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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Democratic National Convention was last night. Well it's still
going on, but Day one was last night, I think
more than anything else. If you you tuned in, did
you know what time Biden went on the air, Like,
you know what time locally Biden was doing some speaking.
I heard it was late, It was like eleven pm
(00:20):
our time. Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Did we need to hear from Steve Kerr? That badly?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Steve Kerr, of course head coach Golden State Warriors, coached
Tmosa men's basketball to a gold medal. Was a part
of what four championship teams. I think he won one
with the Spurs after he finished up with the Bulls.
That sounds right right. He went from the Bulls, he
won the three in a row, the last three p
he was on those teams. Then he went to the
Blazers with Scotti Pippen. Do you remember that Steve Kerr
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was on the ninety nine two thousand Blazers with Scotty Pippen.
Scotty Pippen was on the Blazers too. I think Scotty
actually was on the Rockets. He went to the Rockets
for the ninety eight ninety nine season. So if you
go back and you watch like late nineties rockets like
post Jordan NBA. It's a chemo lodge one. Charles Barkley
and Scottie Pippen are all on the rockets.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And absolute wonderful uniforms. They looked a little bit like pajamas. Yeah,
but I love that look. The black and white that
the courts was great. The awesome rocket logo.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The court was so awesome back when people you know,
didn't care about all that traditional stuff and they were
willing to think outside the box.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Anyway, Steve Kerr, you know, he bounced around a little
bit but landed with the Greg Popovich spurs with Tim Duncan,
and I think he won at least one title in
the early two thousands before his career was over. Anyway,
he's staunchly democratic now and for some reason did like
a six and a half minute speech as people were
chanting him in the United Center as old stomping grounds
in the NBA. How badly did we need all that stuff?
(01:49):
Jesse Jackson was honored, They did the national anthem. I
don't know, it's just so long, you know, you really,
anybody who's sitting there and watching that stuff for entertainment,
really like get the meat and potatoes what they're trying
to talk about. And this goes to the Republican National
Convention as well. It's a rough exercise, man, it's a
rough exercise like Seapack when the conservative you know, Seapack
(02:12):
goes on. It's just like, who's watching that for legitimate information?
Like you just kind of need somebody to aggregate the
highlights and then you can just go in and see
what you need to see. I'm not going to waste
my time watching six hours of stuff at the Democratic
National Convention for my radio show. I am sorry anyway.
Biden basically he made it sound like it was. You know,
(02:35):
I'm pretty gung ho. He's a little angry, seemingly a
little angry. He was shouting his speech like he kind
of has been over the last few months to try
to show people he's still got some umph behind him,
even though it seems pretty manufactured. But most of what
my point is on it is, is there a voice
(02:55):
that he has a little bit inside of him that's
just like, screw these guys. Probably not, because he's gotten
over it and they're paying them probably plenty of good money.
But I don't know. I just if that was me,
I'd be like, you want my help to help you
get elected when you did what you did to me,
regardless of if I was gonna win or lose. I
have some resentment there for sure. But again, you know,
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when you're the president of United States, every single move
that you make is under a microscope. So I'm sure
you know he's very careful about that, even though I'd
be incredibly bitter about that. However, life goes on for
him and for the Democrats. Tonight, the Obamas, both Michelle
and Barack are scheduled to speak. I'm sure it's going
to be a rallying cry for a woman president. It's
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going to be a rallying cry against some of the
talking points that Democrats really leaning into. Reproductive rights. They'll
say the right to women's health. They're not going to
say the word abortion. They're going to say those things,
you know, the way that they frame it to make
people want to side with them. They know they can
win on that issue. They'll also talk about compassion, they'll
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talk about the mockcrecy and how the other side is
a threat to it. Those are going to be a
lot of the themes. But the Obamas, both of them,
are really really strong and speaking to an American public
that isn't interested in policy, and so the Obama name
is going to get some random independent voters or random
people who don't really have strong political opinions to tune
in at various points tonight, unless it ends up being
(04:21):
at eleven PM, right, But they're going to tune in tonight,
and they're going to hear the Obama speak, and they
might be coerced subliminally by their strong communication skills to say,
you know what, I do want to support these people.
If the Obamas are running again, I absolute would vote
for them. There are people like that out there, and
that's what I'll be interested to see on social media,
to see if people are like, wow, I wish the
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Obamas were somehow a part of this and they could
be in the White House again and we can vote
for them because they are just so much more skilled
in communicating than anybody else the Democrats have thrown out
there in the last ten years. But Alas, I'm sure
there's plenty of people out there that think that there
are doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So it is what it is. Emery's songer on News
radio eleven ten kfab let's go ahead, just get into this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was at the Eyewa stay Fair, and this is
what I'm you know what I am gonna mention first
and foremost, I am childless.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't have a kid.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I understand when you have a child, there's a few
things that you need for transportation of said child, especially
when they are of a fairly immobile age up to
probably age four or five, you'd like to have something
to wheel.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Them around in.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I know that in the past there have been different
types of strollers, different types of wagons maybe that were
smaller that a child could inhabit while being you know,
carried around by different people in different aspects, different places
and whatnot. However, I have noticed increasingly over the last
several years more and more of these big wonder wagons
(06:01):
I think they call them. Where it's it's like incentive
just a traditional stroller type. It is a shopping cart
sized thing that is super long and wide, that has
the ability not only to have one kid in it,
but potentially multiple children, and that has like a thing
underneath where you can pack like a bunch of stuff,
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diaper bag, you can pack lunch for the kid in
for yourself, a bunch of water bottles, all this stuff.
It's pretty handy if it's yours. But I couldn't help.
But notice when I'd be, you know, meandering through some
of these buildings, and this is something that probably takes
place at any variety of locations where children would be present,
or you know, something that is as you know, practical,
(06:46):
like a legitimate shopping cart something like that. Is it
seems like people when they have those things, lack a
certain level of spatial awareness.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Have you ever found yourself near somebody that has a
shop card, or a large stroller or even automotorized scooter
and they just kind of accept expect you or the
people around you to just get out of their way
because they have this big thing and it's kind of
your problem that you're in the way of what they
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are trying to do. Yeah, all the time, I feel
like all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right. Yeah. People drive their cars that way too, they do.
They do.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's a sense of invincibility I think with some people
in their large vehicles. We've had that conversation before. The
big truck guys and the way that they maneuver in
and out of traffic and kind of just hey, you
know what, I'm going to just run this red light
real quick just because you know what are you going
to do? Run into me?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't like people like that, But my bigger thing
is personal spatial awareness. And these wonder wagons especially are gigantic.
They're so large. Am I a bad person for feeling
like we need to start regulating the size of these
child transport devices? Not to be a Debbie down or anything,
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but it can create quite a congestion. Not just in
an Iowa State Fair scenario, but how about the grocery store.
It could create a bigger issue when you're out there
walking on the streets for one of those kid events, right.
I mean, you know how much land that thing takes
up just sitting there. Am I a jerk for thinking that?
I don't think so it's something to be considered. Again,
(08:25):
I'm coming from a guy who has no children. I'm
sure some people are just rolling their eyes, like, dude,
you don't even know the kind of problems. How nice
it is to have something like this, It's not about
having that for your kids, it's about the people that
have them have no spatial awareness.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It depends on the age of the child as well,
depending on how much you need for them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And what do you think about military scooters, especially being
utilized in situations where there's a lot of walking in
scenarios like the zoo. Not to say that the zoo
has a problem with this. This is me just making
an observation for people who just don't want to get
that five thousand steps to get around, they would much
rather just have this scooter, and hey, better get out
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of the way because I got a motor here. There
are people who need them, of course, and then there
are people who like to have them, and I don't
see a problem with that fundamentally, as long as you're
spatially aware of what you're doing and where you're going.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now, I want to be gentle here. I'll tell you
if you crossed the line.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There is a stereotype specifically about the Iowa State Fair
that may mean, you know, the old Kamala Harris Ven
diagram motorized scooters and patrons of the Iowa State Fair.
That might be an interesting die Ven diagram to explore
What are you saying, Matt, What am I saying? Elaborate?
(09:43):
What are you saying? I want to be gentle here.
I'll tell you if you crossed the line. I think
a whole bunch of Lardo's are going to the Iowa
State Fair. That's what I think. Wall eating fried butter
on a stick. Hey, that fried butter on a stick's
really good. If you haven't had it yet, don't not
get till you try. Have you ever heard of cardio?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I got twenty thousand steps three different times during the fair,
So I don't want to hear it from you.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh I believe you. Oh okay, But there are other
people who put what how many miles is that? Four
or five miles on their on their little scooter. Oh yeah,
I'm around you. There's a place you could rent a
scooter for the day for seventy five dollars, which if
you're trying to get all the way around the State
Fair and not work that hard, it's a good investment.
It's just bad news for everybody wo's trying to walk
(10:27):
around you. When you're trying to run them over, you're
mowing them down. Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I'm trying to get through the varied Industries building to
pick up my free calendars. Seriously, that's where I'm at
So if you're out there and you have a story
about spatial awareness, somebody with a scooter, somebody with a
large stroller, somebody with a shopping cart, somebody who's moving
something large and just did not give a petuit about
(10:52):
where you were or where your family was and just
kind of muscled you out of the way somehow, potentially
injuring you or even running in to you physically. I'd
love to hear it. You can call us at four
oh two five five eight eleven ten four h two
five five eight eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Henry Sunger on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I see so many people with their shopping carts and
their kids in this giant wonder wagon thing that people
are using in lieu of us traditional stroller these days,
and all of this stuff that you know you talk
about with the motorized scooters, if you will, in highly
public places. Just wondering if anybody else has had those
(11:36):
issues or have an anecdote they'd like to share with us.
And we have Rich on the phone line at four
oh two five five eight eleven ten. Rich, what do
you think about all this?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well, that's one of the big things is I'm in,
you know, in the grocery store, and it isn't just
one person, it's like two people. They have the the
scooters and they're taking up the entire aisle and they're
oblivious to the point of well, there might be other
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people shopping, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, there's yeah. And this is the other
thing too, Rich. You don't want to be a jerk
about it. We live in the Midwest where you know,
it's kind of you want to be courteous. Most people
want to you know, have you know, some courtesy and
have some grace for each other. But it's difficult to
manage that when somebody's got something so large and they
just stop right in the middle of an aisle, or
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they're sitting just like right in the middle of a
space that you're trying to get through or get to
and they just don't care that you're there or you're
trying to get through it, or they'll run you over
if you're just in a place that they want to go.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You kind of have to have your head on a swivel.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, for sure, difficult sometimes, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Rich.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I appreciate you calling in. Thanks for listening to us.
You have a great rest your day, dude.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
All right, what do you think, Matt? Can I get
your opinion on the wagon the wonder wagons or whatever
they're called. Have we we overstepped our bounds a little
bit as a society with how much stuff we needed
at any one point. I remember when I was a little kid,
I didn't have something like that, to have fifty thousand
things that I could just take with me and sit
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in the wagon all day.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I remember back in the day where if I needed
if my parents needed to go somewhere quickly, and we
had the stroller, I was either in the stroller or
I'd be picked up and carried. And the stroller was
small enough it could break down and be like put
it on your back and you just carry it, you
know what I mean? Oh yeah, yeah, you can't really
do that with you know, the whole bedrooms worth of toys, books,
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a whole kitchen's worth of pantry items and water bottles
and Stanley steel cups that all these people are bringing
and carrying around these giant wagons like they're moving in
for the eight to ten hours they're going to be
there and you be darned if you're going to be
in their way.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's like, it reminds me a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
This is a separate topic, but it reminds me a
little bit of when you go to these outdoor concerts
and people bring their whole kitchen. Now they're having a
good time, good on you. Yeah, but they go out there.
They reserve that space and they got themselves a studio
apartment sized space where they can just hang out and
they've got there.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
They got the cooler that has everything in it, and
then they have like enough food for everybody to chill
out comfortably.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Now I do that when we camp. There's this element
of when we go camping, I'll make sure that we
have enough food or drinks in the cooler, and sometimes
we even bring a second cooler. It just kind of
depends on how much that we're actually interested in eating
or how long we're staying. If it's a couple of nights,
then certainly there's a little bit different. But I don't know, man, Like,
I think there's something to the fact that we've just
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lost the whole plot of that because now there are
different ways, like we're spoiled by the amount of stuff
that we can just take places and not to say
that you shouldn't be able to enjoy yourself, but nobody's
thinking about other people around them. They're thinking about, Hey,
how can I occupy the biggest space possible.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We are a detail rich society. We want to make
sure we have all the options in front of us.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know, did you watch that firefest documentary by chance?
The fire Festival? Yeah, like the one the guy put
together and nothing actually happened out of it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, Well people went there and they had to stay
in shabby tents and.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, I remember watching that. One of the things
that they did was some of the people didn't want
to be near anybody, so they like sprinted to one
of the tents that were there and then would it
took like a knife and just slice the rest of
them surrounding them so nobody could stay there because they
just wanted to be like, oh, by themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's awful. See.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know young people who seemingly had a lot of
money because they had to in order to go to
something like this because it was sold to them at
hundreds and hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars, and it's
just like a complete lack of awareness for people around you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
But that again, I feel like this is another separate conversation,
but still an issue. We live in a society where
some people, some people listen to all this talk. They're
so online that they prioritize their engagement with people online
over in personal life. You get these people who are,
(16:19):
you know, consider themselves want to be influencers, who maybe
are dancing in an airport in people's way. Yeah, because
they've got followers to make happy. Gotta get that go
viral with that dance on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's just this world that we live in where it's
like we care more about attention online than in real life.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I suppose, or they're curt easier to earn online or
the courtesy that it takes to just be decent with
each other in person.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
All right, hy be decent. I'm just going to go
home and post this online and get a whole bunch
of likes and shares and feel good about myself and
I'm gonna get my daily cup of self esteem. I
don't need to be nice out in public.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Interesting. It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Sonny is on our phone line at four h two
five five eight eleven ten, Sonny, what do you think
about all?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Oh, you guys got it so easy up here. When
I lived in Florida, they had so many of those
scooters that inside the supermarket they had traffic lights.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No they didn't, Sonny, Come.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
On, you know. But the found it's etiquette, and it's
just that there's no The word etiquette is a French
word means little sign mm. And what it was is
the rich people about two hundred years ago opened up
their property to the peasants to come in and see
their fountains and everything. And these peasants were walking through
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their gardens and everything like that and going up from
bathing in the fountains. So they had to put out
signs they don't do this. And that's where the word
etiquette comes from. Yeah, we don't have etiquette anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
No, you're right, Sonny. And that's one of the things
that I think is interesting about these days. It's all
about me, me, me, me me, How can I service
me or my family the best? And it's just not
to say that that's wrong in a lot of ways
to think about what you or your family needs, But
we have lost complete awareness of how that affects the
people around us as well, and I think that's something
that we need to learn a lesson and hopefully get
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back to eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thanks for the call, buddy.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
All right, Jesus Losha, you have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
If you got a thought on this or anything like this,
we'll finish the show with you at four h two,
five five, eight to eleven ten News Radio eleven ten
kfab Welcome home to the show today.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I hate Wonder wagons worse all my kids are seventeen
and twenty.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
We didn't have.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Those ridiculous kind of things going through airports, and I
will tell you they are the mobile version of those
ridiculous rainbow play systems that are tens of thousands of dollars.
Uh yeah, guarantee drive to a neighborhood. Have you ever
seen a child ever actually play on one?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hmmm. It's a good point. It's a good point, Michelle. Yeah,
it's it's just a it seems like it's an awful lot.
I'm not trying to like hate people or hate on
people for buying them, but I feel like there are
better and more efficient ways to go about doing that
instead of something that it's almost one thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
My kids aren't even comfortable if you look, if you
go to the farmer's market, these little kids are slunged
over and super uncomfortable. It's an absolute adult thing that
they want to have these wagons. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Michelle, thanks for calling in. Appreciate you for listening. Yeah,
for sure. And Bob's on the line now, Bob, welcome
to the show today. What are you thinking about?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
You were talking about the ed get through the stores
and everybody being running everybody over and stuff. I think
you're looking for an ancient term here back in the
old school, it's called common courtesy. Oh yeah, everybody, you know,
somebody can like you've bo up in the light and
let the guy in off the off the right because
you got to snap any howard do you yet?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
That kyns, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
That's that common curtaincy thing. I've had to rag one
of them cards for the last few months and my
leg is bad now and fealing.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I got to see how everybody's way. What's up?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Hey, and Bob.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is why I don't want people to think I'm
anti scooter because they're there are plenty of people out
there that need that stuff. At the same time, it's
about the way that you operate that thing that makes
a big difference. And I appreciate you for being as
curtius curteous as you have been, Sir.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Thank you for calling us today. A good day, you too.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Joel is on our phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Joel, what you got for me?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
It's about the adiquate, but it's not really about the scooter.
I want to see what you're what you think about this.
So you're you're shopping and you're looking at something there
right at the store, and then somebody reaches it around
you while you're looking.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, well, first of all, I'm a I'm a space guy.
I'm one of those ope, excuse me fellas. Whenever you're
kind of like needing to get somewhat close to somebody,
I usually ask, though, if they're standing right in front
of an item that I'm looking for, I will ask
them specifically. I go to the gym a lot, Joel.
Here's here's how I feel. I go to the gym
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and I lift weights like the dumbbell weights, and you
know they have the rack there in front of the
mirrors of all of the different weights of the dumbbells.
I don't even want to get in front of somebody
who's working out looking at themselves in the mirror to
grab a dumbell I want I'll walk all the way
around because I don't want to get in between them
and their mirror.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So, I don't know, that's how I feel, because that's
as just like I don't want to be as the
least amount of disruption as I possibly.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Can be, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Go around, you have other
items to get go around. Okay, I'm not gonna be
here that long. I can make up my mind pretty
damn quick, so I'm gonna I'm not gonna be here
that long.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
But when they reach around it.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
You're like, excuse me in my personal space. So so
what I do when they do that, I go back
and I get payback. I wait till I see them waiting,
and then I do it, and I do it really
horribly then, just because then you.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Get their reaction.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
They're look at you like oh right. Then you're like, oh, well,
you just did.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
It to me right.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Oh well, and that's the way that they that's the
way that you build self awareness in people. They are
not self aware until you show them that, Joel, because
they're not thinking about you like that. And that's the
interesting thing about it is they just need to learn
a lesson the hard way sometimes, Joel.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Thanks for the list, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
For the call man, you too, Dave, real quick says
my wife and I nearly got run over by a
string of those electric scooters at the State Fair, or
getting honked at, flipped off and cuts out by them
as they went by. But turns out we were in
the direct route to the corn Dog of fried cheeeds
Kurds in the funnel cake line.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's a scary place to be in between some scooters
in the funnel cake line. Look out. I'm glad we
were able to get to that today.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
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Speaker 2 (22:35):
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The Democratic National Convention was last night. Well it's still
going on, but Day one was last night, I think
more than anything else. If you you tuned in, did
you know what time Biden went on the air, Like,
you know what time locally Biden was doing some speaking.
I heard it was late, It was like eleven pm
(00:20):
our time. Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Did we need to hear from Steve Kerr? That badly?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Steve Kerr, of course head coach Golden State Warriors, coached
Tmosa men's basketball to a gold medal. Was a part
of what four championship teams. I think he won one
with the Spurs after he finished up with the Bulls.
That sounds right right. He went from the Bulls, he
won the three in a row, the last three p
he was on those teams. Then he went to the
Blazers with Scotti Pippen. Do you remember that Steve Kerr
(00:48):
was on the ninety nine two thousand Blazers with Scotty Pippen.
Scotty Pippen was on the Blazers too. I think Scotty
actually was on the Rockets. He went to the Rockets
for the ninety eight ninety nine season. So if you
go back and you watch like late nineties rockets like
post Jordan NBA. It's a chemo lodge one. Charles Barkley
and Scottie Pippen are all on the rockets.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
And absolute wonderful uniforms. They looked a little bit like pajamas. Yeah,
but I love that look. The black and white that
the courts was great. The awesome rocket logo.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The court was so awesome back when people you know,
didn't care about all that traditional stuff and they were
willing to think outside the box.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Anyway, Steve Kerr, you know, he bounced around a little
bit but landed with the Greg Popovich spurs with Tim Duncan,
and I think he won at least one title in
the early two thousands before his career was over. Anyway,
he's staunchly democratic now and for some reason did like
a six and a half minute speech as people were
chanting him in the United Center as old stomping grounds
in the NBA. How badly did we need all that stuff?
(01:49):
Jesse Jackson was honored, They did the national anthem. I
don't know, it's just so long, you know, you really,
anybody who's sitting there and watching that stuff for entertainment,
really like get the meat and potatoes what they're trying
to talk about. And this goes to the Republican National
Convention as well. It's a rough exercise, man, it's a
rough exercise like Seapack when the conservative you know, Seapack
(02:12):
goes on. It's just like, who's watching that for legitimate information?
Like you just kind of need somebody to aggregate the
highlights and then you can just go in and see
what you need to see. I'm not going to waste
my time watching six hours of stuff at the Democratic
National Convention for my radio show. I am sorry anyway.
Biden basically he made it sound like it was. You know,
(02:35):
I'm pretty gung ho. He's a little angry, seemingly a
little angry. He was shouting his speech like he kind
of has been over the last few months to try
to show people he's still got some umph behind him,
even though it seems pretty manufactured. But most of what
my point is on it is, is there a voice
(02:55):
that he has a little bit inside of him that's
just like, screw these guys. Probably not, because he's gotten
over it and they're paying them probably plenty of good money.
But I don't know. I just if that was me,
I'd be like, you want my help to help you
get elected when you did what you did to me,
regardless of if I was gonna win or lose. I
have some resentment there for sure. But again, you know,
(03:17):
when you're the president of United States, every single move
that you make is under a microscope. So I'm sure
you know he's very careful about that, even though I'd
be incredibly bitter about that. However, life goes on for
him and for the Democrats. Tonight, the Obamas, both Michelle
and Barack are scheduled to speak. I'm sure it's going
to be a rallying cry for a woman president. It's
(03:38):
going to be a rallying cry against some of the
talking points that Democrats really leaning into. Reproductive rights. They'll
say the right to women's health. They're not going to
say the word abortion. They're going to say those things,
you know, the way that they frame it to make
people want to side with them. They know they can
win on that issue. They'll also talk about compassion, they'll
(03:59):
talk about the mockcrecy and how the other side is
a threat to it. Those are going to be a
lot of the themes. But the Obamas, both of them,
are really really strong and speaking to an American public
that isn't interested in policy, and so the Obama name
is going to get some random independent voters or random
people who don't really have strong political opinions to tune
in at various points tonight, unless it ends up being
(04:21):
at eleven PM, right, But they're going to tune in tonight,
and they're going to hear the Obama speak, and they
might be coerced subliminally by their strong communication skills to say,
you know what, I do want to support these people.
If the Obamas are running again, I absolute would vote
for them. There are people like that out there, and
that's what I'll be interested to see on social media,
to see if people are like, wow, I wish the
(04:43):
Obamas were somehow a part of this and they could
be in the White House again and we can vote
for them because they are just so much more skilled
in communicating than anybody else the Democrats have thrown out
there in the last ten years. But Alas, I'm sure
there's plenty of people out there that think that there
are doing stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So it is what it is. Emery's songer on News
radio eleven ten kfab let's go ahead, just get into this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I was at the Eyewa stay Fair, and this is
what I'm you know what I am gonna mention first
and foremost, I am childless.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I don't have a kid.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I understand when you have a child, there's a few
things that you need for transportation of said child, especially
when they are of a fairly immobile age up to
probably age four or five, you'd like to have something
to wheel.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Them around in.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
I know that in the past there have been different
types of strollers, different types of wagons maybe that were
smaller that a child could inhabit while being you know,
carried around by different people in different aspects, different places
and whatnot. However, I have noticed increasingly over the last
several years more and more of these big wonder wagons
(06:01):
I think they call them. Where it's it's like incentive
just a traditional stroller type. It is a shopping cart
sized thing that is super long and wide, that has
the ability not only to have one kid in it,
but potentially multiple children, and that has like a thing
underneath where you can pack like a bunch of stuff,
(06:23):
diaper bag, you can pack lunch for the kid in
for yourself, a bunch of water bottles, all this stuff.
It's pretty handy if it's yours. But I couldn't help.
But notice when I'd be, you know, meandering through some
of these buildings, and this is something that probably takes
place at any variety of locations where children would be present,
or you know, something that is as you know, practical,
(06:46):
like a legitimate shopping cart something like that. Is it
seems like people when they have those things, lack a
certain level of spatial awareness.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Have you ever found yourself near somebody that has a
shop card, or a large stroller or even automotorized scooter
and they just kind of accept expect you or the
people around you to just get out of their way
because they have this big thing and it's kind of
your problem that you're in the way of what they
(07:16):
are trying to do. Yeah, all the time, I feel
like all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Right. Yeah. People drive their cars that way too, they do.
They do.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
There's a sense of invincibility I think with some people
in their large vehicles. We've had that conversation before. The
big truck guys and the way that they maneuver in
and out of traffic and kind of just hey, you
know what, I'm going to just run this red light
real quick just because you know what are you going
to do? Run into me?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I don't like people like that, But my bigger thing
is personal spatial awareness. And these wonder wagons especially are gigantic.
They're so large. Am I a bad person for feeling
like we need to start regulating the size of these
child transport devices? Not to be a Debbie down or anything,
(08:01):
but it can create quite a congestion. Not just in
an Iowa State Fair scenario, but how about the grocery store.
It could create a bigger issue when you're out there
walking on the streets for one of those kid events, right.
I mean, you know how much land that thing takes
up just sitting there. Am I a jerk for thinking that?
I don't think so it's something to be considered. Again,
(08:25):
I'm coming from a guy who has no children. I'm
sure some people are just rolling their eyes, like, dude,
you don't even know the kind of problems. How nice
it is to have something like this, It's not about
having that for your kids, it's about the people that
have them have no spatial awareness.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It depends on the age of the child as well,
depending on how much you need for them.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And what do you think about military scooters, especially being
utilized in situations where there's a lot of walking in
scenarios like the zoo. Not to say that the zoo
has a problem with this. This is me just making
an observation for people who just don't want to get
that five thousand steps to get around, they would much
rather just have this scooter, and hey, better get out
(09:05):
of the way because I got a motor here. There
are people who need them, of course, and then there
are people who like to have them, and I don't
see a problem with that fundamentally, as long as you're
spatially aware of what you're doing and where you're going.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now, I want to be gentle here. I'll tell you
if you crossed the line.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
There is a stereotype specifically about the Iowa State Fair
that may mean, you know, the old Kamala Harris Ven
diagram motorized scooters and patrons of the Iowa State Fair.
That might be an interesting die Ven diagram to explore
What are you saying, Matt, What am I saying? Elaborate?
(09:43):
What are you saying? I want to be gentle here.
I'll tell you if you crossed the line. I think
a whole bunch of Lardo's are going to the Iowa
State Fair. That's what I think. Wall eating fried butter
on a stick. Hey, that fried butter on a stick's
really good. If you haven't had it yet, don't not
get till you try. Have you ever heard of cardio?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I got twenty thousand steps three different times during the fair,
So I don't want to hear it from you.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh I believe you. Oh okay, But there are other
people who put what how many miles is that? Four
or five miles on their on their little scooter. Oh yeah,
I'm around you. There's a place you could rent a
scooter for the day for seventy five dollars, which if
you're trying to get all the way around the State
Fair and not work that hard, it's a good investment.
It's just bad news for everybody wo's trying to walk
(10:27):
around you. When you're trying to run them over, you're
mowing them down. Get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I'm trying to get through the varied Industries building to
pick up my free calendars. Seriously, that's where I'm at
So if you're out there and you have a story
about spatial awareness, somebody with a scooter, somebody with a
large stroller, somebody with a shopping cart, somebody who's moving
something large and just did not give a petuit about
(10:52):
where you were or where your family was and just
kind of muscled you out of the way somehow, potentially
injuring you or even running in to you physically. I'd
love to hear it. You can call us at four
oh two five five eight eleven ten four h two
five five eight eleven ten, News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Henry Sunger on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I see so many people with their shopping carts and
their kids in this giant wonder wagon thing that people
are using in lieu of us traditional stroller these days,
and all of this stuff that you know you talk
about with the motorized scooters, if you will, in highly
public places. Just wondering if anybody else has had those
(11:36):
issues or have an anecdote they'd like to share with us.
And we have Rich on the phone line at four
oh two five five eight eleven ten. Rich, what do
you think about all this?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Well, that's one of the big things is I'm in,
you know, in the grocery store, and it isn't just
one person, it's like two people. They have the the
scooters and they're taking up the entire aisle and they're
oblivious to the point of well, there might be other
(12:08):
people shopping, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, no, there's yeah. And this is the other
thing too, Rich. You don't want to be a jerk
about it. We live in the Midwest where you know,
it's kind of you want to be courteous. Most people
want to you know, have you know, some courtesy and
have some grace for each other. But it's difficult to
manage that when somebody's got something so large and they
just stop right in the middle of an aisle, or
(12:30):
they're sitting just like right in the middle of a
space that you're trying to get through or get to
and they just don't care that you're there or you're
trying to get through it, or they'll run you over
if you're just in a place that they want to go.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You kind of have to have your head on a swivel.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, for sure, difficult sometimes, no doubt.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Rich.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I appreciate you calling in. Thanks for listening to us.
You have a great rest your day, dude.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
All right, what do you think, Matt? Can I get
your opinion on the wagon the wonder wagons or whatever
they're called. Have we we overstepped our bounds a little
bit as a society with how much stuff we needed
at any one point. I remember when I was a little kid,
I didn't have something like that, to have fifty thousand
things that I could just take with me and sit
(13:18):
in the wagon all day.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Mm hm.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I remember back in the day where if I needed
if my parents needed to go somewhere quickly, and we
had the stroller, I was either in the stroller or
I'd be picked up and carried. And the stroller was
small enough it could break down and be like put
it on your back and you just carry it, you
know what I mean? Oh yeah, yeah, you can't really
do that with you know, the whole bedrooms worth of toys, books,
(13:43):
a whole kitchen's worth of pantry items and water bottles
and Stanley steel cups that all these people are bringing
and carrying around these giant wagons like they're moving in
for the eight to ten hours they're going to be
there and you be darned if you're going to be
in their way.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
It's like, it reminds me a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
This is a separate topic, but it reminds me a
little bit of when you go to these outdoor concerts
and people bring their whole kitchen. Now they're having a
good time, good on you. Yeah, but they go out there.
They reserve that space and they got themselves a studio
apartment sized space where they can just hang out and
they've got there.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
They got the cooler that has everything in it, and
then they have like enough food for everybody to chill
out comfortably.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Now I do that when we camp. There's this element
of when we go camping, I'll make sure that we
have enough food or drinks in the cooler, and sometimes
we even bring a second cooler. It just kind of
depends on how much that we're actually interested in eating
or how long we're staying. If it's a couple of nights,
then certainly there's a little bit different. But I don't know, man, Like,
I think there's something to the fact that we've just
(14:49):
lost the whole plot of that because now there are
different ways, like we're spoiled by the amount of stuff
that we can just take places and not to say
that you shouldn't be able to enjoy yourself, but nobody's
thinking about other people around them. They're thinking about, Hey,
how can I occupy the biggest space possible.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
We are a detail rich society. We want to make
sure we have all the options in front of us.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
You know, did you watch that firefest documentary by chance?
The fire Festival? Yeah, like the one the guy put
together and nothing actually happened out of it.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, Well people went there and they had to stay
in shabby tents and.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, I remember watching that. One of the things
that they did was some of the people didn't want
to be near anybody, so they like sprinted to one
of the tents that were there and then would it
took like a knife and just slice the rest of
them surrounding them so nobody could stay there because they
just wanted to be like, oh, by themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That's awful. See.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You know young people who seemingly had a lot of
money because they had to in order to go to
something like this because it was sold to them at
hundreds and hundreds, maybe even thousands of dollars, and it's
just like a complete lack of awareness for people around you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
But that again, I feel like this is another separate conversation,
but still an issue. We live in a society where
some people, some people listen to all this talk. They're
so online that they prioritize their engagement with people online
over in personal life. You get these people who are,
(16:19):
you know, consider themselves want to be influencers, who maybe
are dancing in an airport in people's way. Yeah, because
they've got followers to make happy. Gotta get that go
viral with that dance on TikTok.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
It's just this world that we live in where it's
like we care more about attention online than in real life.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I suppose, or they're curt easier to earn online or
the courtesy that it takes to just be decent with
each other in person.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
All right, hy be decent. I'm just going to go
home and post this online and get a whole bunch
of likes and shares and feel good about myself and
I'm gonna get my daily cup of self esteem. I
don't need to be nice out in public.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Interesting. It's a good point.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Sonny is on our phone line at four h two
five five eight eleven ten, Sonny, what do you think
about all?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Oh, you guys got it so easy up here. When
I lived in Florida, they had so many of those
scooters that inside the supermarket they had traffic lights.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
No they didn't, Sonny, Come.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
On, you know. But the found it's etiquette, and it's
just that there's no The word etiquette is a French
word means little sign mm. And what it was is
the rich people about two hundred years ago opened up
their property to the peasants to come in and see
their fountains and everything. And these peasants were walking through
(17:34):
their gardens and everything like that and going up from
bathing in the fountains. So they had to put out
signs they don't do this. And that's where the word
etiquette comes from. Yeah, we don't have etiquette anymore.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
No, you're right, Sonny. And that's one of the things
that I think is interesting about these days. It's all
about me, me, me, me me, How can I service
me or my family the best? And it's just not
to say that that's wrong in a lot of ways
to think about what you or your family needs, But
we have lost complete awareness of how that affects the
people around us as well, and I think that's something
that we need to learn a lesson and hopefully get
(18:07):
back to eventually.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Thanks for the call, buddy.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
All right, Jesus Losha, you have a great day you too.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
If you got a thought on this or anything like this,
we'll finish the show with you at four h two,
five five, eight to eleven ten News Radio eleven ten
kfab Welcome home to the show today.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I hate Wonder wagons worse all my kids are seventeen
and twenty.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
We didn't have.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Those ridiculous kind of things going through airports, and I
will tell you they are the mobile version of those
ridiculous rainbow play systems that are tens of thousands of dollars.
Uh yeah, guarantee drive to a neighborhood. Have you ever
seen a child ever actually play on one?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hmmm. It's a good point. It's a good point, Michelle. Yeah,
it's it's just a it seems like it's an awful lot.
I'm not trying to like hate people or hate on
people for buying them, but I feel like there are
better and more efficient ways to go about doing that
instead of something that it's almost one thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (19:03):
My kids aren't even comfortable if you look, if you
go to the farmer's market, these little kids are slunged
over and super uncomfortable. It's an absolute adult thing that
they want to have these wagons. That's just my opinion.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Michelle, thanks for calling in. Appreciate you for listening. Yeah,
for sure. And Bob's on the line now, Bob, welcome
to the show today. What are you thinking about?
Speaker 8 (19:24):
You were talking about the ed get through the stores
and everybody being running everybody over and stuff. I think
you're looking for an ancient term here back in the
old school, it's called common courtesy. Oh yeah, everybody, you know,
somebody can like you've bo up in the light and
let the guy in off the off the right because
you got to snap any howard do you yet?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
That kyns, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
That's that common curtaincy thing. I've had to rag one
of them cards for the last few months and my
leg is bad now and fealing.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I got to see how everybody's way. What's up?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Hey, and Bob.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
This is why I don't want people to think I'm
anti scooter because they're there are plenty of people out
there that need that stuff. At the same time, it's
about the way that you operate that thing that makes
a big difference. And I appreciate you for being as
curtius curteous as you have been, Sir.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Thank you for calling us today. A good day, you too.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Joel is on our phone line four two, five, five,
eight eleven ten. Joel, what you got for me?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
It's about the adiquate, but it's not really about the scooter.
I want to see what you're what you think about this.
So you're you're shopping and you're looking at something there
right at the store, and then somebody reaches it around
you while you're looking.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, well, first of all, I'm a I'm a space guy.
I'm one of those ope, excuse me fellas. Whenever you're
kind of like needing to get somewhat close to somebody,
I usually ask, though, if they're standing right in front
of an item that I'm looking for, I will ask
them specifically. I go to the gym a lot, Joel.
Here's here's how I feel. I go to the gym
(20:54):
and I lift weights like the dumbbell weights, and you
know they have the rack there in front of the
mirrors of all of the different weights of the dumbbells.
I don't even want to get in front of somebody
who's working out looking at themselves in the mirror to
grab a dumbell I want I'll walk all the way
around because I don't want to get in between them
and their mirror.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So, I don't know, that's how I feel, because that's
as just like I don't want to be as the
least amount of disruption as I possibly.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Can be, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Go around, you have other
items to get go around. Okay, I'm not gonna be
here that long. I can make up my mind pretty
damn quick, so I'm gonna I'm not gonna be here
that long.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
But when they reach around it.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
You're like, excuse me in my personal space. So so
what I do when they do that, I go back
and I get payback. I wait till I see them waiting,
and then I do it, and I do it really
horribly then, just because then you.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Get their reaction.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
They're look at you like oh right. Then you're like, oh, well,
you just did.
Speaker 8 (21:50):
It to me right.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Oh well, and that's the way that they that's the
way that you build self awareness in people. They are
not self aware until you show them that, Joel, because
they're not thinking about you like that. And that's the
interesting thing about it is they just need to learn
a lesson the hard way sometimes, Joel.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Thanks for the list, Thanks.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
For the call man, you too, Dave, real quick says
my wife and I nearly got run over by a
string of those electric scooters at the State Fair, or
getting honked at, flipped off and cuts out by them
as they went by. But turns out we were in
the direct route to the corn Dog of fried cheeeds
Kurds in the funnel cake line.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
That's a scary place to be in between some scooters
in the funnel cake line. Look out. I'm glad we
were able to get to that today.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
If you got thoughts on this, you can email me
or we can talk about it later on this week.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If you'd like. The phone number is always there.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
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Speaker 2 (22:46):
I like to talk to you guys.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
We talked to you know, dozens of people today about
a variety of topics, and that's just kind of the
kind of show I want to have. AnyWho, if you
want to email me, you can do that too, Emory
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