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Hello and welcome in.

It's our number one, hour number one of our radio program in this hour a split mallor monologue a mini malar monologue about ucela as they get a win into the final four but did the bruin's win or

did michigan choke if you saw the end of the game, you know what I'm talking about.

We'll discuss that.

And what the gambling market thinks of the final four.

Also, D-List actor Michael Rappaport is in a beef with Kevin Durant, social media, Donnybrook.

Who looks worse?

We investigate that and more coming your way right now in our number one.

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kerfuffle welcome in the beginning of another edition of the ben mather show We are in the air everywhere as we philosophize coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside the theater,

the theater of the mind, the Fox Sports Radio.

Studios, good to have you along with us here, and a couple of reactions to the final four,

which is now being said, and you can hear the angst, the crying from the media moguls on the East Coast because the final four is all west of the Mississippi.

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