April 7, 2025 • 52 mins
Aimee Melton's challenger in Omaha's District 7 got a speaking spot at the latest anti-Trump rally this weekend, and made the F####NG most of it! Then, we turned our attention to more wholesome topics like Dennis the Menace, watered-down grades in Millard and Gretna, and that darn stock market.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez Lucy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You and I both live out in northwest Omaha. Omaha
Council District seven. Our representative is Amy Melton, Right, you're on.
I don't know where Amy. Okay, I'm gonna say I
don't really know where Amy Melton's reign of terror ends
and brinker Harding's begins. But you know it's just out
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there somewhere. And so council Member Amy Melton is up
in the general election here in just over a month
from now against someone named Tim Carter. I don't know
Tim Carter. I thought he was a baseball player. But
Tim Carter was among the speakers at the nationally orchestrated
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local grassroots political event at Memorial Park on Saturday. His
name is Tim Carter, and he grabbed the microphone and
began to address this crowd here in a way that
I have edited a portion of these comments for time
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and profanity. Here is council contender District seven, Tim Carter.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
If you want to progressive voice and city council, you
have to donate your money. We've got a mayor who
refuses to commit to not using our police force to
arrest women and doctors for healthcare decisions.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think she's full of.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ice.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is already on our streets. LGB yeah boo, LGBTQAA. Youth
are being targeted at our leaders want to turn police.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Into political weapons.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But they're going to be putting an impossible position, uses
pawns instead of protectors. Yeah, who out there remembers twenty
twenty seventy second in Dodge, the rubber bullets, the tear gas,
the peaceful protests that were met with violence. I want
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you to say his name with me, James George Floyd
and James Skurlock, say his name again, because we said
it five years ago. Say his name, James Skurlock, say
it again. The system protected a white supremacist who killed
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that man. Be the candidate we take back the power.
And by that I mean I'll change myself to city
hall if I have to. I will sit and handcuffs
and go to jail with you. I will march with
you to vote for Tim Carter.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Is a vote for resistance.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
There's one more comedy makes after the crowd really enjoyed
that one, The o'doyle rules momental jeans souther Yeah. So
in that one, we had a blank Jeans Do author
Jean's Doctor is Full of Blank, referring to a downtown
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business owner, Jake Gardner, military veteran, who was defending his business.
This is something that he paid for. This is something
I'm guessing he probably spent a more time there than
he did his own home. His business something that represents
not just his money down there, this bar restaurant that
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he owned in the Old Market, but also the livelihood
for his employees. And he heard about business is being
ransacked by, among others, the say his name, James Skirlock.
We had video of him in a business equipment office
down the street from there, smashing putting a chair through
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the window and going in there and smashing everything in sight.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I thought these were peaceful protests that Carter was just
talking about well.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Before he was talking about the protests that started around
seventy second of Dodge that were peaceful. I was down
there at that time, during the daylight hours when they
were peaceful. And then people started chucking bottles and rocks
at police. Nothing says this is no longer a peaceful protest.
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Then throwing bottles and rocks at police. And if you
say they didn't do that, talk to some of the
organizers of that peaceful protest, because I was there when
someone threw a bottle at a cop, and the people
who were organizing the protest that didn't want it to
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devolve into that, immediately turned around yelling who threw that?
Who was that? Find that person then and talking to
the cops saying that's the person who threw that. Deal
with him. They didn't want that to happen, but they
were agitators in that crowd who they they weren't interested
in going down there and doing anything peacefully. And then
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at night it turned into setting fire to downtown businesses
like Jake Gardner's. Jake was there to defend his business.
He was there to defend the livelihood of his employees,
and he was there as a US Marine to say
this kind of lawlessness isn't allowed in this country. A
fight ensued and Jake Skirlock lost his life in trying
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to murder Jake Gardner there in the streets. He was
trying to kill him. He had his head slammed down
on the ground and there was a puddle of water
there and he was trying to kill him by bashing
his head or drowning him in the puddle of water.
Jake was going for his gun. He was able to
get it. Skurlock lost his life. Jake Gardner then lost
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his life. Jake Gardner was not a white supremaist. But
this guy, Tim Carter, who's running for city council in
Omaha's District seven, has decided to go ahead and say
that he's a white supremacist. Is evidence he's a white guy.
Tim Carter is also a white guy. He's a guilty
white guy. So we had all that. We had the
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profanity directed at Mayor Stothard, we have the demonization of
law enforcement, whether it's police in Omaha or immigration customs enforcement.
And then we had the uh, I don't really know
how to get out of the speech, so blank Donald Trump, Yay,
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you know that's the You're giving a speech at a
high school and you're kind of trailing off and you're
like Rolston High class in nineteen ninety five, rules go rams,
whoa go big red we you know everyone. So that
was his big rally and cry there he says, if
you want a member of the resistants to represent you
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in the Omaha City Council, you got to donate your money. Well,
how very capitalistic of you. Tim. You got to donate
your money, you got to vote for him. He's up
in District seven against the conservative leaning Amy Melton. That's
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your choice in Omaha's District seven. Fox News update next,
he just played a portion of one of the speeches
at this we Hate Donald Trump protest on Saturday in
Omaha's Memorial Park. Again, the timeline is Trump was president
on Saturday morning, and then a bunch of people who
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didn't vote for him and would never vote for him
and who hate his ever loving guts got together in
the park to say we don't like him. And Trump
was president the whole time. And then they said, all right, well,
I guess that's enough, see you guys later. And then
they all left, and while they were driving home or
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walking home or whatever, Trump was still president. But it's
important that they made their voices heard. You have these
friends of yours on your Facebook, the people who every
single thing they post is something just trashing Trump. And
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I'm like, well, that's fine. I tend to post different things,
I tend to react to different things. I'm not going
to fall for this. Hey, let's all argue on Facebook
and decide who's right, because I think that's happened a lot,
and I don't know that anyone has ever been swayed.
But I know a lot of people have lost friends,
and I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So some friends are worth losing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I did fire a Facebook friend yesterday. When I say friend,
I mean there are a lot of people connected to
me on Facebook own post on Facebook as much as
I used to, and I don't know. I'm I'm busy,
and I forget, and probably i'm I'm out of ideas,
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and let's let's face it, I've sometimes I'll look on
Facebook and it says, here are your Facebook memories. Here
are things that you've posted over the years, And I'll
see things that I posted eight thirteen years ago, and
at the time I thought this is really funny. And
I look at it now and go, why don't you
shut up so.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
To yourself to your own posts.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I'll look at.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Old posts and I think, Wow, life was better.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
No one's no one's more critical of me than me. Okay,
so that, but that still didn't stop me from posting
the picture last week of me with a Fu Manchu.
I thought that would be fun. That was That was
my April Fool's day. Look as I'm going for a
new look brother, you know, the haul Cogan kind of mustache.
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So anyway, whatever you post on social media and whatever
you do on a Saturday afternoon, that's up to you.
I hope that you had fun. I hope that it
was a great time. Hope that you saw a lot
of friends and you enjoyed your time together. I watched basketball,
and you could say, yeah, but civic engagement, and you
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got to be I know. But the reality is is
that I watched basketball, and before, during and after the
game Trump was president, and the same for you and
your protest. Now, I didn't tend to be a supporter
of the previous president, Joe Biden, but at no point
did I ever think, you know what I want to
do all weekend. I want to go down to the
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park with a bunch of other people and be like,
I don't like him, because that doesn't seem like a
valuable use of my time. I have better things to do.
But then again, I work all week On the weekend,
I'm not looking to get all foeming at the mouth
and a political protest. Not to say that there are
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people at this protest who don't work all week, but
not in the sense that you think I said. I
said that here's a little bit of Tim Carter. He's
your District seven challenger to the incumbent Amy Melton and
Omaha City Council.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
If you want to progressive voice and city council, you
have to donate your money.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That's hilarious. You know, money is bad in politics, right
to the progressives to the resistance. Money is bad in politics.
If you want to if you want someone who's gonna
speak for you, who hates money, and well, you got
to donate your money to me. That's an Elon Musk thing.
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I thought, you're right, this guy, Yeah, we need more. Look,
there's already signs out there. They're blue dot signs, Palestinian flags,
and all the rest of it is out there that
all says vote for Tim Carter for District seven. And
then he got pro and a mayor.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Who refuses to commit to not using our police force
to arrest women and doctors for health care decisions.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I think she's full of ah oozing class all over
the stage there. That is Tim Carter.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I would love to know the backstory of that comment.
What is he talking about? He's unfamiliar.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
He's talking about how with abortion being illegal on many
fronts and many states, and uh, and a lot of
what's been done at the federal level, but that has
given it back to the state. Anyway, if you're in
a state like Nebraska that says after this many weeks,
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you can't have an abortion. It is illegal. That's that's
in law. That is that is stopping a beating heart.
That's that's killing a child in the womb. And he says, well,
that's just a decision for doctors and and women. No
doctor in Nebraska is going to say, oh, you just
want to have an abortion just for whatever reason in
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the world, cosmetic, you change your mind, whatever at twenty
three weeks, Well, let's take care of that. And Mayor
Stothard has not said she wouldn't have police stop that
from happening. You know why, because it's the law of
the state of Nebraska. You COMI, Well, that's what.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
My next question would be. Does she have the power
to just order the police to do her bid and
call and go arrest those people for whatever reason she does?
In a sense that she is the mayor of the town,
which kind of operates over all of the departments.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Sure, but to your main point, no, and this isn't
happening in Nebraska, nor should it. It's against the law.
And what you see is, you know, it's a health
care decision between a doctor and a woman, and we
have no business involvement. Well, give the unborn child a
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vote and see what he or she says. That might
be a girl, by the way. So that's a little
bit of what we saw there.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It was the healthcare that threw me.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yes, he was talking about health care decisions, so I
did not associate it with no.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He makes it sound like a woman goes to a
doctor and says, all right, I've given a lot of
thought to the various treatment levels you gave me for
my recent cancer diagnosis, diagnosis, and I've decided to go
this route. And suddenly the cops come through the door.
You know, it's it's like, all right, hold on there, everyone,
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just stop what you're doing. Whoop, whoop, it's the sound
of the police. You know that kind of thing, Right,
I actually have I put that song to the side somewhere.
Do I still have it? The moment's gone, all right,
Dave says, nothing shows quality and class like profane chance
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speeches and praising a rioter and attempted murderer. Yep, that's
the say his name's James Skurlock thing that Tim Carter
got into.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
All right, let's just a side note. I do have
the F J. B chant, so it does happen on
both sides.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I know I don't like that either. I don't either,
and during the time of President Biden in office, I
really I don't think I ever referred to him as
Brandon because it came from a profane chant. That doesn't
say that I don't on some level think the whole
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thing is funny. But I think it's funny because the
reporter said, oh, they're saying let's go Brandon when they weren't.
I think I think that error. I think that error
is hilarious. And therefore the fact that people started calling
him Brandon for that, I think that's absolutely hilarious. And
President Biden had some fun with that himself, you know,
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poking fun at the Brandon name and all that. But
as far as the chant, no, I am aware that
people have a dirty mouth when it comes to some
of these things, and I don't choose to. I have
fired friends on Facebook for posting profane rants against Democrat presidents,
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just as I don't like to see it against Republican presidents.
I just I don't think that's what I want Facebook for.
I don't know what I want Facebook for. I've got
to see your cat pictures now, John emails Scott atkfab
dot com. Zonker's custom was inbox and this is where
I would normally.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Say, sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But now it's John that has it. John says, I
found this kind of interesting. Cash Patel, he's our new
FBI director. Cash Patel is also a big hockey fan.
Was that the game the other day where Alex Ovechkin
tied Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals in a career.
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As you heard in sports updates throughout the morning, he
has since eclipse the grete one Wayne Gretzky, and your
leading career goal scorer is Alex Ovechkin. And in some
age bias on my part, and also the fact that
I'm not a hockey fan, I couldn't pick Ovechkin out
of a lineup, and I don't care if he scores
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twice as many goals as Gretzky. The gen X are
in me is going to say you're not nearly as good,
And a hockey fan will say, well, why in the
world would you say that? And I'd mumble something that
doesn't make sense about like I don't know a strike
zone or something, and you would say, I'm not going
to argue with this guy. He's an idiot, and we
would go our separate ways, and that's fine, But he says.
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Cash Patel was at the game with Wayne Gretzky when
Ovechkin tied Gretzky's record for goals, and so here's Cash Patel,
here's Wayne Gretzky, Here's Ovechkin and the team. They're all
in the locker room afterwards. Patel was in the stands
with Gretzky and the commissioner and others yesterday when Ovechkin
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broke the record. Okay, now, John says, it seems interesting
to me because you know that Putin is over the
moon about Ovechkin breaking the record. Putin is a huge
hockey guy himself, is Ovechkin? Is he Russian?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I was gonna ask that question, but I thought if
I did that, it would be I didn't hear what
you already said.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I appreciate you wondering. Yes he is. He's Russian, he
was born in Moscow. It doesn't get more Russian than that, right,
So Putin is a big Ovechkin and hockey guy. So
John says, maybe this can be the breakthrough to easing
tensions with Russia. He says, I'm not sure you even
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want to discuss it, seeing how after all, Patel is
the head of the FBI. Okay, I don't, but I
think I also saw the picture of oh, Cash Patel,
the Trump head of the FBI, the Trump picked head
to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Is there at
a hockey game with Gretzky as Ovechkin is going after
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this record. I just thought, No, that's interesting. I guess
you know, you got some measure of power and this
is the way you want to use it. Okay, but
perhaps there's something more going on with international diplomacy with Russia.
If we can be supportive of his guy Ovechkin scoring
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goal after goal after goal, after nine hundred some goals,
maybe maybe this might loosen Putin up. Like, ah, you
guys were there cheering on our Russian You know, next
we need one of these dragos to beat someone in
the Rocky camp it's a Balboa or a Creed. If
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we could get that, like, no, no, no, come on,
mister Putin, Let's not be crazy. No Drago is ever
gonna beat anyone in the Rocky Balboa try. All right, fine,
I guess, but can we all agree Rocky for At
a great soundtrack, maybe the best soundtrack of all time. Yeah,
you're right, Maybe we're not so different, you and me.
All right, we're gonna give Ukraine some of their land back.
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I don't know, maybe maybe this happens this way.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
So who was the one with the conspiracy theories? You
or the emailer?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's always you.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory. Scott Boys News
Radio of Levin Kfab.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Is just interesting that he was there. It's it's I
don't think it's by accident. I don't think it's just
because he's like, I'm gonna watch some hockey. Oh hey,
I'm sitting here next to number ninety nine about that.
That's Wayne Gretzky. This is definitely one of the if
this was your childhood passings over the weekend, because either
you watched it the first time around, or you just
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watched it because it was on in syndication on some
channel like TBS or WGN, And you watched it because
it was on. We didn't have streaming services. We just
got cable. We thought like, this is the most amazing thing,
and entertainment will never evolve past this point. So we
watched the old black and white Dennis the Menace sitcom
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Lucy Dennis the Menace. The actor who played Dennis has
passed away.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How old do you think I am.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I don't know why you're coming at me. I don't
know why you're coming at me. In that tone of V.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Said, this is what we remember.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, this is what we remember. I said, we watched
it in syndication.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I don't care about that part.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The original Dennis the Menace was on I think in the.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
The early sixties, if not fifth late yeah, probably maybe
late probably late early city.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Here, Yeah, nineteen fifty nine to nineteen sixty three on CBS.
And it's funny that I only watched that show maybe
a couple of times. When I was a kid. You'd
see it in syndication. I like the Dennis the Menace
comic books. They they would I had a book of
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Dennis the Menace comics that I thought was pretty great
when I was a little kid. But it's just funny
that you could play me probably the top ten songs
in America and say, all, right, here they are, this
is this is the number one song in America. And
I'd hear it and they said, now who sings this?
Don't know, don't care. But if you asked me who
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played Dennis the Menace in the original black and White series,
I'd tell you, Oh, it's Jane North.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I actually knew that too. Yeah, but you know, I'm
not that old.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
It's just it's a good name, Jay North. It's a
good name. He was the original Dennis the Menace. He
has passed at the age of seventy three. Been battling
cancer these last few years. His story is pretty interesting.
He his mom put him on like a he got him.
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He got on with his mom's help. One of these
little like local Uncle Nutsy's Funhouse kind of shows, that
kind of thing. You know, there'd be some guy who
should probably either be incarcerated or hosting a children's television
show on the local public access channel in town. After
we've lost this. This is one thing we've lost and
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maybe it is not the worst idea, but there'd be
just some guy and they're like, well, this guy won't
sober up, what are we going to do with him? Well,
I'll put some clown makeup on him and host this
Saturday morning. We need to fill public access and you know,
time on these these channels we have to run, and
we have so many different hours of public service we
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have to run, and a children's television program will fulfill
her obligation to the FCC for public service. So they
just grab some whack job and throw some clown makeup
on a wig on him and have him go out
there and just entertain, entertain the kids. And you're like, hey, kids,
where do you want to go? You know? And so
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Jane North got on one of these shows and his
mom was like, hey, look at the clip, look at
the video of my kid. Isn't this kid great? And
so they were casting a TV show based on the
Dennis the Menace comic book, and Jane North, who was
six years old when he auditioned for that role, got it.
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And they worked with him for about a year and
a half or so, and then between the ages of
eight and twelve, he was Dennis the Menace. After that,
he was trying to ma a career. It's a little
difficult to maintain a career. Was now we're in the
sixties and early seventies and it's all just gritty cop dramas,
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and you're like, hey, do you want me for this
episode of this gritty cop drama?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Why in the world what'd you do shoot mister Wilson
with a slingshot? No, you're not going to be on
this gritty cop drama. And so it was kind of
difficult for the young man to find work. So what
did he do. He enlisted in our nation's military. He
served our country in the Navy. He then went on
to serve as a corrections officer in Florida. He did
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that job for several decades. I'm sure not a week
went by before they're booking some guy in there for
eating somebody, you know. And he's getting booked in there
and still got entrails coming out of his mouth and
he's wiping his mouth off, and he's like, wait a second,
I recognize you, and Jane North is thinking, don't do it.
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Come on, don't say ah.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're Dennis the Menace. I'm your biggest fan. You're like,
you just you're in jail for cannibalism. Come ah, you
wanted it, Now get in that cell, all right, Dennis,
you got me. And then the funniest thing I was
reading over is bio. He wasn't just Dennis the Menace
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on that show. This is back in the day when
you would have the stars of the show, you would
be contractually obligated to do all the commercials for the
sponsors of the show. We're not going to put this
show on the air until we have sponsors, and then
we want the stars of the show to do the
commercials for the sponsors.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
But this is bad even when they were recorded. Yeah,
I know they did that with their live shows. Oh
Dennis and Menis certainly couldn't have been live.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
No, but still you you just break away from the
programming and then okay, I mean it's the late fifties
early sixties. Like all the show's sponsors, it was all
like tied and cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Right, So yes, boy, Collie.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
After I'm terrorizing mister Wilson around the neighborhood, I like
to chill out with Winchester cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Whoa boy, I love New Winchester. Dennis are you smoking, No, mom, wink.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Winchester cigarettes you four out of five doctors recommend Winchester cigarettes. Ah,
the sixties, it was just a better time.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It was definitely a better time, sorn.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I was, yeah, I was born in the mid seventies,
but I just imagine it was better time. Did I
rehearse that? No, it did very well, thank you. I
don't know that any of that actually happened, but you
can imagine it did. Though. You know why because it
was the sixties, late fifties, early sixties.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Boy, I don't know about these guys coming over from
Britain with their long haircuts.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
These guys are gonna be trouble. Well, think I'll light
up a Winchester Dennis.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Dennis, you will not be smoking in my house.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Sorry, mister Wilson.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Speaking of Hollywood. Both of my children, I have two
high school age kids. I got a senior in college
and no, jeez, not yet. Wow, sa, I have two
high school age children and then a senior in college.
My wife doesn't know about so don't let that slip
on the radio. Oh, Scott, did you have a love
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child before you met your wife? No, wink, I have
two high school age children. I've got a senior in
high school. And the reason why I said that is
because Saturday night, my daughter. I can't believe I'm about
to say this. My daughter had it in her head.
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We did. We We looked at a few different colleges.
We looked at the big universities, we looked at the
small colleges, and she had it in her head that
the only place that she wanted to go to college
is K State.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Why is that a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Because it was a face mask, that's why. Because her
father is a Husker fan and K State tried to
rip Eric Crouch's head off. Oh and it was a
face mask that didn't get called and they won that game.
They were a bunch of cheaters.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
How many years ago?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Oh geez, almost thirty.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
OK.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
So yeah, yeah, but I'm not going to get over
it anytime. Soay and my daughter, my wife, Scott, get
it together. Sorry, my wife, she's a KU girl. So
the fact that our daughter is like, I want to
go to K State, we're trying to find a reason
for this not to happen. And we got it down
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to where this is how much it was going to
cost her to go to K State and I said,
I'm not going to pay that now. If you really
want to go there, you got to really start working
on scholarships and fill out everything and apply for everything,
and you're gonna have to really work hard because there's
a lot of deadlines there. And she's like right away,
and she cut that cost in half to where it's
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only slightly more expensive than some of these smaller in
state Nebraska schools.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
But did she get those scholarships.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, So we told her on Saturday, Hey, great work,
you want to go to k State, let's do it.
So she's very, very happy. So I got a senior
in high school heading towards Manhattan, Kansas in the fall.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Is she going into veterinary sciences?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
No? I this is a whole different conversation. She's getting
a degree that she could get from any school, including
online courses, and live at home. But the idea is
is that a couple things that play here. You only
get a chance to be eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old
one time. And case Eate is a great campus. I've
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always really liked the campus, despite the fact that they're
a bunch of cheaters. It's great campus. It's the right
distance away from home, and she's got a cousin down there,
and so's. It works on a lot of different levels,
and financially we were able to make it work. But
the other thing is, I've said this since my daughter
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was born, and I announced it on the radio eighteen
and a half years ago, just over eighteen years ago.
I guess she's my first born and she's my daughter,
so of course I'm wrapped around her finger. And I'd
go into debt to send her to Harvard if they
weren't a bunch of comies and that were at all
on the table. So thankfully it's just case State. So
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I want to go to Columbia, Dennis. I don't like
those Jews, Dennis. You know, so I've got where was
I going with this? Two high schools students, got the
daughter who's a senior, son who's a freshman. Both of
them heading up to this weekend, said we're not gonna
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go see this movie. It looks stupid because when they
were kids they played Minecraft like all these teenage kids.
And then my son said, all right, well Joey wants
to go, I'll go with Joey. It'll be a laugh though,
and we're just gonna go and just make fun of it.
And then they went and they're like, it was so
much fun because the crowd was totally into it, and
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it looks like for this age, this is their nostalgia
from five years ago, and there's kind of a rocky
horror picture show thing at play, where there's certain things
that you do depending on which weird Minecraft box head
character comes on screen or what Jack Black says or whatever,
and there's a ton of audience interaction and apparently it's
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just a riot. So my son and his friend went.
They had a ball, and my daughter said, well, I
want to go, and so she and her boyfriend went
on Saturday night and they went, and she came back
and said ten out of ten vibes. And I said
to both of them, like, is the movie any good?
And they said not really, but it's just fun. The
crowd's yelling someone through popcorn all over the place. It
was crazy. So this generation now has their rocky horror
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it's the Minecraft movie.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Did this generation need another prodding to get trash the
place and trash the place?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
As you say?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, but this sounds like this sounds like it was fun.
The analyst said, well, do you think this Minecraft movie
because we don't know what it's about, and none of us,
none of us researchers in the movie business, have any
idea what a Minecraft is. So they think it'll probably
make eighty million dollars at the box office this weekend.
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When it's all tallied up here this morning from domestic
and international markets, over three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
We'll go to them. I have no idea what it's about.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah, there's a video game.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Where I know there's a video game, and that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
But do you know the goal of video of the
video game stuff? Yeah, you just build stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
You don't win the video game. You just exist in
this world.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That's kind of like crossing the prairie on that whatever
that is.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No, there was a that you're thinking of, the Oregon Trail. Yeah, yeah,
that had an end goal. You had to get to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Oh no, wonder you like it?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
It never got to Oregon.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You couldn't get past North Platt without dying of typhoid.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
No.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Minecraft is you just you go on there and you
corral some sheep and you build a house and sometimes
these weird creatures come up and they can kill you
and they all sound like this. You can kind of
hear them coming. It's weird. It's just weird. It's the
whole thing looks weird. It looks total eight bit like
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like like Atari kind of a thing.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Do you think it's that game is going to become
more popular again?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Oh yeah, because McDonald's has a tie in and you
can get a code at McDonald's and you go back
into playing the game. And so yeah. And then my
son who hadn't really he's more into these games where
you steal cars and shoot stuff, and they were all
playing Minecraft all weekend. So yeah, Nostalis is.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Going to make a Centipede game movie. I know I
want to go to that, right, Jost.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yes, we need a movie based on Joust. Excellent Atari reference.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Lucy Scott voices News Radio eleven tenab.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Ron wants to know why Dennis the Menace sounds like
mister Bill, and then this emailer wants to know why
Dennis the Menace sounds like mister Hanky. I don't know.
That's the only little kid voice I do.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
I actually wondered that myself, not the mister Hanky, but
now I hear it too, mister Bill. Definitely when I'm
watching my mom mop the floors.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Well, my dad's out playing cards with his friends all day,
then coming home drunk and looking at my mom mad
because the me loaf is called she uses Daiglo soap,
day Glo soap.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You know, I just thought about Dennis de Menez had
to do all these commercials for the show's sponsors, and
I figured that was all just cleaning supplies for the
mom's home watching this programming, and cigarettes, because that's all
that the sponsors were.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
Well, four out of five doctors like Winchesters cigarettes, and
that fifth doctor's a liar.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
I smoke Winchester's, so.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's I don't know, that's I guess that is a
little if mister Bill and miss or Hanky at a son,
it would be Dennis the Menace.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Maybe they did.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
They did, and that's why I'm doing that voice. I
do lots of voices. You want to hear my impression
of Vladimir.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Don't do lots of voices.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
I just simply said, you've just said, all right, give
me that's your only little kid voice.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Give me any any any historical or current figure in
the news, and I won't do an incredible impersonation of
that person historic or yeah, anyone he comes to mind.
How about JFK JFK.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask
what you can do for your country.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Napoleon Teddy, get off of her, Teddy, She said, no,
that's my jf Teddy.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Shouldn't drive, that's my JFK impression. Very good, Napoleon.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
Grandma old and she wants you to leave.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
You're ruining everyone's lives and eating all our steak.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
You met Napoleon dynamite, right, ah, yeah, but I love it.
All right, We'll retire that voice for the rest of
the day. I think Fox News Update.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Next Scott Voice.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Lucy, how you feeling today? You like normal? You good?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Yeah, I'm good? All right, I'm not okay, that's typical.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I watched basketball all week in and so last night,
after I had a big dinner, my son said, Dad,
the only time he talks to me is when he
wants money or this. He said, you want to have
a game, which I know is going to be at
least three games, And like, yeah, let's go do it.
(38:45):
So I wallered my way out to the driveway to
play one on one basketball against my ever growing, fifteen year old,
jolly green, giant of a son, and I thought, well,
let's give this a shot. I'm not going to go
real hard because I can't move very well. I just
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ate all the food all weekend and later on watching basketball.
But we gave it a shot. And he took a
shot right at the right side of my rib cage,
and I thought, ah, that hurt. Like he put his
shoulder or elbow into me as he was going up
for a layup. And I contested it because you got
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to protect the lane, and I'd eaten so much food
I really couldn't get out of the way. So I
took a shot right here in the ribs and I thought, man,
that hurt. So then I get the ball and do
probably nothing with it. He gets the ball again, comes
right back in the lane. Same thing happens in the
(39:46):
exact same spot, and that learn and that's when it
was the one shot. I was like, ah, but the
same shot a little harder this time in the exact
same spot. I think I have bruised ribs. Do I
do any thing for Bruce Ribs or I just try
not to get hit in the ribs again. I think
that's probably it right. I thought, maybe it was dislocated.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I don't think you can dislocate a rib.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yes you could, Yes you can. You can dislocate anything.
Him here, I'll show you, so I thought. First I thought,
oh no, he got me right in the heart. Then
I realized, wait, the heart's on the other side, So
what's this. I thought my lungs were all collapsed. I
couldn't breathe for a second. And then I walked.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
It off and did it again.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Nope. He's like, do you want to keep going? I said,
heck yes, and then I beat him. So wounded animals.
You got to watch out for. Wounded animals.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Get backed into a corner, then you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah. I backed him into a corner. I beat him.
Two Omaha area school districts have decided. This is the
story here from the Omaha World Herald. They decided that
they want their students in Gretna and Millard to do
a little bit better because if you have if you're
more engaged and you're getting better grades, well now you
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got a better GPA. You get a better GPA. This
helps you out in your college search, and it also
makes you feel better and it's all about making these
students feel better. So there were a couple of different
ways that they discussed. I imagine how to go about doing this.
Either you maybe reduce class sizes. You kick out those
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students who are a constant distraction, and make it to
where the students who really want to be there are
the ones there. The teachers feel better, the students feel better,
and now you can do more one on one or
one on small group classroom exercises, and you can reach
out to those students who you know probably aren't doing
their best, but you just need to focus them and
(41:56):
get them plugged in on the magic of learning and
doing your best and feeling good about the work that
you produced. And that's gonna get better test scores and
better grades. And I tell you, the whole process just snowballs.
And it could be great, and that's really hard. I mean,
my goodness, you're gonna have to have teachers who give
a crap, and you're gonna have students who buy into it,
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and it's just hard. And so the other thing they
could do was just h lower the rate at which
you could still get an a.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Let me guess.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
So they said, all right, we'll do that. So they've
they've watered down the grades and Gretna and Millard. It
used to be that, depending on the school district, either
ninety three or ninety four percent was an A. I
was growing up, ninety four percent was an A.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
But now, well you never got them, so you don't know.
So now there's Hey, there's a reason we're in radio.
I don't know nothing about birth and no babies.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
I got an a once in a while, what class,
I don't know, So Homeck.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I don't believe that for a second. Now you do
bring in cookies and stuff that you bade.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
Me bring this stuff that actually works.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Did I ever tell you that it once took me
an entire classroom period just to thread a needle.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
I'm sure you orchestrated it that.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Seventh grade, Homeck, I couldn't get the thread through the
small head of this needle.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
You had bad eyes then, I just I don't know
you didn't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I didn't know that. I tried real hard. Yeah, every
time the teacher came over to see how I was doing,
I was just like, I just threadn the needle and
hot no, uh, all right, you know what, I'll go
the other way. The uh, the great Phyllis Tooker, who
we just lost a few years ago homeck teacher or
also middle school. She might have been seventy years older
(43:53):
than me, but smoking hot. We're going to give some
love to Phillis Tooker on this program. Love loved her.
Was I attracted to her?
Speaker 6 (44:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (44:04):
But man, she had a great nineteen forties throwback hairdoo
that just drove boys.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
I don't know if you're being serious.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Child, No, Mistooker was great. So but I decided I wasn't.
I wasn't real involved in the home exid.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
So he decided.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Was it the parents or was it the school board
who decided, okay, let's just knock down The.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
School board bar said, all right, so either it's a
ninety four percent to get an A, or if we
want more students to get a's, maybe you just lower it.
And so they said, all right, we're going to lower
it to ninety. So ninety percent we're going to do
on the tens the ten point grading scale, which means
ninety percent and above is an A. Before if you
got a ninety percent in a test, that was a B.
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Now it's an A. You've done exactly the same work,
you're a full letter grade better, which means your GPA
is better. I mean it's only a couple of percent points,
but that extra point towards your GPA, that's huge. Have
you learned anymore? Have you accomplished anymore? No, but no
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one cares about that. So we just watered it down
and said, all right, you're doing the same work, but
you get a better letter grade. And also that means
on the back end, let's talk about the back end
for a second, just pausing for a second for kids
to giggle at that. And that also means that whereas
before what was failing? I'm sure that you did that
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a few times. What was a failing grade?
Speaker 5 (45:36):
You know, I am not here just to be your
whipping post. What was failing? I want to say?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Sixty that's what it is now, Well, that's what it
is according to the new scale. Used to be sixty
eight percent and below was an.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
F Yeah, we need to go back to that.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Well they had been doing that, I think probably to day.
This doesn't take effect until the next school year, so yeah,
what and what a kick in the yards that would
be getting you're right now getting a sixty three percent.
You're failing. You're failing your classes. You cannot go onto
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the next grade, or maybe you can. I don't know
what they do, and I'm sure you can probably can.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
And so you're getting to three sixty three percent and
you have an F. You're not passing, but you can
show up again next year do exactly the same thing,
get the same grade, and you got a D. D's
pass and so you're now on to the next grade. Congratulations,
you have learned nothing more. But we've watered down the grade.
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We just change it. We've lowered it to where you
get an A, you know, than anything in the eighties
is a B. You know, so and so on and
so forth, and so you could get sixty percent to
pass a class.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
How long do you think it will be before all
grades go away? Because I think that I've heard some
of the In some parts of the of the country,
the grades have gone away completely. There's not even any
grading of the paper checking what's wrong and what's right.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
You just do the assignment or not.
Speaker 5 (47:12):
It's it's the teacher saying I have taught this this
curriculum and now we're done.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Let's move on. I know, I don't know if that's
happening now.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
It's happening in some places, certainly, but.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
They're really not grading. There's Nora that needs to be
turned in at all.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Well in Millard and Gretna, this story is they've changed
their grading scale. Right in some school districts across the country,
they've done exactly what you just said. You know, students
can't possibly learn the way that their parents or grandparents did.
So instead, we're just going to you know, what grade
do you feel like you're earned in this class?
Speaker 5 (47:50):
And you still think that that the government wanting us
to be less educated is a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
No, I don't. I've never said that. That's one of
your few conspiracy theories that I don't call a conspiracy theory. So,
and the last thing on this story is, in case
you're saying, Scott, it's not an A or a B,
it's a one or a two. Nope, not anymore. They're
going back to letter grades, which everyone I think has
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a better idea what an A or a B or
C is. My son comes home and says, I don't,
I don't really know. I've never known on the number scale,
I guess in Omaha public schools four is an A
three as a B. So my son comes home and says,
I got my science test back. I was really worried
(48:38):
about it, but I got a three. I'm like out
of a hundred, which never gets old. To me, that
joke never gets old. That's great, I know. So now
he'll come home and say I got a B, and
I'll say out of a hundred, and it won't make sense.
But I'm not going to update my material. Take my
wife play. Come come on, people. But to your point
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about making sure the masses are as dumb as possible, well,
I don't want to say that because there are people
who have genuine concerns with what they've seen go on
in the stock markets and the reaction to what's been
going on in the stock markets here over the last
few days. I'll tell you what's going on now next.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Scott Gordies News Radio Eleve.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
I know that there are people who have legitimate concerns
because for so many years we hear the Dow is
down one thousand points and you think, oh, the money
is gone. It's all gone, there's no more money anywhere,
and it's the media is always more than happy to
(49:50):
scream this out especially depending on which type of president
Republican or Democrats in office, and who is doing the screaming.
So the national media right now, which tends to lean very,
very far left, and I'm only saying that because it's
one hundred percent true, so they don't like Trump, and
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they're catering to their audience, and the audience has been
rooting for the stock market to drop. They would love
to see it hit the bottom and then start drilling.
They want all the money gone so they can blame Trump.
Never mind the fact that that's their retirement, that that's
the economy of this nation that results in their jobs
and consumer confidence, never mind all that. They don't care.
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There are so many people who don't care about any
of that. They just hate Trump so much they want
all they want the economy to collapse so they can say, see,
look what Trump did. I've never hated a president so
badly that I wanted the American economy to collapse and
(50:57):
everyone's savings to be wiped out, just to blame it
on that president. Can you imagine being filled with that
much hate. Some of these people are perspective, though. When
the Dow drops by a thousand points, it's not the
same as when the Dow dropped by one thousand points
twenty years ago or even five years ago. The stock
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market has more money attached to it. Therefore, a thousand
point drop is not a ten percent drop. In fact,
if you look at what's happened here in each of
the last couple of days of last week, like right now,
the Dow is down six hundred points, that's one point
sixty two percent of the makeup of the Dow Jones
(51:41):
Industrial Where does that rank or the three percent losses
last week? Where does that rank in the top ten
of worst stock market days of all time? No, top twenty, No,
not even close. This kind of thing happens all the time. Now.
It's interesting here due to the tariffs, but this is
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not over. If we're still doing this in weeks from now,
that might be an issue. President says, don't worry. Nations
are wanting to make a deal. It'd be great if
they could do that sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
Scott Voyes Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez Lucy.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You and I both live out in northwest Omaha. Omaha
Council District seven. Our representative is Amy Melton, Right, you're on.
I don't know where Amy. Okay, I'm gonna say I
don't really know where Amy Melton's reign of terror ends
and brinker Harding's begins. But you know it's just out
(00:22):
there somewhere. And so council Member Amy Melton is up
in the general election here in just over a month
from now against someone named Tim Carter. I don't know
Tim Carter. I thought he was a baseball player. But
Tim Carter was among the speakers at the nationally orchestrated
(00:44):
local grassroots political event at Memorial Park on Saturday. His
name is Tim Carter, and he grabbed the microphone and
began to address this crowd here in a way that
I have edited a portion of these comments for time
(01:05):
and profanity. Here is council contender District seven, Tim Carter.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
If you want to progressive voice and city council, you
have to donate your money. We've got a mayor who
refuses to commit to not using our police force to
arrest women and doctors for healthcare decisions.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I think she's full of.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Ice.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is already on our streets. LGB yeah boo, LGBTQAA. Youth
are being targeted at our leaders want to turn police.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Into political weapons.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
But they're going to be putting an impossible position, uses
pawns instead of protectors. Yeah, who out there remembers twenty
twenty seventy second in Dodge, the rubber bullets, the tear gas,
the peaceful protests that were met with violence. I want
(02:03):
you to say his name with me, James George Floyd
and James Skurlock, say his name again, because we said
it five years ago. Say his name, James Skurlock, say
it again. The system protected a white supremacist who killed
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that man. Be the candidate we take back the power.
And by that I mean I'll change myself to city
hall if I have to. I will sit and handcuffs
and go to jail with you. I will march with
you to vote for Tim Carter.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Is a vote for resistance.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
There's one more comedy makes after the crowd really enjoyed
that one, The o'doyle rules momental jeans souther Yeah. So
in that one, we had a blank Jeans Do author
Jean's Doctor is Full of Blank, referring to a downtown
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business owner, Jake Gardner, military veteran, who was defending his business.
This is something that he paid for. This is something
I'm guessing he probably spent a more time there than
he did his own home. His business something that represents
not just his money down there, this bar restaurant that
(03:34):
he owned in the Old Market, but also the livelihood
for his employees. And he heard about business is being
ransacked by, among others, the say his name, James Skirlock.
We had video of him in a business equipment office
down the street from there, smashing putting a chair through
(03:55):
the window and going in there and smashing everything in sight.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
I thought these were peaceful protests that Carter was just
talking about well.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Before he was talking about the protests that started around
seventy second of Dodge that were peaceful. I was down
there at that time, during the daylight hours when they
were peaceful. And then people started chucking bottles and rocks
at police. Nothing says this is no longer a peaceful protest.
(04:21):
Then throwing bottles and rocks at police. And if you
say they didn't do that, talk to some of the
organizers of that peaceful protest, because I was there when
someone threw a bottle at a cop, and the people
who were organizing the protest that didn't want it to
(04:42):
devolve into that, immediately turned around yelling who threw that?
Who was that? Find that person then and talking to
the cops saying that's the person who threw that. Deal
with him. They didn't want that to happen, but they
were agitators in that crowd who they they weren't interested
in going down there and doing anything peacefully. And then
(05:04):
at night it turned into setting fire to downtown businesses
like Jake Gardner's. Jake was there to defend his business.
He was there to defend the livelihood of his employees,
and he was there as a US Marine to say
this kind of lawlessness isn't allowed in this country. A
fight ensued and Jake Skirlock lost his life in trying
(05:30):
to murder Jake Gardner there in the streets. He was
trying to kill him. He had his head slammed down
on the ground and there was a puddle of water
there and he was trying to kill him by bashing
his head or drowning him in the puddle of water.
Jake was going for his gun. He was able to
get it. Skurlock lost his life. Jake Gardner then lost
(05:54):
his life. Jake Gardner was not a white supremaist. But
this guy, Tim Carter, who's running for city council in
Omaha's District seven, has decided to go ahead and say
that he's a white supremacist. Is evidence he's a white guy.
Tim Carter is also a white guy. He's a guilty
white guy. So we had all that. We had the
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profanity directed at Mayor Stothard, we have the demonization of
law enforcement, whether it's police in Omaha or immigration customs enforcement.
And then we had the uh, I don't really know
how to get out of the speech, so blank Donald Trump, Yay,
(06:39):
you know that's the You're giving a speech at a
high school and you're kind of trailing off and you're
like Rolston High class in nineteen ninety five, rules go rams,
whoa go big red we you know everyone. So that
was his big rally and cry there he says, if
you want a member of the resistants to represent you
(07:01):
in the Omaha City Council, you got to donate your money. Well,
how very capitalistic of you. Tim. You got to donate
your money, you got to vote for him. He's up
in District seven against the conservative leaning Amy Melton. That's
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your choice in Omaha's District seven. Fox News update next,
he just played a portion of one of the speeches
at this we Hate Donald Trump protest on Saturday in
Omaha's Memorial Park. Again, the timeline is Trump was president
on Saturday morning, and then a bunch of people who
(07:45):
didn't vote for him and would never vote for him
and who hate his ever loving guts got together in
the park to say we don't like him. And Trump
was president the whole time. And then they said, all right, well,
I guess that's enough, see you guys later. And then
they all left, and while they were driving home or
(08:06):
walking home or whatever, Trump was still president. But it's
important that they made their voices heard. You have these
friends of yours on your Facebook, the people who every
single thing they post is something just trashing Trump. And
(08:27):
I'm like, well, that's fine. I tend to post different things,
I tend to react to different things. I'm not going
to fall for this. Hey, let's all argue on Facebook
and decide who's right, because I think that's happened a lot,
and I don't know that anyone has ever been swayed.
But I know a lot of people have lost friends,
and I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
So some friends are worth losing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I did fire a Facebook friend yesterday. When I say friend,
I mean there are a lot of people connected to
me on Facebook own post on Facebook as much as
I used to, and I don't know. I'm I'm busy,
and I forget, and probably i'm I'm out of ideas,
(09:11):
and let's let's face it, I've sometimes I'll look on
Facebook and it says, here are your Facebook memories. Here
are things that you've posted over the years, And I'll
see things that I posted eight thirteen years ago, and
at the time I thought this is really funny. And
I look at it now and go, why don't you
shut up so.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
To yourself to your own posts.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, I'll look at.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Old posts and I think, Wow, life was better.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
No one's no one's more critical of me than me. Okay,
so that, but that still didn't stop me from posting
the picture last week of me with a Fu Manchu.
I thought that would be fun. That was That was
my April Fool's day. Look as I'm going for a
new look brother, you know, the haul Cogan kind of mustache.
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So anyway, whatever you post on social media and whatever
you do on a Saturday afternoon, that's up to you.
I hope that you had fun. I hope that it
was a great time. Hope that you saw a lot
of friends and you enjoyed your time together. I watched basketball,
and you could say, yeah, but civic engagement, and you
(10:22):
got to be I know. But the reality is is
that I watched basketball, and before, during and after the
game Trump was president, and the same for you and
your protest. Now, I didn't tend to be a supporter
of the previous president, Joe Biden, but at no point
did I ever think, you know what I want to
do all weekend. I want to go down to the
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park with a bunch of other people and be like,
I don't like him, because that doesn't seem like a
valuable use of my time. I have better things to do.
But then again, I work all week On the weekend,
I'm not looking to get all foeming at the mouth
and a political protest. Not to say that there are
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people at this protest who don't work all week, but
not in the sense that you think I said. I
said that here's a little bit of Tim Carter. He's
your District seven challenger to the incumbent Amy Melton and
Omaha City Council.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
If you want to progressive voice and city council, you
have to donate your money.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
That's hilarious. You know, money is bad in politics, right
to the progressives to the resistance. Money is bad in politics.
If you want to if you want someone who's gonna
speak for you, who hates money, and well, you got
to donate your money to me. That's an Elon Musk thing.
(11:43):
I thought, you're right, this guy, Yeah, we need more. Look,
there's already signs out there. They're blue dot signs, Palestinian flags,
and all the rest of it is out there that
all says vote for Tim Carter for District seven. And
then he got pro and a mayor.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Who refuses to commit to not using our police force
to arrest women and doctors for health care decisions.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
I think she's full of ah oozing class all over
the stage there. That is Tim Carter.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
I would love to know the backstory of that comment.
What is he talking about? He's unfamiliar.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
He's talking about how with abortion being illegal on many
fronts and many states, and uh, and a lot of
what's been done at the federal level, but that has
given it back to the state. Anyway, if you're in
a state like Nebraska that says after this many weeks,
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you can't have an abortion. It is illegal. That's that's
in law. That is that is stopping a beating heart.
That's that's killing a child in the womb. And he says, well,
that's just a decision for doctors and and women. No
doctor in Nebraska is going to say, oh, you just
want to have an abortion just for whatever reason in
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the world, cosmetic, you change your mind, whatever at twenty
three weeks, Well, let's take care of that. And Mayor
Stothard has not said she wouldn't have police stop that
from happening. You know why, because it's the law of
the state of Nebraska. You COMI, Well, that's what.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
My next question would be. Does she have the power
to just order the police to do her bid and
call and go arrest those people for whatever reason she does?
In a sense that she is the mayor of the town,
which kind of operates over all of the departments.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Sure, but to your main point, no, and this isn't
happening in Nebraska, nor should it. It's against the law.
And what you see is, you know, it's a health
care decision between a doctor and a woman, and we
have no business involvement. Well, give the unborn child a
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vote and see what he or she says. That might
be a girl, by the way. So that's a little
bit of what we saw there.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
It was the healthcare that threw me.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yes, he was talking about health care decisions, so I
did not associate it with no.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
He makes it sound like a woman goes to a
doctor and says, all right, I've given a lot of
thought to the various treatment levels you gave me for
my recent cancer diagnosis, diagnosis, and I've decided to go
this route. And suddenly the cops come through the door.
You know, it's it's like, all right, hold on there, everyone,
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just stop what you're doing. Whoop, whoop, it's the sound
of the police. You know that kind of thing, Right,
I actually have I put that song to the side somewhere.
Do I still have it? The moment's gone, all right,
Dave says, nothing shows quality and class like profane chance
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speeches and praising a rioter and attempted murderer. Yep, that's
the say his name's James Skurlock thing that Tim Carter
got into.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
All right, let's just a side note. I do have
the F J. B chant, so it does happen on
both sides.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
I know I don't like that either. I don't either,
and during the time of President Biden in office, I
really I don't think I ever referred to him as
Brandon because it came from a profane chant. That doesn't
say that I don't on some level think the whole
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thing is funny. But I think it's funny because the
reporter said, oh, they're saying let's go Brandon when they weren't.
I think I think that error. I think that error
is hilarious. And therefore the fact that people started calling
him Brandon for that, I think that's absolutely hilarious. And
President Biden had some fun with that himself, you know,
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poking fun at the Brandon name and all that. But
as far as the chant, no, I am aware that
people have a dirty mouth when it comes to some
of these things, and I don't choose to. I have
fired friends on Facebook for posting profane rants against Democrat presidents,
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just as I don't like to see it against Republican presidents.
I just I don't think that's what I want Facebook for.
I don't know what I want Facebook for. I've got
to see your cat pictures now, John emails Scott atkfab
dot com. Zonker's custom was inbox and this is where
I would normally.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Say, sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
But now it's John that has it. John says, I
found this kind of interesting. Cash Patel, he's our new
FBI director. Cash Patel is also a big hockey fan.
Was that the game the other day where Alex Ovechkin
tied Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals in a career.
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As you heard in sports updates throughout the morning, he
has since eclipse the grete one Wayne Gretzky, and your
leading career goal scorer is Alex Ovechkin. And in some
age bias on my part, and also the fact that
I'm not a hockey fan, I couldn't pick Ovechkin out
of a lineup, and I don't care if he scores
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twice as many goals as Gretzky. The gen X are
in me is going to say you're not nearly as good,
And a hockey fan will say, well, why in the
world would you say that? And I'd mumble something that
doesn't make sense about like I don't know a strike
zone or something, and you would say, I'm not going
to argue with this guy. He's an idiot, and we
would go our separate ways, and that's fine, But he says.
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Cash Patel was at the game with Wayne Gretzky when
Ovechkin tied Gretzky's record for goals, and so here's Cash Patel,
here's Wayne Gretzky, Here's Ovechkin and the team. They're all
in the locker room afterwards. Patel was in the stands
with Gretzky and the commissioner and others yesterday when Ovechkin
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broke the record. Okay, now, John says, it seems interesting
to me because you know that Putin is over the
moon about Ovechkin breaking the record. Putin is a huge
hockey guy himself, is Ovechkin? Is he Russian?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I was gonna ask that question, but I thought if
I did that, it would be I didn't hear what
you already said.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I appreciate you wondering. Yes he is. He's Russian, he
was born in Moscow. It doesn't get more Russian than that, right,
So Putin is a big Ovechkin and hockey guy. So
John says, maybe this can be the breakthrough to easing
tensions with Russia. He says, I'm not sure you even
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want to discuss it, seeing how after all, Patel is
the head of the FBI. Okay, I don't, but I
think I also saw the picture of oh, Cash Patel,
the Trump head of the FBI, the Trump picked head
to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Is there at
a hockey game with Gretzky as Ovechkin is going after
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this record. I just thought, No, that's interesting. I guess
you know, you got some measure of power and this
is the way you want to use it. Okay, but
perhaps there's something more going on with international diplomacy with Russia.
If we can be supportive of his guy Ovechkin scoring
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goal after goal after goal, after nine hundred some goals,
maybe maybe this might loosen Putin up. Like, ah, you
guys were there cheering on our Russian You know, next
we need one of these dragos to beat someone in
the Rocky camp it's a Balboa or a Creed. If
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we could get that, like, no, no, no, come on,
mister Putin, Let's not be crazy. No Drago is ever
gonna beat anyone in the Rocky Balboa try. All right, fine,
I guess, but can we all agree Rocky for At
a great soundtrack, maybe the best soundtrack of all time. Yeah,
you're right, Maybe we're not so different, you and me.
All right, we're gonna give Ukraine some of their land back.
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I don't know, maybe maybe this happens this way.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
So who was the one with the conspiracy theories? You
or the emailer?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's always you.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory. Scott Boys News
Radio of Levin Kfab.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Is just interesting that he was there. It's it's I
don't think it's by accident. I don't think it's just
because he's like, I'm gonna watch some hockey. Oh hey,
I'm sitting here next to number ninety nine about that.
That's Wayne Gretzky. This is definitely one of the if
this was your childhood passings over the weekend, because either
you watched it the first time around, or you just
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watched it because it was on in syndication on some
channel like TBS or WGN, And you watched it because
it was on. We didn't have streaming services. We just
got cable. We thought like, this is the most amazing thing,
and entertainment will never evolve past this point. So we
watched the old black and white Dennis the Menace sitcom
(21:26):
Lucy Dennis the Menace. The actor who played Dennis has
passed away.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
How old do you think I am.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I don't know why you're coming at me. I don't
know why you're coming at me. In that tone of V.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Said, this is what we remember.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, this is what we remember. I said, we watched
it in syndication.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I don't care about that part.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The original Dennis the Menace was on I think in the.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
The early sixties, if not fifth late yeah, probably maybe
late probably late early city.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Here, Yeah, nineteen fifty nine to nineteen sixty three on CBS.
And it's funny that I only watched that show maybe
a couple of times. When I was a kid. You'd
see it in syndication. I like the Dennis the Menace
comic books. They they would I had a book of
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Dennis the Menace comics that I thought was pretty great
when I was a little kid. But it's just funny
that you could play me probably the top ten songs
in America and say, all, right, here they are, this
is this is the number one song in America. And
I'd hear it and they said, now who sings this?
Don't know, don't care. But if you asked me who
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played Dennis the Menace in the original black and White series,
I'd tell you, Oh, it's Jane North.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I actually knew that too. Yeah, but you know, I'm
not that old.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
It's just it's a good name, Jay North. It's a
good name. He was the original Dennis the Menace. He
has passed at the age of seventy three. Been battling
cancer these last few years. His story is pretty interesting.
He his mom put him on like a he got him.
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He got on with his mom's help. One of these
little like local Uncle Nutsy's Funhouse kind of shows, that
kind of thing. You know, there'd be some guy who
should probably either be incarcerated or hosting a children's television
show on the local public access channel in town. After
we've lost this. This is one thing we've lost and
(23:44):
maybe it is not the worst idea, but there'd be
just some guy and they're like, well, this guy won't
sober up, what are we going to do with him? Well,
I'll put some clown makeup on him and host this
Saturday morning. We need to fill public access and you know,
time on these these channels we have to run, and
we have so many different hours of public service we
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have to run, and a children's television program will fulfill
her obligation to the FCC for public service. So they
just grab some whack job and throw some clown makeup
on a wig on him and have him go out
there and just entertain, entertain the kids. And you're like, hey, kids,
where do you want to go? You know? And so
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Jane North got on one of these shows and his
mom was like, hey, look at the clip, look at
the video of my kid. Isn't this kid great? And
so they were casting a TV show based on the
Dennis the Menace comic book, and Jane North, who was
six years old when he auditioned for that role, got it.
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And they worked with him for about a year and
a half or so, and then between the ages of
eight and twelve, he was Dennis the Menace. After that,
he was trying to ma a career. It's a little
difficult to maintain a career. Was now we're in the
sixties and early seventies and it's all just gritty cop dramas,
(25:10):
and you're like, hey, do you want me for this
episode of this gritty cop drama?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Why in the world what'd you do shoot mister Wilson
with a slingshot? No, you're not going to be on
this gritty cop drama. And so it was kind of
difficult for the young man to find work. So what
did he do. He enlisted in our nation's military. He
served our country in the Navy. He then went on
to serve as a corrections officer in Florida. He did
(25:36):
that job for several decades. I'm sure not a week
went by before they're booking some guy in there for
eating somebody, you know. And he's getting booked in there
and still got entrails coming out of his mouth and
he's wiping his mouth off, and he's like, wait a second,
I recognize you, and Jane North is thinking, don't do it.
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Come on, don't say ah.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
You're Dennis the Menace. I'm your biggest fan. You're like,
you just you're in jail for cannibalism. Come ah, you
wanted it, Now get in that cell, all right, Dennis,
you got me. And then the funniest thing I was
reading over is bio. He wasn't just Dennis the Menace
(26:20):
on that show. This is back in the day when
you would have the stars of the show, you would
be contractually obligated to do all the commercials for the
sponsors of the show. We're not going to put this
show on the air until we have sponsors, and then
we want the stars of the show to do the
commercials for the sponsors.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
But this is bad even when they were recorded. Yeah,
I know they did that with their live shows. Oh
Dennis and Menis certainly couldn't have been live.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
No, but still you you just break away from the
programming and then okay, I mean it's the late fifties
early sixties. Like all the show's sponsors, it was all
like tied and cigarettes.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Right, So yes, boy, Collie.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
After I'm terrorizing mister Wilson around the neighborhood, I like
to chill out with Winchester cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Whoa boy, I love New Winchester. Dennis are you smoking, No, mom, wink.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Winchester cigarettes you four out of five doctors recommend Winchester cigarettes. Ah,
the sixties, it was just a better time.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
It was definitely a better time, sorn.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I was, yeah, I was born in the mid seventies,
but I just imagine it was better time. Did I
rehearse that? No, it did very well, thank you. I
don't know that any of that actually happened, but you
can imagine it did. Though. You know why because it
was the sixties, late fifties, early sixties.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Boy, I don't know about these guys coming over from
Britain with their long haircuts.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
These guys are gonna be trouble. Well, think I'll light
up a Winchester Dennis.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Dennis, you will not be smoking in my house.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
Sorry, mister Wilson.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Speaking of Hollywood. Both of my children, I have two
high school age kids. I got a senior in college
and no, jeez, not yet. Wow, sa, I have two
high school age children and then a senior in college.
My wife doesn't know about so don't let that slip
on the radio. Oh, Scott, did you have a love
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child before you met your wife? No, wink, I have
two high school age children. I've got a senior in
high school. And the reason why I said that is
because Saturday night, my daughter. I can't believe I'm about
to say this. My daughter had it in her head.
(29:10):
We did. We We looked at a few different colleges.
We looked at the big universities, we looked at the
small colleges, and she had it in her head that
the only place that she wanted to go to college
is K State.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Why is that a bad thing?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Because it was a face mask, that's why. Because her
father is a Husker fan and K State tried to
rip Eric Crouch's head off. Oh and it was a
face mask that didn't get called and they won that game.
They were a bunch of cheaters.
Speaker 4 (29:44):
How many years ago?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Oh geez, almost thirty.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
OK.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
So yeah, yeah, but I'm not going to get over
it anytime. Soay and my daughter, my wife, Scott, get
it together. Sorry, my wife, she's a KU girl. So
the fact that our daughter is like, I want to
go to K State, we're trying to find a reason
for this not to happen. And we got it down
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to where this is how much it was going to
cost her to go to K State and I said,
I'm not going to pay that now. If you really
want to go there, you got to really start working
on scholarships and fill out everything and apply for everything,
and you're gonna have to really work hard because there's
a lot of deadlines there. And she's like right away,
and she cut that cost in half to where it's
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only slightly more expensive than some of these smaller in
state Nebraska schools.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
But did she get those scholarships.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, So we told her on Saturday, Hey, great work,
you want to go to k State, let's do it.
So she's very, very happy. So I got a senior
in high school heading towards Manhattan, Kansas in the fall.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Is she going into veterinary sciences?
Speaker 2 (30:53):
No? I this is a whole different conversation. She's getting
a degree that she could get from any school, including
online courses, and live at home. But the idea is
is that a couple things that play here. You only
get a chance to be eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old
one time. And case Eate is a great campus. I've
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always really liked the campus, despite the fact that they're
a bunch of cheaters. It's great campus. It's the right
distance away from home, and she's got a cousin down there,
and so's. It works on a lot of different levels,
and financially we were able to make it work. But
the other thing is, I've said this since my daughter
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was born, and I announced it on the radio eighteen
and a half years ago, just over eighteen years ago.
I guess she's my first born and she's my daughter,
so of course I'm wrapped around her finger. And I'd
go into debt to send her to Harvard if they
weren't a bunch of comies and that were at all
on the table. So thankfully it's just case State. So
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I want to go to Columbia, Dennis. I don't like
those Jews, Dennis. You know, so I've got where was
I going with this? Two high schools students, got the
daughter who's a senior, son who's a freshman. Both of
them heading up to this weekend, said we're not gonna
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go see this movie. It looks stupid because when they
were kids they played Minecraft like all these teenage kids.
And then my son said, all right, well Joey wants
to go, I'll go with Joey. It'll be a laugh though,
and we're just gonna go and just make fun of it.
And then they went and they're like, it was so
much fun because the crowd was totally into it, and
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it looks like for this age, this is their nostalgia
from five years ago, and there's kind of a rocky
horror picture show thing at play, where there's certain things
that you do depending on which weird Minecraft box head
character comes on screen or what Jack Black says or whatever,
and there's a ton of audience interaction and apparently it's
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just a riot. So my son and his friend went.
They had a ball, and my daughter said, well, I
want to go, and so she and her boyfriend went
on Saturday night and they went, and she came back
and said ten out of ten vibes. And I said
to both of them, like, is the movie any good?
And they said not really, but it's just fun. The
crowd's yelling someone through popcorn all over the place. It
was crazy. So this generation now has their rocky horror
(33:31):
it's the Minecraft movie.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Did this generation need another prodding to get trash the
place and trash the place?
Speaker 4 (33:42):
As you say?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Yeah, but this sounds like this sounds like it was fun.
The analyst said, well, do you think this Minecraft movie
because we don't know what it's about, and none of us,
none of us researchers in the movie business, have any
idea what a Minecraft is. So they think it'll probably
make eighty million dollars at the box office this weekend.
(34:04):
When it's all tallied up here this morning from domestic
and international markets, over three hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
We'll go to them. I have no idea what it's about.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah, there's a video game.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
Where I know there's a video game, and that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
But do you know the goal of video of the
video game stuff? Yeah, you just build stuff.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
You don't win the video game. You just exist in
this world.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
That's kind of like crossing the prairie on that whatever
that is.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
No, there was a that you're thinking of, the Oregon Trail. Yeah, yeah,
that had an end goal. You had to get to Oregon.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Oh no, wonder you like it?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Right?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
It never got to Oregon.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
You couldn't get past North Platt without dying of typhoid.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
No.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Minecraft is you just you go on there and you
corral some sheep and you build a house and sometimes
these weird creatures come up and they can kill you
and they all sound like this. You can kind of
hear them coming. It's weird. It's just weird. It's the
whole thing looks weird. It looks total eight bit like
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like like Atari kind of a thing.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Do you think it's that game is going to become
more popular again?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Oh yeah, because McDonald's has a tie in and you
can get a code at McDonald's and you go back
into playing the game. And so yeah. And then my
son who hadn't really he's more into these games where
you steal cars and shoot stuff, and they were all
playing Minecraft all weekend. So yeah, Nostalis is.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Going to make a Centipede game movie. I know I
want to go to that, right, Jost.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yes, we need a movie based on Joust. Excellent Atari reference.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Lucy Scott voices News Radio eleven tenab.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Ron wants to know why Dennis the Menace sounds like
mister Bill, and then this emailer wants to know why
Dennis the Menace sounds like mister Hanky. I don't know.
That's the only little kid voice I do.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
I actually wondered that myself, not the mister Hanky, but
now I hear it too, mister Bill. Definitely when I'm
watching my mom mop the floors.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Well, my dad's out playing cards with his friends all day,
then coming home drunk and looking at my mom mad
because the me loaf is called she uses Daiglo soap,
day Glo soap.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You know, I just thought about Dennis de Menez had
to do all these commercials for the show's sponsors, and
I figured that was all just cleaning supplies for the
mom's home watching this programming, and cigarettes, because that's all
that the sponsors were.
Speaker 7 (36:42):
Well, four out of five doctors like Winchesters cigarettes, and
that fifth doctor's a liar.
Speaker 6 (36:50):
I smoke Winchester's, so.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's I don't know, that's I guess that is a
little if mister Bill and miss or Hanky at a son,
it would be Dennis the Menace.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
Maybe they did.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
They did, and that's why I'm doing that voice. I
do lots of voices. You want to hear my impression
of Vladimir.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Don't do lots of voices.
Speaker 5 (37:14):
I just simply said, you've just said, all right, give
me that's your only little kid voice.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Give me any any any historical or current figure in
the news, and I won't do an incredible impersonation of
that person historic or yeah, anyone he comes to mind.
How about JFK JFK.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask
what you can do for your country.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
Napoleon Teddy, get off of her, Teddy, She said, no,
that's my jf Teddy.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Shouldn't drive, that's my JFK impression. Very good, Napoleon.
Speaker 6 (37:59):
Grandma old and she wants you to leave.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
You're ruining everyone's lives and eating all our steak.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
You met Napoleon dynamite, right, ah, yeah, but I love it.
All right, We'll retire that voice for the rest of
the day. I think Fox News Update.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Next Scott Voice.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Lucy, how you feeling today? You like normal? You good?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Yeah, I'm good? All right, I'm not okay, that's typical.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I watched basketball all week in and so last night,
after I had a big dinner, my son said, Dad,
the only time he talks to me is when he
wants money or this. He said, you want to have
a game, which I know is going to be at
least three games, And like, yeah, let's go do it.
(38:45):
So I wallered my way out to the driveway to
play one on one basketball against my ever growing, fifteen year old,
jolly green, giant of a son, and I thought, well,
let's give this a shot. I'm not going to go
real hard because I can't move very well. I just
(39:05):
ate all the food all weekend and later on watching basketball.
But we gave it a shot. And he took a
shot right at the right side of my rib cage,
and I thought, ah, that hurt. Like he put his
shoulder or elbow into me as he was going up
for a layup. And I contested it because you got
(39:26):
to protect the lane, and I'd eaten so much food
I really couldn't get out of the way. So I
took a shot right here in the ribs and I thought, man,
that hurt. So then I get the ball and do
probably nothing with it. He gets the ball again, comes
right back in the lane. Same thing happens in the
(39:46):
exact same spot, and that learn and that's when it
was the one shot. I was like, ah, but the
same shot a little harder this time in the exact
same spot. I think I have bruised ribs. Do I
do any thing for Bruce Ribs or I just try
not to get hit in the ribs again. I think
that's probably it right. I thought, maybe it was dislocated.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I don't think you can dislocate a rib.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yes you could, Yes you can. You can dislocate anything.
Him here, I'll show you, so I thought. First I thought,
oh no, he got me right in the heart. Then
I realized, wait, the heart's on the other side, So
what's this. I thought my lungs were all collapsed. I
couldn't breathe for a second. And then I walked.
Speaker 4 (40:32):
It off and did it again.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Nope. He's like, do you want to keep going? I said,
heck yes, and then I beat him. So wounded animals.
You got to watch out for. Wounded animals.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Get backed into a corner, then you're in trouble.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah. I backed him into a corner. I beat him.
Two Omaha area school districts have decided. This is the
story here from the Omaha World Herald. They decided that
they want their students in Gretna and Millard to do
a little bit better because if you have if you're
more engaged and you're getting better grades, well now you
(41:09):
got a better GPA. You get a better GPA. This
helps you out in your college search, and it also
makes you feel better and it's all about making these
students feel better. So there were a couple of different
ways that they discussed. I imagine how to go about doing this.
Either you maybe reduce class sizes. You kick out those
(41:33):
students who are a constant distraction, and make it to
where the students who really want to be there are
the ones there. The teachers feel better, the students feel better,
and now you can do more one on one or
one on small group classroom exercises, and you can reach
out to those students who you know probably aren't doing
their best, but you just need to focus them and
(41:56):
get them plugged in on the magic of learning and
doing your best and feeling good about the work that
you produced. And that's gonna get better test scores and
better grades. And I tell you, the whole process just snowballs.
And it could be great, and that's really hard. I mean,
my goodness, you're gonna have to have teachers who give
a crap, and you're gonna have students who buy into it,
(42:18):
and it's just hard. And so the other thing they
could do was just h lower the rate at which
you could still get an a.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
Let me guess.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
So they said, all right, we'll do that. So they've
they've watered down the grades and Gretna and Millard. It
used to be that, depending on the school district, either
ninety three or ninety four percent was an A. I
was growing up, ninety four percent was an A.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
But now, well you never got them, so you don't know.
So now there's Hey, there's a reason we're in radio.
I don't know nothing about birth and no babies.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
I got an a once in a while, what class,
I don't know, So Homeck.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
I don't believe that for a second. Now you do
bring in cookies and stuff that you bade.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
Me bring this stuff that actually works.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Did I ever tell you that it once took me
an entire classroom period just to thread a needle.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
I'm sure you orchestrated it that.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Seventh grade, Homeck, I couldn't get the thread through the
small head of this needle.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
You had bad eyes then, I just I don't know
you didn't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I didn't know that. I tried real hard. Yeah, every
time the teacher came over to see how I was doing,
I was just like, I just threadn the needle and
hot no, uh, all right, you know what, I'll go
the other way. The uh, the great Phyllis Tooker, who
we just lost a few years ago homeck teacher or
also middle school. She might have been seventy years older
(43:53):
than me, but smoking hot. We're going to give some
love to Phillis Tooker on this program. Love loved her.
Was I attracted to her?
Speaker 6 (44:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (44:04):
But man, she had a great nineteen forties throwback hairdoo
that just drove boys.
Speaker 4 (44:14):
I don't know if you're being serious.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Child, No, Mistooker was great. So but I decided I wasn't.
I wasn't real involved in the home exid.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
So he decided.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Was it the parents or was it the school board
who decided, okay, let's just knock down The.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
School board bar said, all right, so either it's a
ninety four percent to get an A, or if we
want more students to get a's, maybe you just lower it.
And so they said, all right, we're going to lower
it to ninety. So ninety percent we're going to do
on the tens the ten point grading scale, which means
ninety percent and above is an A. Before if you
got a ninety percent in a test, that was a B.
(44:50):
Now it's an A. You've done exactly the same work,
you're a full letter grade better, which means your GPA
is better. I mean it's only a couple of percent points,
but that extra point towards your GPA, that's huge. Have
you learned anymore? Have you accomplished anymore? No, but no
(45:10):
one cares about that. So we just watered it down
and said, all right, you're doing the same work, but
you get a better letter grade. And also that means
on the back end, let's talk about the back end
for a second, just pausing for a second for kids
to giggle at that. And that also means that whereas
before what was failing? I'm sure that you did that
(45:33):
a few times. What was a failing grade?
Speaker 5 (45:36):
You know, I am not here just to be your
whipping post. What was failing? I want to say?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Sixty that's what it is now, Well, that's what it
is according to the new scale. Used to be sixty
eight percent and below was an.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
F Yeah, we need to go back to that.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Well they had been doing that, I think probably to day.
This doesn't take effect until the next school year, so yeah,
what and what a kick in the yards that would
be getting you're right now getting a sixty three percent.
You're failing. You're failing your classes. You cannot go onto
(46:15):
the next grade, or maybe you can. I don't know
what they do, and I'm sure you can probably can.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
And so you're getting to three sixty three percent and
you have an F. You're not passing, but you can
show up again next year do exactly the same thing,
get the same grade, and you got a D. D's
pass and so you're now on to the next grade. Congratulations,
you have learned nothing more. But we've watered down the grade.
(46:43):
We just change it. We've lowered it to where you
get an A, you know, than anything in the eighties
is a B. You know, so and so on and
so forth, and so you could get sixty percent to
pass a class.
Speaker 5 (46:54):
How long do you think it will be before all
grades go away? Because I think that I've heard some
of the In some parts of the of the country,
the grades have gone away completely. There's not even any
grading of the paper checking what's wrong and what's right.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
You just do the assignment or not.
Speaker 5 (47:12):
It's it's the teacher saying I have taught this this
curriculum and now we're done.
Speaker 4 (47:17):
Let's move on. I know, I don't know if that's
happening now.
Speaker 2 (47:22):
It's happening in some places, certainly, but.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
They're really not grading. There's Nora that needs to be
turned in at all.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Well in Millard and Gretna, this story is they've changed
their grading scale. Right in some school districts across the country,
they've done exactly what you just said. You know, students
can't possibly learn the way that their parents or grandparents did.
So instead, we're just going to you know, what grade
do you feel like you're earned in this class?
Speaker 5 (47:50):
And you still think that that the government wanting us
to be less educated is a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
No, I don't. I've never said that. That's one of
your few conspiracy theories that I don't call a conspiracy theory. So,
and the last thing on this story is, in case
you're saying, Scott, it's not an A or a B,
it's a one or a two. Nope, not anymore. They're
going back to letter grades, which everyone I think has
(48:17):
a better idea what an A or a B or
C is. My son comes home and says, I don't,
I don't really know. I've never known on the number scale,
I guess in Omaha public schools four is an A
three as a B. So my son comes home and says,
I got my science test back. I was really worried
(48:38):
about it, but I got a three. I'm like out
of a hundred, which never gets old. To me, that
joke never gets old. That's great, I know. So now
he'll come home and say I got a B, and
I'll say out of a hundred, and it won't make sense.
But I'm not going to update my material. Take my
wife play. Come come on, people. But to your point
(49:01):
about making sure the masses are as dumb as possible, well,
I don't want to say that because there are people
who have genuine concerns with what they've seen go on
in the stock markets and the reaction to what's been
going on in the stock markets here over the last
few days. I'll tell you what's going on now next.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
Scott Gordies News Radio Eleve.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
I know that there are people who have legitimate concerns
because for so many years we hear the Dow is
down one thousand points and you think, oh, the money
is gone. It's all gone, there's no more money anywhere,
and it's the media is always more than happy to
(49:50):
scream this out especially depending on which type of president
Republican or Democrats in office, and who is doing the screaming.
So the national media right now, which tends to lean very,
very far left, and I'm only saying that because it's
one hundred percent true, so they don't like Trump, and
(50:11):
they're catering to their audience, and the audience has been
rooting for the stock market to drop. They would love
to see it hit the bottom and then start drilling.
They want all the money gone so they can blame Trump.
Never mind the fact that that's their retirement, that that's
the economy of this nation that results in their jobs
and consumer confidence, never mind all that. They don't care.
(50:34):
There are so many people who don't care about any
of that. They just hate Trump so much they want
all they want the economy to collapse so they can say, see,
look what Trump did. I've never hated a president so
badly that I wanted the American economy to collapse and
(50:57):
everyone's savings to be wiped out, just to blame it
on that president. Can you imagine being filled with that
much hate. Some of these people are perspective, though. When
the Dow drops by a thousand points, it's not the
same as when the Dow dropped by one thousand points
twenty years ago or even five years ago. The stock
(51:20):
market has more money attached to it. Therefore, a thousand
point drop is not a ten percent drop. In fact,
if you look at what's happened here in each of
the last couple of days of last week, like right now,
the Dow is down six hundred points, that's one point
sixty two percent of the makeup of the Dow Jones
(51:41):
Industrial Where does that rank or the three percent losses
last week? Where does that rank in the top ten
of worst stock market days of all time? No, top twenty, No,
not even close. This kind of thing happens all the time. Now.
It's interesting here due to the tariffs, but this is
(52:01):
not over. If we're still doing this in weeks from now,
that might be an issue. President says, don't worry. Nations
are wanting to make a deal. It'd be great if
they could do that sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1 (52:17):
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