Dane Cook Lives!

And he's at Steelhouse this Sunday!  Then, I spend a few minutes honoring Team Jack Day in Nebraska.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vordies Lucy if you've been to a show at
the Steelhouse yet. This is the part where Lucy says, no,
I don't go out. I just paint my bathroom every weekend.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Now I'm saving it up.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
You haven't been to Steelhouse yet yet. I saw Killers there.
I saw Duran. I saw Duran Duran there, saw l
King there, and a couple of weeks ago I saw
John Andrasiki for fighting at the Kim Foundation event there.
It is the coolest venue in town.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
That's what I've been told.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
And this weekend for a show at Steelhouse on Sunday, Yeah, Sunday,
September twenty ninth, This Sunday a comedian who throughout the
two thousand and odts was the hottest thing on the
planet and then, according to like the media, like, he
just disappeared. Well it's not entirely true, but he is

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coming back here and he joins us. Now I should
point out this is not Dane Cook's first time on radio.
Maybe you don't know. Dane Cook is also the host
of the Phone Zone. Are using a Touchtowne phone or
is it a rotary? This does not go against your score.
This is simply a question. Catch down.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Great, that actually did go against your score. By the way,
I didn't want to scare you. Okay, are you ready
for the next question as quickly as possible. You have
three seconds to count to ten.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Go two, three. I'm sorry, I am sorry. I am
so sorry. One of my favorite things that my friends
and I do each other. You have three seconds to
count to ten. Go Dane Cook. Welcome to news Radio
eleven ten kfab Good morning.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Scott, Good morning. How are you guys doing. I just
have to quickly say I've played so many gigs throughout
my thirty four years doing standup comedy that I was like,
maybe I should set a gig at Lucy's bathroom while
she's painting. That might be different.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes, that would be awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Come on down, good morning.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's an impressive bathroom. The lighting and the acoustics in there. Great.
There's a little stage also known as the commode. But
you know you're really gonna like it. Have you ever
googled yourself and found it said when did Dane Cook die?

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Back in two thousand and nine, there was an article
that went around I got I started getting phone calls
that morning and apparently and I know, I have a
picture of this somewhere on my computer. Apparently I had
perished in a cliff diving accident in Costa Rica, And
so for the rest of that day, people were calling

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my phone and saying, I just read this article, and
sure enough there's There was an article in two thousand
and nine that was like, legit looked like something out
of Time magazine that yeah, that I didn't know that
it did a bad dive down in the Costa Rica.
So that's the only one and only time I've ever
heard that.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
What was the transition like for you personally? As you
went from clubs around Boston to bigger and bigger stages
to eventually not only selling out Madison Square Garden but
being in movies like of an underrated classic Waiting which
anyone has ever worked Waiting Tables needs to see this movie.

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What was that ride for you personally? Because that all
happened in the span of about a decade or so.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Oh yeah, I mean from nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety nine.
If you wanted to see a career that was just
you know, I was like, maybe I should just be
a bus driver because I'm on enough of these greyhounds
all over the place that eventually were leading to next
to nothing. And when I finally turned the corner and
found that incredible fan base that I didn't even know

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was as vast until I finally got on social media
and started working the you know, working the internet. Next thing,
you know, I did in two thousand and six, seven, eight, nine,
two hundred and eleven arena shows over four years, and
it was the best that felt like like, you know,
like Metallica out there. It was no greater feeling in

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the world than sharing that with my family, something that
you know, when I was struggling in the nineties again,
they were looking at me going, are you sure? Are
you sure this is a good idea? Is this going
to pan out? And it couldn't have panned out better.
And now here I get to do my twenty eighth
tour with the Fresh New Flavor Tour.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, and great Greg Bey, wonderful to have you in
Omaha this weekend Sunday at Steelhouse. But like, no one
really thought it was well, some people did, but no
one thought it was really too strange, especially now looking
back at hindsight at what Dave Chappelle ended up doing
it got to be out of control and he needed
to put it down for a little bit. What was
it that took you off of the stage and now

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has brought you back back to the stand up comedy stage?

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Well, you know it was. It was an epic, almost
decade long run, and by the time I got to
twenty eleven, I was like, you know what I've done.
I've seen every place that I would want to see
as a performer, but I hadn't really lived a lot
of life off stage. I was in it for really
twenty years invested. So the funny thing is there was

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there was nothing that kind of took me off my game.
It was really more me just also realizing it's a
new era, there's going to be a new comic on
the come up. I've earned my stripes, I have fans
around the world. I can go anywhere in the world
and do a gig and fill the joint up, and
I really felt like it was time for me to
just have some fun, enjoy my life, fall in love,

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get married, do all the things away from the stand
up comedy world. And so now the greatest part, Scott
is when people are seeing me on this tour, not
only you're getting thirty four years of the pedigree, but
the new material, the you know, the highs, the lows,
it's all part of the night. And I really feel
like what we've been doing on the road is some
of the best work I've ever been fortunate enough.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
To share Dane Cook with this year on eleven ten
kfab how much did getting married, you know, in factor
anyr decision like I need to prove to her somebody,
I mean to get back out on the road and
do all of this stuff.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Well it's not even I wouldn't even say proving. I
just I love it, man, this is what I do.
I wanted to be a comic since I was eleven.
I loved stand up comedy. I would sneak up late
at night, you know, my parents would let me sneak
up and watch Tonight Show at the time, Johnny Carson.
And my life was going to be as a performer.
So if I'm on a movie set, TV, I'm doing
a play, or of course stand up comedy, I just

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feel like I was born and bred to do this.
So from my perspective, this is just me prepared and
ready to you know, entertain the pants off an entire
crowd of people. And I hope in thirty four years
I'm answering that same question thirty four more years from now, you.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Guys, are you and I are about the same age?
So what was it for you when you were growing
up that really laid the foundation of what you find funny?
Besides besides Nebraska's own Johnny Carson.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
Y oh Man, I would say, you know, I used
to sneak a lot of comedy albums, and some of
them I wasn't even supposed to be listening to. But
I think listening to old Carlin, you know, Bob Newhart
albums growing up, I loved comedy that was irreverent, you know,
if it was a little out of bounds. I felt like,
you know, things that were getting on cable at the

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time that you know, talk about like the never been
heard before business. You were hearing things that were just scorchingly,
you know, obtuse and strange and silly. And I just
think that listening to that early really edgy stand up comedy.
And of course the storytellers. I am a storyteller myself,
but I love the lpms, the last per minute stories,

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big laughs, boom boom boom, and of course. Fine, those
places where crowd work happens, the crowd becomes participatory. I
think when it's all kind of a controlled circus type atmosphere,
it leaves every fan that comes in pays that hard
earned ticket, the opportunity to say, wow, I've never seen
I never laughed that hard, and I've never seen a

(08:18):
show like that, and I know that show we will
never see again.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
How do you deal with crowd work right now? Knowing
that everyone's out there with their phone and there's always
some drunk idiot in the crowd, like, all right, I'm
going to make a name for myself and get a
big viral video by taking on Dane Cook here from
the audience.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, I'll share. I'll share something that I don't think
a lot of comics will openly admit. But the reality
is this the community of comedy, we feel pretty safe
up there. We feel pretty relaxed, especially once you're in
that professional headlining mode. A little bit of controversy. Every
comic wants it. It's always good for business. Nobody wants

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something put out there that isn't ready. You've seen comics
that have you know, said things that are really just
you know, unbridled and not ready. And that might be
a Tuesday night at some local club hole in the wall.
That's unfortunate. But when you're finally out there on a
headlining stage, Yeah, if something happens in the room and
it goes viral and it's you and that Heckler going

(09:20):
back and forth on something like that, only piques more
interest to go, oh boy, what's going to happen if
I go to that show.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing you on Sunday. I'm
familiar with so much of your live stuff and that
what you've done in movies, never seen your live show,
So I'm anxious to be there on Sunday night, especially
since and this is something I probably shouldn't even say
out loud. It sounds so dumb, but your voice makes
me happy. I just love hearing you talk. The cadence

(09:50):
of your voice and your way with words makes me
happy just listening to you. And it was a pleasure
to have you on the program this morning, Dan and
we ask our favorite on the show to say a
line for us that we feel is the best thing
you can hear first thing in the morning. The line
made popular by Lucy Chapman is good morning, honey, I
made you pancakes for breakfast, and of course you can

(10:12):
do anything with that line you want. Would you say
something like that for us please?

Speaker 4 (10:16):
I would say that right now. And I just want
to again, thank you Scott, thank you Lucy for having
me on today, and I look forward to entertaining everybody Sunday.
Good morning, honey, I made you pancakes.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Dane Cook at Steelhouse, Omaha this Sunday. Thanks a lot man.
We'll see you this weekend, all right, Scott, Dan Cook
right here on news radio eleven kfab Scott, I admit
I just fangirled a little bit on Daane Cook. I'm
telling you. Though it sounded so stupid. I was like,
don't tell Dane Cook you like the sound of his voice.

(10:51):
That is so dumb, But I do. Hearing him talk
makes me happy and I enjoy.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Does really have a lovely timber in his.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Voice, and it's hard not to listen to his comedy
bits and then start talking like him. He just has
this way of talking. It just makes me happy. But
I enjoy talking to them about our mutual love of
some of the comedy we listened to growing up. In fact,
I have a story here that I've held on to
it for a few days just so I could play

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this short clip from Eddie Murphy Delirious, and it has
to do with Campbell's Soup. Since nineteen twenty two, Campbell's
Soup has been known as the Campbell Soup Company, but
no more. Now they're just known as the Campbell's Company

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because they do so much more than soup.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh, I thought it was because you couldn't really identify
what was no anymore.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
They do soup, they do sauce, they do they do beverages,
they do snacks. There's so much thing can it's snaggy
goldfish goldfish snacks that's under the Campbell's Company. So officially,
Campbell's Soup is no more, which reminds me of one
of my favorites. This is Eddie Murphy Delirious. I think

(12:14):
in this short clip there is no cursing. Eddie Murphy
is impersonating world heavyweight boxer Larry Holmes doing a campaign
for Campbell's Soup.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Larry Holmes for campbelltoop. Hi, my name is Larry Holmes.
I like soup, and my favorite soup of ball and
the Canbethoop.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Now see I can't do that voice. Oh you're racist.
Doing an affectation of it. Eddie Murphy can do it.
By the way, I sometimes am driving around and I
just mumble to myself, I like thop and my favorite
thop it with the Campbell thop.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I can just see.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
You need to put a just mumble to myself.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, you need to put a recording in your your vehicle.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's it's really the same thing you get every morning
from nine to eleven, okay, walking around just I like thoop.
In fact, a lot of times my wife will send
me a text like, are you home for dinner tonight?
It's a new phone? Who is that?

Speaker 5 (13:21):
One?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Never gets old? And she said, we're having soup. I
like thoop and my favorite thop, but the Campbell thoop.
You watch Bridgerton on Netflix?

Speaker 4 (13:35):
No, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I started to a little bit and then I thought,
this is really for like fifteen year olds?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Is it? Based on what I heard about it? It's
not for fifteen year olds. It's a pretty adult series.
Now do you know what Bridgerton is? Are you thinking
it's something else?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
It's it's a period piece. It's set in like eight
seventeen eighteen.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, eighteen hundreds and England's hot Yes, and uh.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Were you questioning whether I knew what I decided not
to watch?

Speaker 1 (14:08):
No, I'm always questioned whether you I'm always questioning, and
I say this all due love and respect, whether you
have any idea what the hell you're talking about. I'm
always questioning that, all due love and respect, no offense.
So Bridgerton, a hit Netflix romance series, is the latest
to get this experience. Remember a few weeks back, I

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told you about this Willy Wonka experience where people paid
good money to get the Golden ticket to be able
to go and immerse themselves in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory,
and in reality ended up being this conference room in
some skanky hotel where they walked in and there was
like a couple of like backdrops that were painted badly

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by a bunch of middle schoolers, and there was like
like a six ' five guy was trying to be
an umpa lumpa like you're too tall, and there was
some a couple of little candies and stuff, and it
was just stupid.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
I'm not sure I understand the words you're saying to
me right now.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, that is the appropriate response. What what am I not
allowed to question whether you have any idea what you're
talking about? Is that? No, you were not infuriating and
insulting you or not? Really? Okay, well these.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Ask me off air?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Excuse me?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Because
I send you some great stuff from X.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Yeah, most of it, most of it by the time
I clicked on it is this has been deleted. That's
how crazy some of the stuff you send me is.
It takes a lot to get it bounced off of Twitter.
But by the time you send me something weird you
see on Twitter, it's usually gone by the time I
click on it. This past weekend in Detroit, people could
pay one hundred and fifty dollars or more. There was

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also the Duke and Duchess package to attend the Bridgerton Ball,
an evening sophistication, grace and historical charm filled with music, dance,
and exquisite costumes. It wasn't The decor was sad, the
food was undercooked and cold and not plentiful enough, and

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the entertainment was one lady with a violin while a
pole dancer was up there working the pole. An exotic
dancer on the pole.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Very popular Native, which was not.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Part of Having never seen Bridgerton, I feel comfortable in
saying was not part of that show. Wow, people want
their monies back. They said this thing was a scam
and we want our refund.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
It's not the same people though, right that put the
oompa loomp of the one on.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Well, it might as well have been. But I don't know.
The organizer is called Uncle and MELC. What could possibly
the front possibly go wrong? Here?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Hey, Uncle, we gotta put on some kind of joke.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Uncle and me LC. Yeah, when unk, when the unk
is putting on an event, what could possibly go wrong?
So that company issued a statement saying we're reviewing resolution
options with the attendees and they're working diligently to address
all concerns and ensure that all guests have the enjoyable

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experience they deserve.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Too late.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, you gotta watch it. You gotta watch it when
someone promises you a great evening. Oh yeah, hey, there,
by the way, the next news radio eleven ten kfab
Gourmet Club is coming out. This one, this one, I

(17:52):
feel comfortable and plus it's a whole lot less than
one hundred and fifty bucks of person. The next Gourmet
Club is at Nick's Quorum, new restaurant and supper club
within the Hilton Omaha Downtown. We announced it yesterday. The
details are on the Scott Varheas page at kfab dot com.
A three course meal where you get your choice of entree.

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Your choices are the pan seared trout, the brown sugar
brandy glaze, salmon, vegetarian butternut squash, supper club roasted chicken,
or I don't. I'll be curious to find out who
doesn't get this the signature roasted prime rib. Mix that
with the prime rib chili as your appetizer and you're

(18:35):
in good shape. It's all at nicks Quorum six thirty
pm Wednesday, October ninth. Go to the Scott Voarheas page
at kfab dot com for all the details and to
learn whether there are any spots left. Yesterday, the things
sold out in a few seconds, and then Nick's Quorum
got back to me and said, we're trying to figure
out how we can add more seats. I think that

(18:57):
the underlying message was I didn't really think this was
as popular as you suggested it might be. We don't.
We didn't think that you had that many listeners like
it's this is this has been a fun event. People
really like these events. Okay, we'll see and it's sold
out within a few seconds, and they said, well, we
need to get some more seats, so they were working

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on that and then that's sold out. But it's always
worth it to keep checking back and again, all the
details are on the Scott Vorheis page at kfab dot com.
There's something big happening across the say of Nebraska today
and you know about it, even if you don't know
about it for many of US Huscar fans that started
with this.

Speaker 6 (19:38):
He's a little smaller in stature than some of the
other running backs that have been on the field today,
but not in heart. And he's wearing the number twenty two.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Guys.

Speaker 6 (19:49):
It is Jack Hoffman of Team Jack coming out on
the field right now. There's four down in short for
the Redine. Jack Hoffman, who has been adopted really by
this football team, a young man who has battled brain cancer, is.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
On the field right now for the Hustings.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
One more snap for Taylor Martinez too, who will hand
it off to Jack. So Taylor gets a shotguns set,
gives it to Jack. Here he goes, he's got blockers
out in front, He's run on the midfield. Listen to

(20:29):
this crowd as Jack Hofman, a young man that, as
I mentioned, has really been adopted by this football teams, scored.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
A touchdowns sixty nine yards for a seven year old
Jack Hoffman. And hearing the crowd for a practice, a
spring game practice, cheering like that for a kid battling
brain cancer. I knew exactly I was about to hear,
and it's still got me. We welcome now the executive

(21:01):
director of the Team Jack Foundation, Kylie Doctors with us
here on news radio eleven ten kfab Kylie, good morning.

Speaker 7 (21:09):
Good morning, how are you?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh my gosh, seven years old? That was in twenty
and thirteen. By my calculation, that makes Jack Hoffman with
forty two years old. I think time has no meaning.
What Jack's like shaving, He's got a family. How old
is Jack?

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Actually, today is Jack's birthday and he turned nineteen years old. Good,
so he's not a kid anymore.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
Good night. That's ridiculous. You know what, though, I love
that Jack Hoffman is nineteen years old and like a
lot of people who have talked with his father, Andy
Hoppin over the years. We all know that his dad
should be with him celebrating this big day. We lost
Andy also brain cancer three years ago. It's amazing. But

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the Team Jack Foundation, which sprouted out of the rallying
roar you heard at Memorial Stadium into this wonderful foundation, Kylie,
for those who maybe aren't aware, tell them about the
Team Jack Foundation.

Speaker 7 (22:11):
Sure, so you know our soul mission, Team Jack's soul
mission is really to raise funds and awareness for pediatric
brain cancer research. And it started when you know, Jack
was diagnosed with the brain cancer and when doctors told
Andy and Brie, his parents, you know, here are your options,
and you know you can do chemo and you can
do radiation. You know, but when you do it, when

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you get older, you might get a secondary cancer, you
could have heart problems, and there were all these side effects.
And that's really when Andy and Brie knew that, you know,
although it might not help Jack, like, we have to
make a change and we have to do something different
because kids are dying, and kids are dying right here
in Nebraska, and if we don't do something different, they'll
continue to die. Because the treatment options for kids are

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forty plus years old, and a lot of them are
made for adults, and everybody knows are not adults, and
so they need to be treated differently, and they're special
and they need specialized treatment. And so you know, Team
Jack really exists to raise research funds so we can
find better treatments and hopefully one day a cure for
pediatric brain cancer.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Today is Team Jack Day in Nebraska, Jack's birthday. So
as the governor has declared this Team Jack Day, what
is it the people can do during the Team Jack
radiothon happening on several radio stations across the state today.
What can people here listening to news radio eleven ten
kfab do to help the Team Jack Foundation.

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Sure, so you can. You can visit Teamjackfoundation dot org
and there's a listen live link you can listen and
we have you know, fifteen or more stories from families
all across Nebraska that have been affected by the disease.
So you can tune in, you can listen and you
can kind of hear why we do what we do,

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and then you can call eight five five Run Jack.
We are actually based in Ellwood today at the Home Agency.
Who's are presenting sponsor and so we're in Elwood today
and we have volunteers standing by ready to answer calls
and ready to take your donation. So if you visit
Teamjackfoundation dot org to make a donation, or you can
call us and our volunteers will help you out at

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eight five five run Jack.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Elwood, Nebraska, right down the street from Joliet Jake, Nebraska. Yeah,
there's your eighties movie reference for this segment of the
radio program, Kylie, Lucy, anyone got that reference? Anyone? Anyone?
Kylie doesn't know what's going to Lucy got the Blues
Brothers on that one. All right, Kylie? I love the
Team Jack Foundation. This this I mean is what is

(24:44):
Jack gonna do for his nineteenth birthday? Does he have
Rex Burkhead coming over and those guys are gonna, you know,
play football or what? What does he do?

Speaker 7 (24:52):
You know? Actually? Jack, you know, and I don't know
if a lot of people know, but Jack, he actually
had another brain surgery to remove some of his tumor
which is inoperable in June. And unfortunately, you know, during that,
after a biopsy and some pathology, they realize that the
tumor has changed, which is very rare for a low

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grade tumor to change to high grade. And so Jack
just finished radiation a couple of weeks ago, and now
he is in college. He's actually at you and K
so I would I would think today he's actually in
class in Carney and he's actually going to school to
be a lawyer like his dad.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Awesome. I love that he's at Karney. That's where I went. Well.
I wish I could buy him a doctor pepper there
at the Cope Memorial Fountain, but we'll have to have
to do that some other time. Kylie Doctor, Executive director
of the Team Jack Foundation again Teamjackfoundation dot org. Or
if you want to donate during the statewide radio though

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on Team Jack on Team Jack Day in Nebraska. What's
the phone number they can call?

Speaker 7 (25:56):
I think call eight five five Run Jack.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Eight five five Run Jack. Kylie Doctor, executive Director the
Team Jack Foundation. Thank you for keeping this alive for
not just the Hoffman family, but Husker fans everywhere. This
is so meaningful to us here in the state. Thank
you very much for the time this morning.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Scott Voices Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten,
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