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Speaker 1: It is your favorite portion of the program where we

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Speaker 1: discuss what is bothering you, and it is.

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Speaker 2: What's your problem today? You're the one that's got the

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Speaker 2: problems in casey, what's your problem?

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Speaker 1: My problem is that I no longer have a perfect bracket.

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Speaker 1: I did not pick every single game correctly. The odds,

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Speaker 1: they're extremely rare. The odds are as low as one

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Speaker 1: in nine point two quintillion. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, there was a couple of years ago where Warren

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Speaker 2: Buffett had this organization that said that they would give

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Speaker 2: away a billion dollars to anybody that produced a perfect bracket.

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Speaker 2: It is literally impossible.

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Speaker 1: Forbes said that over eighteen million brackets were broken by

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Speaker 1: just one game early on. Huge number of picks were

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Speaker 1: wrong from the start, and of course the first day

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Speaker 1: of the men's tournament saw multiple upsets, especially from lower

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Speaker 1: seated teams winning like you know, number twelve over number five,

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Speaker 1: number eleven over number six, things like that. There are

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Speaker 1: about fourteen thousand perfect brackets remaining out of thirty six

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Speaker 1: million plus across all the major platforms. That's less than

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Speaker 1: one percent. So I don't think I'm alone in this

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Speaker 1: being my problem that you know, my team is already out.

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Speaker 2: Well, let's go a little bit deeper. Not only did

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Speaker 2: you lose some games yesterday, two of your final four

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Speaker 2: teams lost yesterday. Now and the only reason the other

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Speaker 2: two teams didn't lose is because they haven't played a

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Speaker 2: game yet. They're playing today. So yeah, you had North

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Speaker 2: Carolina and Ohio State in the final four yesterday and

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Speaker 2: both teams lost to half of your final four has

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Speaker 2: already gone. Who knows, by the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: your entire final four might be gone. I'd say that

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Speaker 2: your brackets a little bit more than busted. So this

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Speaker 2: time yesterday it felt like.

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Speaker 3: This this is a true story that happened in our city.

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Speaker 3: So this one Thursday is like a normal day for

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Speaker 3: the whole office, but today was different. Yeah, everyone showed up,

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Speaker 3: got their coffee, and logged in, but after lunchtime it

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Speaker 3: was totally empty. And do you know why, because earlier

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Speaker 3: that day, at eleven fifty in the morning, every man

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Speaker 3: in this city logged off, got out of their chairs,

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Speaker 3: walked downstairs, and headed towards the nearest bar. Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: they never came back.

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Speaker 2: It is a basketball party like no other. There's nothing

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Speaker 2: arguing for me, drives on Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So as more games are played, the number of

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Speaker 1: perfect brackets going to continue to shrink, often to zero

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Speaker 1: even before the Sweet sixteen. Surviving through the first weekend

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Speaker 1: with a perfect bracket is incredibly unlikely. So you had

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Speaker 1: a lot of people yesterday very excited what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 1: And then and then as soon as Ohio State played

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Speaker 1: TCU beating Ohio State with a shot in the final seconds,

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Speaker 1: brackets busted everywhere.

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Speaker 2: See if they trap it through parting screen edmonds works

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Speaker 2: around its parting on a kick punch, shut up side,

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Speaker 2: it bends for the league. Peace, come my way up

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Speaker 2: coge with four point one? Wow, how flo out the

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Speaker 2: punks averages to assist again? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: There it was so on ESPN they only have ten thousand,

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty four perfect brackets left out of

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Speaker 1: the twenty six and a half million that were submitted.

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Speaker 1: So that's point zero four percent.

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Speaker 2: Twenty six million submitted, only twenty of only ten thousand

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Speaker 2: have won all the games so far and we're only

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Speaker 2: through the first day. I saw a pretty funny joke

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Speaker 2: that was on social media yesterday and they talked about

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Speaker 2: how scientists have discovered this new forty eight hour virus

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Speaker 2: that is sweeping the nation and it's causing people to

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Speaker 2: call in and miss work on Thursday and Friday. The

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Speaker 2: virus is being named March Madness. I thought that was

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Speaker 2: pretty funny. So the games you continue today. In fact,

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Speaker 2: the first one tip off is less than an hour away.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky versus Santa Clara comes up at twelve fifteen this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: That's on CBS Texas Tech versus Akron at twelve forty

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Speaker 2: on True TV. But the big game that a lot

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Speaker 2: of Hoosiers are waiting for is Perdue versus Queens. That

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Speaker 2: is at seven thirty five tonight, and that is on

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Speaker 2: True TV.

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Speaker 1: So this conversation has been going on, and it's been

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Speaker 1: going on for a while, and it is about the

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Speaker 1: Costco hot dog. And do you remember, was it last

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Speaker 1: week or the week before you had all the burger

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Speaker 1: CEOs taking a bite out of their burger.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they've exploded on social media. That was last week.

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Speaker 1: He may be getting a little late to the game,

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Speaker 1: but the Costco ceo is going viral, and this time

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Speaker 1: for taking a bite out of the dollar fifty hot

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Speaker 1: dogto biguard part to take care.

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Speaker 2: Dollar fifty for this hot nugent.

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Speaker 3: The hot dog price will not change as long as

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Speaker 3: I'm around here.

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Speaker 1: You go, you heard it again. Costco's famous hot dog

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Speaker 1: and soda combos still costs a dollar fifty, and the

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Speaker 1: company recently reaffirmed that it's not going to be going up.

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Speaker 1: And it's been the same price since at least the

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Speaker 1: mid nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 2: It is kind of odd. I mean, that's sporting events

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Speaker 2: and Costco are really the only time that I eat

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Speaker 2: hot dogs. I don't even really eat them on Fourth

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Speaker 2: of July or Memorial Day or typical barbecues, but I

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Speaker 2: certainly get a hot dog when I go to Costco,

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Speaker 2: and then obviously go to a big sporting event and

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Speaker 2: get a hot dog. So the hot dog is still

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Speaker 2: a dollar fifty. If they had raised the price to

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Speaker 2: match the rate of inflation, the hot dog today would

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Speaker 2: be four dollars and sixty cents. And I think that's

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Speaker 2: why this is such a story that we keep going

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Speaker 2: back to, and you keep seeing about it on social media,

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Speaker 2: and Costco keeps commentating on it because every other story

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Speaker 2: we see how affordable life is, how unaffordable housing is,

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Speaker 2: and how high taxes are and the price of my

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Speaker 2: electric bill and food is so expensive, and so every

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Speaker 2: story we hear is about how expensive everything is. Yet

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Speaker 2: here's this massive distributorich. By the way, Costco sells over

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Speaker 2: one hundred million hot dogs a year. They are the

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Speaker 2: single largest seller of hot dogs in the entire world.

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Speaker 2: And so it's always it's always a good story because

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Speaker 2: it's the one instance, it's the one example in our

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Speaker 2: existence in daily life today where the price has remained

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Speaker 2: the same since the eighties, and especially now since Costco

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Speaker 2: switched from Pepsi to coke. You can get a hot

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Speaker 2: dog and a coke for a dollar fifty at the bar.

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Speaker 1: It includes a quarter pound Kirklands signature all beef hot dog,

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Speaker 1: twenty ounce drink with refills, with refills and always available

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Speaker 1: at the Costco food court. Every time we go to Costco,

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Speaker 1: and we walk by that food court every single time,

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Speaker 1: you say I want to get a hot but then

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Speaker 1: you look over and you see how crowded it is

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Speaker 1: and you pass. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I well, also, I know you won't eat the

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Speaker 2: Costco hot dog generally, and so I don't want to,

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Speaker 2: you know, just do something for me.

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Speaker 1: So don't want to waste my time.

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Speaker 2: But when I go to Hot Costco by myself, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: I stop and get that hot dog. And it's a

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Speaker 2: big hot dog too. It's not like your little ballpark

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Speaker 2: standard hot dog size. It's a big, thick hot dog.

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Speaker 2: It's a quarter pound hot dog. You said that they're

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Speaker 2: a private label and they sell more hot dogs than anybody.

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Speaker 2: They actually have to contract with three different massive meat

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Speaker 2: producers like Johnsonville and Hebrew National to be able to

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Speaker 2: get all the supply that they need to sell over

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Speaker 2: one hundred million hot dogs a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, the CEO said, as long as he's around,

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Speaker 1: they're still going to be priced at a dollar fifty

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Speaker 1: and he called it a great value. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: ninety three WIBC