Speaker 1: This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
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Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and and this is a cut to
Speaker 1: it bonus episode. Good do It, Good do It. Let's
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Speaker 1: bonus episode. I Love it. A bonus episode that fell
Speaker 1: into our mean complete spontaneous pod, spontaneous of all spontaneous nous.
Speaker 1: And we got Kayleie hard Tongue. She's an ABC News
Speaker 1: correspondent g m A working for Good Morning America. Flex
Speaker 1: also been at CNN two, n Longhorn Network. She is
Speaker 1: a veteran journalist. But where she from the most important part.
Speaker 1: She's from Baton Rouge. I tried to do the whole
Speaker 1: French thing, the creole, So she's from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Speaker 1: When to l s U and we're just happy to
Speaker 1: have on the cut to a podcast. She did a
Speaker 1: good job and we were excited to get to get
Speaker 1: someone so close up to know what's going on and
Speaker 1: give us really a breakdown of college baseball, the World
Speaker 1: Series and College World Series. So a first time exclusive
Speaker 1: College World Series podcast, Little Short, a little Short, Little
Speaker 1: in and out, of what's going on down there here
Speaker 1: locally here in Charlotte. You know, so we got the
Speaker 1: NT State Wolfpack that we're on the path to secure
Speaker 1: a World Series in college baseball. Covid said, ha ha,
Speaker 1: we have alternate plans. So I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Dandy Hartongue on Tattwood Podcast. Yes, this
Speaker 1: is such a tree for me. Thank you for letting
Speaker 1: me join. So what's what's what's been doing? I mean
Speaker 1: we're just coming on, you know, College World Series has
Speaker 1: been the Vanderbilt NC State. It's what's been going on
Speaker 1: is clearly probably unpresidented. What's what's your what's been your
Speaker 1: take on the last few days and and and the
Speaker 1: rollout of all this information. Yeah, it's been tonnely wild guys. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I worked the College World Series in some
Speaker 1: capacity for seven years. I only worked seven years. But
Speaker 1: I am I'm actually here for Good Morning America. We're
Speaker 1: doing a series visiting just telling you guys where I'm here.
Speaker 1: What's the hotel? Did they put you at the Ritz too? Right?
Speaker 1: There is no Rits in the hall. Unfortunately, my name's
Speaker 1: not Michael Strahan, so I don't come with you know
Speaker 1: that kind of right. I'm personally just glad they cut
Speaker 1: to it made the media co wash right now. One
Speaker 1: in America College World Series for seven years, okay, casual
Speaker 1: but no, but I haven't been here since, so it's
Speaker 1: been amazing to be back and just a really wild
Speaker 1: time to be here. So I'm here to shoot this
Speaker 1: piece for for g m A. That's it's really about
Speaker 1: the significance of the College World Series to the city
Speaker 1: of Omaha, to the state of Nebraska. Without it happening
Speaker 1: a year ago, it was just devastating just going local businesses.
Speaker 1: So that's sort of the angle I was coming here with,
Speaker 1: and not so much the ins and outs of how
Speaker 1: I would prepare for your Tomaha when I was covering
Speaker 1: the actual tournament. So I'm just checking in as I
Speaker 1: was about to get on my plane on Saturday to
Speaker 1: come here to see if there were any of the
Speaker 1: if necessary games to determine who was going to get
Speaker 1: to the finals, because it's a double elimination format until
Speaker 1: you get to the best of three finals. And I'm
Speaker 1: looking I'm like, what's going I don't understand what's going on?
Speaker 1: What do you mean no contest? What do you mean
Speaker 1: it's what do you mean in C State's going home?
Speaker 1: I'm super confused. Took a minute to dive into it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, what's happened here is unprecedented, Uh, something
Speaker 1: that could only happen in the time of COVID. But
Speaker 1: as it turned out, the way they're testing players here, okay,
Speaker 1: only unvaccinated players needed to be tested on I believe
Speaker 1: it was in every other day basis, if you've been vaccinated,
Speaker 1: you did not need to be tested. These schools haven't
Speaker 1: required their players to be vaccinated, and the n c
Speaker 1: a A cannot require players to be vaccinated. So all
Speaker 1: that being said, NC State had a couple of unvaccinated
Speaker 1: players test positive. That triggered the next layer of the protocol,
Speaker 1: which which meant the entire team needed to be tested. Yeah,
Speaker 1: contact tracing, you know step one and then and then
Speaker 1: step two. It was like, let's test everybody, and then
Speaker 1: they actually had some vaccinated players test positive. So after
Speaker 1: NC State like gutted it out with I think they
Speaker 1: only had thirteen players available. Um, after quarantines and all
Speaker 1: of that, they got it out this like really gritty
Speaker 1: game with Vanderbilt. They lost three to one. It was
Speaker 1: their first loss in Omaha. Uh, they were as hot
Speaker 1: as any team here, and then the n c a
Speaker 1: A decided we can't let this continue. They want the
Speaker 1: easy route to to say the least, not having to
Speaker 1: deal with at some point we want to talk about
Speaker 1: you know, we want to talk about well vaccinated unvaccinated,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, vaccinated unvaccinated infections
Speaker 1: are gonna happen, and the protocols seemingly are basically saying,
Speaker 1: if you are infected, we have to eliminate everybody, and
Speaker 1: let's just do the Let's let's be like water. Let's
Speaker 1: take the easiest path of resistance and go We're just
Speaker 1: gonna eliminate everybody instead of going through it and not
Speaker 1: let's go backwards though, because you know, being in the NFL,
Speaker 1: I think Nebraska O Mahall has that same kind of
Speaker 1: um status that Canton, Ohio has. I agree, man, It's
Speaker 1: it's rare that something stays in one place, but its
Speaker 1: a destination. Don't just say I want to play in
Speaker 1: the College World Series. I can't say I want to
Speaker 1: go to you know, you go in wait rooms across
Speaker 1: the country, you go into baseball facilities at colleges, across
Speaker 1: the country. Omahawk is on the wall. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is synonymous with what it means to be the best
Speaker 1: in the sport. And I actually interviewed earlier today. I
Speaker 1: got Jack Dson, who is the head of the local
Speaker 1: organizing committee for the College World Series and and got
Speaker 1: schooled in a little bit of the history. But this
Speaker 1: event has been happening in Omahawston's nineteen fifty. How cool
Speaker 1: is that? How much the basketball tournament is to this city.
Speaker 1: The basketball Tournament it goes to very cities, the BCS,
Speaker 1: it rotates around different cities. Yeah, this is a destination
Speaker 1: every single time. Every single time, Kaylee, it's there. It's
Speaker 1: in Omaha. So that that is really cool, and it's
Speaker 1: something that when we do think about some of these
Speaker 1: prestigious tournaments we don't always talk about. Kyle, let me ask.
Speaker 1: That's why we're happy, and that's why you got two
Speaker 1: brothers talking College World Series right now. We are breaking barriers.
Speaker 1: So let me ask. Let me ask you in seventeen,
Speaker 1: how was Nebraska Omaha compared to just just just just
Speaker 1: the city. You know, it's been there, like you said,
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty. His fun fact nineteen fifty However, the audience
Speaker 1: has not always been tuned in, and the and the
Speaker 1: amount of people traveling have not been what it is
Speaker 1: in the last what ten years. So I'm imagine Qualified
Speaker 1: League three hundred thousand visitors come to omahaw over the
Speaker 1: two weeks span of this tournament, three hundred thousand people.
Speaker 1: They fill the stadium nearly every game something thousand. So
Speaker 1: we're in that ballpark and this event generates nearly ninety
Speaker 1: million dollars. That's how yeah to the city of the Mall.
Speaker 1: That's how I pitched the story to Good Morning America
Speaker 1: to say, if we are talking about ways that this
Speaker 1: country is reopening, in ways that people are getting back
Speaker 1: to living life, and if we want to tell the
Speaker 1: stories of the way small businesses persevered, and if we
Speaker 1: want to tell the stories of just you know, the
Speaker 1: fortitude of the American people to survive this pandemic and
Speaker 1: to come back stronger than ever, there's no better time
Speaker 1: to showcase what's going on in Omaha, Nebraska than when
Speaker 1: the College World Series is here, because you see, I mean,
Speaker 1: you see the infusion of energy and life and money
Speaker 1: into this town. When when college baseball is on, you
Speaker 1: have they were probably probably what ten hotels. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: a residence in This place is blown up. I mean
Speaker 1: coming back here, there were so many places, like every
Speaker 1: corner I turned, I'm like, well this is new, Well
Speaker 1: this is new. I was told last night there is
Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty million dollar downtown UH project underway. Romah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're looking for some angel investors or some people that
Speaker 1: are looking for ten to twelve percent return, you know,
Speaker 1: tell them I'm I'm I'm available, I'm outchair. Hey always
Speaker 1: wanted to do it. Any investment want to tend to
Speaker 1: cupon clip preferred, I like preferred. Yeah, but it really is.
Speaker 1: The city's growing quickly. It's a beautiful it's a beautiful town.
Speaker 1: And the best thing I could say about this place
Speaker 1: that is the people are as friendly and welcoming like
Speaker 1: the people here love the cultural series. They love to
Speaker 1: be hospitable, They love to welcome everyone. They want everyone
Speaker 1: who comes here three hundred thous of them. They want
Speaker 1: everybody to year to have a good experience. And it's
Speaker 1: the it's the kindness and the friendliness of people to
Speaker 1: them all that help make this event what it is
Speaker 1: and that helped make it such an awesome experience for
Speaker 1: all of the fans from all over the country who
Speaker 1: come to this tournament. And one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: about what you see here is there fans like they're
Speaker 1: LSU fans, um from Baton Ridge. They're LSU fans who
Speaker 1: come here every year. I don't know l s U's
Speaker 1: in the tournament because this event is an annual tradition
Speaker 1: and it's so special to them. There's a group of
Speaker 1: Miss to Be State fans who come here every year.
Speaker 1: This year they are lucky enough for their team to
Speaker 1: be in the finals for a chance to win the
Speaker 1: first national championship in any sport at miss to Be State.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you, the cow bells are ringing
Speaker 1: in Omaha wherever you go, because those Miss to be
Speaker 1: State fans love to have a good time and love
Speaker 1: to let you know. And they're here well the SEC
Speaker 1: showdown for the College World Series. I know that. So
Speaker 1: let me ask you. Let's let's dive into your background.
Speaker 1: How did you get involved to college baseball? And as
Speaker 1: you flexed on several times, going as they call it,
Speaker 1: we talked to Good Morning America like whoay, no, don't
Speaker 1: be impressed, um compliment? Can you take a compliment, please,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take I'm just a girl from
Speaker 1: Bad Wars, Louisiana who grew up a very loyal fan
Speaker 1: of L. S U. I was lucky growing up in
Speaker 1: that my mom worked for the athletic Foundation at L
Speaker 1: s U. And I got to be a fan of
Speaker 1: of a school that had the best team in the
Speaker 1: most fun sports to watch, so like in the nineties,
Speaker 1: like I love college baseball because in the nineties there
Speaker 1: was no better team than L. S U. They won
Speaker 1: five national titles in a decade. That's wild, right, So
Speaker 1: that was my come up in baseball, was just cheering
Speaker 1: for the Tigers as they were rolling over everyone in
Speaker 1: some of the most epic moments in college baseball history.
Speaker 1: Shoutout War in War. It's I mean, in the record
Speaker 1: books for for one of the best best moments in
Speaker 1: the sport. But then there was shock, right like Shack
Speaker 1: was the first athlete I ever knew existed, Like late eighties,
Speaker 1: early nineties, you can just jumping on everybody in the
Speaker 1: Mayor Vich Assembly Center. I was there in my lowella
Speaker 1: shed trurely no bit, just like thinking he was actually superhuman.
Speaker 1: And then of course there was l football, right, So,
Speaker 1: like I said all of that to say, I came
Speaker 1: at wanting to do this job as a fan first
Speaker 1: and just always felt like and still being here right now,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's such a privilege to get to
Speaker 1: be there on the best days of these kids lives,
Speaker 1: right like that. You know, you've worked for so hard, sweated, tears,
Speaker 1: all the things to get to this incredible moment and
Speaker 1: for me to get to be the person to ask
Speaker 1: that question or telling that story and highlight all the
Speaker 1: work going into achieving something so special to them, Like
Speaker 1: to me, that's a tremendous privilege that I okay, very seriously, um,
Speaker 1: And that was out that's where my love of sports
Speaker 1: comes from and why this and then it's especial to
Speaker 1: me and what I loved my job at ESPN, But
Speaker 1: the dream for me was always it was always more
Speaker 1: so the morning show format, right Like as a kid,
Speaker 1: I looked up to Katie Couric so so much the
Speaker 1: Today Show. And now I'm at Good Morning America, admitted
Speaker 1: flex number one. So the dream has been amended, um
Speaker 1: to be right where I am as a part of
Speaker 1: the team a Good Morning America. And I think I'm
Speaker 1: really lucky. And and what's interesting for me now is
Speaker 1: that I find myself in his balance right of trying
Speaker 1: to show up on the best days like I got
Speaker 1: you at n but also when you're working in news,
Speaker 1: you have to show up on the worst days the
Speaker 1: people's lives. So that's a different cho said, the best
Speaker 1: at the top is just us. She she definitely. So
Speaker 1: what's been what's been some of the some what's been
Speaker 1: some of the worst days that you have to show
Speaker 1: up on that you know you're going out on a
Speaker 1: on a remote or your your doing a report about something,
Speaker 1: but then when you get there, it hits you in
Speaker 1: a way that you're no matter what the storyline says,
Speaker 1: no matter what how you've been brief, no matter what
Speaker 1: you know and which questions you're gonna ask, it's still
Speaker 1: hits you in a way that you're unprepared for. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: so many. UM. I mean, just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I was at a mass shooting in San Jose, UM
Speaker 1: where a guy who worked at a light rail yard
Speaker 1: maintenance facility for two decades walked in and shot nine
Speaker 1: of his coworkers. Um. And then the next day I'm
Speaker 1: at the home of a man who who was praised
Speaker 1: as a hero for the lives that he saved before
Speaker 1: his was taken. And and over, I was overcome with
Speaker 1: grief and emotion because I mean, the man's the young
Speaker 1: man who was my age. UM, the young man's mother
Speaker 1: was in side the home. I was in the front yard,
Speaker 1: and I could hear her wailing in grief and pain.
Speaker 1: And I mean, there's no way to prepare yourself. There's
Speaker 1: no way to prepare yourself to that. I mean, the
Speaker 1: number of mass shootings that I've been to, sadly it
Speaker 1: would it would be hard for me to count right now.
Speaker 1: But Parkland, my gosh, being in Parkland, UM, at that
Speaker 1: high school. I mean, I got there a day after
Speaker 1: that happened, and was there for two weeks and and
Speaker 1: in and that was when I was at CNN, and
Speaker 1: I was on such a grinding schedule that it wasn't
Speaker 1: until it wasn't until I got the call that I
Speaker 1: was clear that I could go home after being there
Speaker 1: for two weeks. At the second I hung up my phone,
Speaker 1: I just burst into tears. It was like all the
Speaker 1: emotion that I've kept inside because adrenaline was pumping through me.
Speaker 1: And I was just trying to do my job and
Speaker 1: stay awake and make sure the words that were coming
Speaker 1: out of my mouth were making sense. The second the
Speaker 1: adrenaline was gone, I just lost it. Um. But it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's daily right now. I got colleagues
Speaker 1: in in Miami, um, who are in an unimaginably difficult situation.
Speaker 1: The weight, the the unknown down there. Um, there's still
Speaker 1: some hope. But you know, last last I saw hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty people were still on accounted for in Serve
Speaker 1: Side with that collapsed building. And it's every week, every
Speaker 1: day it's something, and sometimes it's my assignment, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: one of my colleagues, but it's um, yeah, it's heavy.
Speaker 1: It's heavy. So I feel very fortunate that I'm now
Speaker 1: with with the network and and have a platform to
Speaker 1: be able to cover such a broad range of stories
Speaker 1: where I do get some relief, you know, where I
Speaker 1: do get to again show up on the best days. Um,
Speaker 1: because that's healthy for my own my own self. Right.
Speaker 1: And you you're walking right into the question that we
Speaker 1: were going to lead into, how do you take care
Speaker 1: of yourself when you do have topics that are this
Speaker 1: heavy and mass shootings and build it is collapsing. How
Speaker 1: do you take care of your own mental health? You
Speaker 1: talk about it, you know, you talk about it with
Speaker 1: your friends. I've got a great support system of U
Speaker 1: of wonderful, wonderful family and friends like Meredith Carter, your producer,
Speaker 1: Um is a very important first in my life. Who
Speaker 1: you know, I need friends like that in my life,
Speaker 1: who I can count on and who I can call,
Speaker 1: and who who aren't afraid to go there with me
Speaker 1: and ask me questions about how I'm feeling. Because I'll
Speaker 1: be the first to admit one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I think I capable of doing this job is that
Speaker 1: I am capable of compartmentalizing. I'm capable of focusing on
Speaker 1: the task at hand. Um. But, like I just friended
Speaker 1: Mark with you know, I'm not afraid, once I've gotten
Speaker 1: through the task at hand, to feel what I'm feeling,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I'm a human
Speaker 1: right at the end of the day, I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: human with real emotions and real feelings. Uh way before
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a journalist. Um, But I think that
Speaker 1: my humanity might empathy, my ability to be very real
Speaker 1: with people in the dark moments and in the best moments.
Speaker 1: Is is what's allowed me to have any success. It's
Speaker 1: the job I'm doing or allowed me to put anything
Speaker 1: on television that's worth worth listening to her watching from
Speaker 1: CNN too. Now you're good more in America. You've you've
Speaker 1: You've been a lot of places when it comes to
Speaker 1: the journalistic world. What's been your journey, um through your
Speaker 1: journalism path. Tell us about some of the stops you've
Speaker 1: had and just just how you've been able to now
Speaker 1: have a have a namestake within this industry. So, my
Speaker 1: first job out of college maybe my favorite job of
Speaker 1: all of them, um, for you know, basically minimum wage
Speaker 1: working at CBS News in Washington, d C. I had
Speaker 1: the incredible fortune of being Bob Sheefer's personal assistant, and
Speaker 1: he's an icon of the industry. He's interviewed every president
Speaker 1: since next in. It was like getting my masters and
Speaker 1: journalism from a true master. And I was by a
Speaker 1: side for five years through the two thousand eight presidential
Speaker 1: campaign through most of twelve. I never thought I'd be
Speaker 1: somebody's personal assistan for five years. The adventures go on
Speaker 1: with him and the way I was able to learn
Speaker 1: for him on a daily basis. Made it just a
Speaker 1: wonderfully fulfilling job and was the best way to come
Speaker 1: to understand the industry in such a full circle way.
Speaker 1: But while I was there with him, he was the
Speaker 1: best about saying, take advantage of me in this building, like,
Speaker 1: you know, your first responsibilities to me, but be useful
Speaker 1: to everybody. Volunteer for everything, work the holidays, work the
Speaker 1: weekn that's whatever it is. And so I started doing
Speaker 1: that and I ended up um doing some pieces in
Speaker 1: the you know, one man band style as we call
Speaker 1: it for CBS News dot Com. I was shocked they
Speaker 1: would put me in front of the camera on CBS
Speaker 1: News dot Com back into two thousand nine, but I
Speaker 1: was free and uh creating content, so here you go. Um.
Speaker 1: But that led to UH catching eye of the guys
Speaker 1: at CBS College Sports Network. I did too uh football
Speaker 1: seasons there, and it was the same time that CBS
Speaker 1: and Turner Sports were creating their partnership for March Madness,
Speaker 1: which allowed me to get involved with them on the
Speaker 1: digital side with n c A dot com. So I
Speaker 1: spent two years of my five that CBS News moonlighting
Speaker 1: for CBS Sports and Turner sports, and it was so
Speaker 1: much fun and it was amazing, uh getting my feet
Speaker 1: wet in that way, but it was totally on. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: an audition came up for a job at Long Wore Network,
Speaker 1: which ESPN had just launched, covering the University of Texas.
Speaker 1: I was most president anybody that I got the job,
Speaker 1: and that led to five awesome years at ESPN, from
Speaker 1: pasting on Long Word Network and was SEC Network to
Speaker 1: doing things for ESPN like working the College World Series
Speaker 1: and and working the College Football Playoff. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to leave sports when the opportunity presented itself to
Speaker 1: make a jump to CNN. But you know one of
Speaker 1: those moments where when the phone rings, you answer it
Speaker 1: and do you take the meeting? And um, sometimes it
Speaker 1: you could be more surprised to anybody as I've been
Speaker 1: consistently throughout my career. So there was an opportunity to
Speaker 1: jump to CNN, and I knew that news was always
Speaker 1: the goal. So Bob Sheeper actually gave me the advice
Speaker 1: of why wait, If you know that's the the eventual goal,
Speaker 1: why not take this opportunity and and see what happens.
Speaker 1: And so I did, and the two years at CNN,
Speaker 1: we're just like driving in the deep end of of
Speaker 1: what it means to work in the news industry. But
Speaker 1: I went from you know, the one end of the spectrum,
Speaker 1: like I was describing at ESPN of just having so
Speaker 1: much fun and showing up on the best days too,
Speaker 1: at CNN only showing up on the worst days. So
Speaker 1: so then that's why I say ABC is such a
Speaker 1: great for me where I get to do both, um,
Speaker 1: because I think we all need to we all need
Speaker 1: to hear some good stories when we're just inundated with
Speaker 1: bad ones. So that's the there, there's the there's the resume. Impressive,
Speaker 1: you're doing a heck of a job, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: we just appreciate you taking a time out all the
Speaker 1: way from Omaha, Nebraska College World Series where our NC
Speaker 1: State fellas have been eliminated, not because of lack of
Speaker 1: ability to close out a game, but the virus has
Speaker 1: taken them out. Um yeah, I think if they could,
Speaker 1: if if the virus wouldn't have done what it did,
Speaker 1: I think I think would have won us. I really do.
Speaker 1: Nobody could, nobody could beat them twice. I just my
Speaker 1: heartbreaks for those guys. And there's a great video you
Speaker 1: should look up on NC State's baseball Twitter account. When
Speaker 1: they got back to Raleigh the other night after flying
Speaker 1: home from Omaha. And also they bust the kids who
Speaker 1: tested positive. They couldn't even get on the plane. That
Speaker 1: felt real bad for this because anyway, once they all
Speaker 1: got back to Raleigh, um, they filled the ballpark Raleigh
Speaker 1: within ms to welcome them back. And it was so emotional,
Speaker 1: it was so sweet. But um, that team was special.
Speaker 1: And Meredith is actually right now in the corner crime.
Speaker 1: So I'm just because you talked about how emotional it was.
Speaker 1: She she is now and she's got NC State logo
Speaker 1: tissues as well. I feel fact we'll be back. Will
Speaker 1: fact we'll be back. You can count on that. They
Speaker 1: have to be winning something. They have to be back
Speaker 1: because basketball is terrible fall steaks, so you gotta be winning.
Speaker 1: They got a basketball at the y m c A.
Speaker 1: I thought Tar Hills and everything. Well, we we really
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking time out, and you know, one of
Speaker 1: the things we got we gotta have you come back
Speaker 1: on and really dive deep and dive deep into your
Speaker 1: career and and and here some of the those awesome
Speaker 1: stories we've sprinkling some nuggets and why weight we need
Speaker 1: that on a T shirt? Wait wait, I like that.
Speaker 1: So we really appreciate you taking the time out. But
Speaker 1: I got one last question. I thing is really important.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about summertime, You're talking about a place
Speaker 1: that seems to have some great fairs. So what is
Speaker 1: your goal to meal out there that you look forward
Speaker 1: to when you know you're going to the College War Series.
Speaker 1: You're saying, I gotta stop at one or one or
Speaker 1: two places that You're just like, I can't no one
Speaker 1: can know and see me eat it. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get down in dirty. Uh. You gotta get a milkshake
Speaker 1: from Zesto's that is like flavor? What flavor chocolate? For
Speaker 1: a chocolate? You never go from with a little bit
Speaker 1: of chocolate in your life. And then if you're in Almaha,
Speaker 1: you gotta have a steak, right And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be somebody on the average is gonna order a
Speaker 1: steak out a restaurant. But when I'm in Almaha, I
Speaker 1: go to Omaha Prime. You see Mo, the manager, he's
Speaker 1: the man. I get a little filet all the sides,
Speaker 1: but a fly cut. I don't do like I try
Speaker 1: to do like a bat filet, like maybe keep it simple,
Speaker 1: like maybe a little surfentur. If that that's the company,
Speaker 1: that's the company credit car, I'm not that's not even
Speaker 1: a company credit card. That is reimbursement. Like this is
Speaker 1: out on the per deamon about seven five of it.
Speaker 1: Give me that lift to let me get that flowerless lava.
Speaker 1: Absolutely dessert involved. I'll take that too. I'm going cab,
Speaker 1: but you know, excuse them, all right, okay, so another question,
Speaker 1: all right, ran a white wine? Well, if I'm doing
Speaker 1: bo she's so posh. Yeah, you drink a great wine
Speaker 1: right now, and that's hot. Drank white wine last last night.
Speaker 1: I did a little pino griggio. But also I went
Speaker 1: to So this is what I love about Omaha. They
Speaker 1: embraced this event so holy. I went to this spot,
Speaker 1: jams Um in area of jams with a J. No
Speaker 1: does it end with a z r S because vans
Speaker 1: with a Z they probably no, no, no with an okay,
Speaker 1: And but it's a great little rett and their drink menu,
Speaker 1: their specialty drink menu. This a recording line. This recorded
Speaker 1: line YEP. Eight drinks named for each of the teams
Speaker 1: that were here, you know what I mean. So there
Speaker 1: was like the Longhorn Rita and like that. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a drink name after each team was do
Speaker 1: you know every um? You know what? Hold on? I
Speaker 1: took a photo state in C State and then you
Speaker 1: have to tell us, you have to tell us what
Speaker 1: they have for l s U. Okay, well lu didn't Nick?
Speaker 1: You said a drink? Oh it's every year, yeah, just
Speaker 1: every year. So it was the wolf Pack Whistle, Sweety Vodka,
Speaker 1: Peach Snops. It's gonna be something trash. I knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew. I know what I told Bran I was.
Speaker 1: I was like there, it was some trash. It wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be like because that anyways, Mississippi State Squeeze Play
Speaker 1: Jamison Ginger Pure Sweets, Our Orange Bitters, the Vandy Black
Speaker 1: with Giant You Sweet Tea, Vodka, House Lemonade, and Fresh
Speaker 1: Women give me a Scully Vaca. I'm straight, keep it simple. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's how I like it. Hey, Well, okay, we really
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