Open Phone Line Friday: Campaign Strategy, Fire Hydrants & More

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, I got to the fairgrounds about eight am today. Yeah,
you know what temperature it was? I would guess like
sixties fifty seven degrees? Wow, fifty seven degrees August ninth.
Now it's almost seventy right now. I kind of love
it is that wrong of me to say, not.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wrong, I'm just I just want to check really quick.
It was one hundred degrees to begin this week, right.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Yeah, like Monday was like ninety eight. But we talked
about this with all the power out of his OPPD
and all this stuff, and the people that suffered over
the weekend and some of the incredible heat, and as
soon as their power comes on, you know, mother nature
cools it down by thirty degrees.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hey, look at it this way. Their bill's going to
be pretty light. They didn't have to pay when it
was hot, and now they're not even having it to
turn it on at all. I don't know if they'd
look at it like that, but I like where your
brain's at. That's silver lining.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, So the I don't what do you think? There
is a level of I don't know what's the what's
the term I want to use, m there's a level
of grace that we are willing to give I think
mother nature from time to time if things at least

(01:11):
kind of make sense. But do we really have like
I don't know, is there a good term for like
a perfect day when it's not expected, because like during
the Iowa Stay Fair, I'm always just anticipating oppressive heat,
like not just heat, like heat that you are constantly
trying to duck into buildings to avoid heat. You know,

(01:34):
I'm taking aback by how perfect the last couple of
days have been.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
And I'm sure that they set themselves up to be
ready for the heat, you.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Know, at the fair. Yeah, I mean there's a ton
of buildings, there's a ton of buildings, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You wonder if those industrial fan you know, like maybe
a couple less of those being rented out, you know,
hopefully that industry is doing okay, the industrial fans at
the at.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
The Yeah, yeah, okay. So here's the other thing too.
Have you been to I would Stay Fair recently not recently?
You gotta come, man, it's not even close to being
the same thing. Like like we're talking fully air conditioned
buildings all over the place, okay, like like like like
like really well done air conditioning like you will not
you have no issue whatsoever with this situation, you know

(02:19):
what I'm saying. Like, But when there's one hundred thousand
people in the fair grounds at any one time on
one of these super hot days, sometimes all of these
buildings are just like full shoulder to shoulder with people
because they're afraid of the oppressive heat. It's perfect. It's
absolutely perfect. Right now, I don't even know, you know
what I'm saying, Like, we're not even like nobody's sweat.
You're not even sweating when you're out there, right, Yeah,

(02:43):
you go ahead, Yeah, okay, So I always stay fair.
That's what's going on. Also, the Olympics wrap up this week,
and we're already almost done with the Olympics, so you're
gonna miss them. You know.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Honestly, I haven't really been checking in that much, but
I uh, it always goind of happens to me. As
soon as I kind of start to get my interest
going on. It it feel like it's a bill. Yeah, well,
get the peacock app. You can just rewatch literally anything.
And it's honestly, that's what I end up doing. Hey,
I just hey, I want to watch a field hockey game.
There's like fifteen field hockey games. And you know what

(03:18):
part of it is, you can't go too far out
of your way to like go on social media and
see all of the results, because when you see the results,
you know, sometimes that can ruin the experience for you.
Although we were paying quite close attention to that Serbia
USA men's basketball game yesterday, that was a wild one. Yeah,
USA nearly losing to Serbia, having to come back from
seventeen points down in the second half pretty crazy. I

(03:42):
feel bad for the Serbians by the way, you know,
and you think about the narrative that would have created. Already,
there's kind of this shifting narrative in the NBA, the
new stars versus the old guard. You could say that
this USA team is filled with old stars.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, it's a Lebron, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and then
Joel Embiid and there are some young guys, but the
young guys aren't getting a ton of run, you know,
Like it was Curry, James and Durant that carried them
to the comeback yesterday. It's a crazy team on paper.
They should never lose, I mean even now as they're old.
But man, of Serbia with Nicola Jokic and bog Don Bogdanovic,

(04:18):
We're able to beat them.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
What have been yeah, the Serbians version of space Jam.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Oh, it would have been the Serbians version of like
the well, think about the craziest thing like basketball and
Serbia is not that upscare. But what's like our fifth sport?
It's like, yeah, maybe like baseball, No, because we dominate
in baseball too. What's like, uh soccer comparison? Yeah, I
mean yeah, like like imagine American soccer taking out England,

(04:45):
like beating England in a knockout match in the World Cup.
That is kind of like probably what it feels like
in America. It'd have some legitimate ripples, but I don't
know if it would be like the most important thing
that ever happened, Although miracle on Ice is kind of
that way, isn't it when the you know, the the
United States beat the USSR hockey machine back back in
the day, Yes, something like that. Anyway, it's an open

(05:09):
funlne Friday. You can call in with whatever you want
to talk about big latest news worldwide. Just to mention,
I don't have a lot of details on this, but
sixty two people dead at least in a plane crash
in Brazil. This not in the United States, but in Brazil.
And we know, like I I'm telling you as somebody
who's going to be on a plane for nine hours

(05:29):
next month, you know, don't think I'm not thinking too
much about this. The airline company is vaux Pass. Have
you heard about this? I have not heard of them.
I've heard about the story though, the oe Pass vou Pass,
and they have not confirmed what would have caused one
of their planes to have this issue and to die.

(05:49):
The Brazilian president, his name is Louise and Nacio Lula
de Silva. He says it appears all sixty two people
on board the flight may have died. We don't have
a lot of details. Like I said on what this
was a Brazilian flight from Brazil going to another place
in Brazil, but a plane was out of control and

(06:10):
it crashed. How does this happen in twenty twenty four
would be my question. In an era where we have
such great ability to kind of use machinery to help
us protect from things like this like autopilot, right, I mean,
I feel like an airplane is as much like you
have to have good pilots certainly for takeoff, for landing,

(06:30):
to manage some situations, but for the most part, there
are correctible like things within the machinery on the plane
itself that could help correct any sort of issues, you
know what I'm saying. Yeah, that's why we're not We
don't hear too much about like massive plane crashes that
are planes out of control or a pilot error or

(06:50):
the pilot had some sort of health emergency and the
plane went down. We don't hear about a lot of
that stuff these days, which is great. I'm glad, obviously,
but at the same time, I'm pretty like this crash
in a residential area, so I have no idea if
you know, hit houses or anything. I mean, just what
a terrible situation. I couldn't imagine, you know, thinking about

(07:13):
all this stuff, and I don't want to think too
much about the negative stuff. But again, as somebody who
is about to make a flight to Spain in like
a month, I look at a story like this and
I'm just like, you know, boy, you know, like is
and you have all these Boeing stories over the last
couple of years, right with the with Boeing planes not
being up to code, or or they you know, cut
corners and they're manufacturing of these planes. You'd figure the

(07:36):
one thing you'd want to have as sturdy as possible,
are these airplanes. Have you watched The Aviator, by the way,
the movie I have not. That's Leonardo DiCaprio Martin Scorsese
movie from like twenty years ago, and it's about what's
his name? What's what's the guy? The guy that what's
his what's his name? DiCaprio plays, but his whole thing

(07:59):
he is, you know, he's a rich guy. He's got
all sorts of stuff. Howard Hughes is his name. It's
Howard Hughes, okay, And Howard Hughes is obsessed with like
setting speed records with these airplanes. And that's one of
like the like he's a strange guy. I mean, the
movie's really about him as a strange guy. But he
just loves airplanes and he loves movies. He like makes movies,

(08:20):
but he's really about the planes. And he's always just like,
take these rivets down. I need less rivets, right. He
wants as few things as little weight as possible. He
wants this machine to go as fast as it possibly can,
and to a lot of these other people, they're just
not safe, if that makes sense. They're just not safe.
And I don't know. To me, I watched that, and

(08:42):
obviously this is set back in you know, the nineteen forties.
But I think, to myself, he did that for speed.
He didn't care about how safe the aircraft was. It's
hard for us normal people to try to put that
into perspective how expensive it already is to manufacture these
kinds of vessels that carry people high in the air,

(09:04):
going hundreds of miles per hour, thousands of feet above
the surface of Earth, and we have to basically just
trust the experts that these are safe. These are safe
aircrafts that are gonna get us from point to point
be as safely as possible. In ninety nine point nine
percent of the time that happens. But every time you

(09:24):
hear one of these Boeing stories or you see this
thing in Brazil, we don't even know what the heck
happened yet, I don't know. It gives me the hebgb's.
Too many people rely on air travel these days to
have these kinds of issues, and then like random cancelations
of flights, you know, because of understaffing, which we have
seen with various you know, airline companies over the last
couple of years. I don't know, it's a weird time

(09:44):
to be in the industry for aircraft carriers, or not
aircraft carriers, of airlines and just be somebody who needs
to jump on planes every once in a while. I
basically get on a plane couple three four times a
year at most. It's really not that much compared to
some people. Some people are doing it every week, and
I just couldn't fathom, you know what people who are

(10:06):
working for these airlines in like the pr like, oh,
how am I going to respond to this? How do
we answer for this pretty weird stuff? Two nineteen is
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there's a bunch of different angles. You know, people all
have their cell phones and everything. The way that it's fallowing,
you could tell pretty quickly. You could tell pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I mean there's one angle of it looking like it's
coming down right in the middle of this neighborhood and
it's just like falling. You know, this thing is gonna
crash like this is this is not There's got to
be an explanation. It looks like everything just like probably
got shut off. Okay, yeah, and I gotta I gotta
tell you like that freaks me. Yeah, I mean they
there's got to be like the black box, right that,

(11:04):
there's got to be something there. I don't know. Wow,
that is jarring stuff. And certainly and it certainly they
give This is me just sitting here as somebody who
you know, I'm kind of squeamish. I don't like to
look at a lot of stuff like that. There. There's
got to be something. Uh, it's got to be something.

(11:27):
When when you talk about the getting in an airplane,
I need to be told exactly what happened to this
because that scares you to death and you feel terrible
for the people who are on board. There regardless of
what ended up happening. It's just incredible stuff. I cannot
believe it looks that way. It just really looks like
something they just stopped the engines and the thing just

(11:48):
started falling out of the sky, right, Yeah, I mean
that makes sense because it's it is just literally free
falling in the sky.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's not it's not falling in a directional angle. It
almost just seems to be.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Like it's like something stopped it. Yeah, in mid air,
and its just like is dropping. I just couldn't imagine
the feeling of falling that quickly while on that planet.
It's just it's harrowing stuff. We told you it's another
a phone line Friday. You can call with whatever's on
your mind. Four h two five five eight eleven ten.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten. We got
Larry on the line. Larry, welcome to the show. What
are you thinking about today, Larry? Larry? Oh, there he is.

(12:28):
Hey Larry, it's your turn. Hey, turn your radio down
and listen to me on the phone here. What's on
your mind?

Speaker 4 (12:32):
Okay, yeah, all right, I'll say anyway, I was just
wondering if Harris just to become president of the United States.
How was she going to handle pud and also the
Chinese and also maybe uh, North Korea. How's she going
to handle in people? I think company needs to ask
her that question in the debate.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, that's a good question. We have no idea how
she would handle anything foreign policy wise, because she's never
had to do anything like that before. So I mean
it's a fair question.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Absolutely absolutely. Well, anyway, that's pretty much I've been trying
to get a hold of you, guys. I listen to
you every day, and I appreciate your station and and
I've been an independent Moto all my life, but I
think I'm gonna could Republican.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Well, Larry, I can tell I can understand why. Thank
you so much for listening to us. We really appreciate
the kind words, and thanks for calling in. Call again
sometime you bet, Thank you very much. By all right, goodbye.
What do you think, Matt the foreign policy? How much
do you need to know about foreign policy to be
a president of the United States? Can you hire people
to help you with that? Like like that seems like

(13:38):
part of the job that you can only really get
good at unless you're in very specific jobs. It seems like.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
One of the pillars that you need to know. You
can't just you can't just be fresh on the scene.
I feel like that's one of the pillars for sure.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Well, this is one of those things why you would
hire a military person, right because because when you think
they would have kind of a leg up in how
a lot of that stuff works. Maybe not just like
talking to people's specifically, but I don't know, just like
some of the strategies behind those negotiations. That's why so
many military men have been solid presidents in the past.
We've kind of gotten away from that over the last

(14:11):
little bit. If you haven't noticed, I think it's good
if you've served in the military, you certainly and again
I know that there's a lot of things between Vance
and Walls and their military service and some of the
stuff that's coming to question on both sides about you know,
what their jobs were and how important or whatever those were.
But there's no doubt about that. We're gonna take a

(14:32):
break at Travis, Ricky, everybody else who is calling in
open full line Friday will be back at a couple
of minutes. We'll take your call and we'll talk about
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Speaker 1 (14:49):
The phone number to call in and be a part
of that conversation is four oh two, five to five,
eight eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Travis is on the line. Travis, Welcome to the show today.
What are you thinking about?

Speaker 6 (15:00):
What am I thinking about? I'm thinking about the Olympics,
And something that really bothers me is all these athletes
from other countries that come and play college sports in
our country or even the Sweden coule Voulver.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Yeah, yeah, he's actually an American guy.

Speaker 6 (15:17):
Yeah, he's an American citizen. And how can he compete
for Sweden. It's like going to the United States military
boot camp and then going over and fighting for your
country or something.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I just yeah, yeah, So this is a good question
because there's a bit of a I don't know if
you follow the basketball, but Joel Embiid is playing for
the United States, but had originally told France he was
competing for them because he's got French like, he's got
a French heritage because of the loopholes with parents and grandparents,
and he's also eligible to play for Cameroon. If Cameroon

(15:48):
was get any good at basketball and made the Olympics,
he could have played for them. Of France or the
United States and English choo to which one. I'm with
you here, Travis. I'm not one hundred percent sure why
those rules are in place except for people to feel
like it can make Olympic teams if they aren't good
enough to make one originally. Like if you're a handball
player from the United States, well, the United States handball

(16:09):
team's terrible, it's never going to make it to the Olympics.
But if you have like a grandparent who was originally
from Norway, you could go play in the Olympics for Norway.
You know what I'm saying, Like, I don't.

Speaker 6 (16:20):
It's not right.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Yeah, I don't know why that is and how these
athletes can just jump around. There are some athletes that
have competed in multiple Olympics for different countries. They represented
one country one year and then they changed their nationality
basically and represented a different country the next year. I
guess my question, Travis to you is does it matter
to you that much the medal count? Does that something

(16:42):
you're paying attention to or do you think that this
is more just a principle of the matter.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
I think it's more of a principle of a matter,
and it just irritates the hell out of me.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
I mean, it's, you know, let's take advantage of the
United States. So send our kids to college and the
United States and get the best training in the best
coaching for them, and then bring them back to our
country and bring them bring them fame and fortune for
some of them countries that pay their athletes, you know
that to come home with a gold medal or a

(17:12):
silver medal or.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, no, no, they do. The United States is one
of them as well, depending on the sport and like
the stuff, there is like a paycheck that comes with medling.
This is another thing that I just want to, like,
like an appendage to the conversation we're having right now,
is the college system that the United States has with
scholarships and all that stuff. It's really not how it
works over there. If you play like a sport or
you're an athlete, there's like academies that you go to

(17:34):
if you want to, you know, be a good soccer player.
You just like sign up with an academy and they'll
educate you and stuff while you're basically a professional at
age sixteen or whatever, if you're good enough and over here.
You know, we have a very different college system that
we created ourselves with scholarships and then it became kind
of a money making machine and then a participation machine
for anything that's not football and basketball. And I wonder

(17:55):
how much of all of that participation from foreign people
who come to the United States for college has to
do with just the system that we have in place,
versus the fact that their university's over there don't really
have a lot of athletic programs that are built into it.
I think there's a case study to be there as well.
But I agree with you, Travis, there's something that's it's
a little strange and maybe a little bit wrong about it.

(18:16):
But at the same time, I'm just I need more
facts and more of an understanding of why the United
States is such a big player for even these foreign
athletes who come they train here, or they go to
college here, and they get coached here. It's very interesting. Yeah,
thanks so much.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
For the call, man, Thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Absolutely, Ricky's on our phone line four h two five
five eight eleven ten Ricky, what are you thinking about? Beep?
Don't you just hate that? Don't you just hate that?

Speaker 6 (18:41):
Come on?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
I think calling back just oh okay, all right, all
hold on. Yeah, so we were while I wait on that.
Because I'm not in the studio, I can't see exactly
what's going on. Matt's got to, you know, relay that information.
But Mondo do plant This, whose real name is armand
Gustav dou plant This, he is is was born in Lafayette, Louisiana,

(19:03):
went to LSU down there in Louisiana, but represents Sweden
as he continuously breaks the world record in the pole vault,
which he did once again into Paris Olympics, and he
has beloved people love him. His dad is the former
pole vaulter Greg do plant This, who was also American.
His mom is Swedish. She was a former heptathlete and

(19:24):
volleyball player. So what like why you know when you
have parents in these two like from two different countries.
And I guess we talk a little bit about that
with Kamala Harris. There's so much I think conversation is
to the heritage, the culture, how you grew up in

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all that jazz right, And with his mom being Swedish,
I guess there may be some poll that, you know,
representing Sweden was what he would prefer to do. And
I mean, he speaks Swedish, is mom, you know, being Swedish.
I'm sure that meant a lot to her. I watched
the Receiver show on Netflix. Are I'm and Ross Saint

(20:07):
Brown the wide receiver from the Lions. His mom's German.
His mom's like legitimate German, and she only spoke German
to them so they would learn the language. So they
can speak very fluent German all the time, him and
his brothers. So that's pretty interesting too. I just I
guess I don't know the metal count thing. It's not
a huge deal for me. It really isn't. And especially

(20:28):
in individual sports, I don't care necessarily too much about
the country. I know that we celebrate it when an
American wins and all that stuff, But again, I'm a
person that loves just the competition. I love the games themselves.
I just love watching sports. I literally could watch, you know,
Bangladesh play against India in cricket and find myself entertained

(20:50):
by it. In some way. Maybe I'm the wrong person
to ask oh, okay, it looks like Ricky is back
on the line. Ricky, welcome to the show. What's going on?

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (20:57):
I have a theory or more maybe better described as
a bad feeling about the end of Joe Biden's presidency.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (21:07):
I feel like the powers that be are going to
try and get him, get us into a war of
some sort. They've been sending Jeff's over to the Middle
East here recently and something we wouldn't be able to
get out of. Then I feel like his party will
do the Amendment twenty five on him and that will
make Kamala the forty seventh president, and you know, then

(21:29):
he won't have to pardon his own son and she'll
do it for him. And that'll also give him, you know,
a president in an active war that you know, you
don't always want to switch somebody out in that position.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah, okay, so these are all good things here here, Ricky.
Can I can I point by point kind of go
through what I think, not to disagree with you know
what your bad feeling is, but here's my feelings on
your feelings. I guess. First thing is, I think Iran
is doing a lot of that talking and the United
States preemptively is trying to prepare itself in case things
escalate that they can act quickly and help out their allies. Now,

(22:06):
I think that's a good thing if we're trying to
be a good ally. But at the same time, I
know as soon as Iran in the United States get
themselves involved, that's World War I mean, everybody's involved at
that point. So I think most people around the world
don't want that to happen. But I am looking at
it as a preemptive, precautionary measure done just in case

(22:26):
Iran does follow through with these threats toward Israel. Number two,
on to your point the twenty fifth Amendment thing. Too
many people in the Democratic Party, including people like Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris, people like Kareine John Pierre, who
is the basically the liaison to the press and is
the only person that's answering questions from the press from

(22:49):
anybody in that administration, which is incredibly insane, but that's
the way they're doing things right now. Everybody says he's
totally fine to finish out his term. His health is
not a problem. You know, how stupid they're going to
look if they twenty fifth Amendment him after they have
said all this stuff during the summer. I don't think
they're willing to look that stupid, even if he won't
be doing anything super active for the rest of his presidency.

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And number three is she literally is being attacked and
rightly so in a lot of ways by the right
because the Democrats basically handed her the nomination even though
she didn't get voted for in a primary. Nobody voted
for her in the caucus of primary season of twenty
twenty because she dropped out too early because she had
no support the idea that she would elevate to the
presidency of the United States in the most undemocratic manner

(23:33):
in the history of mankind, plus also be running for
reelection at that point in November, despite never having been
voted into office at all. Real House of card style.
Really messed up stuff, and the right is going to
have a field day with that. The right is going
to say, you want to talk about threats to democracy
the way that they have just elevated Kamala Harris over

(23:54):
the last six months, that is as undemocratic as it gets.
And they'll have no defense for it, Absolutely no defense
for it, so I think if any of that happens,
I think they're they're handing the election to the Republicans.
I don't see anybody with their right mind as an
independent voter that wouldn't be stunned, shocked, and disturbed by
the misinformation, the lying, but then also the undemocratic nature

(24:16):
of elevating a person who literally has not gotten a
vote for federal office at all. You know what I'm saying, right.

Speaker 9 (24:22):
It just feel like I can't put it past them, though.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Well, you know what, one thing you got right here, Ricky,
No matter what, you can't rule anything out at this point.
You just can't. We got to keep asking questions and
keeping our head on a swivel. Thanks for the call, buddy.
You have a good weekend. Absolutely, we'll take more calls
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Speaker 1 (24:55):
Just a quick update here. Nobody in the residential area
where the plane crashed was illed, according to reports, but
the sixty two people on board are assumed to be
perished in this horrific plane crash in Brazil. As more
stuff comes out, we'll give you that update. But that's
really good news that nobody on the ground was actually
killed by this terrible plane crash, and as they're looking

(25:17):
into what exactly happened, we'll give you more info as
we may learn it here throughout the rest of the afternoon.
Back to the phones though, for open phone line Friday
for two, five, five, eight to eleven ten. Don is
on the line. Welcome to the show, Don, What are
you thinking about?

Speaker 10 (25:30):
Why are the fire hydrants be painted white all of
a sudden? That's going to make it hard for the
fireman to find in the winter when it's snows and
the snow drifts and and also gets cloud up against them.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
So where are you seeing the white fire hydrants?

Speaker 8 (25:55):
Don?

Speaker 10 (25:55):
I guess I have a notice where everywhere all over town.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Interesting. Yeah, I mean I don't have a good answer
to that question, don I. I it's kind of news
to me, But again, I'm not super observant about stuff
like that. And you're right, I mean, of all the colors,
that's probably the one, the last one you probably wanted
to be, especially considering how in the wintertime, we do
get those snow drifts, especially when the plows come by

(26:20):
and they want to push that snow up against the
curb right next to where some of these fire hydrants
could be. That's a pretty uh, it's a pretty interesting
topic here. I'll see if I can't learn more about that,
don But I appreciate you bringing that to our attention today.

Speaker 10 (26:33):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, no problem. What about you, Matt? Have you seen that?
I haven't seen that at all. Now, I believe him,
you know, Yeah, I just I don't look at stuff
like that. I don't know that's interesting. I'm looking at
a picture of this plane crash from above, like the
aftermath of what's left with the plane. Bro, there's nothing

(26:56):
like you can see the windows of like what the
cockpit would be, and everything else is into some million pieces.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
I just according, I'm sorry to cut in, Rick. Online
one has info on those fire hydrants, by the way.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh okay, you thank you? All right, never mind, I'll
talk more about this. I want to learn more about
the fire hydrants. Rick, what you got on your mind?

Speaker 8 (27:14):
Good afternoon, love your show.

Speaker 11 (27:16):
Well, thanks, here's the deal.

Speaker 8 (27:18):
That's just primer. They do this every few years and
they will be painted red again.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
They just put the primer on to avoid the rust
and corrosion from underneath, and then they'll be red again.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
There you go, all right, good information, Rick, So they
are turning white, but only so they can be repainted properly.

Speaker 11 (27:35):
Exactly, Have a good rest of your day.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
I got it, and Josh just emailed it and said,
not positive. Pretty sure. They're just priming them for fresh paint,
and this is good. I'm glad Don brought this up
because it's an interesting question. But now that makes sense.
When you want to change the color of a room
in your house, or like your deck or something, generally
you want to prime it so you know it looks
good and it stands out. You know what I'm saying.

(27:59):
I don't know how often do you paint something there, Matt,
like you paint stuff all that often. Ope, he's not
there because he's probably answering the phones and I can't
see him. This is live right, heol folks, unbelievable stuff.
To fifty four is the time, just real quick. I
want to tell you about the Iowa State Fair experience
that I had today. And this is not to say

(28:21):
that there's anything you know, too crazy that happened that
nobody else could experience. But there were a ton of
classic cars, like along the Grand Concourse, like day two
of the State for one of the things they do
is basically a classic car show on the main street
the Grand Concourse. And I know, if you're listening to
us in Omaha, you're unlikely to be able to make

(28:43):
it over there to the Iowa State Fair like today
to see all these cars. But if you have him
into a classic car show, there's something about the appreciation
for how much these people have cared for these vehicles
that you see them. You see him pulling in, you
see them driving in, backing into their spot where they're
going to show this thing off all day. And they're

(29:03):
just beautiful. They're perfectly washed, they're perfectly painted the inside
and the outside. You just kind of drool at It
makes you kind of want to get an old classic car,
fix it up, make it look all nice, and show
it off to people. I don't know, it's not something
I ever thought about doing myself, but I kind of, yeah,
I got a little itch on there. We'll have more
for you, And if you got some thoughts you want
to call in four oh two, five five, eight eleven ten.

(29:25):
Open phone Line Friday continues stick around Emory Songer with
you along with my friend Matt Case right here. He's
Radio eleven ten kfab. It's over phone line Friday. We
spend a lot of time chatting with you about things
you want to talk about, and you can call in
with whatever you want to talk about. Four oh two,
five five eight eleven ten. Four oh two, five five,
eight eleven ten. Bob's on the phone line. Hello, Bob,

(29:48):
what are you thinking about today?

Speaker 8 (29:49):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (29:49):
Thanks for taking my call and me years ago. I
didn't notice until lately. But they don't paint the curves
on the islands and stuff with refrecnive yellow paint, so
you can't already see him. I drove over one the
other night that was misshaped a little bit because of
their turning lane, and as long as they hadn't painted
those things yell over that pregnant paint. They don't do

(30:10):
it anymore in any state.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Yeah, that's a good point, you know, didn't They used
to do that at certain points, not just like medians
or stuff like that, but they also kind of did
that across like curbs in neighborhoods as well, like like
a turn.

Speaker 12 (30:26):
Yes, you turned off of Mike on Ames Avenue.

Speaker 8 (30:29):
There you can turn off and go to business.

Speaker 13 (30:31):
And then you come back to the street.

Speaker 12 (30:33):
You can't make a left turn because island across there,
and they don't paint the curb. I see people drive
over them all the time at night.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's a good observation, Bob. Well, I'm glad that you're okay,
And I guess we're just gonna have to keep our
eyes open and maybe the city will take some note
on that, and maybe they're listening to us right now. Hey,
put a little bit of reflectiveness or some paint that's
pretty easily seen, especially at night time with some of
these islands and medians that are out there in the
middle of these streets. Thanks, Bob, appreciate the call. Do

(31:02):
that You're welcome by all right, goodbye, have a good weekend.
Dave's on our phone line of four of the two five, five,
eight to eleven ten. Hell dude, Dave, what do you got?

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Uh?

Speaker 14 (31:10):
Yes, I can't figure out why the sniper sat that
crooks and killed him. Why didn't he just wound him
so they could question him? And I don't understand why
the cop when he went over the ladder and saw
the Krugs slaying there, why he didn't shoot him.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
Then.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yeah, So, David, a couple couple of things here, and
I do have a little bit of information on this
because I do have a good friend who's a sergeant
in a police department in a pretty big city. So first,
first thing about the I want to take your second
question first with the police officer. So he goes up
on the ladder. According to the police chief in Butler
County where this had happened, he said the officer in

(31:53):
that moment was not in position to be able to
unholster his weapon in that moment because apparently when he
saw crooks, he crooks looked at him and pointed the
weapon at him. So he felt like if he was
up there, there was no way for him to unholster
and shoot, and he didn't want to get shot and

(32:14):
not be able to defend himself, so he just dropped
back down, which gave crooks all the time he needed
to line up and fire a handful of shots or
eight shots or whatever. The second part, which is your
first question about why didn't they try to wound him.
I asked this all the time to my police officer friend,
because especially when you talk like George Floyd or some

(32:35):
of these other people that when there's all these riots
or why did the police officers kill this man or
whatever or kill this woman? In certain situations, it's not
always true, Like it's not always the case, but a
good police officer, when you have to fire a weapon
and use deadly force, you have to do it and

(32:55):
you have to do it accurately, because if you aim
to wound, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to stop
whatever they're doing. So like if somebody had like a
gun right and they were pointing it at police officers
and they were threatening to shoot them, police officers are
not going to shoot to wound. They're going to shoot
to kill because if they shoot to wound and the

(33:18):
wound doesn't really do anything, there's nothing that would stop
that person from still getting shots off. You know what
I'm saying now. The question about the timing, how quickly
they were able to see him and then as soon
as he started shooting they were able to get a
lot of a mark on him and then take him out.
Why that didn't happen earlier. I think to me, that's
a bigger question as to why the communication wasn't there

(33:41):
while many bystanders were pointing that there was a guy
with a gun on this roof attempting to get shots
off toward a former President Trump. That's the bigger question
for me. But for a sniper in that scenario, they
are told one thing, and that is shoot to kill.
If you shoot to wound, there's too many things that
that person, the purpose trader, could absolutely keep doing. And yeah,

(34:03):
I think that's probably going to be the answer to
anybody in law enforcement or in the secret service on
that front. Hopefully that answered your question, Dave, Yeah, that did.

Speaker 14 (34:12):
I'm scared they're going to try to assassinate him again.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Well, I would hope it's a security, secret service local officers.
They're going to be a lot more careful about stuff
like that in the future. But you can never rule
anything out, Dave. This is the other thing too, You
just cannot rule anything out. Every time you think you've
seen it all, something else crazy happens. But fingers crossed
that that's as crazy as it gets for us. I
appreciate the call, buddy, Eric, Thank you for sure Brian's

(34:38):
on our phone line of four h two, five five
eight to eleven ten and it's an open phone line. Friday, Brian,
what are you thinking about today?

Speaker 15 (34:44):
Well, it's what about thinking about the last month with
Kamal Harris taking over for Joe Biden, after the debate
and after Trump got a zero shot, I thought it
was all over. Except the only thing to look forward
to is being able to say I told you so
when Trump got elected. But I did post on Facebook.

(35:04):
I've never joined Twitter, so just Facebook that I was
leaning towards giving it to Kamla. I gave some reasons
why I thought that would be a good idea. The
campaign would transfer over, the money would transfer over, and
I did vote for three times to be vice president
with the understanding she could become president. And of course,
the party officials are elected by party members from the

(35:27):
local to the national level, and primaries are relatively well,
just a little over a century old thing. The first
one was nineteen twelve when Teddy Roosevelt ran against the
taft and Roosevelt won the primary. The convention gave its taft.
So I'm pretty happy with the whole thing, and I
can understand Republicans being upset they had it in the

(35:49):
bag and how the bag's empty.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well, Brian, let's talk about this point by point.
Our political process has changed, just like our media has changed.
There weren't radios in nineteen twelve, there were not televisions.
In nineteen twelve. Media was still chiefly newspapers and telegrams
and things of that nature for people to go and
find out themselves. It was a lot harder to get
news in a fast and quick fashion. So nineteen twelve

(36:13):
being the first primary, the way that that scenario turned around,
the way that campaigning it has evolved so much over
the last one hundred years, that might as well be
ancient history as far as the way America has aged.
I think the primary and caucus system is set up
so Americans feel like they have a voice, they can
pick who's going to represent their political party and a

(36:35):
general election, and this is the first time that they
are having that basically ripped out of their hands. I
don't think like the Republicans having it in the bag.
You're right, they certainly were going to win if it
was Biden Harris, same ticket, old man Biden trying to
work his way through to the election. There was no
way he was going to win and survive another debate

(36:57):
and have people feel confident that he was going to
be the guy. I still think that the Republicans feel
pretty confident, and I do think there's a honeymoon phase
right now with this new and energetic ticket of two
live people who can actually, you know, speak and move
around and seem like they're not zombies. I do think
there's an effect to that. I don't think Republicans are
mad though about that. They're going to point out every

(37:19):
fault that the Democrats have. That's just the nature of
the game. But I think what is true is that
this was an undemocratic process done in a way that
took the decision making out of the voter's hands to
hand it over to a person who quite literally win
running for president in the twenty twenty cycle, didn't even
make it close to the first caucus because she did

(37:41):
not have enough support, never pulled more than three or
four percent, was pulling under one percent when she dropped
out of the race, was resurrected in a non democratic way.
I mean, it's not like it's not an undemocratic thing
to name a running mate the American voters aren't supposed
to have a say in who that is in the
way that we do things now, but he picked somebody

(38:02):
who was identity politics one oh one. The only reason
Kamala Harris was selected wasn't because she's the most qualified
of the candidates who was running for a president. Of course,
you know that, Brian, there were many others who made
it much deeper into the caucus and primary season than
she did. You know, you can even look at somebody
like Elizabeth Warren or somebody like Amy Klobuchar, who certainly

(38:23):
would have checked some boxes, but he wanted Kamala Harris
identity politics. Now. After that, she becomes the vice president
because he wins the election of twenty twenty, and then
she inherits a campaign because they refused to run a
legitimate primary, not allowing any challengers legitimately to take on
Joe Biden, no debates, not allowing any sort of publicity

(38:46):
for the matter, Democratic leaning news outlets just basically ignoring
people like Dean Phillips who were trying to actually raise
awareness for the fact that Joe Biden couldn't run another campaign,
completely ignored him and waited until it was too late
before they finally were able to force him out of office,
hand it over to Kamala Harris, and nobody gets to
say one word about I think that is incredibly irresponsible

(39:09):
by a party that has gone out of its way
to act like they're the saviors of American democracy as
they call it, or our governmental system, and they are
the ones that are perpetrated, albeit unintentionally possibly I'm not
saying that they had this plan for months, but they
are intentionally, like unintentionally even or intentionally whatever it was,

(39:30):
creating the most undemocratic transfer of power, potentially for a
sitting and incumbent president and then basically handing it off
to his vice president without anybody committing a vote whatsoever.
It is a mess. They'll have to answer for it,
but they're not even acknowledging it because it is absolutely
anti democratic.

Speaker 15 (39:48):
Joe Biden's approval among Democrats was barely over thirty percent,
whereas Kamala Harris's approval among Democrats is over eighty percent.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Well, of course it is now, I mean, she does it.
He's a live human being, Brian, Why do you think
that is? You think that has anything to do with policy.
She hasn't done anything at the federal level for policy.

Speaker 15 (40:07):
Well, I think them democratic thing would have been to
keep Joe Biden instead of the majority of Democrats wishing
he had stuffed down.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, and that's fine, Brian, But if they would have
thought about that, maybe the people should have had an
ability to vote on that when the caucus of primaries
were going on earlier this calendar year. It's not like
his health drastically changed from January all the way to June.
He was the same guy. We were talking about it
a year before all this stuff happened, and nobody wanted
to admit it until after the debate when there were

(40:34):
no more primaries left to vote. Okay, I understand what
you're saying. He's certainly not fit to run for another campaign.
I don't think he's fit to lead this country and
hasn't been for a for a number of months because
of his health decline. But you're telling me that everything
would have been more undemocratic head he stay in. No,
we have a process for that, Brian. It's called the caucuses.

(40:56):
In primary season in all fifty states, in several territories
have the ability to vote for who they think should
represent their political party, except this time with this political party,
and that sits. That doesn't sit right with me, and
they shouldn't sit right with any Democratic voters. Your your
vote has been ripped away from you, Your voice is
taken away by the very people that you are supporting.
How does that make any sense? Oh?

Speaker 15 (41:17):
Oh, I'm sure if there are any Democrats who are
upset by it that be featured prominently on news and newsmacs.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Well, well, this is the thing, Brian, As you said,
the Democrats are being told to get in line and
support Kamala otherwise Donald Trump will be the president. That's
the last thing that they want. I appreciate the call
as always. Sure, thanks, yeah, three nineteen. We'll come back
if you got more thoughts on anything that we've talked about,
or anything else that's on your mind that we haven't
touched on. It's your chance to be a part of

(41:43):
the show. Call in it four oh two five five
eight to eleven ten four h two five five eight
eleven ten, and we'll take your phone calls on open
phone line Friday on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten Kfablcome.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
To the show What's on your mind today?

Speaker 11 (42:02):
Well, I really just think it's a fraud that Joe
Biden is being allowed to hand off all close to
ninety million dollars of campaign cash and not allowing the
voters or the donors rather just to get their money
back but maybe refunded two of them. There's nothing stopping
a political party from running five or six candidate popular

(42:25):
able to raise money, from doing that, bowing out and
handing over massive amounts of money all at once.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Yeah. Yeah, So a couple of things with this. Of
the ninety million you're talking about, a lot of that
was new money. That was you know, Joe Biden getting it,
but only after he announced he was stepping down, and
then there was a war chest. There was a little
bit of money left there, but a lot of people
were worthholding money. It is unprecedented and I think there
it needs to be some clarification pat on that. However,

(42:52):
there is caveat The only way that can happen is
if there is a specific candidate who's at the top
of the ticket, they're running in the election, raising all
this money, and then the person who's their running mate
is the only person that can inherit that money without
having to go through super PACs, payoff vendors, and be
completely debt free before they initialize trying to get that
money siphoned off to another candidate. So there is some

(43:16):
complexities to it, but I don't disagree with you that
if somebody really was famous but didn't want to be
like in governance at all, like Dwayne the Rock Johnson,
he can run a campaign, raise a ton of money,
pick a running mate who's like less popular but probably
could do the job more, and he doesn't really want
to do the job Dwayne, so he runs, raises all

(43:37):
the money, and then after all the primaries are over, says, oh,
I'm sorry, I can't run for office anymore. I'm gonna
bow out. I'm gonna go make more movies. All the
money then can just be handed off to his running mate.
The first time that happens, and it's not health related
or anything like that, or age related. We got massive,
massive issues. So I'm with you. There needs to be clarification.
I'm not one hundred percent sure that there isn't some

(44:00):
safeguards for it, but I guess we're going to have
to find out into the future. You know what, I'm
saying right on, right on. Hey, thanks Pat, thanks for listening,
and have a good weekend. Dan's on our phone line
four h two five five eight eleven ten, Dan, what's
on your mind today?

Speaker 13 (44:13):
Wether? I'm happy to be on the line, and I'm
also very excited and happy. Disagree with the caller, Bryan.
I think that the primary for the Democrats was completely
corrept and I mean any call I can remember that
they drove Kennedy. They drove a literal blue blood Democrat,
Kennedy off of the primary field to make forcing to

(44:37):
run as an independent because their primary is so corrupt,
and they closed the primary to anybody else, locked it
with their media, and then we are supposed to think
that it's natural and normal that they just hand it
over to someone who never got any primary votes in
their life. Yeah, it's just ridiculous. Yeah, it's a corrupt system.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Well well, and Dan, if you go back to sixteen,
and they screwed Bernie Sanders both times too. I mean
they changed the rules midstream both times to prevent him
from winning. They did that intentionally and to set up
Joe Biden against And I would disagree with you a
little bit.

Speaker 13 (45:12):
I think that in his first election, in the election
that Joe Biden became president through. I don't think he
was competent in that either, and he showed a lot
of incompetency running and he made a fool of himself
on stage. But they handed it to him to stop
Bernie Sanders. I mean, that party is not democratic. They're
not the champions of democracy, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yeah. No, they handpicked Hillary and they hand picked Biden.
They basically forced Biden to run, if you remember, I mean,
he wasn't even sure to run. He didn't want to
run in sixteen, wasn't sure to run in twenty. But
they were like, Bernie Sanders cannot win. We cannot let
Bernie Sanders win, even though he had the most support
of like true blood Democratic voters, because they knew he'd

(45:53):
get murdered in the actual election, a general election against
a Republican. So they basically just screwed a guy in
their own party. And Bernie's too big of a man
to say anything about it because he wants to fall
in line with the rest of the people, even though
he's technically an independent. It's a mess up system, Dan,
and hopefully we learn as American public, and I'm speaking
of we as like, if you're a Democratic voter right now,

(46:13):
you should be really angry. You should be angry that
your voice Democrats.

Speaker 10 (46:16):
I'm just going to say the same thing.

Speaker 13 (46:18):
Democrats are really angry and a lot of people who
are leaving the party, and it's been happening for more
than just this last few election. Citles like people are
mad because of the screw job they got during the
Obama administration of the Clinton administration, and there's a lot of
angry Democrats out there. I don't think they're going to
show up for Kembla.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Harris, Well, we'll have to. Time is going to tell. Obviously,
we're getting closer and closer to election day and they
have to run a sprint of a campaign to be
able to figure that thing out. Hey, Dan, appreciate the call,
Thanks for listening to us, and have a great weekend.
All right, if you got something on your mind, call
us now four h two, five, five, eight, eleven ten
as we continue open phone line Friday and a Friday

(46:55):
four coming up next hour. Stick around on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 5 (47:00):
Songor on news Radio eleven KFAB.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
You have Clay on the Phoneline Clay, thanks for holding
and being part of our show, What's.

Speaker 8 (47:08):
Up, Good afternoon? Thanks for taking my call. Guys, got
two questions and really would like your honest feedback on it.
So the first question is this, I am a teacher,
certified teacher in the Omaha community area and I am
not part of any sort of union. I don't like
the union because the union does not back anybody. There

(47:29):
are a bunch of Democrats.

Speaker 9 (47:30):
In my opinion.

Speaker 8 (47:31):
So what that means is it goes to Harris and Walls.
So what if this guy Walls is a teacher and
a coach and everything. You can have teachers who suck,
You can have coaches who suck. Just because they are
on the front line doesn't mean that they're worth anything.
And I think that's a huge disgrace that the Democratic
Party is using that as ammunition for the Midwest to

(47:53):
say that he's former, you know whatever, military teacher, coach
and all that. So I get your feedback on that
second one. I want to understand why the cronies of Conrad,
the Kavanaught crew, and the Slama they want to sit
there and slaughter Pilling for bringing them in when none

(48:15):
of them or any of the party in that situation
has ever ever brought any thing to the table to
fix the sales tax problem or I'm sorry, the housing
crisis problem. Got All they want to do is complain.
So I'll go ahead and hang up and thank you
for your feedback. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Having great weekend, sure, Clay, Yeah, they have a good
weekend to you too. Okay, First, what was the utilizing
the Midwest values of a guy who was a teacher
and a coach now the governor of Minnesota and that
you know his background plays a factor, and they're utilizing Clay.
This is the game. It's the game, regardless of how

(48:55):
good of a coach he was, or how well the
smart of a teacher he was, or how well regarded
he was before in maybe the military, if you want
to believe that or not. You know, I know there's
an awful lot about that. I gotta tell you. No
matter who it was, he's still the governor of Minnesota.

(49:16):
They are going to select somebody of that caliber strategically
to be the running mate of a person who's the president.
He's gonna have to be a senator or a House
of Representatives person, or you know somebody who's like governor.
There's those are kind of only the only spots. You know,

(49:37):
you're not going to pick a random entrepreneur. Usually, you know,
the vike Ramaswami had a little bit of play for
some people. But usually it's got to be somebody who's
got experience in the government in some way. And whether
you like him or not, Tim Waltz was elected governor
of Minnesota, and so he by the title of that.
Whether you like his politics or not, he is one
of fifty of those people. There's a lot less more

(50:00):
than fifty Democrats who are governors around the country. So
it's a small small sample of like the people that
could have been eligible for the job. And no matter
who it is, or how terrible they may have been
at what they did prior to that position, they are
going to tell you how important it was that they
had that experience. They're going to tout his Midwest values.

(50:22):
He's from Nebraska, he lives in Minnesota. He was a teacher,
was a coach. He also did military stuff. He's got
foreign policy experience. He worked with China a bunch. Whether
that's good or bad, you know, you can evate that.
But the Democrats, because they play the game in that way,
are going to always talk about all of that being
a positive and that the Republicans in response are going

(50:42):
to try to debunk all of it, much like Clay
just mentioned and how he probably wasn't that great at
any of those jobs. That's the nature of the game.
Do I know how good of a teacher or a
coach or whatever he was. No, but I know his
policies as governor are pretty left wing, very librule, very progressive.
They're going to attract very left leaning people. I don't

(51:05):
know how many people in the middle are going to
look at him and say, oh, he was a coach once,
I'm going to vote for that guy. He's not even
at the top of the ticket. So I really don't
think that a lot of that's going to play much
of a factor. Is just to rile up support and
enthusiasm from the people that are already planning to vote
for them. Randy's on our phone. Oh sorry, second point
before I get to Randy. Second point about well, Matt,

(51:25):
can you remind me who what was What was the
second point?

Speaker 8 (51:28):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (51:28):
That property tax? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yah, yeah yeah. Yeah.
Here's the thing that's also politics, Clay, I'm frustrated just
like you're frustrated, Like everybody should be frustrated. That are
you know, the property taxing in the tax rates in
the state of Nebraska are absurd compared to what the

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cost of living should be for a place like this,
and nobody really wants to budge on how they want
to fix it. So that is politics in the grandest form.
I have already, you know, thrown out there a bunch
of different things that I'd like to see that I
think could increase revenue, and you could use that to
have the same amount of money and cut taxes for
the citizens of this state, whether or not they want
to buy any of that one way or the other.

(52:10):
We still have Tom Osborne, who apparently is still incredibly
influential in I guess rightly so because of all the
things that he accomplished. He's still talking down about sports
gambling being available in Nebraska when every Nebraskan who lives
anywhere close to the Iowa border are literally just driving
across the river to place their bets and cashing those
in and giving Iowa all that money. You think the
culture is going to change that badly When it's just

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available in Omaha. I don't think so, but there are
people that want to disagree with that because they don't
like the degeneracy that maybe it brings having live betting
or gambling in this state. It's this is the principles
that people are going to have to balance left and
right all the time. And there's not going to be
a whole lot of ground that people are going to
compromise on, except when you elect people in that are

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willing to compromise. They run elections basically saying, hey, I'm
going to do this, this, and this, and when they
get to office, you hope that they do this, this,
and this, so relieve our property taxes or whatever else
we got going on. All right now to Randy. Randy,
thanks so much for calling in for holding being a
part of our show today. What do you got in
your mind?

Speaker 16 (53:09):
Well, well, thanks for taking my call and byther God,
you have a great show. Thank and welcome to Omahank
you talk about Trump. We're gonna talk about Trump tax cuts.
If anybody needs to look back, and IRS has an
independent set, IRS not Republicians, not never. The class that
won the most and the Trumps tax cuts was the
middle class, not the rich. They're lying to it. If

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you look it up, if you tax more people, you
get less tax revenue. If you tax less, you get
more revenue. You turn money like you turn inventory in
a business. You turn it. One dollar creates a tax,
turn that dollar again creates tax. And under Trump's tax cuts,
California had a ten billion dollar surplus. Now they have

(53:54):
a seventy billion dollars negatives. So anybody needs to understand.

Speaker 6 (53:58):
Trump tax cuts gave thirty five.

Speaker 16 (54:01):
Hundred dollars to every middle class family. Take that times
one hundred million people, and then that thirty five hundred
dollars turns and that turns again and turns again, and
that creates revenue.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yeah, it's almost like a guy who you know has
experienced running businesses and being entrepreneurial has an idea of
the best way for the middle class to be able
to uh make a little bit of money and save
a little bit of money just to live in this country.
We call free. Pretty interesting. Randy, thank you so much
for the info and thanks for calling in today. We
appreciate you.

Speaker 16 (54:32):
You bet all right, all right, if you.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
Got anything on your mind. Four h two five five
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tin kfab Near South Pallo, Brazil, a passenger aircraft, a

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plane carrying sixty two people, fifty eight passengers, four crew
members fell out of the sky and I mean there
is video of this. People saw this aircraft basically free
falling and it's tough to watch, to be honest with you.
And I don't know if we're going to get information

(55:20):
about this immediately, but in the last ten minutes or so,
authorities have reported they have found the black box flight
recorder at the crash site and they are on site
as they assume all sixty two people on board passed
away perished in this crash. Nobody on the ground apparently
was killed, which is really good news as it landed

(55:40):
in a neighborhood amongst many houses. Unclear of some of
the danger or the damage that was done, but incredibly
fortunate it didn't just flush land on someone's house or
multiple houses. It kind of landed based on the photos
from above, kind of in a few different yards, based
on the footprint, if you will, of where the plane landed.

(56:03):
But just it's horrible. I mean, I don't know exactly
how this went down. And like I said, we'll have
details for you as we get them, and that could
take days. But according to this flight, it's a The
line the airline is vo Pass. I don't know if
that's how you say it, but it's v O E
Pass and this plane was purchased by the airline in

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September of twenty twenty two and was manufactured in twenty ten.
So I don't, like, I don't know is this a
I don't know if that's new or old. I would
bet that you know a lot of airplanes that get serviced.
I mean, they try to keep them as new as possible.
I would bet that something that was flown in the
nineties could is a little harder to find these days.

(56:50):
But there's nothing that you know. I don't have any
background knowledge, enough knowledge to tell you what's going on.
But this apparently is that the plane manufacturers, not Boeing,
it's ATR SO I mean, I guess that's good news
for Boeing. They could ill afford any more stuff like
this happening. But it was an ATR seventy two to

(57:10):
five hundred, that's the model, and they it was a
plane that could carry up to sixty eight passengers, could
operate with a minimum of two crew members. Not the
biggest plane that you I've ever heard of over seen,
certainly something to keep in mind. And there are also
people that you know, they have interviewed in Brazil that missed,

(57:32):
like they were told to go to the wrong gate
to catch this flight, and at least ten people were
waiting at the wrong gate and missed this flight before
it took off, which, of course, in the moment you're heated,
you're like, why can well you let me on this flight? Now,
why does the flight take off when you told me
the wrong place to be. At the same time, now
those people are thinking they're luck, he starts that they're
not on that flight that met its tragic demise earlier today. So,

(57:58):
like I said, over the next few days, I'm watching
this with baited breath. This wasn't a long flight. This
was a smaller plane that was carrying passengers from one
spot to in Brazil somewhere else, and we're going to
try to figure out over the next few days exactly
what the heck happened here. But I'm about to get
on a bigger plane that it's going from Dallas, Texas
to Madrid, Spain, and I'll be on that plane for

(58:19):
like nine and a half hours, and then a couple
of weeks later, I'm going to be on a plane
from Madrid, Spain back to I think Minneapolis or something
like that, and I'll be on that one for nine
or so hours. And I gotta tell you, it's unsettling
to hear stuff like this happen because any sort of malfunction,
if there was an engine problem, if this was something
that was caused by a pilot error, which would surprise

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me because of all of the technologies that you would
think of an aircraft as new as this would have
to kind of protect against something that a pilot would
be doing. I don't know. Again, I'm not going to
pretend like I'm some sort of expert, but I had
somebody text in or email me and mariett KFA dot
com and basically say straight up like I don't know, man,

(59:03):
I everything about this shows that it lost a ton
of speed and would not be able to move properly
in the wind and in the air without you know,
maintaining a certain level of speed. And that just tells me,
you know, he talked about maybe like the pilot maybe
made a mistake in the way that he turned, and
he lost a lot of and there's I mean, there's

(59:26):
probably no way to fully make up that speed if
you lose it in a certain way. But all I
can think of is some of the engines would have
had to quit on this thing. I just cannot imagine
a pilot making, an experienced pilot who was hired to
fly in a situation like this, making a mistake or
an error in the way that they were maneuvering the plane.
To lose that much energy, that much speed and have

(59:50):
something like this happen just hard to fathom and hard
to think about. Right now, three point fifty four is
the time I was at the I would say for
earlier today. And it's a beautiful day, it's a little chilly,
gonna want probably a jacket. If you're listening to me,
Western I, you're thinking about going there, not just today,
but throughout this weekend. What are you seeing for what

(01:00:12):
are you seeing matt for like temperatures in Omaha, because
I'm sure it'll be pretty similar over into Moine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
Yeah, well, it's definitely on the milder end quite a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
It's gonna be a low of fifty five, so fifty five, Yeah,
gonna get a little bit chilly out there, and with
that wind too. I mean, right now it's temperatures in
the seventies, but the wind from the north, you know,
unless you're in the sun, it's a wee bit chilly
out there. Tomorrow is sunny, which is gonna be nice
and high as seventy eight. So honestly, that sounds like
a pretty nice day. And the wind is coming from

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the west southwest tomorrow, so it's not gonna be as
cold wind, you know, So I don't know, Tomorrow seems
like a really nice day to get outside and you know,
do some yard work, whatever you can do outside, just
really enjoy the nice weather. Sunday, there's a chance of
rain in the afternoon, but it's cloudy with a high
of seventy nine. And these temperatures basically stay consistently. It
looks like we're we have a much better chance of

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rain Sunday night, and then temperatures climb throughout next week.
We're going to see temperatures near ninety by next Thursday.
So we're not to fall yet in case anyone, no, no,
it's a ninth of August. Oh gosh, say if if
you're thinking to you know, go ahead and oh we
got to get the Reich out and get prepared of these.
I did take it easy there. We got plenty of

(01:01:26):
time left the summer. It's just a kind of a
cool cool snap here. Yeah, let's not go off and
win arize our garden hoses yet, Folks like, yeah, to
sell your role easy?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Does it like? We got plenty more where that came
from for summer. I tell you what, come on now,
you can't be doing that to me either way.

Speaker 8 (01:01:43):
Though.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
First day attendance came in here about an hour ago
for the Iowa State Fair. They set a record. They
had a Christian artist that was there and she had
Lauren Daegel and Blessing Offer was the band that opened
for her. And they almost had ten thousand peace full
show up in the grandstand. That's way more than they've
ever had for the Christian Act on the first night
of the Iowa State Fair. A total of nine eight

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hundred and twenty two people at the state Fair yesterday.
It's the most since COVID nineteen. It is short by
about eleven thousand of the daily of the first day
record of one hundred and one thousand back in two
thousand and eight. Anyway, I would say fair is going on,
but a lot of stuff going on in Omaha. We're
gonna have a Friday four have a lot more fun
with you starting in the four o'clock hour. So I
need you to stay locked and loaded with us and
stay tuned in as we continue to roll on Emory

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