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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The twenty ounce of bottle or twenty ounce sixteen ounce
of bottle, so you're on your way to forty ounces
a do at least at least, And I had like
ninety on Friday, three or four Mountain dews, and I'm
trying to balance some water in here and try to
eat on top of that. And then I've been and
everybody's going to say, well, this is your own fault. Yeah,
I drink beer, and I like beer at the fair.
(00:21):
And then I had the craft Beer tank guy come
to my show this morning and he had like samples
of cider he wanted me to try, and they were
really good. But it's like, man, it was like ten
in the morning and I'm drinking cider on a Monday.
Whose life is like this? And so I'm just kind
of like, let's just say say, I'm trying to balance
like falling asleep while also trying to stay like super
(00:42):
jacked up and hyped and you know, all the good stuff.
This is the middle part of the Iowa State Fair
where it's just like I'm there so much, and I've
been there so much, and I love being there, but
I honestly just need to give myself maybe like a
night off and not go back right after this show,
because you're in the fog of fair right now, very foggy,
very very foggy, and just you know, my feet don't hurt,
(01:06):
you know, like I'm getting a lot of steps in,
but you know, I'm pretty in shape. My feet don't
hurt you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's just there as those motorized carts.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, that's a different thing. That's a different thing. And
I have some commentary that I'd like to give on
that too, and we'll get to serious topics like the
Washington d C. Thing in this Pennsylvania thing a little
bit later on this hour, and also give away those
tickets still afest to Italian it so you want to
stick with that. But I just wanted to tell you
like that it's over stimulating sometimes, even when you like
big crowds, you like a lot of people, just being
(01:35):
around that many people all the time is a I
mean it like your brain short circuits after a while.
You know, sometimes you just need to run away sometimes,
you know, I wish I had just a little bubble
that I could just go and hide in for a
little bit and then go back out and enjoy the fair. Unfortunately,
that's not really how it works. You know, you drive.
I got a parking space pretty close by, which I utilize,
(01:57):
and I appreciate that so I can go back and
feel like, you know, I'm wasting a ton of time
or money finding a parking space. And then you know,
I go in and I try to enjoy myself. I
got to meet up with friends, I meet up with
different people that I, you know, don't necessarily get to
see all that much. And it's great, it's great, but
you know, it's just it's a lot, and it's wearing
me out. And that's okay because I chose this life.
(02:17):
Tell me, I chose this life.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You chose this life. And you could also choose a
scooter so you could scoot scoot your way around the
around the fair. I think it'd be fun and I
think people would love to be seeing you scoot by
and say, was that was that Emory Songer who just
scooted right past me? And you give them a little
honk on your honky horn and you keep on rolling. Yeah, okay,
(02:41):
it seems like something you could try.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now. A lot of people have critiques of me because
I do not have a lot of crazy convicted opinions
about certain things that they do. Not everybody's gonna have crazy, skewed,
convicted opinions about everything. This is one thing I just
cannot get behind. There are way too many people in
(03:03):
scooters at the Iowa State Fair, way too many people.
And I don't want to be this guy, because this
should be one of the most inclusive experiences anyone could have.
Everyone deserves a chance to go to the State Fair.
But there are multiple spots where you can rent those
little scooters, like vendors that basically bring in a couple
hundred each of those guys and will rent them out
for I don't know how many dollars a day, and
(03:23):
you just got to bring them back when you're done.
Not a big deal usually, Matt. If there are you know,
older people, or people that don't get around as much,
or maybe somebody who's dealing with like a broken leg
or recovering from something, or maybe somebody who is a
little heavy, and you know, fifteen thousand or twenty thousand
step day just isn't in the cars. But they want
to see the entire fairgrounds. And there's a huge hill
on the fairgrounds that you really need to kind of
(03:45):
walk up to see everything, so like, I'm I'm all
for accessibility. I don't want to make it sound like
I'm not. Have I made that part.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Clear, It's all clear from here. I just I want
you to think about how cool it could be.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No, No, I'm not done yet, Matt, because I'm going
to tell you why I can't do this in good
conscience and good faith, because the people who do not
need the scooters should not be on one. And I
am seeing a lot of people who don't at all
look like they need to be on a scooter, unabashedly
and unashamed of themselves, walk up to these vendors, buy
(04:20):
one of these scooters for the day, and then just
scooter around the entire State fairgrounds. They're scooter into buildings,
they're scootering into the museums, they're scootering in to the
food vendors, and it's just kind of like, why are
you here?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You need to scoot a mile in their wheels before
you make these determinations. They very well may have deeply
low blood sugar because of the third fried butter on
the stick that they had that day, and maybe scooting
to their next venue is what's best for them. So
next time, maybe when they give you one of these,
you can return the favor by giving them one of these.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
While you're on your scooter. Not getting on a scooter,
I'm not doing it. The day I have to experience
the Iowa State Fair and a scooter, and this is
not no offense to people who need them to enjoy
the fair. The day I am in a scooter at
the Iowa State Fair is the day you should soil
and green me.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know what would be fascinating optics if there was
a giant soilent green booth and then just a bunch
of people in scooters waiting to get in.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You want to stope be at the Iowa State Fair.
You got it, Ladies and gentlemen. A soilent green booth
at the Iowa State Fair for the people who didn't
listen to the last hour. I am sorry. Just look
up soilet green and it will answer all of your questions. Man. Yeah, honestly, like,
what's the point, Like what's the point of the fair
for the way that I like to enjoy it? If
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I have to scooter around, especially if I'm not like
broken leg achilles injury, torn acl like if I put
myself in a position where I can only do the
fair on a scooter, and I'm taken it away from
people who really truly need them. No thanks, I'm out. Sorry.
I guess that's no more fair for me, and I
don't I mean, I'm trying to be sensitive to the
(06:06):
people who might just like the convenience of it. But brother,
I am seeing a lot of people that are very
clearly fully mobile, and they seem to be very capable
of wandering around themselves, but they have still decided that
they would rather give the seventy bucks or however much
it is to have one of these scooters for an
entire day at the fair and to scootering around instead
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of just walking like you know, a normal person would
in other cases. And I don't know, it just seems
like an abuse of what is available. I would suggest
maybe these I know, it's capitalism, baby, So as long
as people are buying these scooters, maybe we just need
to keep improving the price. I don't want to price
people out of getting the scooters, but I don't want
people who don't need them to be getting the scooters,
(06:48):
am I right?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But then we get like a doctor's note or something
like you need to bring a doctor's note of saying, yeah,
this person absolutely needs one of these scooters, enough scooters
to go around. How do we know that there is
I don't know that there is. I don't know. There
are these guys that are you know, living in these
you know, neighborhoods around Des Moines that you know they
have partaken maybe some things that they probably shouldn't have,
(07:11):
and they just get this right idea of like, hey,
you know what, we don't even have to walk around
the fair. We can just go there and get one
of those scooters and pay for them for the day.
You can rent a scooter for a day and you
just scooter around and then you're in everybody's way and
you're just you know, scootering in different places that are
really tight, and you're like, yo, let's go see the buttercow.
While I'm on my scooter. You'll run over some kid's
foot and you're just like, what are we even doing here? Man?
(07:32):
We've gotten to a point where in society where we're
selling and renting scooters to people who don't need that mobility.
They have total mobility, they don't need the help, but
they want to help you know why they want to
help because they're lazy, Like fifteen thousand step day at
the Iowa State Fair scares them, so they rent a
scooter so they can scooter around unabashed, unashamed of exactly
(07:55):
what the heck is going on out there now for
the people who need them. I'm down, use it, do
whatever you can, do, whatever you need. I just I've
seen a lot more people than usual on scooters that
look like they're just on the scooter because they didn't
want to walk around that day, and it's just annoying.
It's annoying to me. That's where we're at in society.
So yeah, I'm I advocate. There'd be a doctor's note
(08:15):
from some professional that says, hey, this person needs this
scooter for the Iowa State Fair before you can actually
buy one. I'm putting my foot in the ground on
this one. And Matt, if I see you at the
Iowa State Fair walking around beeping at people in a scooter,
I don't know what I'll do, but I might I
might have to chastise you. May I may put a
kick me sign or something on the back of your scooter.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Maybe that would help. Maybe if you started putting kick
me signs on the back of scoots. But I think
you should really embrace it. I think you should embrace
the scoot. Nope, nope, nope. Hey guys, that's what you
say when you see him, you say, hey, scoots, and
then they give you one of these.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And I'm glad we got that that drop in there
one more time. It is four eighteen. You're listening to
news radio eleven ten kfab and Ma's Tongue had a
couple of different things were on my mind that I
just wanted to talk about and just kind of be funny,
like just jovial, fun conversations, conversations that aren't meant to
be taking too seriously. Things where you know, we just
(09:13):
talked about the scooters, right. I don't want people to
think that I don't want any accessibility, and I want
people to understand as much as I can about you know,
some of these are I don't want me to be
in those situations. Does that make sense? Like I don't
want to be the guy who was in a scooter
(09:35):
and trying to scooter around the State Fair because I
decided it got too hard to walk around. And I
hope that that's what you're hearing here. If not in
a you're like, Emery, I need the scooter to get around, Okay, Fine,
that's fine. Or I want more than I need, I
want more of the scooter, it's fine. Knock yourself out.
(09:55):
I saw this other thing that kind of it didn't
annoy me, but it made me kind of just little squirm,
little little squeam of just exactly how I feel about it.
And it's this. There's a college. Have you heard of,
Queen's University, Matt Queen's University. They played Division one basketball.
(10:15):
Now have you heard of them?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh, Queen's University. So they're they're now they're moved up
to the Yeah, the D one, Okay, so they could
be in the tournament something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So what they did was, yes, Queen's men's basketball and
they're in North Carolina, and they did this schedule release.
You know how everybody's doing schedule releases these days for
the NBA and Major League Baseball. The NFL makes a
big deal out of their schedule release and whatever. It's
just a continuation of trying to hype up your league
(10:47):
or your sport when you're actually not playing well. The
Queen's Men's basketball team did this whole thing where they
took They said, we asked AI to create our non
conference opponents babies. So they made all of their non
conference coaches and told to get like, gave artificial intelligence
a photo and then told AI to make them into babies.
(11:12):
And I mean, how do you feel about that? It
seems just fun for me, doesn't seem that big of
a deal. It's a small college, small school. There's only
six thousand people who follow Queen's athletics on social media
on Twitter, and they're getting roasted by some people who
say this is terrible. Stop using artificial intelligence to do things.
(11:34):
I feel like that's just this is done for fun.
Well is there like, do you want them to commission
an artist to make this themselves? It was just a
fun idea. I don't have as much of a problem
with this, but there's a lot of people who do.
And maybe it's just because I do use artificial intelligence
not to necessarily make images like this, but to help
me with my day to day goings on. It just
(11:56):
doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.
This was not done to make money. This was not
done to create some sort of nasty competition. It wasn't
done in a way to demean these opponents that they're
going to have. It's just what the coaches of these
schools would look like if they were babies. And I
(12:16):
just don't see what the big deal is. But apparently
apparently people really dislike anyone using artificial intelligence to make anything. Now,
are you there or do you think that there's still
a place in a time?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I think that would be a good example of how
it can be fun and not. I don't know. I
mean I think that we do, but it may portend
I'm going to pretend like I know how to use
that word and pretend to show a growing trend. Look
at me, I'm rhyming. I'm using big words that a
(12:48):
lot of people are just kind of we're a little
we're feeling a little underwater with all the AI stuff.
Maybe we're out over our skis. You know, it's too much.
It's too much. It's too much, douna, you know, send
it back. It's too much, it's too much AI. We've
had enough. I don't know. You think about the Amish,
(13:11):
Do you think they're worried about AI?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No? But I did see a few homage girls at
the Iowa State Fair wearing their like hats and their
dresses and stuff. And they had old school flip phones
like page your style flip phone.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That doesn't seem good though, that's not you can't do
that right right. I was gonna ask you if there
was maybe some horse drawn scooters.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh, come on, man, an homage person in a scooter? Yeah,
any other reason except the fact they literally cannot anyway,
it's operated by it's operated by electricity. You're not gonna
use a horse to pull you around on the i
would State Fairground.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Just get one donkey, put them in front of that
scooter will take you around the fair. And you know
they're stopping by the butter booths okay, and you know
they're asking questions about how that butter was.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm sure they will, Matt, I'm sure they will. You
know what, you should be an Amish guy for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm thinking, you know, I'm just thinking about being one generally,
just just culturally. Like, I'm fine with with where I'm
at with my faith. I don't necessarily need to like
start rumspringing people and all that stuff. But I'd kind
of been thinking about trying it out.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay, all right, Well, there you go, Matt Case future
homage guy. We'll give you an update whenever he figures
that out. Lafesta Talian how to tickets coming up in
the next thirty minutes. I'm gonna put those up. You're
gonna want to stick around for that. On news radio
eleven ten KFAB and he's on there talking about electric
scooters and I'm gonna talk about this Washington d C
(14:39):
stuff in the National Guard being deployed, and I'm also
gonna give away tickets to the Festa Italiana this half hour,
so you're gonna stick around. How to get to this email?
Gary from Lincoln gave us an email here and we
were talking about scooters at the Iowa State Fair and
how I was just like man able to body people
and scooters. It just feels like, what are we doing here.
(15:00):
You can enjoy the IOC if you're walking around. If
you can't walk around, maybe don't do the fair for
people who aren't able bodied. That's what the scooters are for.
Gary said, well, sad to see able bodied people rent
powered carts on a nine hole golf course. Plus, electric
scooters or bikes on sidewalks are a hazard. Maybe the
new fitness standards will help. Electric bikes are for kids
or a sure trip to Fatville or the emergency room.
(15:23):
I guess I never thought about the golf analogy. I'm
just going to push back a little bit, and Matt,
you could disagree with this. I don't mind when people
want to walk the golf course. I really don't. I
think that it's good. I walk the golf course probably
every three or four rounds that I do, whether it's
nine holes or eighteen like, it's fun to walk the course. Honestly,
it really kind of gives you a little bit more
of a feel of the course. It really makes it
(15:43):
a full day, certainly a little bit more work, but
it also takes longer. I got stuck behind a five some. Yes,
a five some. You should not ever golf with a
five some. Don't go out there golfing with a five some.
You know. There's a reason that they don't. Most golf
courses will not allow that to take place. Why it's
too many people, pace of play. You have all these
people that are teeing off right after another at these
(16:06):
public golf courses especially, and you have five guys trying
to hit a ball and you're taking turns hitting the ball.
I got behind five guys who were walking, so it
was even worse. Now, thankfully, after a couple of holes
they let me play through. But it's like, man, they're
going so slow. So that would be my only thing
with the golf carts. Golf is a great game. I
(16:27):
want people to be able to get outside, to be
able to get on, Like even just standing around and
swinging a golf club is really good for your physical health.
And I do think especially on busy weekend days, you
should be able to or or if you're like me
and you're really trying to cram nine holes into two hours,
you need that cart to expedise the process. I mean,
I can't play my nine holes if I don't have
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the cart. So hopefully that's a different vibe than I'm
just lazily wandering around.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What if you're from out of town and you're trying
to cram in as much State Fair as you can
within a weekend.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, don't do this to me. Don't do this to me.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And speaking of five guys, now there's a place you
can get some shelled peanuts. Also, there's a place you
can lose your wallet. Real quick. Come on now, Matt.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Stop. They're not endorsing this show, and even if they were,
I don't think I would I would accept I really
I need some class up in this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You would turn down a five guys Burgers and Fries endorsement.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm just saying I would prefer to have something a
little bit more sit down yan enjoyable. I don't want to,
you know what, I'll do anything for money. Five guys,
if you're out there, give me a call, give me
a ring. Thanks. Matt appreciate that. As far as the
electric scooters on sidewalks and stuff, if he's referring to
the limescooters, I like those things. It's not a matter
of trying to like be lazy. It's just that's kind
(17:49):
of capitalism in a way, isn't it. I'm trying to
maneuver safely around downtown or anywhere in Omaha utilizing an
electric scooter for relatively cheap It is fun first and
foremost if you're using it safely, but it's also a
way that you can see more of downtown, especially in
a short amount of time, and I feel like that's
(18:09):
much more useful than the guys who are renting these big,
old four wheeled scooters, which are completely different than the
electric scooters that we're talking about that like Lime does
for downtown. Does that make sense? Those are way bulk here,
and they were designed specifically for people who are not mobile.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So maybe if they just had a different kind of scooter, you.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Maybe, But you can't really, like, have a fifteen mile
per hour scooter at the fairgrounds because it's not about speed,
it's about safety. It's about seeing things as you go.
I just don't think you're gaining anything speed wise by
sitting on a scooter.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What if you took your riding lawnmower out there and
just started buzzing.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Around in that that's one good way to not get
in the gates. Yeah, show up on your lawnmower, you know,
Bobby Bouchet style, and see what happens. You know, one
way ticket to the clink is what's gonna end up
happening there. What's wrong with you fella driving your lawnmower
in here? Anyway? All right? Gary? That was good email.
(19:10):
And electric bikes, I'm not I don't have an e bike,
but I do know that they are helpful when you're
going long distances and you're going uphills. I'm not gonna
tell people they shouldn't get an ee bike because if
you're running on that kind of terrain, getting on a
bike for any length of time is better than not
getting in a bike at all. So bing go, but
I do appreciate it. Was good email
The twenty ounce of bottle or twenty ounce sixteen ounce
of bottle, so you're on your way to forty ounces
a do at least at least, And I had like
ninety on Friday, three or four Mountain dews, and I'm
trying to balance some water in here and try to
eat on top of that. And then I've been and
everybody's going to say, well, this is your own fault. Yeah,
I drink beer, and I like beer at the fair.
(00:21):
And then I had the craft Beer tank guy come
to my show this morning and he had like samples
of cider he wanted me to try, and they were
really good. But it's like, man, it was like ten
in the morning and I'm drinking cider on a Monday.
Whose life is like this? And so I'm just kind
of like, let's just say say, I'm trying to balance
like falling asleep while also trying to stay like super
(00:42):
jacked up and hyped and you know, all the good stuff.
This is the middle part of the Iowa State Fair
where it's just like I'm there so much, and I've
been there so much, and I love being there, but
I honestly just need to give myself maybe like a
night off and not go back right after this show,
because you're in the fog of fair right now, very foggy,
very very foggy, and just you know, my feet don't hurt,
(01:06):
you know, like I'm getting a lot of steps in,
but you know, I'm pretty in shape. My feet don't
hurt you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's just there as those motorized carts.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
No, that's a different thing. That's a different thing. And
I have some commentary that I'd like to give on
that too, and we'll get to serious topics like the
Washington d C. Thing in this Pennsylvania thing a little
bit later on this hour, and also give away those
tickets still afest to Italian it so you want to
stick with that. But I just wanted to tell you
like that it's over stimulating sometimes, even when you like
big crowds, you like a lot of people, just being
(01:35):
around that many people all the time is a I
mean it like your brain short circuits after a while.
You know, sometimes you just need to run away sometimes,
you know, I wish I had just a little bubble
that I could just go and hide in for a
little bit and then go back out and enjoy the fair. Unfortunately,
that's not really how it works. You know, you drive.
I got a parking space pretty close by, which I utilize,
(01:57):
and I appreciate that so I can go back and
feel like, you know, I'm wasting a ton of time
or money finding a parking space. And then you know,
I go in and I try to enjoy myself. I
got to meet up with friends, I meet up with
different people that I, you know, don't necessarily get to
see all that much. And it's great, it's great, but
you know, it's just it's a lot, and it's wearing
me out. And that's okay because I chose this life.
(02:17):
Tell me, I chose this life.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You chose this life. And you could also choose a
scooter so you could scoot scoot your way around the
around the fair. I think it'd be fun and I
think people would love to be seeing you scoot by
and say, was that was that Emory Songer who just
scooted right past me? And you give them a little
honk on your honky horn and you keep on rolling. Yeah, okay,
(02:41):
it seems like something you could try.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now. A lot of people have critiques of me because
I do not have a lot of crazy convicted opinions
about certain things that they do. Not everybody's gonna have crazy, skewed,
convicted opinions about everything. This is one thing I just
cannot get behind. There are way too many people in
(03:03):
scooters at the Iowa State Fair, way too many people.
And I don't want to be this guy, because this
should be one of the most inclusive experiences anyone could have.
Everyone deserves a chance to go to the State Fair.
But there are multiple spots where you can rent those
little scooters, like vendors that basically bring in a couple
hundred each of those guys and will rent them out
for I don't know how many dollars a day, and
(03:23):
you just got to bring them back when you're done.
Not a big deal usually, Matt. If there are you know,
older people, or people that don't get around as much,
or maybe somebody who's dealing with like a broken leg
or recovering from something, or maybe somebody who is a
little heavy, and you know, fifteen thousand or twenty thousand
step day just isn't in the cars. But they want
to see the entire fairgrounds. And there's a huge hill
on the fairgrounds that you really need to kind of
(03:45):
walk up to see everything, so like, I'm I'm all
for accessibility. I don't want to make it sound like
I'm not. Have I made that part.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Clear, It's all clear from here. I just I want
you to think about how cool it could be.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
No, No, I'm not done yet, Matt, because I'm going
to tell you why I can't do this in good
conscience and good faith, because the people who do not
need the scooters should not be on one. And I
am seeing a lot of people who don't at all
look like they need to be on a scooter, unabashedly
and unashamed of themselves, walk up to these vendors, buy
(04:20):
one of these scooters for the day, and then just
scooter around the entire State fairgrounds. They're scooter into buildings,
they're scootering into the museums, they're scootering in to the
food vendors, and it's just kind of like, why are
you here?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You need to scoot a mile in their wheels before
you make these determinations. They very well may have deeply
low blood sugar because of the third fried butter on
the stick that they had that day, and maybe scooting
to their next venue is what's best for them. So
next time, maybe when they give you one of these,
you can return the favor by giving them one of these.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
While you're on your scooter. Not getting on a scooter,
I'm not doing it. The day I have to experience
the Iowa State Fair and a scooter, and this is
not no offense to people who need them to enjoy
the fair. The day I am in a scooter at
the Iowa State Fair is the day you should soil
and green me.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
You know what would be fascinating optics if there was
a giant soilent green booth and then just a bunch
of people in scooters waiting to get in.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You want to stope be at the Iowa State Fair.
You got it, Ladies and gentlemen. A soilent green booth
at the Iowa State Fair for the people who didn't
listen to the last hour. I am sorry. Just look
up soilet green and it will answer all of your questions. Man. Yeah, honestly, like,
what's the point, Like what's the point of the fair
for the way that I like to enjoy it? If
(05:45):
I have to scooter around, especially if I'm not like
broken leg achilles injury, torn acl like if I put
myself in a position where I can only do the
fair on a scooter, and I'm taken it away from
people who really truly need them. No thanks, I'm out. Sorry.
I guess that's no more fair for me, and I
don't I mean, I'm trying to be sensitive to the
(06:06):
people who might just like the convenience of it. But brother,
I am seeing a lot of people that are very
clearly fully mobile, and they seem to be very capable
of wandering around themselves, but they have still decided that
they would rather give the seventy bucks or however much
it is to have one of these scooters for an
entire day at the fair and to scootering around instead
(06:28):
of just walking like you know, a normal person would
in other cases. And I don't know, it just seems
like an abuse of what is available. I would suggest
maybe these I know, it's capitalism, baby, So as long
as people are buying these scooters, maybe we just need
to keep improving the price. I don't want to price
people out of getting the scooters, but I don't want
people who don't need them to be getting the scooters,
(06:48):
am I right?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
But then we get like a doctor's note or something
like you need to bring a doctor's note of saying, yeah,
this person absolutely needs one of these scooters, enough scooters
to go around. How do we know that there is
I don't know that there is. I don't know. There
are these guys that are you know, living in these
you know, neighborhoods around Des Moines that you know they
have partaken maybe some things that they probably shouldn't have,
(07:11):
and they just get this right idea of like, hey,
you know what, we don't even have to walk around
the fair. We can just go there and get one
of those scooters and pay for them for the day.
You can rent a scooter for a day and you
just scooter around and then you're in everybody's way and
you're just you know, scootering in different places that are
really tight, and you're like, yo, let's go see the buttercow.
While I'm on my scooter. You'll run over some kid's
foot and you're just like, what are we even doing here? Man?
(07:32):
We've gotten to a point where in society where we're
selling and renting scooters to people who don't need that mobility.
They have total mobility, they don't need the help, but
they want to help you know why they want to
help because they're lazy, Like fifteen thousand step day at
the Iowa State Fair scares them, so they rent a
scooter so they can scooter around unabashed, unashamed of exactly
(07:55):
what the heck is going on out there now for
the people who need them. I'm down, use it, do
whatever you can, do, whatever you need. I just I've
seen a lot more people than usual on scooters that
look like they're just on the scooter because they didn't
want to walk around that day, and it's just annoying.
It's annoying to me. That's where we're at in society.
So yeah, I'm I advocate. There'd be a doctor's note
(08:15):
from some professional that says, hey, this person needs this
scooter for the Iowa State Fair before you can actually
buy one. I'm putting my foot in the ground on
this one. And Matt, if I see you at the
Iowa State Fair walking around beeping at people in a scooter,
I don't know what I'll do, but I might I
might have to chastise you. May I may put a
kick me sign or something on the back of your scooter.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Maybe that would help. Maybe if you started putting kick
me signs on the back of scoots. But I think
you should really embrace it. I think you should embrace
the scoot. Nope, nope, nope. Hey guys, that's what you
say when you see him, you say, hey, scoots, and
then they give you one of these.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And I'm glad we got that that drop in there
one more time. It is four eighteen. You're listening to
news radio eleven ten kfab and Ma's Tongue had a
couple of different things were on my mind that I
just wanted to talk about and just kind of be funny,
like just jovial, fun conversations, conversations that aren't meant to
be taking too seriously. Things where you know, we just
(09:13):
talked about the scooters, right. I don't want people to
think that I don't want any accessibility, and I want
people to understand as much as I can about you know,
some of these are I don't want me to be
in those situations. Does that make sense? Like I don't
want to be the guy who was in a scooter
(09:35):
and trying to scooter around the State Fair because I
decided it got too hard to walk around. And I
hope that that's what you're hearing here. If not in
a you're like, Emery, I need the scooter to get around, Okay, Fine,
that's fine. Or I want more than I need, I
want more of the scooter, it's fine. Knock yourself out.
(09:55):
I saw this other thing that kind of it didn't
annoy me, but it made me kind of just little squirm,
little little squeam of just exactly how I feel about it.
And it's this. There's a college. Have you heard of,
Queen's University, Matt Queen's University. They played Division one basketball.
(10:15):
Now have you heard of them?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Oh, Queen's University. So they're they're now they're moved up
to the Yeah, the D one, Okay, so they could
be in the tournament something like that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So what they did was, yes, Queen's men's basketball and
they're in North Carolina, and they did this schedule release.
You know how everybody's doing schedule releases these days for
the NBA and Major League Baseball. The NFL makes a
big deal out of their schedule release and whatever. It's
just a continuation of trying to hype up your league
(10:47):
or your sport when you're actually not playing well. The
Queen's Men's basketball team did this whole thing where they
took They said, we asked AI to create our non
conference opponents babies. So they made all of their non
conference coaches and told to get like, gave artificial intelligence
a photo and then told AI to make them into babies.
(11:12):
And I mean, how do you feel about that? It
seems just fun for me, doesn't seem that big of
a deal. It's a small college, small school. There's only
six thousand people who follow Queen's athletics on social media
on Twitter, and they're getting roasted by some people who
say this is terrible. Stop using artificial intelligence to do things.
(11:34):
I feel like that's just this is done for fun.
Well is there like, do you want them to commission
an artist to make this themselves? It was just a
fun idea. I don't have as much of a problem
with this, but there's a lot of people who do.
And maybe it's just because I do use artificial intelligence
not to necessarily make images like this, but to help
me with my day to day goings on. It just
(11:56):
doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.
This was not done to make money. This was not
done to create some sort of nasty competition. It wasn't
done in a way to demean these opponents that they're
going to have. It's just what the coaches of these
schools would look like if they were babies. And I
(12:16):
just don't see what the big deal is. But apparently
apparently people really dislike anyone using artificial intelligence to make anything. Now,
are you there or do you think that there's still
a place in a time?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I think that would be a good example of how
it can be fun and not. I don't know. I
mean I think that we do, but it may portend
I'm going to pretend like I know how to use
that word and pretend to show a growing trend. Look
at me, I'm rhyming. I'm using big words that a
(12:48):
lot of people are just kind of we're a little
we're feeling a little underwater with all the AI stuff.
Maybe we're out over our skis. You know, it's too much.
It's too much. It's too much, douna, you know, send
it back. It's too much, it's too much AI. We've
had enough. I don't know. You think about the Amish,
(13:11):
Do you think they're worried about AI?
Speaker 1 (13:12):
No? But I did see a few homage girls at
the Iowa State Fair wearing their like hats and their
dresses and stuff. And they had old school flip phones
like page your style flip phone.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That doesn't seem good though, that's not you can't do
that right right. I was gonna ask you if there
was maybe some horse drawn scooters.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Oh, come on, man, an homage person in a scooter? Yeah,
any other reason except the fact they literally cannot anyway,
it's operated by it's operated by electricity. You're not gonna
use a horse to pull you around on the i
would State Fairground.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Just get one donkey, put them in front of that
scooter will take you around the fair. And you know
they're stopping by the butter booths okay, and you know
they're asking questions about how that butter was.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I'm sure they will, Matt, I'm sure they will. You
know what, you should be an Amish guy for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm thinking, you know, I'm just thinking about being one generally,
just just culturally. Like, I'm fine with with where I'm
at with my faith. I don't necessarily need to like
start rumspringing people and all that stuff. But I'd kind
of been thinking about trying it out.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay, all right, Well, there you go, Matt Case future
homage guy. We'll give you an update whenever he figures
that out. Lafesta Talian how to tickets coming up in
the next thirty minutes. I'm gonna put those up. You're
gonna want to stick around for that. On news radio
eleven ten KFAB and he's on there talking about electric
scooters and I'm gonna talk about this Washington d C
(14:39):
stuff in the National Guard being deployed, and I'm also
gonna give away tickets to the Festa Italiana this half hour,
so you're gonna stick around. How to get to this email?
Gary from Lincoln gave us an email here and we
were talking about scooters at the Iowa State Fair and
how I was just like man able to body people
and scooters. It just feels like, what are we doing here.
(15:00):
You can enjoy the IOC if you're walking around. If
you can't walk around, maybe don't do the fair for
people who aren't able bodied. That's what the scooters are for.
Gary said, well, sad to see able bodied people rent
powered carts on a nine hole golf course. Plus, electric
scooters or bikes on sidewalks are a hazard. Maybe the
new fitness standards will help. Electric bikes are for kids
or a sure trip to Fatville or the emergency room.
(15:23):
I guess I never thought about the golf analogy. I'm
just going to push back a little bit, and Matt,
you could disagree with this. I don't mind when people
want to walk the golf course. I really don't. I
think that it's good. I walk the golf course probably
every three or four rounds that I do, whether it's
nine holes or eighteen like, it's fun to walk the course. Honestly,
it really kind of gives you a little bit more
of a feel of the course. It really makes it
(15:43):
a full day, certainly a little bit more work, but
it also takes longer. I got stuck behind a five some. Yes,
a five some. You should not ever golf with a
five some. Don't go out there golfing with a five some.
You know. There's a reason that they don't. Most golf
courses will not allow that to take place. Why it's
too many people, pace of play. You have all these
people that are teeing off right after another at these
(16:06):
public golf courses especially, and you have five guys trying
to hit a ball and you're taking turns hitting the ball.
I got behind five guys who were walking, so it
was even worse. Now, thankfully, after a couple of holes
they let me play through. But it's like, man, they're
going so slow. So that would be my only thing
with the golf carts. Golf is a great game. I
(16:27):
want people to be able to get outside, to be
able to get on, Like even just standing around and
swinging a golf club is really good for your physical health.
And I do think especially on busy weekend days, you
should be able to or or if you're like me
and you're really trying to cram nine holes into two hours,
you need that cart to expedise the process. I mean,
I can't play my nine holes if I don't have
(16:48):
the cart. So hopefully that's a different vibe than I'm
just lazily wandering around.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
What if you're from out of town and you're trying
to cram in as much State Fair as you can
within a weekend.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Oh, don't do this to me. Don't do this to me.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
And speaking of five guys, now there's a place you
can get some shelled peanuts. Also, there's a place you
can lose your wallet. Real quick. Come on now, Matt.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Stop. They're not endorsing this show, and even if they were,
I don't think I would I would accept I really
I need some class up in this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You would turn down a five guys Burgers and Fries endorsement.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'm just saying I would prefer to have something a
little bit more sit down yan enjoyable. I don't want to,
you know what, I'll do anything for money. Five guys,
if you're out there, give me a call, give me
a ring. Thanks. Matt appreciate that. As far as the
electric scooters on sidewalks and stuff, if he's referring to
the limescooters, I like those things. It's not a matter
of trying to like be lazy. It's just that's kind
(17:49):
of capitalism in a way, isn't it. I'm trying to
maneuver safely around downtown or anywhere in Omaha utilizing an
electric scooter for relatively cheap It is fun first and
foremost if you're using it safely, but it's also a
way that you can see more of downtown, especially in
a short amount of time, and I feel like that's
(18:09):
much more useful than the guys who are renting these big,
old four wheeled scooters, which are completely different than the
electric scooters that we're talking about that like Lime does
for downtown. Does that make sense? Those are way bulk here,
and they were designed specifically for people who are not mobile.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
So maybe if they just had a different kind of scooter, you.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Maybe, But you can't really, like, have a fifteen mile
per hour scooter at the fairgrounds because it's not about speed,
it's about safety. It's about seeing things as you go.
I just don't think you're gaining anything speed wise by
sitting on a scooter.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
What if you took your riding lawnmower out there and
just started buzzing.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Around in that that's one good way to not get
in the gates. Yeah, show up on your lawnmower, you know,
Bobby Bouchet style, and see what happens. You know, one
way ticket to the clink is what's gonna end up
happening there. What's wrong with you fella driving your lawnmower
in here? Anyway? All right? Gary? That was good email.
(19:10):
And electric bikes, I'm not I don't have an e bike,
but I do know that they are helpful when you're
going long distances and you're going uphills. I'm not gonna
tell people they shouldn't get an ee bike because if
you're running on that kind of terrain, getting on a
bike for any length of time is better than not
getting in a bike at all. So bing go, but
I do appreciate it. Was good email
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