Stock Market Seesaw

Stock Market Seesaw

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Florida Gators national champs. Congrats to them, like they needed
anything else to be good at congratulations?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Uh what else? What else?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Did you hear about Michael Malone? Is that the Denver
Nuggets coach not anymore? He's not What what happened? He
and general manager Calvin Booth fired from the Nuggets? Oh
an hour ago?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
What what's going on in the Western Conference?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
With like a week after the regular season and they're
in playoff position two years removed from winning a championship.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah? Now, I know he's been you know, he can
he can say some pretty spicy stuff sometimes, But the
GM's and.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
The coach, he's been there for long enough. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
What?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
They apparently feel like they're playing terribly at the wrong time.
They could be in the playing Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
The West is so tight by the way, Nuggets are
for the fourth seed right now, the fourth seed forty
seven and thirty two lost four in a row and
fired their coach. But you know who else has thirty
two losses? The fifth place Clippers, the sixth place Warriors,
the seventh place Timberwolves, and the eighth place Grizzlies. All
five of those teams are a half game apart for
the fourth through eighth seats, So.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
There's that a lot of fun there.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Grizzlies fired their coaches a couple of weeks ago, too, right,
you know what else?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
You got? That stock market? Ready? Yeah? Fired up? What
do we got?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
We're not closed yet, so it's still moving around. But
what does it say right now?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Still moving and shaking. But we started this day with
quite the rally. It was crazy how it was so green.
I was like, dang.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Like the first like three or four hours of the
market being open, I was like, holy cow, the vault.
The volatility index was down big time. I mean, I
think Dow Jones is up to like almost four percent,
SMP was up about four percent, and ISAAC was up
over four percent.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And look at
us now, she gong, Yeah, dal Jones is down two
hundred and four points or minus point five to four percent,
sitting pat at around thirty havn and a half thou
s and p five hundred. What is down sixty seven
points or minus one point three five percent? Now it
moved up to sixty eight and a half. So we're

(02:09):
we're doing this live, folks. It's bouncing around. It's always
dangerous talk about this stuff when it's all when it's
still happening. Yeah, so it just moved again. It's but
it's bouncing around, just around minus one point three percent
nas dack down to seventy nine or minus one point
eight percent. H so uh and again the Russell two
K for anyone who cares, it's down about thirty two

(02:31):
points or minus one point seven six percent. Does anybody
know what that is? No, we don't know what it is.
And I just want the people at the Russell two
K to to get a little pub I suppose, and
also a little shaming because nobody knows who you are
and we don't care about you either, even though we
say the number.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, what's even on the Russell two K? I'm you're
asking the wrong guy. I couldn't tell you what's on
any of these things. Is it like potatoes or something?
I mean maybe those are russets?

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Are they russets?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, rusted potatoes, russ a Russell Russell athletics, remember Russell Athletics. Yeah,
you're probably your probably your high school football uniforms were
probably Russell Athletics before you know, things got sophisticated.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
The Russell two thousand Index is a small cap US
stock market index that makes up the smallest two thousand
stocks in the Russell Index. So that's you, you, you
and me. That's you and Me's idea. It's a bunch
of short kings.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, we're gonna be uh, we're gonna be slicing and
dicing five dollars stocks is what we're gonna be doing.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I like it, you know what. I like the Russell
two k Yeah, I'm in now. So uh yeah, what
was that all about? This morning?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
That thing was up, the Dall Jones was up like
fourteen and fifty points at one point, and now it's
minus two thirty.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
So what's going on? What is this just another example
of just nobody knows anything. Can we stop acting like
we know what's what's happening? Because I certainly don't. Haven't
I said that for the better part of the week.
When it comes to this stuff, if you think you
know exactly how it's going to go down, you're.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
A lion, Like I don't even care you. You could be.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
You could have a degree in this stuff, you could
have studied this your entire life, and there's still an
element of I have absolutely no idea what's about to happen.
And that's not to say that people you shouldn't listen
to people. Financial advisors certainly can read these better than
we can. But is there anything to be reading right now?
It just feels like in the last couple of days,
it's just been like, oh, well, for this hour long period,
it was a great time to be holding some stocks

(04:22):
for this hour long period, though you probably lost everything
you own.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
I would love to hear from somebody who knows, like
what happened right? Like why was everybody excited at the
beginning of the day and now they're not? Did something happen?
Did some news come out?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't know if they If they did, I haven't
seen anything. Have you seen anything? Am I missing some news?
Did something crazy happen out there in the world today?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh't? Is there new tariff stuff?

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Well, the tariffs went into effect and like China and stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
But I'm seeing that the Chinese tariffs take effect at
midnight tonight. Hundred four percent.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, there you go. There's one thing that could
have happened. Maybe people thought it wasn't gonna happen or something.
Uh huh yeah, apparently effect effective total on Chinese goods
will be one hundred and seventeen percent after today, even
though the tariff is one hundred and four percent.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
What's gonna happen here? What's gonna happen?

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Like?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I don't know?

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, you can call us if you think you know
or you have a strong opinion on this, or you
think you can tell me what happened or what's going
on here and why it was so green earlier and
why it's so red now. Just go ahead and fire away.
Four h two five five eight eleven ten. I could
use your help today on this four h two five
five eight eleven ten. Let's go ahead and chat about this.

(05:36):
News Radio eleven ten Kfabe.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
And Marie Sunger.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Brandy's on a phone, like, maybe he can help us
and you can join the conversation. Four two five five
eight eleven ten. Is the phone number, Randy, Welcome into
the show today. What's on your mind?

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, I think I can't tell you when to buy
or sales stocks, but I believe that what's going on
is those people just like Nancy Post. He said, you
don't turn on a crisis. And that's what they're doing.
They've they've got people running scared and the ones that

(06:08):
are in control are buying and selling, making money hand
over fist because people are scared or think they're scared,
and they're manipulating all of us. That got a four
to one case and in the stock market, and uh
it's it's not as bad as what people are making
it out to because uh it was, it was inevitable

(06:30):
that was going to happen. They they know, they knew
that this was. If Trump did this, they had an
opportunity to make money. And that's what they're doing. And
if you're if you're sharp enough, which that's what we're
trying to figure out what stocks to buy and what
ones to sell. I got a neighbor lady that used

(06:51):
to sitting all day long, and she she made a
lot of wealth to sitting in there as hitting in
her in her little recliner in their office, buying and
selling just like what you're doing today on the stock market.
And she she she put away money, handle rich. That's
what your stock worker you're supposed to do. But they're
they're playing the public, they're playing the emotions of of everyone. Uh,

(07:16):
it's not as bad as what they're making it out
to be. The drive by media and everything. It's not
that bad.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
They're just well and honestly, it's only people. It's only
running running it or yeah, yeah, Randy, Randy, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well And that's the thing, Randy, is it's only a
problem if you're selling right now, right, I mean, like
you're only really out the money if you sell, and
if you had holdings, I mean now would be a
bad time to sell.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Really, it is it is, it's a bad time to sell.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Appreciate to call it, buddy. Thanks listening here.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Uh, I've had two emails here, and let's go ahead
and let's uh, let's let's hash this out. Go ahead
and X the phones for a second. I had this
email said, if you don't know enough about the stock
market or anything about the stock market, don't talk about it.
You're getting people riled up. That's email number one.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Email number two said, you guys are being irresponsible talking
about the markets like this. Only educated and experienced day
traders should be worried about the market. This way, you're
putting a lot of fear into people like my eighty
year old grandmother, who is now so scared that she's
selling everything off when she should just be hanging.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
On for the long term. Look, why you did.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
I realize you may be into it for the comedic value,
but still not cool. I have said on multiple occasions
both of us that you do not want to take
advice from us, But we're also not giving advice. We're
just talking about the market.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And for the record, I said, sell all of your socks,
maybe you should listen more carefully next time.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Nobody's going to buy those for whatever it's worth. And honestly,
she's like, hey, we talk about all sorts of stuff.
First of all, riling people up is like, what half
of the half of my job? Yeah, it's kind of
something I'm supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, this is afternoon talk radio. What else are you
supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Secondly, this is the biggest story in America right now?
So am I supposed to not talk about it. We're
talking about it in I wouldn't say vague realities, but
we're telling you what it's happening right now. We're not
telling you what we would do, because we don't have
we're not into it. We don't have like we have
four oh one k's like they're we're thirty years away
from like even thinking about pulling that stuff out. So

(09:15):
I gotta be honest with you. I don't even know
what's in there. I don't even know what my holdings are.
I know, I come up with a game plan with
the person at the investment firm and they're like, Okay,
we'll take care of you from here. I check on
it very periodically, not that often, and I see the
number and you know it's moving around and all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's just that's the extent. Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
So if you're listening to me and you're taking advice
out of what I'm saying, even though I'm not explicitly
giving you advice, and I've told you straight up, I'm
not giving you advice, and I wouldn't do anything advice
advice related that we're talking about. It's just something to
talk about and try to analyze. There are people out there,
like Randy himself basically saying I know people who do

(09:54):
this all the time. They play the stock market like
it's some sort of slot machine. I don't do that. Yeah,
so I want to talk to people who do. Is
that a problem? Maybe you need to be on the
phone with your eighty year old grandma and tell her
not to be selling her stocks. I get enough pronouns
in there for you.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I liked it. It was the proper I'm out, What
do you want? What am I supposed to do here?

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Should I just talk about how the Denver Nuggets tanked
their stock by firing their coach in general manager a
week before the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Maybe we should just pretend to pretend like it's not
happening and it'll go away. Oh and then I'll have
people calling in like, what are you.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Guys talking about that stock market? It's going crazy with
these tariffs, and y'all right, And I'll be like, I
tried what people said. I was riling people up, and
I don't want people to be mad at me. I
don't want people to be mad at me. Does it
sound like I'm a mess? I'm not a mess. I'm
a perfectly normal boy. Should should even I am an
innocent boy?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Do you want me to play some relaxing music to
help calm people down? As long as it doesn't get
ripped off the pod. Sure. Oh that's nice. I thought
so too, kind of springtimes. Yes, okay, you know, no, yeah,
there we go. Wow, all right, enough of that zend

(11:17):
time is over. It's time.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's time to get into the high gear. I want
the hairs on the back of your neck to be
standing up. I don't know about what, but you know
intensity intensity I octane octane, yes, yes, all gas, gasoline,
all gas. Snow breaks gasoline. So yeah, anyway, here you go.
As of eight minutes ago, all of the Magnificent Seven

(11:42):
are down today, after they were magnificently green earlier according
to the stock market follows. And guess what that is?
Something worth noting, I would imagine. So who, yeah, there
you go. What are you looking at over there? And
why is your head sideways? Oh?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I was just looking at an image, oh of a
random invitation that we got to someone's what is this
a retirement party? I don't know that person. Sorry, that
was a distraction me either.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, don't be turning your head sideways unless it's something
for the show. Looking at you, I was like, what
the heck is going on over there? I'm a very
expressive person. I'm sorry, Yeah, something like that. All right,
So the big local news today is Winner take All,
Winner take All? What do you think about Winter take all?
You think winner take all is good? I want to
take all good man ugly. To be honest, I do

(12:29):
not magnificent seven, good, bad, and the ugly. Do you
see what I did there?

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
That was good? What other you know?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Like?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Maybe I'm the outlis of Josie Wales? I know that
one was forced. But how many other random westerns from
the sixties can I reference? I don't know, probably fit
a couple more in there.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, well I need to know more than just those two. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
So, so do we think Winter take All is gonna?
They're debating it. We've talked about this. We know that
Winner take All is very, very polarized for specific people.
The people who are in power say that we should
go into winner take All because they don't want to
have to fight through the blue dot that is Omaha

(13:12):
these days. But the people who aren't fans of Winner
take All are the people we probably see things like, hey,
the more we separate the electoral votes, the more everybody's
voice actually counts. That gives places like Omaha a bigger
voice than they would have otherwise in a very red state.
So where are you on this, Mael. We'll take a break,

(13:32):
think about it. Open those phones back up and let's
go ahead and you tell me what you think about
Winner Take All and why, and we'll let you know
the latest says you know they think about voting on
this and how that's going to work, and we would
love to chat with you. Four oh two five five
eight to eleven ten is the number. Four h two
five five eight to eleven ten. Thanks for listening on

(13:52):
news radio eleven ten. Kfab em Ry's songer What was it? Oh? Yeah,
the stock market. That's what was making people mad? Was
talking about stock market. Do we have an update on that?
It looks worse. Did it get worse all of a sudden?
It looks like it got worse.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
I want to make sure I keep my tone nice
and relax.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh yeah, sorry, Hey everybody, here's what the stock market's
doing today. This is not, by any means any advice
as to whether you should buy or sell, just something
we find to be notable since it is quite literally
the biggest story in America.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
Yeah, if you just look at the dowd Jones, happy
little Dow Jones, happy little Dow Jones sitting out there
at minus six hundred and fifteen points.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Oh, isn't acute.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
And you just look at that Dow Jones. He's down
one point sixty two percent. But that's okay, you know why,
because sometimes you gotta lose big the game big.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
I'm not a therapist. It's finished off at thirty seven,
three hundred and fifty. It's not finished yet those twenty
two minutes to go. Does the doubt Jones have a
rally in it? I know I do sometimes when I
get up at three in the morning and I feel tired. Somehow,
somehow I make it through the day. Stop looking at
me like that. The S and P five hundred was
down one hundred and nineteen points. It's minus two point

(15:06):
three eight percent. The happy little S and P five
hundred living his best life. That's very cute. The Nasdaq
five hundred was down four hundred and sixty points, whereas
Bob Ross would like to say, it's a happy little
nasdack there down three percent. Happy little tree. Maybe just
put some some crimson on its branches, Maybe just a

(15:28):
little bit of lily white on that leaf there. And
the Russell two k was down fifty four, but who
cares about the Rustle two k?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
All right, there you go. There's your your latest in
the stock market. We'll see if that rally is it
closes in over twenty minutes, next hour, we'll let you know,
but we'll let you know what the story is.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
How's that? Yeah? Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Uh, here you go, winner take all, Winner take all.
Some some local news broke out about this involving merv is.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
A ripe reap it spelled a I E E a repee.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
I didn't watch it.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I just know the people talking about because you want
to know something, he's a Republican or you know, a Republican.
Who's to say, who's a Republican? Do you know who's
a Republican anymore? Nobody knows.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm a pannikin. That's all I know. Oh no you're not. No, no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Somebody's got to run. No I'm gonna do it. No,
I'm going. That is for the scared and stupid people.
Remember I'm filing my paperwork as we speak. That's not
a real thing.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I will be the scared, stupid person standing up there
trying to get your vote.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
At least, like Chucky Finster is like, you know how,
like they have the donkey for the Democrats and the
elephant for the Republican. Well, Chucky Finster is the the
oh Avatar for for the Pannicans. Imagine, I just I
really want to do this now. No, it's not happening,
and I'm not gonna let you. You have too many
other things you have to worry about.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
I always I have to quit in the middle of
every speech because I get too nervous. You gets whaty palm,
and then people have to cheer me back on. Stay
It's okay, man, come back out, don't be so scared.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
And then he's stupid, you know, so like you have
to incorporate the stupid in there somehow.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's not tough. That'll be the easy part. Anyway.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
He apparently said that he's changed his mind, and he says,
we have a unique opportunity with the blue dot.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
The blue dot. Do you like the blue dot personally? I, well,
people are not going to like this.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
I mean, I think it's just it's who we are.
It's reflective of the place we live in. I think
that if if you don't like the blue dot, you know,
next time around there might be a red dot that
you're trying to preserve. So I think that there's this
idea that everybody deserves a voice, especially I don't know.
The pushback you're going to hear is that nobody else
does this. I know, I know. So everywhere else is

(17:45):
Winner take All except for us in Maine. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
And the argument is, well, if we're going to do
it this way, we are losing an important electoral vote
doing it this way. If we decide to go winter
take all with Republican control, right now, that's an important
electoral vote that no longer you need to worry about.
I don't know any but again, that makes Omaha absolutely irrelevant.
And again, what would you rather have everybody's voice to

(18:10):
count or finding a way to silence a group of
people in a metropolitan area who really believe that their
voice isn't heard because they disagree with what the greater
part of the state feels. If anything, I think more
states need to be doing an our way. That's how
I feel. But how are we going to talk them
into it? You know, we're having this debate. I'm not

(18:31):
sure that they're talking about, Hey, we need to change
how we do the electoral college. The answer isn't abolishing
the electoral college. I think adjusting the electoral college should
do what it was initially attended to do by the
founding fathers and have the electors themselves, who are representing
whatever districts who might be voting. Those need to be
brought back to life because the electoral college still is

(18:54):
based in a lot of ways on battle grounds within states.
Not certain states are battlegrounds because they have a good mix.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Of rural, rural, rural and urban areas.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Whereas you know, like California, there are plenty of Republican
voters in California. Guess what, there's just way more people
in the metropolitan areas, the giant urban areas, and they
offset them by a lot. So same thing with Texas
in Democrats, there's plenty of little pockets like Dallas and
especially in the Austin area, even around Houston, who are
very liberal and very Democrat, very blue. It's just not

(19:29):
as much as the rest of the state. And that's
what we're talking about here, trying to figure out what
the situation can be and how we can make everybody
across the country's voice heard while still having the ability
to balance between the metropolitan areas and the rest of
the United States and the rural areas. Don's on the

(19:51):
phone line four two, five to five, eight eleven ten.
You got a thought on this, Don.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I don't like the bluetout at all. And here's here's why.
In Nebraska, we're a conservative state, we're a red state,
but we try to be open minded. We tried to
give the other side an opportunity and so in doing so,
over history, we've elected people we thought, oh, they're a
nice guy, they're charismatic, like Ben Nelson, like Bob Kerrey.

(20:17):
And what was the end result. Ben Nelson, as we know,
voted for Obamacare. He was the deciding vote for Obamacare.
So we ended up with that de battle. Bob Kerry,
he was the deciding vote, so we did not have
a balanced budget agreement. We nixed that, which now we're
deeply in debt.

Speaker 5 (20:35):
So we.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Tend to cut off our own nose despite our face.
And that's what this blue dot is. It gives the
loyal opposition. I don't even think they're loyal, but they're
the opposition a chance to kind of thumb us in
the faith, you know, and then some there knows that
it's and everything, and I don't think it's healthy. I
think it's divisive. I think we should go to a winner,
take saul because that's what most states do. Yeah, and

(21:00):
someday it could bite us in the butt. Yeah, you know,
luckily it been with Kamala. Luckily we don't have a
special led president right now, and so that's Uponzo.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, don I just like to respond to that.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
I don't find people who disagree with me on politics
to be like disloyal or it's a black mark, you know.
My response to you would just be like, how can
the Republicans win more people? Because there's got to be
some reason why we have a Republican mayor in Omaha,
we have a Republican who is consistently winning the representative

(21:34):
seat in this district to Washington, d C. There's got
to be a way that a presidential election can come
down to a more competitive race here in Omaha, right,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
You would think so, but unfortunately, sometimes when you're too
open minded, you can't. You're playing with fire and it
could burn you. And this it's not likely, but there
is the potential there that this could really burn us
at some point, and that's my concern.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
You're not wrong, Don, I mean, there was a chance
that could potentially have happened. I don't disagree. I just
still think that. I mean, if you're worried about this
biting you, it's because you just don't want to campaign it.
You'd rather just protect yourself from losing an electoral vote
instead of actually having a campaign. In Omaha, I meant

(22:21):
didn't Omaha. It's voted red before and again, Like, you
can't tell me that there's not enough Republican voters to
vote in favor of a presidential candidate because Don Bacon's
a Republican, Jeans Stothard's a Republican. We have in this district,
in this county, in this city voted for Republicans to
run the things or represent us, and just seems kind

(22:42):
of nuts that, well, we can't we just can't find
a presidential candidate that we don't want to make the
presidential candidate campaign here harder.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
And that would be my pushback on that.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
We'll take more calls on this four h two, five, five,
eight eleven, ten, Randy, Mike, everybody else calling in. We're
gonna talk to you next year on these radio eleven
ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
And raised on there.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Do we want to keep the blue dot a thing?
And it's only a blue dot because a Democrat has
won it the last couple of times. I went back
and found this, by the way, and I have all
of the statewide election results from this district District two
in Nebraska, which is the dot right since two thousand
and eight. I'll talk to you about that in the moment,
but first to Randy on the phone line of four

(23:24):
h two, five to five, eight to eleven ten, Randy,
what's going on?

Speaker 6 (23:27):
Well, you kind of touched on it earlier, you know,
if you may. If everybody did what we do, then
that would split up California and New York all that
and the Democrats would not win another election. Probably why
it's only targeted in heavy Republican areas. The complaint used
to be Nebraska's so read it never gets the Democratic

(23:48):
presidential candidate to come campaign here, and then a Democrat
heavy unicameral, including mister Ernie Chambers, helped get that flip. Okay,
but if you if you did that everywhere, I mean
you look at the county map when it comes to
political you know political maps. Yeah, the whole country has

(24:08):
red except for a few tiny little blue dots, and
we happen to be one of them, right, Okay. And
plus they've now they've expanded it out into Saunders County
and that that was a jurymandering. Saunder's County has always
been largely Republican, hugely republic.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
For sure, for sure.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
And I mean you've got a lot of agriculture, You've
got a lot of working, stiff people, you know, just
hard working people, and they ended their right. In my view,
there be a disenfranchised You have the mayor of Lincoln
who has had big time Democrat and all her cronies
that have moved out to the lakes by Ashland, and
it's disaffecting everything in county from county politics to state politics.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, well, Randy, I mean I guess the bigger question
is would you be in favor of making a winner
take all or do you do you just think that
we just need to campaign better and have better you
know optics. Like you said, they've even jerrymandered to help
this because more of a red district over time, Well, unless.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
The rest of the states are going to do what
we do. Then then then you need to we need
to be winner take all just like every other.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
So you want to you want to go with everybody
needs to be the same rules, is what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Absolutely, Okay, I appreciate the call, Randy.

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Thing's really no different, no different than California saying you
know it's illegal to ask for a driver's license to vote. Yeah,
that's just as silly. That's the same silliness.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, no, I'm with you, Randy. Thanks for the call.
I appreciate it. Yeah, I I know that a lot
of people are like into the same Like, how do
I say it? You want the rules to make sense,
but you want the rules to make sense from your perspective.
And there are people that are living in California or
Washington State or New York State around these metropolitan areas,

(25:45):
are in more blue thinking areas like Denver or something,
and and they're saying the opposite, right, they think the
thing that makes the most sense to them is the
stuff you disagree with. That's what's cool about America, and
that's why states should have the ability to make their
own rules. Anyway, I don't know if I'm in the
game to conform just because everybody else is doing it
the same way. All right, here's a pop quiz. Two

(26:07):
thousand and eight. What did the second Congressional District of
Nebraska vote for President? I would guess Barack Obama correct,
fifty to forty eight percent twenty twelve, President of the
United States. What did the second Congressional district vote Barack Obama?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Wrong?

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Mitt Romney fifty three to forty seven percent, twenty sixteen,
President of the United States.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
What did the second congressional district vote in twenty sixteen? Sixteen?

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Mmm?

Speaker 2 (26:27):
This would have been Clinton? Trump? Yeah, I know, I
can't remember, though it was close. It was I will
say Clinton, buy a hair. It was Trump by a
hair forty eight to forty six percent. Twenty eighteen. There
wasn't It was a midterm election. Deb Fisher won this
district forty eight point four to forty eight point two
percent in twenty eighteen, winning re election.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
There.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hey, guess what that same election the Democratic governor candidate
ended up winning, which by the way, was Robert christ
This district, of course not the overall rate, but by
a little bit. So. In the same year, this district
elected a Republican senator and a Democrat governor. Now, of
course deb Fisher was able to win the rest of

(27:11):
the state, whereas Robert Chris did not.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
But that's kind of the point I'm making.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
People voted for Biden in twenty twenty, but then elected
Pillin by a small margin in twenty two. Right, this
district of elected Ricketts in the special election while also
electing a Republican in Don Bacon, while also voting against
deb Fisher and also electing Kamala Harris. This district is
as purple as it gets. Why do we need to

(27:37):
change it? It's kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Were on the way a news radio eleven ten kfab