Anything Can Happen (Monday Moment ep. 655)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

With the slate of NCAA tournament teams finalized yesterday, hardcore fans and bandwagon followers everywhere now turn to the task of filling out their bracket, predicting which of the teams will advance throughout the 67 game, three-week long tournament.

Represented in the mix, of course, are this season’s dominant teams and perennial powerhouses. Alongside those favorites are, in my opinion, the very reason March Madness worms its way into our consciousness each year: the Cinderella teams!

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0:00.0	Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired Podcast Monday Morning Moments with John O'Leary.
0:18.5	We record these each week so you and I can begin these weeks in awe and on fire with a
0:23.4	burst of inspiration. We're going to begin this one with a quote from a famous human being
0:28.5	named Patrick O'Leary, my second born son. Here we go. Anything can happen, dad. Anything can happen,
0:35.2	Dad. So it turns out my son Patrick O'Leary is a die-hard fan of the St. Louis
0:41.3	University men's basketball team. Six years ago, when Santa Claus still made visits to our house,
0:49.0	Patrick's favorite presents to open up that morning was the Bill of Ken Jersey with his name on the back.
0:56.2	For the past several years, our family has invested in season tickets, primarily because it is
1:02.4	Patrick O'Leary's passion to be part of this team's journey. Over the past four years,
1:08.4	he and I have traveled to road games each and every year around the country in the hopes of rooting our team, these St. Louis University Billicans, the mighty Billokins, onto victory.
1:18.5	Four different times we've taken these trips.
1:21.1	And four different times we have walked out of visiting arenas wearing that jersey with his head hung low in defeat so hopeful though is he
1:33.7	even this year with his guys swimming near the very bottom of their conference standing carrying a
1:39.0	five and thirteen record that he still held out hope for a bid to the NCAA tournament.
1:45.7	Although it wasn't meant to be for our men's Billikins team this year, there's still something
1:51.4	supremely beautiful about Patrick O'Leary's unrelenting hope, unrelenting hope.
1:58.7	With the slate of NCAA tournament teams now finalized as of yesterday, hardcore fans around
2:05.3	the country and around the world.
2:07.1	Additionally, bandwagon followers everywhere now turn their attention to the yearly
2:12.6	task of filling out their bracket, predicting which of the teams will advance through the 67
2:17.0	games and ultimately win the three-week-long tournament. filling out their bracket, predicting which of the teams will advance through the 67 games
2:17.5	and ultimately win the three-week-long tournament.
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