March 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Big Ben talks about what he is looking forward to most about the 2025 NCAA Tournament, the Bengals making deals to extend both Ja'Marr Chase AND Tee Higgins, Maller to the Third Degree, the Insta-Advice Line, and more!
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He's in Montana, and he's.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Excited because this is the time where we are allowed
to discuss something that we don't normally talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It rather taboo these days to discuss it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
We are now legally and really contractually bound to talk
about a sport that pretty much is ignored the rest
of the year. And I think you know what that is,
right now our lead to begin the festivities here.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's right, selection Sunday. Well now it's like St.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Patti's Day, but Selection Sunday and a right of passage,
right of passage taking place there. We assume that you
watched and or at least heard the chatter, the talk,
but maybe not. So to give you the thumbnail recap
of things you may or may not be aware. Auburn,
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which occasionally has a good football team and lately has
had a good basketball team, the Auburn Tigers, led by
the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, a real Broom,
They were chosen as the number one overall seat for
the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So there at the very top of your big board.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Followed after that by from the Atlantic Coast Conference. You've
got Duke from the Big twelve. Yes, the Big twelve.
Well that was Duke was number two. See but then
Houston their number three. So Houston in the Big twelve
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there and Florida also the Gators from the Southeastern Conference
their number four.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So do we have we don't have the number four.
We don't. Apparently we don't have the number four.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So all those the number one seeds for the selection
committee and a lot of controversy. I don't know why
they're still controversy, but there is anyway. We'll get to
that later. But the selection committee.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Favored Auburn at the very top.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
There they won the SEC regular season, putting more weight
on the regular season title. They lost three of their
final four games, also lost to Duke when they went
head to head, but the selection committee saying the pearl
of college basketball Bruce Pearl and Auburn at the very top.
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Now the gambling market, which is generally a pretty good gauge,
but at least where people's money is invested, the gambling
market has Duke and Florida as the popular pick by
popular people.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's not surprising.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Duke Traditionally, even though they don't have coach k walking
through that door anymore, Duke always one of the more
wagered teams in college Basketball's March Madness. Florida not as much,
but the SEC has now if you look at what
they've done here, they have won a bunch of seas.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think more money coming in.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I saw the stack going around, more money for the
Southeastern Conference from NCAA tournament teams, setting a record, but
they hadn't won the men's basketball championship going way back
to twenty twelve. I was a little kid in twenty twelve,
last time the SEC won. But they did make the
history with fourteen teams. Fourteen of the sixty eight teams
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are from the Southeastern Conference. So when you start watching
the tournament, most people start on Thursday, although there are
games playing games in Dayton prior to that. Now Carolina
that be North Carolina and Texas. They slid off the
bubble and they got in and Indiana the Hoosiers. Mike
Woodson out as coach and they're out. They also apparently
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turned down I read turned down the nit which is
still around also, which is fascinating. I was having a
conversation in the hallway with the Saga when he was
taken off to go to bed, and we were talking
about the the nit and what that that fugazy things
all about that's still around.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But Indiana is not going to that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
West Virginia people up in arms, up in arms about
West Virginia. Boise State also not getting in. So let
us discuss the question for the esteem pan or what
you were part of.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What are you most looking forward.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
To as the tournament gets going here in the real
start of the college basketball men's college basketball season here
in twenty twenty five, what are you most looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So my observations, I've.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Got biblical, Jackson Pollock, and tagline, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna go Cowabunga dude,
is what we going to do. It's a surfing term,
all right, So nabur that's right. Well, we put these
all all together, we'll make the razzle dazzle.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
But I am all about the drama. As you know.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I live for the drama and it makes good talk radio.
And so we're looking for that. We're looking for that
part of it. And as a general rule of thumb,
we don't talk too much college basketball because it's often
narrow casting. It's not broadcasting. But we are allowed this
week to break it all down, and so we'll dig deep.
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In the past twenty years, this is one of those
things that has changed in my lifetime. We have seen
famine in this sport. I've witnessed it in my life.
When I first got into this business in sports radio,
we talked a lot of college basketball. I remembered to
be this thing called Big Monday, and it mattered, it
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meant something, it was a big deal. And along the way,
for multiple reasons, college basketball has gone down, down, down,
down down. But what used to be talked about regular
least a couple of times a week has now been
whittled down like you're cutting away to a piece of wood,
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and it's been whittled down now, and it really is
just a three week sport.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's it. That's all three weeks. Now. There's a hard
ohs that watch it all.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The time, but they're the minority, not the majority of people.
And there is a biblical drought of stardust in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And if you look and I don't do lists, as
you know, I don't believe in list, but if you
look at Bennie's Big Board, which is not a list
of must see TV, Bennie's Big Board, Must see TV,
based on what I believe will move the needle in
talk radio over the next couple of weeks. What would
be good for business? And we don't have the usual
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big name coaches that were the staple of college basketball.
College basketball is a lot like baseball. There used to
be there, used to be in baseball, these bigger than
life managers and they're pretty much all gone. Every managers vanilla,
just boring, dull, no personality, just a zero. College basketball
a lot of that has gone as well.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
A lot of has going.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
There's we lost coach k No, he's not dead, but
he's not coaching. Jim Beheim. Jay Wright quit early.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He didn't want to deal with the nil stuff. He's out.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So the big name coaches you look to right away,
and there's still some left. Saint John's has got to
be at the top. The Johnnies, who haven't been really
all that good since the eighties in college basketball. But
Rick Patino, old NBA coach, got bounced all over the place. Patino,
the Patino effect, if you will, is at the very
top of Big Ben's Big Boy.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But they wink in a nod to coach cal.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
At Arkansas now as he continues his vagabond coaching career.
Dan Hurley and Connecticut Dan Hurley, who believes in all
kinds of mystical voodoo type boogaloo things walking around the
court with garlic and different things. I saw somebody sent
me a link to I guess he was on sixty Minutes,
which apparently is still on, and they featured him a
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couple of weeks ago, and he has all the crazy
stuff that he's into to try to try to get
the good spirits to support the Yukon basketball program and
get rid of the evil spirits. I thought that was
that was interesting. And I was at Bruce Pearl. We
we had Bruce Pearl on back when he was coaching
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yeah, I mean that was a long
time ago, and we had him on as a guest
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back back in the day. And and there's those are
the charismatic characters the coaches in college. So I'm sure
there's some other ones. Tom is oh, obviously and now
flipping the page on that. So from a a handicapping perspective,
right from taking a look at the picking of the games,
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the bracketology of some nerds like to call it. How
have the nil deals changed things? From that perspective when
you're handicapping the tournament. So there's a lot of money
to be made here, a lot of money to be
made regarding name, image and likeness. And if you do
well as a kind of sidebar story in the tournament
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and you're at one of these smaller schools, you can
then get swallowed up by a moby Dick school that
will pay you a lot of money to go somewhere else.
And you know, back in the day, you were guaranteed
roughly ninety to ninety five percent of the top seeds
were advanced. There's always been upsets that some years there
are a few more than others, but generally the rule
is like ninety to ninety five percent of the top
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seeds would advance back in the day. Now it's often complete,
just a complete toss up in a lot of this
and the evolution now it is more like a Jackson
Pollock painting, if you know the arts right, Jackson like,
we just toss paint on the canvas and snotty elitist
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people would pay big money for a Jackson Pollock painting,
which is something that you think you're like a three
year old could do and people would pay a lot
of money. I was here, there, and everywhere, and he
was the forefather of the drip technique. And when I
look at College of Basketball, a lot of it is
the drip technique. That it's just a lot of stuff here,
there and everywhere, and that's it. There's instability, and it's
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all over the canvas. It's all over the place. But
if you look at the overall raady we mentioned, Auburn
was at the very top. They were the top seed
in the tournament. But when you peak behind it, Duke
was there at number two, Houston, then Florida, but I
was like the very bottom. And there is a team
I believe it was only one this year that made
the tournament with a losing record, and that would be
Saint Francis. Literally, some dude named Saint Francis made the
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tournament and they were sixteen and seventeen. God bless the
conference tournament. So they were in our last word here.
So taking a couple of steps back and looking at
the big picture here.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Where is your overall level.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Of interest in the twenty twenty five March madness.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
As we get set to get the party started.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So on the Malor Scale of interest, the number one,
number one measurement in all of this, the Malor Scale
of interest one to ten, with ten being o MG,
I can't not wait. I can't not wait. I am
at a three. Okay, I'm at a three, and I
think I'm going high. I think a lot of you
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are beloved that I think you might be like minus three.
I'm at a three, and I mean generous. I am
being generous when I say I'm at a three. And
it's been this way for the last couple of years,
and I'm only somewhat into it. Mentioned the coaches. I'm
looking for the story I got to talk show to
worry about every day. So I'm worried about that. And
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it really is the tagline from this old show, the
wide world of sports, spanning the globe right to bring
you the thrill of victory and more importantly, the agony
of defeat. And they're certainly going to be a number
of OMG, what the f happened moments in the next
couple of weeks, and the human drama o rama of
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athletic competition, which is good and that makes it great again.
It's been marginalized the NCAA tournament, but it'll be cool
for the next couple of weeks. And as I often
have done in the past, and I used to bet
on a lot of the teams that had the lottery picks,
I stopped around the time Kevin Durant was at Texas
and they got upset by USC in like their first game.
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I said, screw that. I'm never never doing that again.
And I really have been pretty good about that. But
I will watch more. I'll key in more on the
players as a public service to you for the NBA Draft,
which is coming up in the summertime. It's all about
Cooper Flagg of Duke, the kid from Maine who's at
Duke right now and head and show there's literally above
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everyone else in college basketball projected to be the top
pick in the draft, and the teams tanking like the
Utah Jazz and others to try to get their hands
on Cooper Flag who was injured in the ACC tournament.
But from what I was reading, he will be able
to play once Duke get started. And it is interesting
to knowde that if you look at many of the
mock drafts in the NBA, a team that is projected
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to have two of the top five picks in the
draft from Piscataway, New Jersey Rutgers, and they didn't even
make the NCAA tournament. How embarrassing is that? How do
you have two players that the NBA says are worthy
of being top five picks this summer and you suck
so much you can't even get into the term. That's
embarrassing for Rutgers. And then some of the other teams.
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The players that stand out that you're going to kind
of keep an eye on. Baylor is in VJ. Edgecombe
is a guard who's projected to be a lottery pick,
and also from Texas, they got in Trey Johnson is
also projected He's also a guard projected to be drafted
the lottery.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So those are some of the things I'm looking forward to.
Am I right or wrong? I think my level.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Of interest to three is higher than your level ofventest,
but maybe I'm not great.
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dud last hour, So we will move on from that
and get back to.
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Where the power is. The power is kept on here.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
The lights are on because of the National Football League
and our lead this hour from northern Kentucky or very
very southern Ohio. And while some some were bracket busting
and filling out different brackets and whatnot. An NFL team
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under the cover of darkness, moving in a clandestine way
to pay.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
A lot of money out.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Now, if you didn't hear the Bengals wrote not one,
but two cartoon sized checks the news coming down on
Sunday night, Sunday night, over the weekend. If he did
not hear, perhaps not the Bengals. The Cincinnati football team
has agreed to deals with Jamar Chase four years, one
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hundred and sixty one million Dead presidents, making him the
highest paid non quarterback non quarterback in NFL history. That
has changed three times. Three times in the past ten days.
There has been a different player at the very top.
It started with.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Max Crosby from the Raiders who got paid, and then.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The guy that really wanted to win and wanted to
be traded from the Cleveland Browns because he couldn't win
in Cleveland. And then the Browns made him the highest
paid non quarterback, Miles Garrett, and suddenly he didn't care
about winning. He wanted to play for the Browns. And
now now it's Jamar Chase. So Jamar Chase is at
the very top. He is under contract. I know you're
concerned about his finances through twenty twenty nine, so he's
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he's locked in. But wait, there's more. So not only
one hundred and twelve million Garon teed for Jamar Chase,
but you also have T Higgins, the franchise tag wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
T Higgins. Was he traded of the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
T Higgins gets a four year deal for one hundred
and fifteen million, making him the highest paid.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Number two, number two.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Receiver in NFL history. Not a number one, not a
number one. He's the deuce and he's getting paid a
lot of money. The first two years of T higgins
contract are fully guaranteed, so evently it's a two year deal.
After that, there's some loopholes and whatnot, the deal keeping Higgins,
who's twenty six, in a ben Gal's uniform through the
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twenty twenty eight season. So let us discuss the money
flying everywhere in the NFL, even in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right, so question for the panel, what do you
make We've seen the moves. Shit, we went over the
moves here, these moves to extend Jamar Chase and T Higgins.
What are these moves signify to you? What do these
moves signify the Jamar Chase T. Higgins contract. So I've
got Whistlestop, Dolly Parton, and primal Fear, and we will
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combine all of these things together and we are gonna
make the Goaba Ghoul Because these guys can buy as
much Gobba gohul as they want.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
They're loaded.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So to lead off here, this is the way I
will phrase it is out of character. If you've been
around for a few years, this is very unbangal like
what they're doing here. In fact, when I saw this
at first, I thought, well, this must be some kind
of satire. This must be Sports Talk Berry or one
of those satire sites. This is not real. But it
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turns out it is legit. That we double checked it,
did the discount double check, and sure enough, the Cincinnati
football team was able to dust the cobwebs off the
wallet and pay out a bunch of money. And that's
old family money. Normally, old family money does not get
spent this way, not by the Bengals. They are the
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cheapest franchise in the NFL. That they did this, now,
why did they do it? It signifies we are going
to pacify. We're gonna buy the biggest pacifier we can
get to that Joe Burrow, Right, Joe Burrow was over
there bitching that the Bengals needed to keep this team together,
a team that didn't even make the playoffs last year.
And Burrow's out there screaming, you got to keep these
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guys together. And it turns out the lesson of this story,
and you can't disagree with me on this is that.
The grumbling by Joe Burrow, grumble, Grumbo, grumble. The grumbling
by Joe Burrow worked his little whistle stop tour around
the NFL media Super Bowl week and around that time
where he publicly advocated and demanded that ownership pay these guys,
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and sure enough, it actually worked right. The stump speech
paid off two hundred and seventy six million dollars in
contracts handed out, not all of it guaranteed, but most
of it is. Most of it is guaranteed to t
Higgins and also to Jamar Chase. So Joe Burrow somewhere
at a secret location with a Cheshire cat smile from
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ear to ear that his koviching, his complaining paid off
right and way to go. It all worked out, Burrow,
by the way, it is getting two hundred nineteen million
dollars he's on his that's in guaranteed money. And the
great thing about this is that as good as I
believe Joe Burrow is, he does not have to make
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players around him better. There was for many, many years
this belief if you're going to pay a quarterback top dollar,
they're so good they elevate the players around them. But
but Joe Burrow has publicly stated, I think it's kind
of clear here that he needed these guys on his
team is he's not good enough to elevate the players
around him. Otherwise it would have made more fiscal sense
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to allow at least one of those two receivers to
go somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
But what Joe Burrows said, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Not good enough as a quarterback, and so I have
to have these premier receivers because I can't take a
B level.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Receiver and turn them into an A level receiver.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And I'd be tremendously handicapped as a quarterback if I
don't have these guys. And ownership agreed with the Bengals.
Ownership's like, you know, you're right, You're absolutely correct. You
you're not that good, and now you look around, and
so you've got an absolute loaded offense.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You'll continue to have that. You have an elite one
to two.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Punch right there at wide receiver. And the Bengals with
all those offensive dynamos, explosive players all over the field,
and it's just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
But yet where else are they? Right?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You assume that the defensive star Trey Hendrickson will be
traded at some point here soon. Can't imagine they'd sign him.
If they weren't gonna sign him, they proably would have
announced it on Sunday night, over the weekend and do
everything at the same time. There was no announcement, which
there have been some rumors that Colts are interested in Hendrickson.
Will see if that trade happens or not, but it'd
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be surprising at this point if the Bengals keep Hendrickson.
They had a terrible defense last year, didn't make the playoffs. Now, furthermore,
let's focus in. We're gonna lock in our laser pointer
on t Higgins because T Higgins now the NFL's ninth
highest paid wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Then beat that. For those of you in the back
room that are barely awake.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
T Higgins he's a wide receiver number two and T
Higgins ninth highest paid receiver in the NFL. So that
is a bitter pill to swallow. It is, now, Higgins,
here's the way I look at against. Like, if I
was the Patriots and I paid him that contract, you
know that's justified. If I was the Chargers and I
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paid T. Higgins that contract because he'd be my number one,
so that makes a lot of sense. But if I'm
Kansas City, I would I would pay T Higgins that contract.
If I'm the Bengals, it's not my money, it's fine.
They want to burn money, you can do it. But
from a just a logical standpoint, if you already have
the number one receiver and you're paying him the most
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money of any player not a quarterback in the NFL
at number two, you put your ninth highest contract for T. Higgins,
I mean that is a that is a tough one.
That is a tough one. You had to make Burrow happy.
Burrow complained, right, you had to make him happy. He
had a hissy fit, and so you made Burrow happy.
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But the second wide receiver is the ninth highest pace
second wide receiver in your locker room and overall the Bengals.
If you look at the way they're set up, they
are like Dolly Parton, the Dolly Partner of the NFL.
They're very top heavy, if you know what I mean.
And Jamar, Chase T. Higgins and Joe Burrow. The estimate
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is they're going to take up almost fifty percent of
the salary cap. Now, I am a salary cap truther.
I am a salary cap truth. I know that to
be true, which means you can finagle the salary cap.
And these contracts will be reworked in future years, and
so there's some ways you can work around it. But
to pay both receivers one okay, but seems seems be
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a little much. Seems a little much. And so Cincinnati
is going to have a hodgepodge of players from the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Amazon Delivery Drive and Uber X drivers
will be filling out their roster and that'll be the
way that goes there.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Good luck, I'm sure it'll work well.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
As long as you can go out and score thirty
five points a game, you'll have a chance to win
most games.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And then that's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Just send a bunch of flotsam and jets them out
there and see how it goes all right, Now, final
part of this male of monogue, the last thing here,
we go to Seattle. We pivot away from Cincinnati where
everyone got paid. We go now to Seattle, and the
details are coming out now on Sam Darnald. Now, I
got criticized by some of our guys and say, you
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know you're too hard on Sam Darnald. You hit a
big year. You don't know what you're talking about. That's
why you're doing overnights. You were questioning Sam Darnald. So
the details, the fine print is out. The fine print
is out on Sam Donald's contract with the Seahawks. And
it turns out that everything I said was justified. Not
that I'm here to take a victory laugh, but I
will take a bow. I will bow, and you can
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call up and apologize if you want. I'll give out
the numbers in a minute. But how do you read
how do you read the news out on the contract
that Seattle's deal with Sam Donald, that they have an
out after one season. It's essentially a one year deal
for Sam Donald. And after the twenty twenty five season,
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they can say it's not you, it's us. And hit
the road, Jack, and don't you come back now? Get
out of here. So how do I read that? I
read it like this, Okay, I read it like this.
This is like the metal band Primal Fear. It is
their song vote of no Confidence. It is a vote
of no confidence, which is justified. All right, it is
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justified the vote of no confidence. Rightfully, Seattle does not
trust Sam Donald. This is what I've been saying. And
it's nice to know that the Seattle Seahawks also think
this guy's stiff and they don't trust him. They're like, well,
we're kind of in it, but we're not fully into it,
and we want to make sure we have this way
to get out of the contract.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And that is the way you should approach Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And yet I heard from a bunch of my guys
in Seattle that were like, oh man, you're just a
RAM fan. You hate the Seahawks. I mean no, I
know that Sam Donald's gonna fall apart when you need
him the most. And why would you put your faith
in Sam Donald? The guys a zero. He's fine week
three or week four, but down the stretch, it's like
(28:31):
a poorly made bag. It just falls apart. Right falls apart.
Having blind faith in Sam Donald is akin to that
that line about driving on a dark country road middle
of the night, you got no lights on your car
and you're looking out the back window.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
That is. The chances of that working and the chances
of Sam Donald working are about the same. They're about
the same.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It worked for a while, but the first time you
come to a turn, you're going over the side of
the hill.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And Sam Donald will earn thirty seven million, thirty seven
and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five. Good
work if you can find it. However, however, the fine
print Sam Donald's contract has all kinds of escape patches,
and the compensation after that does not kick in until
a week after the Super Bowl, so Seattle can say
(29:23):
bye bye, get out of here, you're a bum. And
so a couple of weeks after the season, Seattle won't
make the playoffs next year, So then they have to
decide whether or not they want to keep Sam Donald around,
or he goes back on the market and Seattle goes
back and tries to find some other quarterback. But it
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makes a lot of sense like Seattle has an escape
portal that they can go into an escape patch and
they can cut bait and go get some other Jabbroni
to play quarterback. So it's essentially a throwaway year for
the Seahawks. It's a it's a we're not trying to
win in twenty twenty five. I don't know why you
buy tickets for the team they're they're announcing, they're.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Not really into it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's just an experimental year with Sam Darnold and maybe
it'll work for a while, but at some point it
won't and then they'll have to move on from him
and bring somebody else.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
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gotta be piano man.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Elton John's Elton John for the wind. Is no that
is incorrected?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Is Will Vennable, the son of Max Venable, the White
Sox man now Max Vnable.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
This guy's dad gave me a ball when I was
a kid. He was an outfielder for the Angels.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I always remember the players that tossed me at baseball
when I was a kidding.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Max Vnable is one of.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
My Here we call story brought to the third degree, No.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Idea, who that is?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
This?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Never heard of him?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
All right, here we go, here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. A couple of Billy Joela is the
piano man. By the way, I just went. I just
went with.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
If I correct every one of her mistakes, we will
have no time.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Just come on right anyway, then it's only a four
hour show, Coop. The latest prediction has the Giants taking
Shadar Sanders with the number three pick.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Are you buying that? Well?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I saw over the weekend, Shoulder Sanders posted on the
gram photo with Gino Smith, clearly implying that.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
He would rather play for the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yet again, every sent out all those comments on social
media during the Colorado season, he wants to play for
the Raiders. So I'm not buying it. I don't I
think the Giants would be wise to not draft a quarterback.
I don't think either one of these guys is a
slam dog. So I don't believe it. And you know
how this works, Coop. It's the elevator game. It's up
and down if you need it. If it's a slow
news day, shoulder Sanders story. If it's a big news day,
(31:47):
you let it rest next.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
So Mike Williams, he had some good seasons with the Chargers,
was a good wide receiver. Then he went to the
Jets and he was terrible, and now he's back with
the Chargers. He said that he has something to prove
after a terrible year.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yeah. Do you think he'll bounce back with the Chargers. No,
this is the dumbest signing.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They got rid of him because he couldn't stay on
the field and he was inconsistent. He went out to
two other teams, couldn't stay on the field, it was inconsistent.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And they brought him back Like what are you doing?
How dumb? The dumb dumb dumb are you next?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
So Duke announced over the weekend that they expect Cooper
Flag to be back for the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Is Duke your favorite to win it all?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
No, I'm going with Saint John's. Okay, Rick Bottino bias,
I admit it. Betino's a great SoundBite. I love Patino.
I want to see Saint John's win it all.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
How do we do cope? Quick?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
In your face, justin Cincinnati, in your face, justin Saint John's.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
It is selection Sunday now and Mondays. Thanks Patty's Day.
And I think you about doing something with the Irish,
but instead we'll just goof on the selection committee. People
up at arms, North Carolina got in West Virginia, did
not Some people upset about that. Advice to the selection
committee to not goof up in future years as we
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Advice to the Selection Committee.
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Hello, Line one, Conspiracy Theory Morning time.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Oh ricking Maryland. Thank you, Rick. Let's go to you.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Hello, you're on the air advice to the selection committee.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
The committee should send my father.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
They're a birthday card.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Happy birthday down.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, Well, I think you need to actually send him
one and not just say that.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You said that on the radio.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Hello, caller, you're on the air, advice to the selection committee.
Please all right, caller's not there, We'll go to you online.
Let's go over to line for line four. Hello, line four.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
If you want to send me your pennies in the
mail and you're a chick, all.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Right, thank you. I think we're good on that, tony A.
Line five, Hello, line five.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Screw the selection committee? Can State Fullerton got snubbed? We
beat Io State?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I think the ant Eaters got screwed many they're the
number one seed though in the n I T Hello,
line line six, you're on the Airline six.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Hello, Oh, I don't know is that the real pokey play?
I think it was? Was it really all right? All right?
Line one, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Line one, you're on the Airline one, advice to the
selection committee. They got North Carolina in but not West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Hello, do you know what they need?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
To do.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Bring back Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Bring bring Eddy back? All right? Line too, Hello, line too,
you're on the airline too.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You mean to tell me eggs are going down just
before Easter?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Morning time? I love that morning time, Rick and Maryland.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Hello, Line three at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox unscreened radio, the safety and it is off line three,
your advice to the selection committee.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That's the guy right there. That's the original. That's the
original recipe. That's no substitution. Line four, you're on the
airline four.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Hello, coming to work drunk tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You'll get it right, Okay, there's a Sean the hood
guy checking in. Uh alright, no comment on that. Line five. Hello,
line five. See that was a fake guy. See that
was not That was not the real pokey pokey pokey guy.
And that is a reference to if you've been with
the show a long time, password the word game of
(35:53):
stars this guy Bergman, Greg Bergman, Pinkeye and uh and
that and call her back.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Many years ago. Hello, line ye six, you're on the
air line six. Hello.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yes, that's what you need to do is become a
Minnesota Barkings fans.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, there you go, then you really experienced losing.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Line one, you're on the airline one. Seles committee to
consult with the BCF. They never screwed anything.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yeah no, never at all, absolutely correct. Give me advice
to these selection committee people up in arms. North Carolina
got in and West Virginia did not. This is supposedly
a big college basketball outrage.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Line two, you're on the airline too. Hello, yeah, easy,
bringing dog?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, all right, calm down, put your pants on. Line three. Hello,
line three, you're on the air go tell me along.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
All right, I don't know what do you say? I
could tell me along? Sell me alarm. Well that's Rob Parker.
Oh this is blind Scott. Yes, my mom's.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Coming in today. She's gonna help me clean. Your mom
used to wash your mouth out with soap and water.
Line five, Hello, you're on the airline five. All right,
how many phones does that guy have in seven ninety
nine on Fox? To keep the bring the dose guy
off the air Line six, you're on the air Hello,
Line six. Okay, that was not that was the fake one.
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That was not the real one.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Line one will keep going unscreened phone calls as we
up the call count.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Line one.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You're on the Airline one. Line one's not paying attention.
We're going to line to Hello. Line two, I watch
you out, Lorena carry I don't like. Yeah, we need
to wears my baseball guy to call back again.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
We missed the words. I think that was a fake.
I know it's you person. Oh you think that It
sounded a little bit like our friend in Iowa. It
did what it was Sam? All right? Line three, Hello,
you're on the air Line three. Go. You gotta get
Jackie Moon to wrestle.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
A live fare.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
That's a great idea. Can we set that up? All right?
Line four. I think they still do that in Russia.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Line four, Hello, see, now we're just being hijacked by
fake pokey pokey pokey people. Nine five, Hello, okay.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Call a doctor. Line six. You're on their advice of
the selection committee. Line six.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, they should take two weeks ofving.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Quit there you go. That sounds like jackass. Just quickly
cookee pig one line too, Line till you're on there, go.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Let we be Love Beach.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
We be long Beach, Long Beach State. Really, what's their mascot?
Now they went woke? I don't know what their mascot anymore.
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Excited because this is the time where we are allowed
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It rather taboo these days to discuss it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
We are now legally and really contractually bound to talk
about a sport that pretty much is ignored the rest
of the year. And I think you know what that is,
right now our lead to begin the festivities here.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's right, selection Sunday. Well now it's like St.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Patti's Day, but Selection Sunday and a right of passage,
right of passage taking place there. We assume that you
watched and or at least heard the chatter, the talk,
but maybe not. So to give you the thumbnail recap
of things you may or may not be aware. Auburn,
(02:22):
which occasionally has a good football team and lately has
had a good basketball team, the Auburn Tigers, led by
the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, a real Broom,
They were chosen as the number one overall seat for
the NCAA Tournament.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
So there at the very top of your big board.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Followed after that by from the Atlantic Coast Conference. You've
got Duke from the Big twelve. Yes, the Big twelve.
Well that was Duke was number two. See but then
Houston their number three. So Houston in the Big twelve
(03:04):
there and Florida also the Gators from the Southeastern Conference
their number four.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
So do we have we don't have the number four.
We don't. Apparently we don't have the number four.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So all those the number one seeds for the selection
committee and a lot of controversy. I don't know why
they're still controversy, but there is anyway. We'll get to
that later. But the selection committee.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Favored Auburn at the very top.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
There they won the SEC regular season, putting more weight
on the regular season title. They lost three of their
final four games, also lost to Duke when they went
head to head, but the selection committee saying the pearl
of college basketball Bruce Pearl and Auburn at the very top.
(03:50):
Now the gambling market, which is generally a pretty good gauge,
but at least where people's money is invested, the gambling
market has Duke and Florida as the popular pick by
popular people.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It's not surprising.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Duke Traditionally, even though they don't have coach k walking
through that door anymore, Duke always one of the more
wagered teams in college Basketball's March Madness. Florida not as much,
but the SEC has now if you look at what
they've done here, they have won a bunch of seas.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I think more money coming in.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I saw the stack going around, more money for the
Southeastern Conference from NCAA tournament teams, setting a record, but
they hadn't won the men's basketball championship going way back
to twenty twelve. I was a little kid in twenty twelve,
last time the SEC won. But they did make the
history with fourteen teams. Fourteen of the sixty eight teams
(04:47):
are from the Southeastern Conference. So when you start watching
the tournament, most people start on Thursday, although there are
games playing games in Dayton prior to that. Now Carolina
that be North Carolina and Texas. They slid off the
bubble and they got in and Indiana the Hoosiers. Mike
Woodson out as coach and they're out. They also apparently
(05:09):
turned down I read turned down the nit which is
still around also, which is fascinating. I was having a
conversation in the hallway with the Saga when he was
taken off to go to bed, and we were talking
about the the nit and what that that fugazy things
all about that's still around.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But Indiana is not going to that.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
West Virginia people up in arms, up in arms about
West Virginia. Boise State also not getting in. So let
us discuss the question for the esteem pan or what
you were part of.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
What are you most looking forward.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
To as the tournament gets going here in the real
start of the college basketball men's college basketball season here
in twenty twenty five, what are you most looking forward to?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So my observations, I've.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Got biblical, Jackson Pollock, and tagline, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna go Cowabunga dude,
is what we going to do. It's a surfing term,
all right, So nabur that's right. Well, we put these
all all together, we'll make the razzle dazzle.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
But I am all about the drama. As you know.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I live for the drama and it makes good talk radio.
And so we're looking for that. We're looking for that
part of it. And as a general rule of thumb,
we don't talk too much college basketball because it's often
narrow casting. It's not broadcasting. But we are allowed this
week to break it all down, and so we'll dig deep.
(06:34):
In the past twenty years, this is one of those
things that has changed in my lifetime. We have seen
famine in this sport. I've witnessed it in my life.
When I first got into this business in sports radio,
we talked a lot of college basketball. I remembered to
be this thing called Big Monday, and it mattered, it
(06:57):
meant something, it was a big deal. And along the way,
for multiple reasons, college basketball has gone down, down, down,
down down. But what used to be talked about regular
least a couple of times a week has now been
whittled down like you're cutting away to a piece of wood,
(07:17):
and it's been whittled down now, and it really is
just a three week sport.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
That's it. That's all three weeks. Now. There's a hard
ohs that watch it all.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The time, but they're the minority, not the majority of people.
And there is a biblical drought of stardust in college basketball.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's the thing.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
And if you look and I don't do lists, as
you know, I don't believe in list, but if you
look at Bennie's Big Board, which is not a list
of must see TV, Bennie's Big Board, Must see TV,
based on what I believe will move the needle in
talk radio over the next couple of weeks. What would
be good for business? And we don't have the usual
(08:02):
big name coaches that were the staple of college basketball.
College basketball is a lot like baseball. There used to
be there, used to be in baseball, these bigger than
life managers and they're pretty much all gone. Every managers vanilla,
just boring, dull, no personality, just a zero. College basketball
a lot of that has gone as well.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
A lot of has going.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
There's we lost coach k No, he's not dead, but
he's not coaching. Jim Beheim. Jay Wright quit early.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He didn't want to deal with the nil stuff. He's out.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So the big name coaches you look to right away,
and there's still some left. Saint John's has got to
be at the top. The Johnnies, who haven't been really
all that good since the eighties in college basketball. But
Rick Patino, old NBA coach, got bounced all over the place. Patino,
the Patino effect, if you will, is at the very
top of Big Ben's Big Boy.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
But they wink in a nod to coach cal.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
At Arkansas now as he continues his vagabond coaching career.
Dan Hurley and Connecticut Dan Hurley, who believes in all
kinds of mystical voodoo type boogaloo things walking around the
court with garlic and different things. I saw somebody sent
me a link to I guess he was on sixty Minutes,
which apparently is still on, and they featured him a
(09:15):
couple of weeks ago, and he has all the crazy
stuff that he's into to try to try to get
the good spirits to support the Yukon basketball program and
get rid of the evil spirits. I thought that was
that was interesting. And I was at Bruce Pearl. We
we had Bruce Pearl on back when he was coaching
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Yeah, I mean that was a long
time ago, and we had him on as a guest
(09:37):
back back in the day. And and there's those are
the charismatic characters the coaches in college. So I'm sure
there's some other ones. Tom is oh, obviously and now
flipping the page on that. So from a a handicapping perspective,
right from taking a look at the picking of the games,
(09:57):
the bracketology of some nerds like to call it. How
have the nil deals changed things? From that perspective when
you're handicapping the tournament. So there's a lot of money
to be made here, a lot of money to be
made regarding name, image and likeness. And if you do
well as a kind of sidebar story in the tournament
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and you're at one of these smaller schools, you can
then get swallowed up by a moby Dick school that
will pay you a lot of money to go somewhere else.
And you know, back in the day, you were guaranteed
roughly ninety to ninety five percent of the top seeds
were advanced. There's always been upsets that some years there
are a few more than others, but generally the rule
is like ninety to ninety five percent of the top
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seeds would advance back in the day. Now it's often complete,
just a complete toss up in a lot of this
and the evolution now it is more like a Jackson
Pollock painting, if you know the arts right, Jackson like,
we just toss paint on the canvas and snotty elitist
(11:04):
people would pay big money for a Jackson Pollock painting,
which is something that you think you're like a three
year old could do and people would pay a lot
of money. I was here, there, and everywhere, and he
was the forefather of the drip technique. And when I
look at College of Basketball, a lot of it is
the drip technique. That it's just a lot of stuff here,
there and everywhere, and that's it. There's instability, and it's
(11:27):
all over the canvas. It's all over the place. But
if you look at the overall raady we mentioned, Auburn
was at the very top. They were the top seed
in the tournament. But when you peak behind it, Duke
was there at number two, Houston, then Florida, but I
was like the very bottom. And there is a team
I believe it was only one this year that made
the tournament with a losing record, and that would be
Saint Francis. Literally, some dude named Saint Francis made the
(11:51):
tournament and they were sixteen and seventeen. God bless the
conference tournament. So they were in our last word here.
So taking a couple of steps back and looking at
the big picture here.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Where is your overall level.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Of interest in the twenty twenty five March madness.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
As we get set to get the party started.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
So on the Malor Scale of interest, the number one,
number one measurement in all of this, the Malor Scale
of interest one to ten, with ten being o MG,
I can't not wait. I can't not wait. I am
at a three. Okay, I'm at a three, and I
think I'm going high. I think a lot of you
(12:35):
are beloved that I think you might be like minus three.
I'm at a three, and I mean generous. I am
being generous when I say I'm at a three. And
it's been this way for the last couple of years,
and I'm only somewhat into it. Mentioned the coaches. I'm
looking for the story I got to talk show to
worry about every day. So I'm worried about that. And
(12:57):
it really is the tagline from this old show, the
wide world of sports, spanning the globe right to bring
you the thrill of victory and more importantly, the agony
of defeat. And they're certainly going to be a number
of OMG, what the f happened moments in the next
couple of weeks, and the human drama o rama of
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athletic competition, which is good and that makes it great again.
It's been marginalized the NCAA tournament, but it'll be cool
for the next couple of weeks. And as I often
have done in the past, and I used to bet
on a lot of the teams that had the lottery picks,
I stopped around the time Kevin Durant was at Texas
and they got upset by USC in like their first game.
(13:40):
I said, screw that. I'm never never doing that again.
And I really have been pretty good about that. But
I will watch more. I'll key in more on the
players as a public service to you for the NBA Draft,
which is coming up in the summertime. It's all about
Cooper Flagg of Duke, the kid from Maine who's at
Duke right now and head and show there's literally above
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everyone else in college basketball projected to be the top
pick in the draft, and the teams tanking like the
Utah Jazz and others to try to get their hands
on Cooper Flag who was injured in the ACC tournament.
But from what I was reading, he will be able
to play once Duke get started. And it is interesting
to knowde that if you look at many of the
mock drafts in the NBA, a team that is projected
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to have two of the top five picks in the
draft from Piscataway, New Jersey Rutgers, and they didn't even
make the NCAA tournament. How embarrassing is that? How do
you have two players that the NBA says are worthy
of being top five picks this summer and you suck
so much you can't even get into the term. That's
embarrassing for Rutgers. And then some of the other teams.
(14:45):
The players that stand out that you're going to kind
of keep an eye on. Baylor is in VJ. Edgecombe
is a guard who's projected to be a lottery pick,
and also from Texas, they got in Trey Johnson is
also projected He's also a guard projected to be drafted
the lottery.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
So those are some of the things I'm looking forward to.
Am I right or wrong? I think my level.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Of interest to three is higher than your level ofventest,
but maybe I'm not great.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (15:19):
App in the spirit of the holiday. Normally, this NFL
team they wear the black and the orange. But it's
all green, baby, It's all green.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Well.
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Come in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
Mahlor Show.
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about the NCAA Men's basketball tournament and it was a
dud last hour, So we will move on from that
and get back to.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Where the power is. The power is kept on here.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
The lights are on because of the National Football League
and our lead this hour from northern Kentucky or very
very southern Ohio. And while some some were bracket busting
and filling out different brackets and whatnot. An NFL team
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under the cover of darkness, moving in a clandestine way
to pay.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
A lot of money out.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Now, if you didn't hear the Bengals wrote not one,
but two cartoon sized checks the news coming down on
Sunday night, Sunday night, over the weekend. If he did
not hear, perhaps not the Bengals. The Cincinnati football team
has agreed to deals with Jamar Chase four years, one
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hundred and sixty one million Dead presidents, making him the
highest paid non quarterback non quarterback in NFL history. That
has changed three times. Three times in the past ten days.
There has been a different player at the very top.
It started with.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Max Crosby from the Raiders who got paid, and then.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
The guy that really wanted to win and wanted to
be traded from the Cleveland Browns because he couldn't win
in Cleveland. And then the Browns made him the highest
paid non quarterback, Miles Garrett, and suddenly he didn't care
about winning. He wanted to play for the Browns. And
now now it's Jamar Chase. So Jamar Chase is at
the very top. He is under contract. I know you're
concerned about his finances through twenty twenty nine, so he's
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he's locked in. But wait, there's more. So not only
one hundred and twelve million Garon teed for Jamar Chase,
but you also have T Higgins, the franchise tag wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
T Higgins. Was he traded of the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
No.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
T Higgins gets a four year deal for one hundred
and fifteen million, making him the highest paid.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Number two, number two.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Receiver in NFL history. Not a number one, not a
number one. He's the deuce and he's getting paid a
lot of money. The first two years of T higgins
contract are fully guaranteed, so evently it's a two year deal.
After that, there's some loopholes and whatnot, the deal keeping Higgins,
who's twenty six, in a ben Gal's uniform through the
(19:09):
twenty twenty eight season. So let us discuss the money
flying everywhere in the NFL, even in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
All right, so question for the panel, what do you
make We've seen the moves. Shit, we went over the
moves here, these moves to extend Jamar Chase and T Higgins.
What are these moves signify to you? What do these
moves signify the Jamar Chase T. Higgins contract. So I've
got Whistlestop, Dolly Parton, and primal Fear, and we will
(19:43):
combine all of these things together and we are gonna
make the Goaba Ghoul Because these guys can buy as
much Gobba gohul as they want.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
They're loaded.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So to lead off here, this is the way I
will phrase it is out of character. If you've been
around for a few years, this is very unbangal like
what they're doing here. In fact, when I saw this
at first, I thought, well, this must be some kind
of satire. This must be Sports Talk Berry or one
of those satire sites. This is not real. But it
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turns out it is legit. That we double checked it,
did the discount double check, and sure enough, the Cincinnati
football team was able to dust the cobwebs off the
wallet and pay out a bunch of money. And that's
old family money. Normally, old family money does not get
spent this way, not by the Bengals. They are the
(20:35):
cheapest franchise in the NFL. That they did this, now,
why did they do it? It signifies we are going
to pacify. We're gonna buy the biggest pacifier we can
get to that Joe Burrow, Right, Joe Burrow was over
there bitching that the Bengals needed to keep this team together,
a team that didn't even make the playoffs last year.
And Burrow's out there screaming, you got to keep these
(20:57):
guys together. And it turns out the lesson of this story,
and you can't disagree with me on this is that.
The grumbling by Joe Burrow, grumble, Grumbo, grumble. The grumbling
by Joe Burrow worked his little whistle stop tour around
the NFL media Super Bowl week and around that time
where he publicly advocated and demanded that ownership pay these guys,
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and sure enough, it actually worked right. The stump speech
paid off two hundred and seventy six million dollars in
contracts handed out, not all of it guaranteed, but most
of it is. Most of it is guaranteed to t
Higgins and also to Jamar Chase. So Joe Burrow somewhere
at a secret location with a Cheshire cat smile from
(21:47):
ear to ear that his koviching, his complaining paid off
right and way to go. It all worked out, Burrow,
by the way, it is getting two hundred nineteen million
dollars he's on his that's in guaranteed money. And the
great thing about this is that as good as I
believe Joe Burrow is, he does not have to make
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players around him better. There was for many, many years
this belief if you're going to pay a quarterback top dollar,
they're so good they elevate the players around them. But
but Joe Burrow has publicly stated, I think it's kind
of clear here that he needed these guys on his
team is he's not good enough to elevate the players
around him. Otherwise it would have made more fiscal sense
(22:31):
to allow at least one of those two receivers to
go somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
But what Joe Burrows said, Hey, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Not good enough as a quarterback, and so I have
to have these premier receivers because I can't take a
B level.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Receiver and turn them into an A level receiver.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
And I'd be tremendously handicapped as a quarterback if I
don't have these guys. And ownership agreed with the Bengals.
Ownership's like, you know, you're right, You're absolutely correct. You
you're not that good, and now you look around, and
so you've got an absolute loaded offense.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You'll continue to have that. You have an elite one
to two.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Punch right there at wide receiver. And the Bengals with
all those offensive dynamos, explosive players all over the field,
and it's just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
But yet where else are they? Right?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You assume that the defensive star Trey Hendrickson will be
traded at some point here soon. Can't imagine they'd sign him.
If they weren't gonna sign him, they proably would have
announced it on Sunday night, over the weekend and do
everything at the same time. There was no announcement, which
there have been some rumors that Colts are interested in Hendrickson.
Will see if that trade happens or not, but it'd
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be surprising at this point if the Bengals keep Hendrickson.
They had a terrible defense last year, didn't make the playoffs. Now, furthermore,
let's focus in. We're gonna lock in our laser pointer
on t Higgins because T Higgins now the NFL's ninth
highest paid wide receiver.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Then beat that. For those of you in the back
room that are barely awake.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
T Higgins he's a wide receiver number two and T
Higgins ninth highest paid receiver in the NFL. So that
is a bitter pill to swallow. It is, now, Higgins,
here's the way I look at against. Like, if I
was the Patriots and I paid him that contract, you
know that's justified. If I was the Chargers and I
(24:24):
paid T. Higgins that contract because he'd be my number one,
so that makes a lot of sense. But if I'm
Kansas City, I would I would pay T Higgins that contract.
If I'm the Bengals, it's not my money, it's fine.
They want to burn money, you can do it. But
from a just a logical standpoint, if you already have
the number one receiver and you're paying him the most
(24:45):
money of any player not a quarterback in the NFL
at number two, you put your ninth highest contract for T. Higgins,
I mean that is a that is a tough one.
That is a tough one. You had to make Burrow happy.
Burrow complained, right, you had to make him happy. He
had a hissy fit, and so you made Burrow happy.
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But the second wide receiver is the ninth highest pace
second wide receiver in your locker room and overall the Bengals.
If you look at the way they're set up, they
are like Dolly Parton, the Dolly Partner of the NFL.
They're very top heavy, if you know what I mean.
And Jamar, Chase T. Higgins and Joe Burrow. The estimate
(25:27):
is they're going to take up almost fifty percent of
the salary cap. Now, I am a salary cap truther.
I am a salary cap truth. I know that to
be true, which means you can finagle the salary cap.
And these contracts will be reworked in future years, and
so there's some ways you can work around it. But
to pay both receivers one okay, but seems seems be
(25:49):
a little much. Seems a little much. And so Cincinnati
is going to have a hodgepodge of players from the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Amazon Delivery Drive and Uber X drivers
will be filling out their roster and that'll be the
way that goes there.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Good luck, I'm sure it'll work well.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
As long as you can go out and score thirty
five points a game, you'll have a chance to win
most games.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
And then that's the way it goes.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Just send a bunch of flotsam and jets them out
there and see how it goes all right, Now, final
part of this male of monogue, the last thing here,
we go to Seattle. We pivot away from Cincinnati where
everyone got paid. We go now to Seattle, and the
details are coming out now on Sam Darnald. Now, I
got criticized by some of our guys and say, you
(26:39):
know you're too hard on Sam Darnald. You hit a
big year. You don't know what you're talking about. That's
why you're doing overnights. You were questioning Sam Darnald. So
the details, the fine print is out. The fine print
is out on Sam Donald's contract with the Seahawks. And
it turns out that everything I said was justified. Not
that I'm here to take a victory laugh, but I
will take a bow. I will bow, and you can
(27:01):
call up and apologize if you want. I'll give out
the numbers in a minute. But how do you read
how do you read the news out on the contract
that Seattle's deal with Sam Donald, that they have an
out after one season. It's essentially a one year deal
for Sam Donald. And after the twenty twenty five season,
(27:23):
they can say it's not you, it's us. And hit
the road, Jack, and don't you come back now? Get
out of here. So how do I read that? I
read it like this, Okay, I read it like this.
This is like the metal band Primal Fear. It is
their song vote of no Confidence. It is a vote
of no confidence, which is justified. All right, it is
(27:46):
justified the vote of no confidence. Rightfully, Seattle does not
trust Sam Donald. This is what I've been saying. And
it's nice to know that the Seattle Seahawks also think
this guy's stiff and they don't trust him. They're like, well,
we're kind of in it, but we're not fully into it,
and we want to make sure we have this way
to get out of the contract.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And that is the way you should approach Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
And yet I heard from a bunch of my guys
in Seattle that were like, oh man, you're just a
RAM fan. You hate the Seahawks. I mean no, I
know that Sam Donald's gonna fall apart when you need
him the most. And why would you put your faith
in Sam Donald? The guys a zero. He's fine week
three or week four, but down the stretch, it's like
(28:31):
a poorly made bag. It just falls apart. Right falls apart.
Having blind faith in Sam Donald is akin to that
that line about driving on a dark country road middle
of the night, you got no lights on your car
and you're looking out the back window.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
That is. The chances of that working and the chances
of Sam Donald working are about the same. They're about
the same.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
It worked for a while, but the first time you
come to a turn, you're going over the side of
the hill.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And Sam Donald will earn thirty seven million, thirty seven
and a half million dollars in twenty twenty five. Good
work if you can find it. However, however, the fine
print Sam Donald's contract has all kinds of escape patches,
and the compensation after that does not kick in until
a week after the Super Bowl, so Seattle can say
(29:23):
bye bye, get out of here, you're a bum. And
so a couple of weeks after the season, Seattle won't
make the playoffs next year, So then they have to
decide whether or not they want to keep Sam Donald around,
or he goes back on the market and Seattle goes
back and tries to find some other quarterback. But it
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makes a lot of sense like Seattle has an escape
portal that they can go into an escape patch and
they can cut bait and go get some other Jabbroni
to play quarterback. So it's essentially a throwaway year for
the Seahawks. It's a it's a we're not trying to
win in twenty twenty five. I don't know why you
buy tickets for the team they're they're announcing, they're.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Not really into it.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's just an experimental year with Sam Darnold and maybe
it'll work for a while, but at some point it
won't and then they'll have to move on from him
and bring somebody else.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. I
gotta be piano man.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Elton John's Elton John for the wind. Is no that
is incorrected?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Is Will Vennable, the son of Max Venable, the White
Sox man now Max Vnable.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
This guy's dad gave me a ball when I was
a kid. He was an outfielder for the Angels.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I always remember the players that tossed me at baseball
when I was a kidding.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Max Vnable is one of.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
My Here we call story brought to the third degree, No.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Idea, who that is?
Speaker 4 (30:46):
This?
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Never heard of him?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
All right, here we go, here we go, Here we go,
Here we go. A couple of Billy Joela is the
piano man. By the way, I just went. I just
went with.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
If I correct every one of her mistakes, we will
have no time.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
Just come on right anyway, then it's only a four
hour show, Coop. The latest prediction has the Giants taking
Shadar Sanders with the number three pick.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
Are you buying that? Well?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I saw over the weekend, Shoulder Sanders posted on the
gram photo with Gino Smith, clearly implying that.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
He would rather play for the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yet again, every sent out all those comments on social
media during the Colorado season, he wants to play for
the Raiders. So I'm not buying it. I don't I
think the Giants would be wise to not draft a quarterback.
I don't think either one of these guys is a
slam dog. So I don't believe it. And you know
how this works, Coop. It's the elevator game. It's up
and down if you need it. If it's a slow
news day, shoulder Sanders story. If it's a big news day,
(31:47):
you let it rest next.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
So Mike Williams, he had some good seasons with the Chargers,
was a good wide receiver. Then he went to the
Jets and he was terrible, and now he's back with
the Chargers. He said that he has something to prove
after a terrible year.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yeah. Do you think he'll bounce back with the Chargers. No,
this is the dumbest signing.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
They got rid of him because he couldn't stay on
the field and he was inconsistent. He went out to
two other teams, couldn't stay on the field, it was inconsistent.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And they brought him back Like what are you doing?
How dumb? The dumb dumb dumb are you next?
Speaker 4 (32:17):
So Duke announced over the weekend that they expect Cooper
Flag to be back for the NCAA tournament.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Is Duke your favorite to win it all?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
No, I'm going with Saint John's. Okay, Rick Bottino bias,
I admit it. Betino's a great SoundBite. I love Patino.
I want to see Saint John's win it all.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
How do we do cope? Quick?
Speaker 1 (32:35):
In your face, justin Cincinnati, in your face, justin Saint John's.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
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Speaker 3 (33:00):
Two sons here some instant advice. Hold that thought. No
one's paid attention to me for ten whole seconds, and
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So who needs our advice?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Now?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
It is selection Sunday now and Mondays. Thanks Patty's Day.
And I think you about doing something with the Irish,
but instead we'll just goof on the selection committee. People
up at arms, North Carolina got in West Virginia, did
not Some people upset about that. Advice to the selection
committee to not goof up in future years as we
(33:42):
are into March madness advice please, all right, let's see.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Who do we have any Meenie miney moe.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
We'll start with you Online one at eight seven seven
ninety nine on Fox.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Advice to the Selection Committee.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Hello, Line one, Conspiracy Theory Morning time.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Oh ricking Maryland. Thank you, Rick. Let's go to you.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Hello, you're on the air advice to the selection committee.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
The committee should send my father.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
They're a birthday card.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Happy birthday down.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, Well, I think you need to actually send him
one and not just say that.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
You said that on the radio.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Hello, caller, you're on the air, advice to the selection committee.
Please all right, caller's not there, We'll go to you online.
Let's go over to line for line four. Hello, line four.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
If you want to send me your pennies in the
mail and you're a chick, all.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Right, thank you. I think we're good on that, tony A.
Line five, Hello, line five.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Screw the selection committee? Can State Fullerton got snubbed? We
beat Io State?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I think the ant Eaters got screwed many they're the
number one seed though in the n I T Hello,
line line six, you're on the Airline six.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Hello, Oh, I don't know is that the real pokey play?
I think it was? Was it really all right? All right?
Line one, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Line one, you're on the Airline one, advice to the
selection committee. They got North Carolina in but not West Virginia.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Hello, do you know what they need?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
To do.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Bring back Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Bring bring Eddy back? All right? Line too, Hello, line too,
you're on the airline too.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You mean to tell me eggs are going down just
before Easter?
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Morning time? I love that morning time, Rick and Maryland.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Hello, Line three at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox unscreened radio, the safety and it is off line three,
your advice to the selection committee.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Oh yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
That's the guy right there. That's the original. That's the
original recipe. That's no substitution. Line four, you're on the
airline four.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Hello, coming to work drunk tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You'll get it right, Okay, there's a Sean the hood
guy checking in. Uh alright, no comment on that. Line five. Hello,
line five. See that was a fake guy. See that
was not That was not the real pokey pokey pokey guy.
And that is a reference to if you've been with
the show a long time, password the word game of
(35:53):
stars this guy Bergman, Greg Bergman, Pinkeye and uh and
that and call her back.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Many years ago. Hello, line ye six, you're on the
air line six. Hello.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Yes, that's what you need to do is become a
Minnesota Barkings fans.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Baby.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, there you go, then you really experienced losing.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Line one, you're on the airline one. Seles committee to
consult with the BCF. They never screwed anything.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yeah no, never at all, absolutely correct. Give me advice
to these selection committee people up in arms. North Carolina
got in and West Virginia did not. This is supposedly
a big college basketball outrage.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Line two, you're on the airline too. Hello, yeah, easy,
bringing dog?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Okay, all right, calm down, put your pants on. Line three. Hello,
line three, you're on the air go tell me along.
Speaker 3 (36:38):
All right, I don't know what do you say? I
could tell me along? Sell me alarm. Well that's Rob Parker.
Oh this is blind Scott. Yes, my mom's.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Coming in today. She's gonna help me clean. Your mom
used to wash your mouth out with soap and water.
Line five, Hello, you're on the airline five. All right,
how many phones does that guy have in seven ninety
nine on Fox? To keep the bring the dose guy
off the air Line six, you're on the air Hello,
Line six. Okay, that was not that was the fake one.
(37:11):
That was not the real one.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Line one will keep going unscreened phone calls as we
up the call count.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Line one.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You're on the Airline one. Line one's not paying attention.
We're going to line to Hello. Line two, I watch
you out, Lorena carry I don't like. Yeah, we need
to wears my baseball guy to call back again.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
We missed the words. I think that was a fake.
I know it's you person. Oh you think that It
sounded a little bit like our friend in Iowa. It
did what it was Sam? All right? Line three, Hello,
you're on the air Line three. Go. You gotta get
Jackie Moon to wrestle.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
A live fare.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
That's a great idea. Can we set that up? All right?
Line four. I think they still do that in Russia.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Line four, Hello, see, now we're just being hijacked by
fake pokey pokey pokey people. Nine five, Hello, okay.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Call a doctor. Line six. You're on their advice of
the selection committee. Line six.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, they should take two weeks ofving.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Quit there you go. That sounds like jackass. Just quickly
cookee pig one line too, Line till you're on there, go.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Let we be Love Beach.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
We be long Beach, Long Beach State. Really, what's their mascot?
Now they went woke? I don't know what their mascot anymore.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.