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What's going on, everybody?

So, Oscars Night, we might get a little Coop's Scoops review of that thing.

Some good stuff going on.

Love the song by Eddie Vedder.

Covered the Tom Petty song.

That was really cool.

I think Coop fell deeper in love with Jennifer Lawrence.

That's my guess.

That's probably exactly what happened tonight.

Best picture, best actor, best actress, all that stuff.

Room at the top, by the way, was the Tom Petty cover that Eddie Vedder sung.

So some good stuff with that. I'll get some Oscars thoughts in a little bit, but in terms of the sports world, what's dominating the sports world is a story at the NFL Combine.

Shaquine Griffin, linebacker out of UCF. So now I had lunch with my Uncle Doug in Nashville, Tennessee a few weeks ago.

So that's where I'm living right now, the Nashville area. And so my uncle and aunt moved here

when I was a kid. I have two cousins. They live in in Tennessee as well. So anyway, living here now, I get to see him a little bit more often.

So Uncle Doug and I, we go out and have some lunch.

And based on the conversation, however it went down,

he was telling me about something that he either read or saw on TV recently.

It was kind of cool in it.

It actually pertains to this

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