Good morning, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Happy Friday, everybody.

It is Friday, March 13th, 2026.

This is the Michigan insider.

This is the Big 1050 WTK, online at the big 1050.com.

And this is one of the beats they play during the basketball game when you go to the Pistons game. Hey. They do play a little bit of biggie in there when you're watching the basketball game. Good morning, Ms. How are you? I'm doing good, doing great. It's a final Friday. It's happy Detroit Day, 313. At Troy? You jumped the gun just a hair. So, of course, TGIF. Happy Friday, everybody. It is Friday the 13th again.

And then, so if you believe in that kind of stuff, you looked at the calendar year this year. If you, if you are superstitious or

maybe a little stitious, then Friday the 13th coming in February is not a good sign because

unless it's a leap year, of course, comes again in March. So here we are, Friday the 13th again in February is not a good sign because it, unless it's a leap year, of course, comes again in March.

So here we are, Friday the 13th again.

And as Ms. just said, it is 313 day.

So happy 313 day.

It used to be a lot wider of a range of territory that could celebrate 313 day.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 734 day. It'd be very tough, too, because there are, unfortunately, not 34 days. There's no 34 days. So it's... But you could have like... It'd be like August, what, August 3rd or whatever? Yeah, I think you do that. I mean, you could pull off in August 10th for 810th for 810 day potentially, but, I'd shout out to Oakland County. I remember way back in the day when I was a student at Michigan. So this is pre-internet young kids when you didn't have just every piece of information at your fingertips. Didn't have your smartphone in your hands. And we used to do that. People used to do this in D.C. as well I was working at the sports sports station down there. And they wanted scores or, you know, golf results or whatever it is. And you just couldn't get it immediately like you can now. And people used to call the phone number in the studio. So people would call the phone number and get the score. And hey, how did Joey, this happened a lot because I knew a guy that would like do the guy. How did Joey Sindelard do in the golf tournament today? I used to get that call on Sundays all the time. And because the guy, I think the guy might have had like a piece of Joey's business or something. So the guy used to call, how did Joey Sindelar do? Well, I used to, when I was not in town, and I was a student at Michigan, I used to call 313-9-8-10-50, because I would call for scores. Especially, I remember we were in Richmond, Virginia, during the NCAA tournament. It was the year that Darwin-Han broke the basket, if you ever seen that highlight. Oh, I do. Yeah. He almost made me miss my flight because he delayed the action on that day of the games.

But that weekend, Michigan was playing in the CCHA tournament. And I wanted to know who won.

And I was covering games as a student at Michigan. And I was, but I was not in town. It was away. And I was like, I wanted to know who won. So I was covering games as a student at Michigan, but I was not in town.

It was, I was away. And I was like, I wanted to know who won. So we were to dinner and I went and I, you know, you take out the calling card and you dial the phone and it was 313, 99, 8, 1050. And whoever it was, that was the board out way back in the day, they automatically, I guess, just put you on hold. And that's all I needed because I literally heard Al Randall going,

and Michigan has won the CCHA. And I'm like, all right, cool, I guess I got my answer. And then I hung up the phone. I went back to dinner. So, but that was, there's a long story there, I guess. but 313 used to encompass a lot more than the territory that it does now.

But still, there's a basketball game in Detroit tonight. The Pistons have another home game, so 313 Day. They were talking about that last night. We were there. They'll be celebrating 313 day down in the D with the Pistons and the Grizzlies. We were, speaking of the Pistons, as I mentioned, we were at the game yesterday. I had not been to a Pistons game this century. Oh, really? Okay, yeah, yeah, okay. I don't remember when before we flipped 2000, that I went to my last Pistons game. I only went to maybe one or two Pistons games ever at the Palace. Maybe I'm not sure. I know what the basketball game said. Did NCAA tournament games at the palace? They had an event that was like an early season, um, re-game, replaying games of like the elite eight, what they call it, the grade eight or something. And it was an early season, kind of like you have the, the different tournaments now just a one game like Michigan playing wake forest in Detroit

they had like four games I think it may have been over two days where it was

replaying the elite eight games and they played those games at the palace which is cool

so I've been to college I went I saw a Vipers game there back in the day I don't

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