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Diversion to Turn Green Stadium Red · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the Blue Dot Red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. I apologize to KFAB Nation for not
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  Speaker 1: being at the 50,000 watt legacy microphone at KFAB today,
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  Speaker 1: as I said I would. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea
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  Speaker 1: maxima culpa. My fault, my fault, my most grievous fault,
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  Speaker 1: as we say in the Catholic Mass. Actually, It's United
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  Speaker 1: Airlines' fault. My brothers and I and one of my
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  Speaker 1: daughters are going to the Nebraska-Michigan State game. Everything was
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  Speaker 1: perfectly arranged. Our sister married a dairy farmer, and they
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  Speaker 1: live just north of Lansing, Michigan. Michigan State, of course,
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  Speaker 1: is in East Lansing. Our flight from Omaha to Chicago
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  Speaker 1: was to leave at 1.30 Friday afternoon, allowing me to
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  Speaker 1: do the 10 a.m. show on KFAB. Then we would
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  Speaker 1: fly from Chicago to Lansing in time for a family
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  Speaker 1: dinner on the eve of the game. We found out
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week that United Airlines has canceled service between
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  Speaker 1: Chicago and Lansing. My brother, who purchased the tickets, was
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  Speaker 1: not notified. I discovered it by accident when I reviewed
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  Speaker 1: my itinerary. I couldn't find the second leg of the trip.
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  Speaker 1: Then I found a notice from United about the Chicago-Lansing shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: All of we big red Kool-Aid guzzling Nebraskans have booked
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  Speaker 1: all the flights to and from Lansing, so there was
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  Speaker 1: not much left. United provided a replacement package of four
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  Speaker 1: flights to Lansing by way of Denver and four flights
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  Speaker 1: to get home by way of Denver. And the flight
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  Speaker 1: out of Omaha was at 6 a.m., knocking me out
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  Speaker 1: of the KFAB show. When we realized we would spend
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  Speaker 1: as much time traveling by air As we would driving,
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  Speaker 1: my brother got a refund from United and it became
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  Speaker 1: a driving trip. An early Friday morning departure is required
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  Speaker 1: to make it to Lansing in time for Friday family
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  Speaker 1: dinner plans. I was prepared to drive to Davenport, Iowa
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, stay in a hotel, get up Friday morning,
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  Speaker 1: and do the KFAB show remotely from my hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: Then have my brothers pull off at Davenport to have
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  Speaker 1: lunch and pick me up and roll on with them
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  Speaker 1: to Lansing. Then stop in Davenport on the way home
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  Speaker 1: to get my car. Such is my dedication to KFAB Nation.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Voorhees said, why don't you just not worry about
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  Speaker 1: the radio show and enjoy the trip? So I am
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  Speaker 1: not with you on the radio today because instead of
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  Speaker 1: turning the Nebraska blue dot red I am helping turn
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  Speaker 1: East Lansing, Michigan red for the first Big Red Road
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  Speaker 1: game of 2026. I hope for a Nebraskan that is
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  Speaker 1: an excused absence. I look forward to connecting with you
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  Speaker 1: again on the KFAB Airwaves sometime soon on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this weekend. Well, I may not come home
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  Speaker 1: if we lose this game. I may just go into exile.
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  Speaker 1: But let's think positive thoughts and expect the best. Go
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  Speaker 1: Big Red. That's Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for listening.