Open Phone Line Friday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's all fair game. That's what is awesome about this show,
especially on a Friday when we just kind of want to,
you know, spitball and throw some stuff out there and
have a little bit of fun. We'll start with an
open phone line Friday, and that's what we're doing here.
So go ahead and do that. Call us at four
h two five five eight eleven ten four two five
five eight eleven ten and we got Doug on the line. Doug,

(00:20):
welcome to the show. What's on your mind today?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Hey, Amory, Hey, it's on my mind. Everybody's mind should
be on in this month. Okay, No, this is the
end of the fiscal year in the government, as they
have done for probably the last twenty years, doesn't seem
to have their act together, and the twelve appropriation bills
are not done. I don't see anyone seeming to care.

(00:46):
Well I know I care, and we need them to
get those done or make a law so they pay
a penalty if they don't get them done, Like if
they're not done by the by time they go on
vacation on one August, they don't get paid again until
they're all passed. And they don't get paid for those

(01:08):
days they don't get paid from the first August till
when they get it done, because maybe then they'll start
getting the job done that they're supposed to do, because
this process starts in April, right, and now we're in
September and they don't have any of them done as always,

(01:28):
and they're already talking about a genuine resolution, which they
should never have talked about. Plus they came back a
week later than they should have, so obviously they didn't
care and they should be held accountable. And everybody, in
my opinion, everybody on this radio station should call their

(01:50):
congressmen and their representatives and tell them how they feel.
Maybe they'll start getting things done.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, and Doug, I got appreci I appreciate this this
topic because it is something that can just like kind
of fly under the radar of bit because we're just
so it's normalized. I guess at this point that you're
just not expecting the budget to be done on time,
and there's always like a perennial threat of shutdown. But
you're right, I mean, what else are we sending these

(02:19):
people to do on a federal level? But especially you know,
you could you could make the argument even to a
local level, they have struggles sometimes agreeing on a budget
because of how partisan our politics have gotten over the
last couple of decades. I think it's absolutely worth bringing up.
But I'm glad that you've shown some light on that today, Doug,
have a great weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
All right, thank you, sir, Yes, sir, that.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Makes sense, right. Well, you you budget, you may do
you have to? You know, like, do you take let's
say you got bills, do at the end of the month,
like the thirty thirtieth, do you wait until like the
twenty ninth to figure out how you're going to spend
that money? Kind of have your budget figured out ahead
of time.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Sometimes I wait till the thirty first to even think
about it, even though there's only thirty days in the month. Yeah,
it's probably not good. I like to wait till the
thirty second. Oh yeah, yeah, just I feel like that's
a good day for me. You aren't good under pressure.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Well.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Not really, as often as I'm under it. You figure
i'd be better at it.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hey, I will say this, though, you'd make a great
politician if you know you're not worrying about your budget
until a thirty second of every month. You know, I agree.
I've been thinking about running for some things and getting
too that legalized pot now party. No, I think I
think they're looking for some people. Yeah, they can pass
on by, Okay. Is that something they say?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I just don't want to put my name out there
yet because you're going to change your name legally. Huh,
you're gonna change your name?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
No. No, I'm saying like I'm going to run for
a lot of things.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
I just haven't decided which ones yet, so I'm not
gonna I'm not gonna say I don't know. I'm just
making things up. I'm not gonna run. Nobody would ever
vote for me, and that's my platform. Why would you
vote for me? I bet you'll get some votes.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
You're you're this self deprecating candidate, and somehow you win
every office you go for because people just feel sorry
for you.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I just realized, though, there's somebody already doing that. Vermin Supreme,
the guy with the boot on his head, That's exactly
what he does. He just goes out there and says,
don't vote for me, why would you vote for me?
And people vote for him. I love it.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Welcome to America. Good Gary's on our phone line of
four oh two, five, five, eight eleven ten, Gary, Welcome
to open phone line Friday.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Hey, how are you Hey? It's just a curious question
that's been bugging me in or not really bugging me,
just kind of wondered if you might know it's say
LBJ and Ford took over the presidencies in their eras,
does that count as a ter? In other words, could
they know they could run again? But could they run again?

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Is what I'm asking?

Speaker 6 (05:04):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, that's a good I think the answer to that
is yes, I think they can. I don't think it
counts as a full term. I think they can run
for reelection twice more. That's a good question though, because.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
That's why I was wondering. Why why wouldn't they let
Kamaa Gwin and take over and.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Then she can still be elected twice? Yeah, yeah, that's an.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Interesting she can't be anyway. I'll let you go. Maybe
somebody up there can clear HERUF on that.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, no, I appreciate it. I'm sure that there's a
rule there. Obviously, it's a constitutional amendment. Could well. Harry
Truman tried to do this. He took over for FDR
when he died and then ran for election in one
and then he was going to run for a second term,

(05:53):
a second full term, but they he was not polling
well in the primary season, so he stepped side. The
same happened to Johnson. He took over for Kennedy, then
was elected to stay in office in sixty four, but
by sixty eight he recognized that even people within his
own party wanted to move on from him. So I'll

(06:14):
try to clarify that for Gary really quickly, and I'll
make sure we can get done with that's a that's
a good question. I'll have an answer. I'll pull it
up real quick. I just don't want to guestimate, but
we haven't had anybody actually successfully do this posts FDR
when he ran for you know, four consecutive terms or whatever,
when it wasn't actually a rule. We'll get to more

(06:35):
phone calls on open phone Line Friday as well, So
call us now at four h two, five, five, eight
to eleven ten more of you on our show next
on news radio eleven ten Kfab. Emery Sunger on news
radio eleven ten kfab. Congress approved the twenty second Amendment
in in nineteen forty seven. The process was completed all

(06:56):
the way in nineteen fifty one. It took a long time,
almost four full years, when thirty six of the then
forty eight states ratified the amendment and it came into
force on that date. So this would have predated the
elections in question that I talked about with Truman and
then also with Lyndon Johnson. The answer to the question

(07:17):
that Gary had was, could Kamala Harris if she were
to just like slide into the presidency right now, if
they handed it over to her right now, could she
then also run for two additional terms? Because remember, if
she doesn't get the presidency now, if Joe Biden finishes
the term and she's elected president, she could be, you know,
an eight year president. The answer to the question is yes,

(07:38):
she can. The rule is you can only be elected
to the presidency two times, or if you've served two
or more years more than two years essentially more than
half of a presidential term by taking over for the
previous president that counts as your first term, you could

(07:59):
only run one more time. So again, we haven't actually
run into this in modern times as far as we know.
Right Ford took over for Nixon, but that was just
kind of finishing up that term, right, and then he

(08:22):
I mean, he was the president, but he didn't get
elected twice. There wasn't a conversation about him being elected
two times, right, And Lyndon Johnson Harry Truman bowed out
before they even had a chance to get to the
general election if they were going to get to that
next term. Right. So the answer to the question as
it resolves to this situation with Kamala Harris, if Joe

(08:44):
Biden were to resign from office for any reason and
Kamala Harris were to assume the presidency for any reason
right now, she could still be elected for two full
presidential terms. Hopefully that answers your question. Let's get back
to the phone lines at four, two, five, eight to
eleven ten. It's an open phone line. Friday, Brett is
on the line. Hello Brett, welcome to the show. What's

(09:06):
on your.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
Mindy Emory, it's bretton Omaha. I'll just be real quick
and pithy here. So I just wanted to reinforce Doug's point,
and kudos to Doug. He spoke very succinct about what's
going on. It's a very sad state of affairs where
if anybody's paying attention. We're now paying over a trillion
dollars and just an interest alone, and it's very sad.

(09:29):
And the fact that our own elected officials here in
Nebraska continue to go along with to continue resolutions and
omni omnibus bills and all the things, and I personally
have called all of them. And this is the reason
for inflation and for all the things that are going on.
And it's just very very sad. And just shout out

(09:49):
to Doug, very succinct, and hopefully everybody pays attention to that.
But there's no business, there's no household, there's no corporation
that could run there own operation like how our own
government operates, and even our own elected representatives just go
along with it. So it's very sad, but anyway, I

(10:10):
appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well, wait a secon Brett, is there anything we can
do to help resolve this? Or do we just have
to start holding our politicians accountable? Like how do we
fix this?

Speaker 7 (10:21):
I don't know? I mean, what else can we all
do besides call and say hey, what are we doing here?
I mean we all they all advocate for fiscal responsibility
and just all the stuff, and nothing happens so at
this point I have no idea because it doesn't matter
what we say, what the constituents say. But I'm tired

(10:43):
of going to IVY and paying six dollars for a
box of wheaties like everybody else is. And we all know,
we hear the stories about the food banks and just
people in need, and people can't this is why. And
so I don't know. I don't know. I really don't.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I appreciate you taking it, no problem, rat you
for calling in. Yeah, there's no doubt that it's worth
talking about that. I appreciate being brought up today by
both Doug and Brett. There let's go to Bill Bill's
on our phone line at four two, eight eleven ten. Bill,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Hey, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (11:17):
IMRI like listen. I listen every day.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Thanks man.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
I just wanted to bring up a thing about the
forty work week. I work for a factory that has
been doing it for forty years. Ten hour days. Sure,
you know, it's no big problem. You get up, you

(11:43):
got to go to work at six, but you get off.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
At four thirty.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
I still got their full day. But these people talking
about working only a forty work week and only work
in thirty two hours. Ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah, well, Bill, do you think obviously the company that
you're suggesting about, you know, the ten hour days for
four days, the product productivity must be good if they've
been doing it for that long, right, Well, yeah.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
The thing is, I I was fifty years old when
I started working, and it's a factory. It's a hard job.
It's like there aren't too many mostly young kids. But
now the thing is, I think it's busy. You gotta work.
You gotta work Fridays.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Too, right, right right?

Speaker 6 (12:31):
That was probably what work from me retire.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, it's interesting, Bill, I'm glad that you brought this oven.
Thanks for the call. Yeah, So this is an interesting
topic because I know a lot of school districts, especially
smaller school districts, that are going to a four day
school week. How do you make that kind of mirror
a four day work week in our society when there

(12:57):
are some other countries, especially in like Scandinavia that are
a little more experimental with this, and I know they
don't have the bigger workforce, they don't have as big
of an economy as ours, they don't have as much
industry as we do, but they're making that four day
work week work. They're actually doing it a lot like
how Bill is saying, though four days, ten hour days,
everybody's still working a forty hour work week. That third

(13:18):
day off though, Eh, it's a pretty valuable thing for
a lot of people, so they're able to make that adjustment. Now,
the idea of anybody suggesting that you could somehow be
as productive by just cutting a day off and losing
those eight hours and working four days in thirty two hours,
I would have to see a study done. But if

(13:39):
you are as product and this is all I'll say
about this, If you're as productive in whatever the job
is that we're talking about in thirty two hours over
a four day work week as you would have been
over a five day work week and forty hours, and
you get as much done in the thirty two hours
as you would have in the forty hours, who would

(14:01):
be asking for this? I mean, the company certainly would
be like, Okay, we need to pair down on this,
But maybe you just don't have that person doing enough jobs.
To me, if you're a full time employee, you need
to be knocking around, you know, thirty five to forty
hours a week regardless if you're gonna have value to
your company, unless, of course, you're a person that is
somehow raking in a ton of dough, or you're an

(14:23):
influencer or something like that. But a lot of these
people who are even influencers and doing social media and stuff,
they're out there and they're grinding all day long every day.
You know, it's just work looks differently for them than
it does. You know, somebody who sits in an office,
I would just say, I don't know who would be
advocating unless they're a salaried employee and you're gonna take
eight hours off their day and they still get paid
the same, which would still be kind of crazy to

(14:44):
think about. If that is the case, then I can
see somebody advocating for this. But if you're getting paid
by the hour, you're gonna want those forty hours, regardless
of if you're doing the exact same amount of work.
I don't know anybody who's responsible that would rather just
get paid for thirt two hours, getting an hourly wage,
and then getting an extra day off. They're just going
to find another job to do during that day. That's

(15:05):
what my that's my perspective. If you want to call in.
We got plenty of other calls coming in and we'll
take your calls. Four two, five to five, eight eleven ten.
It's an open phone line Friday. You gave us a topic,
we discuss it. We can talk with you about it.
We'll see if anybody else has a call, like Brett,
you know, wanted to respond to Doug earlier. You can
do that. Four h two five five, eight to eleven
ten on news radio eleven ten KFAB. Oh, Maurice Sellner

(15:27):
on news radio eleven ten KFAB. And we had a
call our call in it was like, you know, the
four day work week. I think it was Bill who
called in, and he's talking about I worked for a
company that you know, we did that and it worked
for a long time. But it's four ten hour days.
He said he's been hearing about the idea of a
four day work week, where it's four thirty two or

(15:50):
four eight hour days for thirty two hours in a week.
He said that shouldn't be able to work. Yeah, I
think there are a few different factors to this. But
Don's on the line. He wants to talk about the
four day work weeks real quick. Don, Thanks for calling
in what about this is on your mind?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well, with forty work week, I'm in the freight business,
a direct truck, and I'm seven years old, and I
had the opportunity to step down to a four day
work week, and I jumped on it. I'm still getting
forty five to forty eight hours a week. I've got
a wife at home that's dealing with cancered so I
have heeds there and on weekends we do a lot

(16:26):
of things that we call widow and Orphan Fund where
we work on older people's houses who can't afford to
higher contractors. So wrong with cutting down to four days
a week. Gives me a day in the middle of
the week to rest, so I got more energy to
take care of the wife and those projects that build up.
We also cut down on our income a little bit

(16:47):
because I'm seventy my wife is sixty seven. We're collecting
ourselves of security, and between collecting the soul's of security
and my paycheck, the jacked us up into a higher
cash bracket. Ended up having to pay more taxes because
we didn't have enough deductions. So as far as I'm concerned,
for me, it's been a one one situation.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
That is something I never would have thought of. Don
I'm really glad that you called us and explained that
to us today. Sorry to hear about your wife. Please
give our regards to you and your family, and we
really appreciate you listening and calling in.

Speaker 4 (17:21):
No problem.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
All right, thanks buddy. Let's go to Alex. Alex, what's
on your mind today? What do you want to talk about?

Speaker 8 (17:28):
Well, it's been a while, but I know you've only
been on the air for thirty minutes and I could
give you five things right away by what I've done
to two.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (17:36):
Number one is the absolute corruption in politics is amazing.
I mean I just heard the and they both do it.
I just heard a Kamala Harris ad and they say
things and they interject any cut, any snippet that would
make their side look right when you know when it's false.
That just drives me crazy. And how they get away

(17:57):
with that. But the thing I really called that was
the way the government operates, both state, local, federal is insane.
For example, we just got our tax evaluations, our house
taxes just one another thousand dollars a year. Yeah, another found,
all right, Why can't the government learn to cut back

(18:19):
like everybodils does. When you look at what they do,
it's just horrible. Number one, we're thirty five trillion dollars
on the books and debt much more off the books
when you look at the fact that we're borrowing a
trillion dollars every hundred days and they want to spend
more money. You know, in twenty nineteen, the federal budget

(18:40):
was two point nine trillion dollars two point nine they
spent four point one. Biden's budget this year is seven
point three trillion dollars. Last month, the februaries are in
federal treasury took in three hundred and seven billion dollars.
They spend at six hundred and eighty.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yeah, so I guess, my h here's where I'm at here,
and Alex you're you're you're definitely hitting a ton of different,
you know, pieces of you know what. I think a
lot of people are frustrated about the system as it
exists right now. My question to you is what can
we do about this?

Speaker 8 (19:22):
I think number one, we need to demand a constitutional
amendment that number one limits the term of elected officials period.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
I love.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
Yeah, the reason they got the president because he couldn't
vote on it period, you know. But these guys should
have two terms of senators three as congressman, not collect
a picture from us. They can invest it and they're out,
and they should be a constitutional amendment that the budget
has to be balanced un lesson to the event of war.

(19:53):
I mean, we had one hundred and ten dollars one
hundred and ten percent deficit after one World War Two,
but we rebuilt the world and we were able to
pay that off very quickly. We can't do that anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Right well, I don't know if there's any going back
on paying off what we already have. I mean, just
slowing it down is I think the first goal that
we have to tackle before we get to that. But
what do you, Alex? I like you said, we could
talk about a bunch of different stuff here. I really
appreciate your thoughts on this and talking about it. I

(20:28):
think it's important that we keep this in mind. And
we know that the Conservative Party the Republicans generally are
talking about spending less, but I have to be honest,
I've been quite frustrated with how much they've been spending
in the last fifteen years as well. So I mean
it's a pandemic of sorts of spending. And then, like
you said, they can even pass a good budget, let

(20:49):
alone a budget that they can balance.

Speaker 8 (20:51):
So you know your your previous caller say that they
shouldn't get paid, and I believe that. And I believe
though that when they have a shutdown or whatever the
case says, you don't get back paid. You're not working now.
If you're working during the government shutdown, that's fine, you
should get paid. But when the Congress, the Congress of
the United States and the President cannot come up with

(21:14):
a budget, they shouldn't get paid and they should not
get to back pay.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
I'm hearing you. Hey, Alex, this is good stuff. Thanks
for calling in. We really appreciate your passion today.

Speaker 8 (21:26):
Be good.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
All right, let's go. We'll take one more break. We
got another phone call. I want to get to you
here momentarily. Stick around for that right here on news
radio eleven ten KFAB We'll be right back.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
Speaking of highest food prices, cut is why farmers might
not want RFK Junior or Tulsi Gabbard in charge of anything.
The first would be that Kennedy wrote, pigs factory farms
are more dangerous for our lifestyle and democracy than osaman
Osama bin Laden. Of course that was Laden was alive.

(21:57):
But he still feels the same way. But this year
when you're running for president, He wrote that one of
the things I can do is weaponize the agencies against
chemical agriculture, and he wants to squeeze pesticides in the
herd bug out of US farming. He also doesn't much
like foot those corn syrup, and I've got a couple

(22:20):
quotes here. He said roundup is being used in place
of good old fashioned labor. They fatuate the entire landscape
with glyphosphate. Everything dies except for the round up ready corn,
not the field, the entire landscape. Everything dies. As Kennedy
and Pulsey, Gabbard said, Congress must ban atresine, one of

(22:44):
the most widely used and toxic herbicides, to stop for
the contamination of our food and water supply. Atresine rex
habit with the sex slides of adult male frogs. E
masculating three quarters of.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
This all.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I've heard enough, Bryan, ok I appreciate what you're saying here.
I would have. Okay, So here's forgive me for this
sounding kind of like a dumb response to this. But
who out there would have liked RFK Junior, mister climate
change himself. Who of them, especially farmers who have been

(23:18):
battling with, you know, increasing regulations on the way that
they do their business. Why would they think that he's
a good idea? Anyway?

Speaker 9 (23:29):
Well, Fox News and news Max has thought this is
a good idea. They even had the villain on the screen.
It was Lucky Charms that Leprechaun has been addicting our
children with hyprutose corn syrup on genetically modified corn.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, Okay, but Brian again my point, I guess my
point is we're talking about two democratic people, like people
who were Democrats their entire political lives until literally the
last twelve months. Okay. I I would be very surprised
if farmers who knew who those people were would be

(24:06):
advocating for them to be in charge of their industry
in the first place. That that's all, That's all I had.
I mean, like, I I'm not saying what you're saying
is incorrect or inaccurate. What I'm saying is if there
are farmers out there that are like cheerleading mister climate
change himself as the answer to their problems in a
Trump administration, I would find them to be probably out

(24:30):
of the loop on what he really thinks about things.

Speaker 9 (24:33):
You know what I'm saying, media have been promoting him
to be Brian.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, you're you. You are talking about entities that I
have absolutely zero to do with. I have nothing to
do with. I don't regurgitate what they have to say.
I don't. I don't care what they say.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
I don't as much as I respect what Fox and
Newsmax and other you know, conservative news outlets, and I
respect what they do just like I respect anybody who's
in this industry is not an easy industry to exist in.
I get it. But they're not the farmers of America. Okay.
They might be pushing an agenda to try to get
people to like celebrate the idea that RFK Junior and

(25:12):
Tulci Gabbard are in the bag for Donald Trump, and
I think it is good for the Trump administration to
have them in the bag for different reasons. But you're
talking about farmers and a guy who literally has spent
his entire political life preaching about climate change. They are
never going to mesh. They are never going to see
eyde eye. So if there are farmers out there in

(25:33):
America that think RFK junior is the right answer, Brian,
I'd be incredibly surprised to learn that information. That's all
I'm saying. I appreciate the call, though. Sarah's on our
phone line at four h two, five, five, eight to
eleven ten. Sarah, what say.

Speaker 10 (25:45):
You by there your show e Marie. This is a
call regarding education regarding the pro abortion ballot initiative. And
remember they want to change the state constitution. That's a
big deal. I want to have education for your listeners. Respectfully,

(26:08):
the pro abortion valid initiative is dangerous, it's deceptive, and
it's demeaning. There's going to be fifty years of common
sense protection for women and girls against unstafed abortion practices.
There will no longer be any kind of inspections for
the abortion facilities. There's going to be unpained conditions. It's

(26:30):
not even going to be as well as trade a
veterinary place deceptive. So there's purposely vague and abstract terms
terms on it. I've read it many times. It's two
sentences and it's very unclear and very vague. Also, this
amendment was funded but by some in state but some

(26:52):
out of state special interest interest groups. Also, it's funded
by the largest pro abortion and abortion provider in America.
What's going to happen is they're going to profit financially
because there's going to be more abortions Thane in America

(27:13):
if this passage, Sure, it's going to take away parental
rights because it says all persons shall have a fundamental right. Yeah,
so that means the thirteen year old girls to have
an abortion, your parents wouldn't know anything about it.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Sure, Sarah, And I think, yeah, I'm with you. I'm
running out of time this hour, Sarah. I do appreciate
the thought. I'm glad that you brought this up today.
We're definitely going to examine both sides of what that
vote's going to look like. I think she's preaching to
the choir in a lot of ways. I think most
of the people that are listening right here can see
right through what this bill potentially could mean for abortion

(27:46):
in Nebraska, no doubt. But I do appreciate the call today,
and we hold the phone on that because we are
going to talk a lot about that in the coming weeks.
For sure, we'll take more of your phone calls on
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