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For sorghum, top price 4.44 again in, in, uh, Garden City, one, one bid that stood out.

But then, uh, several others at 4.41, uh, at h- Salina, Hutchinson, Topeka, uh, 4.30 in Colby, and, and 3.90 in, in Pittsburg, Kansas.

For beans, strongest bid 12.78 in Topeka, followed by, uh, 12.58, 12.53, Hutchinson, Salina.

12.54 Pittsburg, and then, uh, a little weaker out to the west, about 12.13 to 12.30. For wheat, wheat bids, again, a lot of, a, a fair amount of variability around the state.

Had one strong wheat bid, uh, over $7, uh, that showed up.

And, and, and you, you always wonder if you're reading this thing right.

But see- had seen a pretty strong wheat bid in, in s- in southwest Kansas, but most, most everything else, uh, had highs at Salina and Topeka at 6.97. 6.76 in Hutchinson.

6.71 in Colby, and Pittsburg about 6.20.

Utah thinks they will.

Stan, it had been a, an awful long time since I spoke with a college football coach named Dennis Franchione, but way back in the day, in the '80s, my first job out of college at K State, I worked at the CBS affiliate in Pittsburg, Kansas, Joplin, Missouri, and was the host of the Dennis Franchione Show.

Passed away this week at 75.

He went on to coach a long, long time and win a whole bunch of football games everywhere he went, including the head coach at Alabama.

He was at A&M.

Of course, he won big at Pittsburg State when he was first starting out, which is when I knew him.

But you knew him as well, and we have not heard much out of him the last few years.

I didn't really even know that he was sick or, or, you know, in bad health.

But really from, you know, 14, 15 years, 16 on, we were pretty much drinking every weekend in high school.

And again, growing up in Pittsburgh, Kansas, there weren't a lot of rules.

There wasn't a lot of enforcement.

There was a university there called Pittsburgh State.

And I remember I had a Pittsburgh State jacket.

And at 17 years old, I could walk into any liquor store with that jacket on and buy whatever I wanted.

So, you know, that was kind of the routine of, you know, go to school all week, you know, play your sports, have your games on Friday night and then go get drunk Friday night and Saturday and then be good until the next the next Friday night.

Two balls and no strikes.

29 years old, born in Pittsburg, Kansas, lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

[bat hits ball] Right center field.

Coming in fast, Piniella can't get it.

She did give a performance for us on Saturday.

In just a little brief description of what we had before we hit, our pre-conference tours we had were, we had one that started in Harrisonville, Missouri for Jefferson Highway and went down the route into Pittsburgh.

And then we had the Route 66 motor tour, which went from Springfield to Joplin and then eventually on to Bonita with us.

And then we had a motor tour, a classic crossroads cruise, as we called it, from Classic Cars that I was a part of on that Saturday morning.

The mayor, I don't know if she really knew we were coming or not, but somehow she got wind of it and she had a special meeting with them.

And I was so excited to see them and the feedback.

And they had a good visit to our archives at Pittsburgh State.

Oh, yeah.

this next chapter.

For those of you that may not be familiar with Watco, I'll be sharing a little bit more, but it was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Kansas.

Today, Watco has nearly 5,000 team members across the broader transportation and logistics company, not just rail.

So they operate short line railroads, terminals and ports, transload facilities, and a large logistics organization across North America and even Australia.

And then they also beat Pitt State, who was ranked four at the beginning of the season.

And I think they went down to Pittsburgh and beat them.

So it was a big time win.

And then they also played Minot State.