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4:06Yeah, so we'll get into it right away. The upset always takes the lead here and we came this close to having the Duke Blue Devil radio roast. We'll get to them in a minute. They ended up winning the game so that Royal, that ruined the fun, you know, if they had lost, oh my God, it would have been amazing. It would have been so great. They didn't, so that sucks. So we move on from that and there were a couple of upsets throughout the first day of the opening round of the tournament. The upset that caught my attention, because I watched it, and I'm of the age where I recall the glory days of Carolina basketball, but the Carolina blue. That's the game that I circle here. And I don't know if you were watching that as a million games going on in every TV window, but Terrence Hill Jr., who? I don't know, but he's the hero of the day. Terrence Hill Jr. made a step back dagger,

5:07three pointer with 15 seconds left, in overtime and VCU, the 11 seat. The reason this discussion amazing story is they were down 19 points in the second half, and they made that all go away and the stunner from down under. Not quite, but North Carolina, number six seed. Nana, Nana. Yeah, they're out. First round of the tournament yet again. And this guy Terrence Hill Jr. finished with a bunch of three points in the set. Three points of seven of 10 from three point range. 20 of his 34 after half time. So VCU who's got a nice record and no one of these teams in playing anybody. They're all saying, hey, well, these big schools don't want to play us. And they win their first tournament game in a decade. So this was a bracket buster for many. There were a couple bracket busters. The better story, though, for talk radio is in the losing locker room.

6:13And North Carolina up 19 points. And Henry Vassar, who's also projected to be a first round pick. Late first round pick. He had 26 for the tar hills, 10 rebounds, but North Carolina. They lost Caleb Wilson, who's projected as a top five top 10 pick in the NBA draft. He got out. He was ruled out with injury late in the season there. And North Carolina played three games without Wilson. And loss, loss, loss. So let us discuss. That's a good jumping up point. Let us discuss the question. Does North Carolina and iconic basketball program get a mulligan because they played without their star player, Caleb Wilson. And so it's okay to lose an overtime to VCU. So I've got former teammate carnival cruise line and Casey case him. Three things that have never, ever been put together. And we are going to soak them in a bag is what we're going to do.

7:17Now, hey, speaking of in the bag, North Carolina in the bag is the body bag. They go down the tar hills. Now, my take here is going to surprise you. Alright, they absolutely do not get a mulligan. There's no mulligan. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's not how this works. That is not how any of this works. But they're just student athletes. Those guys are all making more than I am. I'm a middle aged man. I'm in radio 30 years. They're making more money than I am. Alright, so shut up with that. This is North Carolina. This is blue blood behemoth, the cathedral of college basketball, the Dean dome, all that crap. And it's, it's like, come on. As our former teammate, a Doug Gottlieb, who quit the coach in Green Bay, actually kept the job for a while then quit. Gottlieb said, this is not nobody you. There's no moral victories here. The report card, the Mala report card reads DNMS did not meet standard did not meet standard. That is what the report card reads. Now, as for Kayla Wilson's injury, this is sucks. It's the atomic elbow.

8:28You know, it's right next. That's why they play the games. You got to pick it up. You know, you lose the guy here and there. I was always so good. But this is the big boy pay to play NIL era of basketball, the portal. All these guys are free agents every year. And it's not shirts and skins at the YMCA on a Saturday morning. So do your job. Next man up. Not nobody step up, which is what happened here. Instead, they fold. It's one thing if they were trailing the entire game and it was close. They were 19 point lead. Night in college basketball. That's like a 38 point lead. Compared to the NBA. 19 points. No excuses. No exemptions. No emotional escape. Hatch. Only the portal. And simply stated, I get not good enough. Do better. Be better. Although this team will never play again, because they'll together. There'll be a different group of players. And then people will freak out about that.

9:30Now the following you now on turn of the page on CBS or was it true TV? I don't know. I just kept flip my right hand was getting a workout. I don't know what channels I was watching. I think it was some of it was CBS. I don't know. I get it. I couldn't tell you if you if you offered me a million dollars, I wouldn't know. It's one of the channels of the games was on. I was flipping around. So I think it was CBS, but it might have been true TV. I don't know. So they were trying to explain. How the tar hills gagged. And Bruce Pearl. This guy ended the chat. So let me let me frame the questions way. So Bruce Pearl claimed that fatigue was a factor as to why North Carolina lost the VCU in overtime. Is this acceptable? Or are we just lowering the bar? Yeah, again. So again, Bruce Pearl coached a long time and so long when he first started not one is first one of the early jobs when he was in Milwaukee. We had him on.

10:32I was going to show with Looney on the weekends and we used to we once walked chat to Bruce Pearl. And he went on to coach some big schools had some success and all that and a lot of scandals, which is now just commerce and college sports. So is what Bruce Pearl claimed fatigue? Is this acceptable? Or are we just lowering the bar again? So this is March madness. I think every two minutes, they're telling us it's March madness and they're showing us cheerleaders and they're showing us people where their face is painted and you know, kids trying and yeah. This is not a carnival cruise line limbo contest, although it appears to be based on that commentary. How low can you go? How low can you go do the limbo? Through the limbo when it comes to excuses and as far as fatigue, again, I go back to my main point. You're big bad North Carolina. Who do you think you are? You're not Anthony Richardson, the Colts. You don't get to tap out because you don't feel good because your legs are like overcook spaghetti. You don't get to tap out.

11:39I don't buy it. They weren't tired. They were toast. Stop. They just didn't play well. It's they sucked at a time. You cannot suck. And if they weren't tired, and even if they weren't. Really, this is just a referendum on the coach, right? The Hubert Davis, you know, is he on the hot seat at North Carolina? Is there some booster that wants to get rid of Hubert Davis? Or is he going to survive this? Is he running a country club? Because if they weren't in shape, that's on the coaching staff to get the players in shape. They got a and the training staff there, basic cardio, get him a treadmill or something like that. And how about half time adjustments? What were they doing at halftime? Did Hubert Davis pass out scoops of cookie dough ice cream? And then the boys could have some Capri suns at halftime. I mean, what are they doing? Seriously, you're up 19 a second and a half. And what do I know? I just do the old night show. I've been around basketball a long time was out in, you know, in a long time ago, old school basketball guys. And the line I always got from these guys. I learned a lot.

12:41And the first time I learned the most from his dad, unfortunately, Bill Fitch, you know, he can look him up. Who's the coach of the Celtics and the Clippers? I was around with the Clippers. And he, he gave me all these little, these old fun factoids about basketball, life and all that. And he's essentially said that every game, if both teams both teams play hard, my man, he didn't say that. If teams play well, they're fundamentally sound. Every game should be decided in the final like five minutes. That was in the NBA, but also if you have a big lead, if you build up a big lead, and you just play fundamentally sound basketball, that you play defense, you rebound, you box out, all that stuff, that you're going to win. There's no way to come back. And yet they blow a 19 point lead. So Hubert Davis, I believe he's eight and four now in the tournament, which is fine. They did make a final four. There's only been there a few years. They made the final four. It's not a lead. It's, it's okay. It's just okay for Hubert Davis. And it's dressed up in that iconic Carolina blue.

13:42The thing that is going to sting, and this is why you have to put Hubert Davis on the watch list, at least, is North Carolina has now lost in the round of 64, which is really the first round. Nobody counts those games in Dayton. The round of six, because no one's watching them, the round of 64 in consecutive tournaments for the first time since 1985 Ronald Reagan was in the White House in 1985. That was before the Berlin wall came tumbling down and wowsers. All right. Now last word here. So going up to 30,000 feet, it's time now for the sampler plate. What else? Here's the question. What else stood out on day number one? Double eight tournament. So I jotted down on my notes app on my phone. I don't have a note pad. I'm very technical. It's tech savvy tech savvy. And I have a notes app on my phone. I jot down little notes when I'm watching.

14:44So I jotted down not corn balls. I jotted down corn huskers as Nebraska wins a game. The curses dead pigs are flying. It's amazing. Yeah, they weren't just a basketball program Nebraska. They were a mathematical anomaly. Now I didn't even realize this going into the tournament. He just don't really think about Nebraska as a basketball school. And you really haven't thought about him as a football school in many, many years that used to be really good to football. But this is wild. So a power five team with a postseason resume of a JV basketball squad as Nebraska becomes the last power five school to win a March madness game. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Feel good for Ned in Nebraska and all my guys in Nebraska. They're fans of the show. Some of you don't even care about Nebraska. Well, then I saw this quote, which I thought was fake. I think it's legit. You never know anymore. Double checked it. And to the best of my ability. I believe this to be a bret a legitimate quote, a guard for Nebraska.

15:56He's a raiden fragger, I believe his name. He dropped the Wackadoodle quote that sounded so ridiculous. You thought, well, this must be one of those parody satire accounts or it came from a fortune cookie that was written by someone who's never seen a basketball game in college. The quote was we didn't come to win one. We came to win two was the quote. You have to learn more than that to get to the final four and all that. I felt like this was a tribute to the late great Casey, Casey at DJ famous DJ from back in the day. Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the middle. It's not exactly how the quote goes, but nonetheless. Now the big one. The big Kahuna here was Duke. The Duke Blue Devils Cameron Booser and the Blue Devils avoiding. Avoiding ridicule, avoiding disaster and the massive March Madness upset as they took on number 16 Sienna.

17:03And even though they won the game, Duke did come back and win the game. They had a late charge to win this game. Duke became the first ever. Number one to trail by double digits at halftime against the number 16 C coach K is turning over and is gray right now. What what what happened? What are we doing here? That's kind of like owning a yacht. A really expensive luxury lot a yacht and then almost drowning in a bathtub like like seriously. So history says they're dead by the way teams that have played as poorly as Duke did even though they won. Usually do not end up doing much in the tournament and then you have the star of stars in day one of the tournament. A player that will be playing for some crappy NBA team down the winemucker road. Next season questioning why am I playing in Sacramento? I don't understand. Shouldn't I be somewhere else? Why am I in Utah? Why am I in Washington?

18:07We're talking about BYU star AJ Dibanza who became the first freshman to score 30 or more points in the round of 64 since. Steph Curry. I don't know what happened to him. I think he's selling insurance right now. Right. He's just a TV pitchman Steph Curry. That was 17 years ago. Oh my God. What were you doing 17 years ago? I was doing this. I was talking about Steph Curry 17 years ago. I was like, Oh, I think I'll be okay in the NBA at a Davidson. Well anyway, the coolers lost. So they're out and Dibanza will now run off to the NBA to make more money. He's already making a lot at BYU. Then you had little high point, which sounds like a fake school. Doesn't that sound like a fake school high point, little high point from North Carolina took down the badgers of Wisconsin. So they're out. Get out of here. And now everyone's under the spell of high point. I can go my whole rant if you want to do it every year, but turn them in and how upside down it is. And all you people that rant and rape, I love Cinderella.

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25:40And that has led to a constant drum beat of this LeBron's a net negative. He's not making the team better. And there are people say, well, the team would be better off without LeBron. And LeBron was asked about this is his name being tossed around in a negative light. And he he did react. And this is what everyone's going to be talking about. And we get to jump on it. Because the time we're on, but here's the audio. Let's go to the auto tip. Here's LeBron. James asked about all of the talking heads, gas bags and blowhards that say the Lakers are better off without. I mean, it sells, I mean, it sells papers are a lot easier. Clippings and podcasts if you say LeBron better teams better off without. A lot of people would have like to do it. So I get absolutely wrong. All right. He was mumbling. He said it sells papers a lot easier. Clippings and podcasts. If you say LeBron, the team is better off without him.

26:43A lot of people will try to like view it. So I get it. They're absolutely wrong. That's the quote. So that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. As you just heard, even though he was mumbling, LeBron James says the media is ripping him to quote sell papers. Can you parse the words of LeBron? So my observations on this one have got fax machine, boxing legend, Joe Lewis and Scottish. And we will combine all of these things together and we are going to go cowabunga, dude. So number one, number one, number one, number one, number one, number one, number one. Can I tell you I love that quote? It sells papers such a great quote by LeBron.

27:45This is in my top five favorite LeBron James quotes. It's a god dong. It's just it's a shame. I was about to say a bad word. It's a shame that this happened on the night it did. It's adorable by LeBron. LeBron saying, hey, you know, selling paper. Why do you stop there? Why didn't he say, hey, this is going to be the facts of the day. Bring back the fax machine. 1990 sports talk radio. It's fine. It's the facts of the day. Got to have that fax machine. Now I hate to break it to King James. The ink is dead. The ink is dead. Nobody is selling newspapers because nobody is buying newspapers. I do an overnight radio show. I have a bigger reach than the mighty LA Times, for example. There are more people that hear my voice and my takes and what I say in the middle of the night while 99% of the world sleeping than that LA Times.

28:51Just as an example, I can go through name a million newspapers because they're all pretty much dead at this particular point. That's the reality of the situation in the attention economy where takes are the new currency. LeBron is a blue chip stock that never stopped trading. It never saw a human click farm click any click any click click any click any click a walking talking algorithm. That happens to be wearing a headband. And so I will give him this like he's LeBron is both right and wrong. Not some physics King James two things can be true at the same time. Yes, you are great for business. You are great for business because you get a reaction. There's this primal reaction. People have they either love you and run to defend you and lick your toes or they run to punch you in the nose. There's a reaction that you're a fire brand. You know that.

29:51And oh, by the way, well, that is true. It is also true that this season. You have not. Help the Lakers as much as you supposedly were going to help the Lakers facts of the facts. The Lakers have a better winning percentage. They appear to have better rhythm and timing with LeBron in street clothes. Now regardless. LeBron has been the NBA's most profitable headline since dial up internet. It's like go back to AOL online and Netscape Navigator. He doesn't just move the needle. LeBron is the needle. Right. He is. And people freak out and this is not the time to talk about it. People have said, well, what's going to happen when LeBron is done in the next couple of years. He's going to be playing forever. It's like, well, there's always somebody else that comes along because it's just the way it is. I remember when Michael Jordan was playing and we were doing this.

30:52And he said, wow, no one will ever be as good as Jordan. And then who's going to move the needle when Jordan's gone and he takes a couple of years. And then everyone moves up a couple of slots. And then when Kobe Bryant became the man for a couple of years there. And then when Kobe retires, oh, no one's going to ever replace Kobe. But then LeBron was kind of there at the same time. So it was like, that's going to happen. All right. Now turn to the page to Motown to Motown. Injury update. Injury update. All-star guard. Cade cutting him of the top team in the Eastern Conference, the Detroit Pistons down for the count. A collapsed left long. That is not your normal basketball injury. That's an injury you get in a car accident or playing football. Yeah. Cade cutting him is going to miss. I love I said miss at least two weeks. Possibly more. I'm going to bet on the possibly more part of that. Anybody want in on that? Actually, yeah. So Detroit said he will be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks. Much like Steph Curry has been re-evaluated every 10 days.

32:03Now Cade cutting him is having an unbelievably great season. He has gone game busters this year for the Pistons. He's averaging almost 25 points a game, almost 10 assists per game. And is on pace to have be the first player in franchise history in a Detroit uniform to put up those numbers. And he would only be the eighth player ever to average those numbers. If he finishes the season with as many points and assists per game. So he has been a gold bar for the Pistons. And that gold bar right now has a crack in it. So the question, what is the word? What is the word for Pistons star Cade cutting him suffering a collapsed lung? And he'll be off for a while. So you want a word for Cade cutting him his lung giving out. I'm going to go with I'll give you two words. Eight ball eight ball. Why? Because that is exactly where the Pistons are now pinned right now.

33:07This is a kick to the nuts is what this is. Cade cutting him having the career year. This is why this is what he was supposed to be. It was really shaky. The Pistons were terrible. Former number one overall pick. And it was like, oh, this guy's not that good. He looked pretty mediocre. Now to his credit. He's gotten a lot better this year. He just looked like he was going to be a second level NBA player. And he's found another level, which is good for him. Of course, better players around him. But the magic carpet ride of a season. And now as the late great Brian Wheeler would say wheels. It is the flating dented and derailed for the moment. And this isn't some fender bender. This is like a 50 car pile up on the expressway. The comps. If you look at other players in basketball that have suffered this injury. The last player to have this injury was Dame Lillard who actually had it twice. And if you look at him and the other people. The average games missed is 11. So NBA teams usually play four games a week.

34:16Give or take sometimes three, sometimes more, but usually usually fours the sweet spot. So that'd be two and two, two weeks in a couple of days. That's what that says, which seems like it should be longer. Of course, every injury is different. People we know how that works. Right. People come back from injury. Some guys just rub dirt on it. Some guys need two years off, like street clothes, Anthony Davis or Kawaii Leonard guys like that. So it just depends. We're not talking about a stub toe though. This is a collapse long. Right. Collapse long. And they say he could be back for the playoffs. Could as a weasel word pop goes the weasel. The other thing that no one's talking about with Kade cutting him is this. Right. If he does miss the rest of the regular season, he will be under the threshold. The 65 game rule will pop up and pop goes the MVP also the all NBA team. He will be in eligible. And he is he's a Joe boxer.

35:23The legendary Joe Lewis, the boxer Joe Lewis fist with a shattered wrist at this point, essentially. So the the power is there. The intent is there. And the delivery not looking so good. So even if he does return for the post season, time out Kade cutting him. The pistons collapse long. Is he a decoy? Does he become a ghost? You don't normally just bounce back from a deflated organ. I can the movies you do in real life. No, you don't just go all of a sudden go out there and start dropping 30 points like your money ball. In the playoffs playoffs. And we're we're staring at a total collapse. Not of the heart. A total collapse of the long. And it's going to be like the Michigan Water Service Center over there in Flint, little cloudy. The future is a little cloudy now for the pistons. And it's not like they were clearly the team to beat.

36:24You'll get the Celtics, the pistons, the Nicarbockers. There's a bunch of teams that are all kind of bundled up there is nobody that's guaranteed to really move on up to a higher plateau. All right. Final point. I want to change it up briefly. I wanted to mention this in honor of Danny and Nashville. Big Titans fans. So the Tennessee Titans unveiled their new uniforms last week. Now we normally don't talk about laundry. Because who cares about laundry bad teams change logos bad teams change uniforms. That's what they do. So some eagle eyed internet consumer noticed that there was an error as a small error on the helmet of the new logo for the Tennessee Titans. That was a subtle mistake. Let me try to explain this to you so you can imagine the the Titans new logo has a T for Titans and Tennessee right there. And then there's three stars around it.

37:24It has stars on both sides of the logo and the helmet now it turns out the logo. If you if you look at the logo that was sent out, it does not match the helmet. And I guess somebody didn't get the memo that the stars are supposed to be tilted in the logo. They were tilted the logo and the helmet two stars that were not tilted on on the helmet. So that's the issue. Now the question. I just this is a small thing, but it's it's a bigger issue. How does here's the question. How does a multi billion dollar institution like the NFL and in this case an NFL team like the Titans have a logo glitch like this. You say it's just a little thing. However, it is symbolic of something bigger and the answer is simple. The answer is some because nobody is actually minding the store in the NFL. They're just keeping track of the cash register and this is just being brushed off as a small mistake. It's not that big of deal, which is nonsense.

38:36It is a neon highlighter on the modern sports business model, which is to charge you more and me more and deliver less and hope that nobody complains too much. And nobody looks too closely, whether it's the $50 hats that should be about $25 at the most or any other. We're in the golden era of price gouging. We're in the golden era price gouging right now and merchandise costs have ballooned into the absurd. The cypress hill insane to the membrane tax on being a loyal fan. And yet while that has happened. So you've got like these ships passing that if you look at my mallard van diagram on whatever device you're listening to, you can see that on one side of the van diagram, you've got these prices, which you're just through the roof and then quality control is optional.

39:37So if you're and this is just me and I might be completely wrong in this, my position is if you're going to pick the pocket of the public, which you have no shame in doing, I get it. Get that dumb money. People are dumb enough to spend this amount of money. Then you just take their money at least pretend like you care about the product, at least pretend like you care about the craftsmanship of the product. Like there's an old Scottish rule, which has been passed down through the generations and it's measured twice cut once. Today's version in the NFL and not just the NFL, all sports is to print fast, ship faster and use the cheapest possible product you can use and apologize later, but try not to apologize. And the consumer, that would be us, you and I, we are getting served Alpo, and they just put a label for Le Mignon. Well, it says for Le Mignon. I know it says for Le Mignon. It's not for Le Mignon. It's Alpo, but it says for Le Mignon. No, no, no, it is actually Alpo.

40:39Yeah, yeah, this is, this isn't a glitch. It is a business plan is what it is. And who will be the first sports lead to say enough is enough? We need to do better. Who's going to be that lead? Will someone have the hootspots? Shall I say to say, okay, you know what we're going to do our own thing? We're going to go somewhere else. There's other companies out there that makes sportsmen be. Why don't we go somewhere else? We'll figure this out. Who says no? Be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern 11 p.m. Pacific. The March tournament brings volatility, upsets, and momentum shifts. With webo predictions, you can trade strategic positions on college basketball outcomes, react to matchups and assess probabilities as the tournament unfolds. Whether your bracket is busted or you're on the way to the top of your leaderboard, bring your strategy to your trades in real time. Get started by downloading the webo lap today or visiting webo.com. Event contract trading is speculative and may not be suitable for all investors. Customers should carefully consider the associated risk before investing. Visit webo.com slash disclosures.

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44:51Come on. Last week, the Carolina Panthers signed Kenny Pickett to back up Bryce Young, which means they were free to trade Andy Dalton. They did just that on Wednesday, sending him to the Eagles. Then would you rather have Dalton or Pickett at your backup quarterback? I would want to have none of the above. You're cooked either way. It's your damned if you do your damned if you don't. Dalton occasionally has a good game. I have not seen Kenny Pickett have a good game. So if you put a knife to my throat, I would take Dalton. I really don't want any one of them because you're screwed if either one's playing next. So before they're round one match of Carlos Booser was hyping up his son this week when he labeled Cameron as a modern day Tim Duncan. Yeah, we're really good in that first game for Duke. Yeah, he also said that teams that pass on his son would regret it for the next 15 years. But do you think Booser will be that big of a star? Well, he's got a chance to be a big time star in the NBA. Can you be a big time star if we were the Sacramento Kings? Probably not. He's got to end up in the right situation.

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46:58Hey. We welcome in the caller of the year. The highest honor in overnight sports radio as voted by the people. We managed. Wow, that's so cool. Congratulations, Wheatman. As your life changes, as your life changed in amazing ways, your Wheatman is being the caller of you. Not yet. No, not yet. Well, you did get a bunch of food from the show, right? Oh, yeah, that's great. I love that. I love that. That was great. Have you gotten an air fryer yet? You haven't gotten that. No, no, no, you wouldn't know it. You wouldn't use it anyway if you got one, would you? You're lazy. No, I have a microwave. No, but the way the food tastes better in the air fryer. Why? It just did. I don't know why the way it comes out. It tastes better.

48:00You think I'm not making it. Am I making this up? I don't think I'm making this up. I don't really like. You don't even know you don't have one. No, I don't. All right, you don't know. All right, let's get to it. Here we go. These are actual jokes by actual listeners. It is the segment we call lame jokes of the week. First one from John and Youngstown, Ohio, one of the finalists for lame joke writer of the year. He says, what does a coupe's reaction every time he answers a call from Wheatman hippie? What? That's a long sigh of disgust. That's from John and Youngstown, Ohio. I think that's actually a hollering James. Here's another one from John. How can we end the war and make Iran surrender immediately? How? Threaten them that the United States is going to deport Wheatman hippie to their country and that will end it right here.

49:01You can end it, Wheatman. We just send him over there. All right, we can't handle this. I mean, we play. That's John and Youngstown, Ohio again. Did you know that Wheatman hippie was sworn or has sworn rather that he'll never use herbal tea ever again? Why? Yeah, yeah. Well, it goes back to when he realized that he got nothing from smoking lemon grass. That's a mic from Providence. That's not a normal name in the jokes. That's a guy trying to win a Benny Award, Mike, and Providence. What is Wheatman hippie's favorite side dish? What? Bake beans. Bake beans. Oh, those are so good. All right. These are lame jokes. Actual lame jokes. You want to send lame jokes in for a future episode of the show? Ben Mallor Show at gmail.com. That's Ben Mallor Show at gmail.com. Put jokes in the headlines, put jokes in the headlines. So why did Wheatman lose his hosting job at the restaurant?

50:04Why? Well, you kept asking people if they had reservations, and they all said yes, but you can see us anyway. There you are. I'm not even smoking sections. Tom and Indian. All right. Fargo Pete writes and says, hey, Wheatman, do you know what's more pathetic than a homeless, toothless, unshoured, stoned bum? What? That would be Blind Scott and Marcel. That's Fargo Pete. Right now. Surfer Todd said he's very excited to win his fourth Benny in a row as the joke writer of the year. He says, that's a four-peat hell yeah. He's like the Yankees back in the day. And then he sent me a joke which I don't think I can give the punchline. He says, what happened the last time Wheatman drove a car? What? I'm going to clean this up for the radio. He blew a transmission. Is what that's the line I will use. That's a surfer time.

51:04More radio friendly. Why do people have a hard time believing Wheatman? Why? He blows a lot of smoke. That's true. Why is Wheatman going into the octagon? Why? Because fake Wheatman challenged him to a laugh off first one to stop laughing at nothing wins. That's from here. There you go. All right. Very nice. What video game has Wheatman hippie decided to play on the Global Gaming Network? What? No resident evil from Darryl in the Oves Arts. What was Wheatman's favorite creative arts subject in school? What? Pottery from Micolabricon. Why does Wheatman love long work so much?

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