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With Sports Talk Mississippi's Brian Haydad and Robbie Falk of On Three Sports.

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This is Thunder and Lightning here on Super Talk, Mississippi.

Brian, Heydad and Robbie Falk here we're doing on a Friday morning.

Thanks for joining us here at supertalk.fm or wherever it is that you get podcasts from.

We appreciate you guys out there. Our great listeners, especially our service minimum out there taking care of us. I want to thank our sponsors over at Strange Brew Coffee House and Churning Spoon ice cream. Start your day the right way with a trip to the drive-thru over at Strange Brew Coffee House here in Starkville or at Bruppolo over in Tuppolo. feel a weird, Robbie, if Bruplos in Bolotusha. Ooh.

Oh. here in Starkville or at Brupolo over in Tupelo.

It'd be a little weird, Robbie, if Bruplow is in Bollah. That would be a little weird. Wherever you're on our great state, if it was Bola Brua, maybe. Yeah, that would work. Wherever you are in our great state, you can enjoy Strangebrew coffee each and every morning. It's only a click away at Strangebrew Coffeehouse.com. The Mississippi Beef Council wants to remind you that beef, it is what's for dinner? If you're cooking out this weekend, nothing beats the sizzle of beef on the grill. Every weekend is grilling season in the state of Mississippi. Hot or cold, we're getting out there. We're firing it up and we're going to be eating beef. And if you don't want to cook, I can't fault you, but go find a great steak or burger. They're all over the state of Mississippi. You don't have to drive too far to eat beef. Beef, it is. What's for dinner? Thanks to our friends, the Mississippi Beef Council. College Corner. College Corner. College Corner store.com is the place to find the maroon and white merchandise that you're looking for. Mississippi State gear. You know, what we got holiday-wise coming up? We were good ways out from a gift-given holiday. So I'm giving you plenty of time for Mother's Day. And, of course, far more importantly, Father's Day in June, start looking now at College CornerStore.com or swing by one of their two locations in the Jackson area,

Ridgelam by Fleet, Flo, by the Halfshell. Pick out that new MSU polo or pull over from mom or dad and get it at College Corner.

Two locations in the Jackson area, original by Fleet Fleet, foot by the half shell.

Priority One Bank has 16 locations. They got eight times more locations than college corner. There throughout Central Mississippi, let PriorityOneBank.com be your guide and show you not only they're going to help you invest and manage your money, but how they're going to help you prepare for the future. Now, more than ever, when you have questions about your money, you need answers. you need to talk to a banker that knows you by name, not just by your account number.

Talk to a banker that knows you by name,

not just by your account number. Talk to a banker that's going to treat you with respect.

Talk to a banker at Priority One Bank. Let Priority One Bank make you there priority. Let me begin with an apology. We were scheduled to talk with former Mississippi State SEC pitcher of the year

and Major Leagueer Chris Stratton. I personally had a family emergency this morning. Chris was kind enough, though, to reschedule that. We will talk to him next week, so we'll get him on the podcast, but that will not be on today's show. So, again, my apologies for that. But I thought, Robbie, I want to make sort of a compare and contrast kind of moment

between you and I here and things that we've seen this weekend. So you were at baseball on

Tuesday. You saw the first pitch and the first moment of the career of Jack Bauer, who we all

hope will be the next

great Mississippi State superstar athlete. I was at the hump on Wednesday, and I saw the

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