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Speaker 1 (00:00):
An open phone line Friday where we basically open the
phone lines. You can call in and basically talk about
anything that's been in the news this week, or anything
that's on your mind that you'd like us to chat about.
It's pretty interactive. Four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Is that number? Four oh two five five, eight eleven
ten And Kim's on the line. Kim get us started today?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, I would like to know if you had heard
anything about that. When the Iron Curtain fell, Garbachop was
told that NATO would not ever spread east towards Russia.
Is that true or not? Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I don't, but I can, I can look into it.
I know that pretty specifically. One of the deals with
Ukraine specifically was that Ukraine would not be a part
of NATO for sure. As part of those accords that
were signed back in like I think ninety four.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That was part of the deal.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ukraine also was told to dismantle its nuclear weaponry. Basically,
Russia knows that the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union
was where most of the nuclear weapons were manufactured, and
based on the new borders, they were basically giving those
to a new country now, and there were a few
different things. But I can look into that, Caim. I'm
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not exactly sure about how how east that means, or
how close to Russia that means. But definitely Ukraine was
not supposed to be a part of NATO. I know
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, I have a good day. Uh yeah, I don't know.
Did you did you see what Zolensky said yesterday afternoon?
I did not in his Twitter account talking to people
about stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, and let me see if
I can't pull it up. Because the fight continues, right,
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it always continues. It's we're not done yet, We're not done.
He's very active yesterday on his social media. All right,
this is what he said. This is Volodimir Lensky on
his social medium.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Today.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It was a very productive day in Brussels for Ukraine
and all of Europe at the European Council summit, the
leaders level. I had good meetings with insert a number
of leaders here on the sidelines of the summit. Also,
I had a substantial meeting with the Secretary General of NATO.
Secretary of General of NATO, by the way, is Mark Root.
We managed to discuss many details. I'm grateful for the
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support from all the leaders. I present a division that
swift progress toward peace is possible and together with our partners,
we understand what steps can stop the war, guarantee security
and ensure a just and lasting peace. We are preparing
practical proposals. The first priority could be to establish and
fully control a ceasefire in the sky, stopping missile, long range,
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drone and bomb strikes on energy and other civilian infrastructure,
as well as a ceasefire at sea meaning halting all
military operations in the Black Sea, which will ensure peaceful
and safe navigation. We consider these initial steps as a
prologue to a broader and comprehensive settlement. The war must
end as soon as possible, and Ukraine is ready to
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work twenty four to seven with our partners in the
United States and Europe for peace. Next Monday, I have
a visit planned to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with
the Crown Prince. After that my team will stay in
Saudi Arabia to work with our American partners. Ukraine is
most interested in peace. As we told Donald J. Trump,
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Ukraine is working and will continue to work constructively for
a swift and reliable piece end quote. A couple of
implications that he is ready to talk turkey, playball, if
you will, with the moderators, the mediators of this a
little bit more aggressively. What do you think I mean
that makes sense to me? Right, he's talking Turkey. Maybe
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somebody got into his ear and said, hey, we didn't
do so hot when we came to the United States.
Maybe before the rest of Europe decides to act their armies,
maybe we can actually talk about something that could get
us to the finish line of this thing a little
sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It's shortly thereafter.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I mean, he shared some pictures and video of some
of the stuff that had been happening over there, including
some you know, attacks on their energy infrastructure over there
in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And this is what happens when you don't have peace.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
They're just going to have to continue the fighting and
it leaves you to be pretty large target. And yeah,
he had another post just about an hour ago that
kind of clarified some of this, and I'll talk about
that in a second. Don's on the phone line, though, Don,
welcome to the show today.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well all over there. My comment, Bimp is this, it's
my understanding that the legislature is going to vote to
maybe rescind the splitting of electoral votes in the future,
and I, for one is hope. I'm hoping that actually happens,
because Nebraska, as a conservative state has really shot you
know self in the foot in the past by well,
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for one, we're at conservative state. We elect Democrats to
the Senate, and look what happened with Ben Nelson because
of his deciding vote, we have Obamacare. Still, you go
back to Bob Kerry. He was the deciding vote in
the balanced budget agreement. So now we don't have a
balanced budget because that's not required because of his vote.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You go back far.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Enough at Zarinsky was the deciding vote. It's my understanding
on the Panama Canal to be sold. So we see
that we have a long history in Nebraska of putting
in people that have heard us and having policies that
a vers I hope this is something we can put
to bed and get that changed so we don't give
a win to the liberals.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, don I mean you make a compelling argument.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I guess my thing would be, you know, with the
other forty states forty eight states the way that they
are Maine in Nebraska certainly stand out because they split
their districts into you know, separate electoral votes. I think, though,
that there is an argument to be made that that's
actually the right way to do it so everybody feels
like their voice can be heard. My response to what
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you're saying is, well, everybody's a Republican now, because I
think Nebraska maybe learned its lesson and they wanted to
continue to elect Republicans. And that would be my bord
of advice for the second Congressional District of Nebraska, which
is the Omaha area, is we just got to do
better to remove the blue dot instead of relying on
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the legislature. But like you said, there is a very
good chance that enough people will support this going back
to Winter Take All here in the future. But I
appreciate the call there, don It's a good point. Yeah,
so it's interesting, right, that's fascinating, And yeah, if it
does become Winner Take All, you know, if you're a
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conservative person in the state, you're not gonna like You're
gonna be like, yeah, awesome, another secured electoral vote. It
just gets us further away from more and more people
feeling like their vote actually matters in this state, though
that'd be my only thing. It's like, you don't have
to agree with my politics, you don't have to agree
with where I land on a lot of things. I'm
really just kind of like the idea of everybody feeling
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a little bit more like their vote is more important
than we're kind of told that it is. And if
that means that certain areas may be tougher for Republicans
to win, well, then let's figure out ways to win them.
I'm not the kind of guy that runs from a challenge,
and I'm certainly not going to be, you know, in
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in terms of consistency, I think it'd be really important
to note how balanced that second congressional district needs to be.
If a Republican keeps winning and is representing Nebraska in
the second congressional district of the House, but we still
have you know, Democratic candidates in ending up winning, that
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electoral vote kind of shows you the mesh and kind
of the mold of a pretty exciting purple district in America.
And I kind of like the idea that it gives
a spotlight to Omaha makes Omaha matter maybe a little
bit more than it would if Nebraska was entirely a
winner take all state. And I don't know, there's something
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about being a bigger part of that process that you
just kind of lose if it's a winner take all,
and you kind of lost that idea that the people
of the second Congressional District, if they're not happy with
the Republican candidate, can vote against the rest of the
rural state. But alas, we'll see what our unicameral decides
on that. Two sixteen, Hey, plenty more coming up. We
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Speaker 6 (08:51):
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Speaker 3 (08:57):
John, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yes, Nebraska is dealing with a pretty big budget deficit
right now. My suggestion is a simple one here, even
though I'm completely against it, would be legalization of creational
marijuana and tax the life out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, now we're talking my language here, John, For a
variety of reasons, I don't know. Have you heard me
diatribe about this before, because it's been a while since
I have.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
I can't recall it immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, okay, all right, well you've opened up the worms
and I am going to just let her rip. Thanks
John for the call.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Okay, right, no problem, All right?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Now, what did he just say there?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
He said that legalizing the marijuana, the green stuff, will
help with the state deficit. Just tax the heck out
of it, he said, right, tax the slacks off of it.
I get pretty animated about this. You know where I'm
at on this. You, I know, have heard me diatribe
about this.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I believe it.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You know it's been a little bit, but I have
heard of diatribe too.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It has been a bit. Give me one reason this
isn't happening right now, Give me one good reason. And
I don't want to hear that you're a conservative, if like,
at least fiscally, because this is one of those things, right.
I get why people are like, no, this is nasty stuff,
and I don't want to see it just all over
the place. So you see what's happened in places like
Colorado and Oregon. It's just dirty stuff. It's nasty stuff.
(10:19):
We don't want to encourage this kind of behavior, Okay,
but you doing this, you legalizing this, isn't encouraging the behavior.
It's actually just adding freedom to our free country. And
even though I'm not a partaker myself, this isn't something
I'm interested in and I'm not something that I would
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ever really worry about doing. The amount of money that
it does generate for the weed legal states is astronomical.
It is really the best thing that I can do
to compare it is the gambling in Iowa. You know
how much money Iowa makes and gambling with their casinos
every single year? I mean, even just a sports gambling
can you?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Can you venture? I guess I'm gonna try to find
this number?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
How much money did Iowa make in sports gambling in
twenty twenty three. I'll do twenty twenty three, because yeah,
because we're not going to have twenty twenty four. Actually
we do with twenty twenty four. How about this, hey,
guess the number? How much money was actually wagered on
sports in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Forty two million, three hundred and thirty seven, nine hundred
and ten dollars and twelve cents.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Nope, highre lower two point eight billion. Ugh, two point
eight billion. Now, I don't have exactly what that number
looks like as far as the total revenue and just
sports gambling itself, but I can. Let's see if I
can't pull this up here, casinos across Okay data gathered
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and this was in spring of twenty four. This is
from twenty twenty three. How much did Iowa and Illinois,
these two states get in revenue during the twenty twenty
three calendar year in between the two states roughly four
point four billion dollars combined, and the revenue in general
for the state of Iowa roughly one point seven billion
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dollars in gross revenue. And that is through the Iowa
Racing and Gaming Commission. Every single casino was making tens
of millions of dollars potentially hundreds of millions of dollars
sports gambling revenue in twenty twenty three. I mean, that
is pretty wild, and I know Nebraska is kind of
in the process of trying to work on this, but
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Iowa earned a total of one hundred and forty eight
million dollars between in person and online sports wagers. One
hundred and forty eight million dollars. But we are not
participating in this at the same caliber of level, at
least yet working on it in gambling because we're told
that it's bad. I guess, you know, the wrong person
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doesn't like doesn't like the idea marijuana.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm not a fan, not a fan. I know a
lot of people who are.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know the people who are you know people who
are marijuana fans, they're matt Have you met a person
or two that that enjoys to partake. There's a lot
of people out there who do and how do they
do that if it's illegal. We have good answers for that.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
There are there are products here in the States that
I mean, you can buy the the thing that makes
the product active, you know, THHC. You can buy that
separately without buying You can buy that where it's derived
from hemp. You can you can buy that here in
the states. Yeah, you're here in Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, but not not to a level of you know,
full on large scale revenue. But my point is the kids,
the guys, the big people, what do they call that,
the what do they call the guys? The fraternity of
the whatever? I don't care, you know, The point being
people find it. Even if you're trying to make it illegal,
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why wouldn't the state want to get itself. You know,
you want to avoid you want to lower property taxes.
I mean, this is this is an answer for you.
It's an answer for you. Now again, I'm not here
to tell you that it's going to be an obvious
thing and it's going to have one hundred percent work
like I would like it to work. I'm just saying,
why aren't we sitting at the table having a conversation
about it. Why is it so like adamant, No, no,
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we'll never do this. Why somebody tell me why? I
woad made one hundred and forty eight million dollars in
sports betting at twenty twenty three of just revenue. That's
just in sports gambling.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Man made over one point seven billion dollars in gross
revenue from traditional gaming. That money goes somewhere, you know
it does. But you're also legalizing avice. You're legalizing a
device that can ruin people's lives and does. Yeah, but
isn't this America. Don't we preach freedom. Don't people have
the ability to drive across the bridge and go gamble there?
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I mean, don't we have the I mean, everybody's got
a guy who can help them with the other problem,
the green stuff. You know, it's like, you know, yeah,
you might be legalizing it, but it's not really doing
a whole lot by having it illegal, You're just giving
your money to other neighboring states that don't stop people
from you know, exercising that freedom. And again I'm not
a partaker myself, and I don't really you know, it
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doesn't excite me at all, but seeing the numbers of
the dollars that it could potentially generate if you want
your state to make some more money depending on how
we agree on how we're going to spend it, because
I think that's also an important factor here. Well, I'm
just saying it's a it's out there, it's an untapped market,
and you're not stopping Johnny from finding it, or you're
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not stopping your twenty five year old who tends to
lose a lot of money in sports gambling from just
driving across the river and doing it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Why why are we, okay just telling people what stuff
they can and can't do on levels that we always say, well,
we don't want governmental old overreach on certain things. These
are a couple of things that's been pretty proven that
they can make a lot of money if the government
just decides to regulate incentive prohibit.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I don't know. That's just my opinion, but it's a
good thought, it's a good call.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We don't need to spend a ton of time on
it because I know how a lot of people feel
about it. I just that's how I feel about it.
To twenty seven, I do have an update. Vladimmeirs Lynsky
made a five and a half minute video speaking Ukrainian
that I will not play, but he's kind of given
an update on where we're at because things seem to
be escalating and maybe a more positive way on this
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Friday versus what we saw last Friday. We'll talk about
it coming up on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I'll say, yeah, why not? So the next week I
have to pull up to ten day. But I feel
like the next week week and a half, we got
temperatures that are going to keep us out of the
danger zone.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Fifties and sixties mostly going to.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Hit seventy on Monday, probably it'll be close to you.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I remember that.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah, High A seventy two for Monday right now? It
is it is, it is, it improved. Last night it
was near there. But uh hi, ooh, I'm looking at
high as seventy five. It keeps going up.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
What's I even.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Gotta feel like?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Because we do a field trip instead of going to work,
you play hooky, Well you could be outside.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
You know.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
What you gotta do is just get to just just
ask the remote team here to set you up just
anywhere outside.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
They'll do it. Do we have a remote team, don't
we I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
And I'll just stay back here.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, I haven't asked. I haven't asked lately. Last
time I did a show from outside of here, it
was like December. It's been a while maybe to get
back out there. I know.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
It kind of feel like a couple of bears calling
out of their cave over here.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You know, yeah, I know, I know it's crazy.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
What youatta do is kind of do what the Beatles
did and just go up to the roof. Remember they
played on the roof their last concert. They played on
the roof. You know, you gotta just go up to
the roof. Next to the k if Abe signed.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Do we get to kind of get one of those
like reflective things so I can get a good tan
while I'm up there?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I think so. I think that'd be kind of cool.
I know tan very well.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Me.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Neither can get some good color if i'm you know,
if I do it right.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
But right I'm I'm not right there with you. You gotta
do it right. You gotta start slow and steady. Yeah,
you way up.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's not about that base layer, right. Everybody's just like, oh,
you gotta get a little burn to get that color.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
No, No, if you're just like managing your time, well
you can. You can get a good little bronze going on,
good natural bronze that isn't going to make you feel
like you're on the surface of the sun for the
next two days. Filodmeres Lensky said this on his social
media just before we went on the air today, and
it was a five and a half minute video where
he's speaking Ukrainian to his people. But this is what
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the caption said, Are you ready in English?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We continue working with partners who seek peace just as
we do, focusing on the necessary steps. Next week there
will be a lot of work here in Europe, with
the US and in Saudi Arabia. We are preparing a
meeting to accelerate peace and strengthen the foundations of security Today.
Intense work with President Trump's team has been ongoing at
various levels, numerous calls. The topic is clear, peace as
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soon as possible, security as reliable as possible. Ukraine is
fully committed to a constructive approach. I think everyone who
is helping there, we go, there, we have. Maybe something's
happening pretty interesting now. I don't necessarily know all the
answers but of what to look for in the future,
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But you want to know something else. I do think
that there is a matter of general understanding that everybody
has to do what they have to do to get
what they want in the way they want it to
make them look best. Did that make sense or do
does just sound like a word salad?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You say it again?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I think my understanding is that most people have to
do what they want or feel what they do needs
to achieve not just the end goal that they're looking for,
but the optics they're looking for.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
We gotta put that on a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I gotta I gotta fa I gotta like, I gotta
workshop the wording.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Maybe we gotta just make an acronym of it. I
bet it spells like a big, giant funny word.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's probably not very good. I gotta I gotta work
on it.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Though.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
My point is Zelenski going into the White House is
showing he'd stand up to Trump was more for the
optical illusion of him as a world leader to his
people and to his allies in Europe that he's a
real player, and him coming back to the table a
week later and saying, hey, we're working toward a constructive peace.
It's gonna make him look like he got what he got.
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He got what he was hoping for, just maybe a
week later or a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Doing next Monday is the meeting that they're sitting in.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And they could end up getting to the mineral zeal
they could get to the end of the world through peace.
But he also got a chance to kind of posture
in front of the American government and then be basically
lifted on the shoulders of all of the European leaders
as they talked about how great he is and how
they were there to help protect him and protect Europe
in general. Through Ukraine. He accomplished a couple of different
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birds with one stone. That's all I'm saying. That makes
sense my registering that point. Sometimes you just you're okay,
not getting what you want immediate. If it helps the
optics in the long run, Oh, I see what you mean,
it makes you look better in the long run.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
So he kind of had his moment where he stood
up to Trump and.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Got it and then got lifted up on the shoulders
of the European guys. Yeah, and then a week later
he's back talking to Trump aggressively to try to figure
out if we can get peace figured out.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, but if it gives any indication to anybody, clearly
the world needs America quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's crazy, isn't it. Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We are lucky enough to exist in the Western hemisphere
where we're only bordering two countries. Legitimately, you can say
our relations are a little bit awkward there. But are
you afraid of either of those countries? Is there ever
going to be a time? I mean, we wared with
Mexico multiple times. I feel like that's over with. We
kind of put them in their place every time that
that happened, even if.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
We happened more than once.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, I mean the Mexican American War, in the War
over Texas, I consider like a couple of different conflicts.
But getting Texan independence isn't necessarily an American war, I
guess per se, because Texas was its own independent state
at the time. But this is in the eighteen hundreds, dude,
this is a long time ago. I mean, we've had
that border basically secured in the way that it is
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since before our Civil War. We fought with each other,
we thought we fought with ourselves. We started punching ourselves
in the face more recently than we've been at war
with Mexico.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
It's a liar liar style when he's in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Right, Yeah, Man, that movie you want to talk about nightmares?
Could you imagine that curse being put upon you? You had
to be like so deadly honest that you couldn't even
like think about it, just like comes out like Turets.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
They need to revisit that, you know, make a sequel.
Prequ'll do something with that ideal.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
With that Baalen girl that's going viral on social media
for having Turetts from TLC huh.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
There's a show on TLC called Balin Out Loud and
she's a cute young girl, probably college age, and she's
got a pretty extreme form of turets and it's a
TV show of her, her family, her life as she
lives with having these ticks that basically just make her
say a lot of stuff out loud. I couldn't imagine
living that way, but you know, maybe she could. Like
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that's the collaboration. It's like she can be like an
executive producer for the new Liar Liar, which is a
little darker because it actually depicts real life tourette syndrome.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Ooh, a dark twist. I saw a documentary once about
a group of three guys. They were all from from England,
British guys that all had tourets and they were buddies.
They were all buddies and they went on a road trip.
Can you imagine the shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't know if I like was somebody there to
watch them. It was like it was like a postmodern
three stooges. One of them just kept yelling richardson every
once in a while for no reason. And you know what,
I don't feel good about this, But boy, that killed
me every time I'd wail laughing. He just out of
the blue just yelled Richardson.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Well, I don't know why. He doesn't know why, but
I was gonna say, I'm sure he doesn't know either.
It's interesting because I feel like there's a scenario where
they're like getting a little tipsy in a bar somewhere.
I don't know how crazy people with Tourett's get, you know,
but it's kind of like, could you imagine some of
the stuff that they say, and if one of them
starts triggering the other two unintentionally, and now all three
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of them are just like all triggering each other with
their own tics at like a bar scenario, and nobody
really knows what's going on, and they don't have like
a guardian there to like make sure that they get
pulled out of any sort of bad situation that they're in.
Now that's a movie, like like we could just go
that direction too. It's not even liar liar. It's just
a group of you know, friends with Tourette's go on
a road trip by themselves, and then we put them
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in some real difficult situations and they end up creating
a lot of havoc.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, now see I'm watching that.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
They're just popping everybody off unintentionally. I mean, can you
imagine going into the wrong bars. They don't even know
what they're doing. I mean, turn that into roadhouse. They
just they just go around to bars, They go to
the toughest bars in each town, and they just start
like having their episodes, and people are just like, what's
wrong with these guys?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Not a show? Now, eventually somebody's gonna try to punch them.
But that's thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's like if you watch Jersey Shore, go back to
the MTV days when it's in his heyday and Jersey
Shore was a thing.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Did you ever watch that?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
So I watched a little bit of it because I
was fascinated with the characters of these you know, New
Jersey guidos, right, And I gotta be honest with you,
I was always very disappointed because as much fun as
some of the Shenanigans were that they got into mostly
with each other, every time that somebody at a bar
somewhere else wanted to fight them, it never actually happened
(25:28):
because all these cameras are filming them. You know, It's
just like nobody's gonna even a drunk guy is gonna
like look around and be like this, this is being
filmed by like fourteen cameras here. Why are these like
giant boom microphones catching everything that I'm saying, I'm not
gonna fight you right now. And it kind of takes
part of the element of what the entertainment could have
(25:48):
been away with these incredibly obnoxious people. They're just getting
their their face handed to them every once in a
while by a.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Drunk guy at a bar.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Never happened because they're like there are cameras ever, so
they'd be out in the wild and they'd have to
like cover up the guy's face or whatever, and he'd
be cursing at him or something, but you knew nothing
was ever gonna happen. It's like, man, I just wanted
to follow these people around for real and see what
kind of scuffs they get into.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
The Jersey Shore people, Yeah, something tells me they get
real calm and docile when the camera's not pointed at him.
Who the Jersey Shore people. You think that they're normal people, Oh,
they're pathetic when the camera's not on.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I just don't know if I can agree with that.
These people are so bad, like they're so bad like
they Yeah, but don't you think you couldn't hang out
with these people? The only people that can hang out
with people like this are these people, don't you think
Guys like the situation if something. And let me first
say my situation. I've never been in a fight, never
intend to be in one. But I'm just saying this
(26:46):
seems like the kind of guy who, when the camera's
on him and he knows he's got a whole crew
there to hold him back, so to speak, Yeah he's
gonna get a little surly. But when the camera's not on, Yeah,
that guy's a kitten.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Oh, I don't think. So he takes too many roids?
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Well, that doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well, I assume he's on Royds because he's jacked, and
it's also been like fifteen years since the show aired.
But you know, like I guess my point on that
would be he did go to jail for something else,
so I'm not exactly sure what that was. But yeah,
I don't know. I don't think he's a kitten. You
might be right, though, he postures when he's you know,
he knows he's not gonna get hit in the face.
(27:21):
Love to him hit him in the face, though, you know,
part part of me was just kind of like cheering
for somebody who's to say, screw it, I'm going to
hit him in the face.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Anyway, I kept watching for that. It never happened. Two
forty nine.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, we're having fun today, It's a Friday on news
radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
And Rie Songer on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
In twenty fourteen, the situation was arrested for assault after
a fight with his brother at their families tanning salon
in Middletown, New Jersey. Is that not the most like
Jersey short sentence you could possibly say?
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Fight with his brother at a tanning.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Salon, his family's tanning salon.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Family with the family tanning salon. It's a family business.
Not to do that kind of stuff with the tanning celt.
Jim Tanned Laundry GTL. That's like that was their whole thing.
All the guys on the show, they go Jim Tanned Laundry,
like like it was always a big deal when they
went Jim Tanned laundry because they go to the laundry
met to do the laundry can you imagine the amount
(28:20):
of like just wife beaters. Yeah, oh whoa, Okay, I
wasn't going there.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
No, I'm talking about the shirt jerk.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
I don't why the name it something else?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
It's called a wife beater. I was going a different
direction here, Okay, what do you do? We should have
met all beaters? I was.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I was thinking how many wife beaters they put in
the laundry because all those pek tops.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
If there's if there's one thing we should change, it's
probably that nomenclature there.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
But it's people know what I'm talking about. Sure. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
He was also charged with tax fraud for not paying
taxes on eight point nine million dollars after he you know,
spent like four years on national television, and he was
sentenced to eight months in prison, received two years of
supervised probation to begin after his release, order to perform
five hundred hours of community service, pay one hundred and
twenty three thousand dollars in restitution, and a criminal fine
(29:13):
of ten thousand dollars. He was in prison for exactly
basically eight months, from almost nine months January fifteenth, twenty
nineteen September twelfth, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So there you go and his brother.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I don't know if this is the same one hed got
in a fight with, but he got a two year
prison sentence for the same thing because he also evaded
his taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Why do you rich people do that? Like of all
the things, it's like, just pay your taxes. You have
more money than everybody. Why do you need more?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Why do you you know, like, why are you trying
to avoid paying taxes?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You know what happens to people like that? Maybe they
didn't budget for it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, last thing I think the situation was doing was budgeting.
You know, he wanted to look in the mirror about
what his muscles looked like. After Jim tann laundry.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Well, we should have had an an extra t you know,
Jim tan taxis laundry.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Ah, yeah, yeah, that would have helped. That would have helped,
probably would have saved him a lot of time, money,
and embarrassment. But if there's anything I could tell from
watching that show, those people did not mind being embarrassed,
and that was something that was pretty obvious watching that show.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Hey, the three o'clock hour gonna come around. We're going
to have some fun.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Four o'clock hour's supposed to talk to the Senator Deb Fischer,
so we'll have some news items to talk with her
about as well. So stick around having fun on it
Friday on news radio eleven ten kfab
An open phone line Friday where we basically open the
phone lines. You can call in and basically talk about
anything that's been in the news this week, or anything
that's on your mind that you'd like us to chat about.
It's pretty interactive. Four oh two five five eight eleven ten.
Is that number? Four oh two five five, eight eleven
ten And Kim's on the line. Kim get us started today?
What's on your mind?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yes, I would like to know if you had heard
anything about that. When the Iron Curtain fell, Garbachop was
told that NATO would not ever spread east towards Russia.
Is that true or not? Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I don't, but I can, I can look into it.
I know that pretty specifically. One of the deals with
Ukraine specifically was that Ukraine would not be a part
of NATO for sure. As part of those accords that
were signed back in like I think ninety four.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That was part of the deal.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Ukraine also was told to dismantle its nuclear weaponry. Basically,
Russia knows that the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union
was where most of the nuclear weapons were manufactured, and
based on the new borders, they were basically giving those
to a new country now, and there were a few
different things. But I can look into that, Caim. I'm
(01:12):
not exactly sure about how how east that means, or
how close to Russia that means. But definitely Ukraine was
not supposed to be a part of NATO. I know
that for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, I have a good day. Uh yeah, I don't know.
Did you did you see what Zolensky said yesterday afternoon?
I did not in his Twitter account talking to people
about stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, and let me see if
I can't pull it up. Because the fight continues, right,
(01:48):
it always continues. It's we're not done yet, We're not done.
He's very active yesterday on his social media. All right,
this is what he said. This is Volodimir Lensky on
his social medium.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Today.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It was a very productive day in Brussels for Ukraine
and all of Europe at the European Council summit, the
leaders level. I had good meetings with insert a number
of leaders here on the sidelines of the summit. Also,
I had a substantial meeting with the Secretary General of NATO.
Secretary of General of NATO, by the way, is Mark Root.
We managed to discuss many details. I'm grateful for the
(02:23):
support from all the leaders. I present a division that
swift progress toward peace is possible and together with our partners,
we understand what steps can stop the war, guarantee security
and ensure a just and lasting peace. We are preparing
practical proposals. The first priority could be to establish and
fully control a ceasefire in the sky, stopping missile, long range,
(02:46):
drone and bomb strikes on energy and other civilian infrastructure,
as well as a ceasefire at sea meaning halting all
military operations in the Black Sea, which will ensure peaceful
and safe navigation. We consider these initial steps as a
prologue to a broader and comprehensive settlement. The war must
end as soon as possible, and Ukraine is ready to
(03:07):
work twenty four to seven with our partners in the
United States and Europe for peace. Next Monday, I have
a visit planned to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with
the Crown Prince. After that my team will stay in
Saudi Arabia to work with our American partners. Ukraine is
most interested in peace. As we told Donald J. Trump,
(03:30):
Ukraine is working and will continue to work constructively for
a swift and reliable piece end quote. A couple of
implications that he is ready to talk turkey, playball, if
you will, with the moderators, the mediators of this a
little bit more aggressively. What do you think I mean
that makes sense to me? Right, he's talking Turkey. Maybe
(03:52):
somebody got into his ear and said, hey, we didn't
do so hot when we came to the United States.
Maybe before the rest of Europe decides to act their armies,
maybe we can actually talk about something that could get
us to the finish line of this thing a little
sooner rather than later.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
It's shortly thereafter.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I mean, he shared some pictures and video of some
of the stuff that had been happening over there, including
some you know, attacks on their energy infrastructure over there
in Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And this is what happens when you don't have peace.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
They're just going to have to continue the fighting and
it leaves you to be pretty large target. And yeah,
he had another post just about an hour ago that
kind of clarified some of this, and I'll talk about
that in a second. Don's on the phone line, though, Don,
welcome to the show today.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well all over there. My comment, Bimp is this, it's
my understanding that the legislature is going to vote to
maybe rescind the splitting of electoral votes in the future,
and I, for one is hope. I'm hoping that actually happens,
because Nebraska, as a conservative state has really shot you
know self in the foot in the past by well,
(05:04):
for one, we're at conservative state. We elect Democrats to
the Senate, and look what happened with Ben Nelson because
of his deciding vote, we have Obamacare. Still, you go
back to Bob Kerry. He was the deciding vote in
the balanced budget agreement. So now we don't have a
balanced budget because that's not required because of his vote.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
You go back far.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Enough at Zarinsky was the deciding vote. It's my understanding
on the Panama Canal to be sold. So we see
that we have a long history in Nebraska of putting
in people that have heard us and having policies that
a vers I hope this is something we can put
to bed and get that changed so we don't give
a win to the liberals.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, don I mean you make a compelling argument.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I guess my thing would be, you know, with the
other forty states forty eight states the way that they
are Maine in Nebraska certainly stand out because they split
their districts into you know, separate electoral votes. I think, though,
that there is an argument to be made that that's
actually the right way to do it so everybody feels
like their voice can be heard. My response to what
(06:14):
you're saying is, well, everybody's a Republican now, because I
think Nebraska maybe learned its lesson and they wanted to
continue to elect Republicans. And that would be my bord
of advice for the second Congressional District of Nebraska, which
is the Omaha area, is we just got to do
better to remove the blue dot instead of relying on
(06:35):
the legislature. But like you said, there is a very
good chance that enough people will support this going back
to Winter Take All here in the future. But I
appreciate the call there, don It's a good point. Yeah,
so it's interesting, right, that's fascinating, And yeah, if it
does become Winner Take All, you know, if you're a
(06:55):
conservative person in the state, you're not gonna like You're
gonna be like, yeah, awesome, another secured electoral vote. It
just gets us further away from more and more people
feeling like their vote actually matters in this state, though
that'd be my only thing. It's like, you don't have
to agree with my politics, you don't have to agree
with where I land on a lot of things. I'm
really just kind of like the idea of everybody feeling
(07:18):
a little bit more like their vote is more important
than we're kind of told that it is. And if
that means that certain areas may be tougher for Republicans
to win, well, then let's figure out ways to win them.
I'm not the kind of guy that runs from a challenge,
and I'm certainly not going to be, you know, in
(07:39):
in terms of consistency, I think it'd be really important
to note how balanced that second congressional district needs to be.
If a Republican keeps winning and is representing Nebraska in
the second congressional district of the House, but we still
have you know, Democratic candidates in ending up winning, that
(07:59):
electoral vote kind of shows you the mesh and kind
of the mold of a pretty exciting purple district in America.
And I kind of like the idea that it gives
a spotlight to Omaha makes Omaha matter maybe a little
bit more than it would if Nebraska was entirely a
winner take all state. And I don't know, there's something
(08:20):
about being a bigger part of that process that you
just kind of lose if it's a winner take all,
and you kind of lost that idea that the people
of the second Congressional District, if they're not happy with
the Republican candidate, can vote against the rest of the
rural state. But alas, we'll see what our unicameral decides
on that. Two sixteen, Hey, plenty more coming up. We
(08:41):
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Open phone line Friday, four oh two, five five eight
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Speaker 6 (08:51):
And Mariese on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
John, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Yes, Nebraska is dealing with a pretty big budget deficit
right now. My suggestion is a simple one here, even
though I'm completely against it, would be legalization of creational
marijuana and tax the life out of it.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, now we're talking my language here, John, For a
variety of reasons, I don't know. Have you heard me
diatribe about this before, because it's been a while since
I have.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
I can't recall it immediately.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
No, okay, all right, well you've opened up the worms
and I am going to just let her rip. Thanks
John for the call.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Okay, right, no problem, All right?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Now, what did he just say there?
Speaker 6 (09:35):
He said that legalizing the marijuana, the green stuff, will
help with the state deficit. Just tax the heck out
of it, he said, right, tax the slacks off of it.
I get pretty animated about this. You know where I'm
at on this. You, I know, have heard me diatribe
about this.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
I believe it.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
You know it's been a little bit, but I have
heard of diatribe too.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It has been a bit. Give me one reason this
isn't happening right now, Give me one good reason. And
I don't want to hear that you're a conservative, if like,
at least fiscally, because this is one of those things, right.
I get why people are like, no, this is nasty stuff,
and I don't want to see it just all over
the place. So you see what's happened in places like
Colorado and Oregon. It's just dirty stuff. It's nasty stuff.
(10:19):
We don't want to encourage this kind of behavior, Okay,
but you doing this, you legalizing this, isn't encouraging the behavior.
It's actually just adding freedom to our free country. And
even though I'm not a partaker myself, this isn't something
I'm interested in and I'm not something that I would
(10:41):
ever really worry about doing. The amount of money that
it does generate for the weed legal states is astronomical.
It is really the best thing that I can do
to compare it is the gambling in Iowa. You know
how much money Iowa makes and gambling with their casinos
every single year? I mean, even just a sports gambling
can you?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Can you venture? I guess I'm gonna try to find
this number?
Speaker 1 (11:03):
How much money did Iowa make in sports gambling in
twenty twenty three. I'll do twenty twenty three, because yeah,
because we're not going to have twenty twenty four. Actually
we do with twenty twenty four. How about this, hey,
guess the number? How much money was actually wagered on
sports in twenty twenty four?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Forty two million, three hundred and thirty seven, nine hundred
and ten dollars and twelve cents.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Nope, highre lower two point eight billion. Ugh, two point
eight billion. Now, I don't have exactly what that number
looks like as far as the total revenue and just
sports gambling itself, but I can. Let's see if I
can't pull this up here, casinos across Okay data gathered
(11:55):
and this was in spring of twenty four. This is
from twenty twenty three. How much did Iowa and Illinois,
these two states get in revenue during the twenty twenty
three calendar year in between the two states roughly four
point four billion dollars combined, and the revenue in general
for the state of Iowa roughly one point seven billion
(12:20):
dollars in gross revenue. And that is through the Iowa
Racing and Gaming Commission. Every single casino was making tens
of millions of dollars potentially hundreds of millions of dollars
sports gambling revenue in twenty twenty three. I mean, that
is pretty wild, and I know Nebraska is kind of
in the process of trying to work on this, but
(12:41):
Iowa earned a total of one hundred and forty eight
million dollars between in person and online sports wagers. One
hundred and forty eight million dollars. But we are not
participating in this at the same caliber of level, at
least yet working on it in gambling because we're told
that it's bad. I guess, you know, the wrong person
(13:03):
doesn't like doesn't like the idea marijuana.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm not a fan, not a fan. I know a
lot of people who are.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know the people who are you know people who
are marijuana fans, they're matt Have you met a person
or two that that enjoys to partake. There's a lot
of people out there who do and how do they
do that if it's illegal. We have good answers for that.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
There are there are products here in the States that
I mean, you can buy the the thing that makes
the product active, you know, THHC. You can buy that
separately without buying You can buy that where it's derived
from hemp. You can you can buy that here in
the states. Yeah, you're here in Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah, but not not to a level of you know,
full on large scale revenue. But my point is the kids,
the guys, the big people, what do they call that,
the what do they call the guys? The fraternity of
the whatever? I don't care, you know, The point being
people find it. Even if you're trying to make it illegal,
(14:05):
why wouldn't the state want to get itself. You know,
you want to avoid you want to lower property taxes.
I mean, this is this is an answer for you.
It's an answer for you. Now again, I'm not here
to tell you that it's going to be an obvious
thing and it's going to have one hundred percent work
like I would like it to work. I'm just saying,
why aren't we sitting at the table having a conversation
about it. Why is it so like adamant, No, no,
(14:27):
we'll never do this. Why somebody tell me why? I
woad made one hundred and forty eight million dollars in
sports betting at twenty twenty three of just revenue. That's
just in sports gambling.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Man made over one point seven billion dollars in gross
revenue from traditional gaming. That money goes somewhere, you know
it does. But you're also legalizing avice. You're legalizing a
device that can ruin people's lives and does. Yeah, but
isn't this America. Don't we preach freedom. Don't people have
the ability to drive across the bridge and go gamble there?
(15:00):
I mean, don't we have the I mean, everybody's got
a guy who can help them with the other problem,
the green stuff. You know, it's like, you know, yeah,
you might be legalizing it, but it's not really doing
a whole lot by having it illegal, You're just giving
your money to other neighboring states that don't stop people
from you know, exercising that freedom. And again I'm not
a partaker myself, and I don't really you know, it
(15:23):
doesn't excite me at all, but seeing the numbers of
the dollars that it could potentially generate if you want
your state to make some more money depending on how
we agree on how we're going to spend it, because
I think that's also an important factor here. Well, I'm
just saying it's a it's out there, it's an untapped market,
and you're not stopping Johnny from finding it, or you're
(15:43):
not stopping your twenty five year old who tends to
lose a lot of money in sports gambling from just
driving across the river and doing it.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Why why are we, okay just telling people what stuff
they can and can't do on levels that we always say, well,
we don't want governmental old overreach on certain things. These
are a couple of things that's been pretty proven that
they can make a lot of money if the government
just decides to regulate incentive prohibit.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I don't know. That's just my opinion, but it's a
good thought, it's a good call.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
We don't need to spend a ton of time on
it because I know how a lot of people feel
about it. I just that's how I feel about it.
To twenty seven, I do have an update. Vladimmeirs Lynsky
made a five and a half minute video speaking Ukrainian
that I will not play, but he's kind of given
an update on where we're at because things seem to
be escalating and maybe a more positive way on this
(16:35):
Friday versus what we saw last Friday. We'll talk about
it coming up on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Emery Sunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
I'll say, yeah, why not? So the next week I
have to pull up to ten day. But I feel
like the next week week and a half, we got
temperatures that are going to keep us out of the
danger zone.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Fifties and sixties mostly going to.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Hit seventy on Monday, probably it'll be close to you.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I remember that.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Yeah, High A seventy two for Monday right now? It
is it is, it is, it improved. Last night it
was near there. But uh hi, ooh, I'm looking at
high as seventy five. It keeps going up.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
What's I even.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Gotta feel like?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Because we do a field trip instead of going to work,
you play hooky, Well you could be outside.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
You know.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
What you gotta do is just get to just just
ask the remote team here to set you up just
anywhere outside.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
They'll do it. Do we have a remote team, don't
we I don't know.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
And I'll just stay back here.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
You know, I haven't asked. I haven't asked lately. Last
time I did a show from outside of here, it
was like December. It's been a while maybe to get
back out there. I know.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
It kind of feel like a couple of bears calling
out of their cave over here.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
You know, yeah, I know, I know it's crazy.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
What youatta do is kind of do what the Beatles
did and just go up to the roof. Remember they
played on the roof their last concert. They played on
the roof. You know, you gotta just go up to
the roof. Next to the k if Abe signed.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Do we get to kind of get one of those
like reflective things so I can get a good tan
while I'm up there?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I think so. I think that'd be kind of cool.
I know tan very well.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Me.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Neither can get some good color if i'm you know,
if I do it right.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
But right I'm I'm not right there with you. You gotta
do it right. You gotta start slow and steady. Yeah,
you way up.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's not about that base layer, right. Everybody's just like, oh,
you gotta get a little burn to get that color.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
No, No, if you're just like managing your time, well
you can. You can get a good little bronze going on,
good natural bronze that isn't going to make you feel
like you're on the surface of the sun for the
next two days. Filodmeres Lensky said this on his social
media just before we went on the air today, and
it was a five and a half minute video where
he's speaking Ukrainian to his people. But this is what
(18:30):
the caption said, Are you ready in English?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
We continue working with partners who seek peace just as
we do, focusing on the necessary steps. Next week there
will be a lot of work here in Europe, with
the US and in Saudi Arabia. We are preparing a
meeting to accelerate peace and strengthen the foundations of security Today.
Intense work with President Trump's team has been ongoing at
various levels, numerous calls. The topic is clear, peace as
(18:57):
soon as possible, security as reliable as possible. Ukraine is
fully committed to a constructive approach. I think everyone who
is helping there, we go, there, we have. Maybe something's
happening pretty interesting now. I don't necessarily know all the
answers but of what to look for in the future,
(19:19):
But you want to know something else. I do think
that there is a matter of general understanding that everybody
has to do what they have to do to get
what they want in the way they want it to
make them look best. Did that make sense or do
does just sound like a word salad?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
You say it again?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
I think my understanding is that most people have to
do what they want or feel what they do needs
to achieve not just the end goal that they're looking for,
but the optics they're looking for.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
We gotta put that on a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I gotta I gotta fa I gotta like, I gotta
workshop the wording.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Maybe we gotta just make an acronym of it. I
bet it spells like a big, giant funny word.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
It's probably not very good. I gotta I gotta work
on it.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Though.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
My point is Zelenski going into the White House is
showing he'd stand up to Trump was more for the
optical illusion of him as a world leader to his
people and to his allies in Europe that he's a
real player, and him coming back to the table a
week later and saying, hey, we're working toward a constructive peace.
It's gonna make him look like he got what he got.
(20:20):
He got what he was hoping for, just maybe a
week later or a little bit later.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Doing next Monday is the meeting that they're sitting in.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And they could end up getting to the mineral zeal
they could get to the end of the world through peace.
But he also got a chance to kind of posture
in front of the American government and then be basically
lifted on the shoulders of all of the European leaders
as they talked about how great he is and how
they were there to help protect him and protect Europe
in general. Through Ukraine. He accomplished a couple of different
(20:50):
birds with one stone. That's all I'm saying. That makes
sense my registering that point. Sometimes you just you're okay,
not getting what you want immediate. If it helps the
optics in the long run, Oh, I see what you mean,
it makes you look better in the long run.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
So he kind of had his moment where he stood
up to Trump and.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Got it and then got lifted up on the shoulders
of the European guys. Yeah, and then a week later
he's back talking to Trump aggressively to try to figure
out if we can get peace figured out.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, but if it gives any indication to anybody, clearly
the world needs America quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's crazy, isn't it. Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We are lucky enough to exist in the Western hemisphere
where we're only bordering two countries. Legitimately, you can say
our relations are a little bit awkward there. But are
you afraid of either of those countries? Is there ever
going to be a time? I mean, we wared with
Mexico multiple times. I feel like that's over with. We
kind of put them in their place every time that
that happened, even if.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
We happened more than once.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, I mean the Mexican American War, in the War
over Texas, I consider like a couple of different conflicts.
But getting Texan independence isn't necessarily an American war, I
guess per se, because Texas was its own independent state
at the time. But this is in the eighteen hundreds, dude,
this is a long time ago. I mean, we've had
that border basically secured in the way that it is
(22:10):
since before our Civil War. We fought with each other,
we thought we fought with ourselves. We started punching ourselves
in the face more recently than we've been at war
with Mexico.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
It's a liar liar style when he's in the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Right, Yeah, Man, that movie you want to talk about nightmares?
Could you imagine that curse being put upon you? You had
to be like so deadly honest that you couldn't even
like think about it, just like comes out like Turets.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
They need to revisit that, you know, make a sequel.
Prequ'll do something with that ideal.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
With that Baalen girl that's going viral on social media
for having Turetts from TLC huh.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
There's a show on TLC called Balin Out Loud and
she's a cute young girl, probably college age, and she's
got a pretty extreme form of turets and it's a
TV show of her, her family, her life as she
lives with having these ticks that basically just make her
say a lot of stuff out loud. I couldn't imagine
living that way, but you know, maybe she could. Like
(23:05):
that's the collaboration. It's like she can be like an
executive producer for the new Liar Liar, which is a
little darker because it actually depicts real life tourette syndrome.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Ooh, a dark twist. I saw a documentary once about
a group of three guys. They were all from from England,
British guys that all had tourets and they were buddies.
They were all buddies and they went on a road trip.
Can you imagine the shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I don't know if I like was somebody there to
watch them. It was like it was like a postmodern
three stooges. One of them just kept yelling richardson every
once in a while for no reason. And you know what,
I don't feel good about this, But boy, that killed
me every time I'd wail laughing. He just out of
the blue just yelled Richardson.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Well, I don't know why. He doesn't know why, but
I was gonna say, I'm sure he doesn't know either.
It's interesting because I feel like there's a scenario where
they're like getting a little tipsy in a bar somewhere.
I don't know how crazy people with Tourett's get, you know,
but it's kind of like, could you imagine some of
the stuff that they say, and if one of them
starts triggering the other two unintentionally, and now all three
(24:12):
of them are just like all triggering each other with
their own tics at like a bar scenario, and nobody
really knows what's going on, and they don't have like
a guardian there to like make sure that they get
pulled out of any sort of bad situation that they're in.
Now that's a movie, like like we could just go
that direction too. It's not even liar liar. It's just
a group of you know, friends with Tourette's go on
a road trip by themselves, and then we put them
(24:34):
in some real difficult situations and they end up creating
a lot of havoc.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, now see I'm watching that.
Speaker 6 (24:39):
They're just popping everybody off unintentionally. I mean, can you
imagine going into the wrong bars. They don't even know
what they're doing. I mean, turn that into roadhouse. They
just they just go around to bars, They go to
the toughest bars in each town, and they just start
like having their episodes, and people are just like, what's
wrong with these guys?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Not a show? Now, eventually somebody's gonna try to punch them.
But that's thing, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's like if you watch Jersey Shore, go back to
the MTV days when it's in his heyday and Jersey
Shore was a thing.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Did you ever watch that?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Nah?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
So I watched a little bit of it because I
was fascinated with the characters of these you know, New
Jersey guidos, right, And I gotta be honest with you,
I was always very disappointed because as much fun as
some of the Shenanigans were that they got into mostly
with each other, every time that somebody at a bar
somewhere else wanted to fight them, it never actually happened
(25:28):
because all these cameras are filming them. You know, It's
just like nobody's gonna even a drunk guy is gonna
like look around and be like this, this is being
filmed by like fourteen cameras here. Why are these like
giant boom microphones catching everything that I'm saying, I'm not
gonna fight you right now. And it kind of takes
part of the element of what the entertainment could have
(25:48):
been away with these incredibly obnoxious people. They're just getting
their their face handed to them every once in a
while by a.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Drunk guy at a bar.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Never happened because they're like there are cameras ever, so
they'd be out in the wild and they'd have to
like cover up the guy's face or whatever, and he'd
be cursing at him or something, but you knew nothing
was ever gonna happen. It's like, man, I just wanted
to follow these people around for real and see what
kind of scuffs they get into.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
The Jersey Shore people, Yeah, something tells me they get
real calm and docile when the camera's not pointed at him.
Who the Jersey Shore people. You think that they're normal people, Oh,
they're pathetic when the camera's not on.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I just don't know if I can agree with that.
These people are so bad, like they're so bad like
they Yeah, but don't you think you couldn't hang out
with these people? The only people that can hang out
with people like this are these people, don't you think
Guys like the situation if something. And let me first
say my situation. I've never been in a fight, never
intend to be in one. But I'm just saying this
(26:46):
seems like the kind of guy who, when the camera's
on him and he knows he's got a whole crew
there to hold him back, so to speak, Yeah he's
gonna get a little surly. But when the camera's not on, Yeah,
that guy's a kitten.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Oh, I don't think. So he takes too many roids?
Speaker 6 (26:59):
Well, that doesn't help.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Well, I assume he's on Royds because he's jacked, and
it's also been like fifteen years since the show aired.
But you know, like I guess my point on that
would be he did go to jail for something else,
so I'm not exactly sure what that was. But yeah,
I don't know. I don't think he's a kitten. You
might be right, though, he postures when he's you know,
he knows he's not gonna get hit in the face.
(27:21):
Love to him hit him in the face, though, you know,
part part of me was just kind of like cheering
for somebody who's to say, screw it, I'm going to
hit him in the face.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Anyway, I kept watching for that. It never happened. Two
forty nine.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Yeah, we're having fun today, It's a Friday on news
radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
And Rie Songer on news radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
In twenty fourteen, the situation was arrested for assault after
a fight with his brother at their families tanning salon
in Middletown, New Jersey. Is that not the most like
Jersey short sentence you could possibly say?
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Fight with his brother at a tanning.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Salon, his family's tanning salon.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Family with the family tanning salon. It's a family business.
Not to do that kind of stuff with the tanning celt.
Jim Tanned Laundry GTL. That's like that was their whole thing.
All the guys on the show, they go Jim Tanned Laundry,
like like it was always a big deal when they
went Jim Tanned laundry because they go to the laundry
met to do the laundry can you imagine the amount
(28:20):
of like just wife beaters. Yeah, oh whoa, Okay, I
wasn't going there.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
No, I'm talking about the shirt jerk.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
I don't why the name it something else?
Speaker 3 (28:31):
It's called a wife beater. I was going a different
direction here, Okay, what do you do? We should have
met all beaters? I was.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
I was thinking how many wife beaters they put in
the laundry because all those pek tops.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
If there's if there's one thing we should change, it's
probably that nomenclature there.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
But it's people know what I'm talking about. Sure. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
He was also charged with tax fraud for not paying
taxes on eight point nine million dollars after he you know,
spent like four years on national television, and he was
sentenced to eight months in prison, received two years of
supervised probation to begin after his release, order to perform
five hundred hours of community service, pay one hundred and
twenty three thousand dollars in restitution, and a criminal fine
(29:13):
of ten thousand dollars. He was in prison for exactly
basically eight months, from almost nine months January fifteenth, twenty
nineteen September twelfth, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So there you go and his brother.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
I don't know if this is the same one hed got
in a fight with, but he got a two year
prison sentence for the same thing because he also evaded
his taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Why do you rich people do that? Like of all
the things, it's like, just pay your taxes. You have
more money than everybody. Why do you need more?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Why do you you know, like, why are you trying
to avoid paying taxes?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You know what happens to people like that? Maybe they
didn't budget for it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, last thing I think the situation was doing was budgeting.
You know, he wanted to look in the mirror about
what his muscles looked like. After Jim tann laundry.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Well, we should have had an an extra t you know,
Jim tan taxis laundry.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Ah, yeah, yeah, that would have helped. That would have helped,
probably would have saved him a lot of time, money,
and embarrassment. But if there's anything I could tell from
watching that show, those people did not mind being embarrassed,
and that was something that was pretty obvious watching that show.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Hey, the three o'clock hour gonna come around. We're going
to have some fun.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Four o'clock hour's supposed to talk to the Senator Deb Fischer,
so we'll have some news items to talk with her
about as well. So stick around having fun on it
Friday on news radio eleven ten kfab
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