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Speaker 1 (00:00):
World Down Syndrome Day. We all know somebody who's you know,
you know, just great people who you know. We just
want to make sure people are aware of what down
syndrome is. So it's down Syndrome Day. Celebrate those around
you has that It's End Racism Day. I guess racism
is ending today. Did you know that? That's probably pretty good?
(00:22):
You would think nobody. Nobody likes racism at least I
don't think so except for the racists. They know, because
they don't think they are racist. Right, I'm not racist.
They don't like people call it. They may call them that,
but they actually don't like to be called that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So well for the most part. And then you get
those lunatics that were the pillowcases on their head. Oh yeah,
those guys they kind of embrace it. Yeah, what a
sick life, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You know what, It takes a very unique individual to decide,
you know what, I really don't care about being a
good person.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well apparently they all die at midnight, So all right,
b I guess.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah in Racism Day, Yeah, I don't really know how
that works, but yeah, it's also World Poetry Day. Tell
me a good poem on the spot. Yep, you know
I was published. Oh what was that? Right? I had
to pay fifty dollars for it. I think it was
a scam. Oh probably, but that's I hear. That's the
price of getting a star named after you. Oh yeah,
fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, man, all I got was a few measly lines
in a big book full of bad poems.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well it was your was your poem? I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I wrote it when I was in like sophomore in
high School's probably like sad, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
This life is so terrible? Oh you want too? Was
it real rimy poem? Which I wish I had some salad?
I don't know. Don't put me on the spot. Did you?
Did you write those poems that are not rhymy? You know,
like the girl that was at Biden's inauguration that went viral.
She's a good poet, But it's the kind of poems
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that are like spoken words. They're not really like rimy.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, rhyming. If you're into poetry, you don't want to rhyme.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I laugh you out of it, Yes it does, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Rhyming is lazy.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Rhyme You want to say something deep, you know't if
all the end of the world look a good slant rhyme,
will do you, will do you good? You get the
you mix those slant rhymes in. That's okay. But you're
gonna rhyme every sentence. Now you're gonna look hokey. You're
gonna look like a middle schooler.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, that's ridiculous, Not ridiculous at all. A good poem's
not gonna rhyme. It's gonna make you feel all kinds
of things. It's gonna be deep and profound, but it's
not gonna rhyme.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Rhyming. That's lazy. Well, I have a poem here that
was written by me and a friend named Chad Gpt
and I call it Omaha Hoops. Oh, what a sight
in Omaha Town, where the cornfields grow, where the winters
bring ice and the summers all glow. There's a team
that can dunk, they can shoot, they can pass. The
Creighton Blue Jays with style and class, with fans who
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all cheer and the students section loud. They fill up
the c chi a blue, bouncing crowd. They dribble, they swish,
they soar through the air. Opponents all shiver. They don't
stand the prayer. The coach on the sideline, a mastermind,
Keen draws up to play. Oh the best ever seen?
A three from the corner, a lob to the hoop.
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No matter the choice, they make people whoop, whoop. Oh dear,
oh my, says a team in despair. As Creighton's fast
break since them gasping for air. They cut, they dish,
They just don't stop. How do we guard them? They're
just two on top. From downtown to midtown, from West
oh to East, the Blue Jays give foes a basketball feast.
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So if you love hoops and you like to have fun,
come root for Creighton. The show has just begun. Copyright
Emory with Jatgibt. I don't think that's how that works.
I told you what to say, and it just made
it all rme. You know, I didn't have much time.
That was a rhyme. Yeah, I prepared that one. Apparently
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you have enough time to rhyme that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I didn't have enough time to rhyme this many you
know stanzas together. Speaking of which, yeah, basketball, you been
watching any of the basketball today? Do you see any scores? Not? Today,
we have to talk about the MAVs. Unfortunately. Would you
think there is there an easy way to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, they stayed in it for a while. They could
have done themselves a lot more favors by hitting some
of those early threes. They came out and that was
their strategy, and look, it would have worked if they
would have went in.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got a lot of good looks they did. They were,
they were right there the entire first half.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That team could have been up by fifteen at the
half if some of those early threes would have gone in.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And then, you know, just a couple of bad possessions
in the last one, we call a time out with
twenty seconds left, chance to get the last shot in
the first half. You're only down two. You could tie
or even take the lead with a three, and they
turned it over on the inbounds pass and that allowed
Saint John's to go down, draw up a play and
they got an and one. So instead of being down
just too or even tied or with the lead, you
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were on five. And it just kind of sucked a
bit of that momentum in the air out of the
building for Omaha, which was already a very partisan Saint
John's crowd, which why wouldn't they be. It's very close
to Providence, Rhode Island, where the game was being played,
and unfortunately things did not go the way of the MAVs.
So rip to the Mavericks basketball season. But what a
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ride they took us on. Am I right?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Absolutely? They rode a trash can all the way to Providence. Whoa,
And it was a wonderful ride. That trash can has
turned back into a pumpkin. We understand, that's how it works,
a pumpkin shaped trash can. You know, maybe next year
it'll be a dumpster. Let's improve, Let's build bigger, I
build back better, Emory.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't think that's what we want to do. I
do think. I do think though, if we are going
to be quite frank with each other, how can you
how can you improve on the trash can thing? Because
I don't think you can bring that back? Can you?
It was kind of in the moment thing that you
and Bray because it just was organic. And it feels
like if we bring back trash cans next season or
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even force feed ourselves something else, I don't know, or
or do you just stick with it and then becomes
kind of the branding thing because you know, sometimes schools
like ring bells after victories or they do something you know,
very celebratory. Instead of that, you know, it just becomes
like an Omaha Mavericks thing for every sport is that
there's just like a ceremonial trash can that you know, Omaha,
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men soccer gets a win, they in the locker room
have a video of them, you know, taking out a
trash can.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'm gonna say something bold. Okay, I'm gonna say something
with conviction. I will fry my socks in a panini
maker and eat them live on the radio. If the
MAVs get rid of the trash cans, what they're here
to stay. You can't get rid of that. Really, My
advice to them would be improve upon it. Line the
sidelines with flaming dumpsters. Well, you can't do that inside
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that sounds dangerous. Just just have a fire work yourself
in with the fire department Eventually.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Eventually, would that not like create a very bad breathing
environment if you feel like there's not enough ventilation backs
to arena for a like constantly ongoing fire, it'd just
be my concern there. I like the optics though, it's intimidating. Yeah,
something like that. We'll tell you some of the other
scores that are happening today. We'll have a lot more
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fun and if you want to email me, you can
Emory at kfab dot com. We're just screwing around today
because it's a Friday. Thank you. News Radio eleven ten
KFAB Emory's songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
How do you not know that I don't know a
lot of stuff? You could fill a book with the
things I don't know, and then another one.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was gonna say, there's a lot of books about
stuff we don't know already, and.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know what, you might be able to fill three
books with the things I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I don't know exactly how we're writing those down, but
it seems like something that we probably should keep an
eye on.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, and I know that's tough to do, right, Yeah,
would you fill a book?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I couldn't do it, lest like it would be like
phone book style.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
By me, like, hey do you know this? And you
couldn't put in the book because now I do. Oh,
that's a bit of a riddle. You can fill no
books with the things I don't know because you wouldn't
be able to run and buy me.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
A you would have to just already be in your brain.
You'd have to just ask the guys in the liker
your brain cells to pass that information along. But not
every brain cell knows what you don't know, because every
brain cells kind of got responsible for their own kind
of things. Yeah, not great, not great. Other score today,
there's one other final. It was Alabama set ninety to
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eighty one over Robert Morris to fifteen seed. Robert Morris
hung around a lot, got within one possession a couple
of times, but it never got to a point where
Alabama conceded the lead, at least that I saw. I
was kind of going in and out. But yeah, there
you go. Congratulations to those two Iowa States are wrapping
up there win over Lipscum Lipscomb seventy seven to fifty one.
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That's a major blowout. Good work by Iowa State. Not
taking anything for granted there in two games that are
also going in the first half, actually second half just started.
Colorado State in Memphis, Memphis with a two point lead,
forty two to forty right now, make that forty three
to forty and then Duke a thirteen to four lead
in the early going over Mount Saint Mary's. Quick, what's
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Mount Saint Mary's mascot? What do they call themselves? I
don't know, the Mountaineers. I should have known that. What
a dummy? Who you? No? You for not knowing that
the Mount Saint Mary's team was called the Mountaineers. Also,
one of the best players on Mount Saint Mary's. You'll
never guess what his name is, Xavier Lipscomb. Is it
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x Is it Xavier or Xavier? Well, I say Xavier,
but I'm sure many of the people with that name
just call themselves Xavier. But Xavier Lipscomb. He's named after
two different colleges that are in the tournament. Congratulations to him.
What a weird name, Lipscomb. Good for him though. Anyway,
there we are. That's where we're at. It is a
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You had a heck of a line in that last segment.
What was the line you talk about something? I said, yeah,
do you remember like something that you were just like, oh,
that was so great because I thought that immediately. I
was like, oh, that is a great line. What I said?
You said it? I don't remember you said writing a
trash can to Providence. Oh yeah, because providence could be
multiple things. Oh, like I was thinking deep there, I
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intended that, okay, and then you know, like you could
expand that into you talked about like Cinderella glass slipper
turning back into a pumpkin or something. Yeah, which also
is a pretty good analogy for what Omaha was this
year in terms of Vince basketball. Well, it is world
poetry today. So with the help of my friend Chad Gpt,
I have written a poem called writing a trash Can
of Providence. Wow, the MAVs have arrived. Oh what a scene.
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Dancing for a real in March twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen. Yeah,
I had to adjust it to make it rhyme. No,
you can't do that. Come on, that's supposed to rhyme
years ago. It's ryme. Okay, you have been exposed. I
needed to rhyme it. You could not.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Have made a better example of why rhyming and poetry
diminishes it value. I'm gonna I'm gonna let the whole
thing play out. I am right, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
The summit was conquered. They silenced the noise. Now Amaha's
rolling with all of its boys. That one worked, But
how did they get here? What was the plan? Was
it a jet, a bus, a strong minivan, No, sir,
and no way that wouldn't be so grand. This journey
began on a trash can, so Bland, a rusty old bin,
dented and tough, much like these MAVs are resilient and rough.
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They hustled, they battled, they took every hit, and now
they're in Providence ready to spit. I didn't have enough
time to fix that one. The doubters all scoff, they
laugh and they sneer, but the MAVs just grinned. We
love it Right here, the underdog's bark is turning to bite.
A fifteen seed dream a tournament fight. So ride that
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trash can. Maverick's bowled. Your is wild, your spirit is gold,
win or lose. You've made your stand. Omahas proud trash
cannon all in march madness Land, Thank you, thank you, thank.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You, and the crowd goes wild. What a year twenty
fifteen was. We'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
What do you want? It's like a well, what a
scene fifteen? That rhymes? You just have to like pretend.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh, Rob said the the Creton poem that I read
sounded like a really overly long bad ad copy for
the Harlem Globetrotters. Well that's not really what I was
looking for. Doug stole this from Facebook. He says, well,
it rain will at snow. We live in Nebraska. We
really don't know. That's that's true. You're gonna get mad,
gonna get gonna get mad over there at the Doug
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in his rhyme because it rhymed. His poem that rhymed.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now, I just feel like it's probably on a quilt somewhere.
Joanne Fabrics, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh you the go out of business, Joanne Fabrics.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, that's why I picked him. You know, I didn't
want to give any current people any pub unless they're
given me some grub.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know what I'm saying. Not you don't want them
to feed you. You want them to give you money.
That's what you meant, or just skip the middle man,
you know what I'm saying. I don't know what that means.
What the heck does that mean? I don't know. It's Friday.
I don't like it. Okay, So anyway, there's that happy
to do it if you got some poem ideas, go
ahead and send them in or your favorite poets. It's
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nationally it's World Poetry Day. You have to celebrate. Instead,
you're you're taking turds all over the poems. You're taking
turds on rhyming poems. Everybody grew up like with the
Doctor Seuss style, you know, book reading a cat and
a hat or fox and socks, and you're just like, oh,
the magic of this, And now you're like, oh, no,
too uppedy. If you like poetry, you can't rhyme. It's cheap,
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It doesn't make any sense. Poem is supposed to rhyme? No,
see what supposed to take that word out of it?
Poems can rhyme supposed to That'd be like saying all
songs should be pop music. Oh, what's that even supposed
to mean? What's that even supposed to mean? I don't
want to isn't everything pop music anyway? If it's popular,
isn't that what pop music is?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That was That was a That was something on the
spot I came up with.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
There, poems don't have to rhyme. They don't have to
fit any specific format, they don't have to use any
specific vocabulary or that be any specific topic. But what
they have to do they need to use words artistically
by employing figurative language. Eh, that's so like grammarly that
doesn't even make any sense. Words artistically by employing figurative language.
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You know what, I'm just going to keep writing poems
at rhyme. How's that you do?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
When I talk in like a soliloquy form in the
middle of this show, would that be considered a poem
as somebody wrote it down? There'd be a lot of
you knows, and I mean, I means in there based
on what people have told us, you'd probably have to
pull those out. I don't know how artistic those words are.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Somebody taped a banana to the wall and called it art,
so I think that you can kind of just poems
are one of those things too.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The banana didn't that fetch like six million dollars at auction?
It was called comedian or something like that. If these
are the end times, that's gonna be one of the signs.
It's like, Okay, you're mad at me for writing poems
at rhyme. I'm not mad. There was a guy that
made six million dollars by duck taping a banana to
a wall? Okay, can we get mad at that guy?
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Or do we just like tip the cap? It's like okay,
Like I don't know why that happened or why it worked.
By congratulations, the citizens are bored. Six million dollars seems
a bit excessive just to eat the banana, right, Like,
I mean, what else are you gonna do with You're
gonna let it go away, so you're gonna leave it
rott so you can make banana bread? Like, what are
you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Why don't we get to the moon or something. We
need stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We've been to them.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We're taping bananas to walls and calling it art, gathering
around throwing money at it. We need something to do.
Let's let's tear a forum venus. Let's do something.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's you know, how hot venus is? I don't care.
You can't just go to v something to do? How
hot this venus in fahrenheit? There we go eight hundred
and sixty seven degrees fahrenheit. Yeah, well we'll get a cooler.
What do you mean we'll bring it down. You can't
bring it down. It's too close to the sun. We'll
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bring that right now. You're gonna get just outside the
Airth's atmosphere, go that direction a little bit, and you're
gonna fry and explode. That's what's gonna happen. Have you
heard of an ice box? Yeah, like something you put
like frozen meat in. I think there's something we could do.
I think you are greatly mistaken. I think we need something.
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Venus is roughly like it is roughly the size of Earth,
and it's eight hundred and sixty seven degrees fahrenheit. I
don't think you're gonna do a whole lot to it.
If I'm gonna be honest with you, how about this.
Here's your assignment. We have a few minutes in the break.
You write a poem about Venus and what you want
to do to it. Okay, and we'll talk about that
and have more fun next on news Ready eleven ten
kfab and like he's doing here. I actually even helped
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chat GPT write a couple of poems. Chat Gpt gave
me kind of the format and then I just kind
of like fixed some words and dressed it up a
little bit, you know what I mean. Oh yeah, And
you were like this is stupid that, you know, guys
like you started comparing the downfall of art into like
everybody making pop music or guys making six million dollars
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by taping a banana to a wall, and I was
And then you're like, why don't we like try to
tear a form Venus? And I told you, I just
want to let you know that Venus is eight hundred
and sixty seven degrees fahrenheit on the surface, right, which
is very hot. You only would have to be like,
I don't know, ten percent of the way there eighty
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six degrees, you feel pretty warm on this planet. Fifteen
percent of that you're probably going to die. So if
that's all the case, how exactly are you going to
do this? And your assignment was during the seven minutes
that we had the commercial in the news for you
to write a poem about Venus.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, first off, so the way you said a lot
of that makes me sound a little crazy. There's there
was a there's a method behind the madness there. I
just am saying, if we're living in a world where
people are taping bananas to walls and calling at art
and then getting six million dollars for people to gather
around and watch it and throw money at it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I just feel like maybe we've run out of things
to do as humans. Maybe you also, maybe we could
terraform Venus. That's something we could work on.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What we need things to do well for the for
the people like me who haven't really thought about what
that word means, what exactly is terraform.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
That might not be the right word, but I believe.
I mean, you want to change the climate. There's a
lot of things you have to do for Venus, and
I'm going to get into that. But first, Emery, I'm
going to read you a poem on poetry Day.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, you are actually correct before I let you read
this poem. A terrif terraforming is a hypothetical process of
making a planet inhabitable. See I'm pretty smart. Good job.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Here's a poem about transforming or terraforming Venus into a
home for humanity.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Beneath the shroud of sulfur skies, where scorching winds and
acid rise, a dream takes root, a bold design to
claim harsh Venus as humankinds shrine her surface blazes a
molten sea, A whispers hope through mystery with mirrored shields
to tame the sun, a cooling dance. The work has begun. Clouds,
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we seed with life's embrace rain to wash her barren face.
Terraform the toxic air breath by breath, a world repair
mountains carved by ancient fire craters deep. Our hearts aspire
to sow the soil, to plant the green, a paradise
where none has seen through centuries. Our hands extend machines
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and will the tides. We bend a second earth, a
sister's bloom from hostile veil, a home exzoom. Dawn arrives,
the storms subside on Venus's plans. We stride with pride,
A livable sphere wants fierce. Now tame Humanity's spark ignites
her flame.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Whoa, and now we have stuff to do. Yeah, so
what helped you with that grock? Ninety six percent of
the air is carbon dioxide on venus parts, So we're
gonna have to breathe it in and breathe it out.
Ninety six percent that'll kill you, like in one breath.
What about the other four percent? I don't know what
it is, but I'm gonna guess it's not enough oxygen
for you to be able to breathe. There's work to do.
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There's a lot of work to do. And am I
mistaken or did that rhyme? I didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay, next assignment, write me a poem without making it rhyme.
I will get on that now. But I did want
to say because you, I mean, you clown for anybody
who's just sunging in. He clowned me for my poem's rhyming.
I didn't clown.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I just said.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Simply it's lazy, that poem's lazy. You inferred that poems
need to rhyme. Yeah, because when you think of a poem,
it should rhyme. That's what makes some fun. Okay, doctor
seuss Oh, if your audience is a seven year old, yes,
But if you want deep meaning and feeling, the rhyme
diminishes it. And I'll tell you why, Because if you're
going for the rhyme, maybe you're not grabbing all the
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meaning out of the words. But you can do slant rhymes.
Those are fun and clever.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I don't know is that what eminem does.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Slant rhymes is like a rhyme within the structure of
the sentence, where not always the end syllable or salable
for those who that's not the wrong and fastest on
the wrong selabrial.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Wrong, and that's the wrong, that's the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
For those the last syllable of the sentence doesn't always
have to right rhyme. There can be rhymes within the
sentence structure, and then you just have to deliver it properly.
It's a way to be clever and impress your teachers.
Eminem made a lot of millions of dollars by rhyming.
I just wanted to throw that out there. I would
like also to describe how we do terraform Venus really quick.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Okay, how do you do that? Because I feel like
people are already mad that we screw around with nature
enough and now you're trying to completely change planet in
our solars, who cares about Venus? We're not. I mean,
it's a big old rock binding its own business. Ain't
nobody up there? We could do what we want.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'm going to Venus to do what I want.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That's what Napoleon said before we started conquering Europe. But whatever,
go ahead, Napoleon.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So I guess the bad news and the good news
is it's certainly going to give us something to do.
That's the good news. The bad news is it could
take a million years and we're going to need technology
we don't currently have. Yeah, don't keep us busy, all right,
but if we start now? You know, what was any like,
what was living on the planet? What was on Earth
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a million years ago?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
A million years ago? Uh? It was in the Pleistocene epoch.
The Earth was colder than today. Early human ancestors like
Homo Heidelberginnis is sure coexisted with sabertooth tigers and mastodons. Ah,
that would have been fun. Take me back there. The
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Earth was in a period of multiple ice ages. Temperatures
were five to ten degrees cooler than present man, we
really screwed up a geological time. That Pleistocene epoch was
from two and a half million years ago to eleven,
seven hundred and eleven years ago. I don't know why
that was so I don't know why that's so specific. Also,
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those hominims, those early hominids were evolving and walking upright
and making tools, so we were at least to that point.
And there were gigantic rodents, massive rodents, like rodents the
size of a horse. What massive rodents lived a million
years ago. This is the kind of stuff I love
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to do. Oh gosh, Giant rodents like the pau Burimis
and the josevo Rti gacia. They weighed twenty two hundred
pounds and with the size of a bowl. You gotta
look this thing up, man, Can you send me a picture? Yeah,
I can send you a picture. They apparently have found
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fossil remains of the two thousand pounds rodent in Uruguay. Cool,
I mean yeah, love to see that anyway, two forty
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That's a good movie. What is it?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
What inconceivable?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's simply inconceivable that you could poison me.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's pretty good. Yeah, good job, not too shy, all right,
I got this note from Joe. This is unrelated to
anything that we've talked about, except for you know, the basketball,
And I gotta tell you this is this is some
good stuff, this said Emory. Generally when I email you
it is some I'm off the wall whatever, but today
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is an exception. Thought I would share a sports story.
My son in law of twenty two years, age forty
four diagnosed with CLL chronic lymphosytic lymphoma a couple of
months ago. Not the end of the world, but certainly
a blow to him and his family. Good hard working guy,
loves my daughter and they have three granddaughters. Wednesday, while
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talking with my son, I realized that in Michigan, my
son in law's favorite team to root for was to
play in the NCAA tournament Thursday in Denver, where they
all live. So I told him I'd flip for I'll
flip for a couple tickets so they could both go.
He got the tickets, went to the game last night,
and it made him a very happy guy for a day.
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It helped his father in law in Omaha as well.
Sports work. Thanks Joe. If you wonder why we care
about this stuff, if you wonder why sports brings us together,
and we celebrated as something not just about a team,
not just about a game that we might like, but
about community, about the fellowship of spending time cheering for
the same team. When we were at the same bar
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last night, you came and hung out with me and
my buddy justin. Yeah, that was fun. We watched the MAVs.
That was a fun place to be. Yeah, it was.
It sure was. That's the magic of sports. It can
really overhaul how it was a young child or an
old person, an elderly person feels. There was this viral
video that went around to this old, older gentleman when
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the Cincinnati Bengals made it to the Super Bowl just
a few years ago. I remember that when the Bengals
made it to the Super Bowl, this older gentleman, he's
a long time Bengals fan, and especially you know, like
a team like the Bengals who haven't had a lot
of success in their history. He watched them kick the
field goal to go to the Super Bowl, and he's
like crying with this probably an eighty something year old
man just sitting there just like kind of crying about
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how happy he is. And he's there with like I
think it was his daughter who was filming it, you know,
and she's certainly fully grown as well, you know, probably
in her face ifties or sixties, and it's just like
it warms your heart, like you smile and like tears
well up in your eyes watching stuff like that. That's
what we care about. It is an escape to another
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world where we can care about something that is fairly benign,
but we care about it so much that when we're
around other people who care about the same teams or
players that we do, it really makes us feel like
something bigger than us we're a part of. And for
somebody like Joe and his son in law who shared
the story with going to get to see his favorite
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college team, the Michigan Wolverines, play in Denver for the
first round of the NCAA tournament meant a lot to
him and I'm glad he shared that with me. That's
the kind of thing that just makes me smile. So
thanks for the note, Joe. Love that jim sends this.
Jimmy sends this, and uh, I don't know if I'm
going to read the whole thing, but here says interesting
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first hour of the show today, combining poetry with astrophysics.
Thanks Matt. My better judgment precludes me from sending my contributions.
I was raised in a time where we were far
less PC, And yeah, I just really wanted to say
that first part because it was an interesting first hour,
and I do appreciate jim for his his take. But yeah,
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I think that's probably the first time we talked about
astrophysics on the show. You trying to, you know, inhabit
Venus Venus the planet, not Venus the name of a
girl or goddess. What well they named Venus after a goddess.
It's person. Yeah, I think you could tear a form it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And by the way, what was a guy's name, Jimmy.
Jimmy didn't realize you were a Macintosh guy. But I
respect that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Ah, nice far less PC, Yeah, areus? Yeah, thank you
very much, thank you very much. Oh that's it for me. No,
it's not. We got three hours left, all right. Scores
are the games that are going on right now in
the NC Double A Tournament. On the men's side, it's
sixty six fifty eight Colorado State over Memphis right now,
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it's another twelve over a five if it holds five,
and it's left in the half there in the game there,
Duke leads Mount Saint Mary's by twenty six. We're not
the halftime yet. Surprise surprise. Also, Vanderbilt Saint Mary's about
ten minutes in. Vanderbilt has just a shy two point lead.
That's pretty early in that one as well. Women's tournaments
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still going on. Did you know that? Did the women's
tournament started today in Earnest It started today? Yep? Well,
I mean the first four games were yesterday in the
day before. Oh right, Michigan knocked out I was said,
unfortunately eighty to seventy four. And what was a really
good game. Notre Dame took out Steven f Austin, Kentucky
over Liberty by one point. Liberty nearly pulled that huge upset,
and Indiana took out Utah. So it's been a fun
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day of basketball. We'll keep you posted on everything that's
happening in there and have more fun with you on
news radio eleventon KFAB
World Down Syndrome Day. We all know somebody who's you know,
you know, just great people who you know. We just
want to make sure people are aware of what down
syndrome is. So it's down Syndrome Day. Celebrate those around
you has that It's End Racism Day. I guess racism
is ending today. Did you know that? That's probably pretty good?
(00:22):
You would think nobody. Nobody likes racism at least I
don't think so except for the racists. They know, because
they don't think they are racist. Right, I'm not racist.
They don't like people call it. They may call them that,
but they actually don't like to be called that.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So well for the most part. And then you get
those lunatics that were the pillowcases on their head. Oh yeah,
those guys they kind of embrace it. Yeah, what a
sick life, you know.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You know what, It takes a very unique individual to decide,
you know what, I really don't care about being a
good person.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well apparently they all die at midnight, So all right,
b I guess.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yeah in Racism Day, Yeah, I don't really know how
that works, but yeah, it's also World Poetry Day. Tell
me a good poem on the spot. Yep, you know
I was published. Oh what was that? Right? I had
to pay fifty dollars for it. I think it was
a scam. Oh probably, but that's I hear. That's the
price of getting a star named after you. Oh yeah,
fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, man, all I got was a few measly lines
in a big book full of bad poems.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well it was your was your poem? I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I wrote it when I was in like sophomore in
high School's probably like sad, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
This life is so terrible? Oh you want too? Was
it real rimy poem? Which I wish I had some salad?
I don't know. Don't put me on the spot. Did you?
Did you write those poems that are not rhymy? You know,
like the girl that was at Biden's inauguration that went viral.
She's a good poet, But it's the kind of poems
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that are like spoken words. They're not really like rimy.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, rhyming. If you're into poetry, you don't want to rhyme.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I laugh you out of it, Yes it does, it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Rhyming is lazy.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Rhyme You want to say something deep, you know't if
all the end of the world look a good slant rhyme,
will do you, will do you good? You get the
you mix those slant rhymes in. That's okay. But you're
gonna rhyme every sentence. Now you're gonna look hokey. You're
gonna look like a middle schooler.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
What.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, that's ridiculous, Not ridiculous at all. A good poem's
not gonna rhyme. It's gonna make you feel all kinds
of things. It's gonna be deep and profound, but it's
not gonna rhyme.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Rhyming. That's lazy. Well, I have a poem here that
was written by me and a friend named Chad Gpt
and I call it Omaha Hoops. Oh, what a sight
in Omaha Town, where the cornfields grow, where the winters
bring ice and the summers all glow. There's a team
that can dunk, they can shoot, they can pass. The
Creighton Blue Jays with style and class, with fans who
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all cheer and the students section loud. They fill up
the c chi a blue, bouncing crowd. They dribble, they swish,
they soar through the air. Opponents all shiver. They don't
stand the prayer. The coach on the sideline, a mastermind,
Keen draws up to play. Oh the best ever seen?
A three from the corner, a lob to the hoop.
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No matter the choice, they make people whoop, whoop. Oh dear,
oh my, says a team in despair. As Creighton's fast
break since them gasping for air. They cut, they dish,
They just don't stop. How do we guard them? They're
just two on top. From downtown to midtown, from West
oh to East, the Blue Jays give foes a basketball feast.
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So if you love hoops and you like to have fun,
come root for Creighton. The show has just begun. Copyright
Emory with Jatgibt. I don't think that's how that works.
I told you what to say, and it just made
it all rme. You know, I didn't have much time.
That was a rhyme. Yeah, I prepared that one. Apparently
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you have enough time to rhyme that.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I didn't have enough time to rhyme this many you
know stanzas together. Speaking of which, yeah, basketball, you been
watching any of the basketball today? Do you see any scores? Not? Today,
we have to talk about the MAVs. Unfortunately. Would you
think there is there an easy way to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, they stayed in it for a while. They could
have done themselves a lot more favors by hitting some
of those early threes. They came out and that was
their strategy, and look, it would have worked if they
would have went in.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They got a lot of good looks they did. They were,
they were right there the entire first half.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That team could have been up by fifteen at the
half if some of those early threes would have gone in.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And then, you know, just a couple of bad possessions
in the last one, we call a time out with
twenty seconds left, chance to get the last shot in
the first half. You're only down two. You could tie
or even take the lead with a three, and they
turned it over on the inbounds pass and that allowed
Saint John's to go down, draw up a play and
they got an and one. So instead of being down
just too or even tied or with the lead, you
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were on five. And it just kind of sucked a
bit of that momentum in the air out of the
building for Omaha, which was already a very partisan Saint
John's crowd, which why wouldn't they be. It's very close
to Providence, Rhode Island, where the game was being played,
and unfortunately things did not go the way of the MAVs.
So rip to the Mavericks basketball season. But what a
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ride they took us on. Am I right?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Absolutely? They rode a trash can all the way to Providence. Whoa,
And it was a wonderful ride. That trash can has
turned back into a pumpkin. We understand, that's how it works,
a pumpkin shaped trash can. You know, maybe next year
it'll be a dumpster. Let's improve, Let's build bigger, I
build back better, Emory.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I don't think that's what we want to do. I
do think. I do think though, if we are going
to be quite frank with each other, how can you
how can you improve on the trash can thing? Because
I don't think you can bring that back? Can you?
It was kind of in the moment thing that you
and Bray because it just was organic. And it feels
like if we bring back trash cans next season or
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even force feed ourselves something else, I don't know, or
or do you just stick with it and then becomes
kind of the branding thing because you know, sometimes schools
like ring bells after victories or they do something you know,
very celebratory. Instead of that, you know, it just becomes
like an Omaha Mavericks thing for every sport is that
there's just like a ceremonial trash can that you know, Omaha,
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men soccer gets a win, they in the locker room
have a video of them, you know, taking out a
trash can.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'm gonna say something bold. Okay, I'm gonna say something
with conviction. I will fry my socks in a panini
maker and eat them live on the radio. If the
MAVs get rid of the trash cans, what they're here
to stay. You can't get rid of that. Really, My
advice to them would be improve upon it. Line the
sidelines with flaming dumpsters. Well, you can't do that inside
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that sounds dangerous. Just just have a fire work yourself
in with the fire department Eventually.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Eventually, would that not like create a very bad breathing
environment if you feel like there's not enough ventilation backs
to arena for a like constantly ongoing fire, it'd just
be my concern there. I like the optics though, it's intimidating. Yeah,
something like that. We'll tell you some of the other
scores that are happening today. We'll have a lot more
(07:24):
fun and if you want to email me, you can
Emory at kfab dot com. We're just screwing around today
because it's a Friday. Thank you. News Radio eleven ten
KFAB Emory's songer on news Radio eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
How do you not know that I don't know a
lot of stuff? You could fill a book with the
things I don't know, and then another one.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I was gonna say, there's a lot of books about
stuff we don't know already, and.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You know what, you might be able to fill three
books with the things I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I don't know exactly how we're writing those down, but
it seems like something that we probably should keep an
eye on.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, and I know that's tough to do, right, Yeah,
would you fill a book?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I couldn't do it, lest like it would be like
phone book style.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
By me, like, hey do you know this? And you
couldn't put in the book because now I do. Oh,
that's a bit of a riddle. You can fill no
books with the things I don't know because you wouldn't
be able to run and buy me.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
A you would have to just already be in your brain.
You'd have to just ask the guys in the liker
your brain cells to pass that information along. But not
every brain cell knows what you don't know, because every
brain cells kind of got responsible for their own kind
of things. Yeah, not great, not great. Other score today,
there's one other final. It was Alabama set ninety to
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eighty one over Robert Morris to fifteen seed. Robert Morris
hung around a lot, got within one possession a couple
of times, but it never got to a point where
Alabama conceded the lead, at least that I saw. I
was kind of going in and out. But yeah, there
you go. Congratulations to those two Iowa States are wrapping
up there win over Lipscum Lipscomb seventy seven to fifty one.
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That's a major blowout. Good work by Iowa State. Not
taking anything for granted there in two games that are
also going in the first half, actually second half just started.
Colorado State in Memphis, Memphis with a two point lead,
forty two to forty right now, make that forty three
to forty and then Duke a thirteen to four lead
in the early going over Mount Saint Mary's. Quick, what's
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Mount Saint Mary's mascot? What do they call themselves? I
don't know, the Mountaineers. I should have known that. What
a dummy? Who you? No? You for not knowing that
the Mount Saint Mary's team was called the Mountaineers. Also,
one of the best players on Mount Saint Mary's. You'll
never guess what his name is, Xavier Lipscomb. Is it
(09:37):
x Is it Xavier or Xavier? Well, I say Xavier,
but I'm sure many of the people with that name
just call themselves Xavier. But Xavier Lipscomb. He's named after
two different colleges that are in the tournament. Congratulations to him.
What a weird name, Lipscomb. Good for him though. Anyway,
there we are. That's where we're at. It is a
(10:01):
You had a heck of a line in that last segment.
What was the line you talk about something? I said, yeah,
do you remember like something that you were just like, oh,
that was so great because I thought that immediately. I
was like, oh, that is a great line. What I said?
You said it? I don't remember you said writing a
trash can to Providence. Oh yeah, because providence could be
multiple things. Oh, like I was thinking deep there, I
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intended that, okay, and then you know, like you could
expand that into you talked about like Cinderella glass slipper
turning back into a pumpkin or something. Yeah, which also
is a pretty good analogy for what Omaha was this
year in terms of Vince basketball. Well, it is world
poetry today. So with the help of my friend Chad Gpt,
I have written a poem called writing a trash Can
of Providence. Wow, the MAVs have arrived. Oh what a scene.
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Dancing for a real in March twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen. Yeah,
I had to adjust it to make it rhyme. No,
you can't do that. Come on, that's supposed to rhyme
years ago. It's ryme. Okay, you have been exposed. I
needed to rhyme it. You could not.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Have made a better example of why rhyming and poetry
diminishes it value. I'm gonna I'm gonna let the whole
thing play out. I am right, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
The summit was conquered. They silenced the noise. Now Amaha's
rolling with all of its boys. That one worked, But
how did they get here? What was the plan? Was
it a jet, a bus, a strong minivan, No, sir,
and no way that wouldn't be so grand. This journey
began on a trash can, so Bland, a rusty old bin,
dented and tough, much like these MAVs are resilient and rough.
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They hustled, they battled, they took every hit, and now
they're in Providence ready to spit. I didn't have enough
time to fix that one. The doubters all scoff, they
laugh and they sneer, but the MAVs just grinned. We
love it Right here, the underdog's bark is turning to bite.
A fifteen seed dream a tournament fight. So ride that
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trash can. Maverick's bowled. Your is wild, your spirit is gold,
win or lose. You've made your stand. Omahas proud trash
cannon all in march madness Land, Thank you, thank you, thank.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You, and the crowd goes wild. What a year twenty
fifteen was. We'll never forget.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
What do you want? It's like a well, what a
scene fifteen? That rhymes? You just have to like pretend.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
That's I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Oh, Rob said the the Creton poem that I read
sounded like a really overly long bad ad copy for
the Harlem Globetrotters. Well that's not really what I was
looking for. Doug stole this from Facebook. He says, well,
it rain will at snow. We live in Nebraska. We
really don't know. That's that's true. You're gonna get mad,
gonna get gonna get mad over there at the Doug
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in his rhyme because it rhymed. His poem that rhymed.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now, I just feel like it's probably on a quilt somewhere.
Joanne Fabrics, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Oh you the go out of business, Joanne Fabrics.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Yeah, that's why I picked him. You know, I didn't
want to give any current people any pub unless they're
given me some grub.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You know what I'm saying. Not you don't want them
to feed you. You want them to give you money.
That's what you meant, or just skip the middle man,
you know what I'm saying. I don't know what that means.
What the heck does that mean? I don't know. It's Friday.
I don't like it. Okay, So anyway, there's that happy
to do it if you got some poem ideas, go
ahead and send them in or your favorite poets. It's
(13:34):
nationally it's World Poetry Day. You have to celebrate. Instead,
you're you're taking turds all over the poems. You're taking
turds on rhyming poems. Everybody grew up like with the
Doctor Seuss style, you know, book reading a cat and
a hat or fox and socks, and you're just like, oh,
the magic of this, And now you're like, oh, no,
too uppedy. If you like poetry, you can't rhyme. It's cheap,
(13:55):
It doesn't make any sense. Poem is supposed to rhyme? No,
see what supposed to take that word out of it?
Poems can rhyme supposed to That'd be like saying all
songs should be pop music. Oh, what's that even supposed
to mean? What's that even supposed to mean? I don't
want to isn't everything pop music anyway? If it's popular,
isn't that what pop music is?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
That was That was a That was something on the
spot I came up with.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
There, poems don't have to rhyme. They don't have to
fit any specific format, they don't have to use any
specific vocabulary or that be any specific topic. But what
they have to do they need to use words artistically
by employing figurative language. Eh, that's so like grammarly that
doesn't even make any sense. Words artistically by employing figurative language.
(14:42):
You know what, I'm just going to keep writing poems
at rhyme. How's that you do?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
You?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
When I talk in like a soliloquy form in the
middle of this show, would that be considered a poem
as somebody wrote it down? There'd be a lot of
you knows, and I mean, I means in there based
on what people have told us, you'd probably have to
pull those out. I don't know how artistic those words are.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Somebody taped a banana to the wall and called it art,
so I think that you can kind of just poems
are one of those things too.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The banana didn't that fetch like six million dollars at auction?
It was called comedian or something like that. If these
are the end times, that's gonna be one of the signs.
It's like, Okay, you're mad at me for writing poems
at rhyme. I'm not mad. There was a guy that
made six million dollars by duck taping a banana to
a wall? Okay, can we get mad at that guy?
(15:31):
Or do we just like tip the cap? It's like okay,
Like I don't know why that happened or why it worked.
By congratulations, the citizens are bored. Six million dollars seems
a bit excessive just to eat the banana, right, Like,
I mean, what else are you gonna do with You're
gonna let it go away, so you're gonna leave it
rott so you can make banana bread? Like, what are
you gonna do with it?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Why don't we get to the moon or something. We
need stuff to do.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
We've been to them.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
We're taping bananas to walls and calling it art, gathering
around throwing money at it. We need something to do.
Let's let's tear a forum venus. Let's do something.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That's you know, how hot venus is? I don't care.
You can't just go to v something to do? How
hot this venus in fahrenheit? There we go eight hundred
and sixty seven degrees fahrenheit. Yeah, well we'll get a cooler.
What do you mean we'll bring it down. You can't
bring it down. It's too close to the sun. We'll
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bring that right now. You're gonna get just outside the
Airth's atmosphere, go that direction a little bit, and you're
gonna fry and explode. That's what's gonna happen. Have you
heard of an ice box? Yeah, like something you put
like frozen meat in. I think there's something we could do.
I think you are greatly mistaken. I think we need something.
(16:43):
Venus is roughly like it is roughly the size of Earth,
and it's eight hundred and sixty seven degrees fahrenheit. I
don't think you're gonna do a whole lot to it.
If I'm gonna be honest with you, how about this.
Here's your assignment. We have a few minutes in the break.
You write a poem about Venus and what you want
to do to it. Okay, and we'll talk about that
and have more fun next on news Ready eleven ten
kfab and like he's doing here. I actually even helped
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chat GPT write a couple of poems. Chat Gpt gave
me kind of the format and then I just kind
of like fixed some words and dressed it up a
little bit, you know what I mean. Oh yeah, And
you were like this is stupid that, you know, guys
like you started comparing the downfall of art into like
everybody making pop music or guys making six million dollars
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by taping a banana to a wall, and I was
And then you're like, why don't we like try to
tear a form Venus? And I told you, I just
want to let you know that Venus is eight hundred
and sixty seven degrees fahrenheit on the surface, right, which
is very hot. You only would have to be like,
I don't know, ten percent of the way there eighty
(17:47):
six degrees, you feel pretty warm on this planet. Fifteen
percent of that you're probably going to die. So if
that's all the case, how exactly are you going to
do this? And your assignment was during the seven minutes
that we had the commercial in the news for you
to write a poem about Venus.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, first off, so the way you said a lot
of that makes me sound a little crazy. There's there
was a there's a method behind the madness there. I
just am saying, if we're living in a world where
people are taping bananas to walls and calling at art
and then getting six million dollars for people to gather
around and watch it and throw money at it.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I just feel like maybe we've run out of things
to do as humans. Maybe you also, maybe we could
terraform Venus. That's something we could work on.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
What we need things to do well for the for
the people like me who haven't really thought about what
that word means, what exactly is terraform.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
That might not be the right word, but I believe.
I mean, you want to change the climate. There's a
lot of things you have to do for Venus, and
I'm going to get into that. But first, Emery, I'm
going to read you a poem on poetry Day.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Okay, you are actually correct before I let you read
this poem. A terrif terraforming is a hypothetical process of
making a planet inhabitable. See I'm pretty smart. Good job.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Here's a poem about transforming or terraforming Venus into a
home for humanity.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Beneath the shroud of sulfur skies, where scorching winds and
acid rise, a dream takes root, a bold design to
claim harsh Venus as humankinds shrine her surface blazes a
molten sea, A whispers hope through mystery with mirrored shields
to tame the sun, a cooling dance. The work has begun. Clouds,
(19:30):
we seed with life's embrace rain to wash her barren face.
Terraform the toxic air breath by breath, a world repair
mountains carved by ancient fire craters deep. Our hearts aspire
to sow the soil, to plant the green, a paradise
where none has seen through centuries. Our hands extend machines
(19:52):
and will the tides. We bend a second earth, a
sister's bloom from hostile veil, a home exzoom. Dawn arrives,
the storms subside on Venus's plans. We stride with pride,
A livable sphere wants fierce. Now tame Humanity's spark ignites
her flame.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Whoa, and now we have stuff to do. Yeah, so
what helped you with that grock? Ninety six percent of
the air is carbon dioxide on venus parts, So we're
gonna have to breathe it in and breathe it out.
Ninety six percent that'll kill you, like in one breath.
What about the other four percent? I don't know what
it is, but I'm gonna guess it's not enough oxygen
for you to be able to breathe. There's work to do.
(20:33):
There's a lot of work to do. And am I
mistaken or did that rhyme? I didn't.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay, next assignment, write me a poem without making it rhyme.
I will get on that now. But I did want
to say because you, I mean, you clown for anybody
who's just sunging in. He clowned me for my poem's rhyming.
I didn't clown.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I just said.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Simply it's lazy, that poem's lazy. You inferred that poems
need to rhyme. Yeah, because when you think of a poem,
it should rhyme. That's what makes some fun. Okay, doctor
seuss Oh, if your audience is a seven year old, yes,
But if you want deep meaning and feeling, the rhyme
diminishes it. And I'll tell you why, Because if you're
going for the rhyme, maybe you're not grabbing all the
(21:13):
meaning out of the words. But you can do slant rhymes.
Those are fun and clever.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I don't know is that what eminem does.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Slant rhymes is like a rhyme within the structure of
the sentence, where not always the end syllable or salable
for those who that's not the wrong and fastest on
the wrong selabrial.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Wrong, and that's the wrong, that's the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
For those the last syllable of the sentence doesn't always
have to right rhyme. There can be rhymes within the
sentence structure, and then you just have to deliver it properly.
It's a way to be clever and impress your teachers.
Eminem made a lot of millions of dollars by rhyming.
I just wanted to throw that out there. I would
like also to describe how we do terraform Venus really quick.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Okay, how do you do that? Because I feel like
people are already mad that we screw around with nature
enough and now you're trying to completely change planet in
our solars, who cares about Venus? We're not. I mean,
it's a big old rock binding its own business. Ain't
nobody up there? We could do what we want.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'm going to Venus to do what I want.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
That's what Napoleon said before we started conquering Europe. But whatever,
go ahead, Napoleon.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
So I guess the bad news and the good news
is it's certainly going to give us something to do.
That's the good news. The bad news is it could
take a million years and we're going to need technology
we don't currently have. Yeah, don't keep us busy, all right,
but if we start now? You know, what was any like,
what was living on the planet? What was on Earth
(22:40):
a million years ago?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
A million years ago? Uh? It was in the Pleistocene epoch.
The Earth was colder than today. Early human ancestors like
Homo Heidelberginnis is sure coexisted with sabertooth tigers and mastodons. Ah,
that would have been fun. Take me back there. The
(23:03):
Earth was in a period of multiple ice ages. Temperatures
were five to ten degrees cooler than present man, we
really screwed up a geological time. That Pleistocene epoch was
from two and a half million years ago to eleven,
seven hundred and eleven years ago. I don't know why
that was so I don't know why that's so specific. Also,
(23:25):
those hominims, those early hominids were evolving and walking upright
and making tools, so we were at least to that point.
And there were gigantic rodents, massive rodents, like rodents the
size of a horse. What massive rodents lived a million
years ago. This is the kind of stuff I love
(23:46):
to do. Oh gosh, Giant rodents like the pau Burimis
and the josevo Rti gacia. They weighed twenty two hundred
pounds and with the size of a bowl. You gotta
look this thing up, man, Can you send me a picture? Yeah,
I can send you a picture. They apparently have found
(24:08):
fossil remains of the two thousand pounds rodent in Uruguay. Cool,
I mean yeah, love to see that anyway, two forty
six you got paulm Ideas hit me up imriat kfab
dot com. E M E R y KFB dot com
might open the phones at the top of the three
o'clock hour as well, So stick around on news radio
eleven ten kfab. Emery Sunger on news radio eleven ten kfab.
(24:34):
That's a good movie. What is it?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
What?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
What inconceivable?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
It's simply inconceivable that you could poison me.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
That's pretty good. Yeah, good job, not too shy, all right,
I got this note from Joe. This is unrelated to
anything that we've talked about, except for you know, the basketball,
And I gotta tell you this is this is some
good stuff, this said Emory. Generally when I email you
it is some I'm off the wall whatever, but today
(25:02):
is an exception. Thought I would share a sports story.
My son in law of twenty two years, age forty
four diagnosed with CLL chronic lymphosytic lymphoma a couple of
months ago. Not the end of the world, but certainly
a blow to him and his family. Good hard working guy,
loves my daughter and they have three granddaughters. Wednesday, while
(25:25):
talking with my son, I realized that in Michigan, my
son in law's favorite team to root for was to
play in the NCAA tournament Thursday in Denver, where they
all live. So I told him I'd flip for I'll
flip for a couple tickets so they could both go.
He got the tickets, went to the game last night,
and it made him a very happy guy for a day.
(25:46):
It helped his father in law in Omaha as well.
Sports work. Thanks Joe. If you wonder why we care
about this stuff, if you wonder why sports brings us together,
and we celebrated as something not just about a team,
not just about a game that we might like, but
about community, about the fellowship of spending time cheering for
the same team. When we were at the same bar
(26:07):
last night, you came and hung out with me and
my buddy justin. Yeah, that was fun. We watched the MAVs.
That was a fun place to be. Yeah, it was.
It sure was. That's the magic of sports. It can
really overhaul how it was a young child or an
old person, an elderly person feels. There was this viral
video that went around to this old, older gentleman when
(26:29):
the Cincinnati Bengals made it to the Super Bowl just
a few years ago. I remember that when the Bengals
made it to the Super Bowl, this older gentleman, he's
a long time Bengals fan, and especially you know, like
a team like the Bengals who haven't had a lot
of success in their history. He watched them kick the
field goal to go to the Super Bowl, and he's
like crying with this probably an eighty something year old
man just sitting there just like kind of crying about
(26:51):
how happy he is. And he's there with like I
think it was his daughter who was filming it, you know,
and she's certainly fully grown as well, you know, probably
in her face ifties or sixties, and it's just like
it warms your heart, like you smile and like tears
well up in your eyes watching stuff like that. That's
what we care about. It is an escape to another
(27:12):
world where we can care about something that is fairly benign,
but we care about it so much that when we're
around other people who care about the same teams or
players that we do, it really makes us feel like
something bigger than us we're a part of. And for
somebody like Joe and his son in law who shared
the story with going to get to see his favorite
(27:32):
college team, the Michigan Wolverines, play in Denver for the
first round of the NCAA tournament meant a lot to
him and I'm glad he shared that with me. That's
the kind of thing that just makes me smile. So
thanks for the note, Joe. Love that jim sends this.
Jimmy sends this, and uh, I don't know if I'm
going to read the whole thing, but here says interesting
(27:53):
first hour of the show today, combining poetry with astrophysics.
Thanks Matt. My better judgment precludes me from sending my contributions.
I was raised in a time where we were far
less PC, And yeah, I just really wanted to say
that first part because it was an interesting first hour,
and I do appreciate jim for his his take. But yeah,
(28:14):
I think that's probably the first time we talked about
astrophysics on the show. You trying to, you know, inhabit
Venus Venus the planet, not Venus the name of a
girl or goddess. What well they named Venus after a goddess.
It's person. Yeah, I think you could tear a form it.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And by the way, what was a guy's name, Jimmy.
Jimmy didn't realize you were a Macintosh guy. But I
respect that.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Ah, nice far less PC, Yeah, areus? Yeah, thank you
very much, thank you very much. Oh that's it for me. No,
it's not. We got three hours left, all right. Scores
are the games that are going on right now in
the NC Double A Tournament. On the men's side, it's
sixty six fifty eight Colorado State over Memphis right now,
(28:56):
it's another twelve over a five if it holds five,
and it's left in the half there in the game there,
Duke leads Mount Saint Mary's by twenty six. We're not
the halftime yet. Surprise surprise. Also, Vanderbilt Saint Mary's about
ten minutes in. Vanderbilt has just a shy two point lead.
That's pretty early in that one as well. Women's tournaments
(29:20):
still going on. Did you know that? Did the women's
tournament started today in Earnest It started today? Yep? Well,
I mean the first four games were yesterday in the
day before. Oh right, Michigan knocked out I was said,
unfortunately eighty to seventy four. And what was a really
good game. Notre Dame took out Steven f Austin, Kentucky
over Liberty by one point. Liberty nearly pulled that huge upset,
and Indiana took out Utah. So it's been a fun
(29:43):
day of basketball. We'll keep you posted on everything that's
happening in there and have more fun with you on
news radio eleventon KFAB
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