A surprise snow day for the White House press corps
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A surprise snow day for the White House press corps

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 26, 202647 min

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from NPR and WBEZ Chicago this is wait wait don't tell me the NPR news quiz I'm Alzo Slade your judge and scorekeeper and if it helps you can picture me in a little referee uniform here's your host at the Orpheum Theatre in Omaha Nebraska Peter Segal.

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Thank you all. Thank you Omaha. Thank you. What a delight to be making your debut here at long last.

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Later on we are going to be talking to the legendary former coach of the Nebraska Corn Huskers Volleyball Team, John Cook. His team once played in front of the largest crowd ever to see a woman's sporting event, 92,000 people, and whose regular games, season after season, drew a crowd of 10,000 people.

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