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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. Hello and welcome,

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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Straight Fire for Friday, March nineteen. The

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Speaker 1: n c a A tournament is here. If you need

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Speaker 1: me today, I'll be parked in front of a television

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Speaker 1: or two. Actually have a two screen set up in

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Speaker 1: my house with the computer making live bets following all

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Speaker 1: the games. I might watch a game on the computer

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Speaker 1: while I have too on the television. Like, I just

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Speaker 1: love this time of the year. I'm sorry, I geek

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Speaker 1: out hardcore for March bandis And I know not a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are like that. Rob g producer here

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Speaker 1: of this show. He's just not a college hoops guy.

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Speaker 1: He he was, you know, he's obviously there during the

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Speaker 1: interview for Casey Jacobson this week and he's like, man,

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Speaker 1: you guys love talking about college basketball, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Thank you guys for the shout out.

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Speaker 1: We had Jason List on Monday talking brackets. We had

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Speaker 1: Casey Jacobson on yesterday talking about brackets and gambling. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to a gambling contest I entered this week,

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Speaker 1: and uh, I think you guys will be interested in it.

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Speaker 1: But first, I just want to say I will wrap

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Speaker 1: up the podcast with bets I've made for the first round. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: second round lines not out yet, but i'll float those

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Speaker 1: on social media. I'll be doing them for Fox. UM,

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Speaker 1: so definitely catch up on those. All right. Let me

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Speaker 1: first say I have this hardcore love affair with March Badness.

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Speaker 1: The cool thing is my wife knows it. About a

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Speaker 1: month ago. Um, she reached out and she's like, hey, so, uh,

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Speaker 1: what's the March Madness schedule? Because I looked it up

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Speaker 1: and I had to stop, but I was like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm impressed she gets it. Like I I totally

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Speaker 1: go bananas for March Madness. Like I don't want to

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Speaker 1: leave the house. I get all the I go out

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Speaker 1: the day before and get the food and the drink.

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Speaker 1: So I'm set and I like to order pizza and

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Speaker 1: I'm I don't do anything. I might do some push

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Speaker 1: I've just dating back to high school. I think the

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Speaker 1: first March Madness I remember, I was in the halls.

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Speaker 1: It was like, you know, middle school, and my buddy

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Speaker 1: today and He's like, Syracuse just lost to Richmond and

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Speaker 1: was no no real cable TV factor. Um, March madness

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Speaker 1: high school, I was in all kinds of pools. I

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Speaker 1: would record one shining moment before YouTube, and um, just

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Speaker 1: I'm a major nerd. So this week a guy he's

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Speaker 1: come on the podcast before, Preston Johnson, a k A

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Speaker 1: sports Cheetah on Twitter. He's like a hardcore gambler and um,

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Speaker 1: he was in Vegas. He recently relocated to California. We've

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Speaker 1: met a couple of times. He's in it like heavy bets.

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Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I'll toss around three and four figure bets.

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Speaker 1: Very rarely am I making five figure bets. This guy's

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Speaker 1: tossing it around money like it's nothing. And he invited me.

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Speaker 1: He said, hey, some of these guys are doing what's

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Speaker 1: called a Calcutta on the n c A tournament, meaning

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Speaker 1: you teams are auctioned off, you have all the money

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Speaker 1: you want to spend, and uh, there's like a breakdown

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Speaker 1: of if your team reaches the Sweet sixteen, you get

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Speaker 1: this percentage of the money, and if your team reaches

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Speaker 1: Elite eight, if you win this largest margin of victory,

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah, And it basically becomes a math equation

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Speaker 1: for um, Yeah, you can spend x amount on Gonzaga,

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you right off the top, Gonzaga in

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Speaker 1: this auction when for fifty dollars, Okay, that's a little

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Speaker 1: how I found this out the hard way. So of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm telling Preston beforehand, like, okay, what kind of numbers

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Speaker 1: The first team that comes up in the Calcutta and

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Speaker 1: Preston had told me that a lot of people partner up. UM.

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Speaker 1: There's usually a bankroll guy who's immensely wealthy, and then

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Speaker 1: the guy who makes the picks, and they you know,

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Speaker 1: And after Oklahoma State goes, I'm like, damn it, I

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, well, if that's a for see, what are

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Speaker 1: the big dogs gonna go for? And it just so

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Speaker 1: see here, um right off the bat, Number one was Gonzaga.

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Speaker 1: Fifty dollars went to Sports Cheetah A. K. Preston, who

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Speaker 1: And if you're like Jeff Mama, I know that name.

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Speaker 1: He's the guy who basically wrote the movie or was

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Speaker 1: and Illinois went second for thirty seven thousand dollars. Baylor

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Speaker 1: on Alabama after talking to Casey Jacobson, after looking at

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Speaker 1: I got UCSB for five grand. UCSB the gauchos. They're

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Speaker 1: I have ucs be and a lot of my brackets.

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Speaker 1: I have bet them, But can they win this game?

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Speaker 1: We'll see, we will see. And my third team is

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Speaker 1: Winthrop for thirty eight hundred. They are against who's Winthrop playing.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, if you listen to Casey Jacobson

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for listening. Um, I will be around

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Speaker 1: the computer all weekend because uh, March madness is here.

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Speaker 1: So you want to hit me up, I'm on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: slide into my Instagram d ms. I don't check the

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Speaker 1: Facebook d ms as much, but maybe I should start

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Speaker 1: and uh enjoy March madness.