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That's Adam a rocho Friday June 21st 2024 and top five time Brett where do we start well Fox went prime time and remember we were talking about this yesterday Morning with Major League Baseball and the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals met at Rickwood Field The sports oldest ballpark very cool to honor the history of the Negro Leaps and One of the players that played there back in the Danish career and he was on hand was Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson and he shared the heart-wrenching memories that flooded back human his return in Fox's pregame show He said coming back here is not easy. The racism when I played here I wouldn't wish it on anybody Perhaps the most enlightening topic that Jackson touched on in that pregame interview was the idea that He won by thriving in the face of bigotry most who overcome that horrible situation say they wouldn't change the thing But he said I wouldn't want to do it again What he went through Jackson played the 1967 season with the Kansas City Athletics double-A affiliate in Birmingham during the height of the civil rights movement at Number four the list an animal control officer in Virginia summoned to a goodwill thrift store After an employee sorting through a box of donated books found something they couldn't read Why did that be snakes is four-footer to be Stanford County Sheriff's Office said on social media that an animal control Captain was called to that store to get rid of the unwanted donation using his powers of persuasion It says here He was able to safely remove the snake and get it back into the wild once again. Why a snake? We'll end up somewhere else again At number three five-time Olympic medalist Lily King if you enjoyed the coverage by the way of the US Swimming Olympic trials in India. I know you have every night. Oh man. It's great Well, Lily King collected two new pieces of jewelry last night if you missed it Moments after finishing in second place behind Kate Douglas in the 200 meter breaststroke at Lucas oil stated Which is cool how they put the pool in there to qualify for her second event of the 2024 Paris Olympics King's boyfriend James Wells proposed to her I saw that as she made her way every day when you log into Chumbah Casino dot-com the ultimate online social casino You get a free daily bonus imagine if you got daily bonuses in other parts of your life I chose french fries over loaded french fries. I asked Stewart from accounting about his weekend even though I don't care I updated my operating system without having to call tech support collect your free daily bonus at Chumbah Casino dot-com now Live the Chumbah life The pool into the warm-down area there was live coverage on NBC. I mean talk about this isn't jumbo Tron at the white caps game This is a big time. No, and she did say yes. It was very cool. Well, what are you gonna do? I know but I mean what was also cool about this that people might not know is Lily is an Indiana native So she had a lot of family obviously there, but very cool moment for her at 27 She's now going to be a future bride and is an Olympian again for Team USA very cool. I had number two I learned this morning that there is a grand Rapids, Minnesota Which is the hometown of Judy Garland and the town is raising money to buy some of the ruby slippers that she used in the Wizard of Oz movie turns out this pair of slippers was stolen from a museum in that town and ended up at an auction house after everything was said and done and now they're trying to raise the Funds to get them back. They're estimated to go for ten million dollars. So far. They have a hundred grand That is the truth. Yeah, they're just not regular ruby slippers. Oh, right. They're magic special once. Yeah, did they have flying monkeys at that thing? But what are those things going for? I would like one of those. I don't think you get oh even if there were It's like miniature giraffes. You can't buy them. How do you train it? Well, that's the thing. You got to get a good one. It runs some errands for you though I mean, you know go to the mailbox. They could also just keep you up all night That's never just beforeifying. Finally at number one of my list a Japanese man borrowed some of the luck of the Irish and Broke a Guinness book of world records by growing we should bring this up when Rick Vice joins us at 807 this morning He started cross pollinating clovers at his home in 2012 to break a world record Since the number of leaves is increased year by year. He's been looking for a title So instead of a four-leaf clover this cat was able to grow a 63-leaf clover whoa, huh? You got to see the picture of it because each one is numbered with a tiny little post-it note I don't know where you buy those My hands shake too much as it is already either way 63 leaves New world record we got to do a story about why there's more world records being broken out Do people just have more time on their hands must be right has to be Something to do with the Russians and social media media. [laughter]