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🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for the NCAA Division 1 Basketball Tournament, aka March Madness. To make sense of it all, hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly welcome bracketologist Chris Dobbertean, and Prof. Alan Zaremba, author of “The Madness of March: Bonding and Betting with the Boys in Las Vegas.” Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe on: iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Playing-with-Science-p952100/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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I'm Gary Aurelie.

0:10.0

And I'm Sugg Nice.

0:12.0

This is playing with science.

0:14.0

Today I think we'll go just a little crazy and joining with March Madness.

0:19.0

And why not?

0:20.0

It's the sports event that will turn your office upside down.

0:23.0

Lower national productivity and make someone an awful lot of money.

0:27.0

Just maybe not those who do their brackets.

0:30.0

That's so true.

0:31.0

So now you know March Madness is already in full swing.

0:34.0

We're a little late to the party, but that makes it even more exciting.

0:38.0

Because for three weeks America just eats drinks and sleeps.

0:42.0

College basketball cheering on the giant killers,

0:45.0

giving it up for the Cinderella's and hoping that their college gets that fairy tale ending

0:49.0

and is crowned NCAA basketball champions.

0:53.0

Yeah, right.

0:54.0

But none of this can take place. So it seems without a bracket

0:57.0

and to help us through to our final four is bracketologist Chris Doberteen

1:01.0

from blogging the bracket and getting us in behind the numbers

1:05.0

and real madness of why we all go completely nuts this time of year

1:09.0

is Professor Ellen Zaremba author of the Madness of March.

1:13.0

Yes.

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