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Welcome ya to The 405 Coffee Break. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Did you get enough sleep last night? Let's see what's happening out there.

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Spring wheat $5.17 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.41 a pound, on the top end. Butcher hog in Iowa 67¢ a pound, and a lamb that's fat in Billings will fetch you $2.12 a pound. But guys, there's more. Much more.

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Okay. Okay. Okay. Who out there watched the World Series last night? Come on. Show of hands. How many of you stayed up till the game was over? Thea and I stayed up till the very end. One game. Goes 18 innings. I want you to know I got to bed at right around 1AM.

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Sorry to admit it, but I have a baseball hangover. Didn't get the beauty sleep I normally get, but we lived to play another day. Game number four tonight in less than two hours. I texted two of our sons that were watching the game, and when it went into extra innings, they were getting tired.

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I texted them both. True baseball fans never go to bed until the fat lady sings. I want you to know, they both went to bed, but not my dear wife. No, sir. She sat there with me through it all, inning eight, inning nine, inning ten, eleven, and 12, inning 13. Well, you get the picture.

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All the way through the eighteenth inning until Freddie Freeman hit a walk off home run, I wanna tell you. I texted a friend and I said, my dear wife, Thea, she sat up till the end with me. And he texted back, listen now, listen. This should be enshrined and placed on a plaque in my office. Listen to what he responded back to me. Oh, that is so awesome to read. A match made in heaven. She deserves a big acknowledgment. Thank you. Yes. End of quote.

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So Thea, I hope you're listening. A baseball match made in heaven. Thank you for being my wife. Thank you for liking baseball. And to my friend, thank you for your kind and true comment.

OK Solberg: 02:38

Okay. I have to run, and I'm gonna strive to get my strength back for another barn burner of a game tonight. Remember now, guys, Mr Ohtani got on base 9 different times in one single game last night. Check that out. See if that's ever been done. And he's the starting pitcher for the Dodgers tonight. Go figure.

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But let me get us a bible verse and I'm gonna honor my friend that told me it was a match made in heaven by having a heaven bible verse. Matthew 22:1-2 Jesus spoke to them again in parables saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused. That's an interesting verse, causes us to think.

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Now before I go, I want you to think about something else. Even if you don't like baseball, check it out.

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And don't run away when you see the commercials come on. I want you guys to know that there are some high class commercials this year. Well, that being said, there are also some really lame commercials, but the ones that caught my eye while I watched the World Series is a couple put out to sponsor and support the NFL, the National Football League. And they have Tom Brady live and in person in the commercials. They are so great that I want everyone to see them. That's your assignment.

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This one that they have starts out with a man looking at all his Super Bowl rings on his hand. And the narrator says, if Cornell suddenly had Tom Brady's football knowledge, he would consider that knowledge a gift at first. Then the camera pans to Cornell's place of work, and Cornell is talking football all the time with his coworkers. Like he says, mesh point of play action in shotgun isn't as convincing to the linebackers as it is under center. You know what I mean?

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It's hilarious because it speaks to each of us that we have our passions and interests and we like to talk about them to other people. Yet often times the other people have no idea, no clue to what we're getting at. After Cornell talks with three different coworkers and all of them wish they were doing something else but listening to his football jargon. And the narrator comes back on and says, they did not, as it turns out, know what he was saying.

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And Tom Brady shows up and he says, I know what you're saying, Cornell. The commercial is great, and I'll talk about that one as well as a couple others at a later date. But these have quality and they hit upon a universal truth. What is it? We all have something we're passionate about and we share it and we want to share it with others, but they might not all get it.

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Yeah. I mean, it be cubic inches and horsepower or baseball or bitcoin or quilting, yet we continue talking. And sometimes, if we're lucky, we find just one person who knows what we're talking about. Check it out. Game four in less than two hours.

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So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.