WaPo Says They'll Never Endorse Another Candidate

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Isn't that in Papillion, am I, Laissa?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
No, it's it's at the Admiral formerly known as Soulco Auditorium.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
So that's downtown. Oh dang, the Admiral is downtown. Make
him my way downtown.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
So yeah, Brian, like, when you're on your way down there,
please play that song.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Don't do that. Make him my way downtown, don't do it. Also,
podcast yesterday, we got the chance speaking to musicians. We
got a chance to talk to the lead singer of
Modest Mouse. Yeah, how about that Isaac Brock on our show.
You got to ask him a question. I dreamed about
it last night. Did it go as well in your
dream as it did in real life? Or think we

(00:37):
were hanging out? Oh that's cool. I know some good
shrooms all right. Anyway, Happy birthday to my sister. By
the way, I want to say that before I forget.
I don't know how big is a sibling birthday in
your life?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I like to you know, Yeah, you wais your mappy
birth Yeah you want your mappey birthday. If you can,
you celebrate it with them. But what if you can't, Well,
then you say wish I was there, and then maybe
pull a memory out.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know, remember this time, ha ha ha. I'd say, yeah, yeah,
there you go, there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Send a gift, send us a funny gift, A gift,
maybe a sassy gif. A jiff, Uh, Jeff is peanut
butter ist, I send a gift or you could send
a Jeff if they like peanut butter. Anybody who says
anybody says is not giff is lying the whole. The
G stands for graphics. And it's funny that the guy
who created it tried to call it jiff exactly because

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if you made g if a word, you would think
that's a soft G.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
It doesn't mean that that's what it is. What, Yeah,
come on, soft G. Any G that comes before like
a vowel, I think pretty regularly is you could assume
is going to be a soft G.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I don't trust a soft G. Like geography. It's like
a mark with a C.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't trust it. Yeah, I guess A. It's harder
like anything with G, A like garage. That's probably always
going to be like a hard G. That's A that's
a I G. That's I. Well, that's the thing. It's
they're talking. I what about Jeff, but it's spelled goff giof.
I don't like it when anybody does anything to my

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g off. I tell you what opened the phones, It's
opened to the phone line Friday, real quick. Washington Post.
Do you know their political leanings? Aren't they owned by Amazon?
Are they? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
The Washington Post? Yeah, Jeff Bezos. He's been buying things
up all over the Placejeff Bezos hasn't been in charge
of BAMAS for like five years. He hasn't No what's
he talking about?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Nothing?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
He's trying to buy sports teams. Oh weirdo Jeff Bezos
Executive Luther is an American businessman and best known as founder,
executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. Yeah,
so I don't know. I don't know what he's doing.
I don't know who's buying these things.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, clearly I stopped paying attention right around twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, who cares? Big money those politicians and they're big
money donors and all those losers anyway. William Lewis is
the publisher and CEO of The Washington Post, but he
announced today that they're not endorsing a candidate and any
future presidential race ever, ever, ever, ever, Ever, the paper's
editorial board back in nineteen sixty said, the Washington Post

(03:09):
has not endorsed either candidate in the presidential campaign. That
is in our tradition and in accord with our action
in five of the last six elections. Now, this is
the editorial board back then, back in nineteen sixty had
those things and just said, hey, look, we're not going
to endorse presidential candidates. It's not in our nature. We
want to be more of a real paper. What do

(03:30):
you think about this? By the way, this is the
first time in decades that they've done this. And by
the way, the La Times also said they're not endorsing
a candidate either, and they're very literal as well. Now
this isn't Jeff Bezos does own the Washington Post.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
By the way, all right, well they bought it August
twenty thirteen.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Congratulations to him. So shows you how closely I'm monitoring
the Washington Post. Is this a big deal that newspapers
are saying, you know what, we need to be more
independent here. We can't be leaning so far into one
or the other. I've noticed that about some papers, like
the Demoy Register, where I used to live, notoriously for
being super duper liberal, and for some reason, I've just
been kind of noticing a little bit more balanced coverage

(04:09):
on some stuff and I'm like, hh, what's going on
over there? Well, this could may maybe explain it. Maybe
just the people in the newspaper business are like, Hey,
if we're going to, like in the internet age, stay
somewhat relevant and in business, we need to kind of
stop narrowing our viewpoints into one pool instead tried to
appeal to multiple pools. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
And you know, it seems like a good idea. It jism,
it does being kind of like just reporting the news
and stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Well, I mean, and that's my thing with the Jordan thing, right,
Republicans by sneakers too, Like why would you just like
funnel everything into one thing, especially when you're in an
industry that seems to be dying it Just see it
seems trivial to me, Like, why wouldn't you do that?
Why we have to talk about it like this? Why
why is this surprising that Hey, you know what, maybe
being independent is actually what the news is supposed to be. Yeah, yeah,

(04:57):
is this the way of the new world? I guess
the Washington Post Times and maybe some of these other
big papers. Maybe they're seeing that, I don't know. Pretty
interesting timing on this though, with Donald Trump still relevant
in American politics, you'd think that they try to see
that one out first. Either way. Okay, it's two sixteen.
If you've got thoughts, anything on your mind, open phone line.
Friday is on the air, calls at four h two
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Speaker 3 (05:21):
And Maurice Sunger on News Radio eleven ten Kfab.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Brian on the line, Brian, Welcome to the show today.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Well, on Monday I called in about election denial and
I mentioned the Brooks Brothers riot, and I erroneously gave
it the date of twenty twenty. Do you know what
I mean by the Brooks Brothers riot.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
That was what the staff guys right in Florida.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, that was the two thousand election when a bunch
of Republican staffers organized by Rogers Stone showed up and kicked,
punch and trample people to stop the counting of the vote.
And then the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore in
favor of Bush and stopped the counting of the vote.
So the reaction of a lot of Democrats or some

(06:12):
Democrats was to say elected selected, not elected, or call
him resident Bush. But that was about as far as
it went. Then in the twenty sixteen election, the action
of Democrats was, well, it's not crazy to say that
Trump might not have won if he hadn't have had
help from Russia. I mean those Wicky leaks release of

(06:32):
in stolen emails did help a bit. But then the
twenty twenty election, that wasn't the only riot that happened.
And they tried to say that Trump called for the
National Guard to protect the capitol. I mean, if you
look up Trump asked for troops, that's the first thing

(06:54):
will come up is the House Committee saying, oh, well
he did that. If you read the Cootes papers, then
there's nothing Horry actually says protect the capitol. You got
him on January third asking for troops to protect his protesters,
nothing about the capitol. And I'm sure a lot of
people in the crowd didn't know where they were going
or what they were going to do. But it was

(07:15):
planned and organized because Roger Stone on that day had
some proud boys at the Capitol at another rally to
be there, to go up the steps and stack planation
and break through the windows and doors. So think there's
some equivalent about election denial, I'd say there isn't.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, well, okay, so when when we talk about this, Brian,
And this is why I talked about this earlier this week,
because I think it's on people's mind because a lot
of people think twenty twenty happened, and all this stuff
it kind of in a vacuum and nothing like that
has ever happened before. I'm glad you brought up a
couple of other different perspectives here, and all of them suck,
I'll be honest with you. Like the fact that any

(07:52):
of these things happened is a third world country level. Bs.
I appreciate the call, But the reason that the election
matters this time around is this is a unique opportunity
for the people who are running our elections in all
fifty states and I guess in the territories, even though
they don't get to vote for president, this is a
chance to reiterate confidence that we have in the elections.

(08:17):
And if you think that the twenty twenty election didn't
go the way that you wanted it to and you
think that there was funny business with it. It's fair enough.
You are not alone. There are many people that believe that,
many people that feel that way but don't act like that.
Is the only election that has had some funny business
that is around it from either the direction, either side.

(08:38):
And we can go all the way back before the
Republican Party was even a thing into the early eighteen hundreds.
There are all sorts of weird election stuff that happened.
Go back to the eighteen twenties, John Quincy Adams, go
back to his election. How weird and crazy that was? Okay?
There we were meddling, there's been jerrymandering, there's been redistricting
to try to help out very specific in certain people

(08:59):
at different points. I just I got to think to myself,
right like, we can't get caught up in thinking that
this country has been perfect until the last four years,
because it has not. Our election system has not. We've
been trying to take steps toward making it better. Awareness
is half the battle. You want to know and be
aware of what the election actually looks like and what

(09:20):
it does regardless. At the same time, you can't just
sit here and tell me that there's one way to
do things, because if there was just one really good
way to do things, it would be a federal rule,
or all fifty states would agree that this is the
best way to do things. That's just not how it
works now. Other countries have copied our election system because
even if there are flaws, and there have been flaws

(09:40):
in the way that we do our elections over time,
there is like a zero percent chance right that they're
copying somebody else's government. For the most part, the way
that we built our democracy slash for representative republic slash
federal republica, however you want to describe it. When you
look at that, and hopefully that's not a bad signal
that people want to argue with is out the exact

(10:01):
specific terminology of how to address what our government is.
But the French, they had their own revolution very shortly
after ours, copying us. They did that and then set
up their own democratic government. You want to know what
else happened. Many countries we would consider to be third
world countries or countries that do not have the ability
or civilization that would be on our level. After we

(10:24):
built our nation to be the powerhouse that it is
within the two hundred and fifty year window. You know
what they did. They copied our government. So we can
talk about how messy the last election was, or how
messy certain elections or certain pieces of elections or election
denial from both sides over the last couple of decades,
and what that may have looked like. But you know what,
you want to know something else. Our process has still

(10:47):
been better than anybody else's in the world and how
to govern a country. And I will stand by that.
I went and early voted yesterday. They take the rules
very seriously there. I am sure that that's the way
that it's being taken everywhere in the state of Nebraska.
And I would assume that anybody who's a poll worker
in any state in the country, no matter how big
or how blue they may be, are going to be

(11:08):
upholding the best that they can the rules of those elections. Now,
if those states have different rules, I can't speak on that,
But you know what I'm not going to do. I'll
ask some questions and I'll have one eye open and
be watching how these polls end up going. But my
first instinct is not going to be on January or sorry,
on November the fifth, when they're counting up the ballots

(11:29):
and they're saying who won this election? My first instinct
isn't going to be, well, I bet if Donald Trump
loses it was a cheat. I'm not going to think that. First.
I'm going to need some evidence to be popped up
to me for me to be able to come to
that conclusion. I am going to trust that our government
officials and that specifically our poll workers are doing the
best they can to uphold the election the way that

(11:51):
it is. And then if other evidence showed to me
and I'm given information that, yeah, if Donald Trump loses,
it was a cheat or vice versa. You know, who's
to say that people on the left side don't don't
try to do the same thing. Who knows. But I'm
not going to just assume that without information because the
person I did not want to win ends up winning.
I don't want to be the guy that's just blindly

(12:13):
blaming referees when my team doesn't win. It's just not
in my nature. If you have thoughts, you can call
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Speaker 3 (12:26):
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Speaker 5 (12:32):
As we are rocking and rolling on this Friday. That case.
One thing that I wanted to ask you about. When
you're sitting at home, you uh, no where to go?
What do you wear?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
You guys? Mes me? What am I wearing right now? No?

Speaker 5 (12:48):
I'm asking you what do you wear when you're at
home and you'd have nothing to do?

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Like you just like you're not planning on going anywhere
except your house? In some way? What do you wear?
Katkis that's not true. There's no way, zero percent. Chang okay,
Jake from State Farm, what are you wearing right now?
H khakis?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
There there's a recreation of a commercial from like twelve
years ago. You're all welcome. I don't know what do
I wear? I wear all kinds of things. What It
depends on the season, Like right now, if I go
home right now? Yeah, what are you gonna wear? Probably
just this until it's bedtime, but I might This feels
like a weird conversation.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
It's not I have a purpose for this. Oh do
you Yeah? I'm a professional. They pay me to do this. Okay,
that's fine. It just feels I feel slightly uncomfortable. Yeah,
well you shouldn't, because it's a real question. Well, I
go home, and if I have nothing else that I'm

(13:45):
doing that day, you know what I do. I almost
immediately change in my pajamas, no matter what time it is,
if I am planning on doing nothing else, even if
maybe I'm just gonna be in the yard. Now. Sometimes
when I go outside and like I'm making a fire
or something, all were like jeans things just a little
bit thicker. But I wear a hoodie, my pajama pants
and my thick socks with my slippers, and that's I'm like,

(14:08):
I'm set. I do that as soon as I get home.
If I'm not about to go do anything else, I
just in my pajamas perpetually at home.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Can I answer the question again? I don't know how
comfortable are you? Will you ask it please?

Speaker 1 (14:19):
When you're at home and you have nowhere else to
go that day, or at least you don't think what
do you wear? Well, I've heard people say that too
much of anything. I don't feel comfortable answering that question.
It's too personal. You just asked me to ask it again.

(14:42):
It's my party, you're invited. It's really really dumb. It's
like sweats. I guess you know you're really dumb.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Like I save my like stained T shirts that I
would never wear in public for you know, private setting.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yeah. I literally, like, I have a pile of T
shirts I just don't wear out of the ho Those
are my sleeping shirts.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
I got this T shirt. It's a big white T shirt,
a little bit too big. It's got this like stain
in the stomach area. No idea where it came from,
but that one stays indoors because I feel like I
walk outside with that thing, people are like, stay away from.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
That guy, as if they don't already. I've heard people
say that, Yeah, that's that's a fair point. Hmm. You
are a very interesting person. All right, So it being
a Friday and all. I just mentioned that because you know,

(15:38):
I think I'm gonna do some lounging and relaxing. You
know what else, I'm gonna do pumpkin patch this weekend. Now, Now,
how do you feel about a pumpkin patch? M I
have a I have a lukewarm to mildly hot take
on them. Honestly, all right, let's hear it. I don't
like this. By the way, this is not directed at
any one specific place. No, this is just pumpkin patches

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in gen which exists all over the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I love, I love my idea of a pumpkin patch,
but it never meets reality because I go there and
it's all this spooky stuff and I'm like, you know what,
I don't like pumpkin patches being all halloweeny. I think
it's a campy, fun fall experience and we can have
all our Halloween fun at other places. What, but I
don't think we need it to be I don't like
the haunted parts of pumpkin patches. Like, what like a

(16:25):
corn maze? Yeah, you could just have a regular cord maze.
It doesn't have to be haunted. Okay, what about a
hay rack ride? Right, a regular hayrack ride doesn't need
to be haunted. What time are you going on the
hay rack ride? Nine in the morning? Okay, Well, how
are they going to haunt that?

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Anyway? It's light outside they still do? Like, don't who does?
I will not name names. Well, a guy in a
chain sauce comes up and it's scares everybody in the
hay rack.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, well not literally. They save that stuff for the nighttime. Okay,
so how do they make it haunted?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Then? Is there a jack o lantern? They drive through
the haunted woods? The woods? Yeah, it's well the woods
with sunlight in them, and they're still haunted. There's a
little red riding hood and the big bad wolf BacT
there doing something. Don't take that the wrong way.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Not exactly that, but all kinds of all kinds of
spooky animatronics, animatronics, y like what.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Get through specific because I don't want anybody feeling called out,
you know what I mean. All I'm saying is that's
just my personal opinion.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Have you got more than one pumpkin patch?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
I have, but I've only gone on one Hey Rock
ride recently, and that was my experience. So now you
have completely you know, your entire pumpkin patch take is
based on one experience that you've had. Yeah, I could
have used more camp less spook, more camp spook. Yeah,
and the one like the sample size of one that we're.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Talking about right now. Yes, all right, well I have
I have my own opinions on pumpkin patches and we'll
get to your opinions too. If you want to call in,
do it four oh two five five eight eleven ten
four h two five five eight eleven ten News Radio
eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
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Speaker 1 (18:13):
My response to that is, well, besides the fact that
I talked about the election for the first thirty minutes
or so of this show and took a call that
was very specific about the election, I honestly like, if
you expect me to spend all sixteen of the segments
that I get every afternoon, every single one of them,
talking about the election, even from now until the election,
and not to talk about absolutely anything else, You're just

(18:34):
in the wrong place. And I hate to tell you that,
but there are other things that are happening in the world,
and there are other things that people are interested in
than that. Okay, So I'm just gonna like throw that
out there to a that specific person or also to
anyone who's just like, I want more election talk, Okay. Well,
I mean I'm sorry that the other you know, twenty
three hours of that they haven't been good enough for that,

(18:55):
and there's just a complete lack of election coverage out there,
But I do not know how many different ways I
could possibly tell you about the election on a day
when most people are excited for the weekend. Speaking of
the weekend, my weekend plans include me and my wife
going to a pumpkin patch. Now, pumpkin patch not something
that I ever wanted to do when I was a
small child. It didn't sound like anything fun. What do

(19:15):
you even do at a pumpkin patch? What you go
and pick up pumpkin and then you like leave. That
was what I thought a pumpkin patch was. Well, I
in Ernest went into a pumpkin patch about three years
ago for the first time, like thirty years old. Pretty
interesting for a thirty year old with his wife with
no kids to go to pumpkin patch. I was like,
I'll check it out. I want to do something fall ish,
and then we were gonna go to like a sidery

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afterwards and have some good sighter. You know. Well, you
know what happened there, Matt, What I fell in love
with the pumpkin patch. Oh, I'm an individual that you know.
I like a variety of different things. I just like
doing things in general. But you want to know what
else I really love filling my cup. What does that mean? Well,
it's when your heart just feels like you know what
the world is and all that bad. You surround yourself

(19:58):
with things that are happy and other people who are happy.
And you know what, when I was at that pumpkin
patch on that random October afternoon, you know what I
had discovered. There's very few places I've ever been where
people were more happy on a per person level then
the people that I saw at the pumpkin patch. Does
that make sense? Mm hmm? Is that not like pretty

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interesting to you, Like when you go to a pumpkin patch,
and the one I went to did not have a
lot of spookiness to it. You know, there was a
pumpkin cannon, which was pretty interesting. You pay ten bucks
you bring a pumpkin up there. It has to be
a certain size. They stuffed the pumpkin into the cannon
and then they fire the cannon. You watch the pumpkin
go into the trees. It's pretty cool. They had like
a little mini bounce house thing, but it wasn't like

(20:41):
a bounce house. It was like a bounce pad so
kids could just like bounce around and it was big.
So there could be a ton of kids on it.
That's fun. They had like places you can get like
your pumpkin spice lattes and stuff like on the property,
a bunch of like antique fall looking kind of things.
They had a hayrack ride that took you to the
corn Maze and to the big pumpkin patch and then
you could like pick out pumpkins and all this stuff.

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I saw people with that were like eighty five years
old there with their families. I saw children that were
less than a year old with their families. I saw
adults that were our age with and without children, and
everybody had a smile on their face. To me, that's
the magic of going and doing something like the pumpkin patch.
So yes, my wife and I we want to do

(21:23):
something very fall related, something very fun over this week
and should be excellent weather for it. And yes, it
is the last weekend of October. So if you haven't
done something that's fall related or HALLOWEENI or something like that,
October the end of October is kind of you know
the end of that sweet spot. A lot of these
places and this is this goes against you, right, this

(21:45):
goes against you. A lot of pumpkin patches close after Halloween,
they do well. I don't know if that's the temperature
and the pumpkins and the weather just kind of turning
and there's not as many leaves on the trees or whatever,
But it feels like most of the time. I think
a lot of them are extending into the first weekend
of November this year. But I mean it seems kind

(22:07):
of like a Halloween thing more so than not necessarily
like the season. But Halloween season goes concurrently with what
we consider pumpkin patch season.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
It does go concurrently, but they don't have to celebrate
the same things about fall. I think there are different things.
I think that the pumpkin patch could live in a
lane that celebrates things about fall that are not, you know,
spook related. It doesn't have to be. You don't want
to see bats and jack o' lanterns at your pumpkin patch.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Halloween's fun, but it's kind of like a it's its
own thing, you know, like not every here's the thing.
This is what's happening to fall right now. Everything that's
fall related has to be Halloween related. I don't think
it does. I think fall is a beautiful time of year.
And I don't think we have to just think of
fall and then automatically think, oh, it's scary time, it's
spooky time, it's Halloween times.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
No, it's not. So you want to start to move
into like separate the two. Yeah, okay, I mean other
times of the year kind of have that, and different
things have their lanes. I suppose we've kind of got
juxtaposed a little bit with two things that kind of
seem like they're alike, but they're really just happening at
the same time. They don't have to be exactly alike.
Although pumpkins are a pretty big part of the Halloween

(23:12):
thing while also being a pretty big part of the
fall thing, you know, so maybe that's the Maybe that's
the mesh. There phones are open for two, five, five,
eight to eleven ten and Alex is on the line. Alex,
what's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Hey, good afternoon. Two things. One about the election. People
should try and be civil with each other even though
they disagree. You'll never convince someone that they're wronging you're
right by being a jerk. And the minute I hear
someone compare another person to Hitler, I lose complete respect
for them. It shows me that they've reached the bottom

(23:47):
of the barrel. They have or else to go, and
it shows total disregard. There's the millions of people who
suffered under that man. So when you compare someone to Hitler,
you're a moron. As far as pumpkin patches, you know,
some of them closed because the county willant them to
stay opening the longer because they caused a load of
traffic in an area. They're fun. But there's one here

(24:08):
in southwestone Hall that is outrageously expensive. Now, I mean
I remember we first opened, but we have some people
told this sting one up there and they had four
kids and it cost him a thousand dollars. So that
time they were done. And that's insane. What a thousand
to get in And then they had to spend money.

(24:29):
You know, you buy the pumpkins and you buy the
food whatever they came. But it was close to one
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
So holy moly. Okay, well that dang. I mean, I
didn't know that we were running Disney World prices at
the pumpkin patch. Gee whiz, all right, Alex said, it's
good information, thanks for calling us, So I appreciate it
being a part of the show today. Okay, And yeah,
I guess I don't think about that too much because
it's like a once a year thing for me so

(24:55):
to go to the pumpkin patch or whatever, since I
went the first time. But you know, you want to know,
so like that is a factor. You want to make
it as affordable as possible. I think there is kind
of like, and maybe this is something we can talk
about too. What is the line between just letting people
who want to be degenerates come in for like no
money at whatsoever and just kind of potentially trash the
place versus, you know, make it a little bit more

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exclusive for people to come in only because they really
want to be there, which is why they would give
you a little extra money to be there. I don't know,
It's an interesting conversation in there too. We got more
on the way on news radio eleven to ten kfab