Hour 1 - Cutting Down the Nets

Ben Maller talks about the Final Four being set with Auburn, Florida, Duke, and Houston, all No.1 seeds, and if this is a positive or negative. If you should be able to take a bow for having all 4 #1 seeds in your Final Four bracket, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go. Welcome, it's our number wid, our one
of the original Recipe podcast. As we are kicking off
the brand new week here on the Ben Mather Show
on the final day of the month of March. This
is it the swan song. We're not doing another show
past today here in the month of March twenty twenty five.

(00:22):
The final four is set. You've got Auburn, Florida duke
in Houston. We have all number one seeds in the
final four. Is this a positive or a negative? Also
in terms of popularity, how do you rank the final
four teams? We'll get to that. Thumbs up or thumbs down?
Should you be allowed to brag and take a bow

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if you had all four number one seeds left in
your final four bracket? We will discuss that and more
right now here. It is our number one cutting down
the nets. As I've always said, making the final four
is what matters. I remember a couple years ago when

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the Clippers made the final four. How impressive that was.
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just kept listening over and over. He downloaded from different
devices and listened to it. We're thankful for that. So

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I lead this hour, Play the hits ball Man, play
the Hits. I lead This hour is from the Elite eight,
as we had a pair of games. The final two
spots in the Final four were handed out on Sunday.
Sunday Sunday, the Road to San Antonio. And I don't
know if you were watching any of this. Maybe we
were out doing stuff for watching baseball or something else.

(02:34):
Perhaps you missed it, but don't worry. It is our
good mitsch of the day we watched so you would
not have to l J Crier. There's no cry. There's
no crying. But he had seventeen points of manuals sharp
also coming up big, massive performance in the second half,
fourteen of his sixteen there in Houston, riding their way

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behind their defense into the Final four, the number one
they take down number two seed Tennessee. I didn't have
to watch this game to know that Tennessee did not
do well because are certain Tennessee volunteer apologiest who may
or may not now be living in Miami. The former

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caller known as Danny in Nashville normally sends out a
lot of Tennessee propaganda. For some reason, there was no
Tennessee propaganda in this game, as that was man pu
What stinks but the seventh trip to the Final four
for Houston and they were the very top defensive team

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in the country, and what an embarrassment for the volunteers.
My god, that fifteen points fifteen points at halftime. Okay,
that's like a youth basketball type situation is with that
is fifteen points. You're the number two seed and you
had fifteen points at halftime. In fact, that's the fewest

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in any Elite Eight game since nineteen seventy nine, and
it was the lowest first half for a number two
seed since that same year in nineteen seventy nine. So
that was bad. Now earlier that was earlier on they
that game was pretty bad. And then later on you

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had another game which wasn't wasn't all that competitive as
Joe and I Broom getting it done there for Auburn
as he had twenty five points, there was an injury
scare he left for a little bit. Twenty five points,
fourteen rebounds. Auburn able to dominate this game, seventeen unanswered points.
They essentially won the game in the first half. They

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had to play the rest of the game, and for
the most part, Michigan State was kept at arm's length year.
But seventeen unanswered points for the Auburn Tigers and they
beat Michigan State seventy to sixty four the final. So
if you like those number one O seeds, man, this
is your dream come true. In the final four. The

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higher seeded teams went twelve and oh in the regional
semi finals. If that seems pretty wild. That seems pretty crazy.
It's the first time since the tournament expanded back in
nineteen eighty five that this has ever happened. And so
Auburn is joined by Florida, Duke and Houston. All the

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top seeds have advanced, and let us discuss the question
for the esteem panel. So we have all number one
seeds in the final four. Is this a positive or
is this a negative? Situation? So I've got common denominator,

(05:45):
hemoglobin and peacock, and we will combine all of these
things together. And we were going to make a televangelist
on TV. For some reason one of the TVs. I
don't know who's into televangelism, but one of the people
I come in here there's a tell evangelist on the
TV right in front of me. Yeah, that's wild Man,
all right. I guess somebody's really going for it. All right. Anyway, See,

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is it a positive or a negative? So I am
in team positive. I'm on the side of positivity. I'm
Benny Brightside on having all four number one seeds into
the final four. These teams, unless I'm mistaken, backed up
the fact that the selection committee and all the nerd
stats and everything was accurate that these were the four

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most deserving teams of getting there. They were the top
seeds during the college basketball season. They earned that right.
And so the Gators, the Blue Devils, the Cougars, the
Cougars are coming. The Cougars are coming, and the Tigers
validating what they did during the regular season. And before
there was panic at the disco about other things in

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college basketball. Now it's all about Nil name, image and
likeness and all that. And I would advise you to
just take take a breath. I just take a deep breath,
breathe in right. This is the first time that Nil's
been around for a few years. This is the first
time that all the top seeds have reached the final
four since way back in twenty oh eight, and there

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was no Nil in twenty oh eight. The only other
time that all the number one seeds got to the
final four was back then in eight. They've been doing
this this type of tournament since nineteen seventy nine. The
common denominator in all this is the Alamo Dome, the venue,

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because in twenty oh eight the final four, which at
that year had Kansas, you had Memphis, North Carolina and UCLA,
and that was held at the Alamo Dome. That's the
common denominator there in San Antonio. And that true solid
but not spectacular ratings. As I recall, the ratings were fine,

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they were not amazing. Now page two, in terms of popularity,
how would you rank the teams that we will see
here next weekend in San Antonio in the final four.
So now this is not a list. This is a
big board, which is not a list. It's Big Bend's

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big board in terms of the halves and have nots.
So they're all halves, they are all number one seeds
and all that stuff. This is a Chalky Mickchalk Final four,
Chalky Mickchalk final fource and we know that going in.
But you look at the hemoglobin and so it's really
one against three and here's how I break it down.

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So it's all about the blue bloods. It's all about
the blue bloods. And there is a difference now the
term chalk. If you're not familiar, so well, hear the
term chalk, but I don't really know what it means.
Was it mean? Explain what it means. I'll explain what
it means. So the term chalk, I think we use
this on the Fifth Hour podcast months and months ago.
But the term schalk is a well known term for
the team that is favored. It's a dated term. It

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goes back to the days when horse racing dominated the
landscape in America, and a team that's the favorite now
is called the chalk and they're expected to win. And
the origin dates back to when people really loved horse
racing and they didn't have digital screens and computers and
all that stuff. Those things didn't exist, and so the

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book maker, as in that long forgotten era, the bookmaker
would actually have these chalkboards like you're in class in
elementary school, and they'd display the odds for each horse.
And if you've ever been to the track and bet
the ponies, you know that the odds shift, especially depending

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on the favorites and the amount of money and what
the action is from the betters. And so what would
end up happening with the chalk the bookies would erase
the end and then if to rewrite the odds with chalk,
because it was a chalk leaving the favorite smudge, your

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little smudge there, and all that stuff covered in chalk
dust because of all the many updates throughout the day
before the race happens. But in terms of the blue bloods,
there is a creepy pasta party of one situation going
on here. It is really just the Blue Devils. That's it, right,
that's it, the Blue Devils. They're the only blue blood

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even though it's all chalk. They stand head and shoulders above.
You know, Duke is the one that meets the criteria
here program that you think about, what is it blue blood? Well,
you've you're considered top of the class in your industry,
in your sport, and you've done it for a long time.

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You've got a storied history of success. You have a
lot of people that hate your guts. That's Duke. Does
anyone really hate Auburn basketball or Houston basketball or even
Florida Gator basketball? Nah, not really, but Duke. There are
many people that will watch just to see Duke lose.
And that means you have reached a higher air if

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you will. Here. And you've had iconic coaches, well they
had one coach k that lasted for like eighty years
that Duke, it seemed, and he was there forever. And
there are a lot of players that you wanted to
punch like that podcaster JJ Reddick, and you go through
the history of the school, have been many that many
of them flopped in the NBA, but they were legit

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college players at the time, and you have an annoying
fan base, you also would like to punch them. So
Duke meets all of that. Duke gets all that critter.
So they're the only blue blood. Florida has had some success.
They under Billy Donovan, they won a couple of championships
and so they had their little run of success back

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in the day, but not consistently sustained success. And Houston
with Akeem Elijah On back in the day for a
couple of years they were amazing, but for the most part, eh,
not so much. And Auburn in the round mound of
rebound Charles Barkley days a long time ago in a

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land far far away. Also pretty good, not pretty good,
but not most of the time. They're in the middle.
It's kind of in the middle. That's the way it is.
And so you got one blue blood and then you
got three others kind of standing out to the side.
Now the last word here. So we are heading to
the final three games of the college basketball season, reaching

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the crescendo which is Saturday, and then the Monday night
the championship game. So we are at the point now
where you start to re examine everything. So question thumbs
up or thumbs down? Should you be allowed to take
a bow? If you had all four number one in

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the final four bracket, If your bracket is alive and
well and you have all four number one seeds, thumbs
up or thumbs down, shouldn't you be allowed to take
a bow? Right? That is the question? What is the answer?
And so I'm actually gonna go on this one. I
am gonna go thumbs up on this. Okay, I'm gonna

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go thumbs up on this. And here's why. I think
you should be able to streut around like a peacock
with your feathers out and all that. And the reason
why is because you stood your ground. Okay, you stood
your ground and while others likely tried to sway you.
And we've talked about this in the past. There's there's
pick shaming when it comes to filling out your bracket.

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You've gotta pick some small school nobody you has got
Leeble likes to call it. You've got to pick some
crap school to get far in the tournament. If you don't,
you're a bad person. And if you pick all chalks
donnoy anything you do, you have no idea, and yet
here we are. It actually takes more guts to pick

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all the top seeds than you would think, right, so
you can strut around like a peacock. Humans are hardwired
to go with groupthink, right. We saw that back during
the pandemic. A lot of bad advice from people in power,
but a lot of people just follow along because it
was groupthink. You know, you're supposed to just follow along
and not not push back against the machine. But the

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people that picked all number one seeds did not bend
to peer pressure. Right, They did not bend to peer pressure,
and so good and studies show oftentimes people in any
group will take the advice of others, and they will
do things even when they know it's wrong, because they

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don't want to resist. They don't want to resist the
popular opinion and all that stuff, and so they want
to be part of that. But if you take the favorites,
which is what if you have four teams left in
your bracket, you've taken all the favorites. If you take
the favorites, you are mocked, you are ridiculed, the what
are you doing? But the odds on having a perfect

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bracket picking. The top seeds in the tournament are minischool.
In fact, since nineteen seventy nine, all four favorites that
meeting the number one seeds in the tournament have made
the final four four point three percent of the time,
which is actually just two times two times. That's it.
And what are we looking at here? Going back to

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seventy nine, so that's forty six years of data and
it's only happened twice. All right, It is the Ben
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Mister Luciano writes in says he spent part of the
weekend listening to the Fifth Hour podcast Saturday and Sunday.
He said he was out doing his deliveries. Another classic there, gentlemen.
And I'm glad that you tagged me, mister Luciano, and

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you gave the incorrect tag to Danny G. Thank you.
I like that you did not tag Danny G properly,
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(18:23):
alcoholic my way up life.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
I aim gonna keep it.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Cowboy Drew checks in he's got the malar cow. He says,
I had to flip a coin tonight. Crop circles over
on coast to coast with George Nori or utter gas
baggery and here I am. So we won the coin toss.
We have Cowboy Drew, who's not touch my cow show. Okay,
that's my heifer. Have we got any updates on the

(18:47):
cow I've not seen any photos cowboy Drew. Is the
cow productive for the farm? Has the cow become ground beef?
Do we have any kind of update on this? Do
we know what we're dealing with?

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Are you sure it's not a milk cow?

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Then?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Don't know? I have no idea. I just saw a
photo of the cow. It looked like a nice cow.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
I don't know what kind of would you be upset
if it was a female cow.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's a beautiful cow. And I don't see I don't
see gender and cows. I don't That's wonderful, Thank you, Yes,
super market, Steve writes in he says, I only ever
get contacted by my old friends from college or high
school once a year, and that is when Duke gets
eliminated from the tournament. I get bombarded with Duke sucks,

(19:30):
f Coach k and the douche Blue Devils. The only
year people console me was. The only time they consoled
me was when Zion had his injury. By the way,
what did you do to vas say that makes him
hate you? He stole your job because he toast sucks
all the athletes. Yet he goes on PMS and calls

(19:52):
you fat and makes fun of the guys the ugly
sweater party. Well, that's a listen. He's so far up
the Tukis of the Dodger players. He doesn't know whether
I'm fat or not. He hasn't seen me in years.
He's so busy licking the toes of all the Dodger players.
I can't imagine he hasn't seen the light of day,

(20:13):
and so long he's heads up there Tukis's. Vassay is
such a houseman for the Dodgers. It's embarrassing. And listen,
I don't see Vassay. The Dodgers don't want me out
there because I actually criticize the team, even though I've
been called the houseman, and so I'm not allowed out there.
Clearly that must be part of the reason. Otherwise, I
a lot of those media guys have have been welcome back,

(20:33):
but I'm not. I mean, I've been critical, and so
I don't see Vassay. I guess I need to suck
up to the players more so I get access like
Vassay does. But you'd have to ask him. Uh. And
Adrian the pokey pokey pokey guy right since says, hey, Ben,
it's my birthday and he says, can you or do
Kemi Mutamba wish me a happy birthday? No, we are

(20:54):
not a morning Zoos show. Trust me. Every time I
get paid, I am reminded we are doing an overnight show.
We are not show, So we don't give shout outs
to people. Just cannot do it. Cannot do it. Shane
and the Mory says, can we get a wellness check
on Andy the comic book guy? He went a wall
after the octagon loss, destroyed by sports with Coleman and

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I don't know what happened to Andy the comic book guy.
I'm not sure. I've not heard from him. I think
he's working the day shift. Andy was a huge fan
of the show. He's probably so embarrassed by another Bills
let down. He has no idea how to handle that,
and he just moved on. But I don't know. I
liked his calls to the show and I really enjoyed
and when he gave a shoulder rub to a certain

(21:40):
wide receiver, mister Diggs there with the Buffalo Bills and
everything we said was actually correct. Now Justin in Cincinnati
says the Yankees are using aluminum bats. We will have
a bat monologue. Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Batman, I will do a bat monologue coming up
later on Jason in Kansas City Rights. He says, Oh,

(22:02):
that's what the Yankees bats sounded like against the Brewers.
He says ten out of ten on the opening mall
of monologue. Ben Duke is the most compelling team left
in the tournament. Also, they eliminated Alabama and their nerd
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(22:43):
We'll say hello to Eeny Meenie money Mo. Let's say
hi to Tony in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, Welcome,
Hey Ben.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
I was calling to find out if you're still doing
your Jolly Goodfellow show.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Tomorrow and also if you guys find to do the
podcast numbers anytime soon. Well, it's not it's not April yet.
We have to we have to wait till April. We
still have a couple more days, I says thirty first,
so we have to wait another day before we get
to podcast numbers. Tony and you, what are you talking about?
A jolly goodfellow? What are you talking You were going to.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Honor yourself tomorrow on Caesar Tave's Day because you're so
great and people are gonna call in and honor you
as well.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
I don't know how you can forget that.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
You know, you won an award for being great, for.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Being a jolly goodfellow. Well, I know you. You serenaded me.
Do we have we play that song where we had
the song from Tony the Bay Area? You serenaded all
of us with He's a jolly good fellow? Do we
have that? They? Of course that? Of course that never
got put in the system. I guess I don't know
what happened. I have no idea. You just asked for things,

(23:48):
and sometimes they show up and sometimes they don't. I
don't know what to tell you. All right, Well, thank you, Tony.
There you go. There's a Tony you didn't curse this time,
which I'm proud of. E dog. How did that not
get in the system? I have no idea. That was
a great job that should have been in the system.
Eat dog in New York. What's going on? E dog?
Welcome in Long Island or on Long Island? What's going on,
ey Dog?

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Not much. I'm just proud and happy made by my team.
Duke is going all the way. And I get a
story for you, if if.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
I may, are you you're not really a Duke fan?
All right?

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yep? I love Duke?

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Why why why do you? Why do you know? You
used to like North Carolina but now you're like Duke.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, I go for the winners.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Okay, So whoever wins, So you should love this final four.
It's all number one seeds. You should be very happy.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
I know, I can't believe that Houston's done Florida. You
went to Florida. My assistant, we'll pick them to win
the whole tournament. So you know, when I was talking
to she's like regging about it. I'm like, that's cool,
it's cool.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
So anyway, the hold I said, before you tell your story, like,
can I test your Duke fan knowledge? Can I see
how deep in the Duke you are?

Speaker 4 (24:53):
Okay, let's try it.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Okay, what is the name of the coach of Duke.

Speaker 4 (24:59):
Shire.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
What's his first name? John? All right? Look at you
one for one, look at you. Unbelievable. What is the
what is the name of the arena there that Duke
plays in.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
Gambler Gambler Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
I think it's called arena. But all right, uh now
I'm not I cauld ask you who the number one
scorer is, but that's kind of obvious. So who's the
number two scorer for Duke? Who's their number two scorer
this year? What you said in here? What Cooper Flag
one of the two? Well, well no, no, Cooper Flagg

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is the key. No, that's the guy's name. He's the
top player. That's his name, first name, Cooper, last name Flag.
But who's the number two score?

Speaker 4 (25:48):
No? I give up?

Speaker 1 (25:49):
What? All right? You don't know that I tell your story.
It's some guard named con You don't.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
Fine, Okay. I was at my girlfriend's house, okay, And
when I was there, I was there with a family
in her house, and I was watching Bobby Hollie and
down the ball. But when I was when I was
they didn't.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
What's it called.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
They invited me to the table to have dinner and
I'm gonna go watching the game. Bobby Hurly didn't run
in the ball, and they kept on saying, you gotta
come to dinner.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
So I missed.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
I missed the end of the game that.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
You're talking about the you're not talking about the Christian
Latner game, are you. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
That was?

Speaker 1 (26:36):
That was There's no way you were having that was
a day game. It's an early game.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
I don't know, maybe for lunch.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh yeah, see, you're making the story up now. You
just got caughty dog. That was a day game. I
remember early, you know, living on the West Coast, that
was an early game. It's not a night game on no,
I know that. But you weren't having dinner. It was
in the afternoon. It was in the morning in on
the West Coast, which is like early afternoon.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I could wrong. You just got caught, e dog. Apologize
right now, E Dog. I mean it's a bad job
by you anyway.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
Melissa called me tonight.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
How's Melissa doing.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
She's good. I love it's the best.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Really, best means as good as all the rest. Though
you know that best means as good as all the rest.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
No, Yeah, she's she's very cool.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I like that. Yeah, that's it. Nothing else. You just
want to a quick call about about Melissa and that's it.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah. Anyway, all the way this year, trust.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Me, I think they're going to make the final four
this year. That's a bold statement. He dog, all right,
thank you, go away. There's a dog, you know.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Ben.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Back in the day, they used to call dinner like
that in between and supper was what they'd call dinner.
Now you know what I'm saying. So instead of breakfast,
lunch and dinner, it was breakfast, dinner, and supper.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Well, regionally still people call it supper. Depends on where
you are. Oh, Like, sandwiches are called sandwiches, but some
places they're called hogis. Some people playle call them he
pens soda pop. Yeah, it depends. It's still there's still
bubbles and talked about the language, but the language has
over the last like twenty five years, the language has
pretty much gone more towards the neutral because of the

(28:13):
Internet and things like that. So you don't see as
many people you go to like Boston, there's not as
many people that have that that thick Boston accent, like
Wayne in Southey, when he called the show. And even
in New York, it's not as many New Yorkers that
have the thick he guess along Island, there's a lot
of people that still do. But it's not it's not

(28:34):
like it once was, like in the day. Well, one
man's trash is another man's treasure. So let's go back
in the hot tough time machine to twenty twenty one.
You n l V and De Paul were looking for
head coaches of their men's college basketball teams. Both of
them interviewed a guy named John Shier to be the

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head coach for the Running Rebels and the Blue Devils
there and he interviewed for both and neither one wanted
to hire John Schier as the coach. A couple months later,
coach K said that's it, I'm done, I'm retiring. And
now John Shier has gone to the Final Four as

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the replacement for coach K Mike Krzyzewski. And he wasn't
good enough to get the Unov job or the DePaul job,
couldn't get hired there. And now at Duke granted, you
have a few more goodies to play with when you're
coaching the Duke Blue devils. But here we are in
position to get to a championship, two wins away from

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winning a national championship. Now the delusions of the portal.
There are many delusions of the portal. The latest example
there is a seven foot two sophomore center named will Berg.
Probably don't know who that is. He played for Purdue.
I say that in air quotes. I heard that will

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Berg played for Purdue. Well, will Berg has entered the
transfer portal. His agency he's got an agency. Of course
you do when you're will Berg and you're seven foot
two and you went to Purdue. So he's got an
agency that announced that he is entering the portal. He's
a native of Sweden. We are told he played twenty

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two games for the boiler Makers this year. He started
three of those games and averaged one point eight points
per game and played right around six minutes per game,
and he is now entering the portal trying to get
that money. How much is that worth? If I average
less than two points a game and I play less

(30:47):
than six minutes per game, or right around six minutes
per game, what is that worth? On the open mark?
Can I get a couple of boxes of cheesy bread.
Can I what do I get for that? Do I
get a sandwich? Do I get a pie?

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Like?

Speaker 1 (31:01):
How much does that worth? Is he gonna get a check?
He's seven foot two, he can't apparently play all that much.
But man, some of these websites that keep track of
the portal, then you gotta keep clicking refresh, refresh, refresh,
and y is not really not really my thing all right?
Time Now for the who am I? Game? This is

(31:23):
where I pretend to be somebody else. Now, if you
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You can do it on ax ad ban maler that's
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at Tractor Supply. Here is the who amigame? Auburn's Joe
nine Broom. Joe n I Broom was the first player

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they have twenty five points, ten rebounds on seventy five
percent shooting or better to send his team to the
Final four. Since me again, Auburns Joe n I Broom
the first player with twenty five points, ten rebounds on
seventy five percent or better shooting to send his team
to the Final four? Since me, Who am I? That

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is the question? The answer. We'll get to it. We
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(33:49):
Man hippie in Miami, who he sits around all day
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it's back to it, Bill, and time now for the
who am I? Game? This is who we pretend to
be somebody else Le's we call it the who am I? Game?
A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little

(34:11):
bit longer. Go to college basketball. Auburn's Joe night Broom
was the first player dep twenty five points ten rebounds
on seventy five percent of greater shooting to send his
team to the Final Four. Since me, who am I? Who?
Well that's the question. What is the answer? Let' see

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does anyone know the answer? Malibu Rubin going with the
iconic Charlie Ward as his answer. King Rory says DC
Defenders is the way to go. Fergdog says the answer
is a Cooper or Flag is the the answer there.
Great to Basketball Knowledge by E Dogg from Long Island,

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Alf the Alien O Piner going for the great Herb Washington,
a man who is the answer to many wild baseball
trivia questions of years gone by. Mister nice guy in
the Bay Area says it's Tim Duncan. Yeah. Tim's really
living his greatest life now since he retired. He's a Rastafarian.

(35:20):
If you haven't seen Tim Duncan, he's really enjoying life there.
He was very close to the best guy when he
played for Popovich in San Antonio. But now now that
he's retired, he's made more money that he can possibly spend.
He's just going for g Managin Chicago is up all
night with us. He says, the answer is Moses Scurry.
By the way, I have entered the transfer portal averaging

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zero point zero points a game. Yeah, I'm also I'm
in the portal two g Mans. You never know, I
could get some money. Scrooge in the Bay Area says
the answer is Larry the Cable Guy. Who else do
we have a page down? Viva los VICKI checks in
legendary social media user for various various gambling numbers, says

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Buenos not Chez. Who am I the first players since
jan I Broom? None other than teen Wolf. Yeah, that's
your dating, you said, you know what teen Wolf is? Lorena,
it was.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
At the same time as like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Right, well, it was was that Michael J. Fox? Was
Was he teen Wolf? Was he? Was he the Curious?
I never I don't know, you have no idea. Yeah,
I think that was Michael J. Fox. I believe, I
don't know. It's an old movie. They made a couple
of movies as Shawn and Portland, says Stephen A. Smith.
Brandon Bass good show knowledge by Robin Minnesota, the great
Brandon Bass who hooked me up with some shoes? Mike

(36:42):
the Leprechaun says The last player to do the remarkable
feat was the Lucy Goosey for the Galway Geese in
nineteen sixty three. Lorena playing the sound effect there let's
see Patrick DJ Spin in San Diego, said, is Irwin
Fletcher shout out Fletch back in the day. Fat Daddy

(37:06):
is up with us says it's Elmer Fudd that that
is the answer, Cherokee parks from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
Chris is going with the iconic may he live forever
beer drinking Brian, although we lost him a couple of
years ago. Mark from Queen's Checks in It says Tom
Tolbert is the answer you. Tom Tolbert was like a

(37:27):
Bay Area staple, a San Francisco sports radio staple, and
he got whacked a few months back. I guess been
a little while now, but Tom, well, he was given
the guillotine from his job. Yeah, he was on the
air for like twenty eight years or something like that
in San Francisco and the other not the station war

(37:47):
on the other stage. They whacked him. They got rid
of that guy. I think he's doing some internet thing
or something. Who else we have, Johnny Q says Bobby
Hurley is the answer. Kelly is going that's a donut,
Kelly now des moines. Kelly says odum Gil in San
Diego going with the Bronni paper towel guy as the selection.

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All right, lay now, do you have an answer here?
Is again the who am I?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Game?

Speaker 1 (38:11):
If you're late to the party wondering why all of
these random names are being read off. Auburn's Jani Broom
the first player with twenty five points, ten rebounds on
seventy five percent shooting or better to send his team
to the Final Four. Since me, alright, go ahead there, Well, Ben,
you know.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
It is your favorite time of the year, season of
the fourth. You're a big Star Wars fan, so I'm going.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
To force be with you with Han solito Man, Han,
I don't think that's the name. I think you've you
screamed it all right? That is incorrect, the correct answer.
If I say this player's name, you should get it
right away. How about this? The player was known as
the Dream Do you know who? The wh what? Player
was known as the Dream. Go ahead, you got go ahead?

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I know you know it. Don't play dumb, go ahead
say it NBA player. He went on to become an
NBA player known as the Dream. Go ahead, Come on Bird,
Larry Bird. The Dream absolutely unbelievable, amazing knowledge rhymes with
the nickname yeah Yeah, Dream Dream Yeah. I had a
killer shot, unstoppable shot. During his career. Nobody could stop

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this shot. People try to copy. Nobody could really copy it.
Just throw out something that rhymes with dream. Yeah, what
do you think it's like a like a middle like
a Middle Eastern name that rhymes with dream. Yeah, No,
it's not alright. Hakeem Olaijahwan Eli Hakim the Dream elaija Wan,

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who did it for the University of Houston way back
in nineteen eighty four and then would go on and
have a stellar career in the NBA and Lorena. God
love you. I have no idea who Akim Alijah the
most craziest name in the world to you, Akim elijah On.
But he did have an unstoppable shot, and people tried
to copy it. Nobody really was able to pull it off, though,

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in the same way Elijah On did in his day.