1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,199 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: station for the Benmatlers Show at Foxsports Radio dot com. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: You can find it there or stream us live every 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 3: So our lead this hour is from March Madness. Oh 11 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 3: but I can't believe you're starting with college patch by shocking. Yeah, 12 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 3: what do you think I was going to talk about? Yeah, 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 3: So we'll get into it right away. 14 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: The upset always takes the lead here, and we came 15 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 1: this close to having the Duke Blue Devil radio roast. 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: We'll get to them in a minute. They ended up 17 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 1: winning the game, so that that ruined the fun. You know, 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: they had lost, Oh my god, would have been amazing, 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:04,160 Speaker 1: It would. 20 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 3: Have been so great. They didn't, so that sucks. 21 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: So we move on from that, and there were a 22 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: couple of upsets throughout the first day of the opening 23 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: round of the tournament. The upset that caught my attention 24 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: because I watched it, and I'm of the age where 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: I recall the glory days of Carolina basketball. But the 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: Carolina Blue that's the game that I circled here. And 27 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: if you were watching that, there's a million games going 28 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: on and every TV window. But Terrence Hill Junior, who 29 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: I don't know, but he's the hero today. Terrence Hill 30 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: Junior made a step back dagger three pointer with fifteen 31 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 1: seconds left in overtime and VCU. 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 3: The eleven c. The reason this is session amazing story 33 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 3: is they were. 34 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: Down nineteen points in the second half and they made 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: that all go away. 36 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 3: And the stunner from down under not quite North Carolina, 37 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 3: number six seed, no. 38 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 1: No naa goodbye. Yeah, they're out first round of the 39 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: tournament yet again. And this guy, Terrence Hill Junior, finished 40 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: with a bunch of three points in the set, three points. 41 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: It was seven of ten from three point range, twenty 42 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: of his thirty four after halftime. 43 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 3: So VCU, who's. 44 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: Got a nice record, and no one of these teams 45 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: that didn't play anybody, they're all saying, hey, well, these 46 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: big schools don't want to play us, and they win 47 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: their first tournament game in a decade. So this was 48 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: a bracket buster for many that were a couple of bracketbusters. 49 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: The better story, though, for talk Radio is in the 50 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: losing locker room and North Carolina up nineteen points and 51 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:59,800 Speaker 1: Henry Vasser, who's also projected to be a first round pick, 52 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: a late first round pick. He had twenty six for 53 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,519 Speaker 1: the Tar Hills ten rebounds. But North Carolina they lost 54 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: Caleb Wilson, who's projected as a top five, top ten 55 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: pick in the NBA draft. 56 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 3: He got out. He was ruled out with injury late 57 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 3: in the season. 58 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: There and North Carolina played three games without Wilson and loss, loss, loss. 59 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: So let us discuss that's good jumping up point, let 60 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: us discuss the question, does North Carolina, an iconic basketball program, 61 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: get a mulligan because they played without their star player 62 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,119 Speaker 1: Caleb Wilson, And so it's okay to lose an overtime 63 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: to VCU. So I've got former teammate Carnival Cruise Line 64 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: and Casey Kasem, three things that have never ever been 65 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: put together, and we are gonna soak them in a bag, 66 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. Now, Hey, speaking in 67 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: the bag, North Carolina in the bag as the body 68 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: they go down. 69 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 3: The Tar Hills. Now my take here is gonna surprise you. 70 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: All right, they absolutely do not get a mulligan. 71 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 3: There's no Malard mulligan. 72 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no no, no, no, 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: no no no. It's not how this works. That is 74 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: not how any of this works. But they're just student athletes. 75 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 1: Those guys are all making more than i am. I'm 76 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: a middle aged man. I've been in radio thirty years. 77 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: They're making more money than I am. All right, so 78 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,440 Speaker 1: shut up with that. This is North Carolina. This is 79 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: blue blood behemoth, the Cathedral of college basketball, the Dean 80 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:35,599 Speaker 1: Dumb all that crap. 81 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 3: And it's like, come on, as our. 82 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: Former teammate Doug Gottlieb, who quit the coach in Green 83 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: Bay actually kept the. 84 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 3: Job for a while then quit. This is not nobody you. 85 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 3: There's no moral victories here. 86 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: The report card, the Malord report card reads d n 87 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: MS did not meet standard. Did not meet standard. That 88 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: is what the report card reads. Now ask for Kaylor 89 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 1: Wilson's injury. 90 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 3: Listen, it sucks. 91 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 1: It's the atomic elbow. Yeah, it's rotten exit. That's why 92 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: they play the games. You gotta pick it up. 93 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, you lose a guy, here and there. 94 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: I was, well, he's so good, blah blah blah. But 95 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: this is the big boy pay to play nil era 96 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: of basketball. 97 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 3: The portal. 98 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: All these guys are free agents every year, and it's 99 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: not shirts and skins at the YMCA on a Saturday morning. 100 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 3: So do your job. 101 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: Next man up. Not nobody step up, which is what 102 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: happened here. Instead they folded. 103 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 3: It's one thing. 104 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: If they were trailing the entire game and it was close, 105 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: in a nineteen point lead in college basketball, that's like 106 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: a thirty eight point lead compared to the NBA nineteen points. 107 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: No excuses, no exemptions, no emotional escape hatch, only the 108 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: portal and simply. 109 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 3: Stated, again not good enough. Do better be better. 110 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: Although this team will never play again because they'll together, 111 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: there'll be a different group of players, and then people 112 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: will freak out about that. The following you now on 113 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,239 Speaker 1: turning the page on CBS or was it true TV? 114 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:14,840 Speaker 3: I don't know. 115 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: I just kept flipping. My right hand was getting a workout. 116 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: I don't know what channels I was watching. I think 117 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: it was some of it was CBS. 118 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 3: I don't know. 119 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you if if you offered me a 120 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: million dollars. I wouldn't know. It's one of the channels 121 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 1: of the games was on. I was flipping around, so 122 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: I think it was CBS, but it might have been 123 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: True TV, I don't know. So they were trying to 124 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: explain how the Tar Hills gagged and Bruce Pearl, this guy. 125 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 3: Entered the chat. So let me frame the question this way. 126 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 3: So Bruce Pearl. 127 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: Claimed that fatigue was a factor as to why North 128 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: Carolina lost the VCU in overtime. 129 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 3: Is this acceptable or are we just lowering the bar 130 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 3: yet again? So again, Bruce Pearl, who coached. 131 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: A long time and you know so long when he 132 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: first started, not one of his first, one of the 133 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: early jobs when he was in Milwaukee, we had him 134 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: on I was going to show with Looney on the 135 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: weekends and we used to once in a while chat 136 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: to Bruce Pearl, and he went on to coach at 137 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: some big schools, had some success and all that and 138 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: a lot of scandals, which is now just commerce in 139 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: college sports. So is what Bruce Pearl claimed fatigue? Is 140 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: this acceptable or are we just lowering the bar again? 141 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 3: So this is March madness. 142 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: I think, I mean every two minutes they're telling us 143 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: it's march madness, and they're showing his cheerleaders, and they're 144 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: showing his people with their faces. 145 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 4: Painted and the kids crying, and yeah, this is not 146 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 4: a carnival cruise line limbo contest, although it appears to 147 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 4: be based on that commentary how low can you go? 148 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 3: How low can you go? Do the limbo to the limbo. 149 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: When it comes to excuses as far as. 150 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: Fatigue, again, I go back to my main point, your 151 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: big bad North Carolina. 152 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 3: Who do you think you are? You're not Anthony richardson 153 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 3: the Colts. 154 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: You don't get to tap out because you don't feel good, 155 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: because your legs are like over cook spaghetti. You don't 156 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: get to tap out. I don't buy it. They weren't tired, 157 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: they were toast stop. They just didn't play well. They 158 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: sucked at a time you cannot suck. And if they 159 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: were tired, and even if they weren't, really this is 160 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: just a referendum on the coach, right, Hubert Davis? Is 161 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: he on the hot seat at North Carolina? Is there 162 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 1: some booster that wants to get rid of Hubert Davis? 163 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: Or is he going to survive this? Is he running 164 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: a country club? Because if they weren't in shape, that's 165 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: on the coaching staff to get the players in shape. 166 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 1: They gotta and the training staff there basic cardio, get 167 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: them a treadmill or something like that. And how about 168 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: halftime adjustments? What were they doing at halftime? Did Hubert 169 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: Davis pass out scoops of cookie dough ice cream? And 170 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: then the boys could have some caprice sons at halftime? 171 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 3: I mean, what are they doing? Seriously? You're up night in. 172 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: Nineteen and the second half and what do I know? 173 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:10,800 Speaker 1: I just do the Overnight Show. I've been around basketball 174 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: a long time. Was out at you know, interview guests 175 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,040 Speaker 1: a long time ago, old school basketball guys, and the 176 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: line I always got from these guys, I learned a lot. 177 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: That person I learned the most from his dad. Unfortunately, 178 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: Bill Fitch, you know, he can look him up. Who's 179 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: the He was a coach of the Celtics and the Clippers. 180 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: I was around him with the Clippers, and he he 181 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: gave me all these little these little fun factoids about 182 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: basketball life and all that is. Essentially said that every game, 183 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: if both teams, both teams play hard. My man, No, 184 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 1: he didn't say that both if teams play well they're 185 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: fundamentally sound. Every game should be decided in the final 186 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: like five minutes. 187 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 3: That was in the NBA. 188 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: But also if you have a big lead, if you 189 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: build up a big lead and you just play fundamentally 190 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: sound basketball that you play defense, you rebound, you box out, 191 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: all that stuff that you're gonna win, there's no way 192 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: to come back and yet blow. 193 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: A nineteen pointly. 194 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: So Hubert Davis, I believe he's eight and four now 195 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: in the tournament, which is fine. They did make a 196 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 1: final four. There's only been there a few years. They 197 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: made the final four. 198 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 3: It's not elite, it's okay. It's just okay for Hubert Davis. 199 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,520 Speaker 1: And it's dressed up in that iconic Carolina blue. The 200 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: thing that is going to sting. And this is why 201 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: you have to put Hubert Davis on the watch list. 202 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: At least is North Carolina has now lost in the 203 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 1: round of sixty four, which is really the first round. 204 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: Nobody counts those games in Dayton, so the round of 205 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: because no one's watching them. The round of sixty four 206 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: in consecutive tournaments for the first time since nineteen eighty five. 207 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was in the White House in nineteen eighty five. 208 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: That was before the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. And 209 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: Wowser's all right now last word here, So going up 210 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: to thirty thousand feet, it's time now for the sampler plate. 211 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 3: What else? Here's the question? 212 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: What else stood out on Day number one DOUBLEA tournament? 213 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: So I jotted down on my notes app on my phone. 214 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,439 Speaker 1: I don't have a note pat. I I'm very technical, 215 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 1: tech savvy, tech savvy, and I have a notes app 216 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: on my phone. I jot down all notes when I'm watching. 217 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: So I jotted down not cornballs. I jotted down corn Huskers. 218 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: As Nebraska wins the game, the curse is dead, pigs 219 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:34,200 Speaker 1: are flying. 220 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 3: It's amazing. 221 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't just a basketball program, Nebraska. 222 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 3: They were a mathematical anomaly. Now. I didn't even realize 223 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 3: this going into the tournament. 224 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: You just don't really think about Nebraska as a basketball school, 225 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: and you really haven't thought about him as a football 226 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: school in many, many years. 227 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 3: They used to be really good at football. But this 228 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 3: is wild. 229 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: So a Power five team with a postseason resume of 230 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 1: a j the basketball squad as Nebraska becomes the last 231 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: Power five school to win a March Madness Game. Hellllelujah, halllelujah. 232 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 3: Feel good for ned in Nebraska and all my guys 233 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 3: in Nebraska. They are fans of the show. Some of 234 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 3: you don't even care about Nebraska corner. It's just basketball. 235 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: Then I saw this quote, which I thought was fake. 236 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: I think it's legit. 237 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 3: You never know anymore. 238 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: Double checked it, and to the best of my ability, 239 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: I believe this would be a legitimate quote. A guard 240 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: for Nebraska, Braden Fragger, I believe is his name, he 241 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: dropped the wackadoodle quote that sounded so ridiculous you thought, well, 242 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: this must be one of those parody satire accounts, or 243 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: it came from a fortune cookie that was written by 244 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: someone who's never seen a basketball game in college. The 245 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: quote was we didn't come to win one, we came 246 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: to win two. 247 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 3: Was the quote. Vote yeah. 248 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, you have to learn more than that to get 249 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: to the final four and all that. I felt like 250 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: this was a tribute to the late great Casey case DJ, 251 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: famous DJ from. 252 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 3: Back in the day. Keep your feet on the ground 253 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 3: and keep reaching for the middle. 254 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: It's not exactly how the quote goes, but nonetheless, now 255 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: the big one, the big Cahouna. Here was Duke, the Duke, 256 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: Blue Devils, Cameron Boozer and the Blue Devils avoiding, avoiding ridicule, 257 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: avoiding disaster and the massive march madness upset as they 258 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 1: took on Number sixteen Sienna And even though they won 259 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: the game, Duke didn't come back and win the game. 260 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,760 Speaker 1: They had a late charge to win this game. Duke 261 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: became the first ever number one to trail by double 262 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: digits at halftime against the number sixteen c. 263 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 3: Coach k is turning over in his grave right now? 264 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 3: What happened? What are we doing here? That's kind of 265 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 3: like owning a yacht. 266 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 1: A really expensive luxury a yacht, and then almost drowning in. 267 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 3: A bathtub, like seriously, so history says they're dead. 268 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: By the way, teams that have played as poorly as 269 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: Duke did, even though they won, they usually do not 270 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 1: end up doing much in the tournament. 271 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 3: And then you have the star of Stars in the day. 272 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: One of the tournament, a player that will be playing 273 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: for some crappy NBA team down the Winnemucker Road next season, 274 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: questioning why am I playing in Sacramento? 275 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 3: I don't understand, shouldn't I be somewhere else. Why am 276 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 3: I in Utah? Why am I in Washington? 277 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: We're talking about BYU star aj Dibanza, who became the 278 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: first freshman to score thirty or more points in the 279 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: round of sixty four since Steph Curry, I don't know 280 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: what happened to him. I think he's Stillingsurance right now. 281 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: Right he's just a TV pitchman. Steph Curry. That was 282 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: seventeen years ago. Oh my god, what were you doing? 283 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: Seventeen years ago? 284 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:08,200 Speaker 3: I was doing this. 285 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: I was talking about Steph Curry. Seventeen years ago. I said, Oh, 286 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: I think that got'll be okay in the NBA out 287 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: of Davidson. Well, anyway, the Cougar's lost, so they're out, 288 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: and de Bonzo will now run off to the NBA 289 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: to make more money. 290 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 3: He's already making a lot at BYU. 291 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: Then you had Little high Point, which sounds like a 292 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: fake school. Doesn't that sound like a fake school? High Point, 293 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 1: Little high Point from North Carolina took down the Badgers 294 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. So they're out, get out of here, and 295 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: now everyone's under the spell of high Point. 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Do yourself 344 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 5: a favor and listen to Streat Fire with Jason McIntyre 345 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,640 Speaker 5: on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts. 346 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,200 Speaker 3: Or wherever you get your podcasts. 347 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: So we are in the midst of March Madness NC 348 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:14,120 Speaker 1: DOUBLEA tournament, So. 349 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about Lebron. 350 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: What what are you doing? Our lead this hour is 351 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: from Hooray for Holly. Well, well, actually it's in South 352 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: Florida and that's where the Lakers were. So the Lakers 353 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,959 Speaker 1: won a game in Miami. Who cares about that? It's 354 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 1: a regular season game. Nobody's watching it because the tournament's 355 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:35,959 Speaker 1: going on. And Luca had a big game. But did 356 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: he really have a big game if nobody saw it anyway, 357 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: So the Lakers have had a success without Lebron. Now, 358 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: Lebron did play in the game on Thursday night, but 359 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: overall this year, the Lakers have been pretty good without 360 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: Lebron on the court, and that has led to a 361 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: constant drumbeat of this Lebron's. 362 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 3: A net negative. 363 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 1: He's not making the team better and there are people saying, well, 364 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:07,120 Speaker 1: the team would be better off without Lebron, and Lebron 365 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: was asked about this is his name being tossed around 366 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: in a negative light, and he he did react, and 367 00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: this is what everyone's going to be talking about, and 368 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: we get to jump on it because the time we're on. 369 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 3: But here's the audio. Let's go to the autotip. 370 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 1: Here's Lebron James asked about all of the talking heads, 371 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: gas bags. 372 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 3: And blowhards that say the Lakers are better off without them. 373 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 3: Miss sells. 374 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 4: I mean his sales papers are a lot easier, and 375 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:33,360 Speaker 4: clippings and podcasts. 376 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 3: If he said Lebron team's better off without him, a 377 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 3: lot of people kind of like to do. 378 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: With So I get wrong, all right, he was mumbling. 379 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: He said it sells papers a lot easier, clippings and podcasts. 380 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: If you say Lebron the team is better off without him, 381 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,639 Speaker 1: a lot of people will try to like view it. 382 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 1: So I get it. They're absolutely wrong. That's the quote. 383 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us 384 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 1: discuss the question as you just heard. Even though he 385 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: was mumbling, Lebron James says the media is ripping him 386 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: to quote sell papers. Can you parse the words of Lebron? 387 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,400 Speaker 1: So my observations on this one, I have got fax machine, 388 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: boxing legend, Joe Lewis and Scottish and we will combine 389 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to 390 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: go Cowabunga. 391 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:47,879 Speaker 3: Dude, So number can I tell you? 392 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: I love that quote it sells papers. Oh, such a 393 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: great quote by Lebron. This is in my top five 394 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: favorite Lebron James quotes. It's a god don, It's just 395 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: a It's a shame. I was about to say a 396 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 1: bad word. It's a shame that this happened on the 397 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: night it did. It's adorable by Lebron, Lebron saying, hey, 398 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: you know selling papers? 399 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 3: Why do he stop there? 400 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,760 Speaker 1: Why didn't he say, Hey, this is going to. 401 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 3: Be the facts of the day. 402 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: Bring back the fact machine in the nineteen nineties sports 403 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,400 Speaker 1: talk radio. And it's fine, it's the facts of the day. 404 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: Gotta have that fax machine. 405 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 2: Now. 406 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: I hate to break it to King James. The ink 407 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 1: is dead. The ink is dead. Nobody is selling newspapers 408 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: because nobody is buying newspapers. I do an overnight radio show. 409 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: I have a bigger reach than the mighty La Times, 410 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: for example. 411 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 3: There are more. 412 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: People that hear my voice and my takes and what 413 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 1: I say in the middle of the night, well ninety 414 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 1: nine percent of the world's sleeping than that la times. 415 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 3: Just as an example, I can. 416 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: Go through name a million newspapers because they're all pretty 417 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: much dead at this particular point. That's the reality of 418 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 1: the situation in the attention economy, where takes are the 419 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: new currency. Lebron is a blue chip stock that never 420 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: stops training. 421 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 3: It never a human click farm click any click any 422 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 3: click click any click. 423 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,439 Speaker 1: Any click, a walking, talking algorithm that happens to be 424 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: wearing a headman, and so I will give him this. 425 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 1: He's Lebron is both right and wrong. It's quantum physics, 426 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 1: King James. Two things can be true at the same time. Yes, 427 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: you are great for business. You are great for business 428 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 1: because you get a reaction. There's this primal reaction people have. 429 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: They either love you and run to defend you and 430 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: lick your toes, or they run to punch you in 431 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: the nose. There's a reaction there. You're a firebrand, you 432 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: know that. And oh, by the way, while that is true, 433 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: it is also true that this season you have not 434 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: helped the Lakers as much as you supposedly were going 435 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: to help the Lakers. Facts of the fact the Lakers 436 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: have a better winning percentage, they appear to have better 437 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: rhythm and timing with Lebron in street clothes. Now regardless, 438 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 1: Lebron has been the NBA's most profitable headline since dial 439 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: up internet. It's like you gotta go back to AOL 440 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: online and Netscape navigator. 441 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 3: He doesn't just move the needle. Lebron is the. 442 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,359 Speaker 1: Needle, and people freak out and this is not the 443 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 1: time to talk about it. People have said, well, what's 444 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: gonna happen when Lebron is done the next couple years. 445 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 3: He's gonna be playing forever. 446 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: And it's like there's always somebody else that comes along, because. 447 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 3: It's just the way it is. 448 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: I remember when Michael Jordan was playing and we were 449 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: doing this and said, wow, no one will ever be 450 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: as good as Jordan. And then who's gonna move the 451 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: needle when Jordan's gone? And usually takes a couple of years, 452 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: and then everyone moves up a couple of slots, and 453 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: then when Kobe Bryant became the man for a couple 454 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: of years there, and then when Kobe retires. 455 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,919 Speaker 3: Oh, no, one's gonna have a replace, you know Kobe. 456 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,920 Speaker 1: But then Lebron was kind of there at the same time, 457 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: so it was like, that's gonna happen all right now, 458 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: turning the page to Motown to Motown. 459 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 3: Injury update. Injury update. 460 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: All Star guard Kate Cunningham of the top team in 461 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, the Detroit Pistons down for the count 462 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: A collapsed left long That is not your normal basketball injury. 463 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: That's an injury you get in a car accident or 464 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: playing football. 465 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, Kate Cunningham's gonna miss it. 466 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: I love I say, oh, I'm miss at least two weeks, 467 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: possibly more. I'm gonna bet on the possible sibly more 468 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: part of that. Anybody want in on that action? Yeah, 469 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: So Detroit said he will be reevaluated in a couple 470 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,400 Speaker 1: of weeks, much like Steph Curry's been reevaluated every ten days. 471 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 3: It's like, come on now, kid. 472 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 1: Cuttingham is having an unbelievably great season. He has gone 473 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 1: gamebusters this year for the Pistons. He's averaging almost twenty 474 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: five points a game, almost ten assists per game, and 475 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,480 Speaker 1: is on pace to have be the first player in 476 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: franchise history in a Detroit uniform. 477 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 3: To put up those numbers. 478 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: And he would only be the eighth player ever to 479 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: average those numbers if he finishes the season with as 480 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: many points and assists per game. 481 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:42,760 Speaker 3: So he has been a. 482 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: Gold bar for the Pistons, and that goal bar right 483 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,919 Speaker 1: now has a crack in it. 484 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 3: So the question what is the word? 485 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: What is the word for Pistons star Cade Cuttingham suffering 486 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: a collapse lung and he'll. 487 00:25:59,240 --> 00:25:59,920 Speaker 3: Be out for a while. 488 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: So you want a word for kid Cunning him his 489 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 1: lung giving out. 490 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with I'll give you two words. Eight 491 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,600 Speaker 3: ball eight ball why. 492 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 1: Because that is exactly where the Pistons are now pinned 493 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: right now. 494 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 3: This is a kick to the nuts, is what this is. 495 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: Caid Cunning him having the career year, This is why. 496 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 3: This is what he was supposed to be. It was 497 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 3: really shaky. 498 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: The Pistons were terrible, former number one overall pick, and 499 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 1: it was like, oh, this guy's not good. He looked 500 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: pretty mediocre. Now, to his credit, he's gotten a lot. 501 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 3: Better this year. 502 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: Just looked like he was going to be a second 503 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: level NBA player and he's found another level, which is 504 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 1: good for him. So of course, better players around him. 505 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: At the magic carpet ride of a season. And now, 506 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: as the late great Brian Wheeler would say, wheels, it 507 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: is deflating, dented and derailed for the moment. And this 508 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: isn't some fender bender. This is like a fifty car 509 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: pile up on the expressway. 510 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 3: The comps. 511 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: If you look at other players in basketball that have 512 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: suffered this injury, the last player to have this injury 513 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: was Dame Lillard, who actually had it twice. And if 514 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,880 Speaker 1: you look at him and the other people, the average 515 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: games missed is eleven. So NBA teams usually play four 516 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: games a week, give or take, sometimes three, sometimes more, 517 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 1: but usually usually fours the sweet spot. So that'd be 518 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 1: two weeks in a couple of days. That's what that says, 519 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: which seems like it should be longer. Of course, every 520 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: injury is different people. We know how that works, right, 521 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: People come back from injury. Some guys just rub dirt 522 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: on it. Some guys need two years off like street 523 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,360 Speaker 1: clothes Anthony Davis or Kawhi Leonard. 524 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 3: Guys like that. So it just depends. We're talking. We're 525 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 3: not talking about a stub toe though. 526 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: This is a collapse long, right, collapse long, And they 527 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: say he could be back for the playoffs, could as 528 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: a weasel word, Pop goes the weasel. The other thing 529 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: that no one's talking about with Kaid Cunningham is this, 530 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: if he does miss the rest of the regular season, 531 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: he will be under the threshold. The sixty five game 532 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: rule will pop up and Pop goes the MVP. 533 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 3: Also the All NBA team he will be ineligible. And 534 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 3: he is. 535 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: He's a boxer, the legendary Joe Louis boxer Joe Lewis 536 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: fist with a shattered wrist at this point, essentially, so 537 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: the power is there, the intent is there, and the 538 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: delivery not looking so good. So even if he does 539 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: return for the postseason, I'm talking about Kaid Cuttingham of 540 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 1: the Pistons collapse long Is he a decoy? Does he 541 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: become a ghost? 542 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:00,200 Speaker 3: Oh? 543 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,440 Speaker 1: You don't normally just bounce back from a deflated organ 544 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 1: like in the movies. 545 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 3: You do in real life. 546 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: No, you don't just go all of a sudden, go 547 00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: out there and start dropping thirty points like your moneyball 548 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: Maller in the playoffs. Playoffs, and we're staring at a 549 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: total collapse, not of the heart, a total collapse of 550 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: the lung. And it's gonna be like the the Michigan 551 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 1: Water Service Center over there in Flint, little cloudy. 552 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 3: The future is a little cloudy now for the Pistons. 553 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: And it's not like they were clearly even though they 554 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: have the top record, it's not like they were clearly 555 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: the team to beat. And you'll get the Celtics, the Pistons, 556 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers. There's a bunch of teams that are all 557 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: kind of bundled up there. That said, there's nobody that's 558 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: guaranteed to really move on up to a higher plateau. 559 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 1: All right, final point, I want to change it up briefly. 560 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: I wanted to mention this in honor of Danny and Nashville. 561 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 3: A big Titans fan. 562 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: So the Tennessee Titans unveiled their new uniforms last week. Now, 563 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: we normally don't talk about laundry, because who cares about laundry. 564 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: Bad teams changed logos, Bad teams change uniforms, that's what 565 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:12,840 Speaker 1: they do. So some eagle eyed Internet consumer noticed that 566 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: there was an error, as a small error on the 567 00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: helmet of the new logo for the Tennessee Titans. 568 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:21,520 Speaker 3: That was a subtle mistake. 569 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: Let me try to explain this to you, so can 570 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: you imagine the Titans new logo has a T for 571 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 1: Titans and Tennessee right there, and then there's three stars 572 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: around it. It has stars on both sides of the 573 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 1: logo and the helmet. Now, it turns out the logo, 574 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: if you look at the logo that was sent out, 575 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,959 Speaker 1: it does not match the helmet. And I guess somebody 576 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: didn't get the memo that the stars are supposed to 577 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: be tilted in the logo. They were tilted the logo 578 00:30:54,760 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 1: and the helmet. Two stars that were not tilted on 579 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: on the helmet. So that's the issue. Now, the question, 580 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: I just this is a small thing, but it's it's. 581 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 3: A bigger issue. 582 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:12,120 Speaker 1: How does here's the question, how does a multi billion 583 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: dollar institution like the NFL, and in this case, an 584 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: NFL team like the Titans, have a logo glitch like 585 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: this answer, it's just a little thing. 586 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 3: It's just. 587 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:30,959 Speaker 1: However, it is symbolic of something bigger, and the answer 588 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: is simple. The answer is simple because nobody is actually 589 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: minding the store in the NFL. They're just keeping track 590 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 1: of the cash register, and this is just being brushed 591 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,080 Speaker 1: off as a small mistake. It's not that big a deal, 592 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: which is nonsense. It is a neon highlighter on the 593 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: modern sports business model, which is to charge you more 594 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 1: and me more and deliver less and hope that nobody 595 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: complains too much and nobody looks too closely, whether it's 596 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: the fifty dollars hats that should be about twenty five 597 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: dollars at the most, or any other we're in the 598 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 1: golden era of price gouging. 599 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,479 Speaker 3: We're in the golden era of price gouging right now, 600 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 3: and the. 601 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: Merchandise costs have ballooned into the absurd, the cypress hill 602 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: insane to the membrane tax on being a loyal fan. 603 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 3: And yet while that has happened, so you've got like 604 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 3: these ships passing. 605 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: Then if you look at my malor ven diagram on 606 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: whatever device you're listening to, you can see that on 607 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: one side of the ven diagram you've got these these prices. 608 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 3: Which are just through the roof. And then quality control 609 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 3: is optional. 610 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: So if you're and this is just me and I 611 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: might be completely wrong, and this my position is, if 612 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: you're going to pick the pocket of the public, which 613 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: you have no shame in doing, I get it, get 614 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: that dumb money people are dumb enough to spend this 615 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,479 Speaker 1: amount of money, then you just take their money. At 616 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 1: least pretend like you care about the product. At least 617 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 1: pretend like you care about the craftsmanship. 618 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 3: Of the product. 619 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 1: There's an old Scottish rule which has been passed down 620 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 1: through the generations and it's measured twice cut ones. Today's 621 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: version in the NFL and not just the NFL all 622 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: sports is to print fast, ship faster, and use the 623 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: cheapest possible product you can use and apologize later, but 624 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: try not to apologize. And the consumer that would be us, 625 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: You and I. We are getting served ALPO and they 626 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: just put a label for let meon. Well it says 627 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: Filet Mignon. I know it says file Mignon. It's not Filemenon, 628 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: it's ALPO. But it says Filet meon. No, no, no, no, 629 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:52,320 Speaker 1: it is actually alpof ARF. Yeah, yeah, this is This 630 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 1: isn't a glitch. It is a business plan, is what 631 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: it is. And who will be the first sports league 632 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: to say enough is enough, we need to do better. 633 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,400 Speaker 3: Who's gonna be that league? Will someone have the. 634 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: Hutzba shall I say to say, Okay, you know what, 635 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna do our own thing. 636 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 3: We're gonna go somewhere else. 637 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: There's other companies out there that make sportsman media. Why 638 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,239 Speaker 1: don't we go somewhere else. We'll figure this out. Who 639 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:17,640 Speaker 1: says no? 640 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller 641 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,279 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 642 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:25,320 Speaker 3: It's Mallard. 643 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 6: How about that? 644 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:31,720 Speaker 2: To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled. 645 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 3: Come on. 646 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 6: Last week, the Carolina Panthers signed Kenny Pickett to back 647 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 6: up Bryce Young, which means they were free to trade 648 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 6: Andy Dalton. They did just that on Wednesday, sending him 649 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 6: to the Eagles. Then would you rather have Dalton or 650 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 6: Picket as your backup quarterback? 651 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: I would want to have none of the above. You're 652 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,520 Speaker 1: cooked either way. It's you're damned if you do. You're 653 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 1: damned if you don't like. Dalton occasionally has a good game. 654 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: I have not seen Kenny Pickett have a good game. 655 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,200 Speaker 1: So if you put a knife to my throat, I 656 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: would take Dalton. I really don't want any one of them, 657 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: because you're screwed if either one's playing next. 658 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 6: So before their Round one matchup, Carlos Boozer was hyping 659 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,399 Speaker 6: up his son this week when he labeled Cameron as 660 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 6: a modern day Tim Duncan. 661 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked really good in that first game for Duke. 662 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,040 Speaker 3: Did Boozer tap anyway? Yeah? 663 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 6: He also said that teams that pass on his son 664 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,560 Speaker 6: would regret it for the next fifteen years. 665 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 3: But do you think Boozer will be that big of 666 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 3: a star. Well, he's got as I'll be keeping it real. 667 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a chance to be a big time 668 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,520 Speaker 1: star in the NBA. 669 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 3: Can you be a big time star if we were 670 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 3: the Sacramento Kings. 671 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: Probably not. He's got to end up in the right situation. 672 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 1: So he's got this the family business. I'd like to 673 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,720 Speaker 1: think he's gonna be better than his dad, Carlos Boozer, 674 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,520 Speaker 1: the original Boozer next, but what name Boozer? 675 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 6: The Warriors have been without Steph Curry since January thirtieth. 676 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 6: They've gone six and twelve without him. It's not being 677 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,760 Speaker 6: reported that Kurree could return by the end of the March. 678 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 6: Ben how much does the Warriors playoff out look improve 679 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,200 Speaker 6: with Curry returning. 680 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: Nah, it doesn't matter. They needed Jimmy Butler. He's been 681 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 1: out for a while. He's out for the year. He's 682 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,040 Speaker 1: not coming back. So it's a that's that ship be sinking. 683 00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: The ship in Golden State be sinking. Curry makes them better, 684 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: but they're not going to do anything in the playoffs. 685 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,960 Speaker 1: There is Kopelo Mallarly third degree? 686 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 3: How did we do pass? This edition? That is a 687 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 3: week put on the bar summit. 688 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,400 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 689 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,800 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio 690 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 691 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 2: listen live. Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Week? Blame week too, 692 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 2: It's Big Ben's lame Joke of the Week. 693 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 7: And Debby welcome in the Caller of the Year, the 694 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:51,160 Speaker 7: highest honor in overnight sports radio, as voted by the people. 695 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,720 Speaker 3: Weed Man hit it. Wow, that's so cool. 696 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,399 Speaker 1: Congratulations week Man, as your life show has your. 697 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,879 Speaker 3: Life changed in amazing ways? Your weed Man is being 698 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,720 Speaker 3: the call of you. Not yet, no, not yet. 699 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,799 Speaker 1: Well, you did get a bunch of food from the show, right, 700 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:13,720 Speaker 1: that is great? 701 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 6: More food? 702 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 4: I love that. 703 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 3: I love that. 704 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 2: That was great. 705 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 3: Have you gotten an air fryer yet? You haven't gotten that? 706 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: Man? 707 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 3: No, no, no, you wouldn't know what you wouldn't use 708 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 3: it anyway. If you got one, would you? You're lazy? No, 709 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:28,520 Speaker 3: I have microwave. 710 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 5: No. 711 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,320 Speaker 3: But the way the food tastes better in the air fryer. 712 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,839 Speaker 1: Though, why it just I don't know why the way 713 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,280 Speaker 1: it comes out it tastes better. 714 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,239 Speaker 3: You think I'm not making it? Am I making this up? 715 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 3: I don't think I'm making this up. 716 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 1: I don't. 717 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,839 Speaker 3: I don't really like five difference. You don't even know 718 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 3: you don't have one? 719 00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:50,360 Speaker 1: No, I don't. 720 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 3: All right, you don't know. All right, anyway, let's get 721 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:53,480 Speaker 3: to it. Here we go. 722 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. It is the 723 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,239 Speaker 1: segment we call lame Jokes of the Week. First one 724 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,800 Speaker 1: from John and Youngstown, Ohio, one of the finalists for 725 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: Lame Joke Rider of the Year. He says, what what 726 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,800 Speaker 1: does Coop's reaction every time heed? What is Coop's reaction 727 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,880 Speaker 1: every time he answers a call from weed man hippie? 728 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 3: What a long sigh of disgust? That's from John and Youngstown. 729 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: Ohio's Actually I think that's actually a hollering James. 730 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:27,799 Speaker 3: Here's another one from John. 731 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: How can we end the war and make orand surrender immediately? 732 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: How threaten them that the United States is going to 733 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,640 Speaker 1: deport weed Man Hippie to their country and that'll end it, right, 734 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,600 Speaker 1: you could end it, weed Man. We just send you 735 00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,880 Speaker 1: over there. They'll be all right. We can't handle this. 736 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 1: We played That's John and Youngstown, Ohio again. Did you 737 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 1: know that weed Man Hippie was sworn or has sworn 738 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 1: rather that he'll never use herbal tea ever again? 739 00:38:58,600 --> 00:38:59,120 Speaker 3: Why? 740 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well it goes back to when he realized 741 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 1: that he got nothing from smoking lemongrass. That's a Mike 742 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: from Providence. That's not a normal name in the jokes. 743 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,759 Speaker 1: That's a guy trying to win a Benny Award, Mike 744 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 1: in Providence. What is weed Man Hippie's favorite side dish? 745 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: What baked beans? 746 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 3: Baked beans are so good? 747 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: These are lame jokes, actual lame jokes. You want to 748 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,319 Speaker 1: send lame jokes in for a future episode of the show? 749 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:32,600 Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show. 750 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,719 Speaker 3: At gmail dot com. That's Ben Malers Show at gmail 751 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,160 Speaker 3: dot com. Put jokes in the headlines. Put jokes in 752 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 3: the headlines. 753 00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:45,920 Speaker 1: Why did weed Man lose his hosting job at the restaurant? Why? Well, 754 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 1: you kept asking people if they had reservations and they 755 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 1: all said yes. 756 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,960 Speaker 3: But you can see. 757 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,880 Speaker 1: Us anyway, and in the smoking section, that's Tom in Indiana. 758 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:56,759 Speaker 3: All right. 759 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 1: Uh, Pargo Pete writes in says, hey, hey, weed Man, 760 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: do you know what's more pathetic than a homeless, toothless, unshowered, 761 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:12,240 Speaker 1: stoned bum. What that would be blind Scott and Marcel. 762 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:18,879 Speaker 1: That's Fargo Pete all right now, Surfer Todd said he's 763 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,799 Speaker 1: very excited to win his fourth Benny in a row 764 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:23,839 Speaker 1: as the joke rider of the year. 765 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 3: He says, that's a four Pete. 766 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,120 Speaker 1: Hell yeah, he's like the Yankees back in the day. 767 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,520 Speaker 1: And then he sent me a joke which I don't 768 00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,520 Speaker 1: think I can give the punchline. He says, what happened 769 00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 1: the last time weed Man drove a car? What I'm 770 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,440 Speaker 1: going to clean this up with the radio? He blew 771 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:39,760 Speaker 1: a transmission? 772 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,840 Speaker 3: Is what? That's the line I will use. That's a 773 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 3: surfer time or. 774 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:49,719 Speaker 1: More radio friendly. Why do people have a hard time 775 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,920 Speaker 1: believing weed Man? Why he blows a lot of smoke 776 00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,439 Speaker 1: that's true in myself. Why as we men going into 777 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,600 Speaker 1: the octagon. Why because fake weed Man challenged him to 778 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:10,640 Speaker 1: a laugh off first one to stop laughing at nothing wins. 779 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:12,160 Speaker 3: That's from Tier and mins. 780 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: There you go. 781 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,520 Speaker 3: All right, very nice. 782 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,560 Speaker 1: What video game has weed Man hippie decided to play 783 00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:25,920 Speaker 1: on the Global Gaming Network? What no Resident Evil from 784 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: Darryl in the Odes Arts? What was what was weed 785 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,560 Speaker 1: Man's favorite creative arts subject in school? 786 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,040 Speaker 3: What pottery? 787 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:43,480 Speaker 1: From Michael Etracon? Alright, why does weed Man love long 788 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:44,200 Speaker 1: work so much? 789 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,880 Speaker 3: Why there are so many weeds? From Michael Lepracon. What 790 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,719 Speaker 3: is what is the real reason that? What is the 791 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,040 Speaker 3: real reason blind Scott changed to Sophie? 792 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,280 Speaker 1: Why? 793 00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:02,359 Speaker 3: All right? Three words female? Four words female caller of 794 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 3: the year. There you go, female caller. That's actually five words. 795 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:09,320 Speaker 3: That was Noah in Austin.