March 20, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller breaks down the NCAA Tournament including Sean Miller getting Xavier getting into the Sweet 16, the rise of Markquis Nowell's stock, a Verbal Octagon between Angry Bill & Sean the Hood Guy, and much more!
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on Sunday. Some other goodies over the weekend. But here
in our number one, it's all about college basketball on
the Ben Maller Show podcast, the Sweet sixteen is set.
What is your reaction to the beleaguered former Arizona coach
Sean Miller getting his new school, which is his old school, Xavier,
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into the Sweet sixteen. Did anyone's stock rise more than
Kansas States Marquise Noel over the weekend, the man looking
like a video game glitch as he ran around at
five foot seven overall. Also do a wellness check on
the twenty twenty three NC Double A men's basketball tournament
heading in to weekend number two of men's college basketball.
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Our lead. To begin the fiftive its play the Hits Ball.
May have play the Hits College Basketball. As we have
whittled down your bracket from the original sixty eight teams
down to sixteen teams. Sixteen teams remaining after the first
weekend of activity, did you pay attention to you get
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hemorrhoids going right now? Because you were sitting on your
ass all weekend watching college basketball. No, maybe not, well,
we were checking it out. It was a wild ride,
although not as wild as some years in the past,
and half the teams in the Sweet sixteen are from
non Power five conferences, So whoo boo, I guess we
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had UCLA and Gonzaga. They advanced that matchup. The matchup
for the Ages set for Thursday night, just off the
Strip in Vegas, a rematch of the twenty twenty one
Final four. Also, they played years ago in the Sweet sixteen,
and only two of the eight Sweet sixteen matchups went
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to seed, So if you're excited about that, congratulations. These
Zags headed to the eighth consecutive Sweet sixteen. Now that
sounds like a lot. It is the longest active streak
in the country, the fourth longest streak behind Duke from
ninety six to Z six. North Carolina who went thirteen
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straight years in the eighties to the early nineties, and
some team from UCLA with the Wizard of Westwood back
in the sixties and the seventies. So that's where we are.
You've got one matchup that I want to circle here
is Xavier, the number three seed, and the number two
seed Texas that matchup in addition to Ucla and Zaga,
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the Seeds somewhat holding up firm in that in those
two regions. But the reaction to Xavier getting to the
Sweet sixteen and Sean Miller in particular, So let's start
with that. Sean Miller, the much maligned coach, had been
in Arizona for a long time. There was a documentary
I watched a couple years ago, very explosive documentary that
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certainly painted the picture that Sean Miller was up to
some real shady crap at Arizona. But he never had
it stick to him. He never added stick to him,
and he was out at Arizona. But he lands on
his feet. So what is your reaction to Sean Miller
getting Xavier into the Sweet sixteen. I've got Monopoly man,
Rick Flair and crayon box, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we will give you a
migraine headache. If you give us ten minutes, we'll give
you a my grain headache unless we don't. So hey,
this is the ultimate flex by Sean Miller. It is
he was playing about as fast and loose as one
could play with the NCAA rulebook at Arizona, and there
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were a couple of years of going back and forth,
back and forth after the documentary hit, and then eventually
the brass at Arizona and Tucson said, Jack and Jack,
we gotta get rid of this guy. And so Sean
Miller was out. But that all of that fallout from
the twenty seventeen FBI investigation into widespread corruption in college basketball.
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This was the investigation that led to several prominent assistant
coaches ending in jail, going to jail because of money
being exchanged and some other things that were going on there.
But you can't underscore this. Several coaches went to jail
because of that. But here's Sean Miller, who's the monopoly
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man as a coach. He's got to get out of
jail free card. He's the monopoly man, the ring of protection.
And there was this toxic cloud floating around his location
there in Arizona. He put on a gas mask, he
hit some anti poisoned food and he smiled, and that's it.
Over the final four seasons in Tucson, when the scandal hit,
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Arizona was in the dumps. He got fired. This cat
in April of twenty twenty once but one season just
doing podcasting. That was it. He was a podcaster, And
after a one year hiatus, he's back in the saddle
again at Xavier, a place where he got his start.
He began his launching pad up the coaching ranks in
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the late two thousands, the first decade of the two
thousands there at Xavier, and now he is back on
the map with the Musketeers as they are in the
Sweet sixteen. We mentioned they play Texas, and if you
look at your Midwest bracket Sweet sixteen matchup, that's the
number two seed versus the number three seed, Texas versus Xavier.
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And we wouldn't be shocked if Sean Miller quickly ends
up back at a bigger institution, because that's normally how
this stuff goes. You take a step back, and then
you go and take a step up, and then you're
on your way. All right now, Page two here talking
college troops. Did anything else standout anyone's stock rise? Well,
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there's one person, and I guess we had a phrase
it this way. Did anyone's stock rise more than Case
State's guard Marquise Noel, who if you watch that Kansas
State game on Sunday. Wait wow, you talk about a
viral performance, and it did not start out as a
viral performance, but he was. He was a trending topic
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on social media, Kansas State taking down mighty Kentucky. Go
smoke some bluegrass, and then that he was a central
reason why showing it's not I'll tell you are no, no, no,
it's not now'll tell you, it's what kind of game
you got has also showing you it's not how you start,
it's how you get the job done. There at the end,
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because Noel went almost fifteen minutes without scoring, and yet
by the time the game had ended, he was the talk.
Looked like a video game cheat code, looked like he
was a glitch in a video game out there running
around for Kansas State the pest like defense as Wildcat
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versus Wildcat, the team from Manhattan, Kansas harassing John Calipari's guys,
and up and down and all around, and ten turnovers
in the first half for Kentucky basketball. As Marquise Noel was,
he went like nature blood nature boy, he went Rick Flair,
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and he was styling, he was profiling. And if you
saw you know what I'm talking about. It was behind
the back pass here on the fast break between the
legs over there. So Kansas State started that game over
thirteen from three point range and then Noel started knocking
down three point attempts. He made three of the next
five attempts for k State and sashaying his way through
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the taller Kentucky defenders. And by the time it was done,
this cat Noel, who stands under five eight, was either
scoring or assistant on sixteen of Kansas State's twenty six
made field goals. I mean he was in one stretch
of time there it was Mighty Mouse with his cape
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on there. Mister Smooth in the clutch also down the stretch,
had eight foul shots from the penalty stripe their final
three minutes. He made all eight of them, scored twenty
three of his twenty seven points in the second half,
had nine assist three steals, and now another opportunities Kansas
State advances. He's from the New York area from I
believe Harlem based on the broadcast there, and Kansas eight
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will be going back to the Mecca Maddison Square Garden
against Tom Izzo in Michigan State. But because he is
vertically challenged. It is not projected that he will have
a professional basketball career. You don't draft someone who's that size.
Very rarely does that happen, certainly not in the modern
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era of the NBA. You can make it, but you
got to make it a different way. But Marquise Noel
projected as not draftable because he's five foot seven and
not much weight at all, soaking wet. Now, I would
love to see that change it. I do enjoy the
dominiontive point guard. There haven't been many of them over
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the years, but you can count them all on one hand.
I believe you've got Spud Webb back in the eighties,
Mugsy Bogues around that time, Earl Boykins in the nineties,
Nate Robinson more recently. He's still a plan somewhere. Is
Isaiah Thomas. The other Isaiah Thomas played for the Celtics
and head an MVP type year a couple of years ago.
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But that's about it all right, last, we're here, so overall,
let's do a wellness check at this point. One weekend
in twenty twenty three NCAA Men's basketball tournament, I'd love
to sit here and bark and complain and blow fire
into the microphone, saying how terrible it is, how much
it sucks. Nah, it's about average. It's about average, which
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is not terrible. It's not great. It's not the greatest
thing I've ever seen. It's not on life support. It's
it's a good mix. It's it's like a box of crayons.
There's something for everybody in there. You know, whatever you want,
whatever you want to draw, whatever color combination you want
to use, and from what. From when I've checked out here,
the Sweet sixteen you have. If you're a dog team
you love the Cinderella, you've got Princeton. But even with Princeton,
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I read this earlier that the average seed is four
point six in the Sweet sixteen, so normal for the
Sweet sixteen from nineteen eighty five to twenty or two,
the average seed remaining at this point was four point five.
So it's a little bit just a hair above normal.
The chalkiest of them all since nineteen eighty five was
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oh nine, and the craziest was twenty twenty one. And
so if you're into that kind of thing, But you
still got two number one seeds Alabama and Houston. So
if you just picked number one seeds all the way.
You got half your field set to go. You've got
traditional powerhouses, you see, la. I don't know that Yukon
has a traditional powers but they had a great run
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for a stretch out of the Big East, and Michigan
State seemingly always with tom Izzo in the thickest things.
And so you've got them around and Cinderella, not Farley Dickinson,
Fairley Dickinson. The New Jersey out eliminated. They're done. So
you have to hang your hat on the number fifteen
seed Princeton from the South region or the number nine
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seed Florida Atlantic in the East. And if you like
the mid majors, there's a bunch of those mid major
type schools San Diego State, Creighton Xavier along lows lines.
We'll take your calls if you'd like to be party.
Lines are open at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty
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nine if you'd like to be party again. It's not
a newbie night, but we love hearing new people yap, complain, yell,
jump up and down and all that. You were more
than welcome to be part of the program, and things
are getting serious. Things are getting serious for Rick Pattino.
Is he on the move some late night developments with
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the seventy year old coach at I owner Rick Pettino.
What is the latest on that. We'll get to it
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Patino coming up? Also, will we have a verbal octagon.
Stay tuned. We could have audio pugilism. A match has
been called by Seawan the Hood Guy. He's online right now,
but will the person he's challenging call in and duke
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it up in the audio octagon? Stay tuned Dot dot dot.
Angry Bill being called out after some terrible things he
said in a previous episode of the show on Sean
the Hood Guy would like to get in and settle
it once and for all. Mono a mono. He's there,
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He's waiting. Will Angry Bill call up? Inquiring minds would
like to know. We'll get it on like Donkey Kong.
We begin with college basketball, a Sweet Sixteen theme Mallard monologue.
Pete the Machinist calls up, says, great monologue. Just curious.
Should I call in and tell you how my Brackett
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is doing. I'm asking for a friend. Yeah, I know, Yeah,
I'll put that in the same place that Robbie the
mayor ner fan is in because Robbie has been sending
out online posts about where he's at and what he's doing.
In the bracket challenge for the company Don't Need It,
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Do Not Need It? Chain from des Moines rights, and
he's his great monologue after a long weekend of subpar
performances by my teams. Some win, some losses, but god
awful play, and in sports no one cares about similar
to the calls a certain trucker makes to the show.
Your Phoebe writes in from the Windy City, says, hey,
Mallard b plus and a scholarship on the Mallard monologue.
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I may not have watched any tournament, but I have
been studying the Pacific theater of war, and that is
where the World Baseball Classic is headed. Barring any upset
by Mexico. Of course, can the USA beat Japan? Hardos
sports here, Yeah, we're good on that. I think good
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on the the heart oh sports for dog rights, and
he says, hey, Ben was the highlight of your weekend,
Mick Cronin leading UCLA to the third straight Sweet sixteen
or Jose Alve getting it? We will have an emergency
Mala monologue on Jose al Bouve, the cheating a hole.
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It took only a couple of the years, but finally
baseball has gotten around us suspending al Tuve for sixty
games for cheating. Daniel Bard. Daniel Bard doing more to
suspend Altuve than that weasel commissioner Rob Manford. Good job
by him. My new favorite pitcher, Daniel Bard of the Rockies.
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Way to go, Barn. Here we go, Bard, Here we go. Hey,
you led the Dodgers to World Series. Late Night Drug
Tester writs, and as everyone knows, Lexington, Kentucky is no
longer a destination for college hoops. It is just the
place to visit the or original cocaine Bear, says the
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Late night Drug Tester Scottie writes, And he says, Oh,
Tennessee from favorite upset victim special to getting Final Four
talk all in four days. He's very excited about that
it would appear. And we will take some calls at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox pot some late
night chatter involving the future of Rick Pattino. Is it
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going down, down, down down? Is it just a matter
of crossing the teas and dotting the eyes? Is Rick
Pattino about to get another big time college basketball coaching job?
Is it true that Rick Pattino is in advanced talks
with Saint John's to take over as the man's basketball
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coach of the storied hoops program that plays many of
their games Wow at the Mecca in Midtown Manhattan. That
is being bounced around the echo chamber here in the
late night hours that Rick Pattino has met face to face,
belly to belly with some big shots from Saint John's
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and that they are deep in negotiations for him to
take over as the next head men's basketball coach, and
it was said to be a very productive meeting. Rick
Pettino laid out his vision, which is not a long
term vision. The great thing about hiring guys in their seventies,
you can't have a long term vision. You gotta go.
I'm about to do a good year to year situation,
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as you should anyway. But Patino said to be pretty
much the only target, the only one for Saint John's.
And he's available now because his old school iona ejected
of March Madness, and so Saint John's Ley let go
of Mike Anderson, their coach after a seven and thirteen seasons.
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So Patino and native New Yorkers who's there hanging out
and got the place in Manhattan, coached all over the place, Boston, University, Providence, Kentucky,
and he's had NBA jobs with the Celtics, the Knicks,
and now he is he would appear back to college
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and back to big time college and Saint John. So
keep an eye on that story. Let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello to John. Who's in Wisconsin.
What's going on? John? Welcome? Hi, Bete Mallick. Are you doing? Hi? John?
If I was any better, John, I would be sleeping,
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But no, I'm here. I'm talking on the radio. That's good,
So listen. I just wanted to say thank you for
being a sports talk radio host, because you honestly saved
my life, Ben Bless You know, four years of my life,
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I've been addling major depression and suicidal thoughts and you
were my kere. Every time I was feeling done in
the you know, deep end, I just listened to you
and I'd feel better. Well, thank you, John, I appreciate that.
Look at that, and you're feeling better now, You're you're
getting past the depression? Is that? Am I am? I
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right on that? Hopefully? Yes? All right? Look at that.
You got a lot to live for there, John. You
gotta keep fighting every day, man, every day to battle
out there. It's a war, it's a war zone. Every
day living life. But you gotta do it. You got
a lot to live for there, John. Yeah, I'm only eighteen,
you know, the eighteen year kid. My god, you got
you can do anything. You watch John, I'll trade places
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with you. You got the whole one of the palm
of your head there, John, What do you want to
do with life? John? What's your what are your goals?
What do you want to do? I want to be
a cook. I was hunking ill baking. Listen, you can
you can open up Michelin Star restaurant. You can do it.
You got the ability. And Ben loves eating and I
love eating. And night Dad, Well, I'm an amateur. I'm
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a I'm a weak I'm a weak guy in the kitchen.
I try, though, I practice in the kitchen. That's my
hobby on the weekends. Now, I got to bake a
lot of foods. That's what I do. But it's fun
to some of the things you bake. Yeah, no, listen, Well,
I brought some in. Actually you're not here, unfortunately, but
I did bring some some things in. There's a there's
a literally a light show outside right now. Anyway, Hey, John, listen,
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do you're great? You're eighteenm man, keep me posted, check
in and I want to hear. I want to hear
a big success story from me, John. I want to
open that big restaurant, make it big in the in
the culinary business man, and you can do it. You
don't know. You obviously be better maybe to go to
culinary school, but you don't have to. That's a great
thing about living today in twenty twenty three. You can learn,
you can do things. You don't have to necessarily go
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to some high falutin institution. But good luck, Thank you, John,
Look at that? Ye all right? An, this is hey.
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from the Houston Texans for a fifth round pick in
twenty twenty three and a sixth round pick in twenty
twenty four, and maybe teasing the story that you were mentioning.
Carolina Panthers signed veteran wide receiver Adam Deal in three
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dot com. Will we have the Verbal Octagon. Inquiring minds
would like to know we'll have a exclusive update, exclusive
update on the Verbal Octagon. But the story that I
was teasing was not the Adam fealing story. It was
instead now former Philadelphi The Eagle Safety C. J. Gardner
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Johnson on the move again. CJ. Gardner Johnson, part of
that Eagle defense that got all the way to the
brink of the championship and now former Philadelphia Eagles safety,
he is headed to the Detroit Lions. Detroit Lions, he
gets a one year deal to where the Honolulu blew
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in the Motor City. Twenty five years old, he only
spent one year in Philadelphia, but he was a central
figure in the revivalization of the Philadelphagles defense there in
the secondary, and he finished the season tied with three
other players the most interceptions in the entire NFL. And
now he goes to a Lion defense which was a
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armageddon situation for much of the year. They played better
late in the year, but that he moved there. CJ.
Gardner Johnson done with the Eagles, he goes to the
Detroit Lions, who mark that accordingly on your big board.
Make sure that's on your big board. And right now
we have a So it's ready to go here, let's
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go into Let's introduce Arcambatons right now. Let's get the
party started here. Everyone shown up. I believe we are
ready to go, is that correct? Making their way in
to the octagon, verbal boxing on the radio, No holds
Barney Audio, Donnie Brook, are you ready? Buckle up? Buckaroo
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the tail of a tape for this epic slugfest making
They're way into the ring right now. Hailing from Nutley,
New Jersey, America's most hated sports talk radio caller. The
definition of a grumpy, angry old man. Get off my lawn.
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And what about a nine year old garrel? You know him,
you hate him? Angry Bill making his way into the octagon.
That's here it now for Angry Bill. Very exciting here,
unbelievable there he is. Look at that outfit Angry Bills wearing.
I think we'd better check his gloves now making that
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way into the ring. But batted to the badasses. He
lived the mean streets of Los Angeles. He saw things
and heard things that we can only imagine. He lived
the life. But now he's all grown up. He's a
loving father, a doting dad, a hard working family man
who's keeping it real and he's not allowing other people
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to trash his good name. Welcome in, a fan favorite
and a winner of a Benny Award this year, Sean
the hood Guy. All right, that is the matchup all right, gentlemen,
we'll let this trash talking howdown get going here in
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a moment. This is the world renowned verbal Octagon spur
of the moment on the Ben Maller Show. We're legends.
Iconic radio callers like the late great Genie in Medford,
Tammy and Montana Blind, Scott, Pete and Pittsburgh and others
have both won and lost dramatic audio matches. We'll have
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each combatant on right now to say one word and
then we'll go. We'll pause a little early here for
the cause, and we'll have an entire block of the
verbal octagon, and we'll start with Sean the Hood Guy,
who's been on hold for a while here. Ready to go,
Sean the Hood Guy? Any opening fast before we get
into the octagon? Oh man, I'm ready. Let's get it home,
all right, he said, Let's get it Homie and Angry Bill.
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Would you like to comment Angry Bill before we get
into the octagon. No, he's too much of a joke
to comment on. Okay, Angry Bill, you can tell very
upset already, and we'll go over the rules and final notes.
The judges will include myself, me, Ben Eddie, Roberto and
Cooper Loop and you as well. We'll have the vote
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of the people. And it's on. Wake Up the Wife,
Wake Up the Kids. One of the great sporting events,
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Let's get ready to rumball. I can't say that it's
Benn Maller. It is all I'm like, don't get gone
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with a moment we've been waiting for. We didn't know
we were gonna have this happen. I was very skeptical.
When I was driving into the studio, I said, I
they say gonna happen, But here we are as we
have in one quarter Angry Bill, the angriest man, the
definition of grumpy old man, get off my lawn, who
calls sports talking radio? And Sean the Hood Yeah, a
fan favorite. We mentioned the judges if you knew to
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the party, the judges include myself, Eddie, Coop, Roberto and you.
The listeners will be able to vote as well. Barring
a knockout or a disqualification, we would go to the judges'
scorecards to determine the champion of the beef. And we
know they do not like each other. The rules and regulations.
This is a three round spoken word battle of an
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income poops. Round one, Round one, ten seconds each on
the air, opening salvos why they don't like the other person?
Round two, twenty seconds each to respond. It doesn't sound
like a lot of time, but trust me it is.
And round three, bloody knuckles. They're both on the air
the same time for twenty five seconds of witty banner
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and so good luck to each of you, gentlemen. You
have heard the instructions. You each get one warning on language.
This is very important, especially for Angry Bill. If we
give you one warning, you not allow of curse. You
can't use the racist stuff and all this stuff you
normally use. All right, So one warning. If you do
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it twice, you're just qualified. The matches over and by
the disqualification, the wind will go to the opponent and
that works both ways. So here we go. Let's get
this talk old rama starter. Let's have a clean fight.
Remember again, do not swear. Do not swear. If we
have to dump you on multiple occasions with the boat
will immediately stop. You'll be disqualified. And here we go.
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Touch him up, good luck and in coming into the
ring in round one, were welcome in from the mean
streets of La Sean the hood guy. For ten good
seconds you're on the air. End go when I hear
a bit of man, he's a mad man because he
don't have nothing to bring to the table when it
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comes to the show. All he want to do was
talk about the Yankees and Yankees and nobody haven't had
a championship. All right, all right, he's nothing to bring
to the show. We'll put ten seconds on the clock.
Round one, Angry Bill, all right, bottle, angry bill, you're
on the air. Every time a black man says get real,
that's when the light start coming out of her fat mouse.
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All right, I think we do. I don't know Roberto
that made the Yeah, he didn't make the Eddy, that
did not make the Aarty that did not make the air.
What a shock? All right? So we're I hate this bit?
Why do you hate this? A great bit? It's a
great bit. It's a wonderful bit. All right. We'll put
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twenty five or twenty seconds on the clock and the
dumb bunting again. We havet to weigh, like another twenty
seconds to do this all over again. All right, so
are we? Are we good for an hour? And now? Yeah,
we're good. All right, We're good right now? So twenty
seconds back on the clock. Why don't we I normally
would switch it up, but I think we should go
to Sean the Hood Guy here, just out of abundance
of caution. That'd be a good idea tech the license.
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Let's go to Sean the Hood got twenty seconds and
the rebuttal from Sean the Hood Guy, Sean sound like
a man need a go fund me paid for a
new blow up doll in his life, which is other
dog out a hold and that's why he's so mad
about everything. When a word come out of a black
man mouth, that don't mean nothing, It means everything. All right,
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all right, this Sean the Hood Guy, will give it
back to Angry Bill. You listen to our live coverage
that nobody else has this. Why would they want it?
It's the verbal octa gun. We paid big money for this,
and it's Sean the Hood Guy. You just heard him
there in round two the rebuttal and he one more
disqualification and that's it. The fight is over. Angry Bell
is up for round two. Angry Bill, why don't you
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get some white flower and rizzo and have some fun
in the hotel room. All right, interesting use of time.
I did not expect that from Angry Bill. He used
about seven seconds of his a lot of time. He
had twenty seconds and didn't only use seven of them. Okay,
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we'll put you both on the air now against my
better judgment. Well, I have one guy I'm not worried
about the other guy I am. So this is round three.
This is the bloody knuckles yapping as both Angry Bill
and Sean the Hood guy will be in the octagon
at the same time for twenty five seconds of witty
banter and on my mark, set and go octagon, white Flower, buddy,
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hold your phone up. Alright, alright, alright, disqualification and the
wind goes to Shun the Hood Guy with the wind
by disqualification from Angry Man. Alive. Every a surprise. I
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want a surprise, Eddie. It's hard to believe. Super Marcus
Steve said he was betting fifty dollars on Angry Bill
to lose by disqualification in the second round. Well he
made it to the third round. And so you you
didn't win in the second round, but the third round
and the loss to by disqualification to Angry Bill. And
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how did you you score the fight here? Eddie? Will
go to the judge's score because not that it matters,
because the fight goes to Sean the Hood Guy. But
your thoughts on I mean, obviously I have to not
not give points to Angry Bill because he you know,
didn't use his allotted time where you know, like you know,
effective punches thrown. I guess it would be like more
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punches thrown by Sean the Hood Guy, because he did
use his complete allotted time when he was when he
was in the octagon there, All right, Well, I had
my scorecard. I had Sean the Hood Guy ahead, because
you listen, he was the one that brought the fight,
Angry Bill. He answered the call to fight, but he
did not bring any material. It's like you could tell
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he didn't train for the fight. He was not prepared
for the fight, and so any time he did say
something clean, he was only for like seven seconds and
couldn't say anything. Yeah, yeah, he's he's about a seven
second man, which we know there's rumors that's part of
the problem. But but but that's fine whatever, teacher, and I
don't really care. It doesn't matter to me at all.
But h So, anyway, I had it big advantage. Ten
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eight is how I scored it in favor before the
disqualification in favor of Sean Hood Guy. Any you want
to add to that, Roberto, and not like I said,
when Shaun the Hood Guy was clean, when when uh
Angry Bill had a chance to be clean, he only
said something for seven seconds and that was it. Yeah,
that was a little tough there, Cooper. Would you like
to add on here your thoughts that we have a disqualification,
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So I think you guys gotta covered. Okay, nothing else.
Let's let's have the post fight interview. Let's go into
the the winner's locker room, winning by disqualification. Sean the
Hood Guy, congratulations, Sean the Hood Guy. Man. You know what, Man,
I just try to keep everything cool. I love everybody
on the show. Man, but when somebody got something to
say about you, man, you gotta call him to the table.
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For just like I have the four positive will call
anybody to the table. Hey, I'm calling him to the table, man,
I ain't calling nobody else because everybody else on the
show is cool with me. I'm cool with them. Everybody
on the show I love. I got my favorites on
the show, and we I mean I got Blind Scott,
my boy, Chrissy Houston, my uncle Love was my urine uncle.
You know what I'm saying to my other unseen and
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everybody else on the show was cool. Man. But I write,
at least you gotta watch his mop, man, because you
don't know who you're talking to. Because if I ran
into him in Jacksonville, it'd be a totally misunderstanding. Army.
Yeah you were you you kick kick his ass But
that listen, Shan, congratulations, we don't even need to go
to the voice of the people. You've won, You've dominated,
you kept it clean, you were classy, you were prepared,
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unlike Angry Bill. So you are the winner. You wonder
one anyway, but you win by disqualification. So congratulations Sewn
the Hood Guy. All right, there he goes the great
Sean the Hood Guy, another octagon in the books, says,
many people reacting the Mallem militia. They had ringside seats,
not a lot of verbal boxing, not a lot of
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boxing on the radio. But Pete the Machina says, how
many words did Bill get in the first round before
he got dumped? None. I think the very first thing
Angry Bill said, we had to dump the very first
thing that he said, we had to dump him. Benito says,
Sean the Hood Guy exposed that clown, racist clown Angry Bill.
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He says, there, Jason and the Diamond Man says, Sean
the Hood Guy wins twenty nine to one on my scorecard.
Angry Bill, I knew that that so chosen be disqualified
there and that's the reaction of the people. Overwhelming joy
celebration as a Seawan. The hood guy gets it done.
That's good. We have our first FLA a Locktagonti along
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old time. We haven't had one in a while. Whoo
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in our number one, it's all about college basketball on
the Ben Maller Show podcast, the Sweet sixteen is set.
What is your reaction to the beleaguered former Arizona coach
Sean Miller getting his new school, which is his old school, Xavier,
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into the Sweet sixteen. Did anyone's stock rise more than
Kansas States Marquise Noel over the weekend, the man looking
like a video game glitch as he ran around at
five foot seven overall. Also do a wellness check on
the twenty twenty three NC Double A men's basketball tournament
heading in to weekend number two of men's college basketball.
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We'll talk about that and more right now in our
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Our lead. To begin the fiftive its play the Hits Ball.
May have play the Hits College Basketball. As we have
whittled down your bracket from the original sixty eight teams
down to sixteen teams. Sixteen teams remaining after the first
weekend of activity, did you pay attention to you get
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hemorrhoids going right now? Because you were sitting on your
ass all weekend watching college basketball. No, maybe not, well,
we were checking it out. It was a wild ride,
although not as wild as some years in the past,
and half the teams in the Sweet sixteen are from
non Power five conferences, So whoo boo, I guess we
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had UCLA and Gonzaga. They advanced that matchup. The matchup
for the Ages set for Thursday night, just off the
Strip in Vegas, a rematch of the twenty twenty one
Final four. Also, they played years ago in the Sweet sixteen,
and only two of the eight Sweet sixteen matchups went
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to seed, So if you're excited about that, congratulations. These
Zags headed to the eighth consecutive Sweet sixteen. Now that
sounds like a lot. It is the longest active streak
in the country, the fourth longest streak behind Duke from
ninety six to Z six. North Carolina who went thirteen
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straight years in the eighties to the early nineties, and
some team from UCLA with the Wizard of Westwood back
in the sixties and the seventies. So that's where we are.
You've got one matchup that I want to circle here
is Xavier, the number three seed, and the number two
seed Texas that matchup in addition to Ucla and Zaga,
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the Seeds somewhat holding up firm in that in those
two regions. But the reaction to Xavier getting to the
Sweet sixteen and Sean Miller in particular, So let's start
with that. Sean Miller, the much maligned coach, had been
in Arizona for a long time. There was a documentary
I watched a couple years ago, very explosive documentary that
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certainly painted the picture that Sean Miller was up to
some real shady crap at Arizona. But he never had
it stick to him. He never added stick to him,
and he was out at Arizona. But he lands on
his feet. So what is your reaction to Sean Miller
getting Xavier into the Sweet sixteen. I've got Monopoly man,
Rick Flair and crayon box, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we will give you a
migraine headache. If you give us ten minutes, we'll give
you a my grain headache unless we don't. So hey,
this is the ultimate flex by Sean Miller. It is
he was playing about as fast and loose as one
could play with the NCAA rulebook at Arizona, and there
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were a couple of years of going back and forth,
back and forth after the documentary hit, and then eventually
the brass at Arizona and Tucson said, Jack and Jack,
we gotta get rid of this guy. And so Sean
Miller was out. But that all of that fallout from
the twenty seventeen FBI investigation into widespread corruption in college basketball.
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This was the investigation that led to several prominent assistant
coaches ending in jail, going to jail because of money
being exchanged and some other things that were going on there.
But you can't underscore this. Several coaches went to jail
because of that. But here's Sean Miller, who's the monopoly
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man as a coach. He's got to get out of
jail free card. He's the monopoly man, the ring of protection.
And there was this toxic cloud floating around his location
there in Arizona. He put on a gas mask, he
hit some anti poisoned food and he smiled, and that's it.
Over the final four seasons in Tucson, when the scandal hit,
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Arizona was in the dumps. He got fired. This cat
in April of twenty twenty once but one season just
doing podcasting. That was it. He was a podcaster, And
after a one year hiatus, he's back in the saddle
again at Xavier, a place where he got his start.
He began his launching pad up the coaching ranks in
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the late two thousands, the first decade of the two
thousands there at Xavier, and now he is back on
the map with the Musketeers as they are in the
Sweet sixteen. We mentioned they play Texas, and if you
look at your Midwest bracket Sweet sixteen matchup, that's the
number two seed versus the number three seed, Texas versus Xavier.
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And we wouldn't be shocked if Sean Miller quickly ends
up back at a bigger institution, because that's normally how
this stuff goes. You take a step back, and then
you go and take a step up, and then you're
on your way. All right now, Page two here talking
college troops. Did anything else standout anyone's stock rise? Well,
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there's one person, and I guess we had a phrase
it this way. Did anyone's stock rise more than Case
State's guard Marquise Noel, who if you watch that Kansas
State game on Sunday. Wait wow, you talk about a
viral performance, and it did not start out as a
viral performance, but he was. He was a trending topic
(07:45):
on social media, Kansas State taking down mighty Kentucky. Go
smoke some bluegrass, and then that he was a central
reason why showing it's not I'll tell you are no, no, no,
it's not now'll tell you, it's what kind of game
you got has also showing you it's not how you start,
it's how you get the job done. There at the end,
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because Noel went almost fifteen minutes without scoring, and yet
by the time the game had ended, he was the talk.
Looked like a video game cheat code, looked like he
was a glitch in a video game out there running
around for Kansas State the pest like defense as Wildcat
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versus Wildcat, the team from Manhattan, Kansas harassing John Calipari's guys,
and up and down and all around, and ten turnovers
in the first half for Kentucky basketball. As Marquise Noel was,
he went like nature blood nature boy, he went Rick Flair,
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and he was styling, he was profiling. And if you
saw you know what I'm talking about. It was behind
the back pass here on the fast break between the
legs over there. So Kansas State started that game over
thirteen from three point range and then Noel started knocking
down three point attempts. He made three of the next
five attempts for k State and sashaying his way through
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the taller Kentucky defenders. And by the time it was done,
this cat Noel, who stands under five eight, was either
scoring or assistant on sixteen of Kansas State's twenty six
made field goals. I mean he was in one stretch
of time there it was Mighty Mouse with his cape
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on there. Mister Smooth in the clutch also down the stretch,
had eight foul shots from the penalty stripe their final
three minutes. He made all eight of them, scored twenty
three of his twenty seven points in the second half,
had nine assist three steals, and now another opportunities Kansas
State advances. He's from the New York area from I
believe Harlem based on the broadcast there, and Kansas eight
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will be going back to the Mecca Maddison Square Garden
against Tom Izzo in Michigan State. But because he is
vertically challenged. It is not projected that he will have
a professional basketball career. You don't draft someone who's that size.
Very rarely does that happen, certainly not in the modern
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era of the NBA. You can make it, but you
got to make it a different way. But Marquise Noel
projected as not draftable because he's five foot seven and
not much weight at all, soaking wet. Now, I would
love to see that change it. I do enjoy the
dominiontive point guard. There haven't been many of them over
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the years, but you can count them all on one hand.
I believe you've got Spud Webb back in the eighties,
Mugsy Bogues around that time, Earl Boykins in the nineties,
Nate Robinson more recently. He's still a plan somewhere. Is
Isaiah Thomas. The other Isaiah Thomas played for the Celtics
and head an MVP type year a couple of years ago.
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But that's about it all right, last, we're here, so overall,
let's do a wellness check at this point. One weekend
in twenty twenty three NCAA Men's basketball tournament, I'd love
to sit here and bark and complain and blow fire
into the microphone, saying how terrible it is, how much
it sucks. Nah, it's about average. It's about average, which
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is not terrible. It's not great. It's not the greatest
thing I've ever seen. It's not on life support. It's
it's a good mix. It's it's like a box of crayons.
There's something for everybody in there. You know, whatever you want,
whatever you want to draw, whatever color combination you want
to use, and from what. From when I've checked out here,
the Sweet sixteen you have. If you're a dog team
you love the Cinderella, you've got Princeton. But even with Princeton,
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I read this earlier that the average seed is four
point six in the Sweet sixteen, so normal for the
Sweet sixteen from nineteen eighty five to twenty or two,
the average seed remaining at this point was four point five.
So it's a little bit just a hair above normal.
The chalkiest of them all since nineteen eighty five was
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oh nine, and the craziest was twenty twenty one. And
so if you're into that kind of thing, But you
still got two number one seeds Alabama and Houston. So
if you just picked number one seeds all the way.
You got half your field set to go. You've got
traditional powerhouses, you see, la. I don't know that Yukon
has a traditional powers but they had a great run
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for a stretch out of the Big East, and Michigan
State seemingly always with tom Izzo in the thickest things.
And so you've got them around and Cinderella, not Farley Dickinson,
Fairley Dickinson. The New Jersey out eliminated. They're done. So
you have to hang your hat on the number fifteen
seed Princeton from the South region or the number nine
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seed Florida Atlantic in the East. And if you like
the mid majors, there's a bunch of those mid major
type schools San Diego State, Creighton Xavier along lows lines.
We'll take your calls if you'd like to be party.
Lines are open at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three sixty
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nine if you'd like to be party again. It's not
a newbie night, but we love hearing new people yap, complain, yell,
jump up and down and all that. You were more
than welcome to be part of the program, and things
are getting serious. Things are getting serious for Rick Pattino.
Is he on the move some late night developments with
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the seventy year old coach at I owner Rick Pettino.
What is the latest on that. We'll get to it
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Patino coming up? Also, will we have a verbal octagon.
Stay tuned. We could have audio pugilism. A match has
been called by Seawan the Hood Guy. He's online right now,
but will the person he's challenging call in and duke
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it up in the audio octagon? Stay tuned Dot dot dot.
Angry Bill being called out after some terrible things he
said in a previous episode of the show on Sean
the Hood Guy would like to get in and settle
it once and for all. Mono a mono. He's there,
(15:30):
He's waiting. Will Angry Bill call up? Inquiring minds would
like to know. We'll get it on like Donkey Kong.
We begin with college basketball, a Sweet Sixteen theme Mallard monologue.
Pete the Machinist calls up, says, great monologue. Just curious.
Should I call in and tell you how my Brackett
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is doing. I'm asking for a friend. Yeah, I know, Yeah,
I'll put that in the same place that Robbie the
mayor ner fan is in because Robbie has been sending
out online posts about where he's at and what he's doing.
In the bracket challenge for the company Don't Need It,
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Do Not Need It? Chain from des Moines rights, and
he's his great monologue after a long weekend of subpar
performances by my teams. Some win, some losses, but god
awful play, and in sports no one cares about similar
to the calls a certain trucker makes to the show.
Your Phoebe writes in from the Windy City, says, hey,
Mallard b plus and a scholarship on the Mallard monologue.
(16:38):
I may not have watched any tournament, but I have
been studying the Pacific theater of war, and that is
where the World Baseball Classic is headed. Barring any upset
by Mexico. Of course, can the USA beat Japan? Hardos
sports here, Yeah, we're good on that. I think good
(17:00):
on the the heart oh sports for dog rights, and
he says, hey, Ben was the highlight of your weekend,
Mick Cronin leading UCLA to the third straight Sweet sixteen
or Jose Alve getting it? We will have an emergency
Mala monologue on Jose al Bouve, the cheating a hole.
(17:26):
It took only a couple of the years, but finally
baseball has gotten around us suspending al Tuve for sixty
games for cheating. Daniel Bard. Daniel Bard doing more to
suspend Altuve than that weasel commissioner Rob Manford. Good job
by him. My new favorite pitcher, Daniel Bard of the Rockies.
(17:49):
Way to go, Barn. Here we go, Bard, Here we go. Hey,
you led the Dodgers to World Series. Late Night Drug
Tester writs, and as everyone knows, Lexington, Kentucky is no
longer a destination for college hoops. It is just the
place to visit the or original cocaine Bear, says the
(18:10):
Late night Drug Tester Scottie writes, And he says, Oh,
Tennessee from favorite upset victim special to getting Final Four
talk all in four days. He's very excited about that
it would appear. And we will take some calls at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox pot some late
night chatter involving the future of Rick Pattino. Is it
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going down, down, down down? Is it just a matter
of crossing the teas and dotting the eyes? Is Rick
Pattino about to get another big time college basketball coaching job?
Is it true that Rick Pattino is in advanced talks
with Saint John's to take over as the man's basketball
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coach of the storied hoops program that plays many of
their games Wow at the Mecca in Midtown Manhattan. That
is being bounced around the echo chamber here in the
late night hours that Rick Pattino has met face to face,
belly to belly with some big shots from Saint John's
(19:23):
and that they are deep in negotiations for him to
take over as the next head men's basketball coach, and
it was said to be a very productive meeting. Rick
Pettino laid out his vision, which is not a long
term vision. The great thing about hiring guys in their seventies,
you can't have a long term vision. You gotta go.
I'm about to do a good year to year situation,
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as you should anyway. But Patino said to be pretty
much the only target, the only one for Saint John's.
And he's available now because his old school iona ejected
of March Madness, and so Saint John's Ley let go
of Mike Anderson, their coach after a seven and thirteen seasons.
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So Patino and native New Yorkers who's there hanging out
and got the place in Manhattan, coached all over the place, Boston, University, Providence, Kentucky,
and he's had NBA jobs with the Celtics, the Knicks,
and now he is he would appear back to college
(20:28):
and back to big time college and Saint John. So
keep an eye on that story. Let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello to John. Who's in Wisconsin.
What's going on? John? Welcome? Hi, Bete Mallick. Are you doing? Hi? John?
If I was any better, John, I would be sleeping,
(20:48):
But no, I'm here. I'm talking on the radio. That's good,
So listen. I just wanted to say thank you for
being a sports talk radio host, because you honestly saved
my life, Ben Bless You know, four years of my life,
(21:12):
I've been addling major depression and suicidal thoughts and you
were my kere. Every time I was feeling done in
the you know, deep end, I just listened to you
and I'd feel better. Well, thank you, John, I appreciate that.
Look at that, and you're feeling better now, You're you're
getting past the depression? Is that? Am I am? I
(21:32):
right on that? Hopefully? Yes? All right? Look at that.
You got a lot to live for there, John. You
gotta keep fighting every day, man, every day to battle
out there. It's a war, it's a war zone. Every
day living life. But you gotta do it. You got
a lot to live for there, John. Yeah, I'm only eighteen,
you know, the eighteen year kid. My god, you got
you can do anything. You watch John, I'll trade places
(21:53):
with you. You got the whole one of the palm
of your head there, John, What do you want to
do with life? John? What's your what are your goals?
What do you want to do? I want to be
a cook. I was hunking ill baking. Listen, you can
you can open up Michelin Star restaurant. You can do it.
You got the ability. And Ben loves eating and I
love eating. And night Dad, Well, I'm an amateur. I'm
(22:14):
a I'm a weak I'm a weak guy in the kitchen.
I try, though, I practice in the kitchen. That's my
hobby on the weekends. Now, I got to bake a
lot of foods. That's what I do. But it's fun
to some of the things you bake. Yeah, no, listen, Well,
I brought some in. Actually you're not here, unfortunately, but
I did bring some some things in. There's a there's
a literally a light show outside right now. Anyway, Hey, John, listen,
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do you're great? You're eighteenm man, keep me posted, check
in and I want to hear. I want to hear
a big success story from me, John. I want to
open that big restaurant, make it big in the in
the culinary business man, and you can do it. You
don't know. You obviously be better maybe to go to
culinary school, but you don't have to. That's a great
thing about living today in twenty twenty three. You can learn,
you can do things. You don't have to necessarily go
(22:58):
to some high falutin institution. But good luck, Thank you, John,
Look at that? Ye all right? An, this is hey.
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twenty twenty three and a sixth round pick in twenty
twenty four, and maybe teasing the story that you were mentioning.
Carolina Panthers signed veteran wide receiver Adam Deal in three
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year deally it spent its previous nine seasons with the
Minnesota Vikings. All right, thank you for that, Eddie. It
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dot com. Will we have the Verbal Octagon. Inquiring minds
would like to know we'll have a exclusive update, exclusive
update on the Verbal Octagon. But the story that I
was teasing was not the Adam fealing story. It was
instead now former Philadelphi The Eagle Safety C. J. Gardner
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Johnson on the move again. CJ. Gardner Johnson, part of
that Eagle defense that got all the way to the
brink of the championship and now former Philadelphia Eagles safety,
he is headed to the Detroit Lions. Detroit Lions, he
gets a one year deal to where the Honolulu blew
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in the Motor City. Twenty five years old, he only
spent one year in Philadelphia, but he was a central
figure in the revivalization of the Philadelphagles defense there in
the secondary, and he finished the season tied with three
other players the most interceptions in the entire NFL. And
now he goes to a Lion defense which was a
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armageddon situation for much of the year. They played better
late in the year, but that he moved there. CJ.
Gardner Johnson done with the Eagles, he goes to the
Detroit Lions, who mark that accordingly on your big board.
Make sure that's on your big board. And right now
we have a So it's ready to go here, let's
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go into Let's introduce Arcambatons right now. Let's get the
party started here. Everyone shown up. I believe we are
ready to go, is that correct? Making their way in
to the octagon, verbal boxing on the radio, No holds
Barney Audio, Donnie Brook, are you ready? Buckle up? Buckaroo
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the tail of a tape for this epic slugfest making
They're way into the ring right now. Hailing from Nutley,
New Jersey, America's most hated sports talk radio caller. The
definition of a grumpy, angry old man. Get off my lawn.
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And what about a nine year old garrel? You know him,
you hate him? Angry Bill making his way into the octagon.
That's here it now for Angry Bill. Very exciting here,
unbelievable there he is. Look at that outfit Angry Bills wearing.
I think we'd better check his gloves now making that
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way into the ring. But batted to the badasses. He
lived the mean streets of Los Angeles. He saw things
and heard things that we can only imagine. He lived
the life. But now he's all grown up. He's a
loving father, a doting dad, a hard working family man
who's keeping it real and he's not allowing other people
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to trash his good name. Welcome in, a fan favorite
and a winner of a Benny Award this year, Sean
the hood Guy. All right, that is the matchup all right, gentlemen,
we'll let this trash talking howdown get going here in
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a moment. This is the world renowned verbal Octagon spur
of the moment on the Ben Maller Show. We're legends.
Iconic radio callers like the late great Genie in Medford,
Tammy and Montana Blind, Scott, Pete and Pittsburgh and others
have both won and lost dramatic audio matches. We'll have
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each combatant on right now to say one word and
then we'll go. We'll pause a little early here for
the cause, and we'll have an entire block of the
verbal octagon, and we'll start with Sean the Hood Guy,
who's been on hold for a while here. Ready to go,
Sean the Hood Guy? Any opening fast before we get
into the octagon? Oh man, I'm ready. Let's get it home,
all right, he said, Let's get it Homie and Angry Bill.
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Would you like to comment Angry Bill before we get
into the octagon. No, he's too much of a joke
to comment on. Okay, Angry Bill, you can tell very
upset already, and we'll go over the rules and final notes.
The judges will include myself, me, Ben Eddie, Roberto and
Cooper Loop and you as well. We'll have the vote
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of the people. And it's on. Wake Up the Wife,
Wake Up the Kids. One of the great sporting events,
one of the spectacles of our time in sports radio,
the verbal Octagon on the Ben Maller Show. And it's next,
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Let's get ready to rumball. I can't say that it's
Benn Maller. It is all I'm like, don't get gone
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with a moment we've been waiting for. We didn't know
we were gonna have this happen. I was very skeptical.
When I was driving into the studio, I said, I
they say gonna happen, But here we are as we
have in one quarter Angry Bill, the angriest man, the
definition of grumpy old man, get off my lawn, who
calls sports talking radio? And Sean the Hood Yeah, a
fan favorite. We mentioned the judges if you knew to
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the party, the judges include myself, Eddie, Coop, Roberto and you.
The listeners will be able to vote as well. Barring
a knockout or a disqualification, we would go to the judges'
scorecards to determine the champion of the beef. And we
know they do not like each other. The rules and regulations.
This is a three round spoken word battle of an
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income poops. Round one, Round one, ten seconds each on
the air, opening salvos why they don't like the other person?
Round two, twenty seconds each to respond. It doesn't sound
like a lot of time, but trust me it is.
And round three, bloody knuckles. They're both on the air
the same time for twenty five seconds of witty banner
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and so good luck to each of you, gentlemen. You
have heard the instructions. You each get one warning on language.
This is very important, especially for Angry Bill. If we
give you one warning, you not allow of curse. You
can't use the racist stuff and all this stuff you
normally use. All right, So one warning. If you do
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it twice, you're just qualified. The matches over and by
the disqualification, the wind will go to the opponent and
that works both ways. So here we go. Let's get
this talk old rama starter. Let's have a clean fight.
Remember again, do not swear. Do not swear. If we
have to dump you on multiple occasions with the boat
will immediately stop. You'll be disqualified. And here we go.
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Touch him up, good luck and in coming into the
ring in round one, were welcome in from the mean
streets of La Sean the hood guy. For ten good
seconds you're on the air. End go when I hear
a bit of man, he's a mad man because he
don't have nothing to bring to the table when it
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comes to the show. All he want to do was
talk about the Yankees and Yankees and nobody haven't had
a championship. All right, all right, he's nothing to bring
to the show. We'll put ten seconds on the clock.
Round one, Angry Bill, all right, bottle, angry bill, you're
on the air. Every time a black man says get real,
that's when the light start coming out of her fat mouse.
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All right, I think we do. I don't know Roberto
that made the Yeah, he didn't make the Eddy, that
did not make the Aarty that did not make the air.
What a shock? All right? So we're I hate this bit?
Why do you hate this? A great bit? It's a
great bit. It's a wonderful bit. All right. We'll put
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twenty five or twenty seconds on the clock and the
dumb bunting again. We havet to weigh, like another twenty
seconds to do this all over again. All right, so
are we? Are we good for an hour? And now? Yeah,
we're good. All right, We're good right now? So twenty
seconds back on the clock. Why don't we I normally
would switch it up, but I think we should go
to Sean the Hood Guy here, just out of abundance
of caution. That'd be a good idea tech the license.
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Let's go to Sean the Hood got twenty seconds and
the rebuttal from Sean the Hood Guy, Sean sound like
a man need a go fund me paid for a
new blow up doll in his life, which is other
dog out a hold and that's why he's so mad
about everything. When a word come out of a black
man mouth, that don't mean nothing, It means everything. All right,
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all right, this Sean the Hood Guy, will give it
back to Angry Bill. You listen to our live coverage
that nobody else has this. Why would they want it?
It's the verbal octa gun. We paid big money for this,
and it's Sean the Hood Guy. You just heard him
there in round two the rebuttal and he one more
disqualification and that's it. The fight is over. Angry Bell
is up for round two. Angry Bill, why don't you
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get some white flower and rizzo and have some fun
in the hotel room. All right, interesting use of time.
I did not expect that from Angry Bill. He used
about seven seconds of his a lot of time. He
had twenty seconds and didn't only use seven of them. Okay,
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we'll put you both on the air now against my
better judgment. Well, I have one guy I'm not worried
about the other guy I am. So this is round three.
This is the bloody knuckles yapping as both Angry Bill
and Sean the Hood guy will be in the octagon
at the same time for twenty five seconds of witty
banter and on my mark, set and go octagon, white Flower, buddy,
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hold your phone up. Alright, alright, alright, disqualification and the
wind goes to Shun the Hood Guy with the wind
by disqualification from Angry Man. Alive. Every a surprise. I
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want a surprise, Eddie. It's hard to believe. Super Marcus
Steve said he was betting fifty dollars on Angry Bill
to lose by disqualification in the second round. Well he
made it to the third round. And so you you
didn't win in the second round, but the third round
and the loss to by disqualification to Angry Bill. And
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how did you you score the fight here? Eddie? Will
go to the judge's score because not that it matters,
because the fight goes to Sean the Hood Guy. But
your thoughts on I mean, obviously I have to not
not give points to Angry Bill because he you know,
didn't use his allotted time where you know, like you know,
effective punches thrown. I guess it would be like more
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punches thrown by Sean the Hood Guy, because he did
use his complete allotted time when he was when he
was in the octagon there, All right, Well, I had
my scorecard. I had Sean the Hood Guy ahead, because
you listen, he was the one that brought the fight,
Angry Bill. He answered the call to fight, but he
did not bring any material. It's like you could tell
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he didn't train for the fight. He was not prepared
for the fight, and so any time he did say
something clean, he was only for like seven seconds and
couldn't say anything. Yeah, yeah, he's he's about a seven
second man, which we know there's rumors that's part of
the problem. But but but that's fine whatever, teacher, and I
don't really care. It doesn't matter to me at all.
But h So, anyway, I had it big advantage. Ten
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eight is how I scored it in favor before the
disqualification in favor of Sean Hood Guy. Any you want
to add to that, Roberto, and not like I said,
when Shaun the Hood Guy was clean, when when uh
Angry Bill had a chance to be clean, he only
said something for seven seconds and that was it. Yeah,
that was a little tough there, Cooper. Would you like
to add on here your thoughts that we have a disqualification,
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So I think you guys gotta covered. Okay, nothing else.
Let's let's have the post fight interview. Let's go into
the the winner's locker room, winning by disqualification. Sean the
Hood Guy, congratulations, Sean the Hood Guy. Man. You know what, Man,
I just try to keep everything cool. I love everybody
on the show. Man, but when somebody got something to
say about you, man, you gotta call him to the table.
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For just like I have the four positive will call
anybody to the table. Hey, I'm calling him to the table, man,
I ain't calling nobody else because everybody else on the
show is cool with me. I'm cool with them. Everybody
on the show I love. I got my favorites on
the show, and we I mean I got Blind Scott,
my boy, Chrissy Houston, my uncle Love was my urine uncle.
You know what I'm saying to my other unseen and
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everybody else on the show was cool. Man. But I write,
at least you gotta watch his mop, man, because you
don't know who you're talking to. Because if I ran
into him in Jacksonville, it'd be a totally misunderstanding. Army.
Yeah you were you you kick kick his ass But
that listen, Shan, congratulations, we don't even need to go
to the voice of the people. You've won, You've dominated,
you kept it clean, you were classy, you were prepared,
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unlike Angry Bill. So you are the winner. You wonder
one anyway, but you win by disqualification. So congratulations Sewn
the Hood Guy. All right, there he goes the great
Sean the Hood Guy, another octagon in the books, says,
many people reacting the Mallem militia. They had ringside seats,
not a lot of verbal boxing, not a lot of
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boxing on the radio. But Pete the Machina says, how
many words did Bill get in the first round before
he got dumped? None. I think the very first thing
Angry Bill said, we had to dump the very first
thing that he said, we had to dump him. Benito says,
Sean the Hood Guy exposed that clown, racist clown Angry Bill.
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He says, there, Jason and the Diamond Man says, Sean
the Hood Guy wins twenty nine to one on my scorecard.
Angry Bill, I knew that that so chosen be disqualified
there and that's the reaction of the people. Overwhelming joy
celebration as a Seawan. The hood guy gets it done.
That's good. We have our first FLA a Locktagonti along
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old time. We haven't had one in a while. Whoo
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