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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORGIEZ.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's start here with this assertion that Democrats think that
Republicans don't want married women to vote. Now, there are
a few things about this assertion. Number one, it is
absolutely true. Guys, are you married? Do you want her
running the country? Right? Therefore, all right, just checking to
see if Lucy is listening.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I am always listening. You just don't know, well, I'm
even listening when we're not on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
I don't know how many times I say, hey, Lucy,
remember we did this on the show. I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I didn't say I remembered any of it.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Remember when Hillary Clinton was in the studio and for
three days straight, I don't remember that. That never happened. Now,
the idea here is that these evil Republicans don't value
women and they want to take away their right to vote. Which, Lucy,
what that means is is that I mean man's plain.
Oh yes, yeah. It's called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility
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Act aka the SAVE Act. Here's what it is we
do that, well, right, yes, it's called the clip coupons
have the roast beef ready when he comes home from
work Act. It's called the get back in the kitchen
acting off right. It's called the Shoeless and Pregnant Act.
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And here's the way it works. Now, the this is
this is really to do. It says it's going to
do one thing, it really wants to do another thing.
And it's not none of us going to happen. But
for purposes of the fact that I see all over
social media, women all over social media going Republicans want
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to take away women's right to vote. I thought I'd
better explain this. When's that start, Scott? Right now, what
it wants to do, what it says us to do
is stop illegal immigrants from voting. But illegal immigrants don't vote.
All right, let's take that as point number one. Illegal
immigrants don't vote. Well, Scott, you just talked about in
the radio the other day that the Iowa Secretary of
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State had an audit and he says, yeah, we took
a look at the twenty twenty four election and it
started winnowing down. He said, we did this before the election.
We've went through the driver's license rolls and found out
that when you register for a driver's license and people
in the country illegally, and a few of them got
through during the Biden administration. Maybe you heard they're allowed
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to get a driver's license. The idea of being as well,
they're going to be driving anyway, we might as well
teach them how to drive. And so you register for
a driver's license. And when you register for a driver's license,
no one really asked for proof of citizenship. And they
always ask and would you also like to register to vote?
Because there are some communities in this country that either
do or want to allow illegal immigrants to vote in
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city or township elections. So these guys say okay, and
then they end up registering to vote, which makes them
illegal but eligible on some level to vote in national elections. Well,
Iowa said, we've got hundreds and hundreds of people, if
not thousands of people here in Iowa who could cast
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illegal ballots in Iowa. So we want to let people
know they can't do that. So he let it be
known before the twenty twenty four election, don't do this.
At the end of all of it, he found that
thirty five non citizens voted in the twenty twenty four election.
That's just Iowa. And people said, see, it's such a
small percentage yet, but he told them not to vote. Now,
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let's look at some other numbers. In twenty nineteen, Pennsylvania
found more than eleven thousand non citizens registered to vote.
Twenty twenty one, Texas found and removed six five hundred
non citizens who were registered to vote, nineteen hundred of
which which had voted in previous elections. In twenty twenty two,
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Virginia removed six thousand, three hundred non citizens from its roles,
and that same year Alabama took thirty two hundred and
Ohio about six hundred non citizens who were registered to
vote from their voting roles. They are registered. We need
to ensure that only citizens vote in American elections. So
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the SAVE Act says, you've got to be able to
prove you are who you say you are. What isn't
this voter ID? Kind of the SAVE Act would say
for new voters registering to vote, you have to have
an ID and a birth certificate or passport, two forms
of government issued ID to be able to register to
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vote for new voters. So that's number one. All you
married women who have been married, your name has been
legal changed, but your your birth certificate didn't say that
because you didn't. You weren't born to a family that
already had you married off when you were in the womb.
Some people do that. Your family chose not to. They
gave you free choice, and look how that worked out.
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Maybe you should have let them pick right. All right,
So you're already registered to vote, this doesn't even apply
to you. So first, that's the other thing people are like, Well,
married women aren't able to vote. This is only for
people newly registered to vote. What about the next woman
who gets married changes her name. That doesn't even happen
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anymore now. I think men take the bride's married name,
or they hyphenate both names or something like that. So
who still does that aniquated thing where I take his name.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm not gonna no one, no, So.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
This isn't even a thing either. And women, if you
don't want to take his name, then you could use
this as an excuse. Well, those Republicans won't allow me
to vote if I take your name, so I can't
have it. Plus, I don't think this is going to
last very long, and it's just gonna be a lot
of paperwork on the back end, So let's just let's
just go this route. So this is only for new voters.
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And it wouldn't affect the future married women anyway. Nor
is this really about making sure non citizens don't vote.
I'll tell you more.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Next Scott Voice.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
In twenty minutes from now. We're talking to the former
president of Anheuser Busch and sin Freeris who was president
until twenty twenty two. Right after that, they said, all right,
it's enough of him. You know what we really need
to do. We need to find a grown man who
pretends he's a teenage girl and goes and does social
media posts saying we should all have a sleepover girls. Now,
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if I do that, I go to jail. I get
beat up by fathers and mothers rightfully. So he does that,
he gets an endorsement deal with bud Light. This is
a grown man who posts video is talking about oh
my gosh, I got my first period. It's a grown man.
And bud Light looked at that and said, you know,
I see a partnership in our future. So that happened,
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and turns out people decided they didn't want to drink
bud Light anymore for a while. So we'll talk with
Anson about that at nine forty this morning. Right now,
we're talking about the save Act Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act.
The reason I'm talking about this is not because I
think it will pass and become law of the land.
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It won't. Senator Pete Ricketts said as much two hours
ago when he was on kfab's Morning News with Gary
Sandelmeyer and what's his name, Jim Rose. That's right, who's
still sitting here in the studio for some reason just
to stare at me while I do the show, which
isn't weird at all. So Gary and Jim talked with
Senator Ricketts about this, like, Hey, is this going to pass?
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He said, no, it's We're not going to have enough
Democrats jump over here and provide the filibuster proof majority
needed to get to sixty votes and make this the
law of the land. So why am I talking about it? Well,
the House passed it yesterday. They also did it last
year and it went nowhere. But just like last year,
a number of people, including you know, my social media
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pages are chock full of people of all different stripes,
and some people don't have stripes, some people who pretend
they have stripes, some people have seen the movie Stripes.
There's all kinds of people on there, and there are
some because Facebook loves to prop up Hey, here's someone
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liberal saying something liberal, and it seems like it's always
a front and center of my news feed. I don't
respond to any of this stuff, but there it is,
right there on my feet, and a lot of it
over the last couple of days, as Republicans are going
to make it harder for married women to vote, if
not impossible, because they want you to have a birth
certificate to show with your driver's license, and those names
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have to match. Well, when you got born, your last
name wasn't your now married name. You changed it. You
took his name because you thought that's what you're supposed
to do. Even though you've been divorced three years, all
of your kids most some of your kids still have
that same last name, so you kept it. And now
your birth certificate name and your driver's license name don't match,
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and you won't be able to vote. Bull This is
not at all true. For example, Arizona has required proof
of citizenship to vote in state elections for more than
ten years. How many married women have said, I don't
haven't been at it. None, It doesn't happen. And this
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particular state directs women or direct states provide reasonable accommodations
for applicants who have discrepancies on their documentation due to
a name change. So this is not something that's gonna happen. Plus,
a conservative election lawyer, Oh, what's his name, Cleta Mitchell,
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she's a she dude, who's chair of the Election Integrity Network,
said when women change their names upon marriage or divorce,
there's a process for changing slash updating the name from
the birth certificate or a prior marriage. Millions of women
do it every single day so they can operate their
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lives under their married names. This is already happening. This
is not preventing anyone from voting. Also, there's the argument,
as is always the case, that more than twenty million
Americans will be disenfranchised because they don't have access to
documents to prove citizenship. I don't know where my birth
certificate is. I don't have a passport. I don't have
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one hundred and sixty dollars to get a passport. I
don't even know I can't spell passport, birth certificate. I
don't even think I was born. I think I was immaculated.
I don't have this stuff all right, You have to
have these things to get a job. When you get hired,
you have to fill out an I nine And what
do you do with the I nine? You have to
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provide documentation to prove you're a US citizen.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Don't get a job. Problem solved.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I know, so you know this for all the people
are like, but these people don't. Yeah, these are people
who don't have a job, but they still have a
birth certificate. I don't know where it is. Go get
another one. You know, this is not hard. It's just
full of excuses. The other argument is is it's voter suppression.
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Rashida Talib, Democrat from Michigan. Slash Iran said the Save
Act is not about protecting election, it's about silencing voters.
It's voter suppression. Playing and simple. Well, she said it
was plain and simple. So I guess that ends the debate.
I'm surprised she didn't say full stop. The SAVE Act
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requires proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.
For new voters registering to vote in federal elections, it
also mandates federal agencies respond to state request about an
individual citizenship status. Now, it also does one other thing.
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The SAVE Act, And this is the argument made. This
is why so many Democrats don't want this to pass,
because this could be very difficult then to do mail
in voting. Democrats love mail in voting. But wait a second,
what about for people who are disabled, people who are
active duty military serving overseas, people who are in college
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but they want to vote in there? You can still
do all that. We can still do all of that,
but in terms of harvesting votes and early mail in
voting and all the rest of this stuff, this has
gotten way out of hand. Other nations where people have
to go by camel on a dirt road to go
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across the terrain to vote, they still do it. We
don't have those issues here well in most places, but
we need to be able to go to the polls
to vote. It's important. I know, everything's super easy and simple,
and you click a couple of buttons on your phone.
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Next thing you know, you can download an entire library
from Zimbabwe or whatever you want to do. But right now,
our government relies on an honor system where non citizens
get driver's licenses and then they're allowed to register to vote.
And in most states, when you go vote, they don't
ask for voter ID. It's an honor system, so when
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they say, well, illegal immigrants aren't voting, they don't check
in many instances, and it's gone to the potential for
fraud laden mail in voting system. So this is really
not just to stop non citizens from voting, but it's
also to curtail mail in voting, which has gotten way
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out of hand. It has nothing to do with stopping
married women from voting, because your birth certificate and your
driver's license have two different names, and those who are
yelling about it on the floor of the House or
on social media are either ignorant or lying about it.
It's all going to be okay, and honestly, in the
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grand scheme of things, this is so minor because it's
not going to pass. It passed for the second year
in the row in the House. They don't have the
votes in the Senate to pass it. It will never
see the president's desk. It's not something he can do
by executive order, like and a one hundred and eighty
five percent tear iff against China or whatever. It's it's
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a non issue. Let's just skip mad about other stuff
and let's have a beer while doing it. We'll talk
with the former president of bud Light, who has written
a book called Last Call for bud Light, The Fall
and Future of America's Favorite Beer. He joins us after
a Fox News update.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Next Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten KFAB. Football fans
get ready for the Battle of the Century.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It's unbeaten bud By sor it takes on mean defeating
bud Light.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's fun versus bud Light in fun Bold one.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Man, I was exciting. Forty nine ers against the Bengals
LA year. That's right, forty nine ers against the Bengals.
Super Bowl twenty three spoiler alert, the Niners beat the
Cincinnati Bengals, which I wonder if a young Anson Frearis
from Cincinnati was concerned about that. He would then go
on to be president at Anheuser Busch, where he worked
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until twenty twenty two, finishing his time there as president
and now recently the author of Last Call for bud Light,
The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer. Anson Frearricks
joins us here on eleven ten KFA b antson good morning.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Good morning, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Were you a young Bengals fan, very young watching that
Super Bowl and Bud Bowl one.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
That was some of my first memories. My parents, they
had a big Super Bowl party. We had a bunch
of neighbors over and I unfortunately saw Boomer size and
come up a little bit short in that Super Bowl.
But I do remember I think it was Budweiser beat
bud Light at the last second on a field goal,
and then that was kind of the kickoff at least.
You know, my childhood was seeing tons of amazing Budweiser commercially,
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of the Budweiser frogs, you had the real Meanta Genius,
you had theluzz Up guys. I kind of grew up
when Anheather Bush was at the peak of Coltran, and unfortunately,
over the last couple of years we've seen that really
fall off. I'm sure that they can go back to
twenty twenty three and the partners with Dillan mulvaney. It
would have been much better to run one of those
original Bud Bowl ads Dylan Molvaney had a couple of
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years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
One one hundred percent. I figured the timing in your
life and being from Cincinnati might work out that that
was a seminal memory for you. I was a couple
of years older than you, and I thought that that
bud Bowl and all those bud Light commercials that you
just referenced there are among some of the most entertaining
forms of entertainment I've ever seen. And then a few
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years ago after you left there as president at Anheuser Busch,
they looked at a grown man who posted social media
posts about getting his first period and wanting to have
sleepovers with preteen girls and thought, I see a tremendous
partnership opportunity here. What the hell happened there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
I mean, the most wild partnership of all time, and
even like packing Dylan out of it, and Dylan's stan
base was millions of teenage girls. Theoretically cant be advertising
beer to teenage girls, And there was really obviously no
thought in this partnership. The book that I have last
called for bud Light, and it really tells the story
of really what went wrong. It really like the fifteen
years leading up to that Dylan Movating partnership is something
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like that just doesn't happen overnight. Given all the sign
offs you have to have at a big corporation, from
legal and to external affairs to do a partnership like that.
So I really saw the company devolve over kind of
fifteen years and the ends of which the history of
it is you had the Bush family started in the
eighteen sixties, eighteen seventies. They ran it up until two
thousand and eight. That's when the company was bought by InBev,
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which is this European competitor that InBev made a lot
of different mistakes. They moved the corporate headquarters from Saint Louis, Missouri,
to New York City. They brought in a lot of
foreign executives from Belgium and from other areas to try
and run run the brand. And then in the recent
years they'd really adopted this ESG and EEI so environmental
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social governments and diversity equity Inclusion initiative, which are very
much European type concepts. And then all of a sudden
you end up with the largest beer brand in the
United States, bud Light, which was supposed to be easy
to drink, easy to enjoy, you know, sports and music
and partnership is all of a sudden, doing a partnership
with Dylan mulvaney to try and check off some DEI
boxes and try and make some activists and other asset
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managers like Blackrock happin and it's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Yeah, this is a fascinating book, Last Call for bud Light.
And you talk about the difference between shareholder capitalism where
we're just we're selling pants, we're selling beer, we're selling nachos,
whatever it is we do, we just do that, versus
stakeholder capitalism where suddenly we have to get a good
social score and we have to be you know, good DEI,
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mission leaders and so forth. What caused the push towards
the latter in corporate America.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Yes, so there's been this big debate, i think ridge
the last fifty years. And here in the US we've
adopted the American free market, shareholders, capitalist and blocksuit. That's
what Milton Freeman, the famous economist who was writing about
in the seventies. It says, the purpose of corporation is
to serve its shareholders. Shareholders first, who's the shareholder, someone
who owns stock or owns a business. How do you
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serve them? Well, you serve customers of that company, give
them great products and services. You get there for more customers.
That allows you to hire more people. That means you
can more innovative, and then companies they become involved in
the social fabric, and communities pay taxes all the things
companies do. There's this other philosophy which is a European view,
and it's called European stakeholder capitalism also since the nineteen seventies,
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espoused by Klole Schwab who runs the World Economic Forum
and a lot of globist organizations. We say the purpose
of a corporation is to serve all stakeholders. That can
be governments, that can be activists, that can be nonprofits,
that can be you know, thousands of different stakeholders. And
they never named it. It's like trying to serve you know,
one god versus thousands of gods. And they sharehorror model
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and worked pretty well in the US. But in the
last five to ten years you saw large asset managers
like Black Rocks, States or Vanguard that were managing trillions
of dollars from European sovereign wealth funds and from progressive
tension funds like the State of New York, state of California,
that they increasingly asked business to get more involved in
social and progressive issues to try and solve climate change,
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and racism and election integrity and all these different things
that businesses had never done. This was turbo charged in
the post kind of George Floyd death era, where he
had companies that were being asked to get involved in
Roe v weight issues, just crazy stuff. And unfortunately Anhezibush
was uniquely susceptful, given sort of this European ownership, and
given that they had moved its headquarters to New York,
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and unfortunately a lot of that pressure like manifested in
this partnership with Dylan mulvaney, which was bad enough itself.
The partnership never should happen, but even the company's response
where they never sort of admitted there was any mistake,
never apologized the existing customer base for this partnership had
happened because they were trying to get all these social scores,
DEI scores, ESG scores, and they tried to walk the
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middle of I call it like a cultural battlefield, ended
up getting shot from their loyal customers in the right,
progressive customers on the left. The beer sales are down
fifty percent over the last two years. Billions of dollars
of value of the company that are rate thousands of
employees have been fired. It's really been a tale, and
really the book is more of a cautionary tale to
make sure that future business leaders and executives don't make
the same mistakes.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
The book is Last Call for bud Light, the Fall
and future of America's favorite beer. Another minute or two
here with Anson Frerik's former president at Anheuser Busch and
as someone who worked there for about a decade, do
you and we talked about, you know, the watching of
bud Light commercials growing up. Do you have a soft
spot for bud Light and want it to succeed or
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do you want to see it burn as a lesson
to other companies.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
No, I want to see it succeed. You know, there's
like thousands of people that work it in Hazard Bush,
There's tons of wholesalers across the country, in every single community.
I love a great American comeback story. You know, I'm
rooting for this company to figure it out, to turn
things around, and I like, you know, I like redemption
story as well. But you know, I always say the
past of redemption goes through forgiveness. But to be forgiven,
you have to admit that there was an air and
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the current executives and the European owned company, they had
never admitted there was a mistake. I think that that
if they actually sold the US business, the anhazard wish
US business back to the US investors, sell it to
Warren Buffett, sell it to group of US private equity.
First you put in a new US executive management, you
say they made a mistake, you say they screwed up.
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You say we're going to get back to just serving
cold beer to everyday Americans and using sports and humor
music to do it. I think that you could have
sort of a great American comeback story. I'm hoping they
figure out how to write that, because that'll be good
for America, and that'll be good for the country. If
people are getting together again over cold beers and not
discussing the politics of the beer, but just discussing and
building relationships over beers again, I think that'll be good
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good for the country.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You, sir, are a real man of genius. Thank you
very much for the time today. I appreciate talking to you.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Anson Freerks here, former president at Annheuser Busch who left
there in twenty twenty two to go and co found
this management group called Strive Asset with his co founder
some kid named Viveig i'm Aswami who was never heard
from again.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Scott Gordies News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
That might be one of the richest people we've ever
talked to on this program when he wrote a book.
It's not because he's like, I got to make a
few bucks on this book, andson's done pretty well for himself.
Council Bluffs is thinking about leveling a golf course Dodge Riverside.
There By the boats might go away and make room
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for a new housing development. This wouldn't happen anytime soon.
The mayor, Matt Wallash says, we're just thinking about it,
just thinking about it. I'm sure those who already bought
their golf passes for the year that include rounds of
both Shoreline and Dodge Riverside say, whoa woahoa, we already
paid for this. That nothing would happen this year. But
if you wanted to get around in at Dodge Riverside
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and then hang out, drink some beers in the parking
lot and listen to music like Darius Rucker at Sturko
this year, this might be the last year to do it,
but nothing has been decided yet that in Council bluffs
up next across the river in Iowa, Big Big Development
got its ground broken this week and neighbors, some of
them aren't happy. We'll talk about it next another hour
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here with Lucy Chapman before Clay and Buck or just Clay.
I think Buck is in the process of doing some
new fathering with his family, so I don't anticipate he'll
be in there today. I ever tell you what Gary
Sadlemeyer told me when my daughter was born? Did I
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ever tell you that, Lucy?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
You know there's something that sounds familiar about that, But
I'm gonna go with no.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, So Gary is he is a grizzled radio veteran,
and he he comes from a I mean there's there's
there's Gary who's like, rub some dirt in it and
get out there and play. And there's raised by a
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bunch of Gary's who are like rub some dirt it,
get out there and play. And then there's a younger
generation that's like dirt. Stay away from dirt. It's bad
for you. Put some hand sanitizer on and be better.
If you don't play, you could get hurt. So I'm
much more like Gary. I'm not like Pete Boodhajid, who's
like I got to take a father, you know, paternity
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leave for the next twelve months, you know. So my
daughter is born, and I let Gary, my boss know, Hey,
I'm gonna I'm gonna take a day or two here too.
I don't remember how many. I think I took maybe
two or three days because it was our first kid.
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My wife's still in the hospital and I want to
I want to be there. I don't want to miss
a moment of it. And so I told Gary, like,
can I take three days? And Gary said, after my
kids were born. I was back at work the next day,
and I looked at him and said, Okay, I'm gonna
go ahead and take three days. We'll see you on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Was the right answer.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, I I loved that response from Gary. You know,
he didn't fight me on or anything. It it's just
it's a it was a different time, and his parents'
generation barely even new kids were being born. The father's
barely even new kids are being born. So so we've
gone in just a few generations from you know, someone
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finally told you know, Dad, whether he was at the
front or the bar. Hey, you got a son. He's like,
I got a son, and he's passing out cigars and
buying drinks and they're like, that's great. You want to
go over the hospital and meet your son. Ah, I
see when he gets older, and I'll teach him how
to throw a ball. You know. That's that's that. There
was that generation. That's my grandparents.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Well that's the one Harry Chaffin wrote a song about,
and Harry Chapin Chapin Chapin, Okay, i'llow it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And the Cats and oh is a karaoke Friday.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
In the singer lends suit Ta get Away, Little Boy
Blue and the Man on the Moon When you're coming
home Dad, I don't know when, but we will get
together then sun and know we have a good time.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Then are you even doing the musical parts?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, I didn't get the karaoke track.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Yeah, generations love that song.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
So now it's hey, my kid's gonna be born here
in about three months. I must start taking time off now. Yeah,
and I won't be back until you know, twenty twenty eight.
And this is for a gay couple who has adopted
as seven year old. So I mean things. Things change.
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Do they change for the better? Do they change for
the worst? Do they just change? Is it your perception
of how things change? You know, it's it's all relative.
Right Here is the latest groundbreaking in Omaha. I will
tell you first thing here that the mayor said no
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city tax dollars will be used for this. Before people
are like, by the way, got a Rosa streetcar? You know,
people lose their minds. But we just broke ground this
week over at Levi Carter Park northeast Omaha river Front
area with the construction of a one hundred thousand square
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foot forty five million dollars activities and sports complex. This
puppy is going to have ten indoor courts, which can
either be ten basketball courts indoor or it can be
converted to configure for fourteen volleyball courts. This will be
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the largest basketball facility in Omaha. And you're like, wait
a second, what about UBT That's two different buildings. And
if you have a game there on Sunday, just go
ahead and drive there now and park somewhere within a
mile of the place. That's your best bet for getting
in and out of there. It's gotten so busy out
there between the two basketball facilities at UBT and then
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the other facility down the way there at the Mark
or whatever they're calling the bowling and basketball complex, there's
no place to park. And then the city is like,
we see that there's no place to park out here,
and the parking lot is just a disaster, and you
can't park in any of these private business lots around here,
and there's no street parking available. I know how we
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can fix this. Let's close this Cumberland drive Way up
to both of these basketball complexes and make it even
more difficult to get in and out of the place.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Thanks, it's just because they need to put a roundabout in.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Is that what they're doing?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
That is what you're talking about? Two hundred and fifth.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, they're putting a roundabout in right there.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
I say that about every random.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Actually actually, actually I could do this for an hour
if I want. Act. Actually, that's a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
You shut your mouth, it is you know why?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
No, Because you're you're going westbound on Dodge and you're
getting off on that el Corn exit and you immediately
have to cross five lanes of traffic to get into
the left turn lane. Immediately to be able to get
into the area where you're going to everything from Hearty's
to Minards to Dairy Queen to the Mark to the
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Ubt to Homage Furniture of Nebraska. There's a pipeline of
great businesses in there, and I only just mentioned a
few of them. Yeah, I spend a little time over there.
I like it over there, but I earned years ago.
Don't go that way. It's impossible to cross those lanes
of traffic. You can get around the back way. I'm
more of a back door I'm more of a back
door guy. I go the next exit down there, and
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then you know, I slide in behind, I sneak in
the back way. You know. That's after many parties are like,
you can come, but why don't you come in the
back door. So that's that's more of my style. But
for those who who take the Elkorn exit, rather than
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having to cross all those lanes, now you can just
go in your lane. You can take the exit lane
and go on the roundabout and then go over that way,
rather than having to turn around in the Metro Community
College parking lot.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yes, no, because it's two years fifth so you would
still have.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
To Oh, they're not. Yeah, they're not doing it on
not on fourth.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
No.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
And by the way, before we get too far away
from this, you have just book banned yours so from
public libraries.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
How'd I do that?
Speaker 3 (33:06):
How you get to where you're going? Going in the
back way? Yeah, Oh my gosh, this is definitely Friday.
Go back to karaoke.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I've gotten to the point anymore with your references that
I don't even care anymore. I blame you. I don't
even care. Do you want to spend four minutes on
a path that goes nowhere here? Or should we or
should we explore my that talked about new sports complex
in northeast Omaha. Next thing you know, I'm talking about
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Elkhorn and getting the street wrong, all right?
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Never just please do because I want to know more
about this complex because it looks it looks like it's going.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
To be pretty cool and outside it's going to have
four artificial turf, very nice soccer fields on an area
for food trucks, so everyone go get food. And inside
is it gonna be a classroom for distance learning, There's
gonna be telehealth rooms and medical exam, medical exam, wrestling room,
fitness area, community meeting space. It's gonna be great, forty
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five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Just as a sports complex.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
This is a big community area. And the mayor said,
because she was out there for the groundbreaking, as was
Governor Pilling this week, and no tax dollars will be used.
The project is funded. Well, no city dollars, I mean
it's taxi. It's a grant from the Capitol Project grant
via the US Department of Treasury. Oh, they just print money.
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It's not really tax dollars. Uh huh. And then ten
million dollars from the State of Nebraska's North and South
Omaha Recovery Program, which is still our tax dollars. But hey,
stuff gets built. Whatevs. So the mayor said, well, this
is great to have for Omaha. All the basketball, all
the volleyball, all the soccer space. Mayor Stoth tells WWT
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First Alert six News. For a month, whose son used
to play soccer, I can't tell you how many weekends
we traveled to Des Moines and across Iowa for soccer tournaments.
A lot of these kids in Omaha, especially in the
northeast portion of the city, can't afford to take all
those weekend trips. I'm gonna call bs on this one.
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I grew up a about a half generation, if not
a full generation before Mayristothard's son. I played soccer growing up.
We had soccer fields in the neighborhood. They didn't cost
forty five million dollars, they weren't artificial turf. We played
against other teams around the area. Have we run out
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of teams around Omaha where we can all play each
other in soccer tournaments? Oh no, We've got to have
elite soccer. We've got to have full throttle soccer. We've
got to we got to have all these select club
teams soccer. How do you make a select team? Well,
you're either really really good or your parents really really
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have too much money. And we got to have all
the select teams and dry up all the local teams
that had just regular neighborhood kids playing on them. And oh,
we're gonna we gotta have these kids play a one
hundred and sixty two game baseball season at the age
of eight. And we got tournaments in Kansas City, and
we got tournaments in Des Moines, and we got to
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go to Indianapolis and if we win the Nationals, then
we got to go to Orlando or Scottsdale and like,
what are we doing? My son asked me a couple
of years ago, as a like a six or seventh grader,
he said, Hey, I think there's some coaches talking saying
maybe I can make this this national team, this basketball team.
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I said, oh yeah, and what's that look like? Uh well,
my friend played on it last year and their tournaments
were in San Antonio and Portland and Atlanta. I was like,
I'm not going to Atlanta to watch you play basketball.
You're six. He's like, but Dad, there's gonna be scouts there.
And he played against the team that had Chris Paul's
son on it. Chris Paul plays in the NBA. Played
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against Chris Paul's son. Chris Paul was there. I was like, yeah,
how'd they do?
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
They got beat by one hundred and fifty. But still, Dad,
I was like, no, this is when he was six,
this is when he was in sixth grade, six seventh grade.
So no, of course, my son felt like, well, that's
the end of my life. Of course, I'm just he
my son feels like like that three or four times
a day.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Well, it's the age. Yeah, I am still impressed that
you've got enough kids, whether they're elite or they're just
neighborhood kids that want to do anything other than get
out of their basements eating cheese posts.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Thank you for refocusing me, because that might not be
the case. We'll talk about it next, Scott. My wife said,
you only took about a day or day and a
half off when our daughter, our first born. She called
you outborn. Yeah, yeah, And then she said, but you
took three days off when our son was born. I
don't know why you took more time off. Then I said,
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well because someone, Because someone had to be home with
our daughter while you were just laying around at the hospital.
So I'm getting a divorce. But so there's that. And
then also in my text message, my buddy Dan is
yelling at me saying, tell Mayor Stothard that Oakview Mall
would be a great place to put a giant sports complex.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Where are they going to park?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Well, there's plenty of parking. Now, there's plenty of parking
around Oakview. Because if you need to spend some time
alone Oakview Mall. That that not their slogan. I still
like Oakview.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
They're getting new businesses in there, they're just putting what
is the lunch box or something in there in the
food court, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
I still like it over there. I go over there
to the buckle, the brass buckle, both buckles, Dillard's over there,
kitchen post, yeah, the hitching post and the post and nickel,
they're all over there. Yeah. And that's where I get
my z Cavalricci, my Pepe Jabeau jeans. They're all over there.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Richmond Gordon's there.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Richmond Gordonan's is over there. Half Price Store, they're all there.
Sortino's is moving in there. It's all the Solomeo's in there.
I'm telling you, if you haven't been to Oak, you
in a while, it's nothing like I just described. I
have hope. I tell my kids, like, you can't believe
how cool this place was in the nineties. This was
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the place to be, and they're like, how long do
we have to be here? Like, hang on, I gotta
buy some shoes. So it's Levi Carter Park over in
northeast Omaha River Front USh is where we're doing a
big facility. There ten indoor courts for basketball. They can
be converted to fourteen volleyball courts, outdoor soccer fields, four
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artificial turf soccer fields, and lots of area for community
meetings and tell a distance work and I don't know
all this all this stuff fitness area, it's huge. And
state senator former I guess state senator now justin Wayne,
former representative in that area, says this new facility will
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provide opportunities for students and neighborhoods who normally don't have
access to facilities to grow interest in sports. He said,
and he said, particularly basketball and the lack of Omaha
Public Schools teams going to the basketball state tournament. All right,
what are you talking about? For them from the metro Papio, Papio, South, Miller, North, Bellevue, West,
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and West Side all went to the state tournament. Yeah,
but no Olmaha Public schools teams.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
You know why because all the kids in the ops
schools got tired of going to games where the fan
base was enough kids that could have driven there. In
the se Honda Civic, no one goes, no one, so
therefore no one plays. We started, you guys, at the
state level, the legislatures started allowing kids to go to
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any school of their choice anywhere around this learning community
that you guys in the legislature jacked up our schools with.
So now a kid who's pretty good at basketball gets
recruited and goes plays at West Side and west Side
becomes kind of a power team or Bellevue West or
Gretna or Papio South. They're all doing this stuff, and
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you can go anywhere you want anymore. And you guys
screwed it up. And so some of these inner city schools,
so to speak, easy win. You can go play basketball
against some of these schools, easy win. So you guys
screwed it up. If you want ops teams back at
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the basketball State tournament, make the kids that go to
the that live in these neighborhoods go to their namesghborhood schools.
But then there's the other thing. That's what Lucy said
a moment ago. She said, what do you say? You
say you said it so much better, I said.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
I'm so, I'm surprised that they've got enough kids that
want to come out of their basement and off their
devices to interact with other kids. Yeah, there aren't much
less play and do physical activities.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
There aren't in the northeast Omaha community. There is a
community center there that recently closed, and maybe it's not
so recently, it's been maybe a while now that has
been closed. Kids stopped going there. Either they stopped going
there and they closed, or the only people who went
there were those who were interested in fighting, or they're
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up to no good and the community center closed because
we don't have enough staff, nor are we going to
police all this, because you know, it's just it's just
a problem. So that was in the neighborhood and it closed.
But a lot of kids grew up without a community
center or all these fancy courts and everything nearby for
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them to go. You know what they did. They played outside, like, oh,
we want to play soccer. We don't have a soccer
field available, all right. The goal is that tree, and
then the other goal is that is the fire hydrant,
and you play, you just play. This is also the
same place you play football baseball. You set up some
bases like that shoe is first base, and we're gonna
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have it the past. Yeah, no, this is this is
how I grew up. This is how the past I am.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
You're not this is not happening today? Are you not
getting kids getting together and playing a game no, game no.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
And the kids still want to, but the parents won't
let them. The parents don't let their kids go out
and play. The parents are in here like we're binge
watching The Last of Us. So I don't care what
you're doing. And so the kids are on phones, tablets,
video games. They're sitting inside, they're eating garbage, and they're
living garbage lives. And so they're not going out and
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playing anymore. And the idea is, oh, if we have
this fancy new facility, then the kids can play there.
I doubt it. Let's look at like the Iowa Fieldhouse
or UBT or some of these other places that have
all these courts for all these teams. You can't just
go in there and play. It's not like hey, open
gym hours from here to here, you know, just go
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in there and play. You still have to get on
a team, probably some select club team that costs a
whole bunch of money, and you got to pay an
extra a whole bunch of money to buy a new jersey.
Like wait a second, my kid was just on this
team last year and the jersey still fits him. We
got new jerseys. You gotta have a new jersey and
you gotta pay, and then the parents want to go
see the games. Thirteen bucks a game individual to go
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and see this stuff. It's gonna be the same thing,
and it's gonna be cost prohibitive for people in the
neighborhood to go do it. And they can't just go
over there after school and play. I think, I don't know,
I might be. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Well, that is tragic. If that is what is going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
The whole thing has gotten tragic. But it's gonna be great.
And for those who are like I like to go
to some of these places to watch my kid play
volleyball or whatever. I just can't park anywhere. This will
take some of the stress away from that, I imagine.
All right there, let me catch my breath. Fox News
(45:19):
Update next, Scott.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Boardes News Radio eleven ten k.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
FAD diggings here through the Zonker's Custom woods inbox Scott
at kfab dot com. And unfortunately I gotta check your
facts ful Well, like I said, I've been going in
the back door when it comes to going over to
that UBT complex over there. But I'm telling you, I
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think you guys are wrong. I feel like I just
ate there. I mentioned all the businesses there when you
get off on Dodge at the Elkhorn exit, and that
Cumberland Drive little jog over to, and I mentioned all
the businesses, including Hardy's. I mentioned that that is closed
from now until what two thousand and thirty six or
something like that? How long is it closed? Everything's just
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no the road, the road. Yeah, wait, so you knew
that they I didn't know they closed. People emailing saying
Hardy's is no longer there, it's in it's the Arborados aberdero.
I don't guess. I don't know how to say that.
I never said it out loud, Aberlados. I've eaten there,
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but I've never I've never eaten there. You're missing out, well,
I know I and I've heard that before.
Speaker 4 (46:39):
I have.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
AB's. Yeah I didn't. I just ate there. I just ate.
I'm telling you. I just went to that Hardy's and
I got a Frisco thick burger and one of those
little California raisins, the one that plays the saxophone. It
was just the other day it was like eighty seven
was it, jeez?
Speaker 3 (47:04):
Maybe ninety?
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Hey, speaking of food, I was just going through the
drawers here? Do you want a? I found this packed
with protein and goodness. I found this in one of
the drawers here in the studio. It's a Nature Valley
sweet and salty peanut granola bar, chewy granola bar. I
don't know how chewy it is. It expired several years ago.
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Do you want it?
Speaker 3 (47:26):
I'm gonna go ahead and pass on that.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Do you need to drive any nails or tax I was.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
Thinking actually about that. These walls are really really tough,
so when you do have to use thumbjacks, you would
need that.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Yes. Yeah, someone got one of these, came into the studio,
put it in the drawers. I'll just save this little
bad boy for later.
Speaker 3 (47:47):
Maybe they still are.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Don't these things expire after like seven years anyway? No,
because this thing expired January twentieth, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Oh COVID spence.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yeah, it's a A. I've touched it, put it in
the trash can.
Speaker 3 (48:04):
That's how they delivered COVID here through granola bars.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
I can't and I can't use the hand sanitizer in
the studio because it's wearing a mask. I keep using
the pump to get the hand sanitizer out. It just
goes right in the mask. I tell you what these
masks work. Great, Scott, are you going to talk about
anything this segment? I don't know anyone wants to. What
do you want to do here? Lucy leave? Lucy has
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a bad case of the Fridays. But she's had a
bad case the Fridays since Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (48:36):
Well, we did have four Mondays this week.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
We did how do you figure first.
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Monday, second Monday, Tuesday week?
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, third Monday, Monday, Tuesday, that's coming.
Speaker 3 (48:48):
Third Monday, fourth Monday, and Friday.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Okay, Lucy, your mind works in mysterious ways.
Speaker 3 (48:58):
I've been told that.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
All right, let's talk about something. Okay, unless you want
to sidetrack me, probably I will. That's fine. Let me
look here. I want to do this. I want to
do that. What do you want here? The Doge action
in Nebraska or the what some people say is the
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hateful action by the Trump administration. We'll do both in
this segment. Which one do you want first?
Speaker 3 (49:29):
The second one?
Speaker 2 (49:30):
All right? You know what that means?
Speaker 3 (49:31):
I didn't actually hear we said, so I know you
said too. I'm telling to myself.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
So what I didn't have to admit that.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
No, I know, I told you for four mondays.
Speaker 2 (49:46):
The battle with journalists goes on with the Trump White House, Okay,
because they said, we don't want anyone here from the
Associated Press. You guys are are liberal jerks. We don't
want you here. And then a judge is like, you
can't ban the Ociated Press from the White House Press Corps.
Watch me. So yeah, they're they're doing that. Well, now
there's another argument here. Some journalists are reporting that Trump
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administration officials are refusing to engage with reporters via email
who list their pronouns in their email signature.
Speaker 3 (50:21):
I've heard of this.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
You've heard of the Trump administration not responding to them.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
I have heard of other people taking a look at
email signatures, you know, your usual signatures. It goes out
with all of your emails, people that put their pronouns
in them. There are some people who just probably won't
maybe deal with them.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Yeah, there was a town hall the other night Anderson
Cooper and Bernie Sanders Man, I'm sorry I missed this.
So they did a town hall the other night. And
let's see if I can find the cliff here, and
here we go. Listen to this Senator Bernie Sanders. I
want to introduce Grace Thomas. She's a local civil rights attorney.
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She's a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (51:06):
Right, say them pronouns? Actually, thank you?
Speaker 3 (51:09):
Oh do you need, Senator Sanders?
Speaker 2 (51:12):
All right, So here's here's someone who I don't appears
to be a woman. Now I say that because as
a cisgender male otherwise known as male. I uh, I
think I have the right to tell everyone what their
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gender is, right, all right? So no, I say this
because I look at this person and I see a woman.
I also only see one of them. You can't say
one of them and I say one person. I see
one individual there, And if I were pressed to say
what gender is this individual, I would say that looks
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like a woman. Right. So, as Anderson Cooper, that hateful
shirk on Fox and Oh CNN, he says, you know,
I want to introduce this person. She is this, this,
and this, and then she corrects him. It's they them pronouns. Actually, Anderson,
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we are multiple.
Speaker 3 (52:19):
Yes, we are multitude.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
We don't want you to misgender us.
Speaker 3 (52:24):
Isn't that what the demons said? We are multitude.
Speaker 2 (52:28):
I don't know. Maybe I always and I say this
a lot, but still I still can't get over the
fact that people who use they them pronouns. How do
they get a plane ticket?
Speaker 3 (52:41):
They have to buy two?
Speaker 2 (52:42):
Thank you for calling Southwest Airlines? How may I help you?
Speaker 4 (52:44):
Hi? There?
Speaker 2 (52:45):
We want a plane ticket? Or how many plane tickets
do you want? We want one ticket? Is your other
passenger an infant who will be on your lap? No,
it's just us, and comedy ensues. This is the twenty
twenty five edition of Who's On First? I could do
this for days. Yeah, so that's the first thing. How
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do you buy a plane ticket? Second? How do you
think that you, somehow are so special that you can't
just be tied down to one person? You got to
be I don't know, three, eight, fourteen, twenty seven people.
How many people are in there anyway? They used to
call that bean crazezy. That's a scientific term.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
Unless you actually have multiple personalities.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Right, And that's that's guano.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
That's what that is. Is that.
Speaker 2 (53:35):
Yeah, hopefully you can manage it. But so Anderson also
sees a woman and identifies her as she she apparently
like it's they them, Okay, whether this is a woman
who was born a woman, you are a she? Or
if you were a man who dresses as a woman,
she has grown her hair out or he has grown
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his hair out very very long here, and it's got,
you know, some nice makeup, not wearing some sort of
you know, drag queen pompadour and some flowing robes and
all the rest of this stuff. It's a lady dressed
like a lady who you expect to see at the
audience here at a town hall meetings. You dressed very nice.
She looks like a woman. If that's a guy who's
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dressing as a woman, A plus, I'm.
Speaker 3 (54:24):
Not I want to go back to it, not right now,
but I want to go back sometime to the nice makeup.
Speaker 2 (54:28):
What I like, I don't, I don't. I don't mean,
like you know, drag queens usually do the real garish
makeup this like real ear, heavy and all that stuff,
right right, that's the kind of the drag way of
doing it. She looks she looks great, She looks great.
And if that's a guy as a woman, fantastic work.
And in which case I would think that you would
be incredibly flattered if someone said, excuse me, ma'am, oh,
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well thank you. You know, I think that you would
be flattered. But there's no evidence to suggest that people
at the White House aren't responding to journalists who you
their pronouns in this whatever their pronouns are, just the
fact that they have pronouns in their email signature. They're like, well,
they're not getting back to us. Well, that just could
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be because you've got to go through the proper channels.
You talk to the White House, of course, the White
House spokesperson and let her ignore you. So that's what's
going on at the Trump White House. The Nebraska budget
shortfall might be tackled by a proposal by Omaha State
Senator Brad von Gillern. He says, here's how we're going
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to make up part of the projected two hundred and
ninety two million dollar budget shortfall. We're just going to
eliminate the or scale back a lot of these tax credits.
They're going to be allowed to sunset. They'll be eliminated
or scaled back. Oh, little Nebraska, little Nebraska, doge.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (55:52):
You said we have almost three hundred million dollar tax
deficit or a budget budget shortfall.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
Yeah, we got to figure it out for the state.
Speaker 3 (55:59):
Yeah, and yet we're paying more property taxes than I
don't know. Where are we at number four on the list.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Here are some of the things that they're that we're
spending our tax dollars on that might be eliminated. Okay,
the Sports Arena Facility Financing Assistance Act, gone, what about
that thing we just talked about earlier this hour.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
I don't care now.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
The Sustainable Aviation Fuel Tax Credit Act.
Speaker 4 (56:24):
No.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
Wait, this for the guys that are like, hey, it's
time to come down, like, but we we just got
a full tank. Expel it. You've got to land. And
they just right next the Relocation Incentive Act. I think
that's the property taxes you're talking about, the incentive to relocate.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
Can I get some cash for that? Please?
Speaker 2 (56:47):
Nebraska Short Line Rail Modernization Modernization Act. Where are short
line rails?
Speaker 3 (56:53):
We don't have any short lines.
Speaker 2 (56:55):
I ate a short line rail on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (56:57):
I bought it on the Napoli.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
The Reverse Osmosis System Tax Credit Act. We're just we're
just throwing words together. No, I know what that is,
reverse osmosis. I guess I know what it is.
Speaker 3 (57:10):
Water.
Speaker 2 (57:11):
Yeah, but this is you get a tax credit for that.
Speaker 3 (57:13):
I guess, well, I need to go file right.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
He's like, look, we could eliminate these and save seventy
one million dollars.
Speaker 3 (57:21):
It doesn't even come close to fixing the budget deficits.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
I know, but it's a little closer. It's better than nothing.
Doge that stuff.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
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