Yarbrough- Wednesday, September 30, 2026 - Hour 1

0:00You know, actually, we only had to come up with three new digits. Thankfully, not a whole new 10 number phone number. That's the good news and all this, but it's 865, 855. Those are the new digits, 8255. All right. Anyway, you know about the new phone. Hopefully so change your contact information. A good old morning to you. Yarborough back until noon. Bob Yarborough here. Jennifer John's eat there. Good morning. Robin Jaffee back. Yonder. Am I? Well, you're somewhere with a microphone. I don't know. I was wondering the building where you be. I'm going to be where I'm at. What's that from? That's from, um, I don't know, but it's funny. It's familiar, but I can't believe I'm being where I'm at. Don't even ask me. It's. I'm in. I'm going. I'm going to be. I'm.

1:00Well, it's from a movie or a, um, Eddie Murphy's role. That's where it's from. Yeah. There's no F bomb in there with that. Oh, I don't know about that. I can't remember the setup. I'll have to dig into this a little more, but I just remember the punch lines. I'm going to be where I'm at. And that stuck with me for some crazy reason. Are you guys among those who believe they're actually only two seasons? They're fall and waiting on fall. Is that you? No, I'm in all four seasons. Yeah, me too. I'm optimistic. Yeah. Yeah. I want to just freeze it right where we are. This is, this is nice. It's been really, really nice. Yeah. Cool mornings, sunshine, warm afternoons. You know what's coming up after all this though. Eventually. The beautiful season of fall. I don't mind fall. I just mind the cold cold cold temperatures. He does not like the cold, y'all.

2:01He'll be whining for months. No, I don't wine. I bitch in my own. I tell you where he's been about it. That's all right. But we can't say that on the radio. Well, OK. What are we going to say on the radio today? Well, certainly one of the not one of the big story here in Tennessee. And you know, maybe even specifically Knoxville. Because this horrendous crime. That's national. It's absolutely national. But this horrendous crime happened right here in our community. Just not far away from us. What's it been? 32 years ago, 31 years ago. 95, so what? 31 years ago. 31 years ago. Yeah. 31 years ago. Christa Gail Pike. Today is the day that she is set to be executed at 11 o'clock our time, 10 o'clock in Nashville in the central time zone. So we're going to get into a lot of different things regarding this, OK? A handful of angles on this.

3:03And our audio branch will be about this. There's a documentary that was put out just about two weeks ago. It's available on YouTube. It's free. And it really not. I was unaware of this. Well, there's a handful of, you know, different crime shows and why not that have that have taken this, this story on, but this was put out a couple of weeks ago and I watched it last night. It's about I think 47 minutes long, something like that. But I will tell you that they take it from the angle primarily of, she should not have been convicted or at least given the death penalty. She should have been convicted. Let me back up there. She should have been convicted, but not given the death penalty. And they go into all the reasons why they feel that's the case. So I want to spend some time and we're going to do this again in the 11 o'clock hour. I want to spend some time refreshing, reminding everyone what this crime was all about back

4:03in 1995. And we keep hearing that this is the first time in 200 years that a female will be executed if it goes through, will be executed in the state of Tennessee. So I got curious about, OK, who's 200 years ago? What's that all about? So I looked up some information on that crude, aren't they? Well, they're hanging. I know. They're hanging. There've been very few. That's what she wanted, but they denied it. Yeah. I wonder if you should be able to choose your manner of execution. No matter what, no matter what the laws are. Yeah. I have lots of feelings. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I know. Well, you wait until I get to the quick question. You just a minute. Of course, I can't make of the state, but there is one state that has the firing squad. Yeah. I just want, you know, I don't know if you want to, if you choose your manner of being executed to be what everybody is. Oh, I don't have to. Well, not you specifically just in general.

5:06Hopefully. Should you be able to make that decision? You victim sure didn't get a chance to choose. That's true. Yeah, that's very true. You know, Robin, I know one of the comments coming out of this story today is that, oh, it's about she isn't worried about dying. It's that she's worried about how she's going to die. Yeah, she's the manner. The manor. Been claiming that she can't do the injection because she has a blood condition. Yeah. It could be painful. And I'm sorry. I know what every give me every stinkin' one of you is thinking right now. What about Colleen Slimmer? Colleen Slimmer didn't get to choose. Yeah, she was. She didn't get to choose. She didn't get to choose her manner of death. No, she didn't want. Let's only hit the quick question for you right now. I'm making you governor of Tennessee for today. Oh, fine. You see this coming like a free train, can't you? You're governor of Tennessee today. Yes or no, do you allow the scheduled execution of Christa Gale Pike to happen today?

6:07Why or why not? 865-855-8255. That's our text number. You can call us at that same number. You can text in your response. But you're the governor today. Yes or no, do you allow the scheduled execution of Christa Gale Pike to move forward at 11 o'clock? Why or why not? I support the death penalty in a case like this when some crimes are a complete rejection of another person's right to live. And this is one of those crimes. It really is. It wasn't a sudden fight. It wasn't accidental. It was planned. It was cruel. It served no purpose except to kill this young woman in a brutal and heinous manner. And a jury heard the evidence. A jury imposed the death penalty years later. Do you remember this when she tried to kill an inmate while in prison? I had a counterfeit gott until this lasted stirring this year. And I thought, oh, we all forgot about that. We've forgotten so many things about this case.

7:10She's in prison for murder and tries to murder somebody in prison. That doesn't sound like reformed. It doesn't. She has a hard, she had a hard childhood. And I feel for that. She does. Or she did. But it doesn't erase the difference between right and wrong, even at the age of 18, which she was when this crime took place. You just, you know better than to take a life. You know that if you kill someone, you could very well receive the death penalty. You should know that. But I have been okay with a life in prison without parole. And it's yeah, I would have been okay with that. I think the longer you have to sit there and think about what you did, you know, there is some punishment in that. But hey, that's not what was chosen here. Final judgment, we all know final judgment ultimately belongs to God. Final judgment, that's not our job. However, we are on earth to enforce the law as it sits. And as it stands, and in Tennessee, this is the sentence that the law allowed in the

8:11jury chose. That's why I think this sentence should stand. And for all indications, it sure seems like it is going to. So that is the quick question for you today. Jennifer, would you please line up some of those phone calls here so I can knock out a few of them in this segment? Yeah. Would you please do that? We have to. And I know you guys, this is kind of the big thing today here. So let's line up some of the phone calls there. I'm making you governor of Tennessee for today. Yes or no, do you allow the scheduled execution of Christa Gell Pike to happen? Why or why not? What am I missing, Robin? No, I just like the idea of being governor for the day. Oh, yeah. All right, CJ. Good morning, sir. Welcome into Yarborough. What's going on? Hey, buddy. They should have put a bullet in her head or a rope around her neck 30 years ago. But I'm getting contesting reports right now that the six third occurred or to stay on this. I don't know why or if it's bad reporting, but I think WVIR is reporting that it's been put

9:14on hold. So I saw this right before we went on the air just a few minutes ago. I have not seen it anywhere else, which is why I have not gone into that. Yeah, I don't know if it's a Facebook, or what? All right. Well, let me see, Jay, do your point. I'm on, yeah, I'm on the WVIR website. Their head store, their, their headline, Christophe, granted stay of execution from the sixth circuit court of appeals. So what appears is though that at least that's what WVIR is reporting. Let me kind of look around here and see the latest on this. My goodness. An hour from the scheduled execution and it looks like the sixth, which I believe didn't the sixth court of appeals refused to grant a stay already in this case? Well, I've got some breaking news from Luke and he says it's happened. He says that just a moment ago, there is a stay while the court looks at some of this

10:15information. So right now, there is a pause on this execution. All right. All right. CJ, thank you, buddy. I appreciate that. We just had somebody else call and I was like, he's been talking. I said, so whatever has come in, we haven't gotten just. I saw this before we went on the air. I did not want to go down that road until we were able to confirm it. And I heard you all talking, but not couldn't confirm it either. But Luke just confirmed our Luke Lamry is in Nashville where this is apparently. Uh, it's underway. I don't know what the stay looks like. I don't know if that's for 30 minutes, 30 days. They're looking at documents. So who knows at this point, this is going to get folks riled up for sure. Well, well, yeah, more than likely, more than like I'm still going to be riled up. I'm still going to ask you the question, but yeah, it's still very, very well, I'm still going to ask you the question. You're governor for today. Yes or no, do you allow the scheduled execution of Christa Gale pike to have? Let's just say the execution. All right. I know this for now where we're uncertain as to where this is going to go. But that's what we'll, um, that's what we'll go with for now.

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17:36com Mike. Good morning. Welcome into Yarborough. How are you? Hey, Joan Bob. I'm great. Thank you. And you just gave your sold out to invitation. I'm going to for the day that you are. All right, brother. I'm throwing this out at you. You go ahead and do the 11 o'clock one. And then when you do the 11 o'clock one, you start round up the news and then the Christian and start popping them to play the game. You win stupid prizes. It's ain't no game. You're you're taking money off my table out of your pocket now. Everybody in the United States and the state of Tennessee pockets for feeding these people and taking care of them, giving them medical and letting them have a good time, getting drugs in the penitentiary, running scams in the penitentiary when they should put foot around the back of their hands, let them do a whole right there in front of them. Or they can say it being dug, take a slug, hop them in the back of the head, push them in, and cover them up. You're done. Business is over.

18:37That's my thought of it. I'm governor of the day. That's what we're doing. Mike, I would say you took full advantage of being governor of the day. Well, I'm anxious. And I for an hour, brother. I for an hour. If you want to get right right down to the nitty-grie, let the parents do it. Let that girl mama come up here and put a bowl in that girl's head. She reportedly will be there or was planning to be there for the execution. Yeah, well good. What they are, what they ought to do is let her do the execution. You take him people that are doing that, man. We're showing too much mercy on the criminals and the victims let her parents or somebody in her family do what that girl and the other two, you got two more that was with that girl. They need to be executed as well. No matter what the age, mother is murder. Mine. I for an hour and take them all three out at the same time and then bring no some in the Christian's back out and let the parents do the same thing to them.

19:40Mike, thanks for your time, friend. And I appreciate your calling in today. So what's happened in the Christa Gale Pike scheduled execution, which was to happen in about a half hour in Nashville. The sixth, what exactly? The sixth circuit court of appeals has stayed the execution. They're reviewing documents. It sounds like to me. This is, I don't know, could last a handful of days, weeks. I don't know. But anyway, the scheduled execution has been stayed today in Nashville. We've got our very own Luke Lamry who's in Nashville and we were planning to speak with Luke in the 11 o'clock hour. And so we'll see if we can't get Luke on before then. At the very least, we'll talk to him coming up next hour to get the latest on what he's hearing. He's on the grounds in Nashville at the prison there. So we'll speak with Luke at some point this morning. A lot of things just really got shuffled around here in the past 30 minutes or so. All right.

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22:54to get into. I made you the governor right out of the gate here. My quick question is, do you allow the execution of Christa Gale Pike to happen? Why or why not? And you can still respond to that. I'll still go through your responses at 865 855 8255. Many times this happens when someone is scheduled to be executed for a crime they committed at the last minute, a circuit court of appeals, a governor's some entity steps up and delays it or stays it. And that's what's happened today folks. Just about 30 minutes ago, the sixth circuit court of appeals has stepped into stay the execution of Christa Gale Pike. News talk 987's own Luke Lamry is in Nashville to cover this story for us today. Luke, how did all this play out for everyone there gathered at the prison for this execution? Well, Bob, we're on the outer perimeter of the river bend maximum security institution. There's several people coming into the facility, but right now

23:56we're on the outside. There's two new stations on the outside and it's slowly kind of dribbled out to us. Eventually we got the file. It was the like you said, Bob, it was the six circuit court of appeals in this stay. But basically right now this this execution is paused until further notice, but slowly dribbling out to us here in the perimeter of Bob. Yeah, I'm certain you've got kind of the same idea and questions that we have here. I mean, this delay, we don't we don't know how long the delay might be. It could be a very long day, Bob, indeed. And you know, it's one of those things that I did a quick scan of the document we received. I'm still trying to get my bearings in this happened right as soon as I got on site. But it appears to be something with the Christa Pike defense in the sense that maybe the courts didn't look heavily enough at her childhood traumas. That's off a quick scan can't confirm that. But you know, we're going to do some more digging, obviously, like I said, it's going to be a long day. So plenty of time to look through some documents. Okay, before this stay happened about roughly 10 o'clock hour time, nine o'clock in Nashville, before it happened, what was the scene like there at the the prison grounds?

25:01Well, like I saw on the perimeter, Bob, there's a massive police barracks standing about 300 years from this police barricade and endless cars are coming up to it and going at it. You can assume some of those are witnesses, some of those are protesters, but just a very packed scene here. Other than that, it's on the outside, it's not too, not too busy. You know, the net view is an airport right around here. So there's a lot of noise, a lot of planes taking off. But just a constant flow of cars heading into the scene. All right, Luke. Boy, it kind of got everything, kind of got turned upside down there in the matter of a few minutes. Keep us keep us up today. If anything new comes out of the scheduled execution, which has been stayed, thank you, buddy. Appreciate it. Thank you, Bob. All right, bye bye. All right, that's Luke Lambury in Nashville covering this. Let me get some of your your text messages here. Leslie. Absolutely agree with proceeding, proud of governor Lee and others for not intervening. Larry says screw the sixth circuit court of appeals.

26:04Tim says 30 years, they've had 30 years to get their ish together and can't get out of their own way. Sorry, judicial system. My question was, do you your governor of the day, do you allow this execution to move forward? Yes or no, why or why not? Tim says, yes, mad dogs are to be put down. Well, I got a lot of things scheduled for today that were kind of connected to this this execution. I'm still going to do it. It's still a big story. We still don't know exactly what this stay of execution means in the big picture. We're still looking to figure that out. So we're still going to do all of this today. And I sincerely want your input at 865 855 8255 speed. Well, Joe, I bet you've got a far too about this. Good morning. You better believe it, buddy. I'm the governor. Can you believe that? I need you to hold on. Hold on. You need to understand

27:04something. I have no power at all to make this a reality. I would just pretending on this. Okay. So don't go making marijuana legal. Don't go doing all the other things that you might do. Okay. Well, Bob, I'm just saying, you know, now I really didn't call about the woman, the prisoner of woman. Man, you know what? That is so wrong. She was lined up to die for what she did. What she did earn her the death penalty. And you know, it makes me so mad because she's not getting what she deserves. That's just the fact. And you know, there wouldn't be none of this injection crap, neither. You know, the roops work. They don't fail. Guns don't fail. You know, well, if we could throw a bull dryer in the shower, you know, it's just not right, Bob. And I'm just going to say this,

28:08it's all lining up with the Bible, dude. And the final days things are going to start. Things that are right are going to be wrong. And things that are wrong are going to be right. And we're watching it with our own. Well, and you think of Christa. I mean, excuse me, Colleen Slammer, the victim's family in a moment like this 30 plus years. They're probably already on site in Nashville. The mom is the mom still alive. She lives in Florida now. And then, and then this happens. It's ridiculous, man. You know, I don't understand why we're going to buddy up with the criminals and the inmates and stuff and not do what's right. If you're anymore, if you're a victim of a crime, you're in trouble. You know, the criminal, we're going to run the hit to his aid because he had a hard time growing up. Well, you know what? A lot of people had a hard time growing up and they didn't turn out to kill people. It makes me angry. It really, really does, Bob. All right,

29:11Speedwell, Joe. Thank you. Always appreciate you checking in with us, buddy. We've heard Christa Gell Pike will be the first woman put to death in Tennessee in more than 200 years. So I got curious about when the last woman to receive the death penalty in the stay, what were the circumstances around that? And it's not very clear to be honest. For decades, these historical compilations listed a woman named Eve Martin, sometimes referenced as Martin Eve as the last woman executed in the state. Now, according to those early court records, she was executed by hanging in 1820 after being convicted as an accessory to murder. So that's where we start with this. Modern legal and historical research, though, has cast doubt on that record. Some reexaminations of Tennessee's judicial archives now show that Eve Martin or Martin Eve may have actually been the victim of a murder rather than the perpetrator. So the records just aren't very clear about this.

30:16Death penalty historians, though, in archivists records indicate the last documented execution of a woman in Tennessee happened in 1819. That's if you don't, if you don't count the 1821, because there's some confusion around that. But before that, it was 1819 in Sumner County. And the individual there was an enslaved black woman who had been convicted of murdering her mistress. And because she was enslaved, she was legally treated as property at the time and public government records failed to preserve her name. They don't have the name. She was executed then by hanging, which was the standard method of capital punishment in the state prior to the adoption of the electric chair in 1913. Man, I mean, hey, public hangings were how they handled these matters way back when. And the courthouse lawn, you know, people would gather for this. Regardless of whether the historical milestone dates to 1819 or 1820, Tennessee is not executed. A female inmate in more than two centuries, only three women known to have been executed in Tennessee's entire state history,

31:18all happening prior to 1821. And at a time when the death penalty was administered on a county by county basis. So it wasn't even a state decision. It was a county by county basis back then. Christa Gell's pikes execution would be if it moves forward, the first time a woman has been put to death under Tennessee's modern capital punishment system. So that's a little background on the whole 200 years since a female's died due to capital punishment here in the state of Tennessee. Hey, Micah. Good morning. Welcome in, sir. What's up? Good morning, sir. I was at a homicide detected for the sheriff's office back during that time frame. Yeah. And I know the investigators and I ran New York top notch investigating. He was like the lead investigator in this case. Was he not? Yes, he was. And he did a super job. I'll just tell you that from the get go. And I've seen many, many, many heinous crimes over the years when I worked there. And I got to see some of the things from this case and also the other case with the two kids.

32:24And those are the most heinous crimes I've ever seen. And there's no reason she's not being executed for this. What do you make of the stay? I guess we can't really make much of it until we know what the ultimate decision is going to be. But for now, what do you make of this day? Well, you know, when it comes down to death penalty cases anyway, they're going to overkill it from the get go. They're going to get so many appeals. They're going to get the cases reviewed by different court systems, which is fine. And it should be because it's the ultimate ultimate decision, you know, so it needs to be top priority. But when you've exhausted all of the avenues like they have, you know, this is coming up 30 years later. I wasn't this brought up 15 years earlier. 10 years earlier. This execution date was announced. I believe around a year ago, there's been plenty of time the US Supreme Court. Robin, you said the US Supreme Court has chosen not to get

33:25involved with this. They didn't rule on it. They just chose not to get involved. And now we've got the sixth circuit court of appeals getting involved. It doesn't, doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me, Mike, as I think you would agree. Yeah, it's a stage. It's just a reason to put this off again like they have over and over and over. And then you get on with it. And no, Collins Lumber didn't get up a state. No, not at all. And that just it just seconds me to death. And if people got to see the, which they don't, if they got to see the crime scene photos, they would be sick to their stomachs. You know, I think I want to say maybe it was, I saw a documentary last night and then Randy York was in there. It might have been him or perhaps it was somebody else who has witnessed the crime scene photos and maybe even the crime scene itself. And then they absolutely said the same thing as you're saying. Exactly. I mean, many, many heinous crimes I've

34:26seen. And this woman's head was completely by the end. You could barely even recognize her as a human. Mike, thank you for, for checking in with us and bringing your perspective. I appreciate that. Thank you much. Vicki says I'd execute right now. Charles says the punishment should match the crime. If you're shot, then your killer should face the firing squad. If you're hung, then your killer should be hung on and on. Jamie says I'm willing to donate a rifle, a bullet, a trigger finger. But I'm making you guys and gals governor for the day. And I take it, pulling advantage of that. But I think a lot of us do feel that way. You know, it's, it's pretty much cut and dry black and white for a lot of us. You do what some of these criminals do. You shouldn't be shown mercy. It kind of like makes me feel like you can't have faith in the judicial system to do what they say

35:29they're going to do. You know, and I know that's a, that's a big, big topic. But what I mean is, is these people out there wanting to commit murder. They're like, well, you know what, they're on giving the death penalty, but it'll never actually happen. So I'm just going to go live off everybody else in prison. Yeah. You know, so yeah, it just doesn't make a lot of sense. You know, and, and then I know this always comes up. You reminded me of this question, Jennifer. This always comes up when these things happen like this. And there's a scheduled execution of an inmate. Why did it take 20 years? Why did it take 30 years? Why did it take so long? And, and to Mike's point and everybody's point, you got to think that over the course of three decades, you could exhaust everything that's available to you. So why are we here now? And I realized too, we're not in that environment. We don't fully understand and know everything that goes behind it. Just like I wouldn't want somebody to come in here and tell me how to do my job. I agree with that. It's just as a citizen of this

36:30community, it's kind of like, well, you know, I don't know, like just go ahead and commit whatever crime you want. Well, and to that point, those who are in that situation to understand all of the ends and outs of how this has worked for 30 years, they are in that situation. They should know whether they've exhausted all means of appeals and everything. And you would think over the course of 30 freaking years, you would have exhausted everything. And then nothing like this would jump up at the last minute. And like he said about, you know, seeing crime scene photos, if it is a juvenile, they show those in court because no cameras are allowed. And I've seen some of those. And they give you night. I didn't know what's going to happen. Yeah. I mean, it's that during that lily-lid trial. Yeah. And I saw the little girl. And I still have bad dreams about that. I don't, I mean, I wouldn't choose to do that either. If you, you know, accidentally get exposed to it, then, you know, what do you do then? The first day they didn't show them, these cameras were in there.

37:30Then the second day we thought it was going to be the same thing. And then here come these pictures. And we were prepared for it. You know, you investigators, you crime scene investigators. I salute you. Oh, yeah. Wow. You got my respect. You do. You got to, you got to see a lot of things. You can get in this voice when he was describing what he saw. And it still bothers him 30 years later. You just got to see things. No human should have to see and investigate it and continue to go back to it over and over and over. And once the case comes to a conclusion, whatever that may be, or maybe it doesn't come to a conclusion, which might, you know, probably would be worse. It's stuck with you. It's just stuck with you. So if you're one of these investigators, salute. God bless you too. All right. Audio brunch today is actually a Christa Gale pike. And Colleen Slimmers mother. And we set this up before this stay happened. Folks about 10 o'clock this morning, the execution of Christa Gale pike was placed on a stay by the sixth circuit court of

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41:56Doesn't mean they've completely called it off just for the moment. They say we need to look at a few things about this. And one of the things they need to look at is her lawyer's claims and argument that she suffered rape and abuse as a child. And she's made those claims from the get go from the beginning 30 plus years ago. This is not new information, which is what makes this so frustrating. And so I appreciate all your text messages. Keep them coming in and we'll hit more of those coming up in the next hour, two eight six five eight five five eight two five five Christi Gale Pike convicted in the murder of calling Slimmer near the UT campus in Knoxville more than 30 years ago. This is right here like Robin said earlier just down the street practically from us from the studios here, but it was near the UT campus scheduled. She was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at Nashville here in about five or six minutes. It's been stayed. But a few weeks

42:57ago, a YouTube documentary called Dead Woman Walking Christa Pike versus Tennessee featured an exclusive death row interview with Pike. She says she was told her execution date about a year ago and that has caused her to struggle ever since. Audio brunch clip number one. I have the most horrible nightmare. But I think what has been worse is that they told me a year ahead of time. And so every day I've woken up and lived that thought all day, every day, every waking moment. Now I know what a lot of you are thinking right. Well, boo, who, who? You've not been able to sleep. You've not been able to rest. You learned the date you were set to be executed for this horrific crime that you committed more than 30 years ago. Very little sympathy. I'm sure from most folks.

43:58Colleen Slimmer's mom is also in the documentary. She lives in Florida these days. She's frustrated with the prison privileges given to Pike these past few years and still stands behind her support of the death penalty audio brunch clip number two. Past year and year, Christa has been out of the death row cell and has been in with community with the right of prisoners. I don't think Christa Pike should have any kind of privilege. She'd do something like that to somebody you need to pay I think she should be put to death for her crime. And the mom I believe had had traveled to Nashville for the execution. That's what I heard, which was set to happen here in just a few minutes, but it has been stayed for the moments. I don't know if any new information about this stay is going to come out or if this is going to be something that takes a handful of days or weeks or even months, God forbid 30 plus years, we should have this figured out by now. No new claims are being made. No new information has been revealed. The things that this stay was granted for the

45:03the claim child abuse and sexual abuse of Christa Gale Pike as a child. It's been known from the beginning of all this. Not new information. I get the frustration. I get the frustration 8656568255. I apologize. It's 8558255. I guess the first time I've done that we changed our number folks. Yay us. I'd say it'll probably happen in time. It's been saying it for one year or something. It's been a while. 8658558255. All right, I'll get to more of your text messages coming up on the other side. Why don't I you know, I didn't even didn't even tell you about this, but I've got some pretty cool tickets I want to give away also. And these are for the secret city improv comedy festival. We've got a four pack on this. Do we not Jennifer? That's the way I read it. Family four pack secret city improv comedy festival. It's coming up Thursday, October the eighth Friday, the ninth Saturday,

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