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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now we kind of sprit to New Year's Day, don't we.
That's kind of the next thing, isn't it? Are we sprinting?
I feel like it's a sprint. I don't like it.
This is the week I wish was the slowest. I'll
be honest with you, especially when all of the workdays
are like messed up for us, Like we worked Monday,
didn't work Tuesday and Wednesday, came back today, we'll be
here tomorrow. We have the two weekend days off, then

(00:22):
we go and come back to work on Monday, and
then you and I are both gone again on the
Tuesday and Wednesday. You know, I want it to be slow.
I want I want things to slow down for us
because I want us to be able to, you know,
get a grip and a grasp of what's happening around us,
and not all of a sudden we come back here
next Thursday. It's already twenty twenty five. What the heck's
going on out there? It's a weird week. I'm feeling

(00:46):
rather discombobulated. I am too. I don't feel great, like physically,
I think, you know, I don't know if I'm coming
down with something, but I just I feel like, you know,
the hustle and bustle and the driving and the you know,
the ups and the downs, the weird sleep schedules and
stuff just messing with me. Also, I got into a
wrestling ring for the first time, like a professional wrestling.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Ring on Christmas. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
One of my my wife's sisters is married to a
guy who's a professional wrestler and he's just opened up
a training center in Central Iowa and he's got a
ring in there and he's like, he wants to go in.
It's like two blocks away from my father in law's house.
So he said, who wants to go over and do
a little wrestling, And I'll be honest, I was super
excited to do it. So that's what happened. That's that's

(01:32):
what happened. We went over there, I hit the ropes,
taught he taught me how to do some moves, some
combinations of moves, did some Irish whipping, did.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Some bumping, Irish whipping.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, Irish whip is when you grab a guy and
you throw him into the ropes of the turnbuckle. The
proper wrestling terminology for that is the Irish whip. And
he grabbed a gag. He's it's a science behind all
of this stuff. It was a lot of fun. Always
seemed more like a Welsh thing to me, but okay, yeah,
no it's Irish tomato tomatow yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Or something like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So uh, we got plenty of stuff going on in
the news today. If you had a great Christmas, if
there was something that you received for Christmas, I'd love
to hear about it today. We're having just kind of
a fun, relaxed show. We are going to get into
a lot of the news a little bit later on
in the show, but if you'd like to be a
part of our show and talk about what you've received,
you can call us a four oh two five five
eight eleven ten four oh two five five eight eleven

(02:24):
ten would love to hear from you today. On news
Radio eleven ten, Kfab and Marie sunger I asked Chad
Gpt what Boxing Day was, and it basically said, this
is a holiday where people gave the less fortunate boxes
like Christmas boxes on this date and not Christmas Day,
and that is what happened.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Boxes full of gifts. Yeah, like gifts, yeah yeah, like
not one of those surprise boxes were like a boxing
glove on a spring comes out and just says, you
know that you're unfortunate. That'd be that'd be a bad
that'd be a bad gift to you if you're a misfortune. Bam.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
There's some people that probably would be interested in that
for the for the laughs, for the yucks, you know
what I mean. So I don't know, but anyway, Yeah,
Boxing Day, That's that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
So pretty fascinating stuff. Now we'll talk a little bit
more about Boxing Day a little bit later on, but
before we do that, I got to get into this
new story about this plane from Azerbaijan Airlines.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Did you hear about this story?

Speaker 1 (03:31):
There was a Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan.
Thirty eight people dead, several dozen survived.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Somehow.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
There was a video that was making the rounds on
social media that somebody had caught, like what this plane
was behaving kind of weird before it went down and
it crashed. It crashed on the opposite shore of the
caspiing seen after what Russia's aviation watchdog said was an
emergency that made have been caused by a bird strike. However,

(04:03):
Reuters has found out today in the last hour or
so that the preliminary fightings of this investigation from Azerbaijan
is that this actually was down by Russian air defenses. Now,
this has got to be you know, I don't want
to on the day after Christmas, I don't want to
get too deep into stuff like this because they still

(04:24):
feel like most of us want to be just generally
very cheerful and rightly so. Right, I mean, it makes
all the sense of the world that you'd want to
be super duper cheerful. But at the same time we
have to be we have to understand about what the
heck is going on here. And I hate to say
that this. The United States can have some part in
helping prevent things like this from happening, but that's just

(04:45):
not You can't tell me that this is an accident
that had happened while the United States is kind of
in its most vulnerable state in between the election day
and a complete transfer of power. Now, this flight crashed
near the ca Jazikstan city of Oktaw. It diverted from
an area of southern Russia where Moscow is repeatedly used

(05:07):
air defense systems against drone strikes with the Ukrainians. So
I couldn't I couldn't begin to tell you what the
what in the world this like, why this would be
happening in this way, And officials didn't explain why it
did crossed the Caspian Sea, but we'll figure it out.
The nearest Russian airport on the plane's flight path was

(05:29):
closed on Wednesday morning, and this of course happened yesterday.
And trying to understand that, you know, maybe there was
some immediate like not unmanned striking thing that may have
how do I how do I say this delicately? There
may have been you know, how we're doing these strikes

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and stuff in war that is like a defense system
just has like an automatic Hey, this isn't and this
is something that's in a no fly zone area or
it it's been programmed to fire down at, you know,
drones or planes that are coming into this area because
this is an area that has been at war. And
maybe that's what happened here. But how do we avoid

(06:12):
something like this from happening regularly would be the bigger
question to me. One of the sources that provided this
information to Reuter's about Azerbaijan's investigation said no one claims
it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the
established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to
shooting down the Azerbaijani aircraft, so and Baku would be

(06:37):
the capital of Azerbaijan. Jim's on our phone line of
four h two five five eight eleven ten, Jim, what's
on your mind about this?

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hey? Guys, Hey, I agree with the with that report.
If you look at the picture of the airplane after
a craft, there's a bunch of like looks like buckshot
holes and the tail, and you know birds don't do that.
Birds also don't thirty two thousand feet for that first
where they were first at when they started down quickly

(07:06):
immediately after so they were shot down. There was something
that got shot at them, shot up to them and
exploded nearby and took him down. You can see it
on the tail.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Do you think And I'm not asking because I think
you're an expert, Jim, So if you feel like you
don't want to answer, that's fine. But were they in
just a bad spot? Did they take a bad route here?
And this was just kind of like an automated response,
you think from Russia, considering that this is an area
that Ukrainian drones get shot down with regularity.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, the drones are going to be going two hundred
and fifty knots. You know, they're not up there flying
at four four hundred and fifty knots. That airliner that
got shot down was doing that that fast at that high.
Those drones might go that high, but they're not doing
four hundred knots. They're doing two hundred two fifty, So

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the speed doesn't the speed doesn't match up. And you know,
they could have thought it was a drone, but that
would have been a super fast drone.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, Russia is going to have to answer if this
is the report that's coming out from you know, Kazakhs
or Azerbaijan and maybe even Kazakhstan. I don't know that
it landed in Kazakhstan. There's they're going to have the
answer for this one way or the other, whether it
was not just how intentional it may have been, but
what that system would have seen in this that it
would have just shot it down without any one person

(08:30):
actually sending those shots, and why it shot so enough
to take down you know, a passenger airliner. That's just
a very alarming Jim, thanks.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
For listening, you're in. Thanks for you you're.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
Talking go ahead, you're talking about a doomsday type machine
that would shoot those down. That they're not going to
do that. Somebody, somebody manually basically pulled the trigger on that.
It wasn't an automatic response.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
I guess we'll find out what Russian has to say
for itself. Jim, thanks for calling in. Well, yeah, not
a great story. And I've got the flight path in
front of me, and there's some some really very strange
responses that you know, we can come up with and
try to understand this. But they have shut They had

(09:17):
down fifty nine Ukrainian drones over several regions just yesterday morning.
That was a report that came out. And Ukrainian military
drones have repeatedly been targeting the southern regions of Russia
in recent months and that has also triggered Russian air
defenses as well.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
So was this just in the wrong area?

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Did the plane take a turn into a wrong spot
and they just didn't know what the heck it was.
I mean, it seems crazy to me that you would
confuse a passenger airliner that says Azerbijan Airlines on the
side of it.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
And again, this isn't this is a thesis that they have.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I've had on this, but trying to understand this, and
the Kremlin has not commented certainly, and they're not going
to until there's a full investigation that's finished on this.
But there's something, there's something else that we're going to
need to uncover here in the coming days because Russia
is just too much of a weird situation with Ukraine.

(10:23):
It's in a weird situation amongst the people in the
world for us just to be like, oh, yeah, you know,
this might have just been an accident. Mark is on
the phone line, Mark, what's on your mind on this?

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, that route was actually closed earlier in the day
that the airplane took because of a drone attack. Now,
whether or not there is an active drone attack at
the same time, I'm not one hundred percent clear on.
But the weapons are fairly automatic, and the turnales are

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not like a little Dji drone that's fly you know,
twenty five miles an hour. The drones that Ukraine uses
are fairly fast, and you know, Leaven the drones we
use are fairly faster at like two hundred and fifty nints,
so the airplane climbing out would have looked like a
two hundred and fifty airplane. And then it definitely got

(11:20):
hit by shrapnel or by actual weaponry. But you know,
that airplane diverted literally from what I can see and
what I understand, it lost all its hydraulics. How they
even made it back to the airport is amazing, Yeah,
because if you look at the three D view of
the flight, it was crazy, just absolutely crazy that they

(11:44):
even made it back.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
And then there is there is a video of a
guy on the airplane Yeah, and he does Yeah. I mean,
it definitely got hit. They knew for a long time
that they've been hit. But you know, Russia is going
to say, look at wouldn't have attacked us. Yeah, we missed.
I mean that's the bottom line. They you know, they
missed or something went past the drone or whatever the

(12:08):
case may be. But they're gonna say, oh, yeah, we
we did that. Well it might not say we did that,
but they did it, and they just you know, over fired.
If you ever watch these videos on how they shoot
you know, a drone down, it is like five hundred
bullets to knock down to hit it one time. I
mean it's and they're automatic. Ours are automatic as well.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, And that's one thing I think we all need
to learn just a little bit more about with this situation,
with with with this as to how automatic it may
have been, and if they were, just if the play
was in the wrong spot and you know, and if
there wasn't an automated thing. Mark is like, why would
Russia even think to do this like that?

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Well, that route was closed earlier in the day. Yes,
for sure, that was closed, and I don't know if
they somebody missing interpreted the time that that route was closed,
but the route was closed earlier today.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well that yeah, that would that would be a bad deal,
especially for the pilot and why they would decide to
still fly in that area or what mistake was made. Mark,
Thanks for the call, Thanks for the information you too.
We'll take more calls. If you have thoughts on this,
please call us at four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. Four oh two five five eight to eleven ten.
You're listening to news radio eleven ten KFA B and

(13:25):
Rais Songer Airplane passenger aircraft that was a report has
come out in the last hour that is it was
shot down. The belief is that it was shot down
by Russia. But whether that was intentional or not, we're
not sure, and that's a conversation that we're going to
have to continue to figure out. Well, we're taking your
thoughts on this. Four oh two, five five, eight eleven ten.

(13:48):
Four oh two, five five, eight eleven ten, and we
got Brian on the line. Brian, welcome to the show.
What are you thinking about?

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Well, all the time Russia and Shine that have been allies,
has been like a couple that would come. They like
each other, but really have contempt for each other, and
they're happy when the other one's catching heat. That's why
a lot of the propaganda you get in the West
don't hate Russia, hate China. And one of their rivalries
is over the stands, the old Soviet republics, the Zekkastan

(14:17):
to Jekistan, to Balkistan, all those stands. They want their
pipelines for all their natural gas and oil going to China,
and Russia doesn't want their pipelines going to China. They
want the pipelines to go to Russia. So then Russia
to solve oil and gas to China. So Russia has
a reason to be oh kind of contemptuous of their

(14:38):
former stands, and so they might be a little careless
about what they shoot down. They also, Russia and China
have a rivalry over Outer Manchuria, which Russia stole from
China in the nineteenth century and China wants it back.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Interesting, So what you're saying is that China is kind
of making sure that this is super highly publicized and
people think it's Russia's fault.

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well, what I'm saying is the former Soviet republics know
that China is where the money is, where they'll get
paid for their natural resources. So they would rather be
an economic union with China done with Russia. So even
though Russia still dominates those former Soviet republics, they would
really rather be with China, just the way Ukraine would
rather be with Europe.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Interesting. Well, Brian, appreciate you giving you some insight into this.
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
Sure, thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Quit Yeah, yeah, that's that's one angle to this potentially
that we could find out. I don't like the idea
of what's going on in that neck of the woods.
I just don't know how anybody's happy living there. I'm
all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna propose this to you.
Now again, this is for us who live in the West.

(15:47):
Might be a lot different than somebody who was born
and raised in this area of the world. But I'm
going to give you five hundred thousand dollars. I say,
the only catches you have to pick up and move yourself,
your family, anybody near and dear to you, and you
guys got to pick one of the Stands or Azerbaijan
or any of these places that are near Russia, and
that's where you have to live. Now, what are the

(16:08):
odds you're going to say yes to that? Even for
five hundred thousand dollars. I feel like I would not.
I feel like I would rather be broke as a
joke and living in the United States of America than
having a bunch of money and living in an area
where this stuff is happening.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I'd look into it, Am I look into it? Can
I live underground?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:25):
No, you have to live like a regular person.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
But I want to live like a mole. That's yeah,
that'll look weird. And I don't have a home to
offer you. That's underground.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I'd love to live in one of those vaults, you know,
like from Fallout, Oh, from Fallout.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, one of those Fallout vaults. Vaults would be pretty
cool living in a place where you need one of those.
Probably not great, right, probably not great. Maybe we all
need one of those.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't think so. No.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, as much as we talk about, you know, like
all this stuff that's happening over there, we have been
incredibly lucky that most of the world's conflicts since we've
become a nation, unless it's you know, the Civil War
or US fighting for our independence, most everything else has
been actually fought for in Europe and Africa. Heck, Asia
hasn't really been big military campaigns with our enemies trying

(17:13):
to come into our mainland. And even when they come
and get one of our islands, you know, Pearl Harbor
for instance.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, it's on.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Now you're gonna be you're gonna be regretting that decision
you just made getting us involved into your shenanigans. That's
what I'm talking about. And this is why no matter
what we talk about, and we can make that discussion.
You know, I've been reading a lot of things about
immigration in general, harming Canada. I don't know if you've
seen this, but there are some Canadian cities that have
been absolutely overrun with people from India or from Bangladesh

(17:44):
that area. And they may be legal immigrants, but it's
just they've they've completely taken over certain areas.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Right.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
And that's not to say that that's wrong or that
I don't like anyone that's from that neck of the woods.
But if you were living in that small town as
just a regular individual, well, and it was a small
town in the nineteen fifties and there were ten thousand
people in it, and it was just is York about
ten thousand.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
People, it's very close. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
So let's say York, Nebraska all of a sudden has
like a factory or something. But it's we're going to
be basically importing immigrants and they're going to you know,
set up shop and work there. But let's say over
fifty years, York, Nebraska becomes the size of Omaha population wise.

(18:29):
There is a city like that in Ontario, and it
sounds like we'd finally get a beat ups.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
You know.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Now, there's some positives. But we talked about this with
the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, where they said that
that population is essentially doubled in the last twenty years.
No matter what kind of like movement you're going to
have or what kind of people are moving into a city,
you're gonna have some real trouble trying to handle that
growth in a lot of different ways. So the United States,

(18:59):
despite all this, at least we have the power to
try to do something about stuff like this. And this
isn't to say that the United States is perfect, but
I'd rather live here under all circumstances than live in
a place where I have to worry about an Azerbaijan
airliner getting taken out of the sky because it was
too close to the Southern Russia board and it was

(19:19):
just mistaken for a drone potentially, Like could you imagine
living in a place like that. And there's Ukrainians, right,
and I've seen videos like this. They don't even really
know the war's going on, you know, like they know
what's going on, but they don't see it. It's not
something that's affecting their day to day lives. And you
know they're in Kiev or whatever and there it's like, eh,
which is crazy to me. I don't know how you
can live your life in a country that has been

(19:39):
for almost three years now having to fight tooth and
nail to try to remain sovereign and independent, and you're
just living your life is normal in this country that's
at war. Same for the people in the Middle East,
the Hamas and Israel conflict, and then you've heard about
the Huthi's in Yemen and Israel trying to take those
guys out, you know, because they're still fighting going on there.

(20:02):
Israel is really just going after anybody that is considered
a terrorist threat to them, and you can see why
they have their military as mobilized it's ever been. I
would want to live in that area. I'm just gonna
go ahead and throw that out there. We are incredibly
lucky to live where we are. We're a little too
close to Iowa for my comfort.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
But oh oh, on the day after Christmass, Yeah, that's right,
all right, Well we're going to have to take you
to the woodshed for a second after that. You you
Iowa hater, Wow, jerk, make better corn, make me oh
oh oh, hey, you know what you wished for this?

(20:39):
I did not remember folks on Festivus what he asked
for Oh, you wanted more chops to be busted on
this show. You're busting my state chops. Mind, you've you've
expanded your reach. That's three point five million people. Hey,
this ain't about the people I was. I was busting
the corns chops. It's it's just small, you know. It's
a little mealy. Okay, Okay, before anybody gets too offended,

(21:03):
I'm gonna go ahead and throw a stone break at
two forty eight on news radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Emrie's Sunger on news radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
My dad's favorite author is Kurt Vonnegut. You know Kurt Vonnegut.
I do, Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
I like Kurt Vonnagut.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
I asked Chap Gpt to explain the rules of cricket
in the style of Kurt Vonnugut. And it was fantastic.
It was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
You would have bet that it was Vonnegut himself sitting
right across from you talking to you about how.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Cricket has played. It was great.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Anyway, that was a good moment from me and my dad.
Chatchipt was involved.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
What do you want? What do you want? I don't
like robots making our Christmas miracles come true.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
It's just trying to help out, I asked, okay, because
Chaggybt is down, Grock is still up, which it beginves
to me conspiracy theories and maybe Elon is his hands
on Chatgybt a little bit, just like, hey, uh, wouldn't
it be sad if you know, for Boxing Day you
just kind of didn't work for a few hours and
everybody had to come to groc instead.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
The whole thing really does kind of seem like the
set up the start, the beginning of a really enthralling
Twilight Zone episode. We started to rely on Ai a
little too much. You know, remember that do you remember who?
Do you remember? The one to serve human That's why
the Aliens came to Earth Emery to serve human What
did that really mean? Though? The humans didn't learn until
they got on the spaceship, and once they left Earth

(22:26):
it was too late.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
They were getting eaten. Well, don't spoil it for the
kids at home. Well, that's the episode name spoils it.
It does, yeah, say it again? To serve human being? No, yeah,
but when you're like eight years old and you don't
know that kind of stuff, I didn't. I was surprised
by the ending. Well, yeah, that's the way they tell
the story. It's the journey that gets you there that
makes it interesting. I asked Groc what Boxing Day is? Oh,

(22:51):
to serve man, I'm sorry to serve man. Same same,
It's the same. I would have guessed the same thing.
I asked what Boxing Day was to Grock says, Boxing
Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated December twenty sixth, primarily
in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and some other Commonwealth countries.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Which is not.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Us A take that, you red coats.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Wait, we don't have to celebrate Boxing Day. No, it
seems like a wholesome thing, though it is.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
It is, but it's a wholesome thing in the way
of like you sit down and you give your indentured
servant in medieval times a box of good meaning things
like thank you for busting your hump for me every
single day of the year. Here's a box that was
the world in medieval times. What a feudalism, baby, what.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you want?

Speaker 1 (23:40):
There were indentured servants in this country for a long time,
like not slaves and dinjured servants, like poor people that
were low totem poll people in England jumping on a
ship and coming over to the New World and being
the indentured servants for some settlers. It took us a
while to break that, and we still had slavery for
another one hundred plus years after we got rid of
the injured Irvans thing. You had to like earn your

(24:01):
freedom back then, man as as a lowly small time like,
they were very protective of the hierarchy of the like
you want to talk about the American dream. They would
have laughed at your face in sixteen hundreds England if
you would have said something like that, if you were
the dregs of society, that's where you were meant to stay.
The loophole in Rome was you could become a gladiator, right,

(24:23):
but then you die if you lose, right, and that's bad.
But if you were born if you were born of
meager means that your that was your route to the
top of society, if you could survive. If you could survive, yeah,
but how many survived?

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Not many?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yeah, exactly one guy for every fight walked out of there.
That was sport in those days. Think about that, Think
about where we've come as a society. Would you like
to watch something where you know, one of the competitors
going to die? What are we doing here? You know,
that's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
I just don't. I don't. I don't get how people
are like, oh, yeah, we need to get back to,
you know, being super macho. I'm okay with that, right, Like, yeah,
we need to get tougher. Just he definitely needs to
get tougher.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
But there is a line of going too far back,
like let's get let's get some of the means and
some of the some of the gumption in some of
the frivolity of the and the vibrancy of the Greatest Generation.
The people who were serving in World War two and
even before that in the early portion of the nineteen
hundred's life was hard, but they were hard working. They

(25:23):
cared about their families, they cared about their country. They
wanted to make their communities as good as possible. They
were active in their communities. They were members of different
clubs and groups like the Lions clubs, and they were
members of kawanas, and they were members of the ka'aba,
and they were members of all sorts of stuff. Knights

(25:43):
of Columbus, right, and you would go out and you'd
have dinner and stuff with the family and generalizing. Of course,
not everybody had this perfect situation, but we look back
on those eras of America of like that. That's the
medium we need, Like the generations below us need to
come back to that kind of pride in themselves and
trying to care about where they live as much as

(26:07):
they care about their own family and not taking that
stuff for granted. That is a good lesson.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
I think a tough times create tough people, and that's true,
and we have it really good. And like I said,
even in bad times and perceives bad times in America.
For all the problems that maybe America were to have,
it's not the same kind of problems. It's not even close.
But I do think getting a little bit tougher is good.
We just don't need to go all the way back to,

(26:32):
you know, being so tough that you know, we're hitting
each other with swords and stuff for the entertainment of
thousands of people, which, by the way, they made two
movies out of them now made a lot of money.
Did you watch the second one?

Speaker 6 (26:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Me either, kind of want to though anyway, the exact
origins are debated about Boxing Day, but one popular theory
is that derives from the tradition of giving boxes of food,
goods or money to the poor, servants or tradespeople as
a thank you for their service throughout the year. Another
theory relates to the practice of churches opening alms boxes
to distribute money to the poor.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
And they also do big shopping for England and Australia
and a lot of these places that celebrate Boxing Day
and Canada, you know what they do. They don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
What comes after Thanksgiving?

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Christmas? No, what comes right after Thanksgiving? Oh the shopping
holiday Black Friday.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Well, they don't have that because they don't have Thanksgiving.
So guess what Boxing Day has become a kind of
take on Black Friday for all these Commonwealth countries. So
when you talk about Boxing Day, they do a lot
of soccer matches. Soccer games are being played all day,
but on top of the Boxing Day traditional soccer matches,
great shopping deals are everywhere. That's really what Boxing Day

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has become in the modern day.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Right after Christmas. Yeah, that's the last thing I want
to do is go shopping again. But the deals, I
brave them all like four times in the last couple
of weeks. It's the deals. I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
It makes a lot more sense for late November day
to be like the day that you can save a lot,
because that's when a lot of people are probably now thinking, Okay,
I need to go buy.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Those Christmas gifts. But this is just a tradition. So yeah,
who are you? Who are you, Matt Case to tell
these people that they shouldn't do that. I'm nobody. My
microphone's on. That's the only reason why I'm saying stuff. Yeah,
and that's the reason why I'm saying stuff too, So
take that. Commonwealth commies can't see if this drop works.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
I don't know why YouTube ding dongs are arguing about this.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
It ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
It would be nice, but ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Did it work?

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, we didn't really talk about wanting Boxing Day to
be a thing here, that's true. If we would have
done that in context, it absolutely would have worked. Okay, Anyway,
onto the next one.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
We'll be back. News Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
And Maurice Songer on News Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Do you ever watch the Christmas or the New Year's
Eve deals, like the big TV productions with these people.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I have seldomly in the past, never really stayed tuned
throughout the whole thing. I just feel like there's just
a better way to spend that day than watching that. Yeah,
and I mean, I guess my my biggest thing would
be it's just kind of cringey. I'm not here to
tell people.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
How to enjoy the New Year's Eve, but I'd rather,
you know, watch a movie with my wife, or have
some people over or what.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Else can we do? What else?

Speaker 1 (29:14):
What else do you do on New Year's Eve? Like
you just go out to a big party, right, you
stay home and you play board games. You could do
that too. You could do that too. Last thing that
I generally do is sit there and watch. Not to
say that it's not a good show. I just I
guess I get jealous. Is that I get jealous of
the people having the party.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
You could break out the old Chris Gaines cassette tape,
pop it in the boom box and just gather around
and reminisce. No, no, that is disgusting. I feel like
I feel like that the New Year's Eve thing is
more people watching. There's always something that happens that's embarrassing.
Some CNN host gets too drunk or something, and that's
what I'm in for. And that's that, you know what,

(29:54):
Like that would be why I would want to watch
is to see that I can live vicariously on social
media through some of that. I just get jealous of
the people in Times Square. Do you want to do
that one day? No? Absolutely not. I've heard stories about
people who are locked in the middle of that thing
and they got to go to the bathroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
you to pack a stadium, buddy. Yeah, that's what I
was saying, all right, like you gotta there's a there's
a dumb and dumber scene that's relevant right now, is there?

(30:17):
Oh it's kind of warm. You're packed in like sardines, man. Yeah,
there's nowhere to go there. And what about the guys
that have to clean that mess up after that? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I hope they're paid. Well, I guarantee they are not.
So I'm I'm a how do I say this? I
feel like I'm a very practical man. Practical man when
it comes to the holiday season in the New Year's Eve,
and I have to warn you that, as you could

(30:49):
probably tell by now, I'm not great at planning a
lot of things, Like like there's a lot of stuff
out there that I'm just like not not ready for
because I'm not thinking that far ahead.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Do you have plans for d Year's Eve? I don't.
I some things are in the works. We'll see, Like
what I think, Uh, what's the option? Well, I might
might be doing some karaoke, Yeah, might be doing some karaoke.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
What's your what's your go to song? Usually you gotta
get you get you get one? Just one, you know,
you get at least one. What's the one that you're
you got in the chamber?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Can I have two? Sure? But you're I mean does
it rotate? Like there's one that always starts for me
and then I and then I have a second You
have to warm up, but I wait for the second
one right when you know, the crowd is pretty lubricated
and everyone's kind of in the single long spirit. Okay,
So number one to get the party started is Rick
Astley's never going to give you up, and you got
to get into it. I start with my back to

(31:43):
the crowd, collar popped? Is that right? I did that?
Once people kind of liked it. Would you do that again?
And then you spin around? Right as the lyrics start,
people realize what's happening. They're being Rick rolled live. Yeah,
but I think people generally like that song and I
do it. It's funny.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, it's fun Yeah, you've been Rick. But everybody generally
likes to hear that song.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
So we're gonnao up, We're gonna secret bar roll around,
deserve who It's good stuff.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
It is gets people going, yeah it does. How did
that guy not have more hits? I think looks had
something to do with it. Oh come on, why Yeah?
You hear that voice and then you watch the music
video on VH one and you.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Think, yikes, dude, what are you saying. He's a squirrely,
redheaded guy now a fence to anyone who fits that criteria.
But he's a handsome english man. He just happened to
be young and fairly generic. So what And his name
was Rick? Good name, good manly name, solid, a solid name,

(32:41):
like in the late eighties when he was pumping that
stuff out. That's a good name to have. I think
he could have used like poofy hair.

Speaker 1 (32:49):
No, why, okay, this is Oh, you get mad at
me when I talk about women entertainers in this way.
But I feel like, when you're an entertainer, you deserve
some of this. I'm going to like, you are free
to have your opinion, but I disagree. I think it
was the right move to zag when everybody else was zigging.
It just he didn't have the other songs, I guess.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, I mean he needed more hits. Maybe he could
have made it work for him that he got kind
of like a pompador kind of thing going. I feel like, yeah,
it was just but it's a modern look. You could
pull that look off. Now. He'd be fine today for sure. Yeah,
this guy could be now have you seen him recently?
Have you seen him recently? The same? He's aged very well.
He just you know, was updated the outfits a little bit.

(33:31):
Who knows how he would have aged if he would
have became famous. You know that's a good thing.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Come on, he was famous. He's still famous. You say
the name Rick. He's still on.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
He's still had sewers and performs and he still shows
up and gets booked for festivals and things. I mean,
he's he's got a legacy. Yeah, what's the other song. Well,
once everybody you know is really kind of getting into
the spirit of things. Well, and how do you how
do you feel that? How do you measure that is
there is there a line? How many people are in between?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
You?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Do you have to just like go ahead and preemptively
book that, hoping that the crowd is properly, in your terms,
lubricated for the evening.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah, because you do. If you're at a place that's
pretty popping, you got to get in line. So you
got like ten songs in between here, you better get
in line now. I would say a good sign is
when somebody gets up there and it's maybe not sounding
so great, but the song is sing alonga bowl and
people are enjoying themselves, and you're like, Okay, now I'm
going to get back in because I think that if
it's early in the night and somebody's up there and
they're really not crushing it by any means, people kind

(34:28):
of turn to their table and the conversations keep going.
But if people are enjoying themselves, they're in the moment,
they're having fun. Maybe they've had a few you know,
hams so far, and somebody gets up there and it's
a fun song. And even if they're not nailing it,
they're still having fun. That's about the time whenever I
go up to the DJ and say I think it's
time for Creed hire, because let me tell you, when
you turn the microphone to the crowd during the chorus

(34:50):
and you get somebody to belt that out with you,
it gets people going. In the Midwest, people know that song.
I've had a lot of really fun times singing that
song at crowded karaoke bars.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
You want to know something, I was at the Doughtry
concert last Wednesday at Steelhouse, and you know how they
play songs in between the artists, Like as they're getting
the stage ready for the next band, they played one
Last Breath by Creed, and the people that were in
there waiting for Doughtry to go on stage, Oh, they
were singing that.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
It was fun.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
I was like, Oh, everybody likes Creed. And then I thought,
you know, like a you know, the natural evolution for
a person who probably likes Chris Daughtry is probably also
a pretty big Creed fan.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Right, kind of just that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I think they tour together later they do yeah on
the Creed tour in the twenty twenty five Creed.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Wait was it twenty twenty four? Did they tour already?
I don't know. I didn't get to see Creed. I
also like Hello Darling by Conway Twitty. Just want to
throw that out there. That one's kind of fun Conway Twitty, Yeah,
little Conway Twitty, that really mixes it up. Yeah, but
that just sounds like something I wouldn't want to listen to. Nah,
people don't really go for it, but I have fun
with it.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I was gonna say, like, that's like when nobody's paying attention,
Like I want to sing this song, so I'm gonna
go sing this song. I don't do karaoke off and
I've done it like maybe five time my entire life.
I most like doing like an en sync song because
it's the kind of thing that you know, nobody's expecting
you to try to be good right, but you're actually
trying to be good right.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Well.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
I try to put on a performance and not necessarily
like I don't want to come away being like, oh Wow,
get that guy a record deal. I'm just trying to
have people have the most fun possibly, So I try
to have fun with it. I try to dance around
if they see me being goofy and having fun, then
they feel like they can have fun too. That's really
the sign, right, I'm not up there trying to nail everything,
being all nervous singing into the mic and taking it
super serious. That's no fun.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah, Okay, So what you're saying is is I'm not.
I don't think I'm a terrible singer. I have a
very limited range, and I just don't like getting it. Like,
I don't like the attention. People probably be like between
the two of us, they probably be surprised that you're
the karaoke guy and I'm not. But I want to
do a song that's like assumed to be goofy and

(36:51):
I'm not going to be very good at and then
I do just good enough. I try to lower expectations
by just being such a random song. But I only
do this, and don't get your home up anyone out there.
I only do it when under the heavy influence of
the people around me. And I'm with like a big
group of people who all are picking songs, and I'm
like being peer pressured to pick a song, and I

(37:12):
usually try to do it with somebody, so I'm not
the only one up there trying to do it, so
that make me weird.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
That's the only way that I enjoy or even kind
of have fun doing some karaoke thing. So anyway, if
you see Matt Case out there on New Year's Eve
shouting some karaoke, yeah, be sure to say, hey, he
likes to take photos with fans, don't you.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
I haven't yet. Somehow, some way that that opportunity has
not come across I did. I did get recognized in
the Casey's once. That was the weirdest moment of my life,
getting recognized in a Casey's. Yeah you're a radio guy.
People should be recognizing you at least a little bit. Well,
it's happened once in a Casey's shout out Cases. Yeah,
I love Cases by the way, me too, good pizza.

(37:52):
Please let me talk about you more often. I love you.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Our phone number is open for anybody in the Cases
High offices that might be listening to this radio show.
I want to you know, maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, you guys want to. Guys want to start something meaningful? Yeah,
you want to go Facebook official? You want to?

Speaker 1 (38:08):
You wanna have us talk about your pizza a little
bit more? Sure, uh, three twenty eight, we have more
coming up. We're having fun on a Boxing day and
a post Christmas day and if you want to have
fun with us, four two five five eight to eleven
ten is the number. Four oh two five five eight
to eleven ten. News Radio eleven ten, KFA b E
Marie Sunger. We were also talking about football a little bit.
There's bowl games going on today. There's one going on

(38:30):
right now. It's the game above Sports Bowl.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Is that? That's what it says, right the game above
Sports Bowl, Game above Sports Bowl. That's what it's. That's
what it looks like it says to me.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
The Game above Sports Bowl is in uh Ford Field
in Detroit.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
What was this bowl game before? Was this like the
Quick Lade Bowl? I think it was just the Gerald R.
Hord Ball sponsored by Dana Carvey Gerald R. Ford. Yeah,
that's old. That'snl bit here in Omaha. Gerald R. Hard
died today. That's the old bit. Dana Carvey as Dan
Rather announcing Gerald R. Ford's death. Oh, it's pretty funny.

(39:10):
For people who don't know what I'm talking about probably
just want me to shut up right now. So I'm
gonna yeah, that's cool. The Game Above Sports Bowl.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Let me just pull this up real quick for those
who are trying to keep track of all of these.
It is, uh, yeah, I used to be the Quick
Lane Bowl.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I knew that. I knew it isn't that cool? Didn't
I do a good job, Matt, didn't I? Then I
do a good job of talking about it being the
quick Lane Bowl? You sure know your balls? Yeah, I
guess I do. I guess I do. Oh, Tom Broke,
I'm sorry, I said, Dan rather, yeah you did. It's confused.
Was what the heck is going on with this guy? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:47):
Okay, So the Quick Lane Bowl is going on, or
I mean the Game Above Sports Bowl is going on.
And then we have two more bowl games today, the
Rate Bowl from Arizona Rutgers in Kansas State have a
little fun matchup. It's a four to thirty star time.
And then the nightcap tonight eight o'clock, the sixty eight
Ventures Bowl between Arkansas State and Bowling Green. Oh yeah,

(40:11):
the sixty eight Ventures Bowl. You know where that's played. Mobile,
Alabama used to be known as the Dollar Or it
was the Lending Tree Bowl, and then before that it
was the Dollar General Bowl, and before that it was
the Go Daddy Bowl or the GoDaddy got Com Bowl,
and before that it was the GMAC Bowl, and before
that it was the GMAC Mobile Alabama Bowl, and before

(40:32):
that it was the Mobile Alabama BUWL. I think that's
what this says. The reason I mentioned all this is
we have so many bowl games. How many people you
think are in who are preparing to play and get
on a plane today tomorrow get over to the pinch
Stripe Bowl?

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Mm hmm? How many Saturday? Right?

Speaker 1 (40:48):
How many? Yeah, Saturday thousands. That's a good guess. That's
a good guess. We'll talk and maybe give a full
prediction of this. How much do you care about this?

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Me?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah? How much do I care about the Doskars Bowl game? Yeah?
I hope they win. Yeah, it's not like that big
of a deal personally, Like, I hope they win. But
you has the riten time in your life where you
cared more about oh, without a doubt, way more? Yeah?
Why why? I'm just busier. I have more priorities. They
don't win as much. I think I'm a classic example

(41:17):
of once ardent fan kind of got older, more important
things in my life than sitting around watching a game
where they only win sometimes and hey, you know, I'm
still root for them, but it just doesn't matter as
much the ballgame scene.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Is there anybody out there that really feels badly when
their team loses these random ball games.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
The random ones. I remember when I was a much
more passionate fan and they were still trying to cling
on to grips of like we can still be the
old Nebraska, you know, and we'd go to those bowl
games and during the Bowl Pollini years, you know, and
play an SEC team and like in the Peach Bowl
or something, yeah, you know, and keep it close but

(41:56):
then not be able to win or something like that. Yeah,
I mean that one. That one's stuck, you know, because
you felt like you felt like winning that game meant
something for the program. For this one, like, what does
it really mean? It's cool if you win, but does
it really make a huge difference the advent of the playoff.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Right with the advent of the playoff, you're just kind
of like, what are we doing this for now?

Speaker 2 (42:14):
There's reasons.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
You get a bunch of extra like eighteen additional practices,
which is really important for the continuity of the program
and the development of the program. It's also important to
try to allow people on a national level. These are
all nationally televised games. All of the Bowl games are
on national TV. It's a chance for you to potentially
look really good on a national level, which could help

(42:36):
for recruiting even just a little bit. And also, lastly,
it's a good time, like people who want to like
they care about if you're a big Nebraska fan, right
especially because they have been in a Bowl game in
a long time, getting to go to New York City
and watch them play in this game.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
I mean, isn't that cool? Isn't that a sweet deal.
There's gonna be a lot of people there, I think.
I think there's gonna be a lot of people from
Austin College and Nebraska that are both going to be there.
And I think it's gonna end up being you know, like,
you know, forty thousand people in the stands and it's
like a quasi vacation. If I were the Bowl game
going type, you know what I would do. I would

(43:14):
make this a week long trip. I'd go tomorrow, I'd
work tomorrow, I'd leave and land and then go to
the Bowl game immediately. And they're doing like some fun
activities and things out there for the fans who are there,
like pep rallies and things. It's a lot more fun
when you know you're I say this, I'm sure the
people who are going to New York or who are
already in New York are having a lot of fun.

(43:35):
But when it's like in Orlando and you get to
go on like a river walk or something, or you
go to like Miami or Tampa or even Phoenix or
even San Antonio with the Alamobile. You know, I'm an
Iowa State fan as well. So like when they were
in the Alamo Bowl a few years ago and they
played Gardner Minshew and Mike Leach in Washington State, that
that whole gang that game, right, Like everybody that was

(43:57):
on my social media, they were super pumped to go
down there because they got to do the Alamo.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Stuff, the Riverwalk and all that stuff. And they had
big old parties, Iowa State parties down there by the Riverwalk,
you know what I mean. Yeah, that's a you can
make a trip out of it, this one being in
New York City Times Square baby, for sure. Yeah, you're
you're gonna tell me that the Huskers play three days
before the New Year. I'm making a trip out of
that baby, it'd be a lot of fun. So hopefully

(44:23):
there are some Nebraska fans that are going to try
to do that. That sounds like a good time. By
the way, the weather forecast it's an eleven am start time,
which I think is good. I like the idea of
it being an early day game because the sun can
help warm things a little bit. Bronx, New York forty
five degrees in cloudy according to ACI Weather for the

(44:44):
game time. That's good football weather. It's not going to
be miserable out there, forty five degrees. Just you know,
have your coat and stuff on, just like you would
hear and enjoy the Huskers as they try to get
a win. By the way, where's the line? Hmmm, that's
a good question.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Mmmm. Let's say Husker's field goal, Husker's minus three.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Minus four. It opened at three and a half, it's
four now. And the matchup predictor according to ESPN Analytics,
Nebraska fifty point four percent chance to win fifty point four,
Boston College forty nine point six.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
That is a pickham. That's a good game. Yeah, that's
a good game. Boston College. Though they got a new quarterback.
The guy who they had season.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Yeah, Castellanos got benched late in the season by you
know who their coach is, Bill O'Brien, the old Penn
State guy. Now that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Now, these were two hot commodity coaches a couple of
years ago, Rule and O'Brien, and people were floating the
idea that Bill O'Brien could be the guy here and
a lot of people wanted that to happen.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
Yeah, that was after he lost his job with the
Texans kind of messed that whole thing up. He was
also kind of a victim of the Deshaun Watson stuff,
wasn't he Once DeShawn kind of went the way he went,
kind of took that organization down with him. So yeah,
not that Bill was doing a great job, but he was.
He was giving too much power. He was also the
GM of the team, so you know, maybe it a

(46:02):
little bit easier to fire him when the personnel wasn't
panning out, you know. Anyway, Bill O'Brien and the Boston
College Eagles and the Nebraska Cornhuskers eleven Amstar Time on Saturday,
and we'll have a more full comprehensive preview of this
game tomorrow as well, uh, three forty eight. How about
we give away some f's that sounds like a good idea. Sure,
we'll do that next on news Radio eleven ten KFAB

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and

Speaker 6 (46:23):
Rarey's Songer on news Radio eleven ten Kfab.