Scott is "Off" This Week

But am I ever really "on"?  Before I leave you for the rest of the week, we talk about the financial issues facing "these darn kids today," discuss Trump stuff with Sen. Grassley, tell you what I'm doing the rest of the week, and more.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Steve Brown, Talk of the Town. Steve Brown one of
my radio heroes, as is Lucy Chapman. Good morning. Great
to see you. If you are anywhere in the country
and you're like, you know what, I really need to

(00:44):
powder my nose. We'll keep this on the up and up.
You can't go into Starbucks and do so unless you
buy something. Is this a fair policy or not?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
You asking me?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Only I think it.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Is only pain customers can use the restroom.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I think it is. I think that there could be
exceptions made if you had somebody who was really going
to be having a problem but just wandering in. I mean,
the business has to pay for that water and electricity
and your space now that you're taking out.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Right now, you know why they did this. They did
this here a week or so ago. We talked about
it at that point. Maybe you weren't here when we
talked about it. They they always had this policy that
we don't have any public restrooms there for customers only. Well,
then people are like, but, but, but but, and Starbucks said, no,

(01:47):
you're right. We want to be a humanitarian organization. After all,
we have all of this nationwide reach. So I'm sure
that if we change this policy, it won't be abused.
It'll just be something nice for the unhoused persons in

(02:07):
our community. After all, isn't it better to have them
come in here and use a restroom and clean themselves
in a restroom than to just use the restroom there
that exists on street corners and right there at the
curb and outside our front door, in full view of
a school and anywhere else that they might need to
succumb to nature calling. Instead, they can just come into

(02:29):
a Starbucks. They can use the restroom and it's not
a big deal, right, It's not like we're going to
have people living in bathrooms and Starbucks. Well, after a
while there they had to change the policy because there
were people living in bathrooms in Starbucks. So Starbucks came
out the other day and said, all right, we're going

(02:50):
back to our old policy. Restrooms are for paying customers only.
And now those who are championing the cause of the
unhoused in this country, these are people who when I
was a kid, they were called homeless people. But now
we have unhoused individuals, unhoused residents, residents of where are

(03:13):
leaning on Starbucks and they're saying like, well, what about
someone like Lucy who's on a road trip. She doesn't
have any money, but she really has to use the restroom.
You're going to deny her the of course it couldn't be.
The Starbucks says, with reasonable exceptions, restrooms are for paying

(03:37):
customers only. Then you're putting some eighteen year old barista
who has more tattoos than brains. Not that that's the
not the only person. I'm just this is a very
specific example and not at all over generalization. So you
got an eighteen year old barista with more tattoos than brains,
It has to sit there and make a sociological judgment

(03:59):
call on the person in front of them. Now, if
I'm working there and someone comes up and says, can
I get the key to the restroom, and I'm looking
at this person going, this is a drugged out, drunken,
homeless guy, and as such, he is not a customer
of our business. He's going to abuse the privilege and
use that restroom. I'm probably going to give him the

(04:22):
key anyway, because if he doesn't use the restroom, he's
probably going to make a restroom out of this area
where I'm providing drinks for customers, and nobody wants that.
But Starbucks got tired of people living in the bathrooms,

(04:43):
so they changed the policy. And now people are like,
this is an outrage, this is terrible. It's a health hazard.
It's a health hazard. Since when is anyone entitled to
deal with your Have you ever heard the phrase your
emergency is not my problem.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes, but your or your bad planning?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Have you also ever you don't have to answer this one.
Ever been in a situation where you're like, yeah, I
just went from zero to sixty in a very short
amount of time, and the only place I have here
is your business. And I know you don't have public restrooms,
but I know you got a little one holer in
the back. Is there any chance you get? And people

(05:28):
take pity on you and like yeah, yeah, go ahead,
and then you go on the back. It was all
a ruse. I'm just back there to Pilford. They're safe,
but you can talk your way back there. I'm kidding,
you know, it couldn't possibly be. We just allow for
But see here's the other thing it was. It was
a lot of the employees who work in these joints

(05:51):
across the country saying, I don't feel safe coming to work.
We have a company policy that allows people to live here,
do drugs openly, and whatever else that they're doing in
these bathrooms. The parties they have in these bathrooms are
wilder than anything I ever experienced in high school or college.
And these people are just living here openly, violating federal

(06:15):
laws in some cases sometimes the law of man by
being in these restrooms and having these crazy parties. And
I don't feel safe coming to work. And so for
the employees, for the customers, Starbucks made a decision, and
now there are people saying this is an outrage. Where
are these people supposed to go? Why is that Starbucks problem?

(06:37):
You know what the biggest problem right now for people
who work in minimum wage jobs getting the hours that
they enjoyed especially here in Nebraska. The hours that they
had before the most recent increased earlier this month, as
of January first, in the minimum wage. This is a
major issue for these employees, and we'll talk about that next.

(06:59):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven to t K Baby Program. Note,
I am off the rest of the week. This is
my Christmas vacation, so I have to make Lucy's life
extra miserable today.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You might want to rephrase that that you're off the
rest of the week.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
I am. I'm totally always. I am on right now.
I mean, this is this is amazing. You're welcome America.
But I'll be off the rest of the week. You're right,
I should probably point that out that I will be
off the rest of the week and not on the radio.
There you go, there you go. You know what's been

(07:41):
happening with these minimum wage employees here in Nebraska this month?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
They've been paid more.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Oh yeah, they're getting paid more. The minimum wage went up.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, you asked what happened.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, they minimum wage went up because a couple of
years ago, the Nebraska voting public said, I think we
should pay these young people. These are kids in some
cases that they were led to believe these are people
who are starting families and trying to buy housing, and

(08:13):
the minimum wage is so low, so we need to
pay them more minimum wage, and will stare step it.
They can make this much this year, and then they'll
make that much the next year, and then we'll work
up to fifteen dollars an hour by twenty twenty six.
And now these guys are making I think it's what
thirteen fifty an hour, give or take a quarter. And
then the Nebraska population also said, but we don't want

(08:36):
to see prices go up. We don't want to see
any inflation. We just think that those rich fat cats
that own these businesses can pay their employees these pleas
a little bit more. Maybe it cuts into your fat
cat corporate profits a little bit. You understand that a
lot of the people who run these businesses are not

(08:56):
fat cats. They're not even slightly beast cats. They're regularly
sized cats. And they've been trying to run the business
and pay their best employees and incentivize their best employees
so that they stay employees, and give them a raise
and a promotion. Hey, thanks a lot for being so great.

(09:19):
How would you like to be assistant manager? How would
you like to make more money? And then the people
you just hired, And in some cases there are a
bunch of people there that really should be fired. But
if I fire them, at least they somewhat kind of
sometimes show up. Then I have to go through the
process to try to find a new person, and they

(09:40):
might even be worse.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
We'll just deal with this anyway. The minimum wage employees
are now making more money now. The people a tier
above them often didn't get paid more money. You could
have been previously making like, I don't know, twelve fifteen hours,
and those on minimum wage are making a little bit less. Well,

(10:04):
now they're making more. They didn't increase your pay. Now
you're the boss of these new employees, you're making less
money than them, but you're getting more hours. So from
the hourly standpoint, you're making less money for the week,
you're making more money. Why because employers have been cutting

(10:26):
back hours of those hourly employees who are making minimum wage.
I can't afford to pay you guys this much. Also,
we're going to have to try and get by with
fewer people per shift. In some instances, you want to
go and try on a pair of shoes, you want

(10:46):
to look at a pair of pants, You want to
get a cup of coffee, you want to muffin or something.
You're probably dealing with fewer employees and all these various
service industry jobs across the area, because it's either we
cut back on hours and staff or we go out
of business. And whose fault is this? It's yours. You

(11:11):
voted for the increase in the minimum wage, and at
the same time you thought, well, then they shouldn't increase
prices or cut back on hours or pay, are staffing
or anything. What world do you live in? Clearly you
don't work for or have ever managed a small business.

(11:32):
So that's the current situation for a lot of these employees.
You know, we being a gen xer as I am,
it is my responsibility to look at these darn kids
today and call them out for the soft little weirdos
they are. But if I could try and cobble together

(11:54):
some semblance of a heart, I'll borrow one from Lucy.
I feel really bad for these young people. You're in
high school, You're trying to get some of these jobs. Yeah,
the pay is great, but your buying power hasn't increased.

(12:15):
You're not getting much in the way of hours. When
you're at work, you're having to cover what three people
used to do. Now that's just you. And then it's
time to go to college. College prices have gone through
the roof. How are you supposed to enjoy the same

(12:36):
moderately affordable college experience that we enjoyed growing up when
it is so much more expensive? And then you have
the well, why do I have to go to college?
Why don't I just jump into the workforce?

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Great?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Same problem. Now you're working and you're not getting much
in the way of hours. You're not getting much in
the way of being incentivized to want to come to work,
as like, hey, we're going to pay you this much money.
You're gonna work do the work of four people? Well,
can I at least get the pay of two people? No,
if you don't like it, there's the door. So you're
not making very much money, and you think, well, I'm

(13:13):
gonna rent an apartment. Let's see what I can afford. Oh,
my roommates will be a bunch of cockroaches. It's the
old MTV Joe's apartment situation, except these cockroaches aren't as
much fun. I can't talk to them. I can talk
to them. They don't talk back. If they start talking
back to you, you're probably in the right place. Actually,

(13:36):
if you want to buy a house, good luck. There's
not much in the way of inventory that which you
can't afford is going to be in an area of
town that you probably don't want to live and don't
want your kids going to that school. So let me
know if all this is a little bit too real
for you. I feel really bad for these young people,
you know, because I've got a couple of them. I've

(13:58):
got two high schoolers. Don't worry, they're my kids. I
have two high schoolers in my house. And you know
what makes me feel really really bad about them. They're
not gonna be able to come back and live with me.
They're gonna be kicked out of the nest. They're gonna
have to go figure it out. And I clearly haven't
given them the tools to do that. So it's gonna

(14:22):
be quite an education for them. President Trump said we
should not tax tips. He spoke at a rally at
a Las Vegas casino over the weekend, and this is
something he said on the campaign, but he says it's coming.
I've got a. I'm working with Congress to get a
bill on my desk that cuts taxes for workers, families,

(14:42):
small businesses, and very importantly keeps my promise. We're gonna
get it for you. No tax on tips. If you're
a restaurant worker, server, valet, bellhop, bartender, one of my caddies,
your tips will be one hundred percent yours, no tax
on tips. And a lot of people are like I
wasn't reported my tips anyway. I don't know how much

(15:03):
this helps. Let's talk about all things trumpy with Iowa
Senator Chuck Grassley, who joins us now on the program.
It's always good to talk to you, Senator Grassley, good morning.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
I'm glad to be with you. Thank you very much
for having me once again.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
You were back at the White House this past week.
I imagine it's probably been a while since you've been
at the White House to meet with the President. How
did that go?

Speaker 3 (15:27):
It went very very well. It was a strategiz session
to get the mandate of the last election through the Congress,
and it was a Republican and Democrat leadership of the House. No,
not Democrat leadership, Republican leadership of the House, and the
Senate and we were sitting there in the cabinet room

(15:50):
having discussion with the President of the United States, and
I think it was a very productive meeting. We didn't
I can't say that we really solved a lot of problem,
but then this is the first week of the president,
it was, and we have to get things rolling, and

(16:11):
you don't necessarily make big decisions involving five hundred and
thirty five members of Congress with one meeting with the president.
But I think we got the ball rolling.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, I'm sure that the president would like to get
everything solved in one meeting. He Well, let me ask
you this without leading the witness here, do you notice
a difference in him personally and professionally this time around
as opposed to in his first term.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Now, one word confidence, and that confidence is going through Washington,
d C. Like tornado. And you could imagine a town
that is ninety three percent Democrat, because that's how they
vote in the presidential election. It's not probably not going

(17:02):
over very well. But you also know that this is
a town that needs shaken up and he's going to
do that, and he is doing it already. And that's
why I use the word tornado. I think that there's
a lot of these people that he's putting in his
cabinet are well aware of what this town needs, and

(17:29):
it's in the process of happening. Just think deportations of
people that illegally entered our country is going on pretty fast,
and you wouldn't expect things. So let's get back to
the point of your question. Are things different? Yeah, the
president is very confident. The president knows the mistakes he

(17:54):
made in his first term. He's not going to repeat
those mistakes, and he knows he understands how government works now,
and he had four years to think about both the
mistakes and how government works. And you can tell that
his transition team under his leadership is ready even before

(18:17):
day one to make to carry out those moves when
day one comes. I have a feeling. I don't have
any basis except just a feeling that he must have
had some feeling that he's going to win this election
way back in the summer and really cranked this transition

(18:38):
team up so he'd be ready to go. And on
November sixth, they sat down and the plans they had
then the next step was to plan how you're going
to put him into effect. And you saw that on
January twentieth signing all of these executives orders.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah. President Trump never seems in his entire life to
have lacked for confidence. You mentioned, as we talked here
with Senator Chuck Grassley, you mentioned the mandate of the
last election. Does that mean that every single one of
his potential cabinet members should just be rubber stamped and
put in there? Some people mad at your colleague, Senator

(19:21):
Mitch McConnell for holding out voting against Pete Hegseath for
Defense Secretary. There are people, including yourself, who've asked questions
about whether or not President Trump did the right thing
and firing eighteen Inspectors general the way he did. So
what should the relationship of Republicans, especially in Congress be,

(19:41):
in being that checks and balance mechanism with the executive
branch President Trump?

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Well, we're going to be a check. We're going to
balance things the way the Constitution intended, the way James
Madison said in the Federalist Papers that checks and balances
supposed to work. Just because Trump's president doesn't mean the
checks aren't going to work. But don't be surprised if

(20:12):
all these cabinet people get approved. Because I want to
give you a statistic that Senator Cotton threw out to
us a couple of weeks ago. Take the president or
Republican or Democrat. Take a Congress or a Senate of
the president in power. So going back to Clinton, so

(20:34):
that's nineteen ninety three. You go through what I just
told you, seventy two cabinet positions. And in those seventy
two cabinet positions, there were only two no votes out
of all those hundreds of votes, only two no votes
by a senator of the president's party, not confirming cabinet person.

(21:01):
Now that's been increased by three, now that three Republicans
didn't vote for Hexas. But that statistic ought to tell
you overwhelmingly, whether the president is a Republican or Democrat,
that he gets elected, he ought to have the people
that he wants helping him carry out his mandate having

(21:24):
them in his cabinet.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
The three you mentioned here too, Senators Collins of Maine
and Murkowski of Alaska, are not Republicans. Senator Mitch McConnell
also voted against Pete. Hegseth. What did you think about
that vote? It caused it to go to a tiebreak
to have the Vice president stat in there and vote
to confirm Hegseth.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
It's kind of it's kind of adds to that two
votes I talked about over the last thirty years that
the President's got his cabinet. But the end result was
that Pete HEGs Seth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense.
So really, what difference does to make if those three

(22:08):
didn't vote for him. He's in office and he's going
to help the president carry out his agenda. We might
have a couple others RFK JR. We might have Tulci Gabbert,
maybe another one that has loses some votes, But right

(22:30):
now I don't see that happening.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
You have always been really big on sending letters to
the Department of Justice, the FBI and saying I need
this information, I need that information. You didn't get it
over the last four years. What do you think now
with Pete Hegseth in charge of the Department of Justice,
and what do you think about Trump's pick to lead
the FBI cash battel.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Yeah, well, in the case of Pam Bondy next Attorney
General and Patel the next FBI director, and I think
they're both going to be approved. I have this binder
of one hundred and fifty eight letters that I wrote
doing investigations within Justice and the FBI, and I imagine

(23:17):
half of those were with the FBI. They promised me
that they were going to answer my investigations, and I said,
you know, going back over several requests for documents, we
need those documents as well, and they said we're going

(23:39):
to get them. We'll just have to see. But I
believe it's fair to say I always tell them this
kind of tongue and gee, but everybody's Every committee chairman
asked these nominees, whether you're a Republican or Democrat, are
you're going to answer our letters? They all say yes.
And I tell these nominees that come in here more

(24:00):
honest as they said.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Maybe a couple of minutes here with Senator Chuck Grassley,
you mentioned the immigration raids already carried out this past
week by President Trump. There are those who say, look,
I was brought here to this country illegally by a
parent or family member. I've been raised here, I've been
working here, I'm raising my own family here. I've never

(24:21):
run a follow of the law. I've never had so
much as a parking ticket. Are they going to come
grab me from work and take me to Columbia? What
should you tell these people who are worried about immigration
raids coming for them.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Here's what I'm telling them, because I said this on
the floor of the Senate a couple times in the
last week, and maybe in interviews with people like you,
I said, ask me that question a few months down
the road, or maybe even a couple of years down
the road, because this administration is going to take the

(24:55):
first steps deporting people to make our country safer. That
means that the people are on the TERRAFFS watch list,
That means the people that have criminal records, and then
maybe you get into another category that the public safety
isn't so paramount. But they still don't have a reason
to be in this country. And it's one in two

(25:18):
tenths or one and three tenths million people that have
already been adjudicated that their reasons for asylum aren't legitimate.
So let's get rid of the criminals, the terrorists, and
the one and two tens million people that have been
judicated not to get into this country, and then we'll

(25:40):
worry about the people you're asking me about in the meantime,
the business lobbies of this community, as well as maybe
liberal politicians, want you to believe that if we deport
one person, we're going to hurt the economy. Well, businesses
don't hire terrace businesses don't hire criminals. And if you're

(26:04):
on if you've been adjudicated not to be in this country,
maybe you got a job today. Maybe you don't. But
you still got ten million more people here that can
do the work, whether they're here legally or illegally. And
so let's talk about not hurting the economy. Maybe months
or a couple of years down the road, just like

(26:26):
I'm telling you for these families. Let's just see how
things are going first of all. But they're going pretty
fast as you can see. Yes, the plane's landing all
over the deporting people.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Yeah, Bill, and Nebraska is we're working on doing something
on that front. President Trump just negotiated with Columbia to
get something done with all this. We'll discuss that in
a few minutes here after we let Senator Grassley go.
But before we do, I wanted you to bring up
or discuss this bipartisan piece of legislation that bears your name.

(27:00):
It's got the Drug Price Transparency for Consumers Act, co
sponsored by Dick Durbin Democrat Jock Grassley, Republican from Iowa. Oh,
tell me about.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
This builder's Yes, well, we've introduced it a couple times
and big farmers against it is putting the price on
the TV. Like you buy a they advertise chivvy's. You're
going to pay so much for the chivy. What's wrong
with putting the price on for drugs? And particularly they

(27:32):
have all these information down to the bottom of how
these drugs may react in your body? What's wrong with
putting the price on? And I think it's going to
drive the price down.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah, that certainly could. I think it'd probably give a
lot more information than someone out there playing softball and
there's some little butterfly flying around and like it. I
don't know what any of this has to do with
what the drug actually does, but yeah, what does it call?
Talk to your doctor about what it cost? Well, sometimes
your doctor won't tell you what it costs. So interesting

(28:06):
piece of legislation there and maybe the only bipartisan thing
in Washington right now. Senator Chuck Grassley always good to converse.
Happy New Year, to you. Look forward to talking to
you quite a bit here this year.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Be looking forward to talking to you too. Thank you
for having me.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Goodbye anytime. Iowa. Senator Chuck Grassley here on Nebraska's news,
weather and traffic station. So what did President Trump do
to strong arm Columbia, which is a little different on
the world stage on the front of illegal immigration? And
what about a bill in Nebraska to discuss that as well.
That's all coming up next.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Scott Voriez News Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Has had a good, wide ranging conversation, as we normally do,
with Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa. I appreciate his message
to those who live in this country illegally, many of
whom brought here by parents who came to this country illegally.
These kids have been born and raised, you're educated in
our schools. They're working, not in some of the what's

(29:09):
so often derided is, oh, if you're in this country illegally,
you're probably washing dishes and you're picking fruit or whatever.
And some of these guys they're working as college professors.
I mean, we're talking about, you know, people who have
a wide range of jobs, born and raised, educated here.
They don't have so much as a trespassing or a
parking or a jaywalking ticket, and the media consistently says, well,

(29:33):
Trump and his borders are this unelected. Borders are the
scary looking guy, Tom Holman. They're gonna come to your house,
they're gonna drag you away, they're gonna separate you from
your kids, they're gonna put your kids in cages, and
they're gonna send you to Columbia. Well, on that front,
there was a showdown with Columbia the last few days
and Trump won. Here's what happened. Trump told Columbia, you're

(29:56):
gonna accept these flights. So we're already deporting hundreds and
hundreds of really really bad people from America. These are
people wanted or convicted of major crimes. Some of them
are already in our jails. We knew where they were,
we went, we busted, we got them ole. We got
to crack down on some of these really bad guys.
They're on terrorism watch lists, they're human and drug traffickers.

(30:18):
We want them out of the country, and you're going
to take them. And Columbia said, hell, we are, and
Trump said, all right, twenty five percent tariff on all
of your stuff, and if you still want to take
this stance, we'll raise it to fifty percent next week.
And you're thinking, what does Columbia offer us coffee? Yeah,

(30:42):
that's one. It's also the fourth largest overseas supplier of
crude oil is Columbia, and also America's largest supplier of
fresh cut flowers. You learn something new every day, don't you.
So Trump told them we're gonna throw a big tariff
and all your stuff, and then the President Gustavo Petro,

(31:06):
backed down and said, all right, well we'll take your
Columbia bound US military aircraft carrying migrants who will be
housed in our prisons. So that didn't last very long. Basically,
short story is Trump said, you guys are gonna do this.
Foreign country said no. Trump said, oh yeah, foreign country

(31:28):
said all right. That was and this was set up
as in any other country that thinks that they've got
some they whyt. Don't you go ahead and keep negotiating
with Trump. See how that goes for you. But the
big thing is is there are people here illegally in
this country from Columbia or other Central American nations or Mexico,
and they want these bad guys out of here. You

(31:49):
know who's really secretly cheering all these really bad guys
who are in this country illegally being deported. The people
who are in this country illegally who fled those countries
to get away from those people. These are good people,
hard working people. They're in this country. They're not the
ones being deported. In Nebraska, Kathleen Kauth of Miller just

(32:10):
put forth the piece of legislation that said, you need
to if you hire this many employees, you need to
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(32:30):
crack at a thousand Bucks coming up here at ten
oh five. As I said, I'll be off the rest
of the week, Lucy said, you're barely on now, and
that's why I ignore her. But I'm taking my Christmas
vacation the rest of this week. This is something I do,
and I've done this for the last five years, maybe

(32:52):
this or maybe this is the fifth year I've done it.
Says I can't really take much of a break when
Lucy and everyone else here. It takes a while week
off around the holiday is some times, fuck two weeks
off around the holiday, which is fine, Which is totally fine.
I am so happy to cover so that people can
enjoy the holidays off. Totally fine. That's the only thing

(33:15):
I'll say all day that's not snarky. So I shift
my Christmas vacation to the end of January. I take
usually about the last week off, and that begs the question, Well, then, Scott,
why are you working today?

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Believe me, I've asked myself that many many times. I don't.
There's a couple of things I need to get done
here in the office, and I wouldn't be leaving until
after my son's basketball game this evening anyway, So it
just and plus I like doing this.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
I think you might have been a little bit smarter
than the rest of us. Yeah, this really does make sense.
You don't have to hang out with the relatives.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Oh no, no, no, all right, then, let me tell you
what this is really all about. Hi. My name is Scott,
and I'm a golf addict. Hi Scott. So around here
it's really hit or miss after mid November. As to
whether you're able to play some golf around here. Well,
let's say we get hit with a big snowstorm and

(34:21):
then frigid temperatures right before Thanksgiving. All right, Well, I
love Thanksgiving. I love getting together with family and watching
the football and all the fun stuff. So that time
period goes really really quickly, and it's really nice, and
then you're already in the bob sled race towards Christmas,
and then the week after Christmas is New Year's Well,

(34:41):
now you're in early January, and it felt like wow,
that all just went by in the blink of an eye. Oh,
and I'm taking a trip to warmer temperatures here at
the end of January, which is just a few weeks away.
And the way I do my stupid trip is I
don't know where I'm going until I finally have to
point my car somewhere and drive there like I'm leaving tonight.

(35:05):
I honestly, right now, don't know what my final destination
is going to be. More on that in a second.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
But aren't you going to pick up snow pretty much
all the way down to the Gulf of America? No,
I mean the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
No, there's plenty of snow around Kansas City, so that's
out now. Now on my way back home, it'll be gone.
So maybe I get a chance to play Kansas City
on my way back home. But south of I mean,
it's all melted. It all melted over the weekend that
which was around Houston and New Orleans and all those
and I don't think I need to go that far

(35:37):
south anyway. But more on that in a second. So
in early January, I'm already looking forward to where am
I going to go here in a few weeks. And
then I go and I come back, and it's February,
the shortest month of the year. Usually after a couple
of weeks of February, you can start finding evidence of
spring setting in and then it kind of feels like

(36:01):
winter is over and the golf courses are back open
around here, and I'm playing golf and feeding this addiction
of mine. So that's the mindset behind why I do this.
It has nothing to do with I'd rather work around
the holidays so I don't have to spend time with
my family. That's not true. That's not true, And I

(36:25):
resent you saying that, Lucy. So that brings me to
this little trip the best weather and conditions in America
for drivable golf this week. Like, if I'm not going
to get on a plane and go to Phoenix or Miami,

(36:47):
you know that's not what this trip is about. So
if I'm looking at an area of about twelve hours drive,
the best conditions anywhere Omaha, Nebraska. Not all the golf
courses are open. Some of the greens are still frozen.
You try and get a seven iron to land and

(37:07):
stop on a frozen green, it's like getting it to
land and stop on a driveway on a cart path.
It's not going to do it. But that'll change here
in the next few days. We'll get that first inch
and a half or so of frost pretty well thought.
It'll be a little soupy, but there's no moisture on
the ground. We haven't had snow. We've had some rain

(37:33):
and it's just been frozen and dry. But south of here,
as Lucy mentioned, they've had a bunch of snow, which
means now that that's thought that's melted off, I can
go play golf down there, but the temperatures aren't going
to be that great. The ground is mostly mud and
there's a bunch of rain coming in middle of this week? Oh,

(37:55):
where's it going to rain? Everywhere? All across Texas and
Oklahoma and Kansas and Missouri and Arkansas. It's just it's
apparently just gonna rain everywhere, and it's a few days out.
And I don't know, Like, does that mean it's going
to rain all day Wednesday, all day Thursday? Or does
it rain for an hour Wednesday night at two o'clock

(38:16):
in the morning, for one minute on Thursday and that's
the end of the rain? I don't I don't know.
So then you think, all right, so then why don't
you just stay here? I can't stay here. I gotta
get away from my family. Now, I'm sorry, said that wrong.
I gotta get away from my KFA B family. If

(38:37):
I stay here, I'm gonna come into work. Lucy. You
know how that is? You had a day off last Monday?
And where did I see you last Monday?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Right here in the right here the office?

Speaker 1 (38:51):
You get paid for that day? No, No, go ahead
and take a full comp day someplace else. Okay, we'll
keep that on the download. So I as far as
like what I'm doing, I don't know. Does that bother
me not? At all. If I have to go play
in the rain in the mud, I'll go play in
the rain in the mud. Did I mention I'm a

(39:13):
golf addict. Now this is for me in my stupid life.
What about these people who they make a living landscaping
throughout nine months of the year, and then those three
winter months of the year, they make a living clearing snow.
They have a contract either with the city of Omaha,

(39:35):
and in some cases not just with the city. They
also are private contractors. That way. You know, some big
business that is going to be open or have employees
come in after a snow, they'll hire these guys to
come out there and clear the drive, the parking lots,
the sidewalks going into the business, the front area of

(39:55):
the business. These guys make really good money doing this.
They work real hard. Sometimes these guys work like thirty
six hours straight, no breaks, just because like this is
where if I can just really just slam it hard
these next couple of days here I can eat and
sleep later, but I'm gonna make this much money. And
this is this is my month right now. This is

(40:16):
what I do. What have these guys been doing. They've
been going down to New Orleans. In Houston, they don't
have anyone down there to clear snow. So let me think, Hey,
it's snowed where here, look outside, what's that you know? Like, oh,
why don't you just hook the the plow up to

(40:39):
the front of your truck or get your snowblower out?
Like I live in in Galveston. I don't have a snowplow.
I don't have a snowblower. I don't have a snow shovel,
I don't have boots or gloves. And so these these
teams of people who usually clear out all the snow
around here all winter, they've been going down and helping

(41:03):
out our friends to the south. That true, Yes, there.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Would it cost to take a snowplow a truck with
a snowplow on the front of it that's got a
can't gas.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
We're not necessarily always talking about the big like city snowplows.
We're talking about, yeah, pick up How much does it
cost take a pickup truck? The same as it cost
take a pickup truck anywhere for any.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Reason with the big snowplow on the front.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
It's a little bit more, but you know it's or
not the same. Okay, you're right, it's not the same.
It's a little bit more. This is why I'm leaving
the rest of the week. You and your questions try
to expose the fact that I don't know what I'm
talking about. Okay, I'll throw it back to you. Is
it better to spend a bit more on gas and

(41:50):
have to find some lodging or something and make money,
or sit here and not make any money. Look at
a forecast a couple of days ago. The forecast for
this week showed maybe a few chances for snow. Well,
now that it's warming up, now we got a few
chances for rain. And these guys are like, this is
how I make my living.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
No, I don't have any problem with them going down
there and doing that. I'm just saying, does it work
out in the end? Are they gonna make any money?
Are they gonna end up at a loss just from travel?

Speaker 1 (42:20):
And some of these guys that live in the world
of whether it's like chasing storms, whether it's meteorology or
roofing or you know, these guys that come along there
and like all these cars and houses just got destroyed
by hail. So we have to come out and we
have to assess the damage. You know, they go to
where the job is. This is something that used to

(42:43):
happen in this country. You would just go to where
the job was. You wouldn't just sit there where you
are and go, who's gonna come shovel a job in
my mouth? You would go to where the work is.
These guys, these are not entitled guys. These are guys
that are going to where the job is. It snowed
all over the south. They're like, is where we're going,

(43:04):
We're going where the snow is.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Don't paint me as somebody who didn't think that they
should step up. Of course they if they want to
the work, of course they should step up. You know,
they have to leave very quickly after they finish a job,
knowing that it was going to have melted anyway in
the next two hours. We gotta get out of here quick.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Yeah, there are right, there are a couple of guys. Right,
We got to get there before the snow melts, which
then begs the question if you're paying these guys to
clear the snow when it's gonna be melted later today.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Well, they don't know that. The people who live there know.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
That, right, Oh, my gosh, you gotta this is the
worst case of snow I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
What's gonna be around for the next month.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get this out of here.
You know, if someone gets stuck in this, you're gonna
be liable. Right, And then they bring like a small
dog and like throw it in the bag of Wait.
I hear some spike. That spike scraps, you know. And
then this dog comes out there like, oh, this poor
shivering dog. And then some lady comes up, it's any
once seen my dog, and they're like, oh, you're gonna

(44:04):
be liable for you. If this dog were to dye
and freeze out here, you'd be liable. You pay this
woman a million dollars a million dollars, tell you what,
We'll take care of the snow for a quarter of
a million dollars. All right, fine, I'll pay it. Four
hours later it's gone anyway.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Well, the funny thing is is it's not actually all
gone because all of the piles that they have.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Created, right, I love it.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
They'll they'll be there for a week.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
It's early April and you go to High v has
a big parking lot and they shoved all the snow
into a giant pile on one side of it, and
at that point in April, it's just a filthy dirty
it's just all scummy. There's still a couple of kids
trying to play on it, and you're like, oh man,
that looks toair. Some kids eating it, Like I wouldn't

(44:46):
do that.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
There you shopping. I've never seen the kids trying to
play on it.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
There's a there's a high v out of my neighborhood.
It's just me and the box car children. That's that's
who's out there. And there's your eighties book round friends
for this segment of the radio program. I'm sure that
those books were written before the eighties, but I didn't
read them then because I couldn't read in the seventies.
I was just born. Now here's a couple people who
are doing some pretty interesting things with despite the weather.

(45:17):
I'll tell you. And one of them's local. The other
one's a national new X game score or record or something.
I'll tell you about it next. Scott fordies and Corley says,
drive down here to Tucson. It's not that far, all right. Yes,
Tucson is a long drive because the first time I
did this little late January golf excursion, and it's a

(45:41):
solo golf trip. Don't you have any friends? I have friends.
Don't you like taking golf trips here? I love taking
golf trips with my friends, but this week is as
a solo sabbatical for me. I do what I want,
when I want, how I want. It turns out what
I want to do. I want to play golf all.
I want to eat a steak or some chicken wings

(46:03):
and drink a little rum while watching a college basketball
game at night. And I want to go to bed
when I want to go to bed, not when some
drunken group of friends are like, we're staying out till
three and Scott, you're the only sane one in this group.
You gotta drive us. I'm like, I'm driving you guys
around uber and oh you're lame, and yeah, that's fun,
you know, deal with that. I love hanging out those

(46:25):
guys up until about eleven o'clock at night, and then
I'm not any fun anymore. I and that's my admission.
So sometimes it's just nice to get away. And the
first time I did this, I did end up driving
all the way to Tucson, and it wasn't the drive.
I mean, you don't drive all the way straight through.

(46:48):
I try and stop along the way to play golf
during the day, and then I drive in the evening hours.
And as it turns out, once you get outside of
like Albuquerque, there's really no place to play golf in
New mex The Nancy Lopez Golf Course around Roswell, New Mexico.
This must be a really nice place to play. It's

(47:08):
got Nancy Lopez name on it. She's one of the
greatest female golfers of all time. And it turns out
it's absolute garbage, absolute garbage. And I asked the guy
that does Nancy come by here once in a while?
He goes, oh, she's never been here, Like maybe she
was here once when they opened the course, but she
let us put her name on it because she grew

(47:29):
up in the area and figured it'd be nice for
some people to have a place to play golf.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
All right, Well, you're leaving it to the extra to terrestrials.
What do you expect you're in Roswell.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
I looked all over the place and Roswell was like Salem, Massachusetts,
because you go there and you think. Do the people
here did they fight back against this stereotypical like Salem's
all about witches and Roswell's all about aliens. No, all
the tourism, the decor, it's all there, try and lure
people driving by. I come and see about witches and

(48:01):
aliens depending on where you are. Yeah, they love it.
And all my buddies from the Buddies golf trip are
texting me wondering if I'm talking about them or some
other guy. Yeah, talk all of you.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
You have more than one golf group, and yeah, one
doesn't know about the other.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Oh, they know who they are. When when I say
we're staying out till three, I'm not the one saying that.
They also know that I take this annual trip, and
some of them think it's great and others think I'm nuts.
Now here's a couple of people who are doing some
stuff despite the wintery conditions in some places, and I

(48:43):
appreciate what they're doing. Do you want to hear about
X games first or the local business? Both of them
are short stories. I think X games all right. Nineteen
year old Japanese snowboarder just set an X game record
at the X Games and Aspen. You know the X Games, right,
they're like the Olympic Games, except they're awesome.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Aren't they all video games?

Speaker 3 (49:06):
No?

Speaker 1 (49:06):
X games are like snowboarding and snowboarding, video games snowboarding
and snowboarding, and like ski jumping and skateboarding. You know
it's an extreme. It's extreme. You know it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
That explains it.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Nineteen year old Japanese snowboarder this weekend just did what
no one else has ever done. Landed a twenty three forty.
You want to do math on that one?

Speaker 2 (49:29):
Landed a twenty three forty would be twenty three feet high? No,
and forty feet long.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
No, they have kids can do that. Come on, twenty
three forty. What do you think it is When I
say he landed a twenty three forty, it's not as
air giant fish, not an airplane. It's not a fish.
He landed a twenty three forty. If I say he
landed a three sixty, do you know what that is?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
A bicycle?

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Really? Have you never tried to land a three sixty
and anything? What to you? A girl? As soon as
as soon as guys learn about this part of math,
then we start.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Oh, you jump into the air and you turn all
the way around.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Yes, a three hundred and sixty degree turn. So if
a guy I do that every day. If a guy
snowboards and he jumps off a ramp.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Don't even need a snowboard, and goes all.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
The way around one time and lands. You just landed
a three sixty. You spin around twice and landed. That's
a seven twenty. That's the extent of my being able
to count by three hundred and sixty.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
But you said three forty, I said.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Twenty three forty. I watched the video and counted and
confirmed my suspicion that we're talking about a half in
there as well, and did the math. This guy landed
a twenty three forty. That's a three sixty six and
a half times. He spun six and a half times

(50:57):
and landed it. First person to land a twenty three
in competition at the X Games.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
Well, the girl from ice Castle's was the first one
to triple spin. Yes in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
I got now, I got that theme song in my head.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Have you seen Robie Benson lately?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
No?

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Wow? Is he still good looking or is he chopped?

Speaker 2 (51:22):
He looks pretty good? Oh?

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Really? Okay? Well, I have to check it out. My
son taught me a new term over the weekend for
someone who's really ugly, they're chopped.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
He does not need to know those words. Nobody is
ugly pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
My son still has his feet planted in some level
of reality like we grew up with. Yes, where some
people are ugly, people are all right. But I still
see him. I still teach him, Like you know, golden
rule applies in our house. Do unto others you would
have others do unto you this. It doesn't matter who
they are, what they are, what they identify as. You

(52:06):
just treat them as you would want to be treated.
If you have questions, you come talk to me and
I'll tell you how to treat them. So if someone's chopped,
you just maybe laugh about it to yourself, teach me
a new term, and move on with your life because
chances are they're probably people that think you're chopped, so
that's fair. So this guy landed at twenty three forty,

(52:28):
that's someone despite the wintery conditions, still doing amazing things.
The local business is doing the same thing. I see
now they're doing it for Valentine's Day. I think this
is the Haunted House in Glenwood.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Okay, you mean the murder House. No, that's Melliska.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
No, No, this is the Uh well, I guess I
could look it up. It seems like the website is
Scare Iowa dot com. Right, Scare Iowa. Yeah, it's the
It's the Hillside House of Hell and glen Wood. This
is the former mental institution, or at least that's what
they say. I think the building was used as not

(53:07):
the but a mental institution.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Back I saw this series American Horror Story.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
It's an awesome haunted house. We went there for the
first time this last Halloween. So why am I talking?
Is this a rerun? No, it's January twenty seventh, twenty
twenty one, and put your masks on. No, it's we're live.
It's twenty twenty five, and we went there this past Halloween.
Well since then, they say, why do we only make

(53:32):
money for a few weeks out of the year. Could
we do a haunted house for Christmas? And so they
did a haunted house for Christmas, Christmas themed haunted house
and now they got one going on for Valentine's Day.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
But it's still all a haunted house. Yeah, that's kind
of different.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Yeah, they just kind of change up the decor and
maybe what some of the creatures are wearing. I would
think that you have a pretty good chance of it
being super cold, but you're still inside for most of
it and huddled together. It's probably no colder most nights
than it could be in October.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Do we have any success stories how it went far?

Speaker 1 (54:08):
I haven't gone. I have no idea, but the fact
that they're still doing it. And then they put the
billboards around town. So you're driving around and there's like
a scary looking like Cupid or Santa Claus, like ball bloody,
and you're like, what in the oh? I guess they're
they're doing business.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Good for them. I love this entrepreneuralship per you're.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Around activity, I'm telling it. I don't know if they're
listening in glen Wood, but I want to make sure
that there's a Saint Patrick's Day themed hount A house there,
because you know, just getting a few pops in you
and going in there and getting having leprechauns jump out
at you, little bloody leprechauns jumping out at you, I
think sounds like an absolute riot. I'll take my little

(54:50):
Irish friend in there and leave him there.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Scott Boyes Snooze Radio eleven Kfab.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
This time I am talking about you. He's custom was
inbox Open here Scott atkfab dot com. Mike says, I
love that the X games have been around for literally
thirty years, and Lucy Chapman thought it had something to
do with video games.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
There's Lucy Chapman, Well, isn't there a whole system that
you can play video games on called X games Xbox Oho?

Speaker 1 (55:24):
You're yeah, You're not far off. I imagine that probably the
people who play X games also play a lot of Xbox.
I would not be surprised to learn.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
But and everybody playing Xbox is screaming at their radio
you stop bad.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Right, And there's a lot of people that play nothing
but Xbox who could never even begin to do anything
on a halfpipe or any other form of X game.
But uh, I don't, I don't know. No, Lucy has
a long standing gag on this show. Lucy can talk
sports with the best one, but when she's on the
radio with me, she acts like she hasn't anything about

(56:01):
any sports. My wife is the same way. She's been
watching various sporting events with me and going to our
kids various sporting events. My son has played football since
he started off in flag football, graduated quickly to tackle football,

(56:22):
has been playing ever since. So we've been to all
of these football games. When we're not at our kids
football game, we'll watch a lot of Nebraska football games.
She's gotten into it despite the fact she grew up
in Kansas as a Jayhawk fan who hated the Nebraska fans.
Because she said, well, you guys would come down there

(56:43):
and act like you just own the place. I'm like, yeah.
She didn't like that response, so we bonded over our
mutual hatred of k State.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Oh well, you know, it's good to have, right things.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
It was a face mask. So we root for Nebraska
football in the fall and KU basketball in the winter.
Reality is is, I've always liked KU basketball, but I
really like it when Nebraska occasionally beats them because we
have I was there when Jamar Johnson knocked one down
from the corner to beat KU at the Davanti Center
in nineteen ninety whatever. That was great game, a huge night.

(57:24):
So anyway, we'll watch all these sports and my wife
will still like last night watching the Chiefs game. What
does that mean? He is he allowed to do that?
The concept she couldn't grasp last night was the kneel
down at the end of the game. Well, why is
he doing that? Why is it now second and eleven? Well,
he backed up one yard and he knelt down. Why

(57:46):
would he do that? Why aren't they trying to win?
Because they're already winning and Buffalo doesn't have any more timeouts,
they can't stop the clock and forty seconds go off.
There if they kneel down two times at the end
of this game, they win. Oh okay, wait, now it's
third and twelve. Like honey, the game's over. See everyone's
running off. Mahomes is happy. Taylor Swift is happy. That's

(58:10):
that's your And if Taylor Swift is happy, then a
lot of people are happy.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Your crew is getting of another bonus.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
When do you think the last time Taylor Swift was
unhappy was? And what do you think it was unhappy?
And what do you think it was about? Not saying
these people who are big and rich and famous don't
ever have their bad days.

Speaker 2 (58:31):
But my guess is she has unhappiness at various points
throughout the day.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Can't she just shake it off.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
Yeah, and probably does it better than most of us,
because I know that. I know you think I don't
know anything about her.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
She always seems she always seems pretty happy.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Yeah, she say hello to her.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
She probably.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
She might not have been here yet.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
Yeah, maybe I heard about that, or are you thinking
of Lady Gaga? Lady Gaga.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
I never got to see her. I didn't meet Taylor.
She and I walked past each other in all.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Well, that's when she was a country singer.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Yes, she was about seventeen.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
I think just starting to have some crossover success.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
I think she has sadness through out of her entire day,
off and on. I don't think she's telling the stories
she hears.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
I don't think she's real happy when Trump was elected.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I don't think she was really something else to be
sad about her in her mind. Money can That's a
good point. Money can make you have a lot of fun,
but money can't really change how you feel, right.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Yeah, you know it's the people who say money can't
buy happiness. They're all rich and they don't seem like
they're really having that bad a time. But something you
just said there, I want to focus on that for
a second, because I think it's interesting. I've never thought
about this before, and I don't have anything else I
want to talk about. I'm on vacation the rest of
the week. I'm just barely phoning in right now. But

(01:00:01):
let's be that as it may. You said, when you're
a singer, especially or you're you're in the public eye
as an entertainer of some sort, and you're meeting fans,
and fan after fan is coming up to you, going,
I just really want to tell you how much your music,

(01:00:22):
your movies, your books, whatever your art. I really want
to tell you how much your music means to me.
Because I was in a Turkish prison for four years.
I was in a Turkish prison and every single day
my captors would just kick me square in the nads
every like relentlessly every day, and the only thing that

(01:00:46):
copied through was thinking about your music, Like, really, what
song I don't know? Big bottom? You know in this
instance they're talking to the guys with spinal tap. It
was your song about girls with big bottoms that really

(01:01:07):
really made my life worth living. Every single day I
could wake up with renewed vigor to get kicked repeatedly
in the groin. Thanks to your music.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
First of all, before you is that a real song?

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Yeah? Okay, big Bottom talking about pound Cake my girls
got them?

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Is that the lyrics? That's Taylor Swift. No, this is
because we've got fat bottom girls from the Queen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Not fat bottom Girl. This Big Bottom by Spinal Tap.
In my example, someone was in a Turkish prison and
they got out and they immediately got a chance to
meet Saint Hubbins and the rest of the guys from
Spinal Tap and not the drummer. They met the rest
of the guys from Spinal Tap and told them how
much their music meant to this person. And you know,

(01:01:54):
as you as you do. And I've seen it happen.
I've been enough backstage or been around some of these
entertainers and someone comes up and I was like, you know,
after after every single person I know died of bowel
cancer last year, I was listening to your music and
it just really got me through. And they're blubbering and crying,
and you know, when when you're an entertainer, you absorb

(01:02:16):
all of these vibes. I would think at some point
it's it's got a no matter how much of a
shell you put up at some point it's like, is
there anyone here who's listening to my music on a
good day? Do you want to tell me about that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
I played golf the other day in a par three course,
nine holes. I got a hole in one and every
single one of them nine aces in a row, and
I was listening to your album. Hey, that's a great story.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
This explains so much about Barry Manilow's reaction when I
talked to him last six months ago.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
What did you tell him?

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
Reason? Oh no, I mean I don't even remember. I
just think it said nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
Hello, it's got a mess, I mean every one. Every
once in a while. Every once in a while I
get an email from someone who has something really nice
to say, and sometimes it has, you know, a tinge
of sadness that's inspirational to it. I honestly, when I
get those emails, I really take them in for a

(01:03:19):
good two seconds before I just delete them unanswered. I'm kidding,
you know. It's a nice juxtaposition to the emails that
say you suck and all the emails I'm going to
get the rest of the week to Scott at kfab
dot com says I'm so glad Scott's not here this week.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
He sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
I'm like, I'll let him know. Sign Scott. Who else
do you think gets the email sent to Scott at
kfab dot com. I take the Zoncer's custom with woods
inbox with me when I go. I still see all
the emails. You know why I do that because I
don't want to come back and have a million emails
when I get back, so I just read and deal
with them as I go. But yeah, if you're an

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entertainer and people are constantly coming up and crying and
tell you all the sad stuff, that probably.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Well, I think that we do that. And I say
we because I've done it, maybe not to an entertainer
or something, but I've told people, well, you know what,
when you said something, I thought about that and when
I was going through whatever it was. But I think
we do that because it is an easier connection to
other people when you can say you helped me through

(01:04:25):
rather than I know, one quick story I'm not even
going into because I don't remember enough of it, but
I know one group of kids, guys that watched this
B movie, A terrible B movie?

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Was it B movie? The cartoons about bees?

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
Wasn't but it was a B movie from the eighties
and they loved it and they used to party and
have a great time and play it over and over again.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Toxic Avenger, Yes, was it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
But they had the opportunity to meet the director who
was you know, he wasn't huge obviously, but he was
absolutely tickled, just floored that these guys went through so
much trouble to meet him and tell him what a
great movie was. So you do get that. But mostly
the connection that people make with celebrities is something that

(01:05:12):
they want to say, you did this for me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
I think. I mean, I've had an opportunity to talk
to a lot of entertainers who I really really admire
on this program and off the program, and I hope
that when I've talked with each of them and told
them how much their entertainment means to me, I've tried
to do it in a good, honest and fun way.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
The the two examples that come to mind ed Ko
Walchik from the band Live, Who's That? Who's Live? Well,
their biggest hit was Lightning Crashes, who I Feel It
Come in Back Again? You remember that song? Whose sings
that Scott not you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
But He also has a song called Heaven and it's
you know people basically, the song is a people say
there's no heaven, but I look at my daughter and
I believe, and my daughter had just been born, and
I say, I play this. I play this song on
the piano for my daughter in the little little rocky
you know, chair next to me, and she smiles and

(01:06:15):
laughs as I sing it to her, and it means
a lot to me. And he appreciated that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Yeah, I bet was the first time you ever heard that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Well, I don't care. I wanted to tell him that,
but then, but then I met Darius Rucker at one
of his shows, and it was a line of fans
were telling him about all this stuff, and it was
just a lot of you know, it was like some
people are like, Oh, your music's so great, and some
people are like, you're gonna play some hoodie songs, you know,
And so he just he looked a little bored. And

(01:06:42):
so I got a chance to quickly meet him and
I said, where'd you play golf today? And his face
lit up. He's like, Hey, Mike, where do we play golf? Uh?
In Lincoln? I said, Lincoln Country Club? Yeah, Lincoln, I
said tight fairways. Oh my gosh, it's like hitting down
a hallway, and he just brightened up because he just
wanted to talk about something besides him and music for
a second.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
So that is some good advice. Take it with you,
you know, if you ever get a chance to meet
your idol, especially you know when they say don't ever
meet your items.

Speaker 1 (01:07:09):
Well, this would be a great time for brushes with
great in a segment and people call and talk about
the people they met in the interaction they had, but
we don't interaction they had. That sounded weird, but we
don't have time to do that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
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