all right, name
image like this. I'm not against it. It seems a
little bit out of control to me, but I'm not
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against it. Right, I'm the guy that ranted from the
bully pulpit. It's ridiculous, you know, just say it, kept saying,
student athlete. These guys should get paid over the table.
They got paid over the table. Fine, but name imaging
likeness poaching. It's like whaling. Can you hear stories about
I don't know how much that's sure or not, but
the whaling back in the sixties and they just destroyed
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the whale population out in the oceans and all that.
But the poaching. If you're halfway decent at a mid major,
you're not staying at a mid major. You're not. There
is a dramatic decline of the underdog, the first sign
of life you have if you're a mid major player
and they're always on the hunt. They're always on the
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prowl at these major schools, and they're gonna snatch you
away and give you a giant check. If you're a
diamond in the rough, you're not going to be in
the rough for very long. So for me, I can't
count John Cali party, I cannot count as an underdog.
So for me, I gotta go BYU. That Tater Tot guy,
the Tater top bloodline guy that's got to be the dog. Right,
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that's got to be the underdog byu. Tater Tod guy
grandfather invented of the Tatter Todd the kid for BYU.
That's got to be the one, all right. Is the
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Ben here, by the way, Boso the district attorney rights.
And if you ever go to court, you want Boso
the district attorney On the other side. He says, not
only does this tournament mark the end of Cinderella runs,
it probably marks the end of automatic bids going forward.
The tournament will probably consist of the best sixty four
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teams period, and for better or worse, March Madness will
never be the same. Well, I'm gonna go the other way.
I'm gonna say that they're just gonna add Like the
TV executive guys our story of the weekend, I was
reading somewhere I don't remember where, and then guy I
was like, well, let's just add ninety four teams, the
top ninety four teams. I think that is more realistic,
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and just put the top ninety something in. I think
they'd have to put the top three hundred for Gottlieb beginning,
but just keep adding teams in there. And just as
that cheap shot, was that A Is that a low blow?
I'm not. I mean, you know, I'm sure they'll Green
Bay turn things. They might double their win tow they
might what are they win like eight games this year,
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They're gonna double their win total something like that. Yeah,
probably so, probably so, But I would say that the Yeah,
usually I'm not. You know, I'm not a conspiracy guy.
I love a good conspiracy, but I have to buy
into it, I believe. I mean, based on what I
have seen in college sports. If you are halfway decent.
There are vultures out looking to pick away from the
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mid major school. So the same thing goes on in football.
If you're a halfway decent wide receiver at a mid
level school, you're going to get taken by a power school.
Now the question becomes is the money worth it? Because
you're not going to be showcased if you're the number
one receiver. Your old buddy Eddie at Fresno Eddie Garcia
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went to Fresno State and all that. If you're a
number one receiver at Fresno State, you're getting the ball
targeted twelve times a game. Are you better off staying
there and not getting the full nil money or going
to a place like Notre Dame or sc or Alabama
where you'll get more money, but you're not going to
be a wide receiver number one. You're going to be
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the third, fourth, or fifth wide receiver. And and that
becomes a question you have to figure out there? Who
else do we have? Page on nature? Boy Rights and says,
can you imagine how wack a doodle Dan Hurley would
have reacted to the Lakers disaster the other night if
he were their coach? I enjoyed that man. The Chicago Bulls.
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The Bulls are bad. I thought the Bulls were tanking.
Weren't the Bulls supposed to be tanking? Didn't they make
some trades of the deadline, Didn't they indicate that they're
not trying to win. They're in it for the lottery ball.
They want the Duchie, that's who they want the lottery
and they're going for it. And the Lakers got all
their guys back, and the Bulls it was the running
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of the bulls. It's like in your Pamplona the running
of the bulls there. Yeah, but Dan, that's one of
the things they talked about with Dan Hurley. He can't
handle losing at Connecticut. We're in a bad year. What
do they lose eight to ten games at Connecticut if
it's a bad year. He can't handle that. Imagine coaching
the Lakers. Plus, Dan Hurley's not qualified to coach the
Laker because we all know he didn't do a podcast
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with Lebron James, so he's not qualified. The burner account,
I wondered what happened to Yes, Lorada would like before
we get to the Burner account, Lorena would like to
check and Yes, Loraina The last guy's name was nature Boy, right,
nature Boy was what? Did I read a comment from that?
I did read it.
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Yes, what do you think about this sound for him?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Wow? That would be That would be impressive. Okay, are
you gonna have that anytime? Because the nature Boy is selective.
He's a couple of nights, I know. But We've set
him a couple of times and every time I'm like,
I feel like I need a drop for him. So yes,
this is what I'm thinking. Okay, cool, I'll measure boy.
He does do the day night double header, I will
be doing another day night double header. It's such a
beautiful day for sports talk radio. Let's play too, So
I will be on doing the day night double header
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yet again. Uh later on on Monday, so I'd be
doing in La locally on the flagship of Fox Sports
Radio AM five seventy. I'll be in on the Rogan
and Rodney Show from noon to two Pacific, and I
will be doing the show as Rodney Pete has returned
from Japan. He's the guy that took the foul ball
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away from Max Munsey. He has gotten back from Japan
and so I will be peppering him with questions. Now
he's claiming this is that viral momut last week from
the Dodgers Cubs in Japan. He's the former NFL quarterback
that snatched the foul ball away from Max Munsey, and
he is saying that he did that in an act
of chivalry, that he was protecting his wife from being
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hit with the foul ball. I do not believe. I
think that was muscle memory. I think he was just
trying to catch the ball because he's seaball catch ball.
That is my belief. But we'll get to the bottom
of that later on. We'll take your calls eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. The Burner account does write
in I wondered what happened to The Burner account says,
well done, Benjamin. You're definitely showing your age with that
reference to the video killed the radio Star. No, No,
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that's a phrase that's kind of in the lingo, and
I'm not dandy Danny myself. Now, I heard from a
source over the weekend, and I don't want to name
names here, but on one of the weekend overnight shows,
one of the worst portions of the radio was a
caller from Minnesota that may or may not work at
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a Walmart in northern Minnesota that called up three times,
had a bad phone connection every single time, and kept
calling back. I was told one of the cringeworthy moments
in talk radio over the weekend. Now just a coincidence.
Gunner writes in from northern Minnesota, and he says, three
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of my four final four teams are still alive. My
final teams are still alive. Let's go terps he says,
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as a PSA, no one cares about your kids, your
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and Cincinnati sound effect? Me? Is there a sound effect
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for death? Do we have a death sound effect?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
You put it in?
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Let's say we have a death sound.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Effect bored to death.
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No, that's a song.
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There. Let me let me turn off everything except for
effect effect. All right, let's try again. No, No, that's
just with death. What about dying dying? Let's try dying
pac Man dying. I don't think it came to life
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at the it's too upbeat. Yeah, that's too upbeat. But
I don't know what this one is. J T.
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Mayas dying to that.
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JT. The Brick used to work here back in the day.
Try it. Why not? It doesn't sound like I do JT.
The Brick at all want that. We don't want that.
Keep looking, all right, If any suggestions, sure ferg Dog
rights and says please do not let Rodney Pete slurp
Legroin and Bronnie the whole show. Na, Na, no, oh,
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there's a great story out. I was gonna lead with it,
but I felt like I'd get in trouble with the
bosses if I led with it. Lebron caught lion. My
intuition was correct. We'll get to it later on through
the overnight. But the story about Lebron having no idea
about the Luca trade complete bull crap. He's such a liar,
such a liar. Man did he do Anthony Davis dirty?
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And I get why he did it, But the fact
that team Lebron circled the wagons and was like, oh, yeah,
he had no idea, he was caught blindsided. Well, now
we're hearing Lebron made requests on who the Lakers got
in addition to Luca from the Mavericks. He such a weasel.
Lebron is such a weasel. My god, is he a weasel?
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Oh?
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So good? That is so good. Oh love it, love it,
love it, love that story. Let's go to the phones,
and who do we have here? Any meany miney mo?
I don't know. I don't want to go line one.
I don't know, you know, I jump, I'll put I'll
put Henry to the front. Hell, Henry's in Minneapolis. Hello, Henry, welcome,
he be Hey, Ben.
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Thanks thanks for taking my call.
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Ben.
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Just really wanted to say I appreciate you, know, uh,
you being on the air at this time. I'm always
coming home from work love listening to you. Uh just
wanted to hear what you taught about Rogers, going to
Steelers potential, you know, your thoughts from that, because I just,
you know, wanted to hear.
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Yeah, well of course you want on my hot take.
Everyone does. I understand? But what are you? Where are
you coming from? Where where you at? Right? What kind
of work do you do?
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I'm a restaurant manager, so you know, okay, all work
all night and they never let me go. But I
appreciate you.
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But now don't now, don't speed man. I when I
was in Minneapolis a couple of years back, I got
a speeding to Yogo speed limit. Man. They'll nail you,
those Minnesota troopers will get you.
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Man.
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You gotta be careful.
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Yeah, you're preaching to the choir. But all right.
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All right, thank Henry. Yeah, so I will be ranting.
You'll probably be home sleeping by the time I start
ranting about Aaron Rodgers. But Rogers met while we were
gone away from our post on Friday, met with the
Pittsburgh Steelers for six hours, and it seems to be
a perfect fit in terms of what's available and the Vikings,
assuming the Vikings are really going to go with J. J. McCarthy,
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which is what everyone thought the plan was in Minnesota,
that you put Aaron Rodgers out there. I know, as
a talk radio host, I love it. You've got two
big personalities there. You've got Mike Tomlin and Rogers that
they've had a bit of a love fest publicly. Rogers
was slurping all over Mike Tomlin on the McAfee show
(30:45):
a couple of years ago. So there's some of that
out there, and I'm all for it. Why not. I mean,
you've got two stud receivers. The problem is the Aaron
Rodgers in your head and the Aaron Rodgers on the
field are totally different. And Pittsburgh was able to do
a relatively good job of hiding the warts of Justin
Fields and the mister unlimited Russell Wilson at quarterback last year.
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Both those guys blow and they're not very good, and
the Steelers squeeze as much as they can out of him.
So assuming they'll be able to do the same thing
with Aaron Rodgers, and they've always got a pretty good
defense in Pittsburgh, and they'll they'll be where they usually
are even if Aaron Rodgers is not anywhere close to
being that great. Pittsburgh just made the playoffs the last
couple of years with suck back quarterbacks, so they can
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make the playoffs with Aaron Rodgers. The question becomes what
happens once they get to the playoffs and then the
AFC's loaded with Baltimore Kansas City, assuming Buffalo is gonna
be good again next year, you're gonna play one of
those teams and you're gonna get just blitz creaked and
boat raced off the field. So that's the problem. But
going in. Yeah, it's great. It's good content. I'm all
about the content, and uh yeah, so I'm excited about love.
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The content all right is the Ben Mahler Show. So
if you can't beat him, may might as well hire him.
Dateline Austin, Texas, where all those wokesters hang out there
in Austin and the University of Texas. Over the weekend
they lost in the NCAA tournament and they said bye
bye to their head coach, immediately parting ways, parting ways
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with the guy that was kind of interim coach anyway,
and the weird glasses kind of had the hipster glasses on,
and I said, this guy's probably not that good at coach.
He's got hipster glasses. But Texas has hired the coach
that beat them in the tournament, Xavier Sean Miller has
replaced Rodney Terry. He's the guy that had the hipster
(32:41):
glasses on. And that's always ye I see coaches with
hipster glasses. Has there ever been a good coach with
hipster glasses? Maybe Phil Jackson, but Phil changed his glasses
a lot, so he didn't always go hipster glasses. He
did that to annoy the NBA media, like the photographers,
they couldn't use the old photo. Phil told that story
one time famously when I was out there about how
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he would change his appearance every year because he hated
how like the NBA would use the same stock image
of the coaches and they'd never changed it. So he
figured if he showed up in a beard one year
or a mustache the next year, no beard or no beard,
no mustache, or different classes, they couldn't use the same
photo because it was a dated photo. That's why he
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Is a basketball player for the Florida Gators. The number
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has recorded at least fifteen points and three made threes
in all four of his career NCAA tournament games. I
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The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Walter Clayton, junior of the Florida Gators, has had at
least fifteen points and three made three point shots in
all four career NCAA tournament games. I'm the only other
d one player to start a career doing that this century.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
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Mark from Queens says high socks Jason Terry is the answer.
Who else do we have? Page down? Jesus Shuttlesworth from
Big reg and Iowa. That's his answer. Miguel on Fire
very funny, that's not getting read on the air. Who
else do we have? Page down? Alf the Alien ol
Piner says Max Muncy either one pick your poison on that.
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Andy from lion O Lakes, Minnesota says got to be
the One Man Gang. That's the answer. And Twine Davis
guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Mister Wonderful Paul Orndorf
from Rob in Vegas, Richies Esque from mister nice Guy,
a Texas ranger from back in the day. Who else
do we have? Page down? Rob the goat Man says
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Robbie and Blind Scott's Baby. Who else do we have?
The octopus? Antonio Alphonseeka guest by I forty Ian. That's
his answer, Nature Boy says the Whopper Billy Paultz Why
out there? From Nature Bay City Tony says Delaney Rudd
is the correct answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
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Goat Man's drawing of Charles Manson guests by Robbie the Mariner,
Fan Joe Barry Carroll Man Boy was he lazy back
in his day? From Shane in Portland, The General Sherman
Douglas point guard out of Syracuse from Shane in the
Morne Byron Houston, guessed by Steve the misplaced San Diego.
There's a good random name, roy Eli from Terry in England.
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Oo Way Lob from Robin, minnesot These are pretty good names.
Johnny Q got it right. He's a cheater loser. Greg
Brock the successor to Steve Garvey. There the Garve from
our friend Manuel in Guardina. Who else do I have?
Eileen going with Kelly Tripuka. It's a solid name. Dick,
but gis from Mark in Santa Monica. All right, Lorena,
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do you have an answer? Lorena? Yes, I think it's
the Dwarf Dopey Ben is it the Dwarf Dwarf dopey
little person? No, listen, it's snow White show in the
seven Dwarfs. I'm fine with that. No, you're you're incorrect,
And listen. Aren't a bunch of little people complaining that
they weren't in the new snow White right because they were?
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They used AI or something. Anyway, the correct answer is
Stephen Curry of Davidson back at five five straight games
with those numbers. That was in seven and eight. So
Stephan Curry is the correct answer. So put that in
your pipe and smoke it and knock yourself out. So
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the Power Conferences, if my mathis correct, have filled fifteen
of the sixteen spots in the sweet sixteen. The Southeastern Conference,
if my mal or math is correct, sending seven teams
to the Sweet sixteen. So they used to be when
when I was a kid, it was always like Southern
Fried football. They didn't give a crap really about basketball.
But that is a new record for the men's tournament.
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All these records going to be going to be blown
to bits in the next handful of years as the
landscape changes. But the most teams for a single conference
in the Sweet sixteen the Southeastern Conference, So Southern Fried basketball.
If you deep fry a basketball, it's pretty good, right,
It's pretty delicious, not bad tasties, little crunchy, it's all right,
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not bad
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But as we start the new week on this twenty
fourth day of the month of March, we start with
March madness. We have thinned the NCAA tournament field down
to the sweet sixteen. Did Dan Hurley embarrass himself and
Yukon by being a sore loser the way he stormed
off the court following the loss to the Florida Gators.
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Also over the weekend, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo and
UCLA's Mick Cronin grumbling over the weekend schedule, the late
TV starts for the tournament. Do you have empathy for
these guys? And how do you dissect the sweet sixteen
that is lacking? There's no Cinderella teams left in the
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NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. It's all chalk. We'll talk about
that and more right now here. It is our number one.
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of the bosses around here like to say back in
the day, play the hits. Don't bury the lead, my
man Art, We're not gonna bury the lead. So we'll
start with the madness of March. We have made it
through the spectacle that is the first weekend, really the
weekend of engagement, and it is one of the few
events that we have that the excitement goes down, It
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starts at the crescendo and then goes the other direction.
But we're down to the Sweet sixteen now and a
rather uneventful, uneventful opening weekend, and that we did have
a couple of dramatic, somewhat dramatic Maryland game buzzer beater
there to knock down and knockout Colorado State would be
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the moment of the weekend. The game that A couple
of games that got my attention over the weekend. I
went down in Flames with Rick Patino and Saint John's
he lasted. Well, there's a joke there about how long
Saint John's lasted, but I think you know the joke,
and I don't need to go down to that level
to make the joke about how long Saint John's lasted.
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And you don't really care about my bracket. You don't
worry about your bracket, so it's not really that important.
But on Sunday, the game that I circled that I
was I kind of want to watch this more than
the other games was Yukon and the Florida Gators. I
was like, all right, again, we got something here. Yukon
coach famously went out and had a little nice dinner,
(03:47):
played foot seat with the Lakers and then said, screw you.
I'm saying right where I am you losers, and I
love that. I thought that was great. He stuck it
to the Lakers and talked about Dan Hurley, the coach
at Connecticut so trying for a three peat, that the
back to back champions coming in to play on Sunday,
and a game that came down close. Game came down
(04:09):
to the bitter nail bier. It was a nail bier,
but in the end, the Gator chop gets it done.
The Florida Gators the number one seed and they're part
of the bracket. There they win seventy seven seventy They
said a little we do not have the number one.
The rain is busy, she was busy talking. So there
we go. Now we have the number one. The number
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one was down. Oh my god. All right, So that
means for Connecticut turn at the last, the parties over.
They're done, the number eight seed out as they have
been exterminated from the NCAA tournament. Now what happened after
(04:50):
the game is to me, the more interesting part of
the story. The better story is in the losing locker room,
and so there was a viral malm that took place
after the game. How he saw it, maybe he didn't
see it, but Dan Hurley was caught on candid camera
as he was stomping off the court there and he
(05:11):
had a profane message to the team that was gonna
follow Yukon and Florida on the court there in Raleigh,
as a grainy cell phone footage captured Dan Hurley seemingly
admonishing the referees, putting the finger of blame on the
(05:33):
officials as he entered the bowels of the arena there
in North Carolina. As he went viral, he said, I
hope they don't blank you like they blanked us. I
think you can figure out what the blank is there.
I hope they don't do that to you Baylor. And
(05:54):
what turns out apparently they did because Baylor was pulverized
by Duke in their game. So the story here is
Dan Hurley and he's the headliner there for Connecticut basketball.
He has been called out by someone say internet trolls.
Other people say they're supporting truth, justice and sportsmanship way,
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but either way, people are upset saying that the head
coach there of Yukon. It was unbecoming of Dan Hurley
what he did. He acted like a toddler that had
a conniption fit. So let us discuss the question did
Dan Hurley embarrass himself and Yukon for being a sore
loser as he walked off the court. So I've got Bruski, medicine, cabinet,
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and guillotine, and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make a to Ducan
is what We're going to make, a nice to Ducan
to make the agony go away. Enjoy your to Duckcan.
So a to answer the question, does Dan Hurley the
embarrass himself for being a sort of loser? I'm shaking
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my head. No, I don't have that. I didn't write
that on my note card. I did not write that
on my note card. And to me, there's nothing to
be ashamed of. I didn't see anything there. He calmed
down and gave some poetic quotes to the assembled media
later on. But the raw emotion of a lot of
(07:25):
competitions Hurley's walking off the court here, now, I wish
my take was diff It'd be better talk radio for
oh Man. Dan Hurley's a doucee canoe and man, what
a what a loser? I don't feel that way. I
don't know there's a natural reaction. He's not a gracious loser.
Did anyone think Dan Hurley was anything but an angry
loser when his team loses? Like? Is this some kind
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of revelation from basketball nation? Seriously? And I'm okay with it.
I'm okay with you. Why last I checked? This is
not a Saturday morning at the YMCA teaching little children
about how to play basketball and sportsmanship. Dan Hurley all right,
for better or worse. His favorite ruski is Modello. He's
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got that fighting spirit and I like that. I like
that passion. It's a passion play and I think it's
good as newt Rockney and others have been credited with saying,
when it comes to wins and losses, wins and losses,
you show me a good loser, and I will show
you a loser. And so Hurley's not a good loser.
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We know that. And let's be real. He's a professional coach.
Dan Hurley is a professional coach. He's making eight million
dollars a year, over eight million dollars a year to
coach in a sleepy college town in Connecticut. And this
is the this is the test. The NCAA tournament is
the test. No one watches college basketball than the target
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that you're a degenerate gambler. You're not watching college basketball
other than March madness. So this is the only time
that matters. And he felt that his team was aggrieved
by the referees and he was upset by it, and
that was his reaction. But we know, we know about
Dan the guy is a convicted whack a doodle. He
(09:11):
is a whack adoodle. A lot of these coaches are
whack a doodles. Well of the players are wack of doodles.
All right, this is not a natural thing. That's the
way it is. He's a professional coach, Dan Hurley. The
players are making money. They're professionals. Anil deals. It's professional basketball.
That's what it is. Student athlete, my fat asst. It
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was never student athlete. They're always getting money in envelopes.
Now they're getting it right out in front. Well, Dan Hurley,
none of that story. A couple of weeks ago we
talked about it a little bit on the air, but
they did a deep dive on what makes Dan Hurley tick,
and you know he burns sage to ward off bad juju,
and he sprits his holy water on the court. He's
(09:56):
got bags of garlic balls he walks around with to
keep evil spirits away. He's going for it. He's doing
all that right. He's got all that stuff in his repertoire,
and so that's who he is. He eats the same
lucky blue m and ms before every game, like he's
got this routine. He only eats the color blue unless
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the other team has the the opponent has the color blue,
and then he's got to switch it up and eat
like a red or a green, depending on what color
they have. So snapping like Dan Hurley did, on brand,
it's it's on brand. We're fine with it. We're good
all right now, turning the page. So we also had
a number of complaints over the weekend. Michigan State, which
(10:39):
is advanced. Coach Tom is Oh, good old Tom is
He's one of the old old codgers still hanging out.
So Tom is Oh. And then you Cel's mccron was
eliminated over the weekend. But both coaches is Oh and
mc cronin we're grumbling. They got that grumbling tummy over
the weekend. They were complaining about what what were they
(11:01):
complaining about? Oh, my god, we've got to play those
late games, my god, so late. Yeah, they're complaining about
the late start times in the NCAA tournament. And the
question do you have any empathy for Tom Is at
Michigan State and Mick Cronin at UCLA, both of them
giving the bad body language and the grumbling about the
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start times for their teams, and the UCLA has been
eliminated Michigan State plays on so on this one thumbs up,
thumbs down, I go thumbs down. I do not do
not have empathy. Do not have empathy for either one
of these guys. And my advice, unsolicited overnight sports radio advice,
is to go down to the medical cabinet, medicine cabinet
(11:48):
you have there, and open it up on the second shelf,
not the first, not the top shelf, the second shelf,
right in the middle, the middle shelf of the medicine cabinet.
There's a little white bottle. And you take that little
white bottle and you open it up. It's got the
child lock on it. You twisted a little bit, you
got it squeezed down and then twist you open it up.
You take one pill out, not two, not three to
one pill. It's a no dose and it's called caffeine
(12:10):
and you can stamp. It's an amazing thing. Suck it up, buttercup. Okay, Andy,
Why it's a TV show, right, it's a TV show.
And if you have a chance to be on a
TV show that pays a lot of money, you do
it whenever they want you to do the TV show.
(12:30):
That's the way that it works. In the NC Double
A men's basketball tournament has multiplied television revenue nearly seventy
times in the last forty years. Let me repeat that
for those of you a little slow in the back
of the room. The NCED Double A as a television
(12:51):
show has increased revenue nearly seventy times since the early
nineteen eighties. Is there any other TV show that has
seen that kind of revenue increase consistently? Probably not one
point one billion a year. One point one billion a year.
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So this is a teachable moment. Now, what is the lesson?
The lesson? Those that make the gold make the rules,
and the ones that make the gold are TV, and
thus the TV advertisers who have this weird, this weird
formula that they have where they spread all the games
out to certain television windows and they determine where they
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can get the most bang for their buck. And that's
the way that it goes. And if if they tell
you to play at two in the morning, then you
should be like you're in the United States Marines and
say sir, yes, sir, okay, we're there. We'll be happy
to do it. Now that said, there is something that
Mick Cronin said. There is something that Mick Cronin said
(13:54):
that I completely am lockstep with. He complained about the
allsion Air flight back to Los Angeles, did not seem
to appreciate the quality of a legionaire. Now, to be fair,
I have not flown a Legionaire. I have friends that
have and have not said kind things, have not said
kind things, So I can't say firsthand that I've had
(14:17):
a bad experience. But I have had people in my
circle that have not had very kind things to say
about a Legionnaire. But you think this is kind of
big business and they should be able to, I don't know,
afford something that you don't have to pedal power to
have the thing take off. But what do I know?
All right? Anyway, all right, now, last word here. So
we have now whittled down, down, down, down down. We
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have whittled down the NCAA tournament field from sixty eight
teams to sixteen teams. And how do you dissect the
clear and obvious lack of Cinderella. Cinderella is not there.
There is no Cinderella in the Sweet sixteen of March Madness?
So how do you dissect this? So I have, after
(15:00):
a special minutes long mallar dissection, I have determined this
is industrial strength chalk. Is what this is? Obviously it's
industrial straight chalk. So the Sweet sixteen, the total seed value,
you know, they add up the seeds fifty five? What
does that mean in Layman's terms? So it means the
average seed going forward now that we've made it through
(15:23):
the first weekend is three point four to four? Is
the average seed? The only the only team that is
worse than a six is one team worse than a six.
I believe it's John Calipari and Arkansas. Does anyone think
that at John Calipari Arkansas team counts as a upstart team?
Probably not right? And twenty oh seven. You gotta go back.
(15:46):
That's I mean. I was barely alive in twenty I
was a little baby in twenty oh seven. No, I
wasn't here doing shows. No, twenty oh seven was the
last time that we had this kind of a chalky
micchalk situation in this week sixteen and that was no
team worse than a seven seed. That was twenty oh seven.
(16:06):
So you do the math on that, and which was
twenty twenty five, And so that's eighteen years ago. That's
a long time. So if you were born in twenty
oh seven, you've just gotten out of like high school
now and you're off the to the real world. So
I would say, welcome to the new normal. I'm gonna
go conspiracy theory guy. I'll go tinfoil hat guy. It
(16:26):
was a song years ago that said video killed the
radio star. I would argue that Nil took the guillotine
and beheaded the upstart Cinderella the mid major, that it's
a guillotine to the Cinderella. Here's why, all right, name
image like this. I'm not against it. It seems a
little bit out of control to me, but I'm not
(16:47):
against it. Right, I'm the guy that ranted from the
bully pulpit. It's ridiculous, you know, just say it, kept saying,
student athlete. These guys should get paid over the table.
They got paid over the table. Fine, but name imaging
likeness poaching. It's like whaling. Can you hear stories about
I don't know how much that's sure or not, but
the whaling back in the sixties and they just destroyed
(17:08):
the whale population out in the oceans and all that.
But the poaching. If you're halfway decent at a mid major,
you're not staying at a mid major. You're not. There
is a dramatic decline of the underdog, the first sign
of life you have if you're a mid major player
and they're always on the hunt. They're always on the
(17:29):
prowl at these major schools, and they're gonna snatch you
away and give you a giant check. If you're a
diamond in the rough, you're not going to be in
the rough for very long. So for me, I can't
count John Cali party, I cannot count as an underdog.
So for me, I gotta go BYU. That Tater Tot guy,
the Tater top bloodline guy that's got to be the dog. Right,
(17:49):
that's got to be the underdog byu. Tater Tod guy
grandfather invented of the Tatter Todd the kid for BYU.
That's got to be the one, all right. Is the
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Probably a lot? All right, that's not nice, Bill. I
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think that's all you need, just that iHeartRadio app. That's
all you need. Bozo the District Attorney rights since it's
Ben here, by the way, Boso the district attorney rights.
And if you ever go to court, you want Boso
the district attorney On the other side. He says, not
only does this tournament mark the end of Cinderella runs,
it probably marks the end of automatic bids going forward.
The tournament will probably consist of the best sixty four
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teams period, and for better or worse, March Madness will
never be the same. Well, I'm gonna go the other way.
I'm gonna say that they're just gonna add Like the
TV executive guys our story of the weekend, I was
reading somewhere I don't remember where, and then guy I
was like, well, let's just add ninety four teams, the
top ninety four teams. I think that is more realistic,
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and just put the top ninety something in. I think
they'd have to put the top three hundred for Gottlieb beginning,
but just keep adding teams in there. And just as
that cheap shot, was that A Is that a low blow?
I'm not. I mean, you know, I'm sure they'll Green
Bay turn things. They might double their win tow they
might what are they win like eight games this year,
(20:49):
They're gonna double their win total something like that. Yeah,
probably so, probably so, But I would say that the Yeah,
usually I'm not. You know, I'm not a conspiracy guy.
I love a good conspiracy, but I have to buy
into it, I believe. I mean, based on what I
have seen in college sports. If you are halfway decent.
There are vultures out looking to pick away from the
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mid major school. So the same thing goes on in football.
If you're a halfway decent wide receiver at a mid
level school, you're going to get taken by a power school.
Now the question becomes is the money worth it? Because
you're not going to be showcased if you're the number
one receiver. Your old buddy Eddie at Fresno Eddie Garcia
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went to Fresno State and all that. If you're a
number one receiver at Fresno State, you're getting the ball
targeted twelve times a game. Are you better off staying
there and not getting the full nil money or going
to a place like Notre Dame or sc or Alabama
where you'll get more money, but you're not going to
be a wide receiver number one. You're going to be
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the third, fourth, or fifth wide receiver. And and that
becomes a question you have to figure out there? Who
else do we have? Page on nature? Boy Rights and says,
can you imagine how wack a doodle Dan Hurley would
have reacted to the Lakers disaster the other night if
he were their coach? I enjoyed that man. The Chicago Bulls.
(22:18):
The Bulls are bad. I thought the Bulls were tanking.
Weren't the Bulls supposed to be tanking? Didn't they make
some trades of the deadline, Didn't they indicate that they're
not trying to win. They're in it for the lottery ball.
They want the Duchie, that's who they want the lottery
and they're going for it. And the Lakers got all
their guys back, and the Bulls it was the running
(22:39):
of the bulls. It's like in your Pamplona the running
of the bulls there. Yeah, but Dan, that's one of
the things they talked about with Dan Hurley. He can't
handle losing at Connecticut. We're in a bad year. What
do they lose eight to ten games at Connecticut if
it's a bad year. He can't handle that. Imagine coaching
the Lakers. Plus, Dan Hurley's not qualified to coach the
Laker because we all know he didn't do a podcast
(23:01):
with Lebron James, so he's not qualified. The burner account,
I wondered what happened to Yes, Lorada would like before
we get to the Burner account, Lorena would like to
check and Yes, Loraina The last guy's name was nature Boy, right,
nature Boy was what? Did I read a comment from that?
I did read it.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yes, what do you think about this sound for him?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Wow? That would be That would be impressive. Okay, are
you gonna have that anytime? Because the nature Boy is selective.
He's a couple of nights, I know. But We've set
him a couple of times and every time I'm like,
I feel like I need a drop for him. So yes,
this is what I'm thinking. Okay, cool, I'll measure boy.
He does do the day night double header, I will
be doing another day night double header. It's such a
beautiful day for sports talk radio. Let's play too, So
I will be on doing the day night double header
(23:44):
yet again. Uh later on on Monday, so I'd be
doing in La locally on the flagship of Fox Sports
Radio AM five seventy. I'll be in on the Rogan
and Rodney Show from noon to two Pacific, and I
will be doing the show as Rodney Pete has returned
from Japan. He's the guy that took the foul ball
(24:05):
away from Max Munsey. He has gotten back from Japan
and so I will be peppering him with questions. Now
he's claiming this is that viral momut last week from
the Dodgers Cubs in Japan. He's the former NFL quarterback
that snatched the foul ball away from Max Munsey, and
he is saying that he did that in an act
of chivalry, that he was protecting his wife from being
(24:29):
hit with the foul ball. I do not believe. I
think that was muscle memory. I think he was just
trying to catch the ball because he's seaball catch ball.
That is my belief. But we'll get to the bottom
of that later on. We'll take your calls eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. The Burner account does write
in I wondered what happened to The Burner account says,
well done, Benjamin. You're definitely showing your age with that
reference to the video killed the radio Star. No, No,
(24:51):
that's a phrase that's kind of in the lingo, and
I'm not dandy Danny myself. Now, I heard from a
source over the weekend, and I don't want to name
names here, but on one of the weekend overnight shows,
one of the worst portions of the radio was a
caller from Minnesota that may or may not work at
(25:13):
a Walmart in northern Minnesota that called up three times,
had a bad phone connection every single time, and kept
calling back. I was told one of the cringeworthy moments
in talk radio over the weekend. Now just a coincidence.
Gunner writes in from northern Minnesota, and he says, three
(25:33):
of my four final four teams are still alive. My
final teams are still alive. Let's go terps he says,
my mom's home state. Now, Gunner, I will remind you
as a PSA, no one cares about your kids, your
fantasy sports team, or your bracket. Okay, unless you're going
to win the Bracket Challenge. Now, then there's something there, right,
(25:56):
then there's something going on that bracket the Bracket Challenge.
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Robbie the mayor and her fans says, what you're justin
and Cincinnati sound effect? Me? Is there a sound effect
(27:05):
for death? Do we have a death sound effect?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
You put it in?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Let's say we have a death sound.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Effect bored to death.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
No, that's a song.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
There. Let me let me turn off everything except for
effect effect. All right, let's try again. No, No, that's
just with death. What about dying dying? Let's try dying
pac Man dying. I don't think it came to life
(27:39):
at the it's too upbeat. Yeah, that's too upbeat. But
I don't know what this one is. J T.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Mayas dying to that.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
JT. The Brick used to work here back in the day.
Try it. Why not? It doesn't sound like I do JT.
The Brick at all want that. We don't want that.
Keep looking, all right, If any suggestions, sure ferg Dog
rights and says please do not let Rodney Pete slurp
Legroin and Bronnie the whole show. Na, Na, no, oh,
(28:10):
there's a great story out. I was gonna lead with it,
but I felt like I'd get in trouble with the
bosses if I led with it. Lebron caught lion. My
intuition was correct. We'll get to it later on through
the overnight. But the story about Lebron having no idea
about the Luca trade complete bull crap. He's such a liar,
such a liar. Man did he do Anthony Davis dirty?
(28:31):
And I get why he did it, But the fact
that team Lebron circled the wagons and was like, oh, yeah,
he had no idea, he was caught blindsided. Well, now
we're hearing Lebron made requests on who the Lakers got
in addition to Luca from the Mavericks. He such a weasel.
Lebron is such a weasel. My god, is he a weasel?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So good? That is so good. Oh love it, love it,
love it, love that story. Let's go to the phones,
and who do we have here? Any meany miney mo?
I don't know. I don't want to go line one.
I don't know, you know, I jump, I'll put I'll
put Henry to the front. Hell, Henry's in Minneapolis. Hello, Henry, welcome,
he be Hey, Ben.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Thanks thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Just really wanted to say I appreciate you, know, uh,
you being on the air at this time. I'm always
coming home from work love listening to you. Uh just
wanted to hear what you taught about Rogers, going to
Steelers potential, you know, your thoughts from that, because I just,
you know, wanted to hear.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, well of course you want on my hot take.
Everyone does. I understand? But what are you? Where are
you coming from? Where where you at? Right? What kind
of work do you do?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I'm a restaurant manager, so you know, okay, all work
all night and they never let me go. But I
appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But now don't now, don't speed man. I when I
was in Minneapolis a couple of years back, I got
a speeding to Yogo speed limit. Man. They'll nail you,
those Minnesota troopers will get you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You gotta be careful.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, you're preaching to the choir. But all right.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
All right, thank Henry. Yeah, so I will be ranting.
You'll probably be home sleeping by the time I start
ranting about Aaron Rodgers. But Rogers met while we were
gone away from our post on Friday, met with the
Pittsburgh Steelers for six hours, and it seems to be
a perfect fit in terms of what's available and the Vikings,
assuming the Vikings are really going to go with J. J. McCarthy,
(30:24):
which is what everyone thought the plan was in Minnesota,
that you put Aaron Rodgers out there. I know, as
a talk radio host, I love it. You've got two
big personalities there. You've got Mike Tomlin and Rogers that
they've had a bit of a love fest publicly. Rogers
was slurping all over Mike Tomlin on the McAfee show
(30:45):
a couple of years ago. So there's some of that
out there, and I'm all for it. Why not. I mean,
you've got two stud receivers. The problem is the Aaron
Rodgers in your head and the Aaron Rodgers on the
field are totally different. And Pittsburgh was able to do
a relatively good job of hiding the warts of Justin
Fields and the mister unlimited Russell Wilson at quarterback last year.
(31:10):
Both those guys blow and they're not very good, and
the Steelers squeeze as much as they can out of him.
So assuming they'll be able to do the same thing
with Aaron Rodgers, and they've always got a pretty good
defense in Pittsburgh, and they'll they'll be where they usually
are even if Aaron Rodgers is not anywhere close to
being that great. Pittsburgh just made the playoffs the last
couple of years with suck back quarterbacks, so they can
(31:32):
make the playoffs with Aaron Rodgers. The question becomes what
happens once they get to the playoffs and then the
AFC's loaded with Baltimore Kansas City, assuming Buffalo is gonna
be good again next year, you're gonna play one of
those teams and you're gonna get just blitz creaked and
boat raced off the field. So that's the problem. But
going in. Yeah, it's great. It's good content. I'm all
about the content, and uh yeah, so I'm excited about love.
(31:55):
The content all right is the Ben Mahler Show. So
if you can't beat him, may might as well hire him.
Dateline Austin, Texas, where all those wokesters hang out there
in Austin and the University of Texas. Over the weekend
they lost in the NCAA tournament and they said bye
bye to their head coach, immediately parting ways, parting ways
(32:20):
with the guy that was kind of interim coach anyway,
and the weird glasses kind of had the hipster glasses on,
and I said, this guy's probably not that good at coach.
He's got hipster glasses. But Texas has hired the coach
that beat them in the tournament, Xavier Sean Miller has
replaced Rodney Terry. He's the guy that had the hipster
(32:41):
glasses on. And that's always ye I see coaches with
hipster glasses. Has there ever been a good coach with
hipster glasses? Maybe Phil Jackson, but Phil changed his glasses
a lot, so he didn't always go hipster glasses. He
did that to annoy the NBA media, like the photographers,
they couldn't use the old photo. Phil told that story
one time famously when I was out there about how
(33:03):
he would change his appearance every year because he hated
how like the NBA would use the same stock image
of the coaches and they'd never changed it. So he
figured if he showed up in a beard one year
or a mustache the next year, no beard or no beard,
no mustache, or different classes, they couldn't use the same
photo because it was a dated photo. That's why he
(33:24):
did it. Yes, on the Lorraine is asking a question,
random question that is correct. Yeah, the question I don't
know if that was on the air or not, but
the question you asked is correct. Yes, that is who
you were looking at. Anyway, it is the Ben Mahler Show.
As we press on, we will take your calls and
all that rigamoror if you want at eight seven seven
(33:45):
ninety nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six nine. Time Now for the who
am I? Game? And this is where we pretend to
be somebody else and you have to figure out who
we are. Walter Clayton Junior, Who who Walter Layton Junior?
Is a basketball player for the Florida Gators. The number
one seed Ford the Gators. This guy, Walter Clayton Junior,
(34:08):
has recorded at least fifteen points and three made threes
in all four of his career NCAA tournament games. I
am the only other D one player to start a
career doing that this century. Who am I? That's the question.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (34:33):
The Monday Blues. It is I Bill Miller. You're listening
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(34:55):
on the air of Lorrain FSR Tech Leen Open another box.
Didn't say what was in the box, but there was
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that's aw Bronco fan. Interact with the entire show, and
(35:15):
now your comments will be and can be used against you.
At the court of law. But let's get back to it. Well,
it's me Ben, and we do have the who am I?
A game? This is where we pretend to be somebody
else us. We call it the who am I? Game?
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Game?
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Walter Clayton, junior of the Florida Gators, has had at
least fifteen points and three made three point shots in
all four career NCAA tournament games. I'm the only other
d one player to start a career doing that this century.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(36:23):
Mark from Queens says high socks Jason Terry is the answer.
Who else do we have? Page down? Jesus Shuttlesworth from
Big reg and Iowa. That's his answer. Miguel on Fire
very funny, that's not getting read on the air. Who
else do we have? Page down? Alf the Alien ol
Piner says Max Muncy either one pick your poison on that.
(36:46):
Andy from lion O Lakes, Minnesota says got to be
the One Man Gang. That's the answer. And Twine Davis
guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Mister Wonderful Paul Orndorf
from Rob in Vegas, Richies Esque from mister nice Guy,
a Texas ranger from back in the day. Who else
do we have? Page down? Rob the goat Man says
(37:10):
Robbie and Blind Scott's Baby. Who else do we have?
The octopus? Antonio Alphonseeka guest by I forty Ian. That's
his answer, Nature Boy says the Whopper Billy Paultz Why
out there? From Nature Bay City Tony says Delaney Rudd
is the correct answer. Who else do we have? Page down?
(37:34):
Goat Man's drawing of Charles Manson guests by Robbie the Mariner,
Fan Joe Barry Carroll Man Boy was he lazy back
in his day? From Shane in Portland, The General Sherman
Douglas point guard out of Syracuse from Shane in the
Morne Byron Houston, guessed by Steve the misplaced San Diego.
There's a good random name, roy Eli from Terry in England.
(37:59):
Oo Way Lob from Robin, minnesot These are pretty good names.
Johnny Q got it right. He's a cheater loser. Greg
Brock the successor to Steve Garvey. There the Garve from
our friend Manuel in Guardina. Who else do I have?
Eileen going with Kelly Tripuka. It's a solid name. Dick,
but gis from Mark in Santa Monica. All right, Lorena,
(38:21):
do you have an answer? Lorena? Yes, I think it's
the Dwarf Dopey Ben is it the Dwarf Dwarf dopey
little person? No, listen, it's snow White show in the
seven Dwarfs. I'm fine with that. No, you're you're incorrect,
And listen. Aren't a bunch of little people complaining that
they weren't in the new snow White right because they were?
(38:42):
They used AI or something. Anyway, the correct answer is
Stephen Curry of Davidson back at five five straight games
with those numbers. That was in seven and eight. So
Stephan Curry is the correct answer. So put that in
your pipe and smoke it and knock yourself out. So
(39:03):
the Power Conferences, if my mathis correct, have filled fifteen
of the sixteen spots in the sweet sixteen. The Southeastern Conference,
if my mal or math is correct, sending seven teams
to the Sweet sixteen. So they used to be when
when I was a kid, it was always like Southern
Fried football. They didn't give a crap really about basketball.
But that is a new record for the men's tournament.
(39:24):
All these records going to be going to be blown
to bits in the next handful of years as the
landscape changes. But the most teams for a single conference
in the Sweet sixteen the Southeastern Conference, So Southern Fried basketball.
If you deep fry a basketball, it's pretty good, right,
It's pretty delicious, not bad tasties, little crunchy, it's all right,
(39:45):
not bad
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