CWS Lineup is All Grits and Gravy

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, we got stuff going onin the five o'clock hour, don't we
have today? We're still doing thegiveaway right for the contest or radio music
festival, we are. We're doingthat until tomorrow. Yeah, tomorrow's last
day. So if you want athousand dollars gift card a trip to Vegas,
you want to have that an hourfrom now. Basically you're gonna want

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to be staying locked in. Soyou get that keyword. And it's a
text contest. You know, wehave people calling in all the time asking
for us to go back to thetexting contests. It's not like we come
up with the rules for this,but here's this One's a texting contest.
Yeah, yeah, you got todo his text and you can see artists
like Gwen Stefani, Osier Keith Urbannew kids on the Block in KOTB.

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How often do they move? Youknow, like, how are you still
the new kids on the block?You guys just moving every season. I
guess there aren't even kids anymore,right, Yeah? I mean kids for
thirty years, moving a lot andpaying a lot for botox. I imagine,
how do you still call yourself kidsAt the same time, the backstreet
boy are still the backstory boys,and they are no longer boys. I

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watched their documentary though, you knowwhat it's called. It's called Show what
You're Made Of, which is asong from like a decade ago now geez,
maybe not a decade ago, liketwenty eighteen ish, maybe a little
before that. I don't know.Whatever it came out, right, that's
not the point. The point islike in the trailer for that, and
I watched it was really good.But in the trailer for it, Aj

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McClain who's one of the one ofthe Battery Boys, says, how do
you how like what happens when you'rea full grown man in a boy band?
And I was like, that's anintriguing thought. When you grow up
and you're a full grown man,but you're still like teen idle boy band
guy. You're still teen idle boyband guy for that generation, aren't you?
Mm hm. The women who arelike thirty eight right now, they

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still love the Battery Boys. Theydidn't fall in love with one direction.
Yeah, they're still going to yourshows. They're not watching What's what's the
Korean Guys? BTS? Right,They're not They're not going to BTS shows.
Fall in love with those guys.They may like them, but they
have a soft spot for the backboys or in Sync or ninety eight Degrease
like that was, and for thewomen that are like and this is I'm

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not trying to be a just oranything, but the women that are like
forty eight in KOTB you know whatI mean. Yeah, Well, there
were another few boy bands of thatera, but they certainly were the standouts.
Like the late eighties the early nineties, you think anybody's going to criss
cross shows and they're like, oh, yeah, I don't know if those
guys still make music. Yeah,I mean, I mean neither. Anyway,

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there you go that that keyword.By the way, five after the
hour, next hour, we're stillwatching Hunter hunter thing. What do we
do we what do we call it? Hunter Watch? No, we said
we couldn't do that. It's toothere's no idea what we're talking about,
Hunter Biden Verdict watch, And westill don't have the verdict yet. It's

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five ten there? Now though,are they going to keep them there?
Remember twelve Angry Men. I keepreferencing that twelve Angry Men. They kept
those guys there all night till theyhad a verdict. So what's stopping these
guys from just like working this out? Like how much more up? Nope?
I found out, I found it. Nope, Nope. The jury
resumes deliberations tomorrow. Now they're gonnatell him to go home. Jurors dismissed

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for the day. My computer isstill moving slow ever since I opened that
article about Optimist Prime still in thatcar down in Austin, Texas. Not
the real Optimist Prime. Everyone,the real Optimist Prime is a car.
Cannot confirm, but I believe that'strue. Not the real Optimist Prime probably
can't turn into a truck whenever hewants, No, he literally Why would

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he need to steal a car?Do you think that when he got in
the car he said, autobots moveout. No wait, but he stole
the car. So doesn't that makehim more of a Decepticon? Yeah,
but that's the problem here. Thisguy is a criminal. Optimist Prime should
be the opposite of like, likehe should be what's the guy Megatron?

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Yeah, he should be Megatron.Why didn't he name himself Mega Tron?
He was feeling pretty optimistic, Isuppose is that because he was afraid of
getting a cease and desist letter fromDisney because Disney owns Tron, so you'd
have he'd be Megatron and Tron andhe'd be getting deceasing like season desist from
both those people. Did Calvin Johnsonget a decease and desist deceased and desist

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not dead? No, he didn't. You know why because he didn't profit
off the name Megatron. People gaveit to him. He got he got
gigs because of who he was.If anything, I think they liked that
publicity. Random guy in Austin,Texas. I don't think they want their
brand to be affiliated with would bemy guess. But again, I'm not
a lawyer, so I'm not goingto pretend to know like how that works.

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Maybe maybe they find it good,they're getting a kick out of it.
I don't know. Well, wordto the wise. You give a
decease and desist order to Optimist Prime, watch out that guy can turn into
a truck. Yeah, what arewe talking about? Like, uh,
who's deceasing here? Like his OptimistPrime going to make you decease? He
can if he wants to. Isthat is that even a way to talk
about this? I don't think that'swhat he does though he's a good guy.

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Can you decease something? Is thata word? Well? Do you
hear what they use online these days? No, which one decease is to
is death, A decease, Adecease, a flock of decease, A
I'm sorry, A decease is death. So like if like, if you

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were to like like your decease isthe thing that happens to you, you
can just like move the word deathout and put decease in and apparently that
works. But as a verb,you can apparently use it as a verb,
but it's archaic according to Oxford languages. Oh, he deceased at his
place of Croydon, Croydon, that'sthe that's the is that from Optimist Prime's

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home planet. It's just the examplethe dictionary has here. Decease. Yeah,
I don't know anybody in the modernage that uses that as a verb,
Like we were about to though,he's going to come in to cease
you. I don't. I don'tthink that's how that one works. The
autobots lived on Cybertron. For anyonewho was wondering where are the where are

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the Decepticons from? Are they fromthe same place? And they just like
both end it up on Earth somehow, I do believe. So it looks
like there was a faction on robots. It was a that their race war
could not stand on Cybertron. Ithad they had to find a way to
get it to some other planet sothey could destroy that planet and send in

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their own. That's that's some smartthat's some smart moving right, Like if
we were ever to have another civilwar, like my vote is to just
like do it in Canada, Likethere's a much of space in Canada,
just go do it up there,Like why why destroy? Why destroy all
the great stuff that we have here? If you guys are so mad at
each other, just take it somewhereelse. Like the guy that called in
earlier that I had choice words with. It was off the air. You

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didn't miss anything if you're just tuningin. But he called me and he
was calling me like a pansy andstuff like that because I called my wife
because I was having a bad daywhen my tire got blown. That guy,
that guy is probably going to comeafter me at some point. If
you're out there. A guy whocalled earlier and I said some choice words
to you, I apologize, butdon't call me and be rate me and

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expect me to just take a linedown. Sorry, four sixteen's the time.
If you got some thoughts, youcan call in four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Four htwo five five eight eleven ten and we'll
continue our fun conversation and also giveyou an update on a couple other things
that I have on my tab here, including a new ride at Disney World
that had to be a new ridebecause of a variety of topics, including

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of woke culture. I'll try toget to that, and of course we'll
get to some other things, includinga very strange badminton accident. We'll explain
that too. On news Radio elevento ten kf Emery Sunger on news Radio
eleven ten kfab I was gonna say, it's Portugal Day. Oh why,

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it's the National day of Portugal,celebrated annually on June tenth, the public
holiday and the country of Portugal andcelebrated by Portuguese people throughout the world.
So tomorrow is National Bolivia Day.No no, no, this one.
This commemorates the death of Louise dayKemos, who was a literary icon in
Portugal and a poet who passed awayon June tenth, fifteen eighty and for

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some reason they now have they observeit now it's the Portugal Day. You
know what else is today? Itis Judy Garland's birthday, May she rest
in peace. And even more importantly, it is National Ballpoint Pin Day.
It's also National Iced Tea Day,which for me, by the way,
you know iced teas. I likeiced tea. You know, have I

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tea all the time? I'm gonnaneed a nice tall glass of icy you
know what I like to do whenI need a little edge off. And
I don't do this all the time, so don't come after me. I
take the jigger that the instrument thatis used by mixologists at bars. It's
got like two ounces or a shoton this end and like a half a

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shot on this end, and thenyou you fill it up. I do
like two of those with Crown Royaland then fill up my Mason jar with
ice and sweet tea that I brewat home. It tastes really good.
It tastes really good, and youfeel it's like it's basically like having a
beer, but it said it's likesweet tea. It's a sweet tea.
Concoction. No impressed. Okay,yeah, I uh no to each his

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own, you know. Yeah,well I thought you would be like,
wow, that's a great idea.I can't believe I never tried. That.
Also looks another completely unrelated thing.And I'll get some more serious stuff
here in the next segment, butbear with me here. I blew my
tire driving on the road today.I know, I was having a really
bad day. My first half hourwas not the best thirty minutes ready I've

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ever done in my life, butit was certainly some of the most real
just you know, kind of talkingabout like how my brain was scrambled and
frazzled and all that stuff, andgot into you know, some people,
you know, understood stood that somepeople wanted me to feel bad that I
had. I called my wife tohelp me fix the tire. I really

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just needed her there for not justto help, you know, fix the
tire, because you know, obviouslyI could use the extra hands, but
mostly because she was two minutes awayand she was going to need to follow
me to the tire place anyway,so I could get dropped back off.
Just found out that the car didget completed. So we are in good
shape. I will have that carback at some point today. But basically

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what I wanted to talk about wasI saw a TV ad for a thing
called stoko. Have you heard ofstoko? Stoko? S t o ko
stoko? Okoh? Stoko? Yeah, sounds like sounds like you know what
it sounds like? What it soundslike? It sounds like Australian slang,
you know, like they say smokeo. That's just like going on a
break. Okay, Stoco stoco?What would that be? Storks? I

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think it's storks. Yeah, there'sno R in there, but anyway,
stoko Okay. So I saw thisad and it's on TV and it's like
it's like leggings that have wires inthem, like a bunch of cords and
wires in the leggings, like reallylike thin ones but are really strong,
and it's like patented, and itbasically is like leggings that you can wear

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that have built in braces that youcan tighten with little knobs on the pants,
like like the knobs are on thepants like where buttons would be if
they were like buttoned up or whatever, or on the sides or on the
back, and you can like twistthem to either loosen or tighten the cords
in there to give you more supportin your muscles and stuff. And I
was like, well, that's kindof a cool idea. But I wonder

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how much they charge it for thosethings. So I googled them to see
how much they were charging for them. You know how much they were charging
for them? Ish twenty nine dollars? No? Oh uh, try again,
I'm seeing one online. No,you looked it up. It goes
for ninety dollars and sixty four cents. Yeah, the ones I was looking
at they retail for like three eightyso maybe that's a little discount. Ah,

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do you really want them used thoughleggings? I don't think so.
They're those touching a lot of skinand the wires are all used up,
right, Like how long did thesethings even last? What happens if like
one of the wires pops? Like, are your stocos no good anymore?
Well? The reason I bring thisup is because I literally saw this.
I googled it just to look atthe price. Not that I need them

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or am interested in them. Iwas just like, I wonder how much
something like that goes for. Youknow, you're curious. Facebook has bombarded
me on all of my accounts withstoko ads in the last twenty four hours.
Literally, I can't get away fromit. I scroll for like two
seconds and there's a stoko ad.I googled it one for one reason,

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and I'm not even interested in buyingit. It won't leave me alone.
You know what that'd be like?What that'd be like that guy from that
jerky store that you went to inBranson. Yeah, that'd be like he
followed you back to your hotel.Yeah, and then he stood outside your
door and when you went out togo for breakfast in the morning, he'd
be like, oh, hey,hey, just wanted to sort of check
and be like, I still gotsome jerky if you want something you like.

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He's wearing the branded T shirt,so there's no mistaking what he's there
for. It's like, now I'mjust here to sell jerky. This needs
to be like you know that showBlack Mirror, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, you go.No, I the world we live
in, folks, Dude. Ifif my mental instability that you saw in
the first thirty minutes of this showwas any indication I couldn't handle that,

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I couldn't handle that in the rightway, Like I have some major issues,
Like I have so many like thingsin my life that I feel like
are so awesome, but unfortunately,when things don't go right, or if
I had, like somebody that wasfollowing me around trying to sell me fifteen
dollars beef jerky, like I'm reallyuncomfortable, I might need to. I
mean, I cursed out a guywho called into the show today. I

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mean, what am I? Whoam I? Don't we all ask that?
Who am I? Am? Igetting too deep per Monday. You're
the arbor here, like, youcan take it wherever you want. It's
an interesting conversation. It is interesting, that's for sure. I'll do the
best that I can to stay onmy two feet and not try to curse

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anyone else out. How's that goodidea? Probably? I think that that
is a good idea. All right, Well, if you call in and
I happen to accidentally curse you out, please forgive me. In advance for
twenty nine on news radio eleven tenKFAB em Re Sunger on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Either way, that'sNorth Carolina State. It's an acc school,

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and Georgia is an SEC school.The teams that are in the College
World Series, Matt, we're talkingabout. I think they have four SEC
and three ACC schools, and therewill be either a fourth ACC school or
a fifth SEC school. Kentucky's comingfor the first time. They punched their
ticket last night, so Kentucky's neverbeen. They're the only SEC team that's

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never been in the Cultrold Series.They're making their maiden voyage. So they're
in Florida, like you mentioned,is in Texas A and m is in
so that those fans I think willbe a lot of fun Tennessee. Like
you mentioned, if Florida's in orFlorida State, both Florida made it.
Florida made it. Wow, howabout that Florida and Florida State. There

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was such a controversy over them makingit into the regional that Nebraska was in
because I believe their record at thetime was twenty eight and twenty seven,
one of the last at large teamsto make it in. Yeah, it
was one of those you know,in the NCAA basketball, it's one of
those where you know, maybe Syracusemakes it in at nineteen and fourteen,
but they play an ACC schedule andthey have tradition, and then here they

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are in the CWS. You knowwhat, not surprised. Yeah, they
beat Nebraska twice to eliminate the Huskersin the regional and then they went to
and l against Clemson to make it. They walked them off in the thirteenth
inning last night. So Florida andFlorida State are both making it. That
should be fun too, right,and then North Carolina is in and so
if n C State beats Georgia today, we could have North Carolina and North

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Carolina State in. That could befun. Virginia's back, Virginia one,
they're going to be back, andyeah, so there you go. Anybody
not from the South. Is itjust a straight list of South schools?
So right now it's four SEC schoolswhich are Texas, A and M Tennessee,
Florida and Kentucky. And then there'sthree ACC schools right now, Florida

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State, Virginia and North Carolina andNC State could be the fourth ACC team
or Georgia could be the fifth SECteam. But it's only ACC and SEC
teams this year. Nobody from theWest Coast, nobody from north of North
Carolina. So who do you rootfor? That's my question. Do you
root for Kentucky since they're new,brand new, never been Maybe I think
you cheer for a good competitive games. It's weird now living here, I

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was kind of cheering for certain teamsbecause like beforehand, like Evansville was playing
Tennessee, you know, and Evansvillenever made the super regional. Evansville small
school. They play in the MissouriValley Conference, Evansville, Indiana, and
they were a four seed in aregional, made it through the regional.
Actually took a game off of Tennesseeon Saturday, which was interesting. They
had to go to a winner takeall Game three, but Tennessee dominated twelve

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to one to get back to theCollege World Series for the third time in
the last four years. But ifthey would have won, right, Like,
that's a great story. Is itbetter for Oma how to have Tennessee?
Though? Probably fan base wise,no disrespect to Evansville, but like
how many fans would possibly come forEvansville. It's kind of like Oral Roberts,
Like they're a lot of fun tohave around, but for the party,

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for the for the economy, don'tyou want like as many big teams
as possible? I feel like that'sbeing accomplished no matter what happens here.
I mean, these are these aresome schools that have baseball tradition, and
in Kentucky that doesn't. That hasgreat college sports tradition, they just haven't
had a good baseball team until now. So I don't know, am I

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wrong for feeling that way? Iwant the underdog to win, But at
the same time, I'm kind oflike, I kind of want the big
schools now that I live here.Is that not a weird thing that you
kind of have to battle with yourselfover you've been here before, Like,
good, are you still cheering forthe little guy? Or do you want
the You want the big powerhouses tobring their fans. I mean Kentucky,

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they never been here. That's goingto be a huge crowd they're bringing.
Yeah, And you want to youwant the stance to be as as full,
and the and the all of thebusinesses around to be as busy as
possible. And so if you hadeight small market teams coming here, then
you might feel a little iffy.But you got eight, you know,
blue blood programs from you know,big campuses, big names, big fan

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bases. You're probably like, couldyou drive from Knoxville, Tennessee to come
here? Is that drivable? Wouldpeople drive some? Will these are all
these are all some trips, there'snot It's not like or Roberts, Oklahoma.
They're able to scoot on up orKansas State potentially could just scoot on
up, you know what I mean, Like like everybody involved here is going
to have to make a trip.But that could be good because they're gonna

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make it, you know, likeuh worthwhile. They're going to stay the
whole first weekend probably and that wholefirst weekend is going to be wild with
all a teams being here and we'llsee, you know, who makes it
into the middle of next week.Obviously LSU did does really well economically for
Omaha, But that would be aninteresting thing to kind of figure out,
like what are you cheering for?If you're the people who put the College
World series on, who are youcheering for? A few are bar owners

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anywhere near the downtown area. Isaw one of the bars down at the
Old Mark when I was down therehanging out on Friday. They had a
Virginia flag up. It's almost likethey must have like just called being the
all time Virginia because Virginia makes prettyregular trips up here. Like every time
Virginia's involved, they want to belike, hey, Virginia, and they
already had the flag up for superRegionals, like, hey, let's cheer

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on the who's for the for theSupers. Now there's a bar down there
that does the jello shot competition RocosYeah. Yeah for fan bases. Yeah.
Now you got all SEC and acca whole bunch of Southern people coming
up here and they, I mean, this is now a huge deal and
a lot of that money goes tocharity, which is really cool. I

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just became aware of it last year. They turned those things out quick.
I mean, they have a machinethat was made specifically for this kind of
thing. They have a company that'smaking a jello shot machine for this thing.
And you don't think they're going tobe competitive, especially Florida and Florida
State, potentially North Carolina State.In North Carolina, it's going to trying
to beat each other in the jelloshot challenge. Great couple of weeks for

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Uber drivers. Those are motorized scootersaround town, you know, picking up
a lot of dimes. The thingis, though, I try to take
one of those things right and nearto the stadium. They really block out
a huge footprint around the stadium thatyou can't have those things, So that
to me is kind of exciting,and you know, you walk around down

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there. I got my first tasteof it for the first time of my
life last year. I know I'mfrom Iowa, but you know, I
never thought to make it over forthe College World Series. Now I can't
stop talking about it. I hadso much fun last year. I am
super, super pumped about that andbeing here for the entire time. So
hopefully that kind of excitement is thekind of thing that you guys can enjoy
and enjoy with us. One ofthe cool things about living in Omaha.

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You can call us four h twofive to five, eight eleven ten.
Four h two five to five,eight eleven ten. We'll talk more to
you next on news Radio eleven ten. Kfab Brian O'Connor born and raised in
Omaha, Nebraska, played for theCreighton Blue Jay baseball team in the early
nineties. Helped lead them to theCollege World Series in nineteen ninety one.
Was an assistant coach after his collegecareer ended with Creighton as their pitching coach

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for a few years and has beenthe head coach at Virginia since two thousand
and four, and it said obviouslygreat success. They won. They've gone
to the fourteen in CAA tournaments,went to the two thousand and nine College
World Series, twenty eleven College WorldSeries, twenty fourteen College World Series,
twenty fifteen College World Series, andthey won the College World Series in twenty

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fifteen, the only national title inschool history. So that's pretty good.
Also made the College World Series intwenty one and twenty three and now twenty
four So seven times as the headcoach of Virginia, leading them to his
hometown in Omaha. Pretty cool.Phone lines open, four, two,
five, five, eight eleven,ten, Marks on the line. Hey,
Mark, what do you got forme? Well? I hate to

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question your geography, but what didI say that? You said North Carolina
was the farthest North team, andI'm pretty sure Virginia is exactly North and
North Carolina. Yea, yeah,it sits on top of it. Yeah
yeah, yeah. So you know, the younger generation you have little trouble
geography. Yeah yeah, yeah,Well, Mark, I will say this,
I actually take a lot of pridein my geography. I just obviously

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didn't think before speaking that time.That was stupid of me. So but
I appreciate you holding me accountable.I'm okay with that. Now that it's
gonna it's gonna be a great licet. Those are some great teams coming and
can't wait to watch. Yeah,it's gonna be a good time. No,
I appreciate it. Hey, Mark, thanks for calling in man,
thanks for listening. Yeah, Isee this is a stupid Emory speaks before
he thinks, a big mouth Emory. It's what am I doing over here?

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Yeah, so there you go.I think, Yeah, in Virginia
and Kentucky probably be a little northof uh North Carolina as well technically on
the uh what the latitudinal scale?Then uh yeah. Tonight, by the
way, that game is in Athens, Georgia. Georgia will be the home
team against North Carolina State. It'sthe seven and ten matchup, so it's

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a seventh seed Georgia tenth seed nC State winner take all last spot in
the College World Series. And thefirst pitch schedule for just after six pm.
And I'm gonna watch and you can'tstop me. Uh six pm on
ESPN and on ESPN Plus. Bythe way first game of the College World
Series Friday, Friday. We don'tknow when, but things get going on

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Friday. I'm excited. I'm reallyexcited. This is gonna be fun.
I mean here the whole week.Okay, So a couple of things that
I needed to mention, just totake care of some business. Un Security
Council does approve the United States proposalwhich is being backed for a resolution on
what's happening between Israel and Hamas.This was proposed by the US, and

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we know Egypt and Qatar have beenworking with the two sides and trying to
come up with something that they havenot been able to figure out. But
fourteen votes in favor. The onlyone that was basically was like, man,
I'm gonna abstain that is by Russia. Surprising to say the least.
That was sarcasm. It's not surprisingat all. But the United States needs

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Hamas and Israel to in this thing, and they're doing the best they can
to in this thing in a waythat makes both sides happy. Israel did
a very daring maneuver rescuing a fewof their hostages behind enemy lines. There
is some video that has come outonto social media for the rescue efforts.
And that's for me, that's prettygripping stuff. I've just seen a piece

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of that, but that's available onsocial media right now and pretty wild.
Also, if you're wondering the HunterBiden case verdict thing, we're not going
to know that it has to betomorrow. But they dismissed the jurors.
They're going home, they're going tothink, think it over, I guess,
but they can't talk about it.They can't talk about it, Matt,
what are the odds though? Imean, honestly, like, if

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you're on a jury, could youkeep everything that you're talking about or everything
that happens to you in court asecret when you go home to you know,
your family, your parents, Yougot to have your designated secret keeper
and trust that you're telling them howyour day went. But you literally buy

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law if you were found it ismisconduct by the juror if they're having conversations
about details in the case outside thecourt room. Don't we all deserve at
least one person in our life whowe can always trust here intel eternity,
whatever we tell them, if theyknow that that's just between us, it's
just between us. Yeah, butyou have to know that right. And

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if that's the case, then Idon't know what the big deal is because
if they're just hearing it to helpyou vent and then not doing anything with
that information, it should be legal. Shouts out to the external processors out
there. You go to jury allday, you got to go have somebody
to go home and talk to itabout. Ah, that's for sure,
and we'll have more for you fiveo'clock hour. Next News Radio eleven ten KFAB