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Coming to you live, or not live, we're as live on Thursday, the 26th of February.

We're recording this right around 1130 that'll be in

your feeds in the mid afternoon I'm Jake brand joined by fellow beat reporters Ben Hutchins of the

Quad City Times and Rob Gray of Cyclone fanatic in the Cedar Rapids Gazette how we doing guys

scandal scandal has gripped the beat scandal it's all hands on deck

rob do you ever miss what this was like before twitter existed i do uh on an hourly basis

maybe a minute byby-minute basis.

Yeah, but here we are.

We've been in that sphere for over 15 years, so it's just changed over time.

Well, we'll get into all of the drama or not drama, whatever we want to call it.

We'll hit on women's basketball in their second straight loss.

And then, of course, we'll talk about the top five Iowa State men's basketball program.

All of it after we thank Calderman Manufacturing.

Excited to see Calderman this weekend down in Tucson, Arizona, down in the desert.

Maybe he'll be driving his Joe Dirk car all around the great state of Arizona.

Calderman Manufacturing, doing it all in Oskillusa.

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