March 17, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss Jason Smith and Mike Harmon discuss the most wonderful time of the college basketball year! March Madness is already in full affect as everyone can already burn their chances at a perfect bracket after day one. The wait for Arron Rodgers to finally be traded to the Jets continues, and a breakdown of all the insane upsets so far! Plus, another riveting edition of True TV or Not TV!
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Sports Radio. Where's night goes? I have no idea why
the Macarena. Maybe because there's no more Narco. Maybe that's
what it is. Greetings and welcome inside. Happy Thursday, The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Fresh
off a NCAA tournament win for his alma mater, let
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me say it again, Northwestern with a win in the
NCAA Tournament, something I never thought i'd say. And I
can't believe you're not eating baked potatoes for dinner the
entire night after beating Boysey State seventy five sixty se Well,
I made potatoes as part of a dish I did today.
It took a nice sirloin tip roast and made that.
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So there's beef sandwiches and food here in the kitchen
in the Fox Sports radio studios. So some nice little
finger linked potatoes and pearl pearl onions as part of
the dish. It really turned out nice. I'm really proud
of it, and really proud of the Northwestern Wildcats for
taking care of business defensively and for the guard play
standing up tall against Boisey State. Yeah, you get all
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your smack talking and now because Saturday you're gonna have UCLA,
So get it all in that, get all of it
in now, get all of it and everything in now,
everything in now. Well, in the end, you've got to
be a realist and you hold out hope that you
can come up with a strong effort, that the defense
does some wonderful things and that you hit some shots
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and you get the production that you did out of
your veteran guards. But look, the reality is, you see, LA,
assuming they win tonight, will be favored and up in Sacramento,
it'll be a nice, nice atmosphere, no question about it.
Do I predict? Uh. I wanted to do one of
your things and just put Northwestern all the way through
the bracket. But I'm a man of buddy, but I'm
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a man of integrity. I couldn't. Yeah, come on, man,
you would have been so great. You should have done
two brackets, one of integrity and one where you have
your team winning at all. That's what I do. Well,
there there is a problem with some of these scoring
as it's been done. As I look at our bracket
updates Arizona and it's telling me I was wrong. But well, yeah,
you know you were definitely right, so was I. We
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were wrong to pick Arizona. I don't think anything wrong
with that. Were to pick Arizona. That never happened, buddy,
That never happened, buddy. You know me me at like
noon our time, when I watched Virginia melt down and
give that game way, I'm like so many people at
Virginia's their dark Rose final four team. And then I
watched Arizona go out and nuggle. Yeah. I had Arizona
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in the championship game. Yeah. I had Arizona Ino and
and get the bound championship game. Yeah. But I d
this morning. You know, you get all excited, you run
your errands. I did a nice long walk with the
dog and watched them tear down part of an old
historic restaurant and stuff on the Redondo beach pier out there,
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the cranes and everything and bulldozers. So that was kind
of fun. And then I get back and it's tip off.
So as you as you go through your paces, you've
got multiple screens going, and you're watching these games, and
they're not running away and hiding. In fact, they're looking
less than stellar. And all right, we're coming down the stretch.
They're gonna pull away now, right, I mean, I know
they're not a team Virginia specifically, Uh, that's gonna score
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a ton of points. Their whole ideas will grind out
and then finish the job in the final minutes. And
well that never happened. And then if I could read
some of the social media postings that I witnessed thereafter, guys,
don't tell, fire, do not tell, saying we will all
be fired forthwith based on the reactions of people who
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hadn't watched them play at all this year, who picked
them to go far, and then watched their brackets and
blue hand. Uh. Here is the sound earlier today of
millions of brackets, including mine, imploding all across the country
and the world, as Arizona once again fails to live
up to expectations. Tom more than just blow up a bracket, right,
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and it's a lot fumble. I had the Jet, I
had the Jets actually executing the snap in a handoff.
Oh no, no, you didn't have that right. You blew
that one, buddy. Well, at this point they're still not
fielding a complete team because Aaron Rodgers is still a
member of the Green Bay Packer. Well, they're intended, Zach Wilson,
they're intending to. I wonder if we're going to get
an Edwin Diaz called next. Oh you know what you
know at Frostburg, you're going to hell off that He's
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not the guy got hurt, but he got hurt at
them the year. Look, we're news people here with news people.
One that is, and that is a piece of news
that rocked the baseball in the world. It had a
bunch of people getting all mad indignant about the World
Baseball Plassic. How dare they? Meanwhile, you got players that
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are having the time in their life. And then went
asked which is more important to a man? They're like, oh, yeah,
the World Baseball Classic. Go after course, it's more important.
Of course they are because it wasn't their teammate that
got hurt. Of course, yoh no cards world We got
played World Baseball Classic. But before we get to that,
all right, let let's let's deal with the with the
hearts breaking across. Speaking of getting people mad, let's go
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to it. Let let's let's start the healing for everybody,
suckers like me that had Arizona go into the final four,
almost studies. He shoots the second free pro back of
the rib middle good Pella Larson the rebound. The horn
is gonna sound. The Princeton magic is alive. Man. Well,
the Princeton Tigers upset Arizona fifteen over it. Fifty nine
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fifty five is the final score. The Tigers brill advance
to the second round. Ryan Radkey on the call, so
Princeton moves on. Arizona goes home. The free throws made
by a guy whose brother had a great day. Caden
Pierce makes the two free throws that helped win the game. Well,
he's actually the brother of Alec Pierce, Colts wide receiver,
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who just saw bump up in his importance because Paris
Campbell signed with the Giants earlier today. So it's a
big day in the Pierce house. And the Colts brought
in a big time cornerback. Baby. Yeah. Now here's one
thing before I get to the big takeaway from this game.
I don't know about that foul call to put him
on the free throw line. That was like a missed
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backdoor layup and it looked like he got leaned into
a little bit, but he still he kept his position,
he went up and he just missed the shot and
they blew the whistle. Yeah, I wasn't a big fan
of that. I think that that was kind of a
no call. I didn't. I didn't like that with I said, Addio,
you really in a call that was that the referee
that blew the whistle was behind the play, so he
didn't really see. That was a tough call. I'm not
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not making his use for Arizona because look, they let
everybody down. I mean, I want everybody to know, Arizona
let the world down tonight, and like everybody, everybody deserve
to lose. They let a team that shoot like four
for eighty from three point range beat them tonight. Okay
for twenty five sixty percent from three point range. They
shot forty point six percent from the field. Did the
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Princeton Tiger's Hell, they only took five free throws as
a team. Yeah, and they beat you. You deserve to
go home and walk and do the walk of shame. Yeah. No,
that you should add people with bells wherever you go
for the next week. Shame, shame, Tara, No, no, no,
they they owe the world. But here's the biggest part
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of this now is that this is where Arizona is
now at a place nobody wants to be, and they
are called Arizona. A fit. Come on, wherever you in life,
it will always be better then Tucson. Name that movie, uh,
Arizona is now in a place no as it one
of the most underrated comedies ever. Hamlet two takes place
in Tucson. It's hysterical, ahead of its time. Steve Coogan
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is a star. He plays this drama teacher at this
high school that writes Hamlet two. And they perform and
they want to perform it, and it's hilarious. You only
like it because it has noted Jets fans. Skylar Aston
in there. No, no, no, it's it's I can't even
tell you how. Elizabeth Cheliabeth Elizabeth Shoe playing herself in
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the movie and and and like she's she's struck on
hard times as an actress. So she's a nurse and
like he runs into her in the hospital and asked
her to be in the play Hamlet two is and
that's a line nurse, he says. Wherever you go in life,
it will always be better than Tucson Um. But Arizona
is now where they never want to be. They're on
my official never again list teams I will never again
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pick for any thing, no matter what a list I
just put the Raiders on just last week, I will officially.
I told you I'm never gonna fall for the Raiders
ever again. I'm not doing it. No matter what happens.
They're always gonna raider. Arizona College basketball. Same way, not
gonna fall for Arizona. Every Look how good Arizona is.
They finish on a big upswing, they win the Pack
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twelve Championship, they beat UCLA. I had them in the
final four. Nope, never again Arizona, which is also on
the list with USC football, never again picking USC football
for anything, because they're always going to find a way
at the end to blow it. If they can't underachieve
during the season, they'll underachieve at the end of the season.
So those are now three. Well that in Brazil soccer
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in the World Cup. Never picking Brazil again, und they
are No matter how many guys I have, I'm never
picking Brazil. So it's Raiders, Arizona, Basketball, usc football, Brazil
never again. I'm never picking those teams again for anything.
All Right, I'm just making the official list because I'm
just gonna start a website that's all sorts of random
lists that we come up with. So make sure you
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said that to me as we progress. But I'd like
to as we like we often do, we we equate
things to movies and television, and you use the Hamlet
two to kind of set things up. But the reality
of it, if you were to say, from an esthetically
pleasing scenario, what movie equates to a fifty nine fifty
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five first round matchup where both teams shoot forty two
point one percent or worse? Oh man, what's one of
the worst? I wonder woman too? Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
one of the padre couldn't save that one. Uh yeah, no, no, well,
if he was a Mandalorian, it would have been great.
Like if he's walking around something he's a Mandel, that'd
be pretty can you imagine how bad it would have
been without Galgado. Yeah, oh man, I'll tell you. Because
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everybody was excited. The game was terrible, and that's kind
of what happened, just like Wonder Woman too. Everybody was excited.
The movie was bad, We move off. Everybody checked the
box and decided, hey, we're we don't even need to
watch this game. They back to sleep, or they went
to the gym, or maybe he actually got a little
bit of work in I'm just glad Wonder Woman too
and didn't end Pedro Pascal's career because it really could have.
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That could have what But now I mean now, now
he's everywhere, He's Mandalorian, he's last of us, he's doing
everything well. And he was in that movie with Nick Cage,
which was, yeah, really one of the most underrated films
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the way tire buying should be. Yeah, we celebrate Pedro's
entire catalog. Never again, I'm never picking Arizon again not happening.
Everybody never doing it, never doing it. Well, it was
I used to do that for fantasy football purposes. Every
year we got got you got god, here's Michael Vick,
here's this guy, and and now well the Raiders have
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Jimmy Garoppolo, so they make the list. Can't ever again.
That's a list you don't want to be on. Man,
you don't want to be on that list. Arizona to
USC the Raiders in Brazil, you don't want to be
in that list. What about the Clippers? You're clippers him
every year? No, no, I didn't take that. I didn't
take the Clippers this year. I told I gave him
the first time in nine years. He didn't take I. No, no,
I gave you Nuggets and the Grizzlies this year. And
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how smart do I look? Right? I just said, Okay,
the first time in nine years he didn't take them. Yeah,
how smart do I look? I mean, I look like
a basketball genie? Well you did with the Nuggets until
the last two weeks. Then they look up. You do
know the Lakers are back? Right? Okay? Well maybe maybe
they are maybe, but right now, I, like Harmon always says,
the show is tonight, right, so I look like I
look like a genius tonight. I'm at Gee. I told
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you I cut Denver and Memphis and where what does
it look like? Well? This is you know, they're sliding. Yeah,
but nobody else is rising up and Jack can come back?
Is ye early? Is the twenty ens. Nobody else is?
Nobody else is suddenly catching fire in the Western Conference.
Nobody else is doing it even though the Lakers were
trying to be back. I mean, the Clippers have now
won four in a row. Yeah, no, that's great, five
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and five in the last ten. But hey, let's let's
go to the four or noneous No, it's it's tough.
But the Clippers, the Clipper, Clippers. The Clippers might be
close to my never again list, But no, no, no, no,
you're gonna jump back on the bandwagon once they get
their own arena. Given the number of toilet instead Steve
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Balls putting in there, I mean you're gonna like that
facility just for that reason alone. Oh yeah, yeah, listen,
if you do stuff like that, then yeah, I'll be
a big fan of yours. Yeah, you put enough bathrooms
and make like aisle seats really wide, I'm a beg. Yeah,
I'll be a big fan. Don't well, I didn't look
people have bigger asses than they did, like when Wrigley
Field and such. Nothing wrong with a bigger ass, No,
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I wasn't I celebrate? H Well, the pastures is a
big deal. I'm an ass man. I am all right.
It's been documented for years. Twitter at how about a fresca, Mike,
it's swollen down The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend my Carmen. Meanwhile, in Day one of the NCAA
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Tournament again, never again, UCLA is right now shutting out
North Carolina Ashville seven nothing, Zach Charbonne with a touchdown,
run y Mike Houston and Northern Kentucky twenty two to
twenty Houston with the lead late in the first half.
Tennessee on top of Louisiana twenty three nineteen. But hey,
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we had a four thirteen, we had a two fifteen?
Could we get him one sixteen? Be sure to catch
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song early, Aren't we Okay? Well, it's appropriate for tournament time, okay, okay, Well, really,
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any time of day, any day of the year, we're
all trying to rule our own little parts of the world.
All right, all right, that's maybe the sandwich. Neat's on
your plight. You're gonna dominate that part of the world. Okay,
cup of coffee? Sure? All right? Are you just naming
items in front of you, Mike, I think he is.
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That's all he's doing. Wow, noises, I gotta beefieda and
some coffee. So today we had already two big upsets.
Four seed Virginia losers. Get to that in a second,
two seed Arizona. Never again Am I picking Arizona? Never
ever again? Shay, not ever, you go down. We could
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have another upset. Brewing one sixteen. Houston leads Northern Kentucky
twenty eight twenty seven with about a minute to go
in the first half. This is your first rank maybe
best team in the entire tournament, Houston Cougars. And they
lead by a point. And it is UCLA having just
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as much trouble right now. I mean, I really I
fear them right now. They lead North Carolina Asheville eighteen
to five. Yeah, let go. I mean they got that
two touchdown lead. Yeah, no, no, no, Zach Charbonne with
those two quick touchdown runs that that really helps out UCLA. Yeah,
I got them on the board right away. I'll tell
you what though. With Houston, I mean, it's like they
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cut off Sampson's hair. Oh wait, it's samp It's Sam Sampson,
Sampson Sampson. Yeah. But it was pretty good though, wasn't it.
I mean, Houston, we have a problem. You want to
talk about brackets imploding. I mean, that's gonna be like
the end of The Kingsman when all the heads were exploding.
Oh yeah, who spoiler alert. Let's that's like a decade old.
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At this point, we have you know, we have some
things we have to take care of today. The first
we gotta do is we just did it. Um, How
would Burman announce Arizona getting upset by Princeton? Oh boy,
we got to do it right, We got to Oh sure,
we do well. I mean it is also a tradition
unlike any other. I mean I've been waiting all day excitedly.
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Given the channels I've been watching the action on for
our annual tournament of how much. Can we be fooled
by what we think we've seen? And don't forget to
watch him practical jokers after this? Hey, hey, we do
have True TV or Not TV two rounds of it
coming up tonight. Oh yeah, we do, buddy, you can't. Yeah,
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if we didn't die, I didn't know what the voice box.
Oh yeah, yeah, No, we're good, man, We're good. No.
I figured if he didn't lozenge or whatever laxative up
like doctor Ornberger was telling him to do yesterday to
get True TV or not True TV in I was
going to boycott the show. Oh no, we're rolling on
it tonight. Man. I was going to call in six
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saying I need I needed a day because I was
let down. But how would Berman announce Princeton defeating Arizona
in the NSA turn. I mean, this is just a
warm up because I'm just gonna kill you with Virginia
getting upset earlier today by Fermant. I mean, I'm gonna
kill you with that. But you're just a taste right now.
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And t J Princeton apparently too much of a dry
heat for Arizona today. TJ Arizona just had a grand
canyon of points too much to overcome to. No J.
When Grand Canyon did on a Princeton team that scored
fifteen t J, quicker than you can say, Hoover damn
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Arizona's out of the NCAA tournament TJ. No there you go.
I mean that was better just a warm up number
five the way, that's just that's just a warm up. Man,
that's just a warm up. But I'm telling you, next
hour I got I it was. It was the most
fun thing today. Now my voice was back to getting
close to normal, which I was excited about. But getting
to do true TV or not TV? And how would
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Burman announce the upsets in the NCAA tournament? Oh? Man,
that's the best. That was the best. That matter. I
was in my having to place your motivation. I was
ignoring every day. Maybe you had to walk the dog.
Now that you have a dog, you're getting a little
more exercise and getting out there, getting the cardio going.
Uh and during that what do you do you marinate
ideas for the show, especially when you want to go
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down that burmin rabbit hole. Hacker is going to be
proud of you. Hey, too soon, too soon? Too soon?
Too soon? Oh and tight, sir, we gotta get rolling
with uh one shining moment? Here for some music. Here,
we gotta get rolling with that. Okay, let's replace all
your Tears for Fears with Tears one Shining Moment. Yeah,
but isn't that the same message and that song is better?
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No one? Wait, wait, what are you talking about? No one,
No one thinks Tears for Fears thinks ncaa tournament. Tears
for Fears, not one person. No no no. But in terms
of ruling the world, I'd rather rule the world that
one than one. Shine people. Man. People think tears and
fears and they go, uh yeah, here's music for me
being contemplative in my car in a gray day at
four o'clock in the afternoon. That's Tears for Fears music.
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Where am I in the middle of winter when I'm
driving around and there's no snow and the holiday are
over and I'm wondering when this spring is coming? And
then Tears for Fears comes on and I feel good
because I'm wearing a turtleneck and I have a mop
head of hair and I'm wearing a big, long black coat.
Now I feel good about listening to Tears for Fears. No, no,
no, no no, no, Well, and that's where you fire up
the Elvis. Why can't every day be like Christmas? Because
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then you're in the holiday spirit all along. You're you're
generous with your time and with yourself and your presence,
and you're there for your fellow man. Uh So, while
that is happening, and I'm good getting because I don't
want to play your Tears for Fears again. You don't
want to hear it again? No, no, I'm really sure.
I am positive. Would you rather hear No, I'd rather
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not hear any of those things. But if you had
to choose between about Kate Bush, i'd rather You know
what I'm you know what I'm doing. I'm going to
find a way to put an official embargo. It's my
new favorite word. I'm gonna put an embargo on you
playing the Butt Fumble and Tears for Fears. It's gonna
be an embargo on both of those things. You could
really hate this movie, but you can't put out your
review of it until it wasn't Jean Goodman ego. Uh no, no, no,
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you're thinking of argo, argo, argo blank yourself? Yeah, no, no,
embargo and embargo is what's happening. Well I even know
what that word means. Yes, Embargo means you're not allowed
to use something, so there's an embargo on it and
embargo there you know, there is actually a movie from
two thousand and ten embargo. Actually, I actually learned that
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word at ESPN when when um, when I was a
production assistant and like certain video would come in that
you're not allowed to use. It was usually for a fight,
like if there was a big fight you had, there
was like twenty four hours that you couldn't use footage
of the fight. You can only use still photos right exactly,
Like oh my god. Yeah, So they would send the
video for us to able to use the next day,
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but there would be a big sign that came in
front sid video is embargoed until you know noon, you know,
Sunday or whatever. It is. Embargo and embargo Like oh, embargo,
Like that's a good word. I like embargo. Embargo is
a pretty good word. And you listen to them, I'm
a big fan. Did you play well No, no, no,
that was you kidding. No, no, they were a huge
financial repert. Yeah no, no, no, I would Ken would
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have gone sue, I mean, Bob Aaron would have owned Disney.
If that was the case, they always had several days
where they were you can still order it, still watch it,
because they did that with the WWF two. Oh yeah,
yeah yeah, oh w was a big one. Hey yeah,
it's Saturday night, but don't worry. You can get it
Sunday at noon and Sunday at six and Sunday night
at nine. So we'll let you get all four showings
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of it if you want. Sweet. But the other upset
happening earlier today it was Virginia in an incredible meltdown
that I still can't believe. And here's how it sounded
from Kevin Harlan over mid Court, his right wing deep,
god shut Virginia, I should care their first nine years,
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John Saddick Westwood, when I thought we had to Kevin
Harland call an amazing turn of circumstances the final minutes
where it looked like Furman had the upset. They were
up for a couple of minutes left to go, and
then with twenty five seconds to go, you had Virginia
was up four and key Hey Clark, who was a
senior and has had a great career. It made one
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of the greatest passes in Virginia history four years ago
that helped them tie a game against Purdue in the tournament.
Just a phenomenal pass that was what he was known for.
And now this play, this really bad decision that he
knowed it out. I felt so bad for him, and
I also felt that this is what shocks me is
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that of all the teams, if you told me everybody
in the tournament, which team is is the least likely
to have a play like this happened at the end,
where they completely melt down because they're not coached well enough.
I would as I would have put Virginia because that's
that's not a Virginia play. I watching Virginia under Tony Bennett.
This is not how they play. They have things buttoned down,
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the way they played defensively, know how to do what
to do with the clock. He had four guards out
there at the end, knowing that when we're up by
a point and there's twelve seconds left, we got to
inbound the ball, control the ball, and get to the
free throw line to shoot right. So we had the
right lineup out there, everything out there. And then Clark
and this is what baffles me on it is that
he's looking down court, and he's got all kinds of
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decisions to make, and any one of them would have
been better than trying to throw the ball all the
way down court. He sees all five defenders in front
of him, right, there's two guys on him, there's two
guys that are few feet away, and the one guy
all the way down court. He has a player open
on the wing, he has a player open up near
half court. He could have held onto the ball. He
could have called a time out, he could have done
any of those. The fact that there was still a
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time out in the offing here is and instead he
throws the ball down and it gets caught up and
look the big three. I can't say enough about it
because he hadn't made one. He was oz for three.
I think most of the day he was for three
or for four. And he still takes that three with confidence.
But I Virginia, they just don't make plays like that.
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They just don't. And to see that play happen, I'm
looking at it going, that's how Virginia is gonna lose, man.
I mean not that they don't lose early in tournaments,
because look, they won the tournament. They've lost in the
first round as a one seat right, So they do that,
but they just don't play that way, and they came
completely unglued at the end when every everything was in
place for them to be able to say, Okay, let's
make sure this doesn't happen. They were a whole slew
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of things that could have happened for them. Calling a
time out would have been the right call because they
had the time out. Okay, let's call the time out.
Let's get a better play. This isn't working, or there's
a guy wide open. How do you not see it?
I mean, I get the default too. If I throw
the ball all the way down court, maybe it's gonna
wind up it because I got two guys down there
and they're gonna get the ball, or it's gonna be
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knocked around for a while. The time will tick down
and we're gonna win the game. But instead he just
doesn't throw it far enough and it gets picked off cleanly,
and there's a big pass and Pickies is three. I mean,
it was, it was. It was watching it in slow motion.
It was, oh no, and you see it happen. And
I'm watching Clark walked to the bench and I go,
he's gonna think about that play every day for the
rest of his life, every single day, because likely his
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career is at look, his career is any He was
a good player, but not a great player. Maybe he'll
play someplace and you know, maybe he goes overseas, maybe
he gets into a G league somewhere, whatever it is,
an NBA camp, But he's gonna think about that play
every day the rest of his life. And I felt
so awful for him because he made such a great
pass four years ago that helped them tie a game,
and I mean it, it was an amazing play, great
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presence of mind, and he throws that and it's just
there are just so many things that he could have
done to make that pass not happen, and he just
did the one thing you can't do, and that's I'm
turning it over right there in the middle of the floor.
You can't turn in the middle, not I trying to
get the ball out to the side, and they grabbed
it right before the baselines. He turned over in the
middle of the floor, and I'm just watching it unfold, going,
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oh my good. And then of course they're all discombobulated
on defense and they wind up with an open three
and Virginia goes home was a four seed and ruining
a lot of brackets on the way. I'm stunned that
it was Virginia. Stunned. Well, you give up your dribble,
you get yourself trapped in the corner, You forget about
the time out because you don't have the bench able
to yell at you loudly enough through the crowd noise.
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All right, there's there's no uh, nobody that can get
that to you. The fact that you can't call it
elsewhere is silly to me, because everywhere, every other rule
allows you to call from ninety feet away. In a
lot of these games, like way he called it back there,
it's like, well, not in the play, but you know,
he doesn't get the time out, makes the throw, as
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you say, probably looking to get the ball tipped, bounced
around whatever, or it's a hail Mary pass. More or less.
They only had eight turnovers eight eight and a half
turnovers per game this year, did Virginia. But we know
from a grind it out perspective, not a team that
generally historically right, that's the personality. Don't run and hide,
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put up a ton of points, grinde you out play defense.
In this case, he had Furman hung around and you
gave him one last shot. And look, you'd love his
career arc to have gone the other way right and
have the terrible moment as a freshman, because then it
gets excused now you're just a freshman. Yeah yeah, instead, yeah,
you know, this is the way you go out and
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you know, balance and in the force and all that stuff,
but just a big time shot, right. Got to give
credit to Firman executing there at mid court. The player
that came down with the ball, didn't panic, found the
open man, and he had look the guts to take
the shot right that he didn't look around, he knew
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the urgency of the situation. We've seen this so many
times in the NBA and coming down the stretch in
the NC DOUBLEA where guys are unaware of how much
times on the clock. Hell, I go back to the
Northwestern game that we watched in the Big Ten tournament,
right where you get the ball and he's got time
to set, but instead does a all right, I catch
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and release without really getting myself set and they miss
and they're eliminated from the Big Ten tournament. Now they
get the win tonight, and I will harp on that
as long as I can because it's a very short
lived thing that I get to celebrate. But for Furman,
a huge shot, And for those that thought Virginia was
for lovers and were loving them on their brackets, it's
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a wreck man. That relationship has been torn us under.
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greatest game we do, even better than the Magic Johnson
Twitter game, all of which have been copied shamelessly. As
we watch the NCAA tournament unfold. Yes, some games are
on True TV, that channel you only watched two days
out of the year. But to help you out with
(30:07):
finding True TV and understanding what it's all about, we
play a game called True TV or Not TV. I
give you a show and you tell me is that
a real show on True TV or isn't made up?
By me? Playing tonight myself, Mike Hartman, Justin Frostburg, Alex Tischer,
Steve de Seger, are you guys ready all right? Am
(30:33):
I love loving an elevator? And can I give you that?
Steven Tyler? That wasn't even close to loving an elevator?
You were like an elevator? Did it like Ron Burgundy
loving an elevator? Loving an elevator? You were doing you
don't even know love on a couch, loving an elevator
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speed dating in the time it takes to ride an
elevator from one random floor to another, and you make
a match in that time. Love in an Elevator? Is
that a true TV show? It should be? I really
dig that. Wow, we could do that, We could apprecate
that one. Yeah, why not. I'm gonna say no, but
I love it. Conceptually, I'm gonna say it's a song
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by Aerosmith going Down. Not a show on true TV?
Ty Shirt, where are You? That is absolutely a show
Love in an Elevator? I was on episode two. I
got kicked out of the top. Surveillance footage that showed
me loving an elevator is not a true TV show,
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But how great would that be? So Erosmith? In fifteen
minutes of a day, I can come up with a
year's worth of programming for True TV. I mean seriously,
so what was I on? Then you're on the rip
off of it? You're on you you were on loving
an Escalator? Oh that's right, Yeah, that was the one
you were. I wonder it was slanted, yea, even the
glass elevator. Boy was she opened? Steve Hamsters on roller Skates?
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Two Hamsters have Adventures on roller Skates? No, No, is
that a True TV show? No? I mean cartoon with
the naked mole rat before I'm gonna say yeah, No,
Kim Possible was not. When you say hamsters on roller skates,
are you talking about unc Asheville? Uh? Could be David
(32:31):
on roller skates all night. We're talking about the Jets
defense as the AFCES comes to dominate, sauce gardeners. They're
on roller skate? What not a show? No? Again, in hopes, Jason,
I'm gonna say it is a show. Hamsters on roller skates?
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Is a show on True TV? Hamsters rollers not? Yes,
it is. No, it's not Hamsters ller skates, Hamsters on
roller skate And like, I mean, this is a Furies show.
What do we need to be fired? If that's a show,
how are the episodes it's a half hour show, and
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it was. It was. It was on for three years,
and it was these two hamsters solving problems in the
world and while on roller skates hamsters. Okay, you're saying
in the past not present tense. Yeah, it could be
in the alumni association. Yeah, you can see it. Yeah,
hams on roller skates. In fact, there's even talk of
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reviving it. I saw, hey, those hamsters that you've given
it national recognition, like the let's bring it back, Let's
bring it back recycling. Captain Joey. Captain Joey a show
surrounded Captain Kangaroo's grandson Britain who lives in the Australian Outback.
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Captain Joey show surrounded Captain Kangaroo's grandson Britain who lives
in the Australian outbas Not the friends Joey. I'll say no, no,
Captain Joey is a baby Kangaroo. So yeah, Captain Captain
Joey not a show. Okay, Yeah, good thoughts too, U.
You know, since we're taking all of our zoo folk
(34:14):
in Minny Irwin who had some health issues, hopefully she's
on the end. Hey. Reminder also We're brought to you
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is a show. A show. I know it made up
special by Tom Looney for this game today. Yes, he
texted me that it's his favorite thing. He goes, I
still listen, will you guys do that's my favorite? And
he texted me that idea. Did he drop his pants
right there? He may have. I don't know. I'll drop
(34:58):
my pants right here. But I had to adjust the
title because he said, how about Captain Kangaroo's grandson. You
guys said, no, we call it Captain joe Joey, son
of a Goat A show, not a show. Tom, your
legs are small. Wow there our first friend. That's fantastic
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true TV. No, not TV. Now you know it's not
a show. I think the Gremlins will play another round
of this. Ah you thought it. We'll play it next
hour again on the show again every I mean, wouldn't
you watch Loving an Elevator. I mean that's a show,
and that's show, yeah, Captain Joey right, and Britain. Britain
actually is his grandson's name. I researched that. That's pretty good.
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I said, I gotta find with his grant and his
grandson's name is Britain and the Furies on Adventures on
Roller Skmes. I mean that's Captain Kangaroo was an actual kangaroo.
You're saying, no, it was granted. Okay, you don't explain
that on his hands fox Hide top
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Sports Radio. Where's night goes? I have no idea why
the Macarena. Maybe because there's no more Narco. Maybe that's
what it is. Greetings and welcome inside. Happy Thursday, The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Fresh
off a NCAA tournament win for his alma mater, let
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me say it again, Northwestern with a win in the
NCAA Tournament, something I never thought i'd say. And I
can't believe you're not eating baked potatoes for dinner the
entire night after beating Boysey State seventy five sixty se Well,
I made potatoes as part of a dish I did today.
It took a nice sirloin tip roast and made that.
(01:09):
So there's beef sandwiches and food here in the kitchen
in the Fox Sports radio studios. So some nice little
finger linked potatoes and pearl pearl onions as part of
the dish. It really turned out nice. I'm really proud
of it, and really proud of the Northwestern Wildcats for
taking care of business defensively and for the guard play
standing up tall against Boisey State. Yeah, you get all
(01:32):
your smack talking and now because Saturday you're gonna have UCLA,
So get it all in that, get all of it
in now, get all of it and everything in now,
everything in now. Well, in the end, you've got to
be a realist and you hold out hope that you
can come up with a strong effort, that the defense
does some wonderful things and that you hit some shots
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and you get the production that you did out of
your veteran guards. But look, the reality is, you see, LA,
assuming they win tonight, will be favored and up in Sacramento,
it'll be a nice, nice atmosphere, no question about it.
Do I predict? Uh. I wanted to do one of
your things and just put Northwestern all the way through
the bracket. But I'm a man of buddy, but I'm
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a man of integrity. I couldn't. Yeah, come on, man,
you would have been so great. You should have done
two brackets, one of integrity and one where you have
your team winning at all. That's what I do. Well,
there there is a problem with some of these scoring
as it's been done. As I look at our bracket
updates Arizona and it's telling me I was wrong. But well, yeah,
you know you were definitely right, so was I. We
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were wrong to pick Arizona. I don't think anything wrong
with that. Were to pick Arizona. That never happened, buddy,
That never happened, buddy. You know me me at like
noon our time, when I watched Virginia melt down and
give that game way, I'm like so many people at
Virginia's their dark Rose final four team. And then I
watched Arizona go out and nuggle. Yeah. I had Arizona
(02:56):
in the championship game. Yeah. I had Arizona Ino and
and get the bound championship game. Yeah. But I d
this morning. You know, you get all excited, you run
your errands. I did a nice long walk with the
dog and watched them tear down part of an old
historic restaurant and stuff on the Redondo beach pier out there,
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the cranes and everything and bulldozers. So that was kind
of fun. And then I get back and it's tip off.
So as you as you go through your paces, you've
got multiple screens going, and you're watching these games, and
they're not running away and hiding. In fact, they're looking
less than stellar. And all right, we're coming down the stretch.
They're gonna pull away now, right, I mean, I know
they're not a team Virginia specifically, Uh, that's gonna score
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a ton of points. Their whole ideas will grind out
and then finish the job in the final minutes. And
well that never happened. And then if I could read
some of the social media postings that I witnessed thereafter, guys,
don't tell, fire, do not tell, saying we will all
be fired forthwith based on the reactions of people who
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hadn't watched them play at all this year, who picked
them to go far, and then watched their brackets and
blue hand. Uh. Here is the sound earlier today of
millions of brackets, including mine, imploding all across the country
and the world, as Arizona once again fails to live
up to expectations. Tom more than just blow up a bracket, right,
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and it's a lot fumble. I had the Jet, I
had the Jets actually executing the snap in a handoff.
Oh no, no, you didn't have that right. You blew
that one, buddy. Well, at this point they're still not
fielding a complete team because Aaron Rodgers is still a
member of the Green Bay Packer. Well, they're intended, Zach Wilson,
they're intending to. I wonder if we're going to get
an Edwin Diaz called next. Oh you know what you
know at Frostburg, you're going to hell off that He's
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not the guy got hurt, but he got hurt at
them the year. Look, we're news people here with news people.
One that is, and that is a piece of news
that rocked the baseball in the world. It had a
bunch of people getting all mad indignant about the World
Baseball Plassic. How dare they? Meanwhile, you got players that
(05:15):
are having the time in their life. And then went
asked which is more important to a man? They're like, oh, yeah,
the World Baseball Classic. Go after course, it's more important.
Of course they are because it wasn't their teammate that
got hurt. Of course, yoh no cards world We got
played World Baseball Classic. But before we get to that,
all right, let let's let's deal with the with the
hearts breaking across. Speaking of getting people mad, let's go
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to it. Let let's let's start the healing for everybody,
suckers like me that had Arizona go into the final four,
almost studies. He shoots the second free pro back of
the rib middle good Pella Larson the rebound. The horn
is gonna sound. The Princeton magic is alive. Man. Well,
the Princeton Tigers upset Arizona fifteen over it. Fifty nine
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fifty five is the final score. The Tigers brill advance
to the second round. Ryan Radkey on the call, so
Princeton moves on. Arizona goes home. The free throws made
by a guy whose brother had a great day. Caden
Pierce makes the two free throws that helped win the game. Well,
he's actually the brother of Alec Pierce, Colts wide receiver,
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who just saw bump up in his importance because Paris
Campbell signed with the Giants earlier today. So it's a
big day in the Pierce house. And the Colts brought
in a big time cornerback. Baby. Yeah. Now here's one
thing before I get to the big takeaway from this game.
I don't know about that foul call to put him
on the free throw line. That was like a missed
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backdoor layup and it looked like he got leaned into
a little bit, but he still he kept his position,
he went up and he just missed the shot and
they blew the whistle. Yeah, I wasn't a big fan
of that. I think that that was kind of a
no call. I didn't. I didn't like that with I said, Addio,
you really in a call that was that the referee
that blew the whistle was behind the play, so he
didn't really see. That was a tough call. I'm not
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not making his use for Arizona because look, they let
everybody down. I mean, I want everybody to know, Arizona
let the world down tonight, and like everybody, everybody deserve
to lose. They let a team that shoot like four
for eighty from three point range beat them tonight. Okay
for twenty five sixty percent from three point range. They
shot forty point six percent from the field. Did the
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Princeton Tiger's Hell, they only took five free throws as
a team. Yeah, and they beat you. You deserve to
go home and walk and do the walk of shame. Yeah. No,
that you should add people with bells wherever you go
for the next week. Shame, shame, Tara, No, no, no,
they they owe the world. But here's the biggest part
(07:52):
of this now is that this is where Arizona is
now at a place nobody wants to be, and they
are called Arizona. A fit. Come on, wherever you in life,
it will always be better then Tucson. Name that movie, uh,
Arizona is now in a place no as it one
of the most underrated comedies ever. Hamlet two takes place
in Tucson. It's hysterical, ahead of its time. Steve Coogan
(08:13):
is a star. He plays this drama teacher at this
high school that writes Hamlet two. And they perform and
they want to perform it, and it's hilarious. You only
like it because it has noted Jets fans. Skylar Aston
in there. No, no, no, it's it's I can't even
tell you how. Elizabeth Cheliabeth Elizabeth Shoe playing herself in
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the movie and and and like she's she's struck on
hard times as an actress. So she's a nurse and
like he runs into her in the hospital and asked
her to be in the play Hamlet two is and
that's a line nurse, he says. Wherever you go in life,
it will always be better than Tucson Um. But Arizona
is now where they never want to be. They're on
my official never again list teams I will never again
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pick for any thing, no matter what a list I
just put the Raiders on just last week, I will officially.
I told you I'm never gonna fall for the Raiders
ever again. I'm not doing it. No matter what happens.
They're always gonna raider. Arizona College basketball. Same way, not
gonna fall for Arizona. Every Look how good Arizona is.
They finish on a big upswing, they win the Pack
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twelve Championship, they beat UCLA. I had them in the
final four. Nope, never again Arizona, which is also on
the list with USC football, never again picking USC football
for anything, because they're always going to find a way
at the end to blow it. If they can't underachieve
during the season, they'll underachieve at the end of the season.
So those are now three. Well that in Brazil soccer
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in the World Cup. Never picking Brazil again, und they
are No matter how many guys I have, I'm never
picking Brazil. So it's Raiders, Arizona, Basketball, usc football, Brazil
never again. I'm never picking those teams again for anything.
All Right, I'm just making the official list because I'm
just gonna start a website that's all sorts of random
lists that we come up with. So make sure you
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said that to me as we progress. But I'd like
to as we like we often do, we we equate
things to movies and television, and you use the Hamlet
two to kind of set things up. But the reality
of it, if you were to say, from an esthetically
pleasing scenario, what movie equates to a fifty nine fifty
(10:23):
five first round matchup where both teams shoot forty two
point one percent or worse? Oh man, what's one of
the worst? I wonder woman too? Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
one of the padre couldn't save that one. Uh yeah, no, no, well,
if he was a Mandalorian, it would have been great.
Like if he's walking around something he's a Mandel, that'd
be pretty can you imagine how bad it would have
been without Galgado. Yeah, oh man, I'll tell you. Because
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everybody was excited. The game was terrible, and that's kind
of what happened, just like Wonder Woman too. Everybody was excited.
The movie was bad, We move off. Everybody checked the
box and decided, hey, we're we don't even need to
watch this game. They back to sleep, or they went
to the gym, or maybe he actually got a little
bit of work in I'm just glad Wonder Woman too
and didn't end Pedro Pascal's career because it really could have.
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That could have what But now I mean now, now
he's everywhere, He's Mandalorian, he's last of us, he's doing
everything well. And he was in that movie with Nick Cage,
which was, yeah, really one of the most underrated films
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the way tire buying should be. Yeah, we celebrate Pedro's
entire catalog. Never again, I'm never picking Arizon again not happening.
Everybody never doing it, never doing it. Well, it was
I used to do that for fantasy football purposes. Every
year we got got you got god, here's Michael Vick,
here's this guy, and and now well the Raiders have
(11:53):
Jimmy Garoppolo, so they make the list. Can't ever again.
That's a list you don't want to be on. Man,
you don't want to be on that list. Arizona to
USC the Raiders in Brazil, you don't want to be
in that list. What about the Clippers? You're clippers him
every year? No, no, I didn't take that. I didn't
take the Clippers this year. I told I gave him
the first time in nine years. He didn't take I. No, no,
I gave you Nuggets and the Grizzlies this year. And
(12:13):
how smart do I look? Right? I just said, Okay,
the first time in nine years he didn't take them. Yeah,
how smart do I look? I mean, I look like
a basketball genie? Well you did with the Nuggets until
the last two weeks. Then they look up. You do
know the Lakers are back? Right? Okay? Well maybe maybe
they are maybe, but right now, I, like Harmon always says,
the show is tonight, right, so I look like I
look like a genius tonight. I'm at Gee. I told
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you I cut Denver and Memphis and where what does
it look like? Well? This is you know, they're sliding. Yeah,
but nobody else is rising up and Jack can come back?
Is ye early? Is the twenty ens. Nobody else is?
Nobody else is suddenly catching fire in the Western Conference.
Nobody else is doing it even though the Lakers were
trying to be back. I mean, the Clippers have now
won four in a row. Yeah, no, that's great, five
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and five in the last ten. But hey, let's let's
go to the four or noneous No, it's it's tough.
But the Clippers, the Clipper, Clippers. The Clippers might be
close to my never again list, But no, no, no, no,
you're gonna jump back on the bandwagon once they get
their own arena. Given the number of toilet instead Steve
(13:17):
Balls putting in there, I mean you're gonna like that
facility just for that reason alone. Oh yeah, yeah, listen,
if you do stuff like that, then yeah, I'll be
a big fan of yours. Yeah, you put enough bathrooms
and make like aisle seats really wide, I'm a beg. Yeah,
I'll be a big fan. Don't well, I didn't look
people have bigger asses than they did, like when Wrigley
Field and such. Nothing wrong with a bigger ass, No,
(13:39):
I wasn't I celebrate? H Well, the pastures is a
big deal. I'm an ass man. I am all right.
It's been documented for years. Twitter at how about a fresca, Mike,
it's swollen down The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend my Carmen. Meanwhile, in Day one of the NCAA
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Tournament again, never again, UCLA is right now shutting out
North Carolina Ashville seven nothing, Zach Charbonne with a touchdown,
run y Mike Houston and Northern Kentucky twenty two to
twenty Houston with the lead late in the first half.
Tennessee on top of Louisiana twenty three nineteen. But hey,
(14:19):
we had a four thirteen, we had a two fifteen?
Could we get him one sixteen? Be sure to catch
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song early, Aren't we Okay? Well, it's appropriate for tournament time, okay, okay, Well, really,
(14:44):
any time of day, any day of the year, we're
all trying to rule our own little parts of the world.
All right, all right, that's maybe the sandwich. Neat's on
your plight. You're gonna dominate that part of the world. Okay,
cup of coffee? Sure? All right? Are you just naming
items in front of you, Mike, I think he is.
(15:05):
That's all he's doing. Wow, noises, I gotta beefieda and
some coffee. So today we had already two big upsets.
Four seed Virginia losers. Get to that in a second,
two seed Arizona. Never again Am I picking Arizona? Never
ever again? Shay, not ever, you go down. We could
(15:28):
have another upset. Brewing one sixteen. Houston leads Northern Kentucky
twenty eight twenty seven with about a minute to go
in the first half. This is your first rank maybe
best team in the entire tournament, Houston Cougars. And they
lead by a point. And it is UCLA having just
(15:52):
as much trouble right now. I mean, I really I
fear them right now. They lead North Carolina Asheville eighteen
to five. Yeah, let go. I mean they got that
two touchdown lead. Yeah, no, no, no, Zach Charbonne with
those two quick touchdown runs that that really helps out UCLA. Yeah,
I got them on the board right away. I'll tell
you what though. With Houston, I mean, it's like they
(16:14):
cut off Sampson's hair. Oh wait, it's samp It's Sam Sampson,
Sampson Sampson. Yeah. But it was pretty good though, wasn't it.
I mean, Houston, we have a problem. You want to
talk about brackets imploding. I mean, that's gonna be like
the end of The Kingsman when all the heads were exploding.
Oh yeah, who spoiler alert. Let's that's like a decade old.
(16:34):
At this point, we have you know, we have some
things we have to take care of today. The first
we gotta do is we just did it. Um, How
would Burman announce Arizona getting upset by Princeton? Oh boy,
we got to do it right, We got to Oh sure,
we do well. I mean it is also a tradition
unlike any other. I mean I've been waiting all day excitedly.
(16:56):
Given the channels I've been watching the action on for
our annual tournament of how much. Can we be fooled
by what we think we've seen? And don't forget to
watch him practical jokers after this? Hey, hey, we do
have True TV or Not TV two rounds of it
coming up tonight. Oh yeah, we do, buddy, you can't. Yeah,
(17:16):
if we didn't die, I didn't know what the voice box.
Oh yeah, yeah, No, we're good, man, We're good. No.
I figured if he didn't lozenge or whatever laxative up
like doctor Ornberger was telling him to do yesterday to
get True TV or not True TV in I was
going to boycott the show. Oh no, we're rolling on
it tonight. Man. I was going to call in six
(17:37):
saying I need I needed a day because I was
let down. But how would Berman announce Princeton defeating Arizona
in the NSA turn. I mean, this is just a
warm up because I'm just gonna kill you with Virginia
getting upset earlier today by Fermant. I mean, I'm gonna
kill you with that. But you're just a taste right now.
(18:00):
And t J Princeton apparently too much of a dry
heat for Arizona today. TJ Arizona just had a grand
canyon of points too much to overcome to. No J.
When Grand Canyon did on a Princeton team that scored
fifteen t J, quicker than you can say, Hoover damn
(18:27):
Arizona's out of the NCAA tournament TJ. No there you go.
I mean that was better just a warm up number
five the way, that's just that's just a warm up. Man,
that's just a warm up. But I'm telling you, next
hour I got I it was. It was the most
fun thing today. Now my voice was back to getting
close to normal, which I was excited about. But getting
to do true TV or not TV? And how would
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Burman announce the upsets in the NCAA tournament? Oh? Man,
that's the best. That was the best. That matter. I
was in my having to place your motivation. I was
ignoring every day. Maybe you had to walk the dog.
Now that you have a dog, you're getting a little
more exercise and getting out there, getting the cardio going.
Uh and during that what do you do you marinate
ideas for the show, especially when you want to go
(19:09):
down that burmin rabbit hole. Hacker is going to be
proud of you. Hey, too soon, too soon? Too soon?
Too soon? Oh and tight, sir, we gotta get rolling
with uh one shining moment? Here for some music. Here,
we gotta get rolling with that. Okay, let's replace all
your Tears for Fears with Tears one Shining Moment. Yeah,
but isn't that the same message and that song is better?
(19:35):
No one? Wait, wait, what are you talking about? No one,
No one thinks Tears for Fears thinks ncaa tournament. Tears
for Fears, not one person. No no no. But in terms
of ruling the world, I'd rather rule the world that
one than one. Shine people. Man. People think tears and
fears and they go, uh yeah, here's music for me
being contemplative in my car in a gray day at
four o'clock in the afternoon. That's Tears for Fears music.
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Where am I in the middle of winter when I'm
driving around and there's no snow and the holiday are
over and I'm wondering when this spring is coming? And
then Tears for Fears comes on and I feel good
because I'm wearing a turtleneck and I have a mop
head of hair and I'm wearing a big, long black coat.
Now I feel good about listening to Tears for Fears. No, no,
no, no no, no, Well, and that's where you fire up
the Elvis. Why can't every day be like Christmas? Because
(20:17):
then you're in the holiday spirit all along. You're you're
generous with your time and with yourself and your presence,
and you're there for your fellow man. Uh So, while
that is happening, and I'm good getting because I don't
want to play your Tears for Fears again. You don't
want to hear it again? No, no, I'm really sure.
I am positive. Would you rather hear No, I'd rather
(20:37):
not hear any of those things. But if you had
to choose between about Kate Bush, i'd rather You know
what I'm you know what I'm doing. I'm going to
find a way to put an official embargo. It's my
new favorite word. I'm gonna put an embargo on you
playing the Butt Fumble and Tears for Fears. It's gonna
be an embargo on both of those things. You could
really hate this movie, but you can't put out your
review of it until it wasn't Jean Goodman ego. Uh no, no, no,
(21:00):
you're thinking of argo, argo, argo blank yourself? Yeah, no, no,
embargo and embargo is what's happening. Well I even know
what that word means. Yes, Embargo means you're not allowed
to use something, so there's an embargo on it and
embargo there you know, there is actually a movie from
two thousand and ten embargo. Actually, I actually learned that
(21:22):
word at ESPN when when um, when I was a
production assistant and like certain video would come in that
you're not allowed to use. It was usually for a fight,
like if there was a big fight you had, there
was like twenty four hours that you couldn't use footage
of the fight. You can only use still photos right exactly,
Like oh my god. Yeah, So they would send the
video for us to able to use the next day,
(21:42):
but there would be a big sign that came in
front sid video is embargoed until you know noon, you know,
Sunday or whatever. It is. Embargo and embargo Like oh, embargo,
Like that's a good word. I like embargo. Embargo is
a pretty good word. And you listen to them, I'm
a big fan. Did you play well No, no, no,
that was you kidding. No, no, they were a huge
financial repert. Yeah no, no, no, I would Ken would
(22:03):
have gone sue, I mean, Bob Aaron would have owned Disney.
If that was the case, they always had several days
where they were you can still order it, still watch it,
because they did that with the WWF two. Oh yeah,
yeah yeah, oh w was a big one. Hey yeah,
it's Saturday night, but don't worry. You can get it
Sunday at noon and Sunday at six and Sunday night
at nine. So we'll let you get all four showings
(22:24):
of it if you want. Sweet. But the other upset
happening earlier today it was Virginia in an incredible meltdown
that I still can't believe. And here's how it sounded
from Kevin Harlan over mid Court, his right wing deep,
god shut Virginia, I should care their first nine years,
(22:53):
John Saddick Westwood, when I thought we had to Kevin
Harland call an amazing turn of circumstances the final minutes
where it looked like Furman had the upset. They were
up for a couple of minutes left to go, and
then with twenty five seconds to go, you had Virginia
was up four and key Hey Clark, who was a
senior and has had a great career. It made one
(23:14):
of the greatest passes in Virginia history four years ago
that helped them tie a game against Purdue in the tournament.
Just a phenomenal pass that was what he was known for.
And now this play, this really bad decision that he
knowed it out. I felt so bad for him, and
I also felt that this is what shocks me is
(23:36):
that of all the teams, if you told me everybody
in the tournament, which team is is the least likely
to have a play like this happened at the end,
where they completely melt down because they're not coached well enough.
I would as I would have put Virginia because that's
that's not a Virginia play. I watching Virginia under Tony Bennett.
This is not how they play. They have things buttoned down,
(23:58):
the way they played defensively, know how to do what
to do with the clock. He had four guards out
there at the end, knowing that when we're up by
a point and there's twelve seconds left, we got to
inbound the ball, control the ball, and get to the
free throw line to shoot right. So we had the
right lineup out there, everything out there. And then Clark
and this is what baffles me on it is that
he's looking down court, and he's got all kinds of
(24:21):
decisions to make, and any one of them would have
been better than trying to throw the ball all the
way down court. He sees all five defenders in front
of him, right, there's two guys on him, there's two
guys that are few feet away, and the one guy
all the way down court. He has a player open
on the wing, he has a player open up near
half court. He could have held onto the ball. He
could have called a time out, he could have done
any of those. The fact that there was still a
(24:42):
time out in the offing here is and instead he
throws the ball down and it gets caught up and
look the big three. I can't say enough about it
because he hadn't made one. He was oz for three.
I think most of the day he was for three
or for four. And he still takes that three with confidence.
But I Virginia, they just don't make plays like that.
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They just don't. And to see that play happen, I'm
looking at it going, that's how Virginia is gonna lose, man.
I mean not that they don't lose early in tournaments,
because look, they won the tournament. They've lost in the
first round as a one seat right, So they do that,
but they just don't play that way, and they came
completely unglued at the end when every everything was in
place for them to be able to say, Okay, let's
make sure this doesn't happen. They were a whole slew
(25:27):
of things that could have happened for them. Calling a
time out would have been the right call because they
had the time out. Okay, let's call the time out.
Let's get a better play. This isn't working, or there's
a guy wide open. How do you not see it?
I mean, I get the default too. If I throw
the ball all the way down court, maybe it's gonna
wind up it because I got two guys down there
and they're gonna get the ball, or it's gonna be
(25:48):
knocked around for a while. The time will tick down
and we're gonna win the game. But instead he just
doesn't throw it far enough and it gets picked off cleanly,
and there's a big pass and Pickies is three. I mean,
it was, it was. It was watching it in slow motion.
It was, oh no, and you see it happen. And
I'm watching Clark walked to the bench and I go,
he's gonna think about that play every day for the
rest of his life, every single day, because likely his
(26:11):
career is at look, his career is any He was
a good player, but not a great player. Maybe he'll
play someplace and you know, maybe he goes overseas, maybe
he gets into a G league somewhere, whatever it is,
an NBA camp, But he's gonna think about that play
every day the rest of his life. And I felt
so awful for him because he made such a great
pass four years ago that helped them tie a game,
and I mean it, it was an amazing play, great
(26:32):
presence of mind, and he throws that and it's just
there are just so many things that he could have
done to make that pass not happen, and he just
did the one thing you can't do, and that's I'm
turning it over right there in the middle of the floor.
You can't turn in the middle, not I trying to
get the ball out to the side, and they grabbed
it right before the baselines. He turned over in the
middle of the floor, and I'm just watching it unfold, going,
(26:53):
oh my good. And then of course they're all discombobulated
on defense and they wind up with an open three
and Virginia goes home was a four seed and ruining
a lot of brackets on the way. I'm stunned that
it was Virginia. Stunned. Well, you give up your dribble,
you get yourself trapped in the corner, You forget about
the time out because you don't have the bench able
to yell at you loudly enough through the crowd noise.
(27:15):
All right, there's there's no uh, nobody that can get
that to you. The fact that you can't call it
elsewhere is silly to me, because everywhere, every other rule
allows you to call from ninety feet away. In a
lot of these games, like way he called it back there,
it's like, well, not in the play, but you know,
he doesn't get the time out, makes the throw, as
(27:37):
you say, probably looking to get the ball tipped, bounced
around whatever, or it's a hail Mary pass. More or less.
They only had eight turnovers eight eight and a half
turnovers per game this year, did Virginia. But we know
from a grind it out perspective, not a team that
generally historically right, that's the personality. Don't run and hide,
(28:00):
put up a ton of points, grinde you out play defense.
In this case, he had Furman hung around and you
gave him one last shot. And look, you'd love his
career arc to have gone the other way right and
have the terrible moment as a freshman, because then it
gets excused now you're just a freshman. Yeah yeah, instead, yeah,
you know, this is the way you go out and
(28:21):
you know, balance and in the force and all that stuff,
but just a big time shot, right. Got to give
credit to Firman executing there at mid court. The player
that came down with the ball, didn't panic, found the
open man, and he had look the guts to take
the shot right that he didn't look around, he knew
(28:42):
the urgency of the situation. We've seen this so many
times in the NBA and coming down the stretch in
the NC DOUBLEA where guys are unaware of how much
times on the clock. Hell, I go back to the
Northwestern game that we watched in the Big Ten tournament,
right where you get the ball and he's got time
to set, but instead does a all right, I catch
(29:04):
and release without really getting myself set and they miss
and they're eliminated from the Big Ten tournament. Now they
get the win tonight, and I will harp on that
as long as I can because it's a very short
lived thing that I get to celebrate. But for Furman,
a huge shot, And for those that thought Virginia was
for lovers and were loving them on their brackets, it's
(29:26):
a wreck man. That relationship has been torn us under.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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my best friend Mike Harmon. We wait all year to
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(29:47):
greatest game we do, even better than the Magic Johnson
Twitter game, all of which have been copied shamelessly. As
we watch the NCAA tournament unfold. Yes, some games are
on True TV, that channel you only watched two days
out of the year. But to help you out with
(30:07):
finding True TV and understanding what it's all about, we
play a game called True TV or Not TV. I
give you a show and you tell me is that
a real show on True TV or isn't made up?
By me? Playing tonight myself, Mike Hartman, Justin Frostburg, Alex Tischer,
Steve de Seger, are you guys ready all right? Am
(30:33):
I love loving an elevator? And can I give you that?
Steven Tyler? That wasn't even close to loving an elevator?
You were like an elevator? Did it like Ron Burgundy
loving an elevator? Loving an elevator? You were doing you
don't even know love on a couch, loving an elevator
(30:54):
speed dating in the time it takes to ride an
elevator from one random floor to another, and you make
a match in that time. Love in an Elevator? Is
that a true TV show? It should be? I really
dig that. Wow, we could do that, We could apprecate
that one. Yeah, why not. I'm gonna say no, but
I love it. Conceptually, I'm gonna say it's a song
(31:17):
by Aerosmith going Down. Not a show on true TV?
Ty Shirt, where are You? That is absolutely a show
Love in an Elevator? I was on episode two. I
got kicked out of the top. Surveillance footage that showed
me loving an elevator is not a true TV show,
(31:43):
But how great would that be? So Erosmith? In fifteen
minutes of a day, I can come up with a
year's worth of programming for True TV. I mean seriously,
so what was I on? Then you're on the rip
off of it? You're on you you were on loving
an Escalator? Oh that's right, Yeah, that was the one
you were. I wonder it was slanted, yea, even the
glass elevator. Boy was she opened? Steve Hamsters on roller Skates?
(32:09):
Two Hamsters have Adventures on roller Skates? No, No, is
that a True TV show? No? I mean cartoon with
the naked mole rat before I'm gonna say yeah, No,
Kim Possible was not. When you say hamsters on roller skates,
are you talking about unc Asheville? Uh? Could be David
(32:31):
on roller skates all night. We're talking about the Jets
defense as the AFCES comes to dominate, sauce gardeners. They're
on roller skate? What not a show? No? Again, in hopes, Jason,
I'm gonna say it is a show. Hamsters on roller skates?
(32:51):
Is a show on True TV? Hamsters rollers not? Yes,
it is. No, it's not Hamsters ller skates, Hamsters on
roller skate And like, I mean, this is a Furies show.
What do we need to be fired? If that's a show,
how are the episodes it's a half hour show, and
(33:12):
it was. It was. It was on for three years,
and it was these two hamsters solving problems in the
world and while on roller skates hamsters. Okay, you're saying
in the past not present tense. Yeah, it could be
in the alumni association. Yeah, you can see it. Yeah,
hams on roller skates. In fact, there's even talk of
(33:33):
reviving it. I saw, hey, those hamsters that you've given
it national recognition, like the let's bring it back, Let's
bring it back recycling. Captain Joey. Captain Joey a show
surrounded Captain Kangaroo's grandson Britain who lives in the Australian Outback.
(33:54):
Captain Joey show surrounded Captain Kangaroo's grandson Britain who lives
in the Australian outbas Not the friends Joey. I'll say no, no,
Captain Joey is a baby Kangaroo. So yeah, Captain Captain
Joey not a show. Okay, Yeah, good thoughts too, U.
You know, since we're taking all of our zoo folk
(34:14):
in Minny Irwin who had some health issues, hopefully she's
on the end. Hey. Reminder also We're brought to you
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(34:38):
is a show. A show. I know it made up
special by Tom Looney for this game today. Yes, he
texted me that it's his favorite thing. He goes, I
still listen, will you guys do that's my favorite? And
he texted me that idea. Did he drop his pants
right there? He may have. I don't know. I'll drop
(34:58):
my pants right here. But I had to adjust the
title because he said, how about Captain Kangaroo's grandson. You
guys said, no, we call it Captain joe Joey, son
of a Goat A show, not a show. Tom, your
legs are small. Wow there our first friend. That's fantastic
(35:20):
true TV. No, not TV. Now you know it's not
a show. I think the Gremlins will play another round
of this. Ah you thought it. We'll play it next
hour again on the show again every I mean, wouldn't
you watch Loving an Elevator. I mean that's a show,
and that's show, yeah, Captain Joey right, and Britain. Britain
actually is his grandson's name. I researched that. That's pretty good.
(35:42):
I said, I gotta find with his grant and his
grandson's name is Britain and the Furies on Adventures on
Roller Skmes. I mean that's Captain Kangaroo was an actual kangaroo.
You're saying, no, it was granted. Okay, you don't explain
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