Herschel Lives / Redistricting Dumb / College $$$ / Husker Buzz

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have made it through another weekend and now it
is going to be an excellent week Very excited to
be a part of the action with you today. Scott
vories with me as he always is. I do appreciate it. Scott,
Happy Monday.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm here for the action.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Do you know? Want to know what I did yesterday
besides play golf with you, which I had a lot
of fun. Thank you for the invitation. My only regret
is that I did not play up to the high
standard that you've set, and I'll work on that for
next time.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You hit a lot of really good golf shots which
were balanced out by a lot of really bad golf shots,
which is what all the rest of us did too. Hey,
that's what happens when you play golf. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
What else did you do yesterday? When I went home?
You know, we got dinner. Wife took a good dinner.
I sat down and watched a couple of old movies.
Old Henry Fonda movies on TCM are old movies including
have you heard of Fail Safe?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah? I haven't seen it. I've heard of it.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
So it's a movie from like nineteen sixty four, cold
war like thriller basically and it is something else, and
there's a lot of Omaha in there because off a
Air Force base being kind of the headquarter of the
Air Force.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
He's from here.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh yeah, well he's from Grand Islands closeh yeah, well
either way, yeah no, but he actually is never in
the Omaha part of this, but that's like the headquarters
and to see, you know, nineteen sixty four some of
the technology that they were trying to install in movies.
It's also kind of a play. It really only takes
place in like three different places Washington, DC, in like

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a room way down in the basement where Henry Fonda
is the president and a translator Omaha off at Air
Force Base where like the military guys are. And then
there's this room in Washington that is in the Pentagon
and there's a big summit of like the Secretary of
Defense and some generals and stuff. And I don't want

(02:09):
to tell you what happens because you just really need
to watch the movie. But man, it had me gripped. Yeah,
I do not give I don't watch enough movies like that.
They would never make a movie like that now, but
it was unreal.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm just glad when you said you watched an old movie.
It was a movie that came out before I was born.
My daughter in middle school said, were you on Mondays?
Like one Monday a month we get together for Classic
Film Club. I'm like, oh, that's super cool, that's great.
And I say, wait a second, what classic films are
you watching? And she's like.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Karate Kid and yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I was like, that's our classic movies.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh no, yeah, that's that's tough. That's tough. I don't know,
you know, it's one of those things where I age
is a relative thing. Obviously old is a relative situation,
but you know, you want to know what I think.
I think that we need to watch more classic cinema.
I think we'd be richer as a society if we

(03:11):
paid closer attention to that.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
My idea of a classic movie when I was growing
up was Star Wars. I was like the oldest movie
I would watch with Star Wars, which came out about
the same time I was born. When I got late,
I know, well, I didn't think anything before that was
worth a darn. Why would I watch anything that came
up before Star Wars. Star Wars is the greatest thing
that's ever been. Everything else is now trying to just

(03:35):
keep up to that standard. Anything before that is it
should not be watched. But my wife has since introduced
me to fantastic like oh, like The Thin Man. Have
you ever watched those movies? They are amazing. I love
the Thin Man movies. William Powell Myrna Lloyd greatest duo
in movie history. And I've watched a lot of carry

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Grant movies. You've got Yeah, Charade, north By Northwest, I
love those movies.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Just do me a favor and try to figure out
if you can find Failsafe somewhere, okay, because you will
not regret it. It's it really is a movie of
its time, but it's so well done the way that
was shot. I mean, just really you appreciate the movie,
but it really just keeps you grip the whole time.

(04:24):
I was impressed.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
It's only like TCM that would show older movies like that.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
That movie would never be on TV anyway.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
You would just have to catch it sometime it was on. Meanwhile,
I know no one does this anymore. It's kind of
an antiquated thought, but you'd be flipping channels, or you
would be on the guide part of your TV guide,
the guide, you know, well, you hit guide on your
remote and you go, I'm not I don't mean watch
the channel that had the guide on it, though I
did that too, or you would pull out your copy

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of TV Guide do people still get anyway, So you
got a guide on your remote, and then you're looking
to see what's on right now, and there's always like
two channels like TBS and USA or something TNT. Maybe
that just all they do is NonStop show Harry Potter
and Avengers movies NonStop. And so you're like, well, I

(05:12):
just have fifteen minutes to kill. I'll eat a sandwich
and watch this Avengers movie. And even though it's a
movie you've seen three or four times, you're watching it, going,
I don't remember any of this. Who's that guy?

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, that's the thing with the Avengers movies, in the
Harry Potter movies, there are so many of them you
can kind of forget where you're at in the story
because there's like hours and hours of content. I have
a hard time jumping in with a lot of those
movies because I just I watched all the first phase
of Marvel and all the Avengers movies and everything. You know,
how many films are in that first phase of Marvel.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Thirty.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
It's twenty three, okay, but like on average, they're like two.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Series on the Disney Plus before.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, and so I'm ending it before Disney Plus became
a thing. So this is like right after Avengers Endgame
and and twenty three movies roughly two and a half
hours movie. We're talking over fifty hours of content with
those movies. It's a lot to just be like, oh,
Doctor Strange is on, I'm gonna watch this and then
try to like key in on exactly what's happening, or

(06:17):
you know, an Avengers movie shows up, and it could
be any of like seven or eight movies. So I'm
with you, like, those are fun to just like sit
and just kind of like revisit, but there's no guarantee
you'll even remember where you're at.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, for me, I could watch that second Doctor Strange
movie right now and not be able to tell you anything.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
That happened exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
If I had to surmise, the plot of the second
Doctor Strange movie would probably be the world's about to
end somehow. Doctor Strange is the only one who's there
to do it. I guess the rest of the Avengers
are watching football or something, and Captain Marvel can't be
bothered to come down from outter space. She's like, you
guys got this and what's she right? And Doctor Strange

(06:57):
is like, yeah, I you know, the world's about to end.
This whole thing is kind of fold up inside itself,
and they're like, we don't need to call.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well two movies ago, America or iron Man, Well that's
the thing. Two movies ago, it was like Iron Man
and Captain America about to kill each other and they
had like they picked sides like Red Rover or something,
and then like had an entire movie about trying to
kill each other even though they're on the same team.
So it's kind of like Doctor Stranger is the only
one that is just like, guys, I can kind of
see the future, like we got to do something about
the Standos guy. And then where is Captain Marvel?

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Where's everyone? Where's Thor?

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Captain Marvel, Like, where are you of all the thing? Well, no,
we found out he's getting fat, remember, like he I
do enjoy that.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Rocky three of the Avengers or.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Ragnarok, where you know Thor like is fat and has
like super duper like long hair. And Beard, and it's like, man,
you let yourself go.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Anyway, I think my point was is that you've got
two channels that show the same movies over and over
and over again, when they're all these great movies, like
what's the one you said, fail Safe that someone could watch,
could show once in a while, Throw that on there.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, I'll tell you that this would not be a
popular movie to throw on television. And I will tell
you that that's the only spoiler you're going to get
from me. It is one hundred percent worth a watch.
I can totally see what TV would not want to
play it, But it's nineteen sixty four. Cinema was different
than Henry Fonda is in it. It's a pretty good cast,
the story is unreal. You really just have to watch it.

(08:21):
It's incredible. Now, I don't know where you find a
movie like that. Maybe it's you could rent it on
YouTube or something, but.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
You'd probably pay a couple bucks on Amazon and get
that thrown at your TV.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's gotta be something, but I highly
recommend it's a good way to spend a Sunday night.
Is watching something culturally significant, And yeah I did.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
I watched The Billy Joel Documentary, Part one.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Oh, is that right?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's culturally significant?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I suppose it is.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
It is.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's kind of a jerk.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yeah, I love Billy Joel.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I think I think a lot of people who achieved
his level of success are pretty bunch of jerk.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Billy Joel fan I didn't know. I'm not huge, but
I didn't know a lot of his you know, upbringing
and some of the issues before piano man. So yeah,
that that helps explain some of the alleged jerkitude. I
wouldn't say Billy Joel's a jerk.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't know. I saw of his bandmates. I think
they'd call him a jerk.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
A lot of those most I would say ninety percent
of the guys who are with him today have been
with him since the mid seventies. It's one drummer and
Billy had a little bit of a falling out.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, Liberty was his name.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Less Liberty to veto. But yeah, everyone else is still with.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Him, all right, whatever you say. Two sixteen, I got
Cracker Barrel today. Finally, Caves incided to talk to the
people after their horrendous of out, roll roll out, rollout,
rollout of their new branding, and they have been under
fire from conservative media and from people who hate change

(09:56):
alike over the last four or five days. What did
they say the people of planet Earth? I have it
right in front of me, and I will tell you
about it next on news Radio eleven ten KFA b
Emory's songer, this Cracker Barrel rebranding kind of stole the
attention of the entire nation for a couple of days,
and it didn't stop over the weekend. People are digging
into board members, board members lives, board members backgrounds as

(10:20):
either DEI hires, DEI backgrounds, woke backgrounds. People really are
mad about this new Cracker Barrel logo and what they're
doing to the interiors of these stores. Before I read
a statement which Cracker Bill put on its Instagram today
which I saw on I'm going to read to you
in full. They're not there's a bit of irony in it.

(10:42):
But why don't we care so much about this? This
is a restaurant that was not even on most people's radars.
I mean, people know about Cracker Brel, but it wasn't
like a restaurant that was just overwhelmingly popular. I don't
think it would have been low on the list, I
think of preferred restaurant types. What gives with this reaction?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I think it's similar to what you saw when they
changed up like Aunt Jemima Uncle Ben was another one. Yea,
the mutual of Omaha logo, the chieftain logo, just changing
things either just for the sake of changing them or well,
that's that represents something that's old, whether it was something

(11:31):
that was old. And well we think that this, once
upon a time was racist. Yes, a bunch of white
people got together and said, let's do something that's super
racist as the logo and mantra of our company, will
make it a proud Native American chief. Well, none of
you guys are Native Americans, so it's got to go.
And then some Native American leaders said, but wait a second,

(11:52):
this is like no forever you forgot to ask us. Yeah, yeah,
well no, some of them were saying. Other than those
who were permanently agreed, which comes at all different races
and demos, there were some saying, well, wait a second,
you're this was a proud logo. We didn't think anyone
was mocking it or anything. So now we don't get
to see that anymore. So there were some people who

(12:13):
just like, look, we don't care if it's if it's old,
like classic movies. If it's old, no one needs to
see it or be a part of it. Just get
rid of it. And so there were some people that
responded negatively to that. Some people thought that perhaps they
were trying to change the complete image of a place
that just wanted to have some comfort food and families

(12:34):
over in an attempt to try and get like twenty
something vegans with man buns to come in there and eat,
and they're not going to not with the current menu.
So they were pushing back at what they perceived to
be something like that. Some people just needed something to
complain about because it was the middle of a week.
It's kind of a slow news week, which is never
a bad thing, and this was a good bandwagon to

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get on.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
That last point I think has a lot to do
with this. I feel personally attacked by the vegan man
bun comment. But you know that's okay. You're not a vegan,
that's true, and you don't have a man bun. I'm
about to put one in. I have my hair tie
on my wrists.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Thanks though, Scott, we can we can do something about
all of that.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, we're not doing a thing about it, thank you.
I prefer much. Would we have to raise for a
charity of your choice. Don't do this to me on
the air flattop to get a flattop? You know what?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
All right, Okay, just think about it.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
You could not raise enough money at this stage of
my life.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Sorry, kids, you're gonna continue to start. If Emery wants
to have long.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Hair exactly exactly, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
You can cut my hair short.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, how much money would it take for me to
get you to pierce your eyebrow?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
H five bucks?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Okay, that's not true. I know that's not true. If
I had the piercer right outside and I said, if
we got five dollars committed by somebody on the air
to come in and they would pierce your eyebrow, you'd
be like, all right, I think I'm gonna run and
what I'm gonna run away?

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Now?

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Have you seen the size of this eyebrow? Ian Levy
looks at me and goes, man, you've got some browse.
So now if you're going to try and pierce this,
you know, good luck trying to get through it is
a crust. There's a mantle goes miles deep.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
All right, back to what I would saying, I don't
think this is how I feel. I don't think the
rebrand of this may sound controversial on this radio station.
I do not think the rebrand of Cracker Barrel had
anything to do with woke idealism. I don't think I
had to do with anything DEI or trying to be
welcoming to LGBTQ. Plus, I think it had everything to

(14:32):
do with we are not very popular with twenty five
year olds. How do we become popular with twenty five
year olds? They didn't ask themselves as to whether or
not maybe they could just, I don't know, own their
branding more because twenty five year olds, from what I've noticed,
very well could grow into loving Cracker Barrel by the

(14:52):
time they're thirty thirty five. You know, is it a
sustainable business model to only appeal to thirty five plus
year olds. A lot of companies have. I don't know
why you need the twenty five year olds or the
college kids to be like, oh, let's you know, go
hang out at Cracker Barrel tonight. It's never been that
type of place. So if you're not, if you're willing

(15:15):
to just like own your branding more, maybe spend a
little bit more money like owning your branding, or do
what Wendy's does and just start trolling people on social media.
That's done, Wendy's a lot of good. You know what
you could do, You honestly could just own it, and
I think you would have gotten a lot more positive
attention owning who you were instead of changing who you
are now. And that was I think the biggest thing.

(15:35):
People just don't like change, and you're right, there wasn't
anything else to be mad about at the end of
last week, so we found cracker barrel. It's just a
reality of America these days. We have to find a
cloud to yell at if there isn't one, you know,
if there's not something in front of us making us
yell right now, either way, I think that they are,
you know, crapping their pants over the reaction to this

(15:57):
quite a bit over the last week. They're stock is
down eleven and a half percent. It rebounded a little
bit from where it was just a few days ago,
but really hasn't done anything today to make you think
that it's going to really bounce back. I did tell
you that the stock over the last six months is
up this you know, like back in April they were

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down way further than they are now. I don't know
exactly what garnered the big boost before they decided to
roll out this branding, but things seem to be going
well as far as a publicly traded aspect goes. And
today they decided that they needed to break their five
day silence after they released this logo in this branding,
and they put this little group of messages on their

(16:40):
Instagram accounts. God, I know with bated breath you are
waiting to hear what they had to say. Please a
promise to our guests. If the last few days have
shown us anything, it's how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel.
We're truly grateful for your heartfelt voices. Now before I

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go on, Oddly enough, they have muted comments on this
particular thing, so they really are grateful for your heartfelt voices,
except on this post.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right here is Mayor John Ewing running that page.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Okay, I continue. You've also shown us that we could
have done a better job sharing who we are and
who we'll always be. What has not changed and what
will never change are the values this company was built
on when Cracker Barrel first opened in nineteen sixty nine.
Hard work, family and scratch cooked food made with care.
A place where everyone feels at home, no matter where

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you're from or where you're headed. That's the Cracker Barrel.
You'll always find. The things people love most about our
stores aren't going anywhere. Rocking chairs on the porch, a
warm fire in the hearth, peg games on the table,
unique treasures in our gift shop, and vintage Americana with
antiques pulled straight from our warehouse in Lebanon, Tennessee. We

(18:00):
love seeing how much you care about our old timer.
We love him too. Uncle Herschel will still be on
our menu Welcome back Uncle Herschel's favorite breakfast platter, on
our road signs, and featured in our country store. He's
not going anywhere. He's family. While our logo and remodels

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may be making headlines, our bigger focus is still right
where it belongs, in the kitchen and on your plate,
serving generous portions of the food you crave at fair prices,
and doing it with the kind of country hospitality that
brightens your days and creates lasting memories. Meat loaf chicken
and dumplings, Country Fright, steak, sides that tastes like Sunday supper,

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and yes, the world's best pancakes. They're all still here,
with a few new dishes joining the menu. Whether you're
a longtime fan or a first time guest, we want
you to feel at home around our table. We also
want to make sure Cracker Barrel is here for the
next generation of families, just as it has been for you.
Your That means showing up on new platforms and in

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new ways, but also with our heritage at the heart.
We take that responsibility very seriously. We know we won't
always get everything right the first time, but we'll keep testing,
learning and listening to our guests and employees. At the
end of the day, our promise is simple. You'll always
find comfort, community, and country hospitality here at Cracker Barrel.
Uncle Herschel wouldn't have wanted it any other way. Thank

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you for caring so much, and come see yourself. Come
see for yourself the country hospitality that makes Cracker Barrel
feel like home. Love Cracker Barrel. You buying this? Apparently
you're gonna drive by a Cracker Barrel and the sign
outside it's not gonna change.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
You could serve that menu to me in a Ugandan
deportation center and I would still enjoy it. Is never
If they're sticking with the same menu and the food,
that's fine. But are more people going to see that
post or are more people going to see the Babylon
Bee post today that said al Qaeda claims responsibility for

(20:04):
new Cracker Barrel logo with with just that stupid fake headline,
More people will see that and that of the impression
that America will come away with more so than what
Cracker Barrel said for themselves.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
What does that say about us? To be honest, Bablon's
funny it is, but it also says that, man, we
will get mad about anything Americans. Yeah, it is poor
Cracker Bell and the crosshairs this time. Big stories that
we were continuing to follow consistently was the redistricting effort
in Texas. They eventually got that to a vote towards
the end of last week. And also what the response

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is going to be from a place like California and
other states around the nation. Joining us now to talk
about this is a reporter from Fox News Radio reporting
out of Washington, DC. Ryan Schmells, Ryan, thanks so much
for the time today.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Of course, always going to be on.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
I was, you know, talking and speaking about just the
districting on a census to census basis and how difficult
it is to draw a map that is going to
show about the same population each of these you know,
a few dozen districts. But now there has been an
effort in California to try to usurp whatever their rules are,

(21:17):
can do you know those rules and why it's a
little more difficult for a place like California to change
their districts than a place like Texas.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Right, So, California has a redistricting commission, a non partisan
redistricting commission that's actually in their state constitution I believe
was put in by Governor Schwarzenegger. And so in order
to pretty much, you know, return that power from the
non partisan redistricting commission to the state legislature, they have
to essentially put this on the ballot. At least that's

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the path in which they're going here. So they are
doing a special election. Voters will decide if they want
to give the state legislature the power to redraw the
maps as opposed to the non partisan Commission. And that's
where I think you hear from Republicans who think that
this is not a done deal whatsoever, because this has
to be decided by voters. Then they believe there's pulling

(22:08):
out there that suggests it's not exactly popular with voters,
both Republicans, Democrats, and independence.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
So we have to wait and there will be I
think a campaign effort for this, right because California is
doing this to kind of spikee you know, the Texas redistricting,
and they would like to replace their red districts with
more blue districts of the few red districts that there are.
So with this, how much how many resources would you

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anticipate going into an election like this in California.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Well, just the cost of the state is in the
millions of dollars, and then you add in the fundraising
efforts and all that. I mean that could be beneficial
in the state economy. Campaigns usually are, but that's going
to be up. There's a lot of money pard to others,
I think, and not just for inside groups, but I
think there will be some outside groups that get involved
as well, because this is going to potentially determine control

(23:06):
of the House. I mean, look, if if Republicans are
able to redistrict Texas and at five seats and then
avoid California from redistricting, you know that that is going
to put Republicans in a great position to potentially hold
the House and defy history. So I think there's going
to be a lot of money that's gonna be put
in this race.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Ryan Schmells is joining us other states like Illinois, New York,
very blue states that have had their own jurymandering over
the years, but they've also suggested that they should jump
in to this. Other states are suggesting maybe we should
redistrict while everybody else is. Are there other states that
we need to keep an eye on because every seat

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is going to matter when we get to next year's election.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
It absolutely is, especially with the marginist Titus is right now.
So I would look at Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Illinois, and
that's those the ones I look at right now. Those
are the ones to probably have made the most noise
about possibly doing this and are actually in a position
to possibly do it because of their you know, makeup
of the state legislature, makeup of who's the governor and whatnot.

(24:14):
You pretty much you need a super majority if you're
going to do this. So you know, you look at
a state like Ohio and Florida, Well, it's the governor's
mansion run by a Republican state legislature run by a
Republican U ill in the light. Exact same thing there
as well, California, same thing as well. So those are
probably the states you want to watch for as of
right now.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Would we try to unpack whether or not this is
good for America or not, which I know that we're
not always trying to tell people what they should or
should not think, But I'm just generally curious as to
how the historians will look, you know, twenty five fifty
one hundred years from now and see what happened between
two censuses where you know, states just decided they were

(24:56):
going to redraw maps to try to kind of rig
up what the results were like to be in the
mid term race of twenty twenty six. What do you
anticipate there, like the kind of fallout of this being
positive or a negative for the United States that this
would be done in the middle of two censuses.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, I mean, I think it's going to become something
that that doesn't stop right now. You know, and I
think it's going to become something that just becomes a
massive legal battle, because while we're talking about this as
a mid decade redistricting, there have been redistricting efforts and
legal battles and whatnot that have gone well beyond the
censuses at the end of the decade. You know, there

(25:35):
was a New York had a legal battle over its
maps not too long ago, and then you have something
like the state of Maryland. I believe they had a
lawsuit that dragged out in the twenty twenty two or
something like that, and it ended up giving Republicans actually
a better map because you know, Democrats try to redistrict
that state. They judged throughout that map, and then you know,
it actually put Democrats in a tougher position in the

(25:57):
twenty twenty two mid terms, specifically in that state. Yeah,
and I don't think these legal battles are going anywhere
at times too. I mean, there's a good chance that
this California special election doesn't happen because a judge might
throw it out. And there's also in Texas you're going
to be seeing legal challenges to that state map. So
there's still a good chance and there's still some hope

(26:18):
for Democrats in the state of Texas that this map
is not going to be final, because you know, they
could very well, they could very well be successful in
challenging this new map.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Ryan Smells from Foxy's Radio joining us. Last thing for you, Ryan,
as we talk about the legality and how what this
could look like for twenty twenty six and beyond. Something
you just said is kind of interesting to me. The
fact that this will not stop if these maps are
allowed to take place, If that vote in California does happen,
If we see six or seven states decide to redraw

(26:52):
their maps trying to draw it in favor of their
party the best that they can, it really feels like
the American vote is left behind. But there wouldn't be.
I mean, this could set a new precedent of Okay, well,
when you have control, you just redraw the map no
matter when that takes place. It doesn't even have to
be after a census anymore. Would you feel like another

(27:14):
like the next president or maybe even this president after
the twenty twenty sixth election. Is there a way to
federally codify this or is this something that the states
are just going to have to resolve themselves because it
just seems like it could end up being a free
for all that never ends.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, well, right now it is a state's issue, but
you could see an effort by both parties in Congress
to end mid decade resister thing. There's several pieces of
legislation actually being floated right now. Now, of course, it
stands a very small chance of passage any one of
these bills, but you're kind of seeing it. If you're
a blue state Republican or if you're a red state Democrat,

(27:54):
you are pushing to get mid decade redistrict being made
illegal and then thus making it only something it happens
in the census. So you know, could something happen in
the midterms that gets so chaotic that there ends up
becoming a more bipartison issue. I think we have the
wait and see, but right now it's gonna be very
hard to pass that federally. But that's the only way
I as of right now, at least options on table wise,

(28:15):
you can see the federal government kind of stepping in
and stopping states from doing this if they were to
pass a piece of legislation like that, because for the
most part these elections are up to the states when
it comes to how they do the census and everything.
And then of course they could also you know, there's
been talks, some talks about going after the census and
trying to redo the twenty twenty census because of you know,

(28:39):
Republicans make the allegation there are a lot of people
who are counted legally on there, and they think that
that that the census should probably look a lot more different.
So the me that could be to something.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Wasn't the census done when Trump was in office.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I believe so.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yes, But he tried, he tried to. He tried to
make this effort to you know, require you stay you
stay stay on the census, whether or not you're in
the country legal or illegally. And I don't think you
was successful in doing that, but there have been legislative
pushes by Republicans in Congress to make that a thing.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Well it's one thing. Uh, you just never quite know
what's gonna pop up in Washington, d C is Ryan Schmelz,
Foxy's Radio excellent stuff is always my friend, and we'll
Chettigan soon.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Oh good buddy, thank you.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Predistricting, what do we think about it. You know, it's
been this is like the third full week at least
that we've talked about this, and Texas has done it.
We don't know if it's gonna be one like that map,
or if there's gonna be some arbitrary person or judge
that comes in and says this actually cannot be done

(29:44):
the way that it's been done. California has put a
vote to the ballot for November to get their districts,
Like the people of California have to vote to say yes,
we want our district's redrawn. Here are the winners if
all of this happens the way that the politicians want
it to happen in the red states, the blue states,

(30:05):
every state that decides to play ball, whether that's eight states,
twenty states, every single state just decides to start redrawing
maps because this is the cool and interesting thing to do.
And all these wannabes who are in the state legislatures
around the country who are wishing one day that they
can get enough publicity into their names so they can
one time go to Washington, DC and represent their district

(30:27):
or their state. Yeah, all those guys are going to
start coming up with these ideas of, oh, how do
we get in the news. So let's make sure we
can do something and put Nebraska or Iowa or Missouri
or South Dakota in the news. We're gonna suggest that
we redraw our map two. Okay, the people who win

(30:48):
are the people who are already empower in those states
if we redraw all the maps. You know, the losers,
it's us, It's the voters. It's the regular people of
this country who were letting two giant political machines decide
who was in power around us. That's all this is. Yeah,

(31:12):
you might say you're a staunch Republican and no matter
what the Republicans do, you know you're gonna be in
support of it. And yeah, well, let's fight fire with fire.
Because the Democrats to do this stuff too. Yeah, you're right,
they would, But this is what we're gonna do instead,
and we're just gonna beat them to the punch. We're
gonna go ahead, and we're just gonna draw maps around

(31:33):
where people are located in what their voting habits. Are
not trying to win the election by campaigning or trying
to find good candidates to get people to vote for them.
What we're going to do is instead just redraw the
maps around the people we know we can count on
their votes no matter who it is. We could have

(31:53):
Droopy run for you know, one of the districts in
Texas and if he has an R at the end
of his name, no matter what his platforms are, doesn't matter.
Droopy's gonna be in Congress. That's the plan. Same goes
for how California. If they get the green light and
they're able to redraw their districts, the what nine of
their fifty five congressional seats or whatever it is, those

(32:18):
are going to end up. You're gonna lose like nine
from nine to like four Republican districts in the state
of California just because they readrew some maps. You should
be outraged, regardless of what your political affiliation is. The
politicians that we continuously you know, whether it's deep state

(32:39):
or whether it's just Washington, d C. It's really not
that deep guys, Like we're seeing everything that's happening, and
every politician out there has to do what they have
to do. You know what the second movie was in
that double header I watched last night. I watched Failsafe
and then I watched a movie called The Best Man,
which is another Henry fond Of film with Cliff Robertson,

(33:00):
and it is from you know, it's mid mid sixties,
but it is every bit is brutal of back behind
the scenes mud slinging politics as we think is going
on right now. It has always been this way. That
is politics. So I'm not surprised that neither should you be.

(33:20):
But we can't just keep sitting here and let it
happen to us, to where the people of this country
or fuck, we're playing second fiddle to the actual people
who are already in power. The people in power are
deciding who's going to be in power next, and they're
using us as like some sort of collateral damage. Oh yeah,

(33:41):
it doesn't matter what they actually think. We just know
if they live in the cities, they'll vote blue more
often than not, and if they live in the country,
they'll vote red more often than not. And that's all
I care about. Drawing the maps to get more reds
or more blues. And you're just there because you're a
registered Republican or a registered Democrat and counting on your
vote no matter who the candidate is. I don't know

(34:04):
what it's gonna take for us to stand up and
make a change here. But if this actually happens the
way that it does, the biggest losers are we the
American people. Should we be congratulating ourselves or should we
be crying? I think probably the latter, But who the
heck knows these days. Scott Voorhees is with me, Scott,
how you doing today? You're feeling good?

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
I know you to want to play n Cuba Football,
the video game with your.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I like being trash talked by my teenage son and
whooped mercilessly. It makes him feel better about himself. If
there's anything a fifteen year old son is lacking, it's
not self esteem. But yeah, he Nebraska went on and
to this weekend we lost to k State and then
a close game to Iowa. Ah.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Those are a couple of tough ones to lose.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
I'm trying though, I've beat him once in a while,
but he beat me so bad. That's why we played
two games on Saturday, I said, I said, about an
hour later, it's like, get back down here, let's go,
let's go. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
So I a couple of things with that. First of all,
I got I didn't get buy the new one. Is
this the new one or is this one from last year?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
This is the new one?

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay, So I didn't feel like my wife would like
me spending seventy five dollars on a video game two
years in a row. So I passed. I played last
year's version still, and you're playing exhibition mode, you know,
like one v one in you know, on the same machine.
There are a lot of different game modes. One of

(35:38):
the game modes is Road to Glory. Have you watched
your son playing Road to Glory at all?

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Is this where you set up an avatar and then
you come up through the high school rank? You can
actually you can make high school teams. All the Omaha
high school teams are represented on this game. You can
play a game as like Omaha Central.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
West.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
They're all on there. So yeah, you come up through
there and so you have seen this, Yeah, yeah, well
I haven't watched him. Every time I go down there,
I'm like, oh, are you playing your football game? He's
never playing football. He's like trying on shoes. I was like,
are you dressing up? Are you dressing up barbie dolls?
Are you playing a football game?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Ro to Glory. You gotta there's a lot of extra
stuff in there, right, and their dynasty where you're the
head coach or you know, coordinator or something like, You've
got to do a lot of recruiting. There's a lot
of behind the scenes stuff and negotiating your schedule and
all this stuff. Right, Well, with Road to Glory, you're
having to balance your football with being getting better, getting healthy. Right,

(36:41):
you need to spend time, you know, just like resting
up from last week's game, but also trying to balance school,
school work, homework, and your social status on campus.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
That's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
No, it's not. It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
I I saw it.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
I grew up playing Super Mario Brothers. At no point
it is like, hang on, Mario needs a break. We
just finished level four two and he's tired of jumping
on turtles. This is the part where Mario just hangs
out and takes a little Mario time. So stupid.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
It's real life. You're trying to like make for playing
the game.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
No, real life is real life.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, you're trying to make this seem real life. It's
a simulation of real life. You are a college student,
you are at whatever school you're at and you're trying
to be the best football player you can be, but
you're also trying to balance that with your status on campus.
That affects your confidence level, that affects the way that
you play, and they will give you and things will

(37:37):
happen during the week where you're a coach or a
teacher or a tutor, or a classmate or even a
girl tries to talk to you about something and you
have to make a decision based on what she's done.
So I see in this year's game, somebody grab this
and the caption is I decided to play Road to
Glory in college football twenty six for the first time,

(37:58):
and I was totally blindsided by how unhinged it turned
out to be. There's a classmate named Audrey. It was
reached out to you. She's an attractive looking girl. She's
one of your classmates. And she says, Hey, Connor, it's Audrey.
I think we met last year. My sorority Epsilon Alpha

(38:19):
is throwing at an initiation party and I want you
to come with me. I'm skipping our lab You should too,
smiley face. Now you're giving a few choices of what
you can do here. The first is that you decline
because I mean, I have to go. If I get
in trouble with my schoolwork, I could become ineligible, like

(38:39):
I'll be playing ketchup like it's tough. Skip your lab. Okay,
you're gonna go hang out with Audrey. You could lay
an Audrey. That could be good. But you could also
fumble your schoolwork or skip your lab, stand her up
and go with her sorority sister something you could do. Now,

(39:00):
this guy said that he declined, and she never responds back,
instead brings Chad from Tao Iota Beta. You end up
triple texting her afterwards, and now she avoids you in
class and you have lost points in your personality is grade.

(39:22):
So now you got to rebuild your personality to like
get full confidence so you can go out there and
perform on Saturday. I'm telling you this is some real
stuff here. Triple texting a girl been there and done that,
you do not It never goes well.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Never. First of all, I didn't realize leisure Suit Larry
had made her return. That was the dirty video game
in the like the mid to late eighties, there was
this like dirty computer game called leisure Suit Larry or
leisure suit. Larry would go from bar to bar trying
to pick up women, and it was just like a picture,
like the old like suit for like eight bit video game.

(40:02):
It was so stupid. Secondly, if anyone spends so much
of their time wrapped up and wow, what am I
gonna do about Audrey and my classes and all? If
you're getting really wrapped up in this, you're probably not
paying enough attention to your classes in real life, and
or you will never actually meet a real Audrey. Put
down the controller once in a while. Yeah, actually, I

(40:25):
have this other simulation going on to called your actual life.
And I love playing video games once in a while.
I'm not I would. I'm certainly not a gamer, but
I like a video game once in a while.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
I'm just saying Audrey was pretty attractive. I might have
skipped my class lap to do it.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
It's a video game, why not? But what what what
happens in the video game? What do I need to
know about my son playing this game? Because some of
the graphics look pretty real, except like when Matt Rule
before he gets the team to go out through the
tunnel and he's kind of holding them back as they're
all get he looks like a zombie. He looks like
a weird zombie. Other than that, the graphics are pretty good.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Uh yeah, I mean whenever they like face scan guy
in the NBA game. It took him a long time
to figure out how to do that too, because it
looks odd when you don't do it right. Anyway, my
point is like, straight up, the game is interesting, but
it does give you some perspective as to we are
seeking simulation in our real life world all the time.

(41:28):
If I could just fake being a college kid again
and be a star quarterback for Colorado State or whatever
team that you like, I mean, now you can, No.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
You can't. Yes you can pay a video game, but.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
It's you get to kind of live like you were.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
It's the saddest thing I've ever heard. That's sad. Look,
I like playing against my son in this game, and
when the Huskers win, I feel I feel better. It
makes the day better. I helped Nebraska win a video
game in the game to at no point did I think, like, hey,

(42:06):
this is helping me recapture my former glory. It could
have been you watched me throw football over this mountain
like Uncle.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Rica has made an appearance. I'm just saying, if you
would have landed Audrey, maybe you would have seen like
maybe it would have been different for you.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I gotta know what happens with Audrey though. If my
son's down there playing like you know, I gotta gotta
find Audrey games and I might want to know what's
going on. I got it well, might actually actually do
some parenting tonight.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Well, if you could ask. But I'm under the impression
that if you don't go with her here instead, she
brings Chad from tau Iota Beta and then you end
up triple texting her and now she avoids you in class,
You've You've ruined yourself and Audrey.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I want to know what happens when you go with her.
Does the game get CD? Yeah? Well, does it turn
into grand Theft Auto? You can just go find a
hooker and then steal a chit like steal a fighter
jit off a military base these games, that's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
My feelings here more than anything is I just love
where our world is now, and if we can just
make this I don't know, like, if you can find
your version of this where you just live in the
kind of an alternate reality every once in a while.
It'll do good for your brain, it will, trust me,
we get too wrapped up in reality. Now we're getting

(43:23):
mad about cracker barrel changing against logo. I mean, what
are we doing here? People? It's three sixteen. I got
a list of emails here about a variety of a
pope pirie. If you will have topics from first hour,
I want to read some of these quite interesting perspectives.
On news radio eleven to ten kfab, Emory's songer, I
don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of

(43:44):
a big deal.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
On news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
It sounds like you're doing some reconnaissance. Scott on Audrey
from College Football twenty six.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Road to Glory. It's just gamers going. Audrey is back.
I guess she was in last year's version of this game,
like Audrey's back in colle football twenty six.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
All right, you.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Got to try to get into in with Audrey. Yeah, Audrey, Yeah,
if you can. If you can get Audrey, I feel
like you're gonna play with a lot more confidence. So yeah,
that's uh, that's funny. Anyway, I was talking about a
few different things in the first hour, and I'm just
gonna run through the poteorix here of some of the

(44:23):
items that I've been emailed about. Rob sent in and
said fail Safe was spoofed by Doctor Strangelove. Not inaccurate,
but not accurate either. Actually, Columbia Pictures released I was
watching TCM, so Ben Mankowitz came on before and after
the movie to talk about some different things. Doctor Strangelove
came out eight months earlier, and Columbia Pictures was part

(44:46):
of a lawsuit and basically wanted to make sure that
these two movies wouldn't pop up in theaters at the
same time in nineteen sixty four, so they sued, ended
up getting the rights to fail Safe, held on on it,
and Doctor Strangelove becomes like this huge hit, Cold War
like black comedy satire kind of thing, and then shortly

(45:10):
you know there after listen a year later, Henry Fonda
shows up in fail Safe, which is a much different
feel of a movie, but people had just seen Doctor
strange Love Cold War, very similar plot. Rob also mentioned
beautiful use of the B fifty eight, which were quickly
obsolete with the advent of inter continental ballistic missiles. But yeah,
the aircraft in these movies in the nineteen sixties. Pretty impressive,

(45:34):
and they get some in fail Safe, some really interesting
fighter jet video that you can see. As far as
long hair, you mentioned long hair, and I wanted to
mention this because you asked me a very important question.
Is there a price that I put in my hair?

Speaker 5 (45:53):
Like?

Speaker 1 (45:53):
How much money would need to be pledged to a
charity of my choice for me to up my hair?
What does that mean? Even like you want me to
get a flat tup? You said, yeah, for a flat top,
a flat top like Ivan Drago flat top. Yes, I
do not have the bustle tone for that anyway. Jeremy

(46:17):
sent me this email and said, Emory, don't let the
Muggles get you down about having long hair. Called you
a muggle. I am a muggle, so am I, so
are all of us. There's never been anybody's non muggle
as far as I know. As I have perfectly curly
hair that makes most women jealous. Most men give me
a hard time because they're threatened by my oddly perfect hair. Also,

(46:38):
Samson wouldn't let anyone cut his hair either. I'm with
you and him. Ah, Then I think that a bad point.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Then I think both of us need to do something
very very important. I don't know if there's anything more
important than this. When you go to our podcast pages
on iHeartRadio, both of the pictures of us on our
podcast pages, you said, I Heart Radio are very old pictures.
You have short hair, I have dark hair. We don't
look like that anymore.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yeah. I look the same though, It's just like your
hair is a different color. Yeah, I got fine.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I've been told by everybody that I've met over the
last several years, you look tired? Are you tired?

Speaker 4 (47:21):
What?

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah? Everyone has to know, like do you are you tired?
You look tired? Like, thanks for letting me know. Yeah,
I am. You know why, because I'm tired. That's why
I look tired. I'm always tired. Anyway, I'm putting a
new picture on my podcast this week. We can do that, yep?

Speaker 1 (47:37):
Can I Can I get you a new picture?

Speaker 2 (47:40):
You get it to Delaney because she knows how to
do these things.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
All right. Well, I'll do that because I see that
and I just can't get over it.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
I know both of us need to grow up. On
our iHeart Radio podcast links.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
I feel like I look much better now that I did.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Then then you can keep your long hair because you
will be accurately represented. And I'm just putting a picture
of my grandfather on there. That's who I see when
I look in the mirror.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
What yeah, okay, wow, interesting we're talking about Cracker Barrel
and this, and it's interesting. Judas said, so happy you're
talking about Cracker Barrel today. And I'm sure Scott remembers
the eleventh Worth Cafe.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
The eleven Worth Oh yeah, that got ugly. This was
a great diner cafe on Levenworth Street, like twenty second
ish and Levenworth and the owner and the Black Lives
Matter protesters got on the wrong side of I don't
remember exactly what the detail was, but they basically shut

(48:40):
that restaurant down, even though it was a great diner
in that part of downtown Omaha. They shut it down
for what because they decided that the owner shouldn't be
allowed to own a restaurant anymore. I got to look up,
remember what the heck? That was?

Speaker 1 (48:53):
All?

Speaker 2 (48:54):
I remember the guy involved, but I don't remember what
the offense was.

Speaker 1 (48:59):
And so they just like yeaded him out of his
own business like that. That seems like a bit of
an overreaction.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
It was a huge overreaction.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
There had to be something else.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Let's see shut down over protests triggered by social media
posts from the owner's son. Oh, and there was a
menu item on there, this is a place that serves
like grits and stuff. There was a menu item on
there named for Confederate General Robert E.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
Lee.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
And because of all the protesters out there, people were
chucking bricks and stuff through the big glass windows at
that place, and they said, all right, we're shutting down.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
So they didn't like remove them. It's like they just closed.
Like nobody came in and said you have to go away.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
Yeah, they just protesters basically shut that thing down. They
said there were safety concerns.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Well, I wouldn't go into place that's getting bricks thrown.
I know.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
That's why customers stopped showing up. People didn't want to
come to work.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
I also feel like, you know, is this twenty twenty issues?

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Okay, yeah, I mean you gotta be kind of sensitive
some of that stuff. Robert E. Lee menu item. I mean,
why couldn't we just name it after something that's not
a person would be? I mean, I guess Uncle Herschel
still has his favorite old country breakfast at Cracker Barrel
still on the menu for anybody. Not that old uncle

(50:19):
Herschel is related to the Confederacy at all, but interesting.
Speaking of the Cracker Barrel, Scott says, as far as
I know, Cracker Barrel is a fifty plus demographic off
the interstate consistent sit down meal. That said, the same
demo mentioned above or not the same ones blowing up
my Facebook feet. The horse is not only dead, it's glue.

(50:41):
We didn't have to go there with the horse analogy,
but the uh, I understand that this is what I
was saying, right, Okay, So if Cracker Barrel is, if
it's branding has been consistent over a long enough time
where it's only older people interested in going there, there

(51:01):
are ways that you can just own that branding and
be on social media. There are ways you can own
that branding and start something on social media and get
people talking about you in a different way. I don't
think this is the kind of publicity you were looking for. Now.
There are people in marketing that will say any publicity
is good publicity. I don't think that's this, I really don't.

(51:23):
I think that there is a sector of people who
are they really think that this is a woke mob
mentality situation. I do not believe that to be the case.
I really just think they're CEO, which is still fairly
new less than two years on the job, and their
board felt like they needed to attract more younger people
into Cracker Barrel and they're trying to figure out ways
to do that. I don't think this had anything to

(51:44):
do with wokeism. However, I do think there is a
sector of people that when a time, anytime anything changes,
they just aren't interested in it anymore. They get mad
and they protest change. They have a right to do that.
So Cracker Barrell should have got if they wanted to
really make a change, there's a way they could have

(52:05):
owned their branding better and then rolled out maybe an
alternate logo or something for their branding on the internet
and nobody probably would have cared. But instead it made
it sound like, well, the interiors are all changing, they're
remodeling all of the restaurants. Oh and they're changing all
of the big Uncle Herschel logos, which they said today
in an Instagram post. That's not what's happening. They're signed

(52:27):
outside on the roadway, isn't changing at all. So I
don't know. I don't know what the right answer is here,
But can they recover from this? Maybe do they have
to do a bud Light or a Jaguar? And just
like all of the big wigs have to go away
and then new people come in to make people think that, oh,

(52:47):
things will change, kind of like a sports team where
you know, new ownership takes over and now all of
a sudden, the fan base feels like there's hope even
though there's no evidence hope exists. I don't know, it's
interesting something to keep in mind. Thanks everybody for sending
this in. I got more emails that'll kind of squeeze
in throughout the rest of the show. And if you
want to email me with your own thoughts, you can

(53:08):
send them in Emory at kfab dot com, E M. E. R.
Y at kfab dot com. Another topic of conversation that
I've had a lot lately is are we given our
kids that are going to college the best advice are
the people who are going to college or in college?
Is that where they should be or should they do
something else? And for employers, is it right to even

(53:30):
make it a requirement for you to have some sort
of degree requirement. Well, I talked to an expert about this,
and we'll hear from her next on news Radio eleven
to ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
The Truth and Everything Important in Omaha and beyond Emrisunger.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
One thing that we have talked about or reference on
my show over the last six or eight months or
so is I've seen a growing number of people feel
like college is either a waste of money or it's
money not well spent. And now it's eventually kind of
trickling into the employer world where the companies seemingly are

(54:08):
having a bit of a different environment or a different
adjustment to the way that they're seeing things. And I
figured the best thing I could do is talk to
somebody who looks at this stuff. So I'm bringing in
hiring expert and Gallop certified executive Leadership performance consultant Brandy
Shade joining us on the phone line today to talk
about this. Brandy, thanks so much for being on our show.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
So I'm looking at this survey says one in four
employers say that they are looking to eliminate requirements for
a degree for certain positions by the end of this year.
What got these twenty five percent or so of employers
to get to that point.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
I think there's.

Speaker 5 (54:48):
Such a diverse way of getting an education now, whether
it's through experience or through some sort of certification program
or you know, through your two your degree schools or
your four year degree schools, that they're probably just removing
their restriction of not allowing people in that don't have

(55:08):
a four year degree. However, that being said, I think
that they're still really looking for students that are educated,
that are sort of you know, have certifications, that have
some experience. You know, they're they're looking for, you know,
not just students, but people and executives that are a

(55:29):
good cultural fit that are going to be high performing
for their company. And you know, they need they need
ways to be able to determine how you know, how
are they going to know that that that person is
going to be that for them? Well, that's going to
be through some of the pursuits that the person has
has pursued, you know, during during before before they come

(55:51):
to the interview.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Yeah, and looking at this, you know, trying to unpack
whether or not a degree is the right you know,
because I have a college, but it has nothing to
do with what I ended up doing, I completely irrelevant
to how good I could do this job. It was
the experience that I got, you know, kind of as
a part timer learning on the job that made me

(56:14):
more valuable than anything that I did in college. Has
there been kind of a history recently of employers doing this,
and those who do this feel like it was a
good move to kind of remove the college degree requirement
from their positions.

Speaker 5 (56:29):
I think that they are just really trying to change
with the times and morph and figure out how to
have and attract the younger generation to their companies, because
you know, every decade we have people roll out of

(56:49):
the company, and we've got to have younger people to
sustain the company over time, and so they are really
trying to figure out how to get those younger people in,
that young talent and us specifically the high performers in
the doors, and not only how to get them in,
but how to identify them, which is challenging if they
haven't gone to a university and really shown their track

(57:12):
record that they can stick with something for four years
and complete a degree and you know, know that they've
got some education and they've been able to pass the tests,
and they have some experience with diverse cultures, you know,
with the professors that they have and the students that
they're interacting with. So you know, if they don't have
that experience, then how are the employers going to be
able to tell if that person is going to be

(57:34):
the right fit for their company? You know. So sure
they might relax the degree requirements, but they still need
to be able to identify top talent somehow.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
We're speaking with Brandy Shade is a hiring expert here
on the phone line today. This kind of you mentioned
changing with the times for an employer. I feel like
the conversation about college when I was going through this process,
you know, fifteen eighteen years ago, when I was in
high school, everybody was like, if you wanted to be something,

(58:06):
you had to go to college or you know, you
had to get a college degree. It was something that
nobody in my family had done before, so me going
kind of had that additional kind of meaning to it,
of like, oh, this is the first person of the
family that's actually going to college. But at the same time,
now we're hearing about trade schools, we're hearing about you know,
maybe even two year degrees. Being something that could be

(58:29):
useful without putting kids one hundred thousand dollars into debt.
Is there a medium or a balance that some employers
seem to be taking on this or is this just
kind of a sign of we're not finding awesome candidates
with the degrees we would like to, you know, broaden
our search to people who just have great experience. And

(58:50):
what is kind of the future for this. Are we
going to see more and more employers doing this or
is this something that is really just done by a
very specific sector of people and we can't really tell
whether or not this will continue to grow.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
Yeah, that that is such a good question, and it's
an aspect they don't have data on, like what sectors
are going this route and which aren't. But for example,
the cybersecurity space with the certification route, they do not
require a degree. They require you to get you know,
cybersecurity certified through a series of certifications and if you
have those certifications, they know that you know how to

(59:26):
do the job that they're asking you to do. So again,
it's just going to be maybe a different way of understanding,
you know, whether or not someone certified. I mean, you know,
if we if we think about a surgeon. You don't
want a surgeon working on you unless they are highly
qualified somehow, whether that's you know, through a practice program
or you know, an accredited place, whether that's a university

(59:51):
or a private entity or or so, you know. I
think it's really more of just a shift of how
we get there. But I think the result is still this,
which is, we need high performing people in the positions
that we are saying, you know, you're qualified to do,
and we want to make sure that you're doing a
good job in that role. So whether that could be

(01:00:11):
through experience as well, but we've got to get there
somehow because companies need really talented people to impact their
bottom line, you know, over the course of the future.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Brandy, I would be interested, right if I was seventeen
years old and I was really shopping around for what
my future was going to be, whether I was looking
for a career, trying to take some college courses, find
a four year college, figure out exactly what I wanted
to do with my life. What advice i'd give myself
now and what I would end up. So what would
be the advice that you'd give to an aspiring, you know,

(01:00:44):
person who's just about to graduate high school the next
year or two and is trying to figure out what
the right path for them to have a successful career
is is is it, you know, traditional college or is
it more complicated than that.

Speaker 5 (01:00:58):
So what I would do is go out to www.
Dot b l S dot gov, which stands for the
Bureau Labor Statistics, and I would look at their occupational handbook.
And the occupational handbook that they offer has every single
occupation that you could ever imagine up or dream up

(01:01:19):
in there. And it also talks to you about the
degree requirements, the certification requirements, the path that you can
expect to go if you want to be successful, the
you know, the other adjoining career paths in case you
decide to pivot at some point. It talks about the
forecast of that you know, is it going to be
in demand or is the demand going to reduce? And

(01:01:40):
that would give the student a really good idea of
not only of here are all my options. Let me
pick this specific area, but also then let me look
into that area and see, you know, which path within
this that I want to start with and I want
to take, you know, because it meets my own personal requirements,
of a B, C, D and E, and a resource

(01:02:01):
like that is going to give them a good idea
if they need a two year degree, certifications, a four
year degree, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
That makes a lot of sense. Brandy Shade joining us.
Last question for your Brandy before we kind of get
into you know, school year is starting. There's a lot
of people in Iowa was starting in their school this
week and trying to you know, get back into the
groove of all of that. But I've always been a
person that has noted. For me, it seems like people
who are getting even just stuff that's unrelated to what career,

(01:02:31):
like kids who are volunteering, or kids who are trying
to do internships during the summer or even little summer
programs or camps that they can be a part of
to just learn as much as they can and have
a willingness to do that. Is there a way? And
again this doesn't necessarily mean that these are great employees
at brain surgery or you know, can run a company,

(01:02:52):
But just filling out a resume and having all of
those extracurricular activities would that at some level become more
valuable to an employer than just going getting a four
year degree and just kind of oh, well, you must
be at least kind of competent at this because you

(01:03:14):
did four years of college. Do you think that there's
some more value in that extracurricular aspect or just people
who are willing to do more than just the bare minimum,
and would that make them more attractive to companies in
the future.

Speaker 5 (01:03:29):
Yeah, I think what you got to do is you
got to look at the comparison. So if I have
three equal resumes in front of me for a particular role,
one of them has a degree, one of them doesn't.
One of them have done extracurricular activities, another one hasn't.
Maybe one of those resumes has done all those extracur
extracurricular activities and they've got a degree. You know, as

(01:03:51):
the hiring person who doesn't know this human on the
other side of the fence, I'm certainly going to be
looking at these three resumes and comparing them and putting
them an order of this is the order I'd like
to talk to them because of you know, what kind
of ambition the the resume indicates, what kind of social
interactions that they've had, maybe what type of positions they've

(01:04:14):
been given. So if you were in the Boy Scouts
and you were, you know, given some sort of leadership
role in the Boy Scouts among your peers, that says
something to me. So I really think what people need
to think about is how you're going to be compared
of against the rest of the pool of the people,
and you just always want to have your unique advantage
or leverage in those situations if at all possible.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
Brandy Shade is a hiring expert and a Gallop certified
Executive Leadership Performance consultant. Brandy really appreciate the information expertise today,
Thanks so.

Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
Much, thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
I just wanted to kind of put like a cap
on the conversation we were having before the break in
about experience of college and learning how to be a
human being in a kind of controlled environment in a
way that isn't going to like make or break your
entire life. Honestly, if things don't go super duper well,

(01:05:05):
it's expensive, yes, but I don't know. The value I
got to college was mostly just out of learning how
to be an adult and to fit into social structure
more so than anything. But also, I think we are
getting to a point where job experience, certifications or general

(01:05:28):
I don't know, like people who have spent time and
energy and effort in doing additional things I think would
be as valuable in a lot of ways to a
company than just, well, you went to college for four
years and you got a degree and exactly what we're
looking for. You are one of our top candidates. You

(01:05:50):
shouldn't have to do that, right, Like, I mean, I'm
gonna use a personal example. My wife's brother works for Google.
He's a young guy, he's like twenty three or whatever.
Didn't know what he was going to do. I mean,
he's growing up. He was just wasn't really into school,
wasn't interested, you know. I was kind of worried about

(01:06:13):
what would happen to him after he graduated in high
school if he graduated high school, right, because he just
there's sometimes we just find out he just didn't want
to go to school. Right. Kid, by the time he's
like nineteen, is building like a computer from scratch. He's
one of those guys figured out how to build a
computer from scratch, and by the time he was twenty one,
he got fully certified in certain types of like it.

(01:06:36):
I don't think he really took college classes. He just
took certification courses and then got the certifications and became
like a really big time candidate for them, And he's
being wooed by other companies right now to go work
for them. Kid's twenty three and he's doing better now
than I was at his age. But he was able
to positively identify what he wanted to do in a

(01:06:58):
path for him to do it without for your college degree.
That should be the norm. And when big time companies
like Google are going out of their way and telling you, like, hey,
we actually like what you have on your resume here,
that probably tells us that most people, you know, what
industry can you think of besides maybe the medical field?

(01:07:19):
Do you really feel like you need a four year
degree for like very specifically or are we just getting
up at it or maybe this was all a ruse
and well you have to kind of invest four years
in figuring out how like and doing this and learning
this specific field, and we'll be able to wild down

(01:07:40):
the list of possible candidates by just how many people
decided actually to do that. It was just kind of
like a oh, show us you're really into what we're
doing here, or into what this sector is or what
this industry is, by you sacrificing four years of your
life getting this degree, even though maybe the information you
learn there isn't nearly as valuable as we may make

(01:08:01):
it sound. We just make it easier for us to
whittle down whom may be a more serious candidate than
somebody who hasn't committed that much time to learning this.
And also the extracurricular part of this. I tend to believe,
and maybe I'm out of bounds here, I tend to
believe that a sixteen or seventeen year old kid that

(01:08:24):
is volunteering, that it is going out of their way
to make their community better. Working a couple of different
jobs in their high school career. Part of like a
club or a team, whether it's you know, something as
mainstream as the football team or something as underground as

(01:08:44):
like the chess club or speech or something. I tend
to think kids like that who keep themselves busy even
outside of school hours, are incredibly valuable because they're willing
to step out of their comfort zone. They are okay
finding stuff to do they don't need, They're not trying

(01:09:04):
to laze around, they're not trying to stay free, so
they can just be a couch potato or play video
games or whatever it is that the kids do these days.
But none of that stuff ever gets put on your
resume when you're twenty three, twenty four years old and
you're looking for entry level jobs, or heck, even a

(01:09:27):
twenty year old right is trying to get into the workforce,
maybe with a two year degree, maybe no degree at all,
maybe just some certifications or something. I think I would
just love to have like a page of all what activities,
what extracurriculars did you do, or what have you done
besides school, because that tells me maybe the commitment level

(01:09:48):
of just you wanting to be a part of something.
I could teach you how to do this job, you know,
and put that job in. What jobs are not teachable?
What jobs you just kind of need it in? You
you make the argument what we do? You know, you
can't just teach somebody to sit here and talk into
a microphone in a room by themselves for four hours

(01:10:11):
a day or six hours a day or whatever it
is people do. But you could teach people what how
to find stuff to talk about. You could teach people
how to book guests or how to work well with
the team, or to be a part of a team,
or be a part of a show. Most of the
media is like that, is there anybody in the media,

(01:10:32):
I mean maybe at like a nationally syndicated journalism newspaper
level where you'd have to be like, what is it APA?
Like you'd have to be like certified APA or something,
just because of the formatting and what you like, how
how you're right, stuff that you learn in composition class

(01:10:53):
when I was in high school and college. But scene
feels like something people can learn, not every but he's
a great writer. How many great writers didn't like writing?
There's probably a lot. How many bad writers really wanted
to become a writer? I'm guessing not that many. I
feel like writing or anything in the media people don't
really love that much because they can tell whether or

(01:11:15):
not they're good at it pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
What other jobs? Truck driver? You could be a truck driver?
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
It's like a six months class six months of classes
or whatever something like that. Well, what else? I mean? Teacher?
I guess you would need school for teacher? Would you
could you talk me into the idea that we could
make a second grade teacher out of someone with a
two year degree and six months of student teaching or
a year of student teaching.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
I think so. I think that there are some school
districts that have lowered the standard to basically, if you're
pursuing a teaching certificate, we will help you do some
on the job training. And there are a lot more
businesses like that. But what needed to happen what you're
describing emory is the way that hiring managers would find
out about a prospective employee by sitting down and talking

(01:12:06):
to them. Now, it's it's harder and harder to get
to that point in a more natural way. I mean,
there are still ways that you can get to that
point in the same way it's always been. My dad
knows the dad of the guy that runs that place,
and so they got me an interview. It turns out
I'm going to start working there, you know, or those

(01:12:29):
enterprising youngsters who even in high school and certainly in college,
you should never just get your diploma, walk across the
stage and then wave it around gain going who wants
to hire me? I got my diploma. You're going to
get aced by the guy who walked into the place.
Once he already knew what he wanted to do for
a living, and he's a freshman or sophomore in college
or even a senior in high school, walked into a

(01:12:50):
place said hey, I'm Emory Songer. I'm not ready to
be hired by this place now, but I want to
make sure that you and I have some regular FaceTime.
It is my dream to help out your team by
working here in a few years when we're both ready
for each other. We're not at that point yet, but
I want to know from you today what do I
need to start doing now so I can help you

(01:13:12):
and your team in three years from now. You don't
think that guy's going to be on the radar and
get hired in a few years, more so than the
guy who got a great resume threw it out there
on some web search it got pinged. You don't know
who this person is. The AI determined here's the resume
you should look at like, that's great. This guy would
probably be fine. But this kid walked in here three

(01:13:34):
years ago and said, can't wait to start working for you.
My name's Jason. You know It's it's still all about
trying to make that personal connection.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
I really do think we've lost our way a bit there.
Technology is made, and I think this is one of
the reasons when online job searching became the way that
you'd look at the want ads on both ends. As
the employer and as a prospective employee. You would spend
a ton of time just pouring over that stuff in newspapers,

(01:14:08):
You'd make phone calls, you'd go into businesses. Rocky too,
right like that, that's the story right there, Rocky two.
He has the end, he has a connection to get
an interview, and he wants to get into white collar work,
but he doesn't have the qualifications. You know how they
told him that. He walked in and they told it
to his face. He kept trying. You know, to me,

(01:14:28):
that was the day where you could really try to
get a vibe for a person and not just see
them be one of one hundred and fifty pieces of
paper resumes the people put in and then the computer
just says, Okay, here's all the requirements that you asked for.
That's the unfortunate reality where we're living in. I just

(01:14:49):
don't know how you get back from that. And what
do we tell our kids that are seventeen years old
about the best way to make themselves hirable when the
practices themselves don't seem to be lining up up with
you know, hey, the extracurriculars, Hey, on the job training,
showing interest in anything, being marketable as a human being,
a nice human being, able to excel in an interview,

(01:15:12):
situation or scenario. Well, all that stuff like you have,
you can't even get to the table anymore in a
lot of cases. I know a lot of companies are
going to not the needing the degree as a requirement,
but it really makes you think of what are we
missing in trying to tell our kids that, yeah, that
piece of paper is actually worth something instead of just saying, well,

(01:15:35):
even if it doesn't make a lot of sense, you
have to have it because that's the only way you
can get hired. That is what has been happening for
the that are part of the last thirty years, and
hopefully that changes because that's not a one size fits
all answer. We got more coming up. Email me Emory
at kfab dot com if you have thoughts on this
or anything else. On news radio eleven to ten Kfab
Emory's songer oh or we're kind of like in between,

(01:15:58):
kind of this technology boom. We've never had more stuff
at our fingertips just the lay person chat GPT or
GROCK or you know, insert your artificial intelligence model that
you like the best here, I know what is it?
Jim and I the Google one, and a lot of
people you know use Look, I'm whatever it is. Co Pilot,

(01:16:20):
I think is another one that you can use. With Microsoft,
everybody's getting an AI model. So there's this huge boom
of like resources that we can use. But we're also
stuck in We've gotten so far away from like being
in touch with our fellow man in some regards, so

(01:16:40):
we're trying to balance the two things. So to tell
a seventeen year old kid who's shopping around trying to
figure out where they want to go to college something
like that, you know what that? You know what that does?
I think it creates a ton of confusion. It was
easy for me to go to college. What was it
the perfect decision? I don't know. I wish I would

(01:17:00):
have gone to a bigger place. I think I wish
I could have been a little bit more prepared to
Part of it was laziness. Part of it was just
not really understanding what the process was but getting more scholarships,
applying for more scholarships, putting in extra works, so it
wouldn't have cost me as much money to go to college.
I could have also picked a place that was more

(01:17:20):
public and not private. I went to a private school,
ended up getting good scholarship money, and got student loans
to cover myself every single year, which was nice, but
I'm still paying that off. I could have gone to
a place that would have been bigger. Maybe it would
have taught me more as a social experiment with myself,
which I found to be incredibly valuable, even at the
small school I went to. But it also could have

(01:17:42):
been a little less expensive and I could have had
it paid off by now. So you know, I have
all these different snags and catches, but I do wonder
if we kind of are able to circle back to
what is making a seventeen year old the most successful?
And it wouldn't have been my experiment experience because we

(01:18:02):
didn't have all this tech, we didn't have such a
changing workforce. That four year degree actually felt like it
meant something then. And this is ten years ago, so
it's really not that long ago. But nobody in my
family had ever gone to college, there was this kind
of thing for me. Oh, getting that four year degree
really is going to mean something, because it's this thing

(01:18:24):
that nobody in my family has achieved. But that four
year degree is sat in the little diploma thing that
they give you. It's in my stuff somewhere in my home.
I haven't looked at it once since I left. It's
been in there for ten years, and it did nothing

(01:18:45):
to help me get hired by this company and for
my job. And I didn't get a diploma for the
growth that I made as a person over the four
years that I was in college. So I'm just wondering
if we're giving the best possible advice to the next
generation as they enter the workforce, or are we kind

(01:19:06):
of leaving them hanging out to dry. They feel like
they need to go to college even if it doesn't
make sense for them, or they're trying to get degrees
and stuff that isn't super applicable, which is another thing
that I think many colleges and many high schools even
are trying to tell kids you have to be employable
with whatever you're getting your degree, and otherwise it doesn't
make any sense. I've talked to my friend about this

(01:19:28):
during these conversations too. I know a girl who went
got her teaching degree. It's four years, and you did
some student teaching on the side. She was there, I think,
even an extra year to you know, finish up getting
all the classes that she wanted to have. She finished
her first semester by middle of her second semester, not

(01:19:49):
even a full school year. The high school she'd been
hired to teach math that asked her to leave, like
mid school year. I don't know what happened. I'm afraid
to ask, and she decided she'd already had enough with
teaching industry twenty three years old. She was done with it.
She still owed, however, many thousands of dollars that she
went to school for. That is fundamentally a broken situation.

(01:20:13):
Now I'm not saying that's everybody's experience, but she thought
she knew what she wanted to do. Nobody gave her
advice to the otherwises to like what she needed to
be armed with and prepared for. She didn't make it
a full school year and decided it wasn't for her.
She didn't want to do it anymore, and whatever was
going on and whatever job she was doing wasn't satisfactory
to the school district that she was working in. So

(01:20:37):
what do you even say to somebody like that, Like,
does she wake up every day feeling like she wasted
those years in college? I don't know. For whatever it's worth,
everybody's story is going to be different. But I think
we just have to be better about giving advice in
all the different possibilities to our young people, because there
are more possibilities in how to make yourself successful now

(01:20:57):
than there have ever been before. To watch some football
college football it was happening over the weekend. Got to
watch some college volleyball that happened over the weekend. The
Huskers go to and Ozer looking strong against both Pittsburgh
the final fourteen from last year as well as Stanford's
a top ten team in the country. That was awesome.
And now the attention goes to the football program, who

(01:21:19):
takes on Cincinnati at eight o'clock on Thursday in Kansas
City at Arrowhead Stadium. Joining us to talk about it,
it's our first official Husker Buzz of the twenty twenty
five football season. Sean Callahan's with us, Sean, how's it
going man?

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Good?

Speaker 3 (01:21:33):
After you let's pop the bottle. Where we are back
in the afternoons looking forward to it. And we started
these back in seven on KVAB, and here we are
in twenty twenty five. Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Jeez, how old are you?

Speaker 3 (01:21:45):
I'm not that old, really, I turned forty five this week.

Speaker 1 (01:21:48):
Okay, happy birthday? Wow? Yeah, wow, that's doing the math
on that.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
You would have been just a young buck when that
stuff was going down.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
I think it was twenty six when I signed to
come over to CAT at that point and start working
on the air of these guys. And here I am
still today.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
I love it, love it. I don't want to tell
you where I was in two thousand and seven. I
don't think you'd like the answer, but I got to
tell you, Nebraska has been You've seen a lot, man,
You've seen a lot over the last you know, eighteen
years of just doing this, but also your Husker experience
even before that and at the turn of the millennium
when Nebraska was still very much a superpower blue blood

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in the way that people were looking at that program.
What would be your state of this program before we
kind of dig into this particular matchup to start the season.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Well, I think there's a lot of optimism. I think
there's a lot of anxiousness as you look at what
looks to be a great opportunity this season. You've got
a very very put together offensive unit with an elite
play caller Dana Holgerson, You've upgraded your special teams. You
hope that there's enough on this defense. But then you've

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got a schedule that really is not going to throw
a true game until mid late October at this team,
So they're going to be playing a lot of football
and Memorial Stadium, which is going to allow them to
ideally build up some momentum. And it starts though Thursday,
where you know we're going to see sixty five seventy
thousand Nebraska fans going down the Arrowhead. You know probably

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will be close, if not a sellout. I mean, I
know there's only somebody on our site counting it up today.
There's only one hundred and one actual Ticketmaster seats that
aren't like the resale seats on Ticketmaster. So in terms
of the actual tickets that haven't sold by anybody, there's
not many left. And I don't know if anybody from
Cincinnati going to this game it's going to be ninety

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ninety five percent Nebraska fans in that stadium.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
Yeah, Yet this is a Cincinnati home game. For just
I think it's important to revisit how this game itself
came about as a Kansas City start in the Cincinnati
agreeing for one of their home games to be at
Arrowhead and just knowing what was likely to happen in
that stadium once that was agreed to, How did this

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all come together? And is this something that could happen
again in the future. Is this just kind of a
one off that you don't expect to be seeing for
the first game of the season against a legitimate power
conference opponent.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
Yeah, it's probably a one off if you're being realistic
and just how things work. Cincinnati already had seven home
games before this game, and this would have been an eighth,
and nobody really not very people play eight home games,
So for them, it was an opportunity to try to
find more revenue. And initially they were going to play

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the game in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and their
guarantee minimum was like two million, but they could get
over that, but that was going to require a lot
of Nebraska fans to travel, which is not really Indy's
not an easy place to get to. It's not a
direct flight, it's a long drive. And the Arrowhead folks
got involved, and you know, they started talking, and I

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think they looked at the financials and they said, well,
we'll double that minimum guaranteed to like four million. And
I think when it's all said and done, Cincinnati's gonna
walk out of there a lot more money than that.
So for them, you know, they don't even make two
million on a home game. They might make a million
and a half or somewhere in that range. They're going
to make probably off what they would make off three
or four home games off this one home game. And

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so for them, in this new nil era where the
big twelve teams don't have the luxury of the big
ten teams, this is a huge deal for their athletic
department to give up, you know, what was going to
be a bonus home game and then turn it around
and flip it and make way more money than they
could ever make on one home game.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
Sean Callahan joining us for Husker Buzz and you know, era,
he's been home to a lot of college football over
the last couple of years as Kansas has played a
lot of games there, all their games last year as
their city was going through some renovations, and Cincinnati's a
little feisty opponent, and it makes complete sense why it
would be. You know, you'd put it in a more
driveable situation for something like this, and you mentioned the

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money in and of itself. Let's talk about their program
for a second. This is a team that is what
year three of the Big twelve. Now, they had one
of the They were a fun team to watch, and
they were the first team of the smaller conferences a
group of five to make it to the College Football
Playoff and it was just a four team playoff, found

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a way to get into the college football Playoff, which
people said would never happen for a school of their
size to get to. So where would you kind of
put the pulse of their program now? And them as
a very intriguing first week opponent for a team like Nebraska, who,
like you mentioned, has a lot of optimism for what

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this season can be.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
Well, they return a lot. This is the fourth year
of their head coach, Scott Saderfield, and you know they've
got source b their quarterback returning. They've got a couple
of Big Ten running backs. Prior to the running back
is from Ohio State, Tyle Walker was an eight hundred
yard rusher at Wisconsin. They've got an NFL level tight end.

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They've got arguably the best interior d lineman in the
Big twelve and Dante Corleone. So there is a lot
there in terms of, you know, their five or six
top guys, But I think the difference might be where
Nebraska is just a deeper roster, and that's where you
have to like let this game get to I mean,
and the depth went out, but I think their top

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five or six are every bit as good as Nebraska's
top five or six in a lot of areas. I mean,
they have some good players, and you know, I do
think the road environment is going to be an advantage.
I mean, the spread is still only Nebraska by six
and a half right now, and I think that kind
of put them in perspective the respect that cincinnat He's
getting going into this matchup. You know, they were five

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and seventeen. They did start out five and two last
year and then they dropped five in a row. They
had a win over Arizona State, who won the Big Twelve,
but that was a different Arizona State team at that point.
Jeff Simms, former rasket quarterback, actually started that game for
since then for Arizona State when Cincinnati beat them last year.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
That is really fascinating stuff because you want to talk
about just the changing of landscapes and where Cincinnati was
and where they're kind of in the mix right now.
It's a non conference game, but you're talking watching Ioway
say in Kansas State play and all the attention to
the fact that this is a conference matchup between two

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teams that have a real shot and winning their conference championship.
Those are two teams Cincinnati's going to have to compete with,
along with the Arizona States of the world and the
Utah's of the world that people are expecting to see
a bounce back come from them. And you have some
other good programs that are kind of bubbling under the surface,
Baylor being one of them, maybe a rebound from someone

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like Kansas who was disappointing last year. How does Cincinnati
fit into all this and what would a win mean
for them, not just to get on the win column
in general, but of what people would potentially expect from
them as far as a pretty competitive and wide open
Big Twelve heading into conference play in a few weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
Yeah, They're probably a five to seven win type team,
and I'd say Nebraska is more like a seven and
nine win type team if you're trying to kind of
compare the projections out there. But I just think they're
under a lot of pressure. Scott Saderfield in his fourth year,
really really needs to get it going, and they did
bring in some good transfer players and were aggressive in

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the Big Twelve. The Big Twelve is such a wild card.
You just you know, a year ago, Colorado almost won
the league. I mean they were up there too, and
Kansas fell off. But I think Kansas is really set
to have now a good year where they could they
could have a year where they compete towards the top
of that conference. And there's not much that separates that league.
I think it's a lot of teams that kind of

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battle the top teams, and that Big Twelve are going
to be between eight and four and ten and two.
It's hard for a Big twelve team to really be
eleven and one or twelve and zero because there's just
not a lot that separates the talent level like you
see in maybe the Big Ten or the SEC or
in Ohio State or a Penn State can pull away,
or Georgia, Texas or somebody like that. And I think
Cincinnati kind of finds themselves in that kind of rugby

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scrum of teams that are going to be between five
and seven wins.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Yeah, and they definitely kind of are living there the
last couple of years. We'll see what exactly happens every day,
all week long, all season long. We are going to
have Sean Callahan in the five o'clock hour to break
down things that are happening with the Huskers and break
down this particular matchup on Tuesday and Wednesday, because on Thursday, Sean,
we actually have this game. What does that mean for

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the Husker online show.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
Well, we just tape the show and that's up to
the man behind the curtain there, Scott Boardeast, when he
wants the program that's show in. But I would imagine
and Scott, I don't know if you have a mic,
and yeah, I'm thinking we're probably gonna run on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Is this Sean Callahan, I'm a big fan. Yeah, Thursday
at six o'clock this week and then for the rest
of the season. For a regular Saturday game, you'll hear
the Husker online pregame show Fridays at six pm. But
this week it will be Thursday at six.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
That'll be perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
It's always good when a Ralson Ram and a Gross
like Cougar can get together on the air and figure
it out.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Yeah, there you go, now say Superpowers bringing the Avengers together.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
You know, it just shows that nothing is beneath me. Sean.
I'll even get on the radio and talk to a
kid from Gross.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
Oh gosh, you guys are something else. Hey, Sean, appreciate it. Man.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Right, all right, thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
I have this thing about volleyball. I didn't know how
much I really I would watch volleyball. I'm a just
sports fan. If cricket is on, I'll sit and watch
it and try to figure out what's going on. Just
like sports. It's my favorite thing to just sit and
entertain myself with volleyball. When I moved here, I just
could not believe how big of a deal it was,
and I was spoiled rotten that the first volleyball game,

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volleyball match that Nebraska played after I got to Omaha.
Was is the Volleyball Day in Nebraska where ninety three
thousand people crammed into Memorial Stadium for a match between
them and the Omaha Mavericks. I just could not believe
what I was seeing. I knew it was a big deal.
I had no idea it was this big of a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
It's special. It makes people like me who don't care
about volleyball care about volleyball.

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Well, look what it's done to the pros, right, I mean,
like the Omaha super Nova. Is that people love going.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
To those games the fun time.

Speaker 1 (01:32:24):
Yeah, eleven twelve thousand people every single match, that is
the premiere. There's no doubt they are the most successful
professional volleyball team in American history, but they are currently
the most successful professional volleyball team in world history as
far as how many people are going to their games
and how much money that they're able to generate. Their

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branding is incredible. It's awesome. And John Cook and a
lot of former Huskers, a lot of former Creighton Blue
Jays are part of that. And so I was excited
to see what was going on this week. And because
I don't know if you saw, but in Lincoln. They
had this entire weekend of incredible volleyball in at the
what do they call it, the ol Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Ye Huskers go to and zero. They beat number three

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Pittsburgh and do so very convincingly. They lost the third set,
but twenty five to twenty two, twenty five to eleven
in the second set, did lose the third set twenty
five to twenty and then came back and were able
to rally and hold off Pittsburgh twenty five to twenty three.
You might be saying, Okay, is that a big deal.
It is a big deal. Pittsburgh is a Final four team,
like the last five years they have been in the

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Final Four. This was the first game for Danny bus
Boomkelly as the new head coach of the Huskers. They're
ranked third in the nation. They are a legitimate title contender.
And I know it was in Lincoln, but Nebraska finding
a way to get a three to one win and
look that good doing so it was unreal. And then
the Husters come back yesterday on Sunday and they played Stanford,

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who's ranked sixth in the country, a perennial Bawerhouse level team.
On the West Coast twenty five to thirteen, twenty five
to nineteen twenty five fourteen, just steamrolled them out of Lincoln.
You have to feel great about this team right now.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Yeah, this word football parlance. Then it would be the
Nebraska krnoscar football team going out there and scheduling one
and two like Clemson and Ohio State and just dismantling
them just start off the season. That's what the volleyball
team just did.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Creighton ranked twelve to start the season for whatever'sworth. They
got to play in Lincoln also on Saturday as part
of this big thing, and Penn State was their opponent,
the national champions from last year. Penn State won all
three of those sets, but pretty competitive Creighton held in there.
They have a brand new coach. Also, there's ranked twelve

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to start the season, so there is still some expectation
for what they can end up becoming. We'll see if
they're able to have any sort of replication of the
incredible season they had. Fifth in the nation and they
almost beat Penn State in the Elite eight to get
to the Final four. Who they would have played Nebraska
in the final four if they would have found a
way to win that match, but they lost in five sets.

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It was an incredible season for them. We'll see if
they're going to be able to rebound this year under
a new head coach also, but we'll be paying close
tench volleyball all season long, because that's what we do
here in Omaha and in Nebraska. Five twenty eight is
our time. We'll come back. What dog do you have?
What are the popular dog breeds in Nebraska and Iowa
and around the United States. I have the answer. We'll

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talk about it next on your Monday on news radio
eleven ten kfab and are you songer? I have two
greyhounds and a greyhound guy. I've had five greyhounds. That's
my breed of choice. I know they'll never be the
most popular pet, mostly because you just kind of need
to be looking for them. They're not a dog that
you're just randomly going to land in a like a
shelter or anything like that. They go through very specific

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adoption agencies after they're done racing, or you have to
know somebody who breeds the puppies, and even then, you
couldn't get your hand on a puppy until very recently,
and it has to be a very unique situation. They'll
never be on this list. Can you guess what is
on this list? This is national by the way, I
have each state broken down as well, but the most

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popular dog breeds in the United States. Ready to say go?

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
I have the top ten. By the way, Uh, sheets too.

Speaker 1 (01:36:22):
Good guess number eight. I would not have expected them
to be that popular. That is the eighth most popular
dog breed in America. Little count we had a lap dog.

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
We had a sheet so when I was a kid,
it was a great dog, great house dog. There are
a lot of hunters, so I'm guessing Labrador ranks pretty high.

Speaker 1 (01:36:39):
Number one. Yeah, you have selected the number one dog
breed in the United States, the Labrador Retriever. And on
top of that fantastic dog, you have also nailed the
number one dog for both Iowa and Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (01:36:50):
That would have been my guess. Yeah, they're great dogs
and we got a lot of like I said, a
lot of hunters around here, and it's just a fantastic dog.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
Yeah, Iowa. Number two for Iowa's the Golden Retriever. That's
also number two for Nebraska. Changes up at number three.
Iowa's the German Shepherd is the third most popular dog
breed for Nebraska is the American pit bull terrier. Really, yeah, great,
I don't I don't want to tell people what they

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can and cannot do. A lot of people take that
bite and it's a bit more than they can chew
more often than not.

Speaker 2 (01:37:24):
I you know, dogs do that too. I'll tell people with.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
A lot of American pit bull terriers.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
If you if you've got a little kid around a
pit bull, that is a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (01:37:34):
That is a horrible idea.

Speaker 2 (01:37:36):
Pit bulls are sweet and then might do it. That's great,
you know, they can be real sweet. Every pet. Well, occasionally,
just look at someone that you've cuddled together for years
and suddenly just wants to take a bite out of you. Yeah,
you know, a sheet sou does it. It's adorable. Labrador
does it. Well, that's probably something to look at. Pit

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bull does it. You could die. And to have a
kid around a pit bowl, you know, all it takes
is the kid running up on the dog while is
eating it suddenly gets a weird smell in its nose,
and that kid could be done for that is irresponsible
my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
No, no, nope, not just your opinion. An opinion that
is shared by the other person you're sitting in this
room with, and many other people before I get to that, though,
the rest of the top ten popular dog breeds in America.
One's the Labrador Retriever. Two is a Chihuaba and Chihuahua
Chohoa who. Number three is the Golden Retriever. Number four
is the American pit bull Terrier, which is kind of

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an amligation of like four different breeds that could land
in there. Five is the German Shepherd. Six the French
bulldog was number one last year. French Bulldog all the
way down to number six. Maybe people are just like, actually,
these are ugly dogs. They are, but they're lovable. Number
seven the Golden Doodle that is certainly going to become
number one someday. I think they're a lot, but I

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just see more and more of them everywhere the sheets.
Number eight, the Yorkshire Terrier, the Yorkie number nine, and
then the Docson is ten little wiener dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
I love a docks.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
I was in sixth grade in Atumwa, Iowa, my hometown.
We were leaving to go to school and we saw
a ton of cars parked on our street. We're like,
what is going on? Saw first responders three houses down.
This is strange found out that day that a one
year old had wandered into a kennel with a pitbull
and was destroyed. Basically, it was a very dark day

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in a Tumwa. It was dark on our neighborhood. We
had just moved there just a couple of months earlier.
It was really sad, obviously, and Atumbwa immediately their city
council said, we can't trust people with these dogs that
train them properly, and they're too dangerous, and they banned
the dog breed out of the city of a Tumwa.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
Now there's gotta be more details about how that kid
was related to that dog, how it got in what
I mean the you just said, I have a real
hard time completely just blaming the dog on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
I'm never gonna blame the dog. I don't think the
dog's to blame in any it's putting the dog in
bad scenarios when you're not prepared to handle it. These
people who were not responsible. It is what it is.
Adopted a pit bull, either from a breeder or from
a shelter, which you'll find them in shelters all the time.

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It was living in an outdoor kennels. But my best understanding,
the door to the kennel could be opened. The one
year old was not being supervised, wandered outside, found a
way into the kennel. I have no idea exactly how.
I didn't look into the details of how the kennel
was built, went outside, and the pit bull basically just
straight up attacked the kid. But again that's not I

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don't blame the dog. Of course, the dog was euthanized.
After that, you have to the kid lost its life,
that family was in mourning. You know, you don't want
to blame anybody, but do not get a dog you
cannot train and have a one year old wandering around it.
You know, same goes with a lot of big dog breeds,
even greyhound. Sometimes it's just you gotta be responsible dog

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owners and that goes a long way to helping the
reputation for a dog breed like this. Scott Vories is
with me a memory songer. By the way, Hey Scott,
what would be your guest? Is the most popular dog
name in the United States, Lucy, and I hope Lucy
Chapman is listening number six yeap clubs. Good job it's
a very similar name to that. That's number one. Luna

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is the number one dog name this year. Wow, Bella
number two. Charlie is number three. Max, which had long
been one of the most popular names for dog breeds
or for dogs in this country, is number four. Daisy, fifth, Lucy, sixth,
Coco seventh. You have to have a dark dog. I

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think to give them, you know, like it looks like
chocolate Coco.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Yeah, isn't that ice cubes? No iced Tea?

Speaker 1 (01:41:57):
Iced Tea's daughter wife Coco t my love. Oh really?
Milo is number eight, which, by the way, was the
cat in Milo and Otis. I don't know why Otis
isn't in this list, but Cooper is number nine and
Teddy is number ten. Overall, Now I have the top
one hundred names in here. I was looking Garry's dog's

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name Weddy Teddy. I was most interested in the number
fifty three dog name, which was dog. The fifty third
most popular dog name in America this year is dog.
Where does snots come in? I don't see snots.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
Scroll over Uncle Clark Belly.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
Most popular name in Nebraska is Max. Still Bella is
number two. When there's a tie between Lucy and Izzy
for number three. In the state of Iowa, Bella is
number one with Lucy number two. Number three is a
tie between Luna and Daisy. So there you go. A
lot of female dogs in Iowa. All those were female names.

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What I didn't say anything, you said that. Of course
my dogs, I always named them very unique things. And
the names of my dogs are PJ and Palmer. Nowhere
to be found in the top one hundred. Named after PJ.
His race name was Big Joe. He came to our
home before we already had two p names, Pyro and Palmer.

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We've since lost Pyro, but we just called him Joe.
PJ was kind of like, oh, he's probably Joe. It's
just another way to get another P name in the house.
And then Palmer was named after Robert Palmer. Her race
name was She's so fine on the track, She's so fine,
there's no telling where the money went. Yeah, so she
became Palmer, named after Robert Palmer. And then Piro, may

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he rest in peace. His race name was Stop Drop Roll,
so we needed a fire related name named the Pyro.
So that's how we got there, but not on the
top one hundred. Dog name Lynz Emily Sunger, you won't
go to college on news radio eleven ten kfab