Hour 1 - Punching Your Ticket

Ben Maller gives his letter grade for the Final Four, who he is looking forward to seeing compete, what's missing from this year's Final Four, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bur one hour one
of the Ben Maller Radio Show, recorded off the terrestrial
radio and repackaged where the cool kids hang out here
on the podcast. Before you listen to this hour, or
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Hour podcast. We had brand new podcast up all weekend
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that and find out some information, make some plans. Still

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a couple of months away from that event, but here
an hour one. What letter grade? What letter grade do
you give? The final four is now set three Newbies
and Connecticut. Who are you looking forward to seeing compete
in the final four? What's missing from this event? We'll

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coming from college hoops. Whooo. The madness of March is
winding down, down, down, down, down, down down down. The
twenty twenty three Final four is now set. Oh it's set.
Ah so amazing. We now have our last teams standing.

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And I don't know how much of this you watched
over the weekend and were you locked in? Were you
loaded to know? You were not? Might have missed it.
We'll see what the report card for the NCAA tournament is.
But the final two slots on Sunday go to San
Diego State, show me your Aztec as the Aztecs get

(02:54):
it done and Miami coming back on Sunday at Aztecs.
They win with controversy as the officials giving San Diego
State a tikie tack to be kind foul call in
the final seconds there where there was no contact where
the ball was it was lower and they called the foul.
Just what I need. And the Hurricanes meanwhile storming back.

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You saw that game around thirteen points and the yin
and the yang, Jordan Miller and Isaiah Wong leading the
way as the Canes come back and they are joined
by Saturday's winner. The two winners on Saturday, Yukon and
Florida Atlantic, cashing their keynote cards. So that means now

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that we have three newbies, three newbies who have crashed
the partee into the final four, Florida Atlantic, STSU and
Miami along with Ukon. So let us discuss the question
what letter grade do you give the final four? The

(03:59):
final four team standing in men's college basketball. So the
Mala report card, I'll be fair here, gotta do it,
you gotta do it, Malle report card. This final four,
in my entire life, gets an F. This is an
F final four. This is a failure of the final four.
Too much of anything is a bad thing. And that's

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where we have We have too much irrelevance in the
final four. That's the reality. I've got P. T. Barnum,
Peacock and two Step and we will combine all of
these random things together and we are going to cut
down the next is what we're going to do. We're
gonna cut down the nest. Now, ay, all of you dopes,

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and you know who you are, you bleeding heart bozos.
I I love the underdog. Who you know who you are? Well,
this is your fantasy land, is what it is. File
this one under the thing sports fans think they want
but really don't. The Final Four. From a marketing standpoint,

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this is college basketball armageddon. Holy crap on a cracker, batman,
what have we done? Now? I realized that long ago
everyone's bracket was busted. That's not the point. The legacy
teams are nowhere to be found. You have schools that

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are not even regional powers from the Midwest. The number
five seed Miami, which if you're old, was a football school,
but they haven't been good at football. It's a dormant
football school. Certain they're not a basketball school. With the
grizzled long time college basketball coach Jim Larenega being celebrated
and nothing against him. In the South, Sundago State, the

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number five seed in the South where the turf meets
the surf. That's not a football school or a basketball school.
It's just a school. It's a party school, is what
it is. It's a party place. And then you have
out of the East the number nine seed Florida Atlantic,
a school that started their basketball program as a D
two in nineteen eighty eight, have been in Division one

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what is known as Division one since nineteen ninety four.
And then in the West, the closest thing to a
legacy program, Connecticut Yukon rounds out the final four. But
I think it's an F on the report card. It's
not my concern and we can just ignore it. We

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can ignore it. We do broadcasting, not narrowcasting, and this
is a final four that is going to require P. T.
Barnum level salesmanship here. Florida Atlantic is the big Cinderella
in the bunch of the number nine seed from Boca
making just the second tournament appearance, thirty five wins for

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Conference USA team to make the national semifinals. I mentioned
we do broadcasting, not narrowcasting. And this is the problem
here Florida Atlantic. You know how many fans they averaged
for their seventeen home games in Bolca. Do you want
to take a guess? Yeah, how about less than twenty
five hundred fans per game? Two thousand, two hundred and

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thirty eight fans per game? Yis? Then you have Connecticut
focus on them. You caught a program that was a
perennial contender in the Jim Calhoun era and they have
won four titles. Ninety nine was the first in the
twenty fourteen. The last that was with Kevin Ollie when

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he was the coach of the Huskies and now Dan
Hurley coaching. I believe it's in his fifth year now,
and he has broken through Connecticut becoming the seventh team
to win all four regional games in routes or roots,
depending on how you learned to say that word. And
they win all four regional final four games before before

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getting to the last couple of games by fifteen or
more points. They mollywopped Gonzaga over the weekend, drew Timmy
getting into foul trouble. That was a boat race situation. However,
my experience, maybe you can correct me on this way.
And I think of the typical Northeastern sports fan. I
do not think of a college sports fan. I don't.

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I think of a professional sports fan, not a college
sports fan. So it's not like people go gaga. I'm happy,
but you know, it's okay, more into pro sports all
right now? Page two here what is missing from the
Final four were the two things that are missing, The
stars that shine bright and the name brands. The name

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brands the Final four used to be back on the
old days are showcase for the top dogs and college basketball,
the future NBA headliners, the breakout star of this tournament.
You know who, the breakout stars. It was eliminated by
Florida Atlantic Marcus Noel. Marcus Noel was the peacock of

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March Madness, must see TV, the bug on the rug
or in this case, the hardwood, and now the super
nova has been eliminated. Kansas State done teammate Keyante Johnson
was in foul trouble and Marcus put up thirty points
and twelve rebounds in that game. On Saturday. The Purple

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Hayes Kansas State Jayhawks Kansas State Jayhawks. The Wildcats go away.
The Jayhawks long gone, but Dick will be drafted in
the first round. Grady Dick will be a first round pick.
Not in the Final four, by the way, but Noel,
who should be in somebody's NBA training camp, averaged twenty
three and a half points thirteen and a half assists

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during the four games and easily the standout of the
entire tournament. But he's not in the final four, which
is a major bummer. And none of the NBA's top
suspects are going to be around. They're not around, and
it's a TV show without the blue chip talent and

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the branding other than Connecticut, which is again it's a
stretch to say they're a legacy program in college basketball
since they started winning big in nineteen ninety nine, and
then you got a bunch of generic brands outside of that.
All right, last, we're here. So who are you looking
forward to seeing compete? Well, for me, that's easy. While

(10:37):
I give the Final four and f I'm doing a
little happy dance. I'm not doing the Macaray now. I'm
doing the Aztec two step is what I'm doing here.
The Aztec two step not for dysenterry. I'm doing my
happy dance. Because one of my first paying gigs in
radio when I worked in San Diego was very briefly,
I was the board op the engineer for San Diego

(10:59):
State men's basketball. It was a very rocky ride. I
was bad at it. I sucked at it, but San
Diego State also sucked. No one was listening, and so
it's kind of cool to see that the Aztecs, who
had some pretty good players off and on over the
years at San Diego State that have gone on played
in the NBA sporadically, but San Diego State into the

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final four. They have a heck of a shot to
get to the title game, playing the number nine seed
Florida Atlantic. And they've also been given the gift I
heard before I got on the microphones here, Arnie Spanier
picked Florida Atlantic, which pretty much guarantees San Diego State
will get it done. So that's good news for the Aztecs,
who play a defensive style which is rough, uneven, and

(11:40):
un San Diego like, you don't think of a defensive
institution in San Diego is not esthetically pleasing, but it
has been effective. And meanwhile, you have on the other
side of the brack, you have Miami and Connecticut. And
so we're conceivably going to have an all South Florida
matchup at Florida Atlantic in Miami advance, or we could

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have some combo of San Diego State Connecticut, San Diego
State Miami. Meanwhile, I go back to the generic brand,
the lack of the wild factor in terms of the
headline players, and we knew going in college basketball was
up against it because the top player whose teams have
been gagging in the regular season the NBA to try

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to get, the Parisian prodigy, Victor Wembanyama, is nowhere to
be seen. Scoot Henderson is projected as being a top
three pick. He's not going to be there as he
was a G League player, and the top player of
my mock drafts are right. A couple different mock drafts,
the top player projected to be picked is Jordan Hawkins

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of Connecticut. Who's your standard six five shooting guard that
is projected to be a late first round pick. Those guys,
I'll make a decent amount of money for a couple
of years, but likely won't be in the NBA very
long unless you're you're breaking from the mold, breaking from
the Molder. I'm pulling for him because we have the
same birthday. I'm a little younger than he is. He's

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in college, but maybe i'm a little older. I don't know.
But he was born in April twenty nine and Isaiah
Wong and Jordan Miller of Miami are projected to be
second round picked San Diego State in Florida Atlantic. Nobody
on either one of those teams has a player that
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A big decision to make, a big decision to make.
I believe I've made my mind on that. We'll get
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It's Ben Maller. A decision has been made and moving

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on up, We'll get to all that. We began with
a college basketball heavy Mallard monologue. FIRG Dog says, I
know I am the exception, but I like this final four.
My roommate and I are officially on the San Diego
State bandwagon. Go Aztecs. Be careful for a dog that
means your teammates with Poppy in San Diego. Be careful,

(15:44):
be very careful. You fee me from Chicago, says Hey
Mallard A plus and a euro sandwich on the monologue.
How about Bellinger raking in spring training? I remember you
pooh poo that cub signing. There's a playoff team, we

(16:05):
says you fee me. Let me check my my big board.
Here me check my notes. I do not see the
Cubs in my crystal ball in the playoffs. I do
not see Cody Bellinger winning the MVP Award. I do
not see that. Yeah, who knows. Let's see here, I

(16:26):
can't read that Shane from Des Moines right since this,
with all due respect, I help Poppy's picks, picks a
flight to Atlanta and ends up in Afghanistan. Wow. Most
deserving worst call of the year since the angry social
media cry baby down South. A plus on the Mallard monologue.

(16:48):
Let see John says for your information twenty years ago,
Mark cut what playing the Final four New Orleans as
a member of the conference. Does he have a funny
voice like that, because that's how that guy sounds every
every now, every guy that corrects you sounds like I'm
on to something. The radio guy keep keep purform notes

(17:11):
from I don't remember when the Final four. That's exactly
what it sounds. Double Mexican in San Diego says eight
out of nine or eight point nine eight point nine
on the mat the monologue, it's a newby Night in
the Final four. The only thing that could stop the
Poppy jinks is the Arnie Spaniard jinks. Please Ben, for
the love of Manta Zuma's revenge, please blow up Poppy.

(17:35):
As soon as he mentioned San Diego State this week,
I'm counting on you and Roberto to protect the Aztecs.
We will take some calls a minute. I did want
to mention I got a lot of emails over the
weekend while we were away from our watch post here.
It was announced that the app Twitter, the Twitter app

(17:56):
will start charging for verified accounts on April first, and
people were asking whether or not I was going to pay.
I believe it's eighty four dollars to start. It will
only go up eighty four dollars a year to be verified.
The answers no. Now, if the company wants to pay,
and knowing how cheap this company is, I think there's

(18:18):
no chance they will do that. But if they want
to pay, then I'll be I'll be happy to accept
them to pay for the account to be verified. But
I'm not going to pay. And the reason why. First
of all, it was a badge of honor to have
a verified Twitter account because you had to earn it.
You had to be someone at least perceived to have

(18:39):
some kind of prominence. But if you can just cut
a check, it's like who cares? Anybody can do that.
I don't really need it that much and I actually
hate Twitter. I despise Twitter. I use it for the
show and it doesn't improve my life in any way.
There are absolute losers on that app. There are scumbags,
the dreck of society hang out on Twitter. So why

(19:03):
would I want to pay to experience that? No, thank you,
I'm good. I don't need bad so so the answers no,
So I guess on April first, it'll the little blue
checkmark thing will vanish from my unless unless the kind
people this mega million dollars audio company I work for, say,

(19:25):
you know, it's very important we need to keep these
people verified. If that's the case, it will continue, but
it will not be my money. Now, maybe Eddie will pass.
Mean by Eddie, are you gonna pay to be verified? Eddie?
You're gonna put a couple of bucks down there? Eighty
four dollars a year? Is that means something to you, Eddie?
Is that big? No? No, all right, Roberto's not even
on there anymore because Dave Roberts is still managing the

(19:45):
Dodgers and I don't need to worry about it. Coop
used to care about that, but I think he gave
up when the Lions fan got verified, and he didn't.
I think at that point he just said, that's it.
I don't need any That's when it's that's when it
really lost it. That's what you're like, oh screw it. No.
But it was a lot like it was hard to
get verified at one point, like I was contacting everyone

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I knew. I was in a race. When Pat O'Brien
worked here, I was racing pob and I'll never forget
what a douche, what a graaty Dick or Dick and
Dayton Pat O'Brien was because he got verified, but like
two days before me. It was like within a week.
I it was in two days, and he sent me
a text message with his screenshot of him standing with

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his little blue check mark. It's like a big deal.
And I got to pull out favor from people to
get verified and all that. It was. It was a
battle and I got verified, and that's great. But I
don't really need and I don't think I've changed the
show in any way or anything like that, so I
will not be partaking in that. Moving on up, we'll
get to that in a minute. Let's go to the
phones low from the North end of Boston. We say

(20:51):
hello to Blind Scott, who's on the Ben Maller Show
on Fox. Hello, Blind Scott, Hey, what's up? I'm a
big Yukon Huskey fan. Oh wait, hold, Blind Scott, Wait
a minute, there's a golden ticket online, Blind Scott. I
gotta put you on hold, Blind Scott, can I Can
I put you on hold? Blind Scout? Yeah, that's fine
to put you on hold. All right, let's go to blind.

(21:11):
Oh yeah, blind and blind my god, Oh blind, you
give us ten minutes, we'll give you a blind callar
we go to blind Emmett the Seahawk Fan. Hello, blind Emmett,
Hello Ben. You know, I'm kind of wondering, here are
they like you? I'm trying to like play a big
April Fools prank. I mean, why it's kind of ironic
how they're taken off your blue check mark on April first,

(21:31):
But I mean that could just be me. Who knows.
Maybe it's a joke. I don't know. I don't I
don't care. Whatever they do, what they want. It's it's
not my product. I don't think it's a good product.
But I use it for the show, and so when
something else comes along better, we'll use that. That's fine.
Nick Finley's gonna pay you to get verified. Yeah, and
I love Brian has to let everyone know everything he's doing.

(21:55):
I do not let everyone know everything I'm doing, but
Milne wants the world to know what he's up to.
It's fascinating, Hey, that that's that that's the younger generation,
you know that. I mean, Brian is nothing compared to
what I see on other social medias, like for people
I fall that go to school, I mean they post
literally everything. But I called about this NTA tournament, and what,
oh what a bummer five. If you let me tell

(22:17):
you something, If you're a CBS executive right now, and
you promised advertisers a certain return on investment, you're like, oh,
I'll do a bunch of I'll do a bunch of
make goods. Don't worry everything, You'll be all right. Then
I feel like a lot of people And maybe it's
just like the people that like are coming up on
my feed, and you know, maybe I'm just in the
wrong on this, but I kind of like the parody
in this final four. I mean, san Diego State is

(22:40):
a great story. Shout out Poppy in San Diego. I
mean that's the that's the tick that he actually got
right and he's been cashing with it. But um, Arnie
picked fau so I think san Diego State's going on
the national chap Arnie picked Arizona to win every game,
and let's be honest, he still he's still mad about
that somehow. But I really like this tournament, man, I
really think having the like random upsets and seeing these

(23:02):
big teams. I mean, maybe I'm just a hater getting
knocked off as cool to me. I mean that Marcus
Noel kid though, oh man, I really, I mean the
dude is crazy. But that five eight height is a
little concerning to me. I mean, who cares. If you
can play, you can play. I don't care how tall
your shot, how big you are five in the NBA, Like,
everyone's like so tall in the NBA, but there have

(23:24):
been players. It's the gimmick. It's like in baseball, you
have a guy throws underhanded. Everyone throws overheaded. But you
have the guy throws underhanded. People aren't used to seeing it.
It screws him up. Yeah, I mean the dude is
like quake kids. He could throw that ball and he
doesn't have pretty big douchebag like the quarterback in Arizona
who plays for the Cardinals. Yeah, well, I don't know.
Do you think Marcus Noel is taller than him? I

(23:45):
mean I think it probably even. Yeah. I mean, I gulda,
this guy Noell should play quarterback for the Cardinals. Maybe'd
be better, he's healthier. I mean they do need a
quarterback for like the first eight to nine weeks, all right,
so we found one guy blind emmid blind them at
the one guy excited Jones up for the final four,
who has no no skin in the game. I'm excited.

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He was wearing a San Diego hat. Sandeo stated, I
get out of here. Thank you. I'm excited about it.
You're not gonna watch a second of it. You're a
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So we mentioned that Miami beat Texas to go to
the final four. But good news for Longhorn's head coach,
Rodney Terry, former Fresno State head coach. By the way,
apparently he's going to get the job there at Texas
for leading them into the Elite eight member. Chris Beard

(25:13):
got fired because he had that off the court trouble
there and they promoted Terry to be the intermed coach
and apparently they liked the job he did, so he's
gonna he's gonna apparently get the head job there at Texas. Yeah,
that is the promotion. The story I was gonna get
to Rodney Terry offered, he's been offered or will be
offered the permanent head coaching job. Want to make a

(25:34):
bet that Chris Beard does better at Mississippi and this
guy because I think he's actually knows what he's doing
by the coach, and he'll he'll get a bunch of
great players at Mississippi and this guy will last three
years at tops and out at Texas and the YEP.
I'd be like, what are we good for him? Yeah,
it's nice. He'll make a lot of money. Put that
a resume and then go get an assistant job. So

(25:56):
buy a house. I saw the number of people that
had the final four correctly picked. Did you see that number?
Twenty ESPNS had twenty million brackets on their site, thirty
seven picked the final four. There was another statut I
may not have the numbers right. I don't know if
you heard this, but it was something like, I don't know,

(26:18):
two million people predicted that all the final four teams
would lose in the first round. No is it? Yeah? Yeah,
I bet you. You know how a lot of people
they put out like gag brackets. You know, let me
do a gag one, you know, like maybe your Yeah,
let me put Florida Atlantic in San Diego State in

(26:40):
my gag bracket because that'll be funny. And then they
actually or it was the stereotypical you know, I know
nothing and I mean literally know nothing, and it's the
mascot or something. It's the guy that went to San
Diego State, who's got an uncle that teaches at Florida
Atlantic and then his cousin happened to go to Yukon
and then he loved Miami football in the eighties. You know,

(27:02):
it's that that guy my cousin who went to San
Diego State. I texted him, said you know, Hey, congrats,
And I said, are you going to the final four?
He said, yes, Oh, they're going to Houston. Yeah, he's
going to the final four. All right, Well, good, there
you go nice have a good time, all right, I mean,
once in a lifetime experience, right right? Yeah, you gotta
go if you can. Maybe this is the beginning of
a San Diego State dynasty because they are supposedly moving

(27:23):
up Eddie. Yeah, A lot of rumors that San Diego
State is going to replace those those UCLA Bruins and
USC Trojans, that they're gonna expand the PAC twelve and
the Aztecs will Are they gonna do both San Diego schools?
How's it gonna work here? I've seen different different reports
on San Diego State is one of the schools in
consideration to move to the PAC twelve when UCLA and

(27:45):
USC leave. What's the other school going to be? Is
it gonna be? But he Boise is at it? I
don't know. It should be a President state though, would
it be b Yu? Would they be willing to They
already joined a conference? Did they join a guy? I
thought they were independent stay Worth? Yeah? Did they join
a current? I thought they were joy. I can't keep track.
I don't know. I thought they were going to Big twelve.
I can't Are they going to Big twelve? I thought?

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So let's do who's next year? Let's go Fresno State,
Eddie back twelve. Yeah, that's what it should be. Okay,
all right is the Bane Mather Show and we're gonna
We're gonna go right back to blind Scott. But there's
a gold another gold. Scott's getting studio. He's not gonna
be happy any Is this disrespectful of the Brian the

(28:28):
blind community. Let's going out to San Diego and not
poppy Double all Mexican in San Diego. Hello, Double All Mexican. Welcome. Hey,
I'm just using this golden ticket. So to hear blind
Scott for another five? How dare you shame? Hey? Ben?
What so? Uh? I keep hearing you don't think that

(28:49):
was a foul? Is that what's going on now? It
was not a foul. It was a terrible It was
a terrible call. And enjoy it. You got a gift.
This is what the Lakers get all the time. They
get the whistles in their back pocket. That's what San
Diego because that's a laker like call. That's a it's
a it's a chicken crap call that helps one team out.
You don't need I don't need that call. I'm happy

(29:11):
San Diego State one, but they shouldn't have won like that.
It's bullcrap. But you were okay when the Chiefs won
the Super Bowl on that tiki tack call. Right, that
was a good call in Super Bowl. Oh okay, I
think you're been to help any on this one. No,
there's no how was that foul? Come on, actually, come out.
I know you're in San Diego and all that that

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that there was that was agree? I agree it was
tiki tack. I fou you don't call. You don't make
that call. There's no need to make that call. If
that calls not made. No one's like, I can't believe
that game ending like that? Why there should have been
a foul call. No one's saying that, no one. Yeah,
I agree, but they said that for the super Bowl.

(29:52):
This is this is we're talking about what just happened
in college bass. We're not talking about the Super Bowl.
We're talking about this, right, How was a tiki tack call?
As wholl okay? All right, are you done. Is that it?
Let's make blend Scott wait a little long. Okay, I'll
make him wait all right, hang up, I want to
take bets. Blend Scott hangs it up. There's no chance
he waits right, almost no chance, so he'll be long gone.

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(31:47):
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And we'll get back to the calls here Mam will
tell see if anybody knows the answer. Rob in Vegas
is the great wrestler. Dick the Bruiser is the answer.
Who else do we have? Page down? Page down? White
Rob the first going with Dick Trickle as his answer.

(32:13):
Benny the Dishwasher guest by furg Doug. Well, yeah that
almost happened. That was that was interesting. Edmund Washington Garcia says,
Mickey mccrispy is the way to go. Steve Burline from
The Late Night Drug Tester Angelo burt Ellie is the
guest by James Page Down, Dave Craig from Rob That's

(32:36):
his answer. Ernest Biner from mcguel on Fire Rob in
Minnesota says Shane Matthews. Saul Goodman from Benito the Cowboy fan,
Julio Rodriguez, Jay Rod from Robbie the Mariner Fan, Molochai
Flynn from Double O Mexican in San Diego, Rick Richards

(32:58):
going with Jay Johnson done Dodger legend and baseball Prankster
from Back in the Day. Mister Wright says the KFC
Chicken or chick is the answer. Kurt Warner from gumby Dave,
That's his answer. Page Down, Page Down, Sal says Miguel
Cabrera's Second Family is the answer. Scooby Doo from Adrian

(33:20):
the Pokey Pokey Pokey Guy f Them picks, Big Lou
says Laker and Texas Longhorn Great Chris Mim is the answer.
Jim McMahon on Coke from Nick in Wisconsin. Todd Marenovitch
from Darren. Let's see page down Callaghan. Tim goes with
Cordell Stuart Callaghan. Tim sent me, I'm very jealous. He

(33:42):
went to a Costco food court in Windsor where they
had both poutine and chicken fingers, and it's enough. I
might have to move to Canada just for the the
endless amounts of poutine and the chicken fingers. Eddie, do
you have an answer, Eddie? I need to give it
a legitimate shot. Was it Marcus Allen? Marcus Allen, Eddie?
That is incorrect the correct answer. This predates the super

(34:05):
Bowl era of the NFL. Boo, Nobody cares about that era, Eddie.
It's true, Eddie, this is a legitimate I didn't say
super Bowl. He won a championship. That's Bob Waterfield. Bob
Bob Waterfield nineteen forty five. He played for, not the
La Rams, not the ship you know, the Cleveland or whatever.

(34:26):
He actually did, playing the Cleveland Rams nineteen forty five,
Cleveland Rams. Who knew Dick and Dayton doesn't even know
that answer. He might know the answer, I bet she does. Ye.
Does it involve Bernie Kozar? No? No, that's a good point,
and they probably doesn't know. Let's go to back to
the phones and now after by two golden tickets, we
say hello to Blind Scott on the North end of Boston,

(34:50):
who has made it back on the air. He did
not hang on golden tickets. Means you're like the worst
caller ever when you have to use one of those.
But then uh Jathen Brown and he was doing the
Apache dance on the sideline earlier today during the Celtic
team when they won. He's been campaigning for NBA All
League Team. He can make it as a forward this year,

(35:10):
I guess, because he plays forward. But if he gets it,
he'll get an extra one hundred million in his contract.
That's why he was saying all those salty words like
a few weeks ago, because the NBA writers actually decide
who makes the NBA All League Teams, so they control
who makes a certain amount of money because it's incentives
towards contracts. But one other thing I was going to say,

(35:32):
the Boston Bruins. They had a huge weekend. They beat
the franchise record or tied it with fifty seven wins,
and they have a fifty goal score two the first
time since that guy from dumb and dumb or cam
Neely scored fifty goals. They played these two wicket bad
teams this weekend from these terrible cities in the United States,
Carolina and Tampa Bay, who scored fifty. David passonat for people.

(35:55):
I don't have a lot of time. People don't care.
You know that. People don't care, Eddie. Why are you
bringing it up there? He just wants to. I'm so excited.
I'm excited about the Bruins. It gives me goose bumps
thinking about them winning the Cup. They're just so good
that you're They're better than the nineteen seventy one Bobby
Or team. And the Hurricanes are a good team. I
didn't think the Bruins were that good until they crushed

(36:17):
them today in Tampa Bay. Wanted to shoot out crush him. Yeah,
but they were up three to one most of the game. Yeah,
they did it. They got They did it for ratings, right,
they wanted burn Yeah. Yeah, they set burg Ron and Marshanto,
they're two best players. Yeah, they did it. Frady. They
have this dude that just beats everybody up in the night. Now,
this guy half away, he just clubs people over the head.

(36:38):
And stuff and gets him in mind. He's the sheriff
Joey half Away, you know, he's a fourth finer two
but one more. The NHL needs the Ranger. It's the
Bruins in the Maple Leaves to go far in the
playoffs because it affects the stalary cap because all these
other crappy holes in the United States that have NHL

(36:59):
team just don't bring in NHL revenue, like the Coyotes.
You could buy the Coyotes. They're a four hundred million
dollars franchise. Should do that. We should buy the Coyotes.
Why don't we buy the Coyote? Why not? He said,
we could afford it. Yeah, how much? How much that
four huns? That's easy on this overnight radio saycommend you

(37:20):
could find you find it, and we just use you
as a figurehead and bring in all these venture capitalists,
you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a
good point. Yeah, we'll be the face of the team
and then we'll have some rich like hedge fund people
that'll be the money people. Yeah. We get roperto to
Bringo's Mexican buddies to the games just for sin fillings.
You know what, I mean, well, the goodness, where where
the Coyotes play right now? You don't need seat showers.

(37:43):
They have no seats, so they don't need it. Yeah,
I heard when you go there and getting a good
fist fight too, Like it's a pretty good time because
they got like college students and it's just like I
love stuff like that. You know, that's a very sporty
call by Blind Scotty. I mean, I'm used to you
doing sporty phone calls. What's everything? Okay? Well you yeah, Well,
I've just been really into sports lately. You know. It's

(38:04):
the sports scene in Boston is really big. Now we're
gonna be bringing home the battle. The Celtics have a
have a better road to the playoffs than the Bruins
have to win the championship. But the Bruins are more determined,
you know what I mean. Oh, they're more determined. Yeah, okay,
well Blind Scotts, Eddie, blind Scott sees the Bruins is
more determined. Well, the President's Trophy winners always win the

(38:24):
Stanley Cup. This is the year the Bees, Eddie. Ye,
the Red Sox will blow too many ex Dodgers on
the Red Sox. That's I mean, all the Dodger trash
ends up playing in finway. How did that happen? By
the way, what's going on with that sat on the
toilet with the plunger in it the other day? Oh boy,