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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I took that factoy right to my friends and family
and spread it around as much as I could. So
not condoms for Gaza, oh that one? Oh yeah, yeah,
I tried to forget about that. I'll be completely honest.
I didn't really want to think a whole lot about
that after I left the show. Yeah, so it the uh.
(00:20):
I just wanted to get to this because I had
I have a very angry person who always emails me
named Don. Don never likes what I have to say
and very rarely thinks that anything that Republicans do is good. Well,
thanks for continuing to listen, Don, you're a real trooper.
I'd even say you're a super trooper. But send me
a note, which got me to dig a little deeper
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because there is a bit of a walk back on
those claims, just a little bit of a walk back,
and they are conceding that this actual, you know, money,
is it specifically for condoms in Gaza. And I just
wanted to shout this out. So Don thinks that I'm
a very fair person. I had very big questions as
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to not necessarily the accuracy of what she was saying,
but what exactly that meant. Right, fifty million dollars for
anything to Gaza seems kind of beard considering we're mostly
funding the other side of that war. But essentially it
got it went viral, right. It was one of those
big moments, with those Trumpian moments that people on social
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media gravitate toward and just like, can you get a
load of these people like how funny is this? And
the people over there just spending our money left and right?
That's crazy. Yeah, So the claims apparently didn't match this.
In a September twenty twenty four US Agency for International
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Development report says there was sixty point eight million dollars
that was distributed worldwide and allocated to that to Gaza
the Palestinian territory, but not one one of them was
specifically shown for contraceptives, and the same report says the
only contraceptives at all that were sent to the region
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were distributed to the Jordanian government in the form of
forty five thousand dollars of medication and not actual you know, condoms.
So yeah, and you know what, it doesn't really matter, Like,
let's be realistic here. The idea of anything for the
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help of people who may be in need. We can
discuss that but I also am not like hugely interested
in if our government is going to be helping the
healthcare of any kind of you know, really any kind
of healthcare, let's be honest, to places that were kind
of not super duper good friends with or allies with.
I just want to know why that was said. Well,
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apparently Andrew Miller, who's an ex Biden administration State Department
official was also a deputy Assistant Secretary for the Israeli
and Palestinian Affairs, told The Times of Israel last night
that this was an outlandish claim, but it was possible
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that fifty million dollars is put aside for sexual health
or something of that nature. But that would include services
that include gynecology certainly wouldn't be for contraceptives alone.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So anyway, there you go. Don I'm glad that you
sent me that note, and I hope that you were
very tickled that I gave you a shout out for
the fairness that I'm willing to put this show through.
Even if that was one of the like, it was
certainly a big time statement, but it really wasn't the
moral of any of the stories that were being talked about. Well,
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but you say something bombastic, It makes its way around
the world fourteen hundred times, and then all of a
sudden we learn it was not true at all. I
think that's noteworthy, not true at all.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Or.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Was it oversimplified? You know? So, yes, I get you.
At the same time, it doesn't change how I feel
about anything that happened yesterday. I still think Caroline love
it had a great first day. And I told you
that there was a bit of Trump in the way
that she spoke. Sometimes you wake people up with some
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of the stuff that you're saying, even if it is, uh,
let's just say, not exactly what is going on. So
there you go, you know, and look, she wants people
to stop lying out there, and she's gonna be held
to that standard. She said, she's gonna hold herself to
that standard. She's gonna have to be careful. You can't
in one you know, in one breath and in one
sentence say I'm gonna you know, I'm not gonna lie
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to you up here, like the previous administration consistently did,
which they did. I mean, the Biden health thing was
a lie every single day. It felt like, oh, yeah,
he's fine, don't worry about it. He's vibrant, he's just
as good as he ever was. Come on. But at
the same time, you can't then go and say something
that is erratic and potentially untrue to the point where
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it's super viral, and then eventually people fact check it
and they're like, yeah, there's no evidence this is actually
something that's happened. The State Department, for whatever it's worth,
did not confirm this, and many people are just like, yeah,
whatever she was talking about in that regard was certainly
not one hundred percent accurate. Also, the previous three years,
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us AID spent no money on contraceptives for the entire
Middle East. And I'm talking physical contraception, like some medication
as I mentioned, was sent to Jordan.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So anyway, did I cover my butt there? They cover
my butt? I don't know. It's as sure as a
weird conversation to have. Well, yeah, and I you know what,
I just it just it bums me out. All the
people who grabbed that and ran around with it, and
it passed it around Facebook meme style, and there's just
a whole lot of people who are not going to
know the actual truth on it. I hope that the
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next time she's in front of the press, she can
explain why she said that specifically, or how about we
just like dump it, Like, how about we just not
talk about condoms and gods ever? Again? Well, then how
about we just accept the fact that everyone lies to us?
And who cares? I mean, everyone does lie to us.
I mean we've talked about that too. I mean, she
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can say she's not lying to us, but will she
ever tell us one hundred percent of the full truth?
What politician ever has? I mean, Donald Trump? You can
say that he's super deeper honest all the time, that
would be inaccurate. Like Donald Trump has said things that
aren't true. Donald Trump keeps talking about how he won
the youth vote by thirty six points. I don't even
know what that means. I think he drifts in and
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out of hyperbole within the way he talks, and only
he knows when he's in and out of it. And
that tends to lend to a lot of talk that, yeah,
you like what he says inaccurate, Yeah, you like what
he's saying. But yeah, at the same time, like if
you were to like make a book report citing him
as a source for some of this stuff, you would
be incorrect on like a solid amount of it, like
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that that whole claim of the thirty six percent of
the youth vote, Like he won by thirty six points
of the youth vote. He didn't win any demographic by
thirty six percent. Nobody does. Nobody ever does. Like that's
an insane number. But again, you know, people will just
say because it's Donald Trump, that it's true. That's just
the battle that we have to we have to reckon
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ourselves with right. It's just like, what is or is
it important to correct or get right? If we're talking
about trillions of dollars that's on the chopping block here,
that taxpayer money is no longer going to go to
because we're either not a part of like the World
Health Organization or ascending any sort of medical aids to
countries that aren't our allies. That I'm okay with taking
a look at. Maybe we shouldn't be spending that money.
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That's all I'm saying. Maybe we could word it better
if you're Caroline Levitt, but there you go. I'm fair.
Will you pat me on the back in the commercial
break to make me feel good about myself that I
did this? Sure? Thank you I'm going to need it.
Speaking of TikTok, there is an exclusive story with Fox
News Today that I was reading about why exactly Donald
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Trump is did his viewpoints on TikTok and it's legality
for the time being, we will explain coming up on
news Radio eleven ten kfab. Emery Sunger on news Radio
eleven ten kfab. I post on TikTok. I get some likes,
some people follow me, even though I'm not very good
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at making the like you know, how the kids make
the tiktoks is like, you'll never believe what I just did. Here,
this is what I did, and this is what happened
after that, and then I did this, and then the
videos edited to like show all this stuff like yeah,
I can't believe that I actually was able to make
a sandwich or something like that. And you know people
like that, tens of thousands of people like it, right, Well,
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that's just not you know, I don't make videos like that.
I like post the videos of my dog that I
put on Facebook. I just put on TikTok. I don't
usually scroll TikTok for obvious reasons, you know why, because
I don't know, I like, I like watching like a
fifteen or twenty minute video talking about something and not
like a sixty second video that is done at like
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break next pace. You know, I know that's what gen
Z wants. So I'm not really on it. However, was
it not one of the surprising things towards the end
of the Biden administration that Donald Trump, of all people,
was swooping in to save TikTok? Do you remember that? Yeah?
I remember you talking about it. It's crazy, right, Like
it's just like, of all the people, it's the Republican
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president elect that wants TikTok to stay the same, and
he just wants to find a buyer that's not like
not not lined up with the Chinese Communist Party. That's strange, right,
because all of the Republicans are saying, we need to
ban this app. We don't even want it to be sold, Like,
let's just ban it. It's a it's a security threat
to our nation. Well, according to a report from the
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Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, that's a mouthful.
This report said that they found that TikTok that highlighting
TikTok's ability to act as a powerful influence tool, adaptable
to partisan politics, but with no inherent incentive for transparency
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or accountability. And they, according to this report, basically was
suppressing content that was critical of Donald Trump before he
took office. Now that this is a report from I'm
not saying this. It's from the Network Contagion Research Institute
at Rutgers University. Now you know, I'm sure that they
went through it. But they analyzed TikTok X and Instagram
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and researchers received a response that explicitly indicated content suppression
based on TikTok's enforcement of its community standards. If the
terms such as rigged election, voter fraud stopped the steal
stole an election, there were no results of that on TikTok,
And when they searched using software that swapped their domestic
location for one overseas, those terms produced actual video results.
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So essentially, in the United States, if you were to,
you know, try to find something that was talking about
rigged election or voter fraud or something like that, nothing
would pop up in the US if you looked at
the same thing. But you were you made your location,
you know, those VPNs or whatever that you can kind
of like mask what your computer's location is as far
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as the Internet is concerned, and yeah, you could say
that you were in like Germany, that stuff would have
popped up and you would have gotten videos of it.
So they found that TikTok was suppressing specific content in
favor of Donald Trump before he took office. It's very strange,
just like the opposite of what Facebook and Twitter before
Elon Musk's acquiring of it. It's like the opposite of
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what they had been accused of doing. Now again, I
don't know how much to read into this, and I
don't know how much Donald Trump specifically has to do
with this, but we're going to need some answers from TikTok, which,
by the way, they have fully denied this report. This
this report, they said, has reached a false conclusion. The
researchers used terms subjected to additional safety measures because they've
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been associated with election misinformation or profane So TikTok says,
this isn't the whole story, and I'm I tend to
believe that as well, because Donald Trump has not ever
advocated at all for any social media outlet to be
kind or nice to him. But it is quite odd
right that this happens. These researchers find this, and then
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we have Donald Trump, of all people, saying, well, I
want to keep TikTok alive. We just need to find
somebody to buy it. You know what, doud, what do
we make of this? Do we need more information? Do
we need a second report? Do we need TikTok to
admit wrongdoing? Do we need Donald Trump to say there
certainly wasn't any pressure on my perspective. Do they need
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to even address this or like to TikTok said, we
have policies in certain places to protect against profanity or
election misinformation, and that's why you couldn't see that within
the borders of the United States. I don't know, it's complicated.
I tend to believe that I would I'm curious and
I would like to know more. I just don't know
if one study, I mean, how many many times do
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we get a study? It's just like not very accurate.
It happens actually quite a bit. We need more sampling,
We need more sample size. I need somebody, more than
this group at Rutgers University to tell me that Donald
Trump was being favored by TikTok in the days leading
up to and after the election. Well, it just reminds
me of what happened after twenty sixteen. There was all
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the Russian collusion stuff that went on and on. So
I don't know, and it reminds me of twenty twenty two.
Oh wait, there was a whole lot of collusion stuff
then too with the Biden family. So I think this
is just the new normal. We're just going to have
to get used to after every single election, even if
we think it's fair, even if we think that it's legit,
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we got to get used to the idea that there's
going to be this story that comes out at least
one of them that challenges the legitimacy of what exactly
took place. We're a very connected world these days. We're
all using each other's apps that are controlled by different
countries and have different in trusted in US. It's bound
to happen, I suppose. So, so we could just go
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back to being amish about it. How would you do that?
You'd literally just like quit everything, get off first off,
get rid of those zippers. Zippers. Yeah, they don't do zippers.
It's buttons only what why, I don't know, It's it's
uh because they're made of metal or plastic I have.
I don't know, maybe it's too advanced. You can sew.
That's where they cut it off. They said, we draw
the line at zippers. I just feel like that's something
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that all people should have the ability to have. I
can tell you this, I wouldn't want to go. I
wouldn't want to go camping with an Amish friend, or
at least i'd be the one bringing the tent. Why,
because you got a button that flap closed. That's a
big flap to be buttoning every night. You mean their
camping tent would have buttons. Yeah, I'm talking about the tent. Yes,
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the tent flap Normally you zip that, right, and that's
a big old zipper. Okay, can you imagine buttoning that
thing closed every single night? Sorry for all those offended.
I'll get better. I'll go into some sort of social training.
I'll do better. I'll be a better person. I was
just wondering what kind of flat we were talking about
that was very big and needed buttoned. But we're talking
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about the flap of the tent that we would normally
order the door of a tent, right, that's right. So
I'm just I'm imagining. Okay, what are things in life
that you need a zip or for but you don't
have access to one because you don't get those in
your lifestyle. I mean, they couldn't wear a good hoodie
like a quarter zip or all the way zip hoody. Right,
not great? You know, look look here, I'm you can't
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the toothpaste is out of the tube. You're never gonna
get rid of social media. Like there might be some
movements by our generation as we get older, or maybe
even the generation below us, that hey, you know what,
we need to like take a break from the social
media stuff and like kind of revert back to like
the way things were getting out and about and meeting
people in person. But that's not going to erase social media.
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I mean, and a lot of people rely on social
media for information, important information. You know, how often I'm
looking at the Omaha Scanner account just to make sure
that I know what's going on in town all the time, man,
all the time, and sometimes they just like have that entertainment.
How often do you find yourself just watching YouTube videos?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Like that? I would consider YouTube of social media, Like
I'm on YouTube, I'm like just messing around on YouTube
on social media, and they seeing like some really cool
like documentary style videos about animals and stuff like I
want to still watch that, you know. You know, before
I went to Spain and and Donor, I watched plenty
of videos of people who went there, so I was
prepped for my trip. I get it, I do. I'm
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just wondering, what if you did a case study. What
if this year you stay normal, and then twenty twenty
six you just decide, you know what, I'm gonna do
away with all these things. You can't really do this
genuinely though. That's the problem. You're right, the toothpaste is
out of the tube. How you wonder if we'd be
a happier society if we weren't so connected and weren't
always sitting on our phones looking at other people's lives
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all the time. I mean the answer to that question
is yes in what you're saying, but we would be
just miserable about something else. Now, social media didn't make
people more miserable. People were already miserable to begin with.
They were just miserable in different ways. Now social media
has allowed us to see how many people are miserable,
and we can hop on the bandwagon. We can pick
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things to be miserable about, miserable about together. How many
people are scrolling TikTok instead of doing the dishes. That's
all I'm asking. I have a dishwasher, for whatever it's worth.
Let's go ahead and we'll ask this question to you.
We'll helping the phones. Four h two five to five
eight eleven ten. What do you think about what do
you think about the toothpaste out of the tube as
far as social media is concerned, and does this TikTok
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story have anything that you're like, well, well, you know
that does kind of perturb me that they would be
maybe according to one study, they would have been favoring
Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Call us at four
h two five five eight eleven ten. You're listening to
news radio eleven ten kfab Emri Sunger in general when
you hear that TikTok was potentially suppressing information that was
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negative towards Donald Trump. So it was fascinating. It's interesting.
I wanted to get your thoughts so you can call
in it for a two five five eight eleven ten,
four two five eight eleven ten. Rob is on the line. Rob,
Welcome to the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call him right. Yeah, two
things that don't surprise me anymore as I get older
are number one, the hypocrisy of people on a whim,
just switching sides of a political issue just on what
their guy says or their political party says. And the
other thing is the greed of the one percenters. I mean,
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this is a complete almost financial decision by Trump. We
do want the most prosperous and smartest people leading the
nation making the top decisions. That's what's built this country,
the founders when they when they've made the constitution. At
that time, you had to be a landowner to even
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have a vote. Now, that has served us very well.
We don't want to up of us poorest people in
the nation, but we also have to we have enough
education now and enough and enough the people that know
the difference between hypocrisy. That we should not have someone
like Donald Trump, which I voted for him, and I
voted for him three times, but we can't have a
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situation to where he can make financial decisions. And then
Nolan just called him out on which I think you
are calling him on TikTok's horrible for the country.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
The deep seek is.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Horrible for the country, But I believe that particular issue
was a decision he made on a coming financial windfall
for himself.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, and honestly, you know, you could make an argument
it's good for the economy in a lot of ways
because it allows people who can make content the chance
to make dollars for making content that people like to watch.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I mean, what's more capitalist than that. So I can
understand the value of the app. The only thing that's
just a little sketchy to me is if there is
any accuracy to the reports that that app, specifically in
the United States only was pressing information based on what
people were trying to say. Now, I certainly found plenty
of videos from TikTok of people saying bad things about
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Donald Trump and the Republicans. But if certain hashtags or
certain you know words were kind of you know, shadow
band on that app, that is a bit sketchy to me.
And that we're seeing X go away from that, We're
seeing Facebook make a pledge to go away from that
in favor of more of a community notes environment. But
I'm with you, we can't just let our politicians, no
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matter who they are and which side they're on. Get
away with anything unchallenged. I think it's important, Rob, thanks
for listening to us. Let's go to Gary on a
phone line of four h two, five, five, eight to
eleven ten. Gary, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, I was listening in the current. Then I had
to shut the car turned the truck off. But one
of the most important things you're talking about today is
why you have a zipper on a tent fly instead
of the button. Okay, the middle of the night, if
you have to go to the latrine really bad, you
don't want buttons on your ten flag.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Well, yeah, you're gonna have you're not going to bathroom
in the tent.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, you're gonna have to undo a bunch of buttons. Yeah. Well,
I suppose Gary. The reason that we talked about this
is because Matt Case in his ever crazy, insane sometimes
mine insane, continued. He brought up the fact that we
should just go amish and not pay attention to social
media at all. But he said the first thing that
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we need to get rid of his zippers. All right,
hold on, hold on, White House Secretary, you just took
my words way out of contact. Well you said this,
You're like, let's get it. That's not what I said.
Like the zipper, that's that's something we could do without. Huh,
That's not what I said. I was thinking aloud, you
know what, maybe I didn't articulate myself correctly. Hey, you
know what it was that? Hey, there you go. Hey,
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people are don't articulate themselves all the time. Yeah, I'm
very poor at it. Quite frankly, I have a terrible communicator.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
But it's hard enough to get out of the sleeping
bag bag if you have to go to the latrine
really bad, let alone open up buttons on the tent fly.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, exactly, And you're prove of my point.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All I was saying was I initially said, maybe we
all just need to embrace the Amish lifestyle and get
rid of all of this social media. It's caused nothing
but trouble. But then I pondered and pontificated, if I
remember correctly, in Amish society, they do not use zippers.
And so I thought, well, just make sure you never
go camping as an Amish person, because that would be
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really difficult if you did so, unbuttoning all those flaps
on your tent, and Gary's proven my point. You know
you drink from the lake down the down the road,
and you know you wake up having a go at night.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You don't have that yet.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
A yeah, exactly, thanks Gary, Yeah, Gary, appreciate you calling
in and helping us out with this conversation. I appreciate it.
How do you sleep at night? Pretty good? Actually, George's
on a phone ane of four h two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
How's it going, George?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Another name paradise? My brother. I got better looking again
last night.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh congratulations, that makes one.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Of us after six years that stuff and stop. But
I'm a managed every morning. Well, I really don't think
these apps can sway people. For simple fact, there's so
many apps, and people gravitate to the garbage they believe.
I mean, you've got Democrat garbage, you've got Republican garbage,
and then you've got morons on both finals. I said,
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I did hear something interesting though, They had twenty Congressmen,
ten Democrats Republicans this morning came out said they put
a bipartisan commissioned together to find an honest man run
for president. They said sometime in the next two hundred
and thirty five years, they should have a name.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, I was going to say, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You know, I just don't think you can be swayed
by it. People are already on their side of the fence,
and there's enough garbage out on both sides that they're
gonna believe what they're going to believe.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, and that's fair. I mean when you see people
like Logan Paul, who's a really legitimate influencer for the
younger generation, he's talking more of the right wing side
of things, and you're getting as many high level famous
people coming from that from that side, is that you
are from the left. So I tend to agree, George,
you kind of have to make your opinion up if
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you're gonna get swayed one way or the other and
just believe what you believe. It doesn't make sense that
somebody was, you know, indoctrinated to one side or the
other through a social media app. But that's a That's
what I'm saying, man. I appreciate the call today, thanks
so much. All Right, it is two forty six and
RFK is doing his thing. I want to wait till
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we get to the top of the hour. So what
I'm gonna do is Matt you got the phones? Do
I have more tickets to give away?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You do?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Actually, yeah you have. You have got some more parents
to give away. How about we do that right now.
Let's go ahead and let's let's do this right now.
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all got it on our mind. You might as well
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go dream about it together at the Chi Health Center.
Nice and guess what, my lawn is dead? I mean,
my backyard is a mess. First of all, the greyhounds.
They just Palmer keeps finding places to dig and by
the time she's like getting in there, you're like, ah,
Like it's too late to like salvage that. Like I'm
gonna have to buy dirt and grass seed and like replant,
(26:47):
you know, hear this spring and hope that it grows
in nice and thick. Do I just give up? No,
because that's not the American way. That's what I say.
Gonna have to you know, patch it in one spot
at a time, you know, but we'll figure it out.
You know, I got the gumption right. You know. It
doesn't help the light I have, like this automatic motion
(27:08):
sensor light in my backyard, so when the dogs go outside,
it's supposed to turn on because they'll see the dogs
running outside. Something's wrong with it. It won't turn on, and
I don't know how to fix it. Do I just
do I have to call someone? Is there somebody out there?
Like if it email me? This is not something I
want to take a phone call on the air. But
if you know about what probably is making my life
(27:30):
difficult with that light motion sensor light, I just replaced
the bulb on it and it was working in the
fall of twenty three and it lasted a year. I mean,
that thing is supposed to last for like ten years,
that the bulb. I think it's possible there's a light
switch somewhere that got switched. No, because we can't even
figure out what one of our light switches is for
(27:51):
first of all, second of all, the possibility of that
kind of like, I mean, I guess there is that
one light switch, But I'm thinking, like, I don't think
any of us like flipped that switch. I think more
than anything, I can screw around with that. I think,
if anything, it might just be like a connection to
the power because it has to like be plugged in.
But even then, it's like, well, what would have changed
(28:13):
Nobody went out there and did anything to it. Maybe
it's a clap on motion sensor. Go out there and
give a couple claps next time. That's not how it works.
I know, that's not how it works. That's not how
a waste of time. You're trying to waste my time.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I always thought that'd be a fun prank. Get those
clap on lights and put them in places where people
are gonna clap and then lights just go on and off. Yeah,
harmless pranks, That's what I'm here for. It sounds like
like those things are like thirty bucks with the clap
sensor thing. And honestly, it was a trend, wasn't it,
Like in the eighties or nineties when people are like, oh, yeah,
I want my light to turn on and off by clapping.
(28:47):
It's like a funny party trick one time, Like the
rest of time, you're just like and then your light
just shuts off. And what happens when you really get enjoyed,
you really enjoy that moment in the movie, and you
forget that, you play it up, you plug your TV
up to the clap on outlet, or even worse, you
have something on TV that has something to do with
applause and the sensor picks it up and then just
(29:10):
shuts your light lamp off when you're just sitting there.
I hope all these things happened. It just seems like
something I wouldn't invest my money. And if the Clapper
people were hoping to have an endorsement with me, I apologize.
I cannot in good conscience promote that product. Maybe we
could have, maybe they could have branched out. Why is
it just claps? It could be other noises too, like
what you know, no, like what you tell me. No,
(29:33):
you're gonna dig yourself a hole. I'm not letting you out.
Oh I'm not afraid to say. And how about cutting
the cheese? That's gross? That's gross. You think people would
just turn their lights on and off by that noise?
I could, I'll tell you that much. That's disgusting. That's truly.
Why are you leaning over there right now? The only
problem would be I'd wake up in the middle of
the night with my lights on and be like, what happened? Oh,
that's so gross. Half of my half of my cutting
(29:55):
the cheese, My cheese cuttings are silent anyway, So like
I have it built up to so I could turn
my light off and then nothing would happen, because you know,
I didn't make a noise. I've trained myself so I'm
not like overtly obviously, the one who's there is a
waiting out that. Yeah, yeah, he's a Kevin James joke.
You do the old slide to the left. You know,
(30:19):
there's a way where there's a will there's a way. Yeah,
it's whatever. Anyway, we'll talk at RFK. There's a few highlights.
I wanted to get to, certainly a very interesting person
who was being grilled for his potential as Secretary of
Determament Health, and we'll talk about that coming up here
on news Radio eleven ten K Fabay
I took that factoy right to my friends and family
and spread it around as much as I could. So
not condoms for Gaza, oh that one? Oh yeah, yeah,
I tried to forget about that. I'll be completely honest.
I didn't really want to think a whole lot about
that after I left the show. Yeah, so it the uh.
(00:20):
I just wanted to get to this because I had
I have a very angry person who always emails me
named Don. Don never likes what I have to say
and very rarely thinks that anything that Republicans do is good. Well,
thanks for continuing to listen, Don, you're a real trooper.
I'd even say you're a super trooper. But send me
a note, which got me to dig a little deeper
(00:40):
because there is a bit of a walk back on
those claims, just a little bit of a walk back,
and they are conceding that this actual, you know, money,
is it specifically for condoms in Gaza. And I just
wanted to shout this out. So Don thinks that I'm
a very fair person. I had very big questions as
(01:03):
to not necessarily the accuracy of what she was saying,
but what exactly that meant. Right, fifty million dollars for
anything to Gaza seems kind of beard considering we're mostly
funding the other side of that war. But essentially it
got it went viral, right. It was one of those
big moments, with those Trumpian moments that people on social
(01:25):
media gravitate toward and just like, can you get a
load of these people like how funny is this? And
the people over there just spending our money left and right?
That's crazy. Yeah, So the claims apparently didn't match this.
In a September twenty twenty four US Agency for International
(01:47):
Development report says there was sixty point eight million dollars
that was distributed worldwide and allocated to that to Gaza
the Palestinian territory, but not one one of them was
specifically shown for contraceptives, and the same report says the
only contraceptives at all that were sent to the region
(02:09):
were distributed to the Jordanian government in the form of
forty five thousand dollars of medication and not actual you know, condoms.
So yeah, and you know what, it doesn't really matter, Like,
let's be realistic here. The idea of anything for the
(02:29):
help of people who may be in need. We can
discuss that but I also am not like hugely interested
in if our government is going to be helping the
healthcare of any kind of you know, really any kind
of healthcare, let's be honest, to places that were kind
of not super duper good friends with or allies with.
I just want to know why that was said. Well,
(02:52):
apparently Andrew Miller, who's an ex Biden administration State Department
official was also a deputy Assistant Secretary for the Israeli
and Palestinian Affairs, told The Times of Israel last night
that this was an outlandish claim, but it was possible
(03:13):
that fifty million dollars is put aside for sexual health
or something of that nature. But that would include services
that include gynecology certainly wouldn't be for contraceptives alone.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
So anyway, there you go. Don I'm glad that you
sent me that note, and I hope that you were
very tickled that I gave you a shout out for
the fairness that I'm willing to put this show through.
Even if that was one of the like, it was
certainly a big time statement, but it really wasn't the
moral of any of the stories that were being talked about. Well,
(03:44):
but you say something bombastic, It makes its way around
the world fourteen hundred times, and then all of a
sudden we learn it was not true at all. I
think that's noteworthy, not true at all.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Or.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Was it oversimplified? You know? So, yes, I get you.
At the same time, it doesn't change how I feel
about anything that happened yesterday. I still think Caroline love
it had a great first day. And I told you
that there was a bit of Trump in the way
that she spoke. Sometimes you wake people up with some
(04:16):
of the stuff that you're saying, even if it is, uh,
let's just say, not exactly what is going on. So
there you go, you know, and look, she wants people
to stop lying out there, and she's gonna be held
to that standard. She said, she's gonna hold herself to
that standard. She's gonna have to be careful. You can't
in one you know, in one breath and in one
sentence say I'm gonna you know, I'm not gonna lie
(04:37):
to you up here, like the previous administration consistently did,
which they did. I mean, the Biden health thing was
a lie every single day. It felt like, oh, yeah,
he's fine, don't worry about it. He's vibrant, he's just
as good as he ever was. Come on. But at
the same time, you can't then go and say something
that is erratic and potentially untrue to the point where
(04:57):
it's super viral, and then eventually people fact check it
and they're like, yeah, there's no evidence this is actually
something that's happened. The State Department, for whatever it's worth,
did not confirm this, and many people are just like, yeah,
whatever she was talking about in that regard was certainly
not one hundred percent accurate. Also, the previous three years,
(05:20):
us AID spent no money on contraceptives for the entire
Middle East. And I'm talking physical contraception, like some medication
as I mentioned, was sent to Jordan.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
So anyway, did I cover my butt there? They cover
my butt? I don't know. It's as sure as a
weird conversation to have. Well, yeah, and I you know what,
I just it just it bums me out. All the
people who grabbed that and ran around with it, and
it passed it around Facebook meme style, and there's just
a whole lot of people who are not going to
know the actual truth on it. I hope that the
(05:53):
next time she's in front of the press, she can
explain why she said that specifically, or how about we
just like dump it, Like, how about we just not
talk about condoms and gods ever? Again? Well, then how
about we just accept the fact that everyone lies to us?
And who cares? I mean, everyone does lie to us.
I mean we've talked about that too. I mean, she
(06:13):
can say she's not lying to us, but will she
ever tell us one hundred percent of the full truth?
What politician ever has? I mean, Donald Trump? You can
say that he's super deeper honest all the time, that
would be inaccurate. Like Donald Trump has said things that
aren't true. Donald Trump keeps talking about how he won
the youth vote by thirty six points. I don't even
know what that means. I think he drifts in and
(06:35):
out of hyperbole within the way he talks, and only
he knows when he's in and out of it. And
that tends to lend to a lot of talk that, yeah,
you like what he says inaccurate, Yeah, you like what
he's saying. But yeah, at the same time, like if
you were to like make a book report citing him
as a source for some of this stuff, you would
be incorrect on like a solid amount of it, like
(06:57):
that that whole claim of the thirty six percent of
the youth vote, Like he won by thirty six points
of the youth vote. He didn't win any demographic by
thirty six percent. Nobody does. Nobody ever does. Like that's
an insane number. But again, you know, people will just
say because it's Donald Trump, that it's true. That's just
the battle that we have to we have to reckon
(07:17):
ourselves with right. It's just like, what is or is
it important to correct or get right? If we're talking
about trillions of dollars that's on the chopping block here,
that taxpayer money is no longer going to go to
because we're either not a part of like the World
Health Organization or ascending any sort of medical aids to
countries that aren't our allies. That I'm okay with taking
a look at. Maybe we shouldn't be spending that money.
(07:38):
That's all I'm saying. Maybe we could word it better
if you're Caroline Levitt, but there you go. I'm fair.
Will you pat me on the back in the commercial
break to make me feel good about myself that I
did this? Sure? Thank you I'm going to need it.
Speaking of TikTok, there is an exclusive story with Fox
News Today that I was reading about why exactly Donald
(07:59):
Trump is did his viewpoints on TikTok and it's legality
for the time being, we will explain coming up on
news Radio eleven ten kfab. Emery Sunger on news Radio
eleven ten kfab. I post on TikTok. I get some likes,
some people follow me, even though I'm not very good
(08:19):
at making the like you know, how the kids make
the tiktoks is like, you'll never believe what I just did. Here,
this is what I did, and this is what happened
after that, and then I did this, and then the
videos edited to like show all this stuff like yeah,
I can't believe that I actually was able to make
a sandwich or something like that. And you know people
like that, tens of thousands of people like it, right, Well,
(08:39):
that's just not you know, I don't make videos like that.
I like post the videos of my dog that I
put on Facebook. I just put on TikTok. I don't
usually scroll TikTok for obvious reasons, you know why, because
I don't know, I like, I like watching like a
fifteen or twenty minute video talking about something and not
like a sixty second video that is done at like
(09:01):
break next pace. You know, I know that's what gen
Z wants. So I'm not really on it. However, was
it not one of the surprising things towards the end
of the Biden administration that Donald Trump, of all people,
was swooping in to save TikTok? Do you remember that? Yeah?
I remember you talking about it. It's crazy, right, Like
it's just like, of all the people, it's the Republican
(09:22):
president elect that wants TikTok to stay the same, and
he just wants to find a buyer that's not like
not not lined up with the Chinese Communist Party. That's strange, right,
because all of the Republicans are saying, we need to
ban this app. We don't even want it to be sold, Like,
let's just ban it. It's a it's a security threat
to our nation. Well, according to a report from the
(09:44):
Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University, that's a mouthful.
This report said that they found that TikTok that highlighting
TikTok's ability to act as a powerful influence tool, adaptable
to partisan politics, but with no inherent incentive for transparency
(10:04):
or accountability. And they, according to this report, basically was
suppressing content that was critical of Donald Trump before he
took office. Now that this is a report from I'm
not saying this. It's from the Network Contagion Research Institute
at Rutgers University. Now you know, I'm sure that they
went through it. But they analyzed TikTok X and Instagram
(10:28):
and researchers received a response that explicitly indicated content suppression
based on TikTok's enforcement of its community standards. If the
terms such as rigged election, voter fraud stopped the steal
stole an election, there were no results of that on TikTok,
And when they searched using software that swapped their domestic
location for one overseas, those terms produced actual video results.
(10:53):
So essentially, in the United States, if you were to,
you know, try to find something that was talking about
rigged election or voter fraud or something like that, nothing
would pop up in the US if you looked at
the same thing. But you were you made your location,
you know, those VPNs or whatever that you can kind
of like mask what your computer's location is as far
(11:15):
as the Internet is concerned, and yeah, you could say
that you were in like Germany, that stuff would have
popped up and you would have gotten videos of it.
So they found that TikTok was suppressing specific content in
favor of Donald Trump before he took office. It's very strange,
just like the opposite of what Facebook and Twitter before
Elon Musk's acquiring of it. It's like the opposite of
(11:36):
what they had been accused of doing. Now again, I
don't know how much to read into this, and I
don't know how much Donald Trump specifically has to do
with this, but we're going to need some answers from TikTok, which,
by the way, they have fully denied this report. This
this report, they said, has reached a false conclusion. The
researchers used terms subjected to additional safety measures because they've
(11:56):
been associated with election misinformation or profane So TikTok says,
this isn't the whole story, and I'm I tend to
believe that as well, because Donald Trump has not ever
advocated at all for any social media outlet to be
kind or nice to him. But it is quite odd
right that this happens. These researchers find this, and then
(12:20):
we have Donald Trump, of all people, saying, well, I
want to keep TikTok alive. We just need to find
somebody to buy it. You know what, doud, what do
we make of this? Do we need more information? Do
we need a second report? Do we need TikTok to
admit wrongdoing? Do we need Donald Trump to say there
certainly wasn't any pressure on my perspective. Do they need
(12:41):
to even address this or like to TikTok said, we
have policies in certain places to protect against profanity or
election misinformation, and that's why you couldn't see that within
the borders of the United States. I don't know, it's complicated.
I tend to believe that I would I'm curious and
I would like to know more. I just don't know
if one study, I mean, how many many times do
(13:02):
we get a study? It's just like not very accurate.
It happens actually quite a bit. We need more sampling,
We need more sample size. I need somebody, more than
this group at Rutgers University to tell me that Donald
Trump was being favored by TikTok in the days leading
up to and after the election. Well, it just reminds
me of what happened after twenty sixteen. There was all
(13:22):
the Russian collusion stuff that went on and on. So
I don't know, and it reminds me of twenty twenty two.
Oh wait, there was a whole lot of collusion stuff
then too with the Biden family. So I think this
is just the new normal. We're just going to have
to get used to after every single election, even if
we think it's fair, even if we think that it's legit,
(13:43):
we got to get used to the idea that there's
going to be this story that comes out at least
one of them that challenges the legitimacy of what exactly
took place. We're a very connected world these days. We're
all using each other's apps that are controlled by different
countries and have different in trusted in US. It's bound
to happen, I suppose. So, so we could just go
(14:05):
back to being amish about it. How would you do that?
You'd literally just like quit everything, get off first off,
get rid of those zippers. Zippers. Yeah, they don't do zippers.
It's buttons only what why, I don't know, It's it's
uh because they're made of metal or plastic I have.
I don't know, maybe it's too advanced. You can sew.
That's where they cut it off. They said, we draw
the line at zippers. I just feel like that's something
(14:28):
that all people should have the ability to have. I
can tell you this, I wouldn't want to go. I
wouldn't want to go camping with an Amish friend, or
at least i'd be the one bringing the tent. Why,
because you got a button that flap closed. That's a
big flap to be buttoning every night. You mean their
camping tent would have buttons. Yeah, I'm talking about the tent. Yes,
(14:48):
the tent flap Normally you zip that, right, and that's
a big old zipper. Okay, can you imagine buttoning that
thing closed every single night? Sorry for all those offended.
I'll get better. I'll go into some sort of social training.
I'll do better. I'll be a better person. I was
just wondering what kind of flat we were talking about
that was very big and needed buttoned. But we're talking
(15:09):
about the flap of the tent that we would normally
order the door of a tent, right, that's right. So
I'm just I'm imagining. Okay, what are things in life
that you need a zip or for but you don't
have access to one because you don't get those in
your lifestyle. I mean, they couldn't wear a good hoodie
like a quarter zip or all the way zip hoody. Right,
not great? You know, look look here, I'm you can't
(15:33):
the toothpaste is out of the tube. You're never gonna
get rid of social media. Like there might be some
movements by our generation as we get older, or maybe
even the generation below us, that hey, you know what,
we need to like take a break from the social
media stuff and like kind of revert back to like
the way things were getting out and about and meeting
people in person. But that's not going to erase social media.
(15:53):
I mean, and a lot of people rely on social
media for information, important information. You know, how often I'm
looking at the Omaha Scanner account just to make sure
that I know what's going on in town all the time, man,
all the time, and sometimes they just like have that entertainment.
How often do you find yourself just watching YouTube videos?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Like that? I would consider YouTube of social media, Like
I'm on YouTube, I'm like just messing around on YouTube
on social media, and they seeing like some really cool
like documentary style videos about animals and stuff like I
want to still watch that, you know. You know, before
I went to Spain and and Donor, I watched plenty
of videos of people who went there, so I was
prepped for my trip. I get it, I do. I'm
(16:33):
just wondering, what if you did a case study. What
if this year you stay normal, and then twenty twenty
six you just decide, you know what, I'm gonna do
away with all these things. You can't really do this
genuinely though. That's the problem. You're right, the toothpaste is
out of the tube. How you wonder if we'd be
a happier society if we weren't so connected and weren't
always sitting on our phones looking at other people's lives
(16:53):
all the time. I mean the answer to that question
is yes in what you're saying, but we would be
just miserable about something else. Now, social media didn't make
people more miserable. People were already miserable to begin with.
They were just miserable in different ways. Now social media
has allowed us to see how many people are miserable,
and we can hop on the bandwagon. We can pick
(17:13):
things to be miserable about, miserable about together. How many
people are scrolling TikTok instead of doing the dishes. That's
all I'm asking. I have a dishwasher, for whatever it's worth.
Let's go ahead and we'll ask this question to you.
We'll helping the phones. Four h two five to five
eight eleven ten. What do you think about what do
you think about the toothpaste out of the tube as
far as social media is concerned, and does this TikTok
(17:36):
story have anything that you're like, well, well, you know
that does kind of perturb me that they would be
maybe according to one study, they would have been favoring
Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Call us at four
h two five five eight eleven ten. You're listening to
news radio eleven ten kfab Emri Sunger in general when
you hear that TikTok was potentially suppressing information that was
(17:59):
negative towards Donald Trump. So it was fascinating. It's interesting.
I wanted to get your thoughts so you can call
in it for a two five five eight eleven ten,
four two five eight eleven ten. Rob is on the line. Rob,
Welcome to the show today. What's on your mind?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, thanks for taking my call him right. Yeah, two
things that don't surprise me anymore as I get older
are number one, the hypocrisy of people on a whim,
just switching sides of a political issue just on what
their guy says or their political party says. And the
other thing is the greed of the one percenters. I mean,
(18:35):
this is a complete almost financial decision by Trump. We
do want the most prosperous and smartest people leading the
nation making the top decisions. That's what's built this country,
the founders when they when they've made the constitution. At
that time, you had to be a landowner to even
(18:56):
have a vote. Now, that has served us very well.
We don't want to up of us poorest people in
the nation, but we also have to we have enough
education now and enough and enough the people that know
the difference between hypocrisy. That we should not have someone
like Donald Trump, which I voted for him, and I
voted for him three times, but we can't have a
(19:17):
situation to where he can make financial decisions. And then
Nolan just called him out on which I think you
are calling him on TikTok's horrible for the country.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
The deep seek is.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Horrible for the country, But I believe that particular issue
was a decision he made on a coming financial windfall
for himself.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, and honestly, you know, you could make an argument
it's good for the economy in a lot of ways
because it allows people who can make content the chance
to make dollars for making content that people like to watch.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
That.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I mean, what's more capitalist than that. So I can
understand the value of the app. The only thing that's
just a little sketchy to me is if there is
any accuracy to the reports that that app, specifically in
the United States only was pressing information based on what
people were trying to say. Now, I certainly found plenty
of videos from TikTok of people saying bad things about
(20:08):
Donald Trump and the Republicans. But if certain hashtags or
certain you know words were kind of you know, shadow
band on that app, that is a bit sketchy to me.
And that we're seeing X go away from that, We're
seeing Facebook make a pledge to go away from that
in favor of more of a community notes environment. But
I'm with you, we can't just let our politicians, no
(20:28):
matter who they are and which side they're on. Get
away with anything unchallenged. I think it's important, Rob, thanks
for listening to us. Let's go to Gary on a
phone line of four h two, five, five, eight to
eleven ten. Gary, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Well, I was listening in the current. Then I had
to shut the car turned the truck off. But one
of the most important things you're talking about today is
why you have a zipper on a tent fly instead
of the button. Okay, the middle of the night, if
you have to go to the latrine really bad, you
don't want buttons on your ten flag.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Why is that?
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Well, yeah, you're gonna have you're not going to bathroom
in the tent.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Yeah, you're gonna have to undo a bunch of buttons. Yeah. Well,
I suppose Gary. The reason that we talked about this
is because Matt Case in his ever crazy, insane sometimes
mine insane, continued. He brought up the fact that we
should just go amish and not pay attention to social
media at all. But he said the first thing that
(21:26):
we need to get rid of his zippers. All right,
hold on, hold on, White House Secretary, you just took
my words way out of contact. Well you said this,
You're like, let's get it. That's not what I said.
Like the zipper, that's that's something we could do without. Huh,
That's not what I said. I was thinking aloud, you
know what, maybe I didn't articulate myself correctly. Hey, you
know what it was that? Hey, there you go. Hey,
(21:49):
people are don't articulate themselves all the time. Yeah, I'm
very poor at it. Quite frankly, I have a terrible communicator.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
But it's hard enough to get out of the sleeping
bag bag if you have to go to the latrine
really bad, let alone open up buttons on the tent fly.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, exactly, And you're prove of my point.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Gary.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
All I was saying was I initially said, maybe we
all just need to embrace the Amish lifestyle and get
rid of all of this social media. It's caused nothing
but trouble. But then I pondered and pontificated, if I
remember correctly, in Amish society, they do not use zippers.
And so I thought, well, just make sure you never
go camping as an Amish person, because that would be
(22:25):
really difficult if you did so, unbuttoning all those flaps
on your tent, and Gary's proven my point. You know
you drink from the lake down the down the road,
and you know you wake up having a go at night.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
You don't have that yet.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
A yeah, exactly, thanks Gary, Yeah, Gary, appreciate you calling
in and helping us out with this conversation. I appreciate it.
How do you sleep at night? Pretty good? Actually, George's
on a phone ane of four h two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
How's it going, George?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Another name paradise? My brother. I got better looking again
last night.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh congratulations, that makes one.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Of us after six years that stuff and stop. But
I'm a managed every morning. Well, I really don't think
these apps can sway people. For simple fact, there's so
many apps, and people gravitate to the garbage they believe.
I mean, you've got Democrat garbage, you've got Republican garbage,
and then you've got morons on both finals. I said,
(23:21):
I did hear something interesting though, They had twenty Congressmen,
ten Democrats Republicans this morning came out said they put
a bipartisan commissioned together to find an honest man run
for president. They said sometime in the next two hundred
and thirty five years, they should have a name.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, I was going to say, good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You know, I just don't think you can be swayed
by it. People are already on their side of the fence,
and there's enough garbage out on both sides that they're
gonna believe what they're going to believe.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, and that's fair. I mean when you see people
like Logan Paul, who's a really legitimate influencer for the
younger generation, he's talking more of the right wing side
of things, and you're getting as many high level famous
people coming from that from that side, is that you
are from the left. So I tend to agree, George,
you kind of have to make your opinion up if
(24:08):
you're gonna get swayed one way or the other and
just believe what you believe. It doesn't make sense that
somebody was, you know, indoctrinated to one side or the
other through a social media app. But that's a That's
what I'm saying, man. I appreciate the call today, thanks
so much. All Right, it is two forty six and
RFK is doing his thing. I want to wait till
(24:30):
we get to the top of the hour. So what
I'm gonna do is Matt you got the phones? Do
I have more tickets to give away?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You do?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Actually, yeah you have. You have got some more parents
to give away. How about we do that right now.
Let's go ahead and let's let's do this right now.
I have tickets, a family four pack to the Omaha
lawn Flower and Patio Show that is happening this weekend
Sunday through or Friday through Sunday. Sorry, the thirty first
(24:57):
through the second. If you would like to go, Hi, Helsenter, Omaha.
I got a family four pack of tickets. B the
I only have a couple of minutes stands at the calls.
So let's uh, let's do the Let's do the twenty
first caller, Caller twenty one in honor of Beon Sanders.
How's that Neon Dion, Neon Dion Primetime Sanders, It's got
to Stay in Colorado, twenty twenty one, the first, the
(25:21):
twenty first caller gets the family four pack of tickets
to the Omaha lawn Flower and Patio Show. And we'll
take those calls now. Call us at four oh two
five five eight eleven ten, four oh two, five five
eight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten kfab em Marie
Thunger John from Papillion Hap Yah. Yeah, so yeah, that
the thing's happening this weekend. So, uh, if you're if
(25:43):
you like your house, if you like your your yard
and your patio or your lawn and all that stuff,
there are plenty of plenty of different stuff going on there,
you know what I mean. You're gonna learn a lot
about different things and have a chance to buy stuff
that might make sense for you know what I'm saying. Yeah,
lots of good things to see, look at, walk around
(26:03):
and do. It'd be fun. And you know what, this
weather doesn't kind of have you thinking about the spring.
And when you think about spring, you think about planting
stuff in the ground, You think about sitting on your patio,
you think about enjoying the outdoors. And that's what this
is all about. It's the Lawn, Flower and Patio Show
coming to the c CHI Health Center. So what a
great time for this. I feel like weather wise, we've
all got it on our mind. You might as well
(26:25):
go dream about it together at the Chi Health Center.
Nice and guess what, my lawn is dead? I mean,
my backyard is a mess. First of all, the greyhounds.
They just Palmer keeps finding places to dig and by
the time she's like getting in there, you're like, ah,
Like it's too late to like salvage that. Like I'm
gonna have to buy dirt and grass seed and like replant,
(26:47):
you know, hear this spring and hope that it grows
in nice and thick. Do I just give up? No,
because that's not the American way. That's what I say.
Gonna have to you know, patch it in one spot
at a time, you know, but we'll figure it out.
You know, I got the gumption right. You know. It
doesn't help the light I have, like this automatic motion
(27:08):
sensor light in my backyard, so when the dogs go outside,
it's supposed to turn on because they'll see the dogs
running outside. Something's wrong with it. It won't turn on, and
I don't know how to fix it. Do I just
do I have to call someone? Is there somebody out there?
Like if it email me? This is not something I
want to take a phone call on the air. But
if you know about what probably is making my life
(27:30):
difficult with that light motion sensor light, I just replaced
the bulb on it and it was working in the
fall of twenty three and it lasted a year. I mean,
that thing is supposed to last for like ten years,
that the bulb. I think it's possible there's a light
switch somewhere that got switched. No, because we can't even
figure out what one of our light switches is for
(27:51):
first of all, second of all, the possibility of that
kind of like, I mean, I guess there is that
one light switch, But I'm thinking, like, I don't think
any of us like flipped that switch. I think more
than anything, I can screw around with that. I think,
if anything, it might just be like a connection to
the power because it has to like be plugged in.
But even then, it's like, well, what would have changed
(28:13):
Nobody went out there and did anything to it. Maybe
it's a clap on motion sensor. Go out there and
give a couple claps next time. That's not how it works.
I know, that's not how it works. That's not how
a waste of time. You're trying to waste my time.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
I always thought that'd be a fun prank. Get those
clap on lights and put them in places where people
are gonna clap and then lights just go on and off. Yeah,
harmless pranks, That's what I'm here for. It sounds like
like those things are like thirty bucks with the clap
sensor thing. And honestly, it was a trend, wasn't it,
Like in the eighties or nineties when people are like, oh, yeah,
I want my light to turn on and off by clapping.
(28:47):
It's like a funny party trick one time, Like the
rest of time, you're just like and then your light
just shuts off. And what happens when you really get enjoyed,
you really enjoy that moment in the movie, and you
forget that, you play it up, you plug your TV
up to the clap on outlet, or even worse, you
have something on TV that has something to do with
applause and the sensor picks it up and then just
(29:10):
shuts your light lamp off when you're just sitting there.
I hope all these things happened. It just seems like
something I wouldn't invest my money. And if the Clapper
people were hoping to have an endorsement with me, I apologize.
I cannot in good conscience promote that product. Maybe we
could have, maybe they could have branched out. Why is
it just claps? It could be other noises too, like
what you know, no, like what you tell me. No,
(29:33):
you're gonna dig yourself a hole. I'm not letting you out.
Oh I'm not afraid to say. And how about cutting
the cheese? That's gross? That's gross. You think people would
just turn their lights on and off by that noise?
I could, I'll tell you that much. That's disgusting. That's truly.
Why are you leaning over there right now? The only
problem would be I'd wake up in the middle of
the night with my lights on and be like, what happened? Oh,
that's so gross. Half of my half of my cutting
(29:55):
the cheese, My cheese cuttings are silent anyway, So like
I have it built up to so I could turn
my light off and then nothing would happen, because you know,
I didn't make a noise. I've trained myself so I'm
not like overtly obviously, the one who's there is a
waiting out that. Yeah, yeah, he's a Kevin James joke.
You do the old slide to the left. You know,
(30:19):
there's a way where there's a will there's a way. Yeah,
it's whatever. Anyway, we'll talk at RFK. There's a few highlights.
I wanted to get to, certainly a very interesting person
who was being grilled for his potential as Secretary of
Determament Health, and we'll talk about that coming up here
on news Radio eleven ten K Fabay
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