June 9, 2025 • 23 mins
Would You Sit Next to an Emotional Support Alligator at the CWS?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Matt case you uh, you see some of these
You see some of these teams that's going on coming
to Omaha. I'm not aware, all right. The first team
to clinch was Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How about that the Shanta Clears.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You got a cheer for those guys, right, you got
to have a couple of Rocos Jello shots for those guys.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Roccos modern life. If it was me in those stands,
I'd celebrate the Shanta Clears by bringing in my shandelier. Now,
that would be a cool way to party in the
CWS stands. It might be kind of clunky getting that
thing in. I don't think you can get it in.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Would be my thing. Like have you seen like the
dimensions of the purses that you can bring in there?
You can't fit ash chandelier in a purse. Yeah, that'd
be a that'd be a tough that'd be a tough one.
I thought you're gonna say you're gonna bring a chicken,
because that's.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I suppose that would be the obvious choice, but I
try not to take the obvious route. Maybe a chicken
would be easier, but they probably frown upon bringing in livestock.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I don't. I don't think that. I don't think that's
a good one either.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That Cubs fan tried that all those years ago didn't
work out well for him or the team for about
one hundred years if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, well that's the problem. It was a goat, by
the way, I don't think it was a chicken. It
was a goat, right, livestock yeah, livestyle Yeah, I don't know.
I feel like nowadays you can kind of get away
with it. There's that like emotional support rabbit. That giant rabbit.
His name is Alex the Great. Oh yeah, he's been
to some Giants baseball games. He's got his own ball cap.
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It's very cute. He's a giant rabbit though.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And he's there for emotional support.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The guy who has him, I mean, he's got a
social media account, so you just never know, like maybe
he's really important for this man's emotional support.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, that's where you know what, that's an interesting conversation.
So if you if you make a social media account
for your emotional support animal, which I'm fully on board
with that program. Same, that's kind of awesome that people
who would would need that could get that through an
animal and be able to take them around in public. Right,
But at one point are you kind of get advantage
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because the social media account.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
There's all there's always people that are doing I mean,
and it's giving a bad name to people like me. Right,
I like to take my dog's places, but they're not
an emotional support animal. I don't need them with me
to be able to function every day, even though I'd
like to have them. There's a difference between wishing I
could be with my dog all the time and needing
my dog all the time. They're not like monitoring my
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like blood pressure or anything, which there are animals that
could do that, you know, like can monitor like diabetes
and blood sugar and stuff like that. It's really interesting.
I don't think the guy's emotional support rabbit does all that,
but I think maybe he, you know, really feels calm
down when he's got his rabbit, and his rabbit's cute.
So I think a lot of people invite him to
go to like events and stuff for like, oh sweet,
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not only are we looking like good guys because we
allow him to have his rabbit in here, but also,
you know, maybe we'll get some publicity on his well
followed social media right.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now, I could see that ecosystem benefiting everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I mean, like, if it's a dog, you know,
he's just like, why are you bringing your dog into
a restaurant? Right well, you have to buy log because
it's an emotional support or whatever. I don't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I ate at this, Well, there's one like this in Omaha,
but I ate at this like kind of shwanky restaurant
in Denver where part of the lure to get to
the restaurant was raccoons come and hang out while you're eating.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I've heard of this.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm not gonna lie. I was sitting there and I'm like,
this is a little bit too high society for raccoons
to be like trying to steal a bite when I'm
not looking.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't know. I kind of liked the idea.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was a little weird to me, like they're just
scurrying around. You're kind of like, and I don't know
about this. I like it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I saw a bunch of raccoons over in my neighborhood.
It was like a big family of them. You can
see the video I took while I was in my
car looking across the street and I saw them on
coming out of a storm train. It was pretty cool.
You can find that on my Emory Songer Radio Facebook page,
also Emory Songer on x and on Instagram. All right,
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so the Chanticleers are there Arizona. Upset North Carolina to
get here Arizona. They got be eighteen to two that
first day.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So they ended up coming back and they ended up
making it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's cool. I was going for the Wildcat.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah. So they're in lsu is back, which I think
a lot of people are very excited about. Always a
fun time when they make the trip. I'm liking this
lineup so far. Oregon State, Okay, Oregon State is good.
The Beavers, yeah, coming back. Got Ucla took out Utsa.
We wanted the road Runners, but Ucla, you know, a
little West Coast flavor.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Ucla a team that the Huskers took out to get
to the Big Big Ten Champions.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Know they want they beat them in the Big Ten
Champions Oh that's right. Yeah, So UCLA made it as
an at large they know these days they feel pretty
well over here, right Yeah. And then uh, Louisville beat
Miami and that was a really fun back and forth
three game series. But Louisville's coming, the Cardinals are back.
And Arkansas all right, they took out Tennessee in two games.
(04:53):
So Arkansas the Hogs, Oma Hogs. Woopig sue oo big sue.
You're gonna be hearing that a lot. At Charles Schwab Field.
They are the highest seed remaining. In fact, they are
the only top five team that made it. The other
four top five teams all got knocked out. And then lastly,
we're just awaiting Murray State in Duke. They play at
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six o'clock tonight in Durham, North Carolina. Duke is the
home team. Murray State scored nineteen runs against Duke yesterday.
But anyway, Murray State and Duke tonight, who you picking.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Murray State and Duke. Yeah, my heart says Murray State,
My head says Duke. Well, who would you rather see
come to Omaha? We'll go with Murray State. It's got
to be Murray State, right because they're the racers, right, yeah,
the racers.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, i'd buy I'd buy a couple of Rockos
yellow shots on behalf of the racers, and I'd buy
myself one. They have a really cool logo like their
baseball logo. It's like a secondary logo. It's got like
a horseshoe and like the head of a racehorse with
a jockey on top. Like it's really cool, really inventive.
Nobody else is like that. And Murray State small school.
Let's let's get a Missouri Valley Conference team to Omaha, right, so,
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let's hope that they take out Duke tonight six o'clock.
It looks like I have fired up some phone calls
about emotional support animals. I will get to that when
we come back. If these fine folks, Doug, Chris and
everyone else calling in would like to hang on, I'd
love to chat with you about emotional support animals and
plenty more on the way. On news radio eleven ten
kfab Matt suggested bringing a chicken, live chicken to the
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College World series.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
See once again, I feel like I should correct the record.
I did not suggest bringing in a live chicken. I
believe that was your suggestion based off of my more
ridiculous suggestion initially, which was to bring in an inanimate shandelier.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right right that wouldn't fit into like a purse or
a bag or anything.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And the reason we said this is because there's a
team called Coastal Carolina and their mascot is the chant
the Clears, which is actually a chicken, but it sounds
like Schandalier.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And that's how we got here. So that is the
etymology of the conversation. I just wanted to say the
word etamol.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Anybody who's listening is just like, what do these guys
do every day? This is like what their show always is.
I don't know, maybe it is, but I got on
the topic of well, you can probably get a little
way with that in some places if you just call
that chicken an emotional support animal, right, and that is
listed to a couple of phone calls. Maybe to help
us out here, Doug is on our phone line four two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Doug, what do you got on emotional support animals?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well, whenever you're talking about emotional sport support animals at
a sporting event, you got to start with the guy
a couple of years ago who has denied allowing his
emotional sport alligator into a Phillies game. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I saw this, and first of all, emotional support alligator,
Like I've been told by people who are around reptiles
all the time, that they really don't feel that kind
of affection. They're not that kind of animal that they
have some sort of affection. They may recognize you and
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know you as like somebody who brings them food, but
they don't love you like How much emotional support would
an alligator even give you?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Obviously you've never owned one and gotten close emotionally to one,
so you know.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, I mean, you're right, I guess that's true.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Maybe that's a project for you to assind a map.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, Matt, you want to try an emotional support alligator
and tell us if they have feelings and it makes
you feel better.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, after time and consideration, I would like to decline
this offer based off of many factors, namely being I
don't have any preparation or training in how to take
care of a live alligator, nor a place to store
it when I'm away, nor any store.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're taking him with you everywhere, your emotional support allegator.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah, I'm sure Emory would watch it for you when
you're out of town.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Now, see, wait a second, this is a further complication.
I have to find a place for this alligator to go.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's not going to be me. I've already made it
very clear. I don't like animals. But my understanding is
reptiles do not understand love. They understand food and pray,
and that's what they want.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So so I'm sorry your bearded dragon that you know
bought is a pet for five hundred dollars doesn't love
you the same way that you know, a you know,
Pomeranian would.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
It's just evidently evidently the guy in Philly was quite
upset that we wasn't allowed to bring his u The
name of the I don't know the name of the guy,
but the emotional sport alligator was Wally Gator.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, that's right, Wally Gator. And he had a social
media presence also, I believe right like he's like, yeah,
you know, he's got an Instagram and that's and so
people were outraged that the Instagram emotional sport alligator couldn't
get into a Phillies game. But they were just gonna
throw and pelt stuff at him anyway. That's what they
do in Philly, isn't anything just like hey, I like
that thing, I'm gonna throw stuff at it. I don't know,
(09:44):
I just remember they threw snowball at Santa Claus once. Hey, Doug,
appreciate it. Thanks for alerting us to that. Chris is
on our phone line four two, five five eight eleven ten. Chris,
you're on elevenson KFA B. Hello, Chris, Sorry, there you are,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Okay. So here's the deal. There are service animals. There
are therapy dogs and well therapy other animals too, and
there are emotional support. Service dogs are trained specifically for
a person's disability, like you said, diabetes, looking for low
blood sugar, for seizures, for blindness, for mobility, that kind
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of thing. They're very special dogs. They're quite expensive and
they are purchased and given to the person that needs
it for the disability. Okay. Then there are certified therapy dogs,
which I am on my third therapy dog, and they
are trained and they are certified to be a nice dog,
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and their whole goal is to bring happiness and love
to people that they meet. They can only go to
places that they're invited, so nursing homes, hospitals.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So Chris, Chris, real quick that I uh my late
dog Pyro, I actually had him AKC canine, Good citizen
and the whole. Yeah, so like that was like the
first step to getting him there. But you do have
to get certified for therapy for your dog to be
able to do that, right.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yes, you absolutely do. Okay, Okay, then there's emotional support dogs. Now.
I worked for general practitioner doctors years ago, maybe ten
years ago or so, when all this mess started and
people wanted to bring their alligators and ostriches and things
on a plane with them because they were their emotional
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support animals. Sure, so they made rules pretty quickly and
saying you have to have a diagnosis from your doctor
that says you suffer from anxiety before you can name
your pet as an emotional support animal. And then it's
up to the business or the airline or whatever if
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they will allow that to happen. And so then they
limit to that to you know, bunny rabbits. There are
bunny rabbits that are emotional support and sure, you know
things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Small stuff that you know you can actually like take
on planes that are going to be in the way.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah yeah, right, so you know, you can't bring an
emotional support animal into a restaurant and things like that.
You just can't do it, right, so.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oh, that's that's the story, all right, Chris, I really
appreciate the call. Thanks so much for enlightening us today.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Have a good day, you too.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You imagine emotional support Ostrich. You know tall that thing is, yeah,
and they have like backwards knees, so it's not like
super easy for them to sit down like on a
couch or something. You would have to buy like two
plane tickets just for your Ostrich. And how much emotional
support and an Ostrich really off Well, that's the thing.
You could try to hug him, but I mean, I've
followed that one girl that has the EMU that she
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calls a manual. I don't know what he's up to
these days, but she seems to love him. But he's
kind of a troublemaker because he's a bird. Birds kind
of do what they do, not that they don't understand love.
I mean, parrots are a great example. They're actually incredibly intelligent,
but the thing is they also are kind of unwieldy
because they know how much independence they have. So I
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don't know, I'm kind of interested in an Ostrich though,
it'd be kind of cool to meet one, hopefully not
get you know, like pecked in the brain or something.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I've heard.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They can get a little hostile. And they can run
fast too. They can run like thirty five miles an hour.
They are fast, those long legs. So maybe it'd be
a better like, you know horse, Like can you ride
an Ostrich? They do Ostrich races some places because they're
big enough that you know, a small person can jump
on their back and like ride them. But the Ostrich,
I don't think, really enjoys that, so I wouldn't recommend it.
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Mary's on our phone line four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten, Hey Mary, what do you got?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well? Like I said, this is about a year ago,
I was in the grocery store and this lady came
walking by me meeting her. Of course, I guess it
was a phone because it was a small horse. However,
it did have on a vest that says service animal
if it was a service animal or an emotional support animal.
But do you think they would let them bring a
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horse into the stadium?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know, probably not. But again, if it was like
a service animal, that could like somehow detect And I
guess a pony is a bit more realistic than you know,
an Ostrich or an alligator, but it still feels like
a bit excessive on the size. And how good are
horses at climbing upstairs? You have to climb stairs to
or get on a small elevator to get into Charles
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schwap Field, right, So, I mean the hoofs I don't
think are great for stair climbing. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, they do go up mountain sides that are kind
of rough like stairs.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I mean, she's got a point. I guess we'll find
out if if somebody sees a pony at CWS weekend
or the entire week they're there. You got to let
us know how that operated. And Mary appreciate the call today,
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Okay, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, now see this I like again, though I don't know,
I don't. I also don't want to be the guy
everybody's just like Emory brought a dog to work again,
because I know people like that, and I don't that
that bring, you know, like an animal with them a
lot to places you're not generally supposed to have an animal,
including like work, and it really like angers people, and
I just you know, I don't want to be the
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target of that. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I guess it depends on the office. It could you
could work in an office where everybody the dog, and
everybody only only brings extra morale.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
If everybody's bringing their dog, then I'll bring my dog.
But I'm not going to be the only guy bringing
my dog is not gonna happen. I'm not going to
call that kind of attention to myself, if that makes sense.
Four nineteen more Coming up News Radio eleven ten kfa B.
We're on the subject of something that I'm actually quite
interested in, talking about emotional support animals. Matt Case is
my emotional support animal from two to six every single day.
He's a homo sapien. He can talk. He's well well trained, well.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Trained to talking. Sure, yeah, you know, in fact, I've
been doing that since probably two three years old. I
don't know, you know somewhere around.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
There a lot of experience, which is good. You're not
going to find a dog that could do this right.
Some would say I'm almost human, like almost Okay, Anyway,
I almost got myself on a corner I couldn't get
out of there. Chris is on the phone line four two, five,
five eight eleven ten, Hey, Chris, what's going.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
On, Hey are we doing today?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Good, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Well no, it's just seemed you know, I haven't worked
at the airport and stuff. It seems like some people
when they start opening the floodgates of the emotional support animals,
they have their own little personal agendas that they have
to I want everybody to see that the this certain
animal is actually really nice, like a pollock constrict or
something like that. But we've had people at the airport, uh,
not necessarily this airport, but they tried to being a
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full sight peacock, you know, with a tail and everything,
and the horses. You serious, you can't get a support hamster.
I mean, for crying out loud, you gotta have this
giant animal. Everyone's set their little agendas, and once a
door gets open, they have to jump into it and
prove their little points by claiming it. Now it's you know,
put a little best on it. However, you get a
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best on a hamster or you know, or a ball
constrictor you know, a bullet constrictor, I mean, you know whatever,
longtern neck sweater or something.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Or.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
It's just it's just people seem to give an agenda
and they have to push it until finally someone puts
their flick down says no, either a dog or you know,
a recognized animal. So finally they started recognizing some of
the animals as these are what we recognize as emotional
or personal support. Because everyone tries to jump in with
their agenda because they happen to be you know, Brolo
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constrictor lovers or peacock lovers.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, let's let's let's hey, I've I don't think anybody's
ever seen a snake on a plane before. Let's let's
go ahead and throw some boa constrictions on a plane
and see how much they help people with their emotional support.
That's gonna I think.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Will you turn one loosen there? I'm sure it'll break
up the you know that, it'll be exciting, uh you know,
and you'll see all the buttons being pushed for the attendants.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, Chris, I appreciate it. Thanks so much for being
on the show. Yeah you too, Uh yeah, I think snakes.
Putting a snake on a plan seems like a great idea.
I don't know why we haven't thought of that before.
I'm just should make a movie about that. Paul's on
a phone line four, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. Paul,
you're on eleven ten kfa B. What do you got, hey?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I help.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Some folks often give consulting for renting places. You know,
they're saying like, why can't I get into a place,
And I'll ask about what they offering up and they'll say, well,
I was going to move in a house and I
told them I had four animals, and they're all essays.
A lot of landlords regard the ESA as a scam
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to get out of a pet pee. Right, So you
got a house it's listed thirty five bucks US for
a month for a dog. Someone comes in with four
dogs and they'll say, well, I'm not painting it because ESA,
And then they get it, but they think they're being
against having the dogs. But if you look at a
higher level, if you're a landlord and you're trying to
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choose between two people take over house, would you take
someone that needed so much emotional support over another? And
so I think the ESA's just kind of gotten out
of hand.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, And I think that's one thing that unfortunately has
created a riff in the society or the people like me,
you like, take my dogs to stores that you're allowed
to have dogs, in which there are a lot more
than I think people realize. But I like taking my
dog's places, but I'm not going to force it into
areas where the dog's not welcome or there are rules
against it. And I'm trying to be as you know,
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like cognizant of that and try to try to play
the middle game. Some people they just they kind of
like the attention that the animal brings them and they
find a way to to to get the certification necessary
to be able to put their Great Dane on an airplane,
for instance. So I don't know, Paul, I think you're
onto something, though. The floodgates have opened a bit and
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people are absolutely trying to abuse it, and there's no
doubt about it. I appreciate the call, buddy, thanks for listening.
You all right, If you've got thoughts on this, you
can hit me up. Four h two five, five, eight
eleven ten is the number. Emotional support animals. Anything emotional
support related will also get deeper into the news because
we got plenty of news floating around Los Angeles and
the United States that's coming up too. On news Radio
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eleven to ten, Kfab and Marie Sunger. Did you see
the zebra in Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Sounds like the start to a possibly bad country song.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Ah, so ma ze brouin Tennessee. Yeah, he's like, he's
like hanging out in Tennessee. He apparently had been he's
a pet. He's a pet. You need to u you
need to look look zebra Tennessee zebra. Just google it.
You have to see what they did to the zebra. So,
so the zebra, he's a pet. Apparently he had just
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gotten given or had just gotten received. His name is
ed Ed the Zebra, and he is, uh, he got
on the run. He escaped. He was spotted and filmed
running along Interstate twenty four and then escaped into a
wooded area and eventually you're yawning at the audible. It
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was very audible, and yeah, so he's, uh he's running
around and uh yeah, his owner reported him missing the
day after they got him, so he somehow escaped whatever
enclosure they had him in. And so are you seeing this?
Did you see the video?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm seeing a zebra he's running through town.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Did you see what they did when they caught him?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, they put him in They lifted him by helicopter.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
They airlifted him from a helicopter yeah, to a spot
where he was gonna get loaded back up and taken backwards.
I don't know how they even got to him to
do that, but it's hilarious to look at. But the
moral of the story, as always, ladies and gentlemen, do
not have a pet zebra. Zebra do not make good pets.
Just get a horse. Is zebra maybe a smaller horse
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like thing, but it is not meant for good writing.
It does nothing but it it just grazes, It eats
a bunch of grass. It, you know, doesn't really do much.
Zebra in the wild just wants to run around away
from potential predators, drink water and grace and you know,
a horse you can actually at least like interact with
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a little bit more naturally. So I don't know what
this guy's up to and why he had a zebra,
but there you go. Whatever. Also, before I jump right
back into this crazy conversation about what's going on in
Los Angeles, I just want to shout out Garrett Seawright.
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He's a news editor for Barrett Media and he called
me up and I did a little interview with him
with TENA last week and he put a little piece
together to commemorate what is yes today actually today, two
years ago today I announced that I accepted the position
as the afternoon guy on eleven tin Kfab And later
(23:08):
this month will be my two year anniversary. Can you
believe it? We've already been doing this show for two years,
almost
Hey, Matt case you uh, you see some of these
You see some of these teams that's going on coming
to Omaha. I'm not aware, all right. The first team
to clinch was Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How about that the Shanta Clears.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
You got a cheer for those guys, right, you got
to have a couple of Rocos Jello shots for those guys.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Roccos modern life. If it was me in those stands,
I'd celebrate the Shanta Clears by bringing in my shandelier. Now,
that would be a cool way to party in the
CWS stands. It might be kind of clunky getting that
thing in. I don't think you can get it in.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Would be my thing. Like have you seen like the
dimensions of the purses that you can bring in there?
You can't fit ash chandelier in a purse. Yeah, that'd
be a that'd be a tough that'd be a tough one.
I thought you're gonna say you're gonna bring a chicken,
because that's.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I suppose that would be the obvious choice, but I
try not to take the obvious route. Maybe a chicken
would be easier, but they probably frown upon bringing in livestock.
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I don't. I don't think that. I don't think that's
a good one either.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That Cubs fan tried that all those years ago didn't
work out well for him or the team for about
one hundred years if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, well that's the problem. It was a goat, by
the way, I don't think it was a chicken. It
was a goat, right, livestock yeah, livestyle Yeah, I don't know.
I feel like nowadays you can kind of get away
with it. There's that like emotional support rabbit. That giant rabbit.
His name is Alex the Great. Oh yeah, he's been
to some Giants baseball games. He's got his own ball cap.
(01:28):
It's very cute. He's a giant rabbit though.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And he's there for emotional support.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The guy who has him, I mean, he's got a
social media account, so you just never know, like maybe
he's really important for this man's emotional support.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, that's where you know what, that's an interesting conversation.
So if you if you make a social media account
for your emotional support animal, which I'm fully on board
with that program. Same, that's kind of awesome that people
who would would need that could get that through an
animal and be able to take them around in public. Right,
But at one point are you kind of get advantage
(01:59):
because the social media account.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
There's all there's always people that are doing I mean,
and it's giving a bad name to people like me. Right,
I like to take my dog's places, but they're not
an emotional support animal. I don't need them with me
to be able to function every day, even though I'd
like to have them. There's a difference between wishing I
could be with my dog all the time and needing
my dog all the time. They're not like monitoring my
(02:24):
like blood pressure or anything, which there are animals that
could do that, you know, like can monitor like diabetes
and blood sugar and stuff like that. It's really interesting.
I don't think the guy's emotional support rabbit does all that,
but I think maybe he, you know, really feels calm
down when he's got his rabbit, and his rabbit's cute.
So I think a lot of people invite him to
go to like events and stuff for like, oh sweet,
(02:45):
not only are we looking like good guys because we
allow him to have his rabbit in here, but also,
you know, maybe we'll get some publicity on his well
followed social media right.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now, I could see that ecosystem benefiting everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
But I mean, like, if it's a dog, you know,
he's just like, why are you bringing your dog into
a restaurant? Right well, you have to buy log because
it's an emotional support or whatever. I don't know. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I ate at this, Well, there's one like this in Omaha,
but I ate at this like kind of shwanky restaurant
in Denver where part of the lure to get to
the restaurant was raccoons come and hang out while you're eating.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, I've heard of this.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm not gonna lie. I was sitting there and I'm like,
this is a little bit too high society for raccoons
to be like trying to steal a bite when I'm
not looking.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I don't know. I kind of liked the idea.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was a little weird to me, like they're just
scurrying around. You're kind of like, and I don't know
about this. I like it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I saw a bunch of raccoons over in my neighborhood.
It was like a big family of them. You can
see the video I took while I was in my
car looking across the street and I saw them on
coming out of a storm train. It was pretty cool.
You can find that on my Emory Songer Radio Facebook page,
also Emory Songer on x and on Instagram. All right,
(03:55):
so the Chanticleers are there Arizona. Upset North Carolina to
get here Arizona. They got be eighteen to two that
first day.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I saw that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
So they ended up coming back and they ended up
making it.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's cool. I was going for the Wildcat.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah. So they're in lsu is back, which I think
a lot of people are very excited about. Always a
fun time when they make the trip. I'm liking this
lineup so far. Oregon State, Okay, Oregon State is good.
The Beavers, yeah, coming back. Got Ucla took out Utsa.
We wanted the road Runners, but Ucla, you know, a
little West Coast flavor.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Ucla a team that the Huskers took out to get
to the Big Big Ten Champions.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Know they want they beat them in the Big Ten
Champions Oh that's right. Yeah, So UCLA made it as
an at large they know these days they feel pretty
well over here, right Yeah. And then uh, Louisville beat
Miami and that was a really fun back and forth
three game series. But Louisville's coming, the Cardinals are back.
And Arkansas all right, they took out Tennessee in two games.
(04:53):
So Arkansas the Hogs, Oma Hogs. Woopig sue oo big sue.
You're gonna be hearing that a lot. At Charles Schwab Field.
They are the highest seed remaining. In fact, they are
the only top five team that made it. The other
four top five teams all got knocked out. And then lastly,
we're just awaiting Murray State in Duke. They play at
(05:15):
six o'clock tonight in Durham, North Carolina. Duke is the
home team. Murray State scored nineteen runs against Duke yesterday.
But anyway, Murray State and Duke tonight, who you picking.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Murray State and Duke. Yeah, my heart says Murray State,
My head says Duke. Well, who would you rather see
come to Omaha? We'll go with Murray State. It's got
to be Murray State, right because they're the racers, right, yeah,
the racers.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
You know, i'd buy I'd buy a couple of Rockos
yellow shots on behalf of the racers, and I'd buy
myself one. They have a really cool logo like their
baseball logo. It's like a secondary logo. It's got like
a horseshoe and like the head of a racehorse with
a jockey on top. Like it's really cool, really inventive.
Nobody else is like that. And Murray State small school.
Let's let's get a Missouri Valley Conference team to Omaha, right, so,
(06:05):
let's hope that they take out Duke tonight six o'clock.
It looks like I have fired up some phone calls
about emotional support animals. I will get to that when
we come back. If these fine folks, Doug, Chris and
everyone else calling in would like to hang on, I'd
love to chat with you about emotional support animals and
plenty more on the way. On news radio eleven ten
kfab Matt suggested bringing a chicken, live chicken to the
(06:28):
College World series.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
See once again, I feel like I should correct the record.
I did not suggest bringing in a live chicken. I
believe that was your suggestion based off of my more
ridiculous suggestion initially, which was to bring in an inanimate shandelier.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right right that wouldn't fit into like a purse or
a bag or anything.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
And the reason we said this is because there's a
team called Coastal Carolina and their mascot is the chant
the Clears, which is actually a chicken, but it sounds
like Schandalier.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And that's how we got here. So that is the
etymology of the conversation. I just wanted to say the
word etamol.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Anybody who's listening is just like, what do these guys
do every day? This is like what their show always is.
I don't know, maybe it is, but I got on
the topic of well, you can probably get a little
way with that in some places if you just call
that chicken an emotional support animal, right, and that is
listed to a couple of phone calls. Maybe to help
us out here, Doug is on our phone line four two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Doug, what do you got on emotional support animals?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Well, whenever you're talking about emotional sport support animals at
a sporting event, you got to start with the guy
a couple of years ago who has denied allowing his
emotional sport alligator into a Phillies game. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I saw this, and first of all, emotional support alligator,
Like I've been told by people who are around reptiles
all the time, that they really don't feel that kind
of affection. They're not that kind of animal that they
have some sort of affection. They may recognize you and
(07:56):
know you as like somebody who brings them food, but
they don't love you like How much emotional support would
an alligator even give you?
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Obviously you've never owned one and gotten close emotionally to one,
so you know.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, I mean, you're right, I guess that's true.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Maybe that's a project for you to assind a map.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, Matt, you want to try an emotional support alligator
and tell us if they have feelings and it makes
you feel better.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, after time and consideration, I would like to decline
this offer based off of many factors, namely being I
don't have any preparation or training in how to take
care of a live alligator, nor a place to store
it when I'm away, nor any store.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
You're taking him with you everywhere, your emotional support allegator.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Yeah, I'm sure Emory would watch it for you when
you're out of town.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Now, see, wait a second, this is a further complication.
I have to find a place for this alligator to go.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's not going to be me. I've already made it
very clear. I don't like animals. But my understanding is
reptiles do not understand love. They understand food and pray,
and that's what they want.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
So so I'm sorry your bearded dragon that you know
bought is a pet for five hundred dollars doesn't love
you the same way that you know, a you know,
Pomeranian would.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
It's just evidently evidently the guy in Philly was quite
upset that we wasn't allowed to bring his u The
name of the I don't know the name of the guy,
but the emotional sport alligator was Wally Gator.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, that's right, Wally Gator. And he had a social
media presence also, I believe right like he's like, yeah,
you know, he's got an Instagram and that's and so
people were outraged that the Instagram emotional sport alligator couldn't
get into a Phillies game. But they were just gonna
throw and pelt stuff at him anyway. That's what they
do in Philly, isn't anything just like hey, I like
that thing, I'm gonna throw stuff at it. I don't know,
(09:44):
I just remember they threw snowball at Santa Claus once. Hey, Doug,
appreciate it. Thanks for alerting us to that. Chris is
on our phone line four two, five five eight eleven ten. Chris,
you're on elevenson KFA B. Hello, Chris, Sorry, there you are,
go ahead.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Okay. So here's the deal. There are service animals. There
are therapy dogs and well therapy other animals too, and
there are emotional support. Service dogs are trained specifically for
a person's disability, like you said, diabetes, looking for low
blood sugar, for seizures, for blindness, for mobility, that kind
(10:26):
of thing. They're very special dogs. They're quite expensive and
they are purchased and given to the person that needs
it for the disability. Okay. Then there are certified therapy dogs,
which I am on my third therapy dog, and they
are trained and they are certified to be a nice dog,
(10:48):
and their whole goal is to bring happiness and love
to people that they meet. They can only go to
places that they're invited, so nursing homes, hospitals.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So Chris, Chris, real quick that I uh my late
dog Pyro, I actually had him AKC canine, Good citizen
and the whole. Yeah, so like that was like the
first step to getting him there. But you do have
to get certified for therapy for your dog to be
able to do that, right.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Yes, you absolutely do. Okay, Okay, then there's emotional support dogs. Now.
I worked for general practitioner doctors years ago, maybe ten
years ago or so, when all this mess started and
people wanted to bring their alligators and ostriches and things
on a plane with them because they were their emotional
(11:40):
support animals. Sure, so they made rules pretty quickly and
saying you have to have a diagnosis from your doctor
that says you suffer from anxiety before you can name
your pet as an emotional support animal. And then it's
up to the business or the airline or whatever if
(12:03):
they will allow that to happen. And so then they
limit to that to you know, bunny rabbits. There are
bunny rabbits that are emotional support and sure, you know
things like that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Small stuff that you know you can actually like take
on planes that are going to be in the way.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah yeah, right, so you know, you can't bring an
emotional support animal into a restaurant and things like that.
You just can't do it, right, so.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Oh, that's that's the story, all right, Chris, I really
appreciate the call. Thanks so much for enlightening us today.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Have a good day, you too.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
You imagine emotional support Ostrich. You know tall that thing is, yeah,
and they have like backwards knees, so it's not like
super easy for them to sit down like on a
couch or something. You would have to buy like two
plane tickets just for your Ostrich. And how much emotional
support and an Ostrich really off Well, that's the thing.
You could try to hug him, but I mean, I've
followed that one girl that has the EMU that she
(12:57):
calls a manual. I don't know what he's up to
these days, but she seems to love him. But he's
kind of a troublemaker because he's a bird. Birds kind
of do what they do, not that they don't understand love.
I mean, parrots are a great example. They're actually incredibly intelligent,
but the thing is they also are kind of unwieldy
because they know how much independence they have. So I
(13:17):
don't know, I'm kind of interested in an Ostrich though,
it'd be kind of cool to meet one, hopefully not
get you know, like pecked in the brain or something.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I've heard.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They can get a little hostile. And they can run
fast too. They can run like thirty five miles an hour.
They are fast, those long legs. So maybe it'd be
a better like, you know horse, Like can you ride
an Ostrich? They do Ostrich races some places because they're
big enough that you know, a small person can jump
on their back and like ride them. But the Ostrich,
I don't think, really enjoys that, so I wouldn't recommend it.
(13:46):
Mary's on our phone line four two, five, five, eight
eleven ten, Hey Mary, what do you got?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Well? Like I said, this is about a year ago,
I was in the grocery store and this lady came
walking by me meeting her. Of course, I guess it
was a phone because it was a small horse. However,
it did have on a vest that says service animal
if it was a service animal or an emotional support animal.
But do you think they would let them bring a
(14:11):
horse into the stadium?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
You know, probably not. But again, if it was like
a service animal, that could like somehow detect And I
guess a pony is a bit more realistic than you know,
an Ostrich or an alligator, but it still feels like
a bit excessive on the size. And how good are
horses at climbing upstairs? You have to climb stairs to
or get on a small elevator to get into Charles
(14:37):
schwap Field, right, So, I mean the hoofs I don't
think are great for stair climbing. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Well, they do go up mountain sides that are kind
of rough like stairs.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I mean, she's got a point. I guess we'll find
out if if somebody sees a pony at CWS weekend
or the entire week they're there. You got to let
us know how that operated. And Mary appreciate the call today,
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Okay, bye bye.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, now see this I like again, though I don't know,
I don't. I also don't want to be the guy
everybody's just like Emory brought a dog to work again,
because I know people like that, and I don't that
that bring, you know, like an animal with them a
lot to places you're not generally supposed to have an animal,
including like work, and it really like angers people, and
I just you know, I don't want to be the
(15:23):
target of that. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I guess it depends on the office. It could you
could work in an office where everybody the dog, and
everybody only only brings extra morale.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
If everybody's bringing their dog, then I'll bring my dog.
But I'm not going to be the only guy bringing
my dog is not gonna happen. I'm not going to
call that kind of attention to myself, if that makes sense.
Four nineteen more Coming up News Radio eleven ten kfa B.
We're on the subject of something that I'm actually quite
interested in, talking about emotional support animals. Matt Case is
my emotional support animal from two to six every single day.
He's a homo sapien. He can talk. He's well well trained, well.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Trained to talking. Sure, yeah, you know, in fact, I've
been doing that since probably two three years old. I
don't know, you know somewhere around.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
There a lot of experience, which is good. You're not
going to find a dog that could do this right.
Some would say I'm almost human, like almost Okay, Anyway,
I almost got myself on a corner I couldn't get
out of there. Chris is on the phone line four two, five,
five eight eleven ten, Hey, Chris, what's going.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
On, Hey are we doing today?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Good, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (16:27):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Well no, it's just seemed you know, I haven't worked
at the airport and stuff. It seems like some people
when they start opening the floodgates of the emotional support animals,
they have their own little personal agendas that they have
to I want everybody to see that the this certain
animal is actually really nice, like a pollock constrict or
something like that. But we've had people at the airport, uh,
not necessarily this airport, but they tried to being a
(16:49):
full sight peacock, you know, with a tail and everything,
and the horses. You serious, you can't get a support hamster.
I mean, for crying out loud, you gotta have this
giant animal. Everyone's set their little agendas, and once a
door gets open, they have to jump into it and
prove their little points by claiming it. Now it's you know,
put a little best on it. However, you get a
(17:11):
best on a hamster or you know, or a ball
constrictor you know, a bullet constrictor, I mean, you know whatever,
longtern neck sweater or something.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
Or.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
It's just it's just people seem to give an agenda
and they have to push it until finally someone puts
their flick down says no, either a dog or you know,
a recognized animal. So finally they started recognizing some of
the animals as these are what we recognize as emotional
or personal support. Because everyone tries to jump in with
their agenda because they happen to be you know, Brolo
(17:42):
constrictor lovers or peacock lovers.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, let's let's let's hey, I've I don't think anybody's
ever seen a snake on a plane before. Let's let's
go ahead and throw some boa constrictions on a plane
and see how much they help people with their emotional support.
That's gonna I think.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Will you turn one loosen there? I'm sure it'll break
up the you know that, it'll be exciting, uh you know,
and you'll see all the buttons being pushed for the attendants.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, Chris, I appreciate it. Thanks so much for being
on the show. Yeah you too, Uh yeah, I think snakes.
Putting a snake on a plan seems like a great idea.
I don't know why we haven't thought of that before.
I'm just should make a movie about that. Paul's on
a phone line four, two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. Paul,
you're on eleven ten kfa B. What do you got, hey?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I help.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Some folks often give consulting for renting places. You know,
they're saying like, why can't I get into a place,
And I'll ask about what they offering up and they'll say, well,
I was going to move in a house and I
told them I had four animals, and they're all essays.
A lot of landlords regard the ESA as a scam
(18:48):
to get out of a pet pee. Right, So you
got a house it's listed thirty five bucks US for
a month for a dog. Someone comes in with four
dogs and they'll say, well, I'm not painting it because ESA,
And then they get it, but they think they're being
against having the dogs. But if you look at a
higher level, if you're a landlord and you're trying to
(19:09):
choose between two people take over house, would you take
someone that needed so much emotional support over another? And
so I think the ESA's just kind of gotten out
of hand.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, And I think that's one thing that unfortunately has
created a riff in the society or the people like me,
you like, take my dogs to stores that you're allowed
to have dogs, in which there are a lot more
than I think people realize. But I like taking my
dog's places, but I'm not going to force it into
areas where the dog's not welcome or there are rules
against it. And I'm trying to be as you know,
(19:40):
like cognizant of that and try to try to play
the middle game. Some people they just they kind of
like the attention that the animal brings them and they
find a way to to to get the certification necessary
to be able to put their Great Dane on an airplane,
for instance. So I don't know, Paul, I think you're
onto something, though. The floodgates have opened a bit and
(20:02):
people are absolutely trying to abuse it, and there's no
doubt about it. I appreciate the call, buddy, thanks for listening.
You all right, If you've got thoughts on this, you
can hit me up. Four h two five, five, eight
eleven ten is the number. Emotional support animals. Anything emotional
support related will also get deeper into the news because
we got plenty of news floating around Los Angeles and
the United States that's coming up too. On news Radio
(20:24):
eleven to ten, Kfab and Marie Sunger. Did you see
the zebra in Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Sounds like the start to a possibly bad country song.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Ah, so ma ze brouin Tennessee. Yeah, he's like, he's
like hanging out in Tennessee. He apparently had been he's
a pet. He's a pet. You need to u you
need to look look zebra Tennessee zebra. Just google it.
You have to see what they did to the zebra. So,
so the zebra, he's a pet. Apparently he had just
(20:54):
gotten given or had just gotten received. His name is
ed Ed the Zebra, and he is, uh, he got
on the run. He escaped. He was spotted and filmed
running along Interstate twenty four and then escaped into a
wooded area and eventually you're yawning at the audible. It
(21:16):
was very audible, and yeah, so he's, uh he's running
around and uh yeah, his owner reported him missing the
day after they got him, so he somehow escaped whatever
enclosure they had him in. And so are you seeing this?
Did you see the video?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
I'm seeing a zebra he's running through town.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Did you see what they did when they caught him?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, they put him in They lifted him by helicopter.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
They airlifted him from a helicopter yeah, to a spot
where he was gonna get loaded back up and taken backwards.
I don't know how they even got to him to
do that, but it's hilarious to look at. But the
moral of the story, as always, ladies and gentlemen, do
not have a pet zebra. Zebra do not make good pets.
Just get a horse. Is zebra maybe a smaller horse
(22:05):
like thing, but it is not meant for good writing.
It does nothing but it it just grazes, It eats
a bunch of grass. It, you know, doesn't really do much.
Zebra in the wild just wants to run around away
from potential predators, drink water and grace and you know,
a horse you can actually at least like interact with
(22:27):
a little bit more naturally. So I don't know what
this guy's up to and why he had a zebra,
but there you go. Whatever. Also, before I jump right
back into this crazy conversation about what's going on in
Los Angeles, I just want to shout out Garrett Seawright.
(22:48):
He's a news editor for Barrett Media and he called
me up and I did a little interview with him
with TENA last week and he put a little piece
together to commemorate what is yes today actually today, two
years ago today I announced that I accepted the position
as the afternoon guy on eleven tin Kfab And later
(23:08):
this month will be my two year anniversary. Can you
believe it? We've already been doing this show for two years,
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