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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to make sure everyone understands this. I love
to travel. Should we start with that or should we
do something else? Do people want to hear about this?
Like go, should I talk about my trip first? Or
I don't know. I'm always so weird about this because like,
what is me talking about my trip? You know what,
I'm just going to do it. Screw it, it's my show.
I haven't talked I haven't talked to you people for
like eight days, so that the news is going to
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be there for a half hour from now or whatever?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I was in the Netherlands. I went flew to the Netherlands.
Landed last not last Thursday, two thursdays ago. I went
to I spent a day in Aukmar, which is a
smaller place. It's about one hundred thousand people, went and
saw a division the top division Dutch football match or
soccer as we would know it. I spent four days
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in the Netherlands or in Amsterdam, sorry Amsterdam, for King's Day,
which is the big party around the entire country, which
landed on a Saturday. It was absolutely insane. And then
spent a couple of days in which is the big
university town in the middle of the Netherlands and then
spend two more days in Harlem, which is kind of
a how do I put this, It's like the have
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you ever been to Chicago? I have the Chicago area?
Are you familiar with Chicago geography? Fairly enough? Harlem kind
of reminds me of like the Arlington Heights of Chicago. Okay,
it's far enough away from Amsterdam that you feel far
enough away, but it's really right there. It's like fifteen
twenty minutes away. Anyway, I bring all this up because
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that's what I did. And if you want to see
some of the stuff that I got the chance to
do and some of the stuff that I saw, you
should check out my Facebook page Jimmery song or Radio.
You'll be able to see pictures and videos and whatnot,
which is easiest way. Ask me what else I saw?
What else did you see? In the Netherlands. I saw
a lot of bikes. They are biking people Amsterdam. Roughly
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seven hundred and fifty thousand people live in Amsterdam. They
have over a million bikes that are registered in the city. Wow,
there's just a ton of bikes, Like people have more
multiple bikes. Guess what I didn't see a lot of cars.
Oh okay, not a lot of cars. Cars are kind
of in the way more often than not. When you're
in the Netherlands, everybody's riding bikes or walking from A
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to B. A lot of public transportation there. They have
the canals, a lot of people in boats. But if
you're going from pointing to point b in town, people
riding bikes. Protected bike lanes pretty much everywhere. Bikes have
the ride of way, even over a lot of the
pedestrians in a lot of places. You want to know
what else I've seen? What else did you see? Great weather?
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It was like so non European, like you're talking about
great weather here. It's great weather there, but like sixty
five degrees there feels like eighty almost. You know why,
cause you're a little bit more north. I was like
in line, like I was north of where Winnipeg is
on latitude wise based on like like you know the map,
Like you know how the map works, well, latitude, we
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are on a certain line and if you drew this line,
it would go all the way across and be closer
to like where the Spain in Italy area. So when
I was in Spain, it was pretty much the exact
same line when you're in like Amsterdam. Amsterdam is basically
above like it's more north than Winnipeg, Manitoba is if
you can picture where that is. Okay, So I mean
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you're really north because of the and then on top
of that though the way the earth kind of tilts,
and there's not a lot of green spaces in a
lot of these places. Now I say that because green
space they have canals, like legitimate canals, and they are
masters of trying to understand like water levels. There aren't
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houses with yards. Usually you're not seeing like a lot
of traditional stuff. It's a lot of stone. It's a
lot of brick. When you're sitting in a restaurant in
the middle of town and you got bright sunny skies
and it's like it says, it's like sixty five seventy degrees.
Not only does it feel warmer based on the tilt
of the sun and kind of like or tilt of
the earth towards the sun and how north you are,
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but not only does it get that warm, but it
like heats, it like incubates the heat because of the
brick and the stone that's all over the streets and
all over the buildings. So if you're in like a
wide open area, it's like standing on blacktop here right,
Like when it's a ninety degree day, you know where
you don't want to be standing in the middle of
a like cementer or black top area that's just going
to absorb more heat. Kind Of felt like that when
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you were in the Netherlands in some places, guess what
else I didn't see? What else did you not see?
Large people? Oh? Sure, like wide people. Like there's tall
people in the Netherlands. A lot of Dutch people are tall.
Name one tall Dutch person, you know? Come on, you
got this? Uh, come on, Indiana Pacers. Oh, Rick Smiths, Yes, yeah,
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Ricky Smiths, you did let me down. I'm glad. I'm glad.
I I'm glad I asked no floppy hair. Rick Smith's
I'm glad that you got that. It makes me happy anyway.
Rick Smith's, Yeah, a lot of not I didn't see
a lot of seven four heights, but I saw like
the average Dutch guy. You know, he's taller than I am.
You and me are about the same height. These guys
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are taller than us, all right, you know what, They're
not fatter than us as a general society as a whole. Right,
I don't want this to sound offensive. Please stop me,
Matt if I start sounding like I'm getting offensive. Okay,
But they're biking everywhere, They're walking a bunch of places.
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There's not a lot of cars. They're using public transportation.
They have different rules about the food that they use,
which RFK Junior has been very adamant to point out
since he's taken over as the director of the Health
and Human Services in this country. How do I put this,
They're just way healthier than us. They care about their
bodies a lot more. They're just a healthier people than
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we are. And this is a country and a culture
there a tobacco use is rampant. I mean, you know,
you think Europe, there's a lot of smoking that goes on.
There's a lot of smoking of others things just going
on in the Netherlands. Want to know something else, didn't
notice that very much. Really didn't notice it more there
than I did anywhere else in America. Even now, if
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you went to the red light district at the right
time of day, you probably would have found a little
bit more adventure on that.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But cutting down on the SIGs over there. Oh no, oh,
you're talking about the Oh, I'm talking about the reef. Right,
you're talking about the man did somebody run over a skunk?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, that stuff. There's some of it. I'm not gonna
lie to you. There's some of it. But there's this stigma.
I think with Amsterdam that there's this crazy, huge drug
party city, the red light district might be true. I
didn't notice anything that different. Now, as in European country,
the smoking like tobacco products is just kind of a culture.
They don't do it for the vanity, right, They don't
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do it because it looks cool. They do it for
the love of the game.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That is an unhealthy thing that European countries do way
more than us. You know what, I didn't see a
whole lot of fat people. So you tell me what
the heck's going on there?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, you're riding bicycles, you're smoking SIGs, you're gonna stay
pretty skinny.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I guess I don't. I don't know if that's the
homeless population around these parts. What's funny is you know
what else they didn't see much of, huh, homeless people. Ah,
you know why? Because people are squatting there like crazy.
Oh really, if there's an abandoned building, squatters take it over.
And because of the way the Dutch laws a written,
it is a heck of a legal fight to get
them out because the like I mean, this goes back
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decades and decades, So squatters can take over buildings pretty
easily when they're abandoned, and there's just no good legal
way to get them out. Think about that for a second. Really,
So they don't really have a lot of homeless people
around the streets, but they definitely have a different problem.
If you think squatting's a problem, they're not squatting on
properties people own, but they're squatting properties that are empty.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And squatting's a problem for me older, I get the
harder it is on my knees.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, those squat the squat guards on your knees the
catcher's wearing these days in high school ball.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That can help.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Hey, you want to know what else? They didn't see
a lot of tweaking, tweaking, tweaking like people spazing out.
Yeah all right, like heavy drugs, like I'm talking. Didn't
see it, didn't see it, Okay, didn't see it. So
they they smoke a lot, but they ride bikes, they
walk all over the place, they eat healthier food, they're
not fat. I didn't notice drug use really at all,
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except for every once in a while you'd come across
the old you know, somebody enjoying themselves a jay or something.
But I wasn't as it wasn't any more prevalent than
when I'm walking in Chicago, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
So I don't know, And I know that we've created
our society a lot differently than they've created theirs. They
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have the canals, they have you know, streets are just
not it's not great to be driving. It just isn't
great for driving. But man, they got trams slash street
cars that you can use that are super easy. They
have the subway system in Amsterdam, the super easy. They
have high speed train that goes in between the major
cities of the Netherlands. And again it's a smaller place,
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the Netherlands. If the Netherlands was the fifty first state,
how large would it be, like? What ranking do you
think it would have in terms of land like area,
land mass, land water area that is called it. I
haven't looked at a map with Netherlands on it in
some time. So without doing that to cheat, I'll stay
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somewhere in the middle. It is actually much smaller. It
is like forty third It would be like the forty
third largest state. It is a small place, but it
has all of this infrastructure for easy access to all
of the different towns in the Netherlands, and everybody is
using public transportation or riding their bikes from point A
to point B. People were picking their kids up from
school in like bikes. They had a bike, and then
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then it'd be like a basket in the front of
the bike, but not like a basket like we would know,
like a tourist basket like on our bikes that you
can rent. It's like a wheelbarrow almost, that's in between
the seat and the front wheel. Oh, they have very
interesting bikes there, but everybody has a bike.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I wonder why they do it that way. I guess
it's people like smaller because if you do the whole
thing in the back, you know that you take along
as almost like a trailer that that someone can get
into that's much larger and probably harder to navigate with.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
In the city. Correct, it's the opposite there the way
that they carry things. Interesting, there were people doing deliveries
with the same type of thing right in bikes around town.
Yeah that makes sense. Okay, I got a lot more
where this came from, So stick with U Snooze Radio
eleven tin kfab ands there. Here's a fun fact I got.
I was basically like functionally sick the entire time I
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was there. I landed and had like an ear pressure
issue when I landed in the Netherlands, and it just like,
I don't know if you know the signs behind that,
but it just like will gunk up, like your ear
canal all the way into your sinuses, and I just
could not get it figured out. Didn't have the proper medication.
I didn't feel bad. I can still walk around and function,
but I still just had gunk in me right, and
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you're just like trying to blow your nose. I'm having
the same problem now. I mean basically been functionally sick
for almost two weeks now. So anybody who's got any
like ideas have to like resolve this issue, please let
me know before I go buy a time to like
sue a fed or afron or any of that stuff,
and or go to a doctor to see like what
I can do to resolve my issue. It still feels
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like both of my ears haven't popped yet since I landed.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Did you do the old, tried and true pinch of
the nose and fill the tank up?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You know, the valsalva maneuver u salva. Yeah, it's like
it's making progress, but I'm not fully able to like
complete the job there. Yeah, so I'm working on that.
That's the best. It's the best I've gotten so far. Right,
steamy showers, they say helps. I haven't taken a good
steamy shower in a couple of days. So maybe it's
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to stand there in the hot water and just see
if that'll help move move me while I do the
valsalva maneuver. I don't know, but email me Emory at
kfab dot com ask me what else I saw, Matt?
What else did you see? I saw a lot of
people that did not care about tourism. They were like,
they were very welcoming. Right, you hear all this stuff
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about like people unwilling to like if they get mad
when you don't speak their language, or they get like
visibly frustrated, or they think, like the stigma around American
tourists especially, and they think that you're a jerk. Well
guess what, none of that there. Like, if you don't
speak Dutch, they'll flip you to English real quick. They
have no problem helping you out. I felt so it
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was so easy to communicate with people there, and nobody
was like upset that we were tourists in their city
at all, especially on Kings Day. There's probably a lot
of people who's trying to be tourists on Kings Day
because how big of a party it is. They don't care.
They really welcome you wanting to take part in their customs,
in their rituals. And also big shout out to Chris
Bettini and pub culture Bercations. We're gonna talk a lot
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more about them over now that I've gone on one
of these beercation trips. What a time. He knows everything,
He knows a lot of people. We were popping into
bars and they were saying, hey to him, right, it's
a guy in Omaha. I mean, I felt like, this
guy knows the place and he knows the people that
can help us out, and we'll talk about all the
amazing things as the week goes on. That a beercation
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no matter where you take it. He knows what he's doing.
You know what else I didn't see what road rage?
No road rage.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Which I could see, because when you're in a bicycle.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's just different. It's interesting. There are some really high
congested areas where there's a ton of bikes in the
same place. It's like the Tour de France. It's like,
how are these people not running into each other all
the time? I went on a bike tour and was
riding around some of the busy areas of Amsterdam on
the bike tour, and I'll be honest, I felt a
little bit nervous that, hey, you know, like if I
get a little wobbly here, I'm going to take some
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people out. I didn't, thankfully, but people are patient. There
are people like bikes get the right of way and
then pedestrians. So pedestrians are supposed to look out for
the bikes first, but even if they were like close calls,
people are generally looking to avoid the collision and then
don't get mad about it. You know. You know how
many times I saw something like in the bike lane
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or with a vehicle that got stuck behind some stuff,
and you know what, I'm saying, like all those different
things that would really upset us, Like, imagine a truck
got this happened to me on my drive into work
this afternoon. A truck trying to like back into a
pretty thin driveway, like a truck with a trailer to
do like some tree work or something, and it's just
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blocking the entire road. And you're like, brother, come on,
are you serious? You're you're you're slowing me down on
my way to work. The Netherlands, it's not a problem.
They're patient, they relax, don't have any issue, And you
want to know something else, It's like, man, they're fairly
healthy people. They ride their bikes everywhere. They're a lot
more patient than we are in our culture. What can
we take from this? What can I personally learn from this? Yeah,
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but what if I like funnel cake and yelling at people? Now,
see if you like the yelling at people part, I mean,
knock yourself out. There are places in this country. I
mean I've seen plenty of road it's here in Omaha.
But you want to know something, I'd be seeing fingers,
people yelling at each other, a lot of heat, a
lot of testosterone out there.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Didn't see it? Yeah, but they think they are the
optics of that. Think of the think of a Dutchman,
a six foot four, strapping young Dutchman sitting on his bicycle.
What is he honking his honky horn? Like, what's he
gonna do? He's gonna look ridiculous if he gets upset.
I mean, that's a good point. But they have bells.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
They all have bells by the way, and you hear
the bell a lot, you know, like, hey, I'm coming
behind you. Hey, get out of the way. Hey, I'm
going fast to you. I'll let you know that I'm
behind you, because you know, when you see the bikers
out here. And again, I don't think this is bad
because the bikers in America, you're basically sharing the road
with the vehicle. Straight up, there's not a lot of
protected bike lanes when you're going from to and fro.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
These were like protected bike lanes with like curbs and
stuff in the Netherlands, right, So like the bikes they
didn't have to worry about. You want to know what
I didn't see? How well I guess the percentage of
people wearing helmets out there. Oh it's all love about
twelve percent, not even wow, like five, maybe nobody's wearing helmets.
But you want to know something else, these are nice bikes.
They're not outfitting them with like the little rear view
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mirrors or anything like that. They're just they're just nice bikes.
And it's pretty simplistic, and nobody's wearing helmets. I don't know, man,
it was just it was quite interesting. I found it
to be pretty fascinating in and of itself that people
weren't going out of their way to protect their their noggins.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But I don't know, man, it was a lot of fun. Well,
they're not protecting their lungs either, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Well yeah, But at the same time, I mean, it's
just like you can make the argument that a lot
of that stuff, I mean, that's how bad is that
for you versus some of the food we eat. Haven't
We had that conversation the last decade or two about,
you know, some of the stuff that we're putting in
our bodies with, you know, soda and grease and fast
food and all that stuff. The fast food over there's
not even close to the same. The menu is so different,
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The amount of ingredients in this stuff is so different.
It's crazy what we do in this country versus what
I see in those countries like Spain was the same way.
I just like there's just a completely different environment in
their fast food joints.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
They don't even have a Casey's Pizza.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No, not something that we export there.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
That'd be augh, that'd be a tough time for me. Yeah,
I'm about three to four times a week at case Pizza.
I'd like to know how much caloric intake that is
versus you know, some of the stuff that you could
eat and fill you out pretty good. Not to say
that Casy pizza isn't good, but I think your calories
can go a little bit further otherwise. Hey, if you
want to talk to me about this, you can four
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two five five eight eleven ten. I'll take your questions
or if you've got comments or something. After eleven days
in the Netherlands, I feel like i'm I'm I have
some opinions and I have some thoughts, and I was
really impressed.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I had a lot of great times. So we'll talk
to you four h two five five, eight eleven ten
on News Radio eleven ten KFA B and Rays Songer.
Mark is on the line. Mark, Welcome to the show Today.
What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Hey, A couple of things. First, somebody there saying they
have this road rage in their brain. I guess all
the time, and or at least now and then. And
that's the beauty of the Netherlands and Dutch and most
of the European Union countries. They have universal health care
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that supplies you with mental health support. So if that
person lived over there, he could go in and get
counseling and work through his issues that he has with
I don't know, his dad or somebody and get rid
of that rage.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, Mark, I didn't really think about it like that.
There is I suppose a peace of mind because things
are a bit more socialist in those European countries, that's
for sure, and just people just generally seem to be
a little bit more patient. Because the more I sat
there and watched, the more I was thinking to myself,
you know what, it really wouldn't have made anything better
for them to yell at each other. If they almost
took each other out like that, you know, like, it
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wouldn't be exactly, wouldn't move you faster, It wouldn't make
anything better. It would just slow ever ready down and
probably create more problems. So I don't know why we're
like the way that we are and they're like the
way that they are. But there is quite a bit
of a fundamental difference there, Mark, I appreciate the call today.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
He tell me the truth. When somebody's yelling at you
and you're in a car and you're blocking them, do
you kind of slow down?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh oh oh, Mark, I've done that a lot. I mean,
there was one time where there was a girl this
is like almost ten years ago now, but she cut
me off. I don't think she knew I was there,
but she cut me off, and I wanted her to
know that she cut me off. So I honked my
horn a lot, and then I tailgated her. When I
had a chance to pass her, I passed her, and
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then I cut her off. And then every time she
tried to pass me and I was going slow. After that,
every time she tried to pass me, I would block her.
I mean it was really immature and incredibly dangerous. I
wouldn't recommend doing it, but yeah, I mean, it's just
our society, I suppose is we want to let people
know that we're mad, and if somebody else is mad,
at us. We want to tell them that, hey, screw you, pal.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right, Well, sure, you know, if you go back to Spain,
for one hundred dollars a month, you can buy into
their universal healthcare program and it's it's cheaper than Medicare
advantage payments that you get taken out of your your
Social Security check every month.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
One hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
That's pretty crazy. Hey, Mark, appreciate the call man, Thanks
for listening. Hey, thanks all right, Justin's on our phone
line at four two, five five eight eleven ten. Justin,
Welcome to tenth Sorry, welcome to eleven ten KFAB that's
the station I'm on. What's going on today?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
So I was just kind of curious. We're talking about
the food and how the healthier ingredients you know, that
they have in their basically you know, I'm not putting
a lot of the stuff in like we do. How
did the food taste too terribly?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean, yeah, well, I Justin, I got to be
one hundred percent of the front. I am not of
big foody, so I'm not going to be like a
connoisseur of something where I was just like, oh yeah,
let me let me taste the h the the on
the sweet spot of my tongue and then like inhale
the aromas of this, you know. And I was in
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like beer pairing, like like they did like with with
beer the pub culture beercasions. We had a few different
beer paired dinners, which was really cool because somebody told
you kind of how to eat some of this stuff.
Was interesting the way that I had. We had a
couple of raw meat dishes. I can't exactly remember what
they were called, but it tasted great. I mean, it
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tasted fine, and I guess I was a little bit
more experimental with my taste. I wouldn't have tried a
lot of that stuff, including some of the darker, heavier,
stronger beers that we were given, but it tasted fine
to me. I mean it was stuff that if it
was available in restaurants here, I would totally think about
eating it. But I'm probably a bad guy to ask
because I'm I don't have like the professional opinions about
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food tastings. I mean, until I really cared about my
you know, health, until the last couple of years, i'd
go to McDonalds at least once a week, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's fair. I was just kind of
curious once you started talking about the food, and you know,
well I obviously believe that our food should be healthier,
so you know, and that's that goes for personal responsibility
as well.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, but I was just.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Kind of curious on what what what it was like.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So thank you, Yeah, no problem, justin I appreciate the
call today. I wish it could be a more help
for you. Yeah. I just if I had a stronger
opinion on food, I probably would have been more help
on that question. I just it was it tasted good.
I don't really know what else to say. The one
weird thing was with like French fries and a lot
of the French fries really good. They're handcut. But you
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know what they served with your French fries over there?
What like it was like mayonnaise. Oh I've heard about that.
It's not ketchup, as man it you can ask for ketchup,
but it felt weird asking for ketchup all at the times,
like stupid Americans. Was that did it tastes like me
as Yeah? But it actually it was. It wasn't bad
like if you got past like the consistency is the
same as you know, I don't know. I don't know,
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it's just weird. I just like to taste the ketchup.
I guess John's on our phone line at four O
two five five eight eleven ten. John, Welcome into eleven
tin kfab. What's up?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I was waiting for slow afternoon to get a hold
of you guys. This weekend. I heard that Trump just
outlawed the first Kim trails. And I have always heard
of Kim trails. I've never heard of any reason for
them to exist. I never knew exactly what they were.
(23:38):
But it sounds like Trump's going to get rid of
Do you guys know anything.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
About him, I mean about Kim trails or about him
getting rid of.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Them, about Kim trails and why he would want to
get rid of them. Yes, we've had him for fifty years,
and uh yeah. It's like it's like.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The condensation off the off the back of jets that
are in the sky, right, That's that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Well, that's that's jet exhaust. But camtrails is something different,
and but nobody seems to know what they are, exactly
why they exist, and why we allow them to exist
if they're bad. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, well, I guess I'd have to do more research
on this, John, I guess I wasn't prepared to talk
about it too much today, But I'll look into it.
I know. I see in the news now that I've
googled it, that they're saying that they're going to try
to I don't know, outlaw them somehow. But yeah, I'm
just I just don't I just don't know enough about it, John,
to be honest, I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Just trying to forgure out why they're going out long
we've got it forever.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, it's a good question. I don't know. I'll try
to do some digging on that though, Bud. Thanks for
the call, Okay, all right, thanks, yeah again, Emery, no help.
What am I going to do with myself? Just a
big loser? You're supposed to say, No, you're not. That
was your cue. Oh take it easy over there. Scott's
on a phone line in four h two, five, five,
eight eleven, ten, Hey, Scott, what's up?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I was listening to your great show here and I
have been over to the Netherlands to all in there
and traveled around and it is truly a great place
to visit. I would make one observation on you were
talking about how the people were so passive. They were
passive enough though, to allow all the Jews to be
rounded up and taken prisoners.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, well, Scott, all will be honest, I learned a
lot about like World War two is history. I mean,
they got bombed like once in one city and immediately
waved the white flag and just let the Nazis come
into their their country. I mean, they were they were
so passive they opened the door at that point. They
were like, please don't hurt us, and they're actually Scott,
which is interesting. I can't remember exactly what they called it.
(25:47):
But there are these little gold plated like bricks almost
in front of some of the houses around some of
the cities, and they have the names of the people,
the Jewish people that were taken from their homes and
putting concentration camps there like as a commemoration of those
those people. It's pretty heavy stuff. And obviously in Amsterdam
is where Anne Frank lived and I know that many
(26:07):
people are familiar with her. But you're right, You're right, Scott.
I mean the Netherlands, just like they they just got
the heck out of the way. They just told the
Nazis please don't hurt us because they felt like they
were they had no chance against them.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
And the Americans sacrificed many, many people. Y'r World War
two and we saved Europe.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But no doubt, no doubt, Scott.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
But I do like the I do like I do.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Like the people, but I love Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
The two cultures were human. But we have different ideals too.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Oh yeah for sure, just like I mean people all
over the world have different ideals. Hey, Scott, I appreciate
the call, buddy, thanks for listening. If you want to
call in, you want to talk to me about something
related to my trip the Netherlands, or related to the
fact that I can't get my ears to pop, or
really just anything on your mind in regards to that,
please feel free to call us at four h two
five five eight eleven ten. You're listening to the news
radio eleven ten kfab and raised songer on news radio
(27:04):
eleven ten KFAB, John is on the line. Welcome in, John,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Huh yeah, I am ringo. Welcome back. Thanks. I was
in Europe in about fifty years ago, in nineteen seventy
three and a couple of the cities I was in,
whether it was Munich or Salzburg. I was in Salzburg
for two months, and the thing I noticed about riding
(27:32):
the buses was even back then now it's just fifty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
That.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
When elderly people or even middle aged people got off
on the buses in Europe, you it was almost a
competition with the teenagers to get up and offers that
adult seat. But in America, I noticed that the teenagers
(28:01):
back then, and I'd probably be guilty of it too,
they just were nonchalant. You you might see a middle
aged man get up and offer an elderly woman a
seat in America if their buses were crowded, But in
Munich or in Salzburg, the teenagers, it was just their
(28:24):
culture is different. They were like a shot just to
off the seas.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, I didn't I didn't see a lot of that firsthand, John,
But when I was in Spain it definitely was a thing,
because we wrote My wife and I rode the subway
a ton when we were there. That was absolutely a thing.
If a woman that was like even a little bit
older than someone was there. Even I saw younger women
standing up for them to allow them to sit down.
So I mean, there's just there is a little bit
(28:51):
more appreciation. This is the one thing this might be
controversial because I know people have various thoughts about public transportation,
and America is not around an infrastructure for public transportation
outside of the major cities obviously, But there's a sense
of community, like there is a sense that we're all
kind of in this together a bit more in those
cities that I've been to, including the Amsterdams and the Madrids,
(29:14):
these really large cities, because people are seeing each other
and using these things that the city or the country
has provided for them so they can get around, and
when we're driving in our cars, we're just kind of
like these individuals that are just kind of existing around
each other. When you're taking the bus, or you're taking
the straight the tram or the streetcar, or you're taking
(29:36):
the subway or you're taking the high speed rail that
they have in Europe, it just feels like you're a
part of something bigger than yourself and you're seeing a
lot more people and interacting with more people. There's a
sense of community there that I think we just don't
have here, and I wonder what the like, what we
could do to strike a happy medium. I know a
streetcar itself isn't going to fix that problem here in Omaha,
(29:58):
but it just felt like people can about each other
a little bit more there. I don't know, Maybe it may.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
It's a slower pace of life there. At least it
was fifty years ago because I when I was in Salzburg,
I was studying German, and but I took a tram,
well light rail, which was not embedded in the streets.
The rails from I embedded in the streets. They were
parallel to the streets. So I took a light rail
(30:25):
to ride a bus, to walk a kilometer class. It
was just a slower pace of life. But that's maybe
also why there's more patient there.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, and would explain it to be honest with you, John, Hey,
I really appreciate the call, buddy things to listen to
our show.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You bet all.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Right, first hour of the books. Crazy to believe it's
already down. Having a lot of fun chatting with you though,
and we'll keep this going as long as you'd like.
I got some news and Trump related things that we
can get to a little bit later, but I'm back
after almost two weeks in Europe. If you'd like to
be a part of the show, four two five five
eight to eleven ten is the phone number I'd love
to chat with you today. Four oh two five five
(31:01):
eight eleven ten. You can also email me Emory at
kfab dot com. That's another easy way for you to
get a hold of me. And uh yeah, another thousand
dollars key, We're going to be coming up as well,
and this is a lot more fun in general. Thanks
for listening to us here on news Radio eleven ten.
Kfab
I want to make sure everyone understands this. I love
to travel. Should we start with that or should we
do something else? Do people want to hear about this?
Like go, should I talk about my trip first? Or
I don't know. I'm always so weird about this because like,
what is me talking about my trip? You know what,
I'm just going to do it. Screw it, it's my show.
I haven't talked I haven't talked to you people for
like eight days, so that the news is going to
(00:21):
be there for a half hour from now or whatever?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I was in the Netherlands. I went flew to the Netherlands.
Landed last not last Thursday, two thursdays ago. I went
to I spent a day in Aukmar, which is a
smaller place. It's about one hundred thousand people, went and
saw a division the top division Dutch football match or
soccer as we would know it. I spent four days
(00:47):
in the Netherlands or in Amsterdam, sorry Amsterdam, for King's Day,
which is the big party around the entire country, which
landed on a Saturday. It was absolutely insane. And then
spent a couple of days in which is the big
university town in the middle of the Netherlands and then
spend two more days in Harlem, which is kind of
a how do I put this, It's like the have
(01:09):
you ever been to Chicago? I have the Chicago area?
Are you familiar with Chicago geography? Fairly enough? Harlem kind
of reminds me of like the Arlington Heights of Chicago. Okay,
it's far enough away from Amsterdam that you feel far
enough away, but it's really right there. It's like fifteen
twenty minutes away. Anyway, I bring all this up because
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that's what I did. And if you want to see
some of the stuff that I got the chance to
do and some of the stuff that I saw, you
should check out my Facebook page Jimmery song or Radio.
You'll be able to see pictures and videos and whatnot,
which is easiest way. Ask me what else I saw?
What else did you see? In the Netherlands. I saw
a lot of bikes. They are biking people Amsterdam. Roughly
(01:51):
seven hundred and fifty thousand people live in Amsterdam. They
have over a million bikes that are registered in the city. Wow,
there's just a ton of bikes, Like people have more
multiple bikes. Guess what I didn't see a lot of cars.
Oh okay, not a lot of cars. Cars are kind
of in the way more often than not. When you're
in the Netherlands, everybody's riding bikes or walking from A
(02:12):
to B. A lot of public transportation there. They have
the canals, a lot of people in boats. But if
you're going from pointing to point b in town, people
riding bikes. Protected bike lanes pretty much everywhere. Bikes have
the ride of way, even over a lot of the
pedestrians in a lot of places. You want to know
what else I've seen? What else did you see? Great weather?
(02:32):
It was like so non European, like you're talking about
great weather here. It's great weather there, but like sixty
five degrees there feels like eighty almost. You know why,
cause you're a little bit more north. I was like
in line, like I was north of where Winnipeg is
on latitude wise based on like like you know the map,
Like you know how the map works, well, latitude, we
(02:53):
are on a certain line and if you drew this line,
it would go all the way across and be closer
to like where the Spain in Italy area. So when
I was in Spain, it was pretty much the exact
same line when you're in like Amsterdam. Amsterdam is basically
above like it's more north than Winnipeg, Manitoba is if
you can picture where that is. Okay, So I mean
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you're really north because of the and then on top
of that though the way the earth kind of tilts,
and there's not a lot of green spaces in a
lot of these places. Now I say that because green
space they have canals, like legitimate canals, and they are
masters of trying to understand like water levels. There aren't
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houses with yards. Usually you're not seeing like a lot
of traditional stuff. It's a lot of stone. It's a
lot of brick. When you're sitting in a restaurant in
the middle of town and you got bright sunny skies
and it's like it says, it's like sixty five seventy degrees.
Not only does it feel warmer based on the tilt
of the sun and kind of like or tilt of
the earth towards the sun and how north you are,
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but not only does it get that warm, but it
like heats, it like incubates the heat because of the
brick and the stone that's all over the streets and
all over the buildings. So if you're in like a
wide open area, it's like standing on blacktop here right,
Like when it's a ninety degree day, you know where
you don't want to be standing in the middle of
a like cementer or black top area that's just going
to absorb more heat. Kind Of felt like that when
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you were in the Netherlands in some places, guess what
else I didn't see? What else did you not see?
Large people? Oh? Sure, like wide people. Like there's tall
people in the Netherlands. A lot of Dutch people are tall.
Name one tall Dutch person, you know? Come on, you
got this? Uh, come on, Indiana Pacers. Oh, Rick Smiths, Yes, yeah,
(04:45):
Ricky Smiths, you did let me down. I'm glad. I'm glad.
I I'm glad I asked no floppy hair. Rick Smith's
I'm glad that you got that. It makes me happy anyway.
Rick Smith's, Yeah, a lot of not I didn't see
a lot of seven four heights, but I saw like
the average Dutch guy. You know, he's taller than I am.
You and me are about the same height. These guys
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are taller than us, all right, you know what, They're
not fatter than us as a general society as a whole. Right,
I don't want this to sound offensive. Please stop me,
Matt if I start sounding like I'm getting offensive. Okay,
But they're biking everywhere, They're walking a bunch of places.
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There's not a lot of cars. They're using public transportation.
They have different rules about the food that they use,
which RFK Junior has been very adamant to point out
since he's taken over as the director of the Health
and Human Services in this country. How do I put this,
They're just way healthier than us. They care about their
bodies a lot more. They're just a healthier people than
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we are. And this is a country and a culture
there a tobacco use is rampant. I mean, you know,
you think Europe, there's a lot of smoking that goes on.
There's a lot of smoking of others things just going
on in the Netherlands. Want to know something else, didn't
notice that very much. Really didn't notice it more there
than I did anywhere else in America. Even now, if
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you went to the red light district at the right
time of day, you probably would have found a little
bit more adventure on that.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
But cutting down on the SIGs over there. Oh no, oh,
you're talking about the Oh, I'm talking about the reef. Right,
you're talking about the man did somebody run over a skunk?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, that stuff. There's some of it. I'm not gonna
lie to you. There's some of it. But there's this stigma.
I think with Amsterdam that there's this crazy, huge drug
party city, the red light district might be true. I
didn't notice anything that different. Now, as in European country,
the smoking like tobacco products is just kind of a culture.
They don't do it for the vanity, right, They don't
(06:45):
do it because it looks cool. They do it for
the love of the game.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That is an unhealthy thing that European countries do way
more than us. You know what, I didn't see a
whole lot of fat people. So you tell me what
the heck's going on there?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well, you're riding bicycles, you're smoking SIGs, you're gonna stay
pretty skinny.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I guess I don't. I don't know if that's the
homeless population around these parts. What's funny is you know
what else they didn't see much of, huh, homeless people. Ah,
you know why? Because people are squatting there like crazy.
Oh really, if there's an abandoned building, squatters take it over.
And because of the way the Dutch laws a written,
it is a heck of a legal fight to get
them out because the like I mean, this goes back
(07:25):
decades and decades, So squatters can take over buildings pretty
easily when they're abandoned, and there's just no good legal
way to get them out. Think about that for a second. Really,
So they don't really have a lot of homeless people
around the streets, but they definitely have a different problem.
If you think squatting's a problem, they're not squatting on
properties people own, but they're squatting properties that are empty.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
And squatting's a problem for me older, I get the
harder it is on my knees.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, those squat the squat guards on your knees the
catcher's wearing these days in high school ball.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
That can help.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Hey, you want to know what else? They didn't see
a lot of tweaking, tweaking, tweaking like people spazing out.
Yeah all right, like heavy drugs, like I'm talking. Didn't
see it, didn't see it, Okay, didn't see it. So
they they smoke a lot, but they ride bikes, they
walk all over the place, they eat healthier food, they're
not fat. I didn't notice drug use really at all,
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except for every once in a while you'd come across
the old you know, somebody enjoying themselves a jay or something.
But I wasn't as it wasn't any more prevalent than
when I'm walking in Chicago, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
So I don't know, And I know that we've created
our society a lot differently than they've created theirs. They
(08:39):
have the canals, they have you know, streets are just
not it's not great to be driving. It just isn't
great for driving. But man, they got trams slash street
cars that you can use that are super easy. They
have the subway system in Amsterdam, the super easy. They
have high speed train that goes in between the major
cities of the Netherlands. And again it's a smaller place,
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the Netherlands. If the Netherlands was the fifty first state,
how large would it be, like? What ranking do you
think it would have in terms of land like area,
land mass, land water area that is called it. I
haven't looked at a map with Netherlands on it in
some time. So without doing that to cheat, I'll stay
(09:21):
somewhere in the middle. It is actually much smaller. It
is like forty third It would be like the forty
third largest state. It is a small place, but it
has all of this infrastructure for easy access to all
of the different towns in the Netherlands, and everybody is
using public transportation or riding their bikes from point A
to point B. People were picking their kids up from
school in like bikes. They had a bike, and then
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then it'd be like a basket in the front of
the bike, but not like a basket like we would know,
like a tourist basket like on our bikes that you
can rent. It's like a wheelbarrow almost, that's in between
the seat and the front wheel. Oh, they have very
interesting bikes there, but everybody has a bike.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I wonder why they do it that way. I guess
it's people like smaller because if you do the whole
thing in the back, you know that you take along
as almost like a trailer that that someone can get
into that's much larger and probably harder to navigate with.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
In the city. Correct, it's the opposite there the way
that they carry things. Interesting, there were people doing deliveries
with the same type of thing right in bikes around town.
Yeah that makes sense. Okay, I got a lot more
where this came from, So stick with U Snooze Radio
eleven tin kfab ands there. Here's a fun fact I got.
I was basically like functionally sick the entire time I
(10:32):
was there. I landed and had like an ear pressure
issue when I landed in the Netherlands, and it just like,
I don't know if you know the signs behind that,
but it just like will gunk up, like your ear
canal all the way into your sinuses, and I just
could not get it figured out. Didn't have the proper medication.
I didn't feel bad. I can still walk around and function,
but I still just had gunk in me right, and
(10:52):
you're just like trying to blow your nose. I'm having
the same problem now. I mean basically been functionally sick
for almost two weeks now. So anybody who's got any
like ideas have to like resolve this issue, please let
me know before I go buy a time to like
sue a fed or afron or any of that stuff,
and or go to a doctor to see like what
I can do to resolve my issue. It still feels
(11:15):
like both of my ears haven't popped yet since I landed.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Did you do the old, tried and true pinch of
the nose and fill the tank up?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You know, the valsalva maneuver u salva. Yeah, it's like
it's making progress, but I'm not fully able to like
complete the job there. Yeah, so I'm working on that.
That's the best. It's the best I've gotten so far. Right,
steamy showers, they say helps. I haven't taken a good
steamy shower in a couple of days. So maybe it's
(11:44):
to stand there in the hot water and just see
if that'll help move move me while I do the
valsalva maneuver. I don't know, but email me Emory at
kfab dot com ask me what else I saw, Matt?
What else did you see? I saw a lot of
people that did not care about tourism. They were like,
they were very welcoming. Right, you hear all this stuff
(12:05):
about like people unwilling to like if they get mad
when you don't speak their language, or they get like
visibly frustrated, or they think, like the stigma around American
tourists especially, and they think that you're a jerk. Well
guess what, none of that there. Like, if you don't
speak Dutch, they'll flip you to English real quick. They
have no problem helping you out. I felt so it
(12:27):
was so easy to communicate with people there, and nobody
was like upset that we were tourists in their city
at all, especially on Kings Day. There's probably a lot
of people who's trying to be tourists on Kings Day
because how big of a party it is. They don't care.
They really welcome you wanting to take part in their customs,
in their rituals. And also big shout out to Chris
Bettini and pub culture Bercations. We're gonna talk a lot
(12:49):
more about them over now that I've gone on one
of these beercation trips. What a time. He knows everything,
He knows a lot of people. We were popping into
bars and they were saying, hey to him, right, it's
a guy in Omaha. I mean, I felt like, this
guy knows the place and he knows the people that
can help us out, and we'll talk about all the
amazing things as the week goes on. That a beercation
(13:11):
no matter where you take it. He knows what he's doing.
You know what else I didn't see what road rage?
No road rage.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Which I could see, because when you're in a bicycle.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's just different. It's interesting. There are some really high
congested areas where there's a ton of bikes in the
same place. It's like the Tour de France. It's like,
how are these people not running into each other all
the time? I went on a bike tour and was
riding around some of the busy areas of Amsterdam on
the bike tour, and I'll be honest, I felt a
little bit nervous that, hey, you know, like if I
get a little wobbly here, I'm going to take some
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people out. I didn't, thankfully, but people are patient. There
are people like bikes get the right of way and
then pedestrians. So pedestrians are supposed to look out for
the bikes first, but even if they were like close calls,
people are generally looking to avoid the collision and then
don't get mad about it. You know. You know how
many times I saw something like in the bike lane
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or with a vehicle that got stuck behind some stuff,
and you know what, I'm saying, like all those different
things that would really upset us, Like, imagine a truck
got this happened to me on my drive into work
this afternoon. A truck trying to like back into a
pretty thin driveway, like a truck with a trailer to
do like some tree work or something, and it's just
(14:28):
blocking the entire road. And you're like, brother, come on,
are you serious? You're you're you're slowing me down on
my way to work. The Netherlands, it's not a problem.
They're patient, they relax, don't have any issue, And you
want to know something else, It's like, man, they're fairly
healthy people. They ride their bikes everywhere. They're a lot
more patient than we are in our culture. What can
we take from this? What can I personally learn from this? Yeah,
(14:50):
but what if I like funnel cake and yelling at people? Now,
see if you like the yelling at people part, I mean,
knock yourself out. There are places in this country. I
mean I've seen plenty of road it's here in Omaha.
But you want to know something, I'd be seeing fingers,
people yelling at each other, a lot of heat, a
lot of testosterone out there.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Didn't see it? Yeah, but they think they are the
optics of that. Think of the think of a Dutchman,
a six foot four, strapping young Dutchman sitting on his bicycle.
What is he honking his honky horn? Like, what's he
gonna do? He's gonna look ridiculous if he gets upset.
I mean, that's a good point. But they have bells.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
They all have bells by the way, and you hear
the bell a lot, you know, like, hey, I'm coming
behind you. Hey, get out of the way. Hey, I'm
going fast to you. I'll let you know that I'm
behind you, because you know, when you see the bikers
out here. And again, I don't think this is bad
because the bikers in America, you're basically sharing the road
with the vehicle. Straight up, there's not a lot of
protected bike lanes when you're going from to and fro.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
These were like protected bike lanes with like curbs and
stuff in the Netherlands, right, So like the bikes they
didn't have to worry about. You want to know what
I didn't see? How well I guess the percentage of
people wearing helmets out there. Oh it's all love about
twelve percent, not even wow, like five, maybe nobody's wearing helmets.
But you want to know something else, these are nice bikes.
They're not outfitting them with like the little rear view
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mirrors or anything like that. They're just they're just nice bikes.
And it's pretty simplistic, and nobody's wearing helmets. I don't know, man,
it was just it was quite interesting. I found it
to be pretty fascinating in and of itself that people
weren't going out of their way to protect their their noggins.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
But I don't know, man, it was a lot of fun. Well,
they're not protecting their lungs either, you know.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Well yeah, But at the same time, I mean, it's
just like you can make the argument that a lot
of that stuff, I mean, that's how bad is that
for you versus some of the food we eat. Haven't
We had that conversation the last decade or two about,
you know, some of the stuff that we're putting in
our bodies with, you know, soda and grease and fast
food and all that stuff. The fast food over there's
not even close to the same. The menu is so different,
(16:56):
The amount of ingredients in this stuff is so different.
It's crazy what we do in this country versus what
I see in those countries like Spain was the same way.
I just like there's just a completely different environment in
their fast food joints.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
They don't even have a Casey's Pizza.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No, not something that we export there.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
That'd be augh, that'd be a tough time for me. Yeah,
I'm about three to four times a week at case Pizza.
I'd like to know how much caloric intake that is
versus you know, some of the stuff that you could
eat and fill you out pretty good. Not to say
that Casy pizza isn't good, but I think your calories
can go a little bit further otherwise. Hey, if you
want to talk to me about this, you can four
(17:33):
two five five eight eleven ten. I'll take your questions
or if you've got comments or something. After eleven days
in the Netherlands, I feel like i'm I'm I have
some opinions and I have some thoughts, and I was
really impressed.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I had a lot of great times. So we'll talk
to you four h two five five, eight eleven ten
on News Radio eleven ten KFA B and Rays Songer.
Mark is on the line. Mark, Welcome to the show Today.
What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Hey, A couple of things. First, somebody there saying they
have this road rage in their brain. I guess all
the time, and or at least now and then. And
that's the beauty of the Netherlands and Dutch and most
of the European Union countries. They have universal health care
(18:17):
that supplies you with mental health support. So if that
person lived over there, he could go in and get
counseling and work through his issues that he has with
I don't know, his dad or somebody and get rid
of that rage.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah, Mark, I didn't really think about it like that.
There is I suppose a peace of mind because things
are a bit more socialist in those European countries, that's
for sure, and just people just generally seem to be
a little bit more patient. Because the more I sat
there and watched, the more I was thinking to myself,
you know what, it really wouldn't have made anything better
for them to yell at each other. If they almost
took each other out like that, you know, like, it
(18:55):
wouldn't be exactly, wouldn't move you faster, It wouldn't make
anything better. It would just slow ever ready down and
probably create more problems. So I don't know why we're
like the way that we are and they're like the
way that they are. But there is quite a bit
of a fundamental difference there, Mark, I appreciate the call today.
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
He tell me the truth. When somebody's yelling at you
and you're in a car and you're blocking them, do
you kind of slow down?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Oh oh oh, Mark, I've done that a lot. I mean,
there was one time where there was a girl this
is like almost ten years ago now, but she cut
me off. I don't think she knew I was there,
but she cut me off, and I wanted her to
know that she cut me off. So I honked my
horn a lot, and then I tailgated her. When I
had a chance to pass her, I passed her, and
(19:40):
then I cut her off. And then every time she
tried to pass me and I was going slow. After that,
every time she tried to pass me, I would block her.
I mean it was really immature and incredibly dangerous. I
wouldn't recommend doing it, but yeah, I mean, it's just
our society, I suppose is we want to let people
know that we're mad, and if somebody else is mad,
at us. We want to tell them that, hey, screw you, pal.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Right, Well, sure, you know, if you go back to Spain,
for one hundred dollars a month, you can buy into
their universal healthcare program and it's it's cheaper than Medicare
advantage payments that you get taken out of your your
Social Security check every month.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
One hundred bucks.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
That's pretty crazy. Hey, Mark, appreciate the call man, Thanks
for listening. Hey, thanks all right, Justin's on our phone
line at four two, five five eight eleven ten. Justin,
Welcome to tenth Sorry, welcome to eleven ten KFAB that's
the station I'm on. What's going on today?
Speaker 6 (20:34):
So I was just kind of curious. We're talking about
the food and how the healthier ingredients you know, that
they have in their basically you know, I'm not putting
a lot of the stuff in like we do. How
did the food taste too terribly?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I mean, yeah, well, I Justin, I got to be
one hundred percent of the front. I am not of
big foody, so I'm not going to be like a
connoisseur of something where I was just like, oh yeah,
let me let me taste the h the the on
the sweet spot of my tongue and then like inhale
the aromas of this, you know. And I was in
(21:11):
like beer pairing, like like they did like with with
beer the pub culture beercasions. We had a few different
beer paired dinners, which was really cool because somebody told
you kind of how to eat some of this stuff.
Was interesting the way that I had. We had a
couple of raw meat dishes. I can't exactly remember what
they were called, but it tasted great. I mean, it
(21:31):
tasted fine, and I guess I was a little bit
more experimental with my taste. I wouldn't have tried a
lot of that stuff, including some of the darker, heavier,
stronger beers that we were given, but it tasted fine
to me. I mean it was stuff that if it
was available in restaurants here, I would totally think about
eating it. But I'm probably a bad guy to ask
because I'm I don't have like the professional opinions about
(21:56):
food tastings. I mean, until I really cared about my
you know, health, until the last couple of years, i'd
go to McDonalds at least once a week, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's fair. I was just kind of
curious once you started talking about the food, and you know,
well I obviously believe that our food should be healthier,
so you know, and that's that goes for personal responsibility
as well.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, but I was just.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Kind of curious on what what what it was like.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So thank you, Yeah, no problem, justin I appreciate the
call today. I wish it could be a more help
for you. Yeah. I just if I had a stronger
opinion on food, I probably would have been more help
on that question. I just it was it tasted good.
I don't really know what else to say. The one
weird thing was with like French fries and a lot
of the French fries really good. They're handcut. But you
(22:47):
know what they served with your French fries over there?
What like it was like mayonnaise. Oh I've heard about that.
It's not ketchup, as man it you can ask for ketchup,
but it felt weird asking for ketchup all at the times,
like stupid Americans. Was that did it tastes like me
as Yeah? But it actually it was. It wasn't bad
like if you got past like the consistency is the
same as you know, I don't know. I don't know,
(23:08):
it's just weird. I just like to taste the ketchup.
I guess John's on our phone line at four O
two five five eight eleven ten. John, Welcome into eleven
tin kfab. What's up?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I was waiting for slow afternoon to get a hold
of you guys. This weekend. I heard that Trump just
outlawed the first Kim trails. And I have always heard
of Kim trails. I've never heard of any reason for
them to exist. I never knew exactly what they were.
(23:38):
But it sounds like Trump's going to get rid of
Do you guys know anything.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
About him, I mean about Kim trails or about him
getting rid of.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Them, about Kim trails and why he would want to
get rid of them. Yes, we've had him for fifty years,
and uh yeah. It's like it's like.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The condensation off the off the back of jets that
are in the sky, right, That's that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Well, that's that's jet exhaust. But camtrails is something different,
and but nobody seems to know what they are, exactly
why they exist, and why we allow them to exist
if they're bad. I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah, well, I guess I'd have to do more research
on this, John, I guess I wasn't prepared to talk
about it too much today, But I'll look into it.
I know. I see in the news now that I've
googled it, that they're saying that they're going to try
to I don't know, outlaw them somehow. But yeah, I'm
just I just don't I just don't know enough about it, John,
to be honest, I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
Just trying to forgure out why they're going out long
we've got it forever.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, it's a good question. I don't know. I'll try
to do some digging on that though, Bud. Thanks for
the call, Okay, all right, thanks, yeah again, Emery, no help.
What am I going to do with myself? Just a
big loser? You're supposed to say, No, you're not. That
was your cue. Oh take it easy over there. Scott's
on a phone line in four h two, five, five,
eight eleven, ten, Hey, Scott, what's up?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I was listening to your great show here and I
have been over to the Netherlands to all in there
and traveled around and it is truly a great place
to visit. I would make one observation on you were
talking about how the people were so passive. They were
passive enough though, to allow all the Jews to be
rounded up and taken prisoners.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, well, Scott, all will be honest, I learned a
lot about like World War two is history. I mean,
they got bombed like once in one city and immediately
waved the white flag and just let the Nazis come
into their their country. I mean, they were they were
so passive they opened the door at that point. They
were like, please don't hurt us, and they're actually Scott,
which is interesting. I can't remember exactly what they called it.
(25:47):
But there are these little gold plated like bricks almost
in front of some of the houses around some of
the cities, and they have the names of the people,
the Jewish people that were taken from their homes and
putting concentration camps there like as a commemoration of those
those people. It's pretty heavy stuff. And obviously in Amsterdam
is where Anne Frank lived and I know that many
(26:07):
people are familiar with her. But you're right, You're right, Scott.
I mean the Netherlands, just like they they just got
the heck out of the way. They just told the
Nazis please don't hurt us because they felt like they
were they had no chance against them.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
And the Americans sacrificed many, many people. Y'r World War
two and we saved Europe.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
But no doubt, no doubt, Scott.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
But I do like the I do like I do.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Like the people, but I love Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
The two cultures were human. But we have different ideals too.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Oh yeah for sure, just like I mean people all
over the world have different ideals. Hey, Scott, I appreciate
the call, buddy, thanks for listening. If you want to
call in, you want to talk to me about something
related to my trip the Netherlands, or related to the
fact that I can't get my ears to pop, or
really just anything on your mind in regards to that,
please feel free to call us at four h two
five five eight eleven ten. You're listening to the news
radio eleven ten kfab and raised songer on news radio
(27:04):
eleven ten KFAB, John is on the line. Welcome in, John,
what's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Huh yeah, I am ringo. Welcome back. Thanks. I was
in Europe in about fifty years ago, in nineteen seventy
three and a couple of the cities I was in,
whether it was Munich or Salzburg. I was in Salzburg
for two months, and the thing I noticed about riding
(27:32):
the buses was even back then now it's just fifty
years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
That.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
When elderly people or even middle aged people got off
on the buses in Europe, you it was almost a
competition with the teenagers to get up and offers that
adult seat. But in America, I noticed that the teenagers
(28:01):
back then, and I'd probably be guilty of it too,
they just were nonchalant. You you might see a middle
aged man get up and offer an elderly woman a
seat in America if their buses were crowded, But in
Munich or in Salzburg, the teenagers, it was just their
(28:24):
culture is different. They were like a shot just to
off the seas.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, I didn't I didn't see a lot of that firsthand, John,
But when I was in Spain it definitely was a thing,
because we wrote My wife and I rode the subway
a ton when we were there. That was absolutely a thing.
If a woman that was like even a little bit
older than someone was there. Even I saw younger women
standing up for them to allow them to sit down.
So I mean, there's just there is a little bit
(28:51):
more appreciation. This is the one thing this might be
controversial because I know people have various thoughts about public transportation,
and America is not around an infrastructure for public transportation
outside of the major cities obviously, But there's a sense
of community, like there is a sense that we're all
kind of in this together a bit more in those
cities that I've been to, including the Amsterdams and the Madrids,
(29:14):
these really large cities, because people are seeing each other
and using these things that the city or the country
has provided for them so they can get around, and
when we're driving in our cars, we're just kind of
like these individuals that are just kind of existing around
each other. When you're taking the bus, or you're taking
the straight the tram or the streetcar, or you're taking
(29:36):
the subway or you're taking the high speed rail that
they have in Europe, it just feels like you're a
part of something bigger than yourself and you're seeing a
lot more people and interacting with more people. There's a
sense of community there that I think we just don't
have here, and I wonder what the like, what we
could do to strike a happy medium. I know a
streetcar itself isn't going to fix that problem here in Omaha,
(29:58):
but it just felt like people can about each other
a little bit more there. I don't know, Maybe it may.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
It's a slower pace of life there. At least it
was fifty years ago because I when I was in Salzburg,
I was studying German, and but I took a tram,
well light rail, which was not embedded in the streets.
The rails from I embedded in the streets. They were
parallel to the streets. So I took a light rail
(30:25):
to ride a bus, to walk a kilometer class. It
was just a slower pace of life. But that's maybe
also why there's more patient there.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, and would explain it to be honest with you, John, Hey,
I really appreciate the call, buddy things to listen to
our show.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
You bet all.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Right, first hour of the books. Crazy to believe it's
already down. Having a lot of fun chatting with you though,
and we'll keep this going as long as you'd like.
I got some news and Trump related things that we
can get to a little bit later, but I'm back
after almost two weeks in Europe. If you'd like to
be a part of the show, four two five five
eight to eleven ten is the phone number I'd love
to chat with you today. Four oh two five five
(31:01):
eight eleven ten. You can also email me Emory at
kfab dot com. That's another easy way for you to
get a hold of me. And uh yeah, another thousand
dollars key, We're going to be coming up as well,
and this is a lot more fun in general. Thanks
for listening to us here on news Radio eleven ten.
Kfab
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