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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Also just stayed in. Yeah, just stayed in. Happened to
be in a place where I was able to catch
the fireworks, but I didn't have to go outside in
the cold to do so. So it's kind of the
perfect combo. You know. Fireworks had a little bubbly, but
you know what I had though, Emory Songer, I did
not have champagne. What I had was basically it was
like a it's like a cranberry bubbly but like with
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wine too. I don't know what it was, but it
was tasty and I enjoyed it. Kind of like a
sangria something or yeah, basically I guess kind of like
almost like a cranberry sangria. Interesting. Yeah, I stayed in.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We went actually and uh went and saw the lights
over at the lorits and gardens, which was which was fun. Still,
I was still, you know, trying to get healthy and whatnot,
you know, because uh, this little thing it's been a
little pesky, trying to get out of my system.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
But it was okay.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know what I did, I I was flipping back
and forth watching a few different New Year's shows and
you know, the wife he was there doing her thing too.
Uh watched some TV. Watched a dog show, which I
like to do, you know, watch different breeds of dogs and.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Stuff show about dogs or dogs showing off like a
dog show. Like, so dog's showing off?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Like the dog just stands there. It's all genetics and attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, sounds like, I don't know, a little tweet his
own what I think? You know, like dog shows. It's
a little weird to me. Okay, why because some dogs,
you know, like just let them do their thing. You know,
what do you mean let them do their thing? Well?
How did bulldogs get the way they are? What do
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you mean they've got like chronic sleep apnea? Yeah, they
can barely breathe. Well, whose fault is that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The bulldogs that came before that adapted poorly through breeding
in genetics.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right, So I mean maybe they could have picked up
a you know, a different chromosome here and there. What
helped out? Yeah? Well, you know, I don't know. At
some point there's a look at their family tree, it's
just one long pole.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, yeah, we have better ideas as to how to
breed certain breeds these days than maybe we did before.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know, let's just throw that out there. But yeah, No.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I like watching the dogs and learning about the different
breeds and their standards and what they look like. So
we watched some of that. Of course, there was plenty
of football. The Sugar Bowl was supposed to happen yesterday,
but because of the horrific events that happened in New Orleans,
they wanted to make sure that the city was secure
before they actually had this big game. And so that
game's actually about to kick off right now. How about
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this in the afternoon of Thursday, January tewod Or getting
the Sugar Bowl and it's Notre Dame and Georgia, and
Georgia's playing without their starting quarterback.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What do you think? Do you think? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It swung When we had left each other a couple
of days ago, we knew he was out, but Georgia
was still a one point favorite. Notre Dame now is
a one and a half point favorite. Did you have
an happen to see the other playoff games?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I didn't see him. Arizona Texas game looked like it
was quite the site. Wow. How about cam Scataboo.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, so Arizona State was down by sixteen points, like
five minutes left in the fourth quarter, somehow it was
able to work their way back tied, the game got
to overtime, they took the lead in overtime, and there
were some very controversial calls regarding targeting of that nature.
I'm going to go on the record and say I
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think they kind of evened them out. I think you
could have called both sides on some pretty pivotal targeting
penalties and they decided not to, even if they were
the definition of the rule. But the heartbreaking part is
Arizona State had Texas on the ropes, up by seven
in overtime. Texas had fourth and thirteen, game on the
line and threw a touchdown pass on that play, and.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, that was their shot. That was their big shot
right there.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, So as a bummer if you were rooting for
technically the underdog, they were a two score underdog. But
every favorite to this point has won each of these games.
And that's really the only one, and that was highly
competitive for whatever it's worth.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
This one was the one that people were talking about
the most being the most balanced between the two teams
and the two rosters.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So we'll see. Did you see what Ohio State did
the Oregon. They yeah, they they smacked them around. And
someone predicted that before the New year, remember, yeah I did.
It was me.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you did say that Ohio State was going to
take care of them. Yeah, and they did. It was
thirty four to nothing before Oregon scored at the end
of the first half. Welcome to the Big ten Oregon.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, but they had already beaten them, that's the crazy thing. Yeah, yeah, yep. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Anyway, we'll see. We'll keep you posted on that game.
It just kicked off, so we'll let you know there. Also,
it's good that there's no news today, right, like, there's
relatively minimal news, because that means that, hopefully, besides us
trying to figure out as much as we can about
you know, the New Orleans and Vegas stuff, that there
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isn't a ton of up for us to have to
digest and work through and put together each and every
time that we, you know, are doing any of this stuff.
And you know, I I want us to know that
there are a lot of cool things that are happening
in the community, but I also want it to be
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a positive thing, right Like, I want there to be
positivity around what's going on out there. So that's what
I want to do now. If there's anyone out there
that had an awesome New Year's Eve New Year's Day,
they'd like to share a bit of that experience or
just kind of their philosophy on what they're hoping to
get out of twenty twenty five. And we're I think
we're going to today. We're gonna make some picks on
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some things that we think may or may not happen.
Feel free to call us. I'd love to talk to
you about what you think twenty twenty five has in
store for you. Four oh two five five eight eleven
ten is that number? Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. You can also email me Emory at kfab
dot com. Would love to chat with you today if
you have some thoughts on you know, experiences you'd like
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to share from the last couple of days, or even
more specifically, things that you think are going to happen
in twenty twenty five. WOULD love to chat with you again.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten is the
phone number to call here on news radio eleven ten
KFABA the most electric fan Blaze stopped using.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The tongue in one minute. I have the video. Do
you want to see it? No, that's inappropriate for work.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's a guy from India named Kranthi drillman and uh.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh that's his name or is that his stage name?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I think that's his real name. He and he's crying
because he officially broke the record. He's achieved his lifelong dream.
He stopped fifty seven electric fan blades with his tongue
in one minute.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He's achieved his lifelong dream. What, yes, exactly, Well, consider
me not a fan. Where's my rim shot? I never
have that ready when I need it. You don't need
it that often, to be fair, but that would have
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been a good time for it. That would have been
a good you know, how about this? I like turtles there.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Instead of a ramshot in lieu of ramshot, take this
turtle thing. So his strategy for anybody out there for
the visual, it's an open fan, so they have like
the front of the fan removed, so like the blades
are exposed while they're running, and he's using his tongue
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on the centerpiece and he's putting enough pressure on the
centerpiece to get the blade to stop, and all the blade,
the blade just needs to fully stop for him to
move to the next fan, and he got fifty seven
of those in one minute. How do you learn that
you're good at this or they even want to achieve this.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm just thinking about the records that I've broken, the
meaningless things that I've done that probably never anyone has
ever done before that I just forgot to write down
and submit. Like what I mean, if that's a record
that someone can stake claim to, you know, what are
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we doing? But you didn't give me an example of
one that you had, I'd have to think about it.
What I'm saying. What I'm saying is is his accomplishment
is meaningless. Congratulations he's in the sir, Well, he's in
the book. Oh he made it to the book. You
know what?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He got the award, he got the thing that says
that he's in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh, I'm a published author too. I had to pay
fifty dollars for the right. But it doesn't mean anything.
It was a scam going around when I was in
high school. I don't want to talk about it. But
you can go around saying I'm a published author, but
I'm not. Though, why how are you not? You just said,
you were this guy. This guy demeans record breaking everywhere
by what he did. He demeans it. He demeans it.
(09:48):
It's it's the same argument for Saquon Barkley right now.
Oh right, I'm glad he pulled up at sixteen because
if he would have gotten the record with seventeen games,
throw it out. Throw it out. Because Eric Dickerson got
it at sixteen.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
What about Roger Marris breaking Bay Bruce single season record.
He got to play eight more games. Throw it out,
Throw it out. Throw him out too. Roger Merris, he's gone.
He's out of the hall, out of the hall. He's
out of the hall.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You know what. He's out of that hall. But he's
got to go out to the hall. Uh he's dead. No, No,
I don't know. Yeah he is. He's been dead for
a while. Oh oh rp Roger Marris. Yeah, we had
a long, happy life. It wasn't as long as it
probably could have been. There's a great movie that Billy
(10:38):
Crystal made called sixty one. It's all about that whole
season and the kind of the argument about the asterisk
that many people wanted to put on it because of
the length of the season. Look, all I'm saying is
a record is a record? Is a record? If you
can set a record, why wouldn't you set a record?
You have any big record setting ideas for twenty twenty five,
or you are you going to you know, is there
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anything that you would like to do in twenty twenty
five for you feel like at twenty twenty five, like
is going to make something happen for yourself? Like or
you know, maybe we can set up some stupid record
that you can break after you thought about it. I
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got one, okay about fifty eight times. Yeah, let's break record.
Let's do it. I want to do it. You're gonna
do that to him? I want to do it. I
want to do it. And then when they give me
the record, I'm gonna look at the camera and say
this means nothing to me. That would be such a
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such a jerk move. He cried, He cried, I have
the video. It's it's it's touching stuff. You know what
record I broke? This was many years ago. I probably
ate more potato les in one summer than any human
ever has. But how do you know that? I just
don't think anyone has ever done that. I don't know
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that's not how this works. Well, I didn't submit it.
I purposefully didn't keep track. But I have a good
feeling I probably did well. I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I don't exactly should I don't know what the I
don't know what the word is on that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But I just sent you the video. You got it? Yeah,
you're watching it. Explain what you're seeing here. I don't
want to watch this. This is this is a family show.
This he's doing it in a safe manner. There's no blood.
Why is he why? Why he's he's, he's, he's he's
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what is it? Fifty seven fifty seven he's stopping fifty
seven fans in a minute. Yeah, it is impressive that.
I mean, that's almost one a second. It is almost
one a second. Uh, post modern society. Get me out
of this.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well stick you gotta okay, fast forward to the end
where he gets the record and she brings him the thing.
When they announce he's done it, he can't believe it.
It is the greatest moment of his life. And here
you are and you want to take it from him.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I'm gonna go home and read Ecclesiastes. This is pointless.
This exercise is meaningless. This is futile.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
He's five or five point two million views on this
thing that they posted today. I don't know what you want. Man,
twenty twenty five, the year of the Matt Case record.
We'll find you something really stupid to achieve. We'll let
you achieve it, and we'll see how much it means
to you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I could try for fifty eight times.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You really like this is the one we would need
to get fifty eight fans, and you're gonna have to practice.
I mean, he was going at a pretty good pace. Here.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
His nose looks like it got clipped a little bit,
like it was a little right. It does, doesn't it. Yeah,
But he's very happy. He's very happy. He was, he
was very happy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The top comment is a meme of mister Crabs staring
at a sign that says zero days without nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, this guy would have probably discovered he could do
this when he was bored at work. I suppose, Yeah, yeah,
there's that. There's that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I don't mind. I don't mind learning that you have
different skills. I just don't know what the functional application
of this one would be.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Do you call this a skill? I feel like that's
demeaning to the word skill. It is a skill.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I mean, could you do it if I told you, Matt,
please stop this rotating electric fan with your tongue desperately
needed to stop just for a second, you know. I
don't know, like or maybe he's just got a tough
hung and this was the way that he wanted to
show it off.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't know, I don't like, I don't like anything
about it.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, it's a it's a real thing also a little
bit of an off offshoot here Mufasa the Lion King.
Have you seen this thing?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Have you? Have you seen the previews for it? And
what whatnot? I've seen some of the previews.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, it's it's essentially like a prequel of The Lion King,
and it's basically like the story of Mufasa in Scar
and why there's these two guys that seemingly are very different, looking,
different sounding, but consider each other brothers, right, Oh, think
about it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You watched The Lion King for the first time, and
Scar and Mufasa look nothing alike, and they don't sound
alike at all. Scar has the scar on his eye
and he talks about he talks in like an English accent,
and Fossa's James Earl Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You know, he's real beefy sounding.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But it's a prequel basically outlining the beginning of that
origin story and how that would have happened. Well, it
came out. I haven't seen it. I've been very bad
in twenty twenty four. I was very bad about going
to movies. After twenty twenty three, I went to like
twelve movies and I had a lot of fun going
to movie theaters.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This is.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It wasn't a good year for me going to the movies.
But you know what the tomato meat the Tomato Meter
has to say about Mufossa the Lion King.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Critics are fans or patrons of the movie. The Tomato
Meter for critics, okay, oh well, if we're talking about it,
they probably don't like it. I'll say solid thirty fifty five.
They don't like it, though, it's so is that still
certified fresh? No? It's rotten.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So what do you have to do to get certified fresh?
It's it's got to be over six. Well, it's fresh
if it's over sixty. But if it achieves like a
certain amount of positive reviews, then I think it gets certified.
I don't exactly know how they get to that certification,
but yeah, it's not they say. Barry Jenkins's defthand and
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lin Manuel Miranda's music goes some way towards squaring the
circle of life in Mufasa, but this fitfully soulful story
is ill served by its impersonal photorealistic animation style. They
say the animation killed it, and that's fair because these
are they make it look like real lines, right, but
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they're talking to each other and I don't like it.
I don't like that. However, the popcorn meter, which is
the audience score, is eight, so people who win actually
found it to be enjoyable. Now I don't know. I
haven't seen it. I'm afraid to see it because the
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Lion King means so much to me as a person.
But h.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I feel like I feel like we didn't do super
great with green lighting the animation being like a realistic version.
We should have just kind of done the old Disney
style if you were going to stick to this idea,
That's all I'm saying, just throwing that out there. So
I'm a little bit a little bit hurt by that.
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Hurt hurt by by their decision. Could have been something
special if they just would have stuck to the original
animation you.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Seek, should have just been the cartoon. Yeah, haven't they
been doing this though? They've been doing this with different days. No,
and it sucks. Not good. You're telling me that.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
These lion cubs are just, you know, gonna be singing
and talking to each other. And give me a break.
Put me into the the proper Disney animation style, go
back to it. Why don't we have beautiful animators like
that anymore? Why was that the golden age of Disney?
Is because the animation was perfect, The Beauty and the Beast,
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the Little Mermaid, the Lion King, anything from that, you know,
like late eighties to mid nineties was just fire. Aladdin? Right,
what are we doing anyway? We'll talk more, three twenty nine.
If you got stuff on your mind, please call us.
The phones are open four two, five, five, eight to eleven
ten News Radio eleven ten kfab Matt, Yes, I actually
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thought I had the record though for most potato oleys,
but I will humbly take second place. However, when I
was in college, I am sure that I smashed the
record for most pizza rolls. Eating at one time it
hurt to sit, stand or walk. Wow, that's some commitment.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That is. Was it intentional or were you just bored
and sad or hungry? I mean you'd also just been hungry.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, I guess, so you know what pizza role this
is my I'm thirty four years old, now, okay, mm hmm.
If you give me something that easy to make, I'm
just gonna eat it until it's gone. I'll eat it
for every meal. I am only somewhat ashamed to admit that.
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Like what I mean is if my wife is out
of town for a couple of days, which happens with
some frequency, if there's like pizza roles in the fridge,
I'm making pizza roles for lunch, pizza roles for dinner. Heck,
I may wake up and have pizza rolls for breakfast. Now,
Potato o lays are fantastic if I could, If I
could just harness the taste of potato olays and just
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eat them all the time. I mean, those seasonings just
it's it's perfect. Do you cheese them or do you
see them? Just eat them straight?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well, back in those days, I think I just get
myself a side of ranch. Ranch. Yeah, ranch, but dear
Old lays very good stuff. I kind of Olay's kind
of got ruined for me after that, though, not gonna
lie you. You ate too many of them. Overdid it?
I overdid it. Now. I have them occasionally and I
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enjoy them. But you know, it's it's you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's like that one song that you really like, but
you listen to it a hundred times in the first
week you've heard it and couldn't go back to it
the same way.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, kind of fell out of love with it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, Adam emails it and says, Matt's my spirit animal today.
Everything the crappy breeding that's been done to some dog
breeds lately, the stupid world records being a waste of
time and insulting to people with actual skills, Go Matt.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Wow, Well thanks Adam. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, those are some pretty good radio points. I will
say that I nailed it, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And I'm and I'm not here. I'm not here for
you know, an. I don't want too many people to
be just sitting here in getting on me of like.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Emory.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Of course, dog breeds are not I'm not here to
say like you could go even a horse breeds, like
like theoroughbred horses. There's a lot of people that are
out there saying the selective breeding of you know, we
they they've dumbed down the breeding too much to where
the horses aren't as structurally sound as they might have
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been fifty years ago. You know, you get enough generations
beyond there and you have some like and they're careful
about this the best that they can, but that doesn't
mean that it's one hundred percent like accurate, but they
have like these Uh, there's some like inbred stuff in there, right,
Like you might have a couple of horses that are
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like the the same horse on both sides of the family,
right or like somewhat close in the pedigree makes it
a little tricky to get the most sound quality of
horse possible. And I think that probably happened to dogs too.
The thing with dogs is when you breed them, they'll
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spit out, you know, five six, seven of them at
a time. It's not like a horse where you get
one and they just the gestation. They can have multiple
litters a year. Realistically a horse it's one a year,
you know what I mean? It's a different, different animal
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together literally and figuratively.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You can't. Yeah, yeah, they're different they sure? Are you
like that? Did you like that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now we did have this other people. We had this
conversation going. I was talking about the instability between November fifth,
or election day whenever it is, and.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The UH.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Inaugury, the official transfer of power on January twentieth, and
Don wanted to make sure that because I mentioned that,
it feels like it's very unstable right now. There's no
showing of strength or anything. But did I forget about
twenty twenty? You fret about post election instability? What about
Trump trying to overthrow an election and the citning a
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mob to story in the Capitol. That's real instability.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I know Don threw emails not to be a fan
of Donald Trump in the least bit. Don'son probably never
going to say Donald Trump does anything. Well, there are
people like that out there. Don has that right. However,
twenty twenty was a little bit of a different animal altogether.
While yes, you could maintain that there was a large
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level of instability for a variety of reasons. I think
the biggest reason was the fact that we were coming
out of like, was that as super charged as anything
that we've ever had In November, we had record turnout,
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and we had all these different rules about people getting
basically hand delivered their stuff, like they were being hand
delivered their ballots and stuff. Right, it was just a
completely different time. And then you throw in the fact
that I think most people are still messed up by
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what was happening with COVID, even though we were almost
a year in at that point of having to deal
with it. And I don't know, like there's just a
piece of me that as much as that January sixth day,
and we can talk about and we have had this
discussion before about all of the things that went wrong
on that day, but also the things of who is
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actually fully responsible and some of the stuff that isn't
necessarily properly accounted for. And it's all about where you
come from in the angle that you have or the
spin that you have. That's a big part of the story,
is what your political background is in the way that
you talk about what happened on that day. But even
though that day was very memorable and people were, you know,
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still hold that against the Republicans and Donald Trump and
all that stuff, even if they don't really want to
account for a lot of the other facts or factors
behind it. At the same time, I just don't think
it felt like there was this level of instability around
the world because there wasn't a lot of world conflicts
going on at the time. There wasn't a lot of
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major American issues that we were having to worry about.
When it comes to our southern border cities being taken
over by foreign gang activity or cartel activity, you haven't
had this kind of resurgence of isis that you know,
you're starting to see kind of as a result of
some of the implications of what's happening in the Middle
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East and all sorts of other stuff that's going on there.
And if that's what's going on, right, we have to
put ourselves in the shoes of like what the biggest
issues of the day are and when all this stuff
is happening, and then you throw in the drone thing
and whatever escalation is going to continue in Ukraine and Russia.
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It is really strange and kind of ominous that we
don't have a bigger presence in our federal government for
the time being. How are we the American people fully
protected when it feels like there's kind of this void
in this seven week span that's more than that. It's
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like it's like nine weeks almost between the between the
election day and inauguration. So there's just way too much
at stake. I think for us to just have this happen,
we have to come up with something better. It is
three forty six, We'll have more coming up. Stick around
news radio eleven to in KFAB. Is this like this
has to be super weird. You're having like this major game,
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and I understand why they had to move it from
yesterday to today, but couldn't even put it into prime
time because of whatever TV obligations they already had.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What would be what could they not move? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I was trying to figure that out right as far
as ESPN is concerned. And again I might be missing
something that is also happening in the news or something
that I just I missed or I didn't pay attention to.
But they're supposed to air the tax Layer Gator.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Bowl at seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You know, I just I don't think I'll be honest,
I don't think they they could move that game for
one reason or another. I think that had I think
that's what it has to do with ESPN didn't want
those two competing. Yes, correct, but it's you also have
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to keep in mind you have the the TV deals
with that stuff, right, it creates a creates a bigger issue.
So I don't know, I don't know. I disliked talking
about stuff like that because you want to know something.
(29:23):
Here's another college sports thing.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Okay, you know the quarterback is for Notre Dame, Riley Leonard.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, you remember you know what he uh, where he
came from because he transferred in this year Duke, Right,
it was Duke. Now he's done after this year, he's
he's gone, right, this is his last year. Apparently he
was his lifelong dream to be the Notre Dame quarterback,
so when he had a chance to transfer there, he
(29:52):
left Duke to go there. Now he might have graduated
from Duke. I'm not sure he had been there for
a bit. Well there, there's already like these big rumors
that there's going to be a like who's going to
be their next quarterback? Well, there's a reason Notre Dame
does it recruit five star or four star quarterbacks because
they can get whoever they want.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Basically in the transfer portal.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Sure, and there's these rumors that quin Ewers is going
to be their quarterback next year. Oh really, okay, the
Texas quarterback because Texas is going to want to move
on to arch Manning and quinn Ewers has one year
of eligibility left. Yeah, and isn't really considered a top
pro prospect at this point. Is that not messed up?
(30:36):
Is it not messed up that that's already being talked about?
Texas still is playing quin Ewers is still playing for Texas.
They're still in like they're in the final four of
the colleg football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well it's just a rumor, yeah, but what if it's true. Well,
he's got to go somewhere. If it's going to be
arch Manning next, what do we This just used to be.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
This used to be a pure sport and now all
of a sudden, it's just like, yeah, bring them in
like mercenaries. You know.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It just it's weird to me and I don't like it.
I think it's the TV deals it is. That's why
we have so many balls. And then you want to
talk about something else. Iowa State.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
For my cyclone fans out there, they just announced that
they have they're going to be raising prices between ten
and twenty percent to ticket levels for season ticket holders.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Now, the demand is there.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
They do very well in their attendance pretty much every
single season, and you would think supply and demand, yeah,
the prices will go up. Think about Memorial Stadium, right,
We've had this to conversation that there are some people
that are still being grandfathered in on prices from decades ago.
And how much money is being left on the table
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doing that.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Right well, they need all this new money now because
they need to continue to fund the athletic department. And
now the twenty two million dollars the schools are going
to have to actually pay players.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And on top of that, think.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
About all of the non non big money, nil non
big athletic department activities that they're having to fund still,
like the rowing team, right, or the beach volleyball team,
or give me another one, give me another one, the
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bowling team, the bowling team?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
What else? I mean? The rec League? Is that is
that a thing gets wild? Man? Let me tell you
are you are? You? Were you in it? No? I
didn't get invited.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I got Here's some more Nebraska sports, rifle, women's rifle,
men's and women's tennis, swimming and diving across country. These
are not sports that generate revenue. These are sports that
get people to campus, and you can get scholarships in
order to do them. But there are three additional make
(33:06):
up four additional women's sports versus men's sports at the
University of Nebraska. You know why, because for every men's
sport scholarship, you need one for a women's team. And
with football, and how many scholarships they have for football,
which is what like eighty five, you have eighty five
scholarships for football alone. You have to make that up somewhere,
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which is why there's only a women's bowling team, a
women's rifle team. They have beach volleyball on top of
regular volleyball. There's no men's volleyball.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's the kind of thing that we're talking about here.
All of that, like this still costs money to operate
these teams, even though the money that the fans are
expected to pay is going directly into wanting their football
team to be good, or wanting the men's basketball team
to be good, or in some cases maybe the women's
basketball team. In Nebraska's case, it's volleyball and trying to
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come up with the nil money for that. But it's
the on the fans to come up with that money.
And then you have the billions of dollar deals with
the media rights that is they're they're bringing all this
stuff in with these these other cats, you know what
I mean, with the ESPNS and the CBS's and the
NBCs and the Foxes of the world that are given
(34:22):
the conferences, these giant media rights deals that are giving
hundreds of millions of dollars to the schools every single year.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I mean, you're.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Basically like, and this is if you want to donate
to collective, that's great. I think it's important to support
your school in your teams that you love. But man,
this is basically operational as a professional sports league at
this point in sports teams. Yet, I'm a Chicago Bears
fan and I don't donate to them to try to
(34:53):
get better players on our team, you know what I mean.
Just a weird thing. Anyway, We'll have more for you
coming up on News Radio eleventh and KFA B
Also just stayed in. Yeah, just stayed in. Happened to
be in a place where I was able to catch
the fireworks, but I didn't have to go outside in
the cold to do so. So it's kind of the
perfect combo. You know. Fireworks had a little bubbly, but
you know what I had though, Emory Songer, I did
not have champagne. What I had was basically it was
like a it's like a cranberry bubbly but like with
(00:26):
wine too. I don't know what it was, but it
was tasty and I enjoyed it. Kind of like a
sangria something or yeah, basically I guess kind of like
almost like a cranberry sangria. Interesting. Yeah, I stayed in.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
We went actually and uh went and saw the lights
over at the lorits and gardens, which was which was fun. Still,
I was still, you know, trying to get healthy and whatnot,
you know, because uh, this little thing it's been a
little pesky, trying to get out of my system.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
But it was okay.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
You know what I did, I I was flipping back
and forth watching a few different New Year's shows and
you know, the wife he was there doing her thing too.
Uh watched some TV. Watched a dog show, which I
like to do, you know, watch different breeds of dogs and.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Stuff show about dogs or dogs showing off like a
dog show. Like, so dog's showing off?
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Like the dog just stands there. It's all genetics and attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, sounds like, I don't know, a little tweet his
own what I think? You know, like dog shows. It's
a little weird to me. Okay, why because some dogs,
you know, like just let them do their thing. You know,
what do you mean let them do their thing? Well?
How did bulldogs get the way they are? What do
(01:53):
you mean they've got like chronic sleep apnea? Yeah, they
can barely breathe. Well, whose fault is that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The bulldogs that came before that adapted poorly through breeding
in genetics.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Right, So I mean maybe they could have picked up
a you know, a different chromosome here and there. What
helped out? Yeah? Well, you know, I don't know. At
some point there's a look at their family tree, it's
just one long pole.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, yeah, we have better ideas as to how to
breed certain breeds these days than maybe we did before.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
You know, let's just throw that out there. But yeah, No.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I like watching the dogs and learning about the different
breeds and their standards and what they look like. So
we watched some of that. Of course, there was plenty
of football. The Sugar Bowl was supposed to happen yesterday,
but because of the horrific events that happened in New Orleans,
they wanted to make sure that the city was secure
before they actually had this big game. And so that
game's actually about to kick off right now. How about
(02:55):
this in the afternoon of Thursday, January tewod Or getting
the Sugar Bowl and it's Notre Dame and Georgia, and
Georgia's playing without their starting quarterback.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
What do you think? Do you think? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It swung When we had left each other a couple
of days ago, we knew he was out, but Georgia
was still a one point favorite. Notre Dame now is
a one and a half point favorite. Did you have
an happen to see the other playoff games?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I didn't see him. Arizona Texas game looked like it
was quite the site. Wow. How about cam Scataboo.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, so Arizona State was down by sixteen points, like
five minutes left in the fourth quarter, somehow it was
able to work their way back tied, the game got
to overtime, they took the lead in overtime, and there
were some very controversial calls regarding targeting of that nature.
I'm going to go on the record and say I
(04:03):
think they kind of evened them out. I think you
could have called both sides on some pretty pivotal targeting
penalties and they decided not to, even if they were
the definition of the rule. But the heartbreaking part is
Arizona State had Texas on the ropes, up by seven
in overtime. Texas had fourth and thirteen, game on the
line and threw a touchdown pass on that play, and.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, that was their shot. That was their big shot
right there.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, So as a bummer if you were rooting for
technically the underdog, they were a two score underdog. But
every favorite to this point has won each of these games.
And that's really the only one, and that was highly
competitive for whatever it's worth.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So we'll see.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
This one was the one that people were talking about
the most being the most balanced between the two teams
and the two rosters.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
So we'll see. Did you see what Ohio State did
the Oregon. They yeah, they they smacked them around. And
someone predicted that before the New year, remember, yeah I did.
It was me.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, you did say that Ohio State was going to
take care of them. Yeah, and they did. It was
thirty four to nothing before Oregon scored at the end
of the first half. Welcome to the Big ten Oregon.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, but they had already beaten them, that's the crazy thing. Yeah, yeah, yep. Wow.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Anyway, we'll see. We'll keep you posted on that game.
It just kicked off, so we'll let you know there. Also,
it's good that there's no news today, right, like, there's
relatively minimal news, because that means that, hopefully, besides us
trying to figure out as much as we can about
you know, the New Orleans and Vegas stuff, that there
(05:42):
isn't a ton of up for us to have to
digest and work through and put together each and every
time that we, you know, are doing any of this stuff.
And you know, I I want us to know that
there are a lot of cool things that are happening
in the community, but I also want it to be
(06:02):
a positive thing, right Like, I want there to be
positivity around what's going on out there. So that's what
I want to do now. If there's anyone out there
that had an awesome New Year's Eve New Year's Day,
they'd like to share a bit of that experience or
just kind of their philosophy on what they're hoping to
get out of twenty twenty five. And we're I think
we're going to today. We're gonna make some picks on
(06:25):
some things that we think may or may not happen.
Feel free to call us. I'd love to talk to
you about what you think twenty twenty five has in
store for you. Four oh two five five eight eleven
ten is that number? Four oh two five five eight
eleven ten. You can also email me Emory at kfab
dot com. Would love to chat with you today if
you have some thoughts on you know, experiences you'd like
(06:45):
to share from the last couple of days, or even
more specifically, things that you think are going to happen
in twenty twenty five. WOULD love to chat with you again.
Four oh two five five eight eleven ten is the
phone number to call here on news radio eleven ten
KFABA the most electric fan Blaze stopped using.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The tongue in one minute. I have the video. Do
you want to see it? No, that's inappropriate for work.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's a guy from India named Kranthi drillman and uh.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh that's his name or is that his stage name?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I think that's his real name. He and he's crying
because he officially broke the record. He's achieved his lifelong dream.
He stopped fifty seven electric fan blades with his tongue
in one minute.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
He's achieved his lifelong dream. What, yes, exactly, Well, consider
me not a fan. Where's my rim shot? I never
have that ready when I need it. You don't need
it that often, to be fair, but that would have
(07:57):
been a good time for it. That would have been
a good you know, how about this? I like turtles there.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Instead of a ramshot in lieu of ramshot, take this
turtle thing. So his strategy for anybody out there for
the visual, it's an open fan, so they have like
the front of the fan removed, so like the blades
are exposed while they're running, and he's using his tongue
(08:24):
on the centerpiece and he's putting enough pressure on the
centerpiece to get the blade to stop, and all the blade,
the blade just needs to fully stop for him to
move to the next fan, and he got fifty seven
of those in one minute. How do you learn that
you're good at this or they even want to achieve this.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I'm just thinking about the records that I've broken, the
meaningless things that I've done that probably never anyone has
ever done before that I just forgot to write down
and submit. Like what I mean, if that's a record
that someone can stake claim to, you know, what are
(09:06):
we doing? But you didn't give me an example of
one that you had, I'd have to think about it.
What I'm saying. What I'm saying is is his accomplishment
is meaningless. Congratulations he's in the sir, Well, he's in
the book. Oh he made it to the book. You
know what?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
He got the award, he got the thing that says
that he's in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh, I'm a published author too. I had to pay
fifty dollars for the right. But it doesn't mean anything.
It was a scam going around when I was in
high school. I don't want to talk about it. But
you can go around saying I'm a published author, but
I'm not. Though, why how are you not? You just said,
you were this guy. This guy demeans record breaking everywhere
by what he did. He demeans it. He demeans it.
(09:48):
It's it's the same argument for Saquon Barkley right now.
Oh right, I'm glad he pulled up at sixteen because
if he would have gotten the record with seventeen games,
throw it out. Throw it out. Because Eric Dickerson got
it at sixteen.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
What about Roger Marris breaking Bay Bruce single season record.
He got to play eight more games. Throw it out,
Throw it out. Throw him out too. Roger Merris, he's gone.
He's out of the hall, out of the hall. He's
out of the hall.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You know what. He's out of that hall. But he's
got to go out to the hall. Uh he's dead. No, No,
I don't know. Yeah he is. He's been dead for
a while. Oh oh rp Roger Marris. Yeah, we had
a long, happy life. It wasn't as long as it
probably could have been. There's a great movie that Billy
(10:38):
Crystal made called sixty one. It's all about that whole
season and the kind of the argument about the asterisk
that many people wanted to put on it because of
the length of the season. Look, all I'm saying is
a record is a record? Is a record? If you
can set a record, why wouldn't you set a record?
You have any big record setting ideas for twenty twenty five,
or you are you going to you know, is there
(11:00):
anything that you would like to do in twenty twenty
five for you feel like at twenty twenty five, like
is going to make something happen for yourself? Like or
you know, maybe we can set up some stupid record
that you can break after you thought about it. I
(11:22):
got one, okay about fifty eight times. Yeah, let's break record.
Let's do it. I want to do it. You're gonna
do that to him? I want to do it. I
want to do it. And then when they give me
the record, I'm gonna look at the camera and say
this means nothing to me. That would be such a
(11:44):
such a jerk move. He cried, He cried, I have
the video. It's it's it's touching stuff. You know what
record I broke? This was many years ago. I probably
ate more potato les in one summer than any human
ever has. But how do you know that? I just
don't think anyone has ever done that. I don't know
(12:06):
that's not how this works. Well, I didn't submit it.
I purposefully didn't keep track. But I have a good
feeling I probably did well. I don't, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I don't exactly should I don't know what the I
don't know what the word is on that.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But I just sent you the video. You got it? Yeah,
you're watching it. Explain what you're seeing here. I don't
want to watch this. This is this is a family show.
This he's doing it in a safe manner. There's no blood.
Why is he why? Why he's he's, he's, he's he's
(12:47):
what is it? Fifty seven fifty seven he's stopping fifty
seven fans in a minute. Yeah, it is impressive that.
I mean, that's almost one a second. It is almost
one a second. Uh, post modern society. Get me out
of this.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well stick you gotta okay, fast forward to the end
where he gets the record and she brings him the thing.
When they announce he's done it, he can't believe it.
It is the greatest moment of his life. And here
you are and you want to take it from him.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I'm gonna go home and read Ecclesiastes. This is pointless.
This exercise is meaningless. This is futile.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
He's five or five point two million views on this
thing that they posted today. I don't know what you want. Man,
twenty twenty five, the year of the Matt Case record.
We'll find you something really stupid to achieve. We'll let
you achieve it, and we'll see how much it means
to you.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I could try for fifty eight times.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You really like this is the one we would need
to get fifty eight fans, and you're gonna have to practice.
I mean, he was going at a pretty good pace. Here.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
His nose looks like it got clipped a little bit,
like it was a little right. It does, doesn't it. Yeah,
But he's very happy. He's very happy. He was, he
was very happy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
The top comment is a meme of mister Crabs staring
at a sign that says zero days without nonsense.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Well, this guy would have probably discovered he could do
this when he was bored at work. I suppose, Yeah, yeah,
there's that. There's that.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I don't mind. I don't mind learning that you have
different skills. I just don't know what the functional application
of this one would be.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Do you call this a skill? I feel like that's
demeaning to the word skill. It is a skill.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I mean, could you do it if I told you, Matt,
please stop this rotating electric fan with your tongue desperately
needed to stop just for a second, you know. I
don't know, like or maybe he's just got a tough
hung and this was the way that he wanted to
show it off.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I don't know, I don't like, I don't like anything
about it.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Well, it's a it's a real thing also a little
bit of an off offshoot here Mufasa the Lion King.
Have you seen this thing?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Have you? Have you seen the previews for it? And
what whatnot? I've seen some of the previews.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, it's it's essentially like a prequel of The Lion King,
and it's basically like the story of Mufasa in Scar
and why there's these two guys that seemingly are very different, looking,
different sounding, but consider each other brothers, right, Oh, think
about it.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Think about it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
You watched The Lion King for the first time, and
Scar and Mufasa look nothing alike, and they don't sound
alike at all. Scar has the scar on his eye
and he talks about he talks in like an English accent,
and Fossa's James Earl Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You know, he's real beefy sounding.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
But it's a prequel basically outlining the beginning of that
origin story and how that would have happened. Well, it
came out. I haven't seen it. I've been very bad
in twenty twenty four. I was very bad about going
to movies. After twenty twenty three, I went to like
twelve movies and I had a lot of fun going
to movie theaters.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
This is.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It wasn't a good year for me going to the movies.
But you know what the tomato meat the Tomato Meter
has to say about Mufossa the Lion King.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Critics are fans or patrons of the movie. The Tomato
Meter for critics, okay, oh well, if we're talking about it,
they probably don't like it. I'll say solid thirty fifty five.
They don't like it, though, it's so is that still
certified fresh? No? It's rotten.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So what do you have to do to get certified fresh?
It's it's got to be over six. Well, it's fresh
if it's over sixty. But if it achieves like a
certain amount of positive reviews, then I think it gets certified.
I don't exactly know how they get to that certification,
but yeah, it's not they say. Barry Jenkins's defthand and
(17:18):
lin Manuel Miranda's music goes some way towards squaring the
circle of life in Mufasa, but this fitfully soulful story
is ill served by its impersonal photorealistic animation style. They
say the animation killed it, and that's fair because these
are they make it look like real lines, right, but
(17:42):
they're talking to each other and I don't like it.
I don't like that. However, the popcorn meter, which is
the audience score, is eight, so people who win actually
found it to be enjoyable. Now I don't know. I
haven't seen it. I'm afraid to see it because the
(18:03):
Lion King means so much to me as a person.
But h.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I feel like I feel like we didn't do super
great with green lighting the animation being like a realistic version.
We should have just kind of done the old Disney
style if you were going to stick to this idea,
That's all I'm saying, just throwing that out there. So
I'm a little bit a little bit hurt by that.
(18:34):
Hurt hurt by by their decision. Could have been something
special if they just would have stuck to the original
animation you.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Seek, should have just been the cartoon. Yeah, haven't they
been doing this though? They've been doing this with different days. No,
and it sucks. Not good. You're telling me that.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
These lion cubs are just, you know, gonna be singing
and talking to each other. And give me a break.
Put me into the the proper Disney animation style, go
back to it. Why don't we have beautiful animators like
that anymore? Why was that the golden age of Disney?
Is because the animation was perfect, The Beauty and the Beast,
(19:12):
the Little Mermaid, the Lion King, anything from that, you know,
like late eighties to mid nineties was just fire. Aladdin? Right,
what are we doing anyway? We'll talk more, three twenty nine.
If you got stuff on your mind, please call us.
The phones are open four two, five, five, eight to eleven
ten News Radio eleven ten kfab Matt, Yes, I actually
(19:33):
thought I had the record though for most potato oleys,
but I will humbly take second place. However, when I
was in college, I am sure that I smashed the
record for most pizza rolls. Eating at one time it
hurt to sit, stand or walk. Wow, that's some commitment.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
That is. Was it intentional or were you just bored
and sad or hungry? I mean you'd also just been hungry.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, I guess, so you know what pizza role this
is my I'm thirty four years old, now, okay, mm hmm.
If you give me something that easy to make, I'm
just gonna eat it until it's gone. I'll eat it
for every meal. I am only somewhat ashamed to admit that.
(20:20):
Like what I mean is if my wife is out
of town for a couple of days, which happens with
some frequency, if there's like pizza roles in the fridge,
I'm making pizza roles for lunch, pizza roles for dinner. Heck,
I may wake up and have pizza rolls for breakfast. Now,
Potato o lays are fantastic if I could, If I
could just harness the taste of potato olays and just
(20:46):
eat them all the time. I mean, those seasonings just
it's it's perfect. Do you cheese them or do you
see them? Just eat them straight?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Well, back in those days, I think I just get
myself a side of ranch. Ranch. Yeah, ranch, but dear
Old lays very good stuff. I kind of Olay's kind
of got ruined for me after that, though, not gonna
lie you. You ate too many of them. Overdid it?
I overdid it. Now. I have them occasionally and I
(21:18):
enjoy them. But you know, it's it's you.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It's like that one song that you really like, but
you listen to it a hundred times in the first
week you've heard it and couldn't go back to it
the same way.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, kind of fell out of love with it.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, Adam emails it and says, Matt's my spirit animal today.
Everything the crappy breeding that's been done to some dog
breeds lately, the stupid world records being a waste of
time and insulting to people with actual skills, Go Matt.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Wow, Well thanks Adam. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah, those are some pretty good radio points. I will
say that I nailed it, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
And I'm and I'm not here. I'm not here for
you know, an. I don't want too many people to
be just sitting here in getting on me of like.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Emory.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Of course, dog breeds are not I'm not here to
say like you could go even a horse breeds, like
like theoroughbred horses. There's a lot of people that are
out there saying the selective breeding of you know, we
they they've dumbed down the breeding too much to where
the horses aren't as structurally sound as they might have
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been fifty years ago. You know, you get enough generations
beyond there and you have some like and they're careful
about this the best that they can, but that doesn't
mean that it's one hundred percent like accurate, but they
have like these Uh, there's some like inbred stuff in there, right,
Like you might have a couple of horses that are
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like the the same horse on both sides of the family,
right or like somewhat close in the pedigree makes it
a little tricky to get the most sound quality of
horse possible. And I think that probably happened to dogs too.
The thing with dogs is when you breed them, they'll
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spit out, you know, five six, seven of them at
a time. It's not like a horse where you get
one and they just the gestation. They can have multiple
litters a year. Realistically a horse it's one a year,
you know what I mean? It's a different, different animal
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together literally and figuratively.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You can't. Yeah, yeah, they're different they sure? Are you
like that? Did you like that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now we did have this other people. We had this
conversation going. I was talking about the instability between November fifth,
or election day whenever it is, and.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
The UH.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Inaugury, the official transfer of power on January twentieth, and
Don wanted to make sure that because I mentioned that,
it feels like it's very unstable right now. There's no
showing of strength or anything. But did I forget about
twenty twenty? You fret about post election instability? What about
Trump trying to overthrow an election and the citning a
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mob to story in the Capitol. That's real instability.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I know Don threw emails not to be a fan
of Donald Trump in the least bit. Don'son probably never
going to say Donald Trump does anything. Well, there are
people like that out there. Don has that right. However,
twenty twenty was a little bit of a different animal altogether.
While yes, you could maintain that there was a large
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level of instability for a variety of reasons. I think
the biggest reason was the fact that we were coming
out of like, was that as super charged as anything
that we've ever had In November, we had record turnout,
(25:05):
and we had all these different rules about people getting
basically hand delivered their stuff, like they were being hand
delivered their ballots and stuff. Right, it was just a
completely different time. And then you throw in the fact
that I think most people are still messed up by
(25:30):
what was happening with COVID, even though we were almost
a year in at that point of having to deal
with it. And I don't know, like there's just a
piece of me that as much as that January sixth day,
and we can talk about and we have had this
discussion before about all of the things that went wrong
on that day, but also the things of who is
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actually fully responsible and some of the stuff that isn't
necessarily properly accounted for. And it's all about where you
come from in the angle that you have or the
spin that you have. That's a big part of the story,
is what your political background is in the way that
you talk about what happened on that day. But even
though that day was very memorable and people were, you know,
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still hold that against the Republicans and Donald Trump and
all that stuff, even if they don't really want to
account for a lot of the other facts or factors
behind it. At the same time, I just don't think
it felt like there was this level of instability around
the world because there wasn't a lot of world conflicts
going on at the time. There wasn't a lot of
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major American issues that we were having to worry about.
When it comes to our southern border cities being taken
over by foreign gang activity or cartel activity, you haven't
had this kind of resurgence of isis that you know,
you're starting to see kind of as a result of
some of the implications of what's happening in the Middle
(26:57):
East and all sorts of other stuff that's going on there.
And if that's what's going on, right, we have to
put ourselves in the shoes of like what the biggest
issues of the day are and when all this stuff
is happening, and then you throw in the drone thing
and whatever escalation is going to continue in Ukraine and Russia.
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It is really strange and kind of ominous that we
don't have a bigger presence in our federal government for
the time being. How are we the American people fully
protected when it feels like there's kind of this void
in this seven week span that's more than that. It's
(27:40):
like it's like nine weeks almost between the between the
election day and inauguration. So there's just way too much
at stake. I think for us to just have this happen,
we have to come up with something better. It is
three forty six, We'll have more coming up. Stick around
news radio eleven to in KFAB. Is this like this
has to be super weird. You're having like this major game,
(28:04):
and I understand why they had to move it from
yesterday to today, but couldn't even put it into prime
time because of whatever TV obligations they already had.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
What would be what could they not move? Well?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
I was trying to figure that out right as far
as ESPN is concerned. And again I might be missing
something that is also happening in the news or something
that I just I missed or I didn't pay attention to.
But they're supposed to air the tax Layer Gator.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Bowl at seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
You know, I just I don't think I'll be honest,
I don't think they they could move that game for
one reason or another. I think that had I think
that's what it has to do with ESPN didn't want
those two competing. Yes, correct, but it's you also have
(29:02):
to keep in mind you have the the TV deals
with that stuff, right, it creates a creates a bigger issue.
So I don't know, I don't know. I disliked talking
about stuff like that because you want to know something.
(29:23):
Here's another college sports thing.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Okay, you know the quarterback is for Notre Dame, Riley Leonard.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, you remember you know what he uh, where he
came from because he transferred in this year Duke, Right,
it was Duke. Now he's done after this year, he's
he's gone, right, this is his last year. Apparently he
was his lifelong dream to be the Notre Dame quarterback,
so when he had a chance to transfer there, he
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left Duke to go there. Now he might have graduated
from Duke. I'm not sure he had been there for
a bit. Well there, there's already like these big rumors
that there's going to be a like who's going to
be their next quarterback? Well, there's a reason Notre Dame
does it recruit five star or four star quarterbacks because
they can get whoever they want.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Basically in the transfer portal.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Sure, and there's these rumors that quin Ewers is going
to be their quarterback next year. Oh really, okay, the
Texas quarterback because Texas is going to want to move
on to arch Manning and quinn Ewers has one year
of eligibility left. Yeah, and isn't really considered a top
pro prospect at this point. Is that not messed up?
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Is it not messed up that that's already being talked about?
Texas still is playing quin Ewers is still playing for Texas.
They're still in like they're in the final four of
the colleg football playoffs.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well it's just a rumor, yeah, but what if it's true. Well,
he's got to go somewhere. If it's going to be
arch Manning next, what do we This just used to be.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
This used to be a pure sport and now all
of a sudden, it's just like, yeah, bring them in
like mercenaries. You know.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It just it's weird to me and I don't like it.
I think it's the TV deals it is. That's why
we have so many balls. And then you want to
talk about something else. Iowa State.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
For my cyclone fans out there, they just announced that
they have they're going to be raising prices between ten
and twenty percent to ticket levels for season ticket holders.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Now, the demand is there.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
They do very well in their attendance pretty much every
single season, and you would think supply and demand, yeah,
the prices will go up. Think about Memorial Stadium, right,
We've had this to conversation that there are some people
that are still being grandfathered in on prices from decades ago.
And how much money is being left on the table
(31:45):
doing that.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Right well, they need all this new money now because
they need to continue to fund the athletic department. And
now the twenty two million dollars the schools are going
to have to actually pay players.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
And on top of that, think.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
About all of the non non big money, nil non
big athletic department activities that they're having to fund still,
like the rowing team, right, or the beach volleyball team,
or give me another one, give me another one, the
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bowling team, the bowling team?
Speaker 1 (32:27):
What else? I mean? The rec League? Is that is
that a thing gets wild? Man? Let me tell you
are you are? You? Were you in it? No? I
didn't get invited.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I got Here's some more Nebraska sports, rifle, women's rifle,
men's and women's tennis, swimming and diving across country. These
are not sports that generate revenue. These are sports that
get people to campus, and you can get scholarships in
order to do them. But there are three additional make
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up four additional women's sports versus men's sports at the
University of Nebraska. You know why, because for every men's
sport scholarship, you need one for a women's team. And
with football, and how many scholarships they have for football,
which is what like eighty five, you have eighty five
scholarships for football alone. You have to make that up somewhere,
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which is why there's only a women's bowling team, a
women's rifle team. They have beach volleyball on top of
regular volleyball. There's no men's volleyball.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's the kind of thing that we're talking about here.
All of that, like this still costs money to operate
these teams, even though the money that the fans are
expected to pay is going directly into wanting their football
team to be good, or wanting the men's basketball team
to be good, or in some cases maybe the women's
basketball team. In Nebraska's case, it's volleyball and trying to
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come up with the nil money for that. But it's
the on the fans to come up with that money.
And then you have the billions of dollar deals with
the media rights that is they're they're bringing all this
stuff in with these these other cats, you know what
I mean, with the ESPNS and the CBS's and the
NBCs and the Foxes of the world that are given
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the conferences, these giant media rights deals that are giving
hundreds of millions of dollars to the schools every single year.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
I mean, you're.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Basically like, and this is if you want to donate
to collective, that's great. I think it's important to support
your school in your teams that you love. But man,
this is basically operational as a professional sports league at
this point in sports teams. Yet, I'm a Chicago Bears
fan and I don't donate to them to try to
(34:53):
get better players on our team, you know what I mean.
Just a weird thing. Anyway, We'll have more for you
coming up on News Radio eleventh and KFA B
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