Easy Like a Monday Morning

We slid into some newsy topics today ... but it took awhile.  Blame Lionel.

Episode Transcript

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Did you actually go to see theLittle River Band over the weekend? How
was your concert? It was fun? Tell you what's a is there human
Theosaurus? Lucy Chapman here with herconcert now, please tell me more.

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How was the venue? I haven'tbeen to the new astro there in La
Vista. Is it amazing? Itis really nice and there is not a
bad seat. There is just nota bad seat. If you've got if
you've got to show, you wantto go there, and you can only
be in the back. Be inthe back because it's still great. And
the band you saw a Little RiverBand and Alice Alice Cooper, Yes,

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Alice Cooper, Mega Death Alice CooperChains. It was Little River Band and
the Insane Clown Posse, which wasan interesting like the Together Again tour,
I think it was well, youknow Hardiest are doing that now, they're
teaming up with an opening act thatis just completely different from their own music,
right, and that's what they did. The Insane Clown Posse was insane

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and most of the audience was alittle surprised, didn't quite know what.
How was Three Dog Night and LittleRiver Band. It's a fun time,
you know how they do new music? A band to come out and they'll
do it. And we got somethingnew, they really do. Little River
Bands got new stuff, and everybodygoes to the bathroom. I don't if

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you're a real fan of the artist, like, for example, I'm a
huge Elton John fan. I've seenElton John I don't know how many times
in concert for me, and Ido try and pace myself where I don't
need to take a restroom break duringthe show. He's not up there taking
a break. He's not like,Oh, the band's just gonna jam out

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for a little bit. I'll beback in a few minutes. Oh,
I bet they do. I'm sureit's happened. But you know, if
he doesn't need to go, Idon't need to go. But for me,
if he says, here's a newsong from our fourth coming, I'm
like, you know, exciting.I don't need to hear don't let the
sun go down on me again.I've heard it well. And when I

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talked to Wayne from Little River Band, he said they were going to play
some new music, and that washis his quote, that everybody goes to
the bathroom. But he was right, so I didn't have to. So
listened to the new music. Lovedit, Oh, loved the couple of
new songs. Can't wait to getthe Well, I don't know what is

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it. Oh, they're putting itout on vinyl, so I might have
to pick up the vinyl. Myson hung out with one of his best
friends over the weekend, who justcelebrated his fourteenth birthday. Happy birthday,
Joey, Happy birthday, Joey.Guess what Joey got for his birthday?
You got to stay at home foranother four years? Right? A record

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player? Oh? I could befriends with this kid I know likes vinyl
and my son who spends an anordinate amount of time down in the basement.
That's where we have the video gamesset up with the big screen TV.
So of course he's down there playingvideo games. Not all the time.
My son would rather be out playingbasketball or running around with his friends

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and playing video games. But he'sstill a kid. He plays video games.
So if he were to actually botherto turn his head left, now
there's nothing over there that previously interestedhim, Why would he look over to
the left. We've got a recordcollection and a record player down there that
would like basically, people go whathappened to that record store down on about

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tenth and Jackson Dirt Cheap. Whathappened when that plays shut down? It
moved into my basement. I've gota ton of records down there. LP's,
forty five's, I got them all, and I got a record player.
And my son, who spends allthis time down the basement just five
yards away from this, goes,do we have a record player? That

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sounds like fun? Yes? Togo through your records? Yes, son,
we have two. We have tworecord players. We'll come on over
sometime, we'll spin some wax andyou'll realize that there are some records down
there that have not even been opened. Really, you should check eBay.
Every once in a while, I'llbuy an album and sometimes you'll find like

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a really old one that's still sealedup. It's a new record forty years
ago that didn't no one bought it, and I'm like, oh, I
got to have this, and thenI'll put it into my thing and I
forget about it. You know whatI'm looking for? I am looking at
a topic. No, yeah,no, today, I were easing into
it today. Sorry, I'm lookingfor the record player with the tuner and

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the eight track tape. Player fromabout nineteen eighty to nineteen eighty four.
I can't find that. I willcontact my friend Marianne Okay. On Saturday,
we went over to her parents orhave moved into assisted living and so
did an estate sale at her parents'place. So we went over there to

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help out the cause, like whatAnd actually my wife said I'm going to
go over there and I didn't haveanything going on, like I'll come hang
out with you. And we wentover there and I ended up buying more
stuff than she did, including theBuddy Holly picture that now hangs in my
office down the hall. I wouldhave liked to have gone to that sale.
I've got a phone. You couldhave called mary Ann's dad big into

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classic rock and roll and classic cars, so a lot of Buddy Holly,
Elvis and Marilyn Monroe memorabilia. They'reselling a lot of that stuff online and
the classic cars stuff, and they'vegot all kinds of really cool stuff.
I was like, this guy,he's the coolest guy. I always knew
he was a cool guy. Ididn't know he was this cool. But

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I'm looking at the stereo equipment wantingto buy it, even though I don't
have any need for any of thisstuff. And they're like, yeah,
this one's got an a track player, so the speakers, the tuner.
I think we got all that stuff. I don't know if anyone bought it.
They were people are out there sayingthis weed whacker work. Yeah,

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dude, it's two dollars. Rollthe dice. You take a dollar for
it? Come on. That wasthe funniest part about this. You know,
when you have an estate sale,it is always best to let a
disinterested not disinterested, but someone who'snot personally wrapped up in the items.

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To let a third party handle it, because either it's you selling your stuff
or it's you selling your parents' stuff. And then someone's trying to haggle with
you at this estate sale, gridesale, call it what you will,
and they're like, how much isthis five bucks? Did you take two
dollars for it? No? Youknow, like this is this is my

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dad's you know, so, andit's it gets to be a bit of
a thing. And I just thoughtthat part of it was really funny.
But that's any I'm having an argument, an ongoing argument with mister Chapman because
we're going to have a garage saleand he's got in his head that if
something is practically new, then youcan get full retail value for it.

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And I keep saying that's not whathappens at a garage sale. People go
to garage sales because they are expectingto get it for virtually nothing. Well,
that's because they know especially. Imean, you got your professional garage
sailors who show up before the salebegins. It's like, hey, garage
sale Thursday morning at nine at sixam, you guys, you guys want

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to open up the garage sale alittle early. Nope, So you've got
the professional garage sailors who go thatroute, right, And then you've got
the snipers. So if the gatsales Thursday through Saturday, you know,
Saturday till five, these guys showup ten minutes till five o'clock. And
these are the bargain hunters because theyknow you're either faced with I take something

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for this and someone takes it awayfor me, or I have to figure
out what to do with it.I'm probably gonna donate it and get nothing,
or I'm gonna have to like boxit up, keep it myself,
give it to someone else, tryand sell it online. I don't want
to. I already carried all thiscrap out here on the driveway and put

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it on the little card tables andall this stuff. I don't want to
do it again. And that's whenlike some people show up at the end
of a garage sale and you'll seea bunch of items left and go,
I'll give you twenty bucks for allof it, and it might be worth
a million dollars, but you're lookingat it going, I don't want to
mess with it anymore. Fine,twenty bucks, it's all your Well.

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I don't think that's going to happen, and if it does, I would
have to say no, I'm notI'm not saying you should get full retail
and I'm not saying you should giveit away. But there is a happy
medium for garage sailing, and that'sI'm going to be right there in the
happy medium. We have never hada garage sale at our house. Been

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living in this house here, raisingkids in it. Been in there for
what years? This about eighteen years? Oh, you're about to do no,
Well, let's team up a lot. I have one garage sale,
two households. I don't want to. I don't like I don't have anything
better to do, and sitting aroundin my garage for three days while people

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come up and go, see thislamp is fifty cents? Would you take
a quarter for it? Does it? Does it work? It'll do?
They know it doesn't work. Itdoesn't work. But here I'm just putting
broken lamps. I'm just putting brokenlamps out here, so it work even
it doesn't. Fifty cents. Rollthe dice man, maybe you find a

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steel here. Come on, mywife does the I mean, so we
haven't had a garage sale, butwe you know, like what happened to
all this stuff that your kids playedwith? I don't even know. My
wife handled all of it. Alot of it went to family members who
had kids after us. Like hereyou go, you want all this stuff?

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No take it anyway, or she'llsell it on like the Facebook marketplace
online stuff. So she bought afan. She's like, this is if
you were by one of these newat Walmart, it'd be seventy dollars.
And I'm looking at this little fan, going I highly done it. But
whatever. So she went met someonein a parking lot, didn't get murdered

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and bought this fan. Really goodfan for twenty bucks comes over to our
house, plugs it in, doesn'twork, So now she went back and
murdered that person. You know that, you don't usually think about it going
that way. How the heck canwe start talking about, Oh yeah,

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you went to Little River Band.You wanted an a track player. I
saw one of it. So Lucywent to Little Riverband on Saturday. Last
night, my wife and I andJim Rose and Dave Nabertey and their better
halves all went out and saw earthWin and Fire with Lionel Ritchie. What
a super fun time a chi lastnight, super fun time. You're right.

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You told me on Friday that Iwill be probably blown away by Earth
Winning Fire a band, like Iknow some other stuff. I don't know
there's stuff that well. In fact, here's how I'm embarrassed to admit this
out loud. I forgot until midwaythrough the performance. That's Philip Bailey and

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they're like, you know this,this guy's hitting. He's incredible, sustained
high notes and then he takes ithigher, and they said, ladies and
gentlemen, Philip Bailey. I waslike, oh my gosh, of course
it's Philip Bailey. My wife's like, who I said, easy lover with
Phil Collins, He's saying easy loverwith Phil Collinson. In the course a

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bunch of other stuff, but like, Philip Bailey is amazing. He's like
the Mick Jagger of R and Band pop. He just doesn't quit.
He just sounds great, just keepskilling. Amazing and Lona Richie came out.
We were trying to figure out whathe would start his set list with.
My wife said, wouldn't it befunny if he does Hello? You

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know, is it me you're lookingfor? Like, that's hilarious, And
then the music starts were like,oh my gosh, he's doing it.
So he started off with Hello,did all the hits, even had the
whole crowd singing we are the World. It was he co wrote we are
the World of Michael Jackson, Ohcounts okay, and boy you didn't like

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that? No, it was afine song. They those guys, with
the power of artists like Huey Lewis, Cindy Lauper and dan Aykroyd and Harry
Belafonte, they all together prevented anyonein Africa from ever being hungry again.

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We fed all those people in nineteeneighty five and everyone's been good ever since,
is that right? Facts, Yougotta watch the Netflix show about the
making of getting all these artists togetherand like who left midway through out of
anger because they didn't get enough Niketime. No, there was an argument

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and it was getting late and oneof the artists said, I think you
guys don't need me anymore. Ididn't come here to do this and walked
out. There's a video of MichaelJackson real acting to somebody and whether they
sang poorly. One guy was something, one guy was drunk. One yeah,

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well yeah, rock stars all together. One. I'm not naming them
here. That's all named in theNetflix show. There's a little teaser for
the Netflix series. Yeah. Oneguy who a previous guest on this radio
show, by the way, andI didn't know that otherwise I asked him
about it. No, it wasn'tHarry Casey in the Sunshine Band. Wasn't
in USA for Africa totally. Anyway. That Netflix show is amazing. I

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loved it so yeah, saying weare the world. But you started to
say on the ceiling, it wasa great time. You did not expect
to be so blown Away by EarthWind and Fire were amazing, And I
told you, I know it's aband that you everybody needs to see this
band at least once. I knowthe energy will keep you high for a

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week. Yeah, And all I'vehad in my head since then is easy
Lover, which is like they didn'tdo that song, you know, because
Phil Collins wasn't It's his song,but well I just kind of got that
in my head and I can't getit out. Who sang Endless Love with
Lionel? The audience? Oh?He led them on Diana Ross's part,

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and it was funny. He said, we're gonna do Endless Love and just
to let you know, Diana's notcoming forty years have got asked her to
come sing with me. She won'tcome. She's not here, she's not
coming out. You're gonna have todo that part. And so it was
fun a lot of audience participation,and Lionel sometimes went into that thing,
like we're gonna sing this song ina way that you don't recognize it from

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the radio single. I'm gonna dosome vocal inflections and come in and come
out at different parts. They makeit very difficult for you to sing along.
I'm like Lionel, just just singthe song, you know, But
that's me is not a huge likeLionel. But going to see Lionel Richie
was not only amazing. From watchingthat guy collect two armloads of Grammys in

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nineteen eighty whatever that was when hewon more Grammy Awards than anyone else,
or maybe he was American Music Awards. He just kept coming up there and
winning stuff, and he'd just sayoutrageous all night. It was just awesome.
And then in high school, Iwent and bought all these commodorees in
Linel Ritchie records so I could cutout the picture of Linel Ritchie. And
then in a back corner of misterKilser's classroom at Ralston High School, by

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kind of behind a desk where hecouldn't really see it, we were just
taping little Lionel Richie's all over thewall. There was just a I don't
know why I got in my headthis would be the funniest thing ever,
just little cut out pictures of LitelRitchie, the bigger, the afro,
the better, just one little backcorner of the room. Then he finally

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discovered it, realized I was theone doing it and left it there for
years. Did anybody put a littlelittle stickers on there? Hello it's me?
Now, it was kind of beforethe no meme stuff. Hello,
Hello, it's me. Hello?Is it me? You're looking? You're
looking for? That's something in ToddRungren. Yeah. Yeah, Anyway,
it was a great time last night. Well, I'm glad you guys had

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fun. I'm glad you had fun. It was an interesting crowd. But
I will say that the staff AtlasAstro Lavista Astro is fantastic. So if
you're looking for this place, justgoing to Google Maps, type in Astro
La Vista Astro. You know whatI meant. You'll find the dog from
the Jetsons there at the new Astrotheater in La Vista. The staff is

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great, really helpful. Had Ihad a lot of questions, questions.
I had questions, show up,find your seat and have a fun time
with questions? What where? Oha restroom? No? What questions did
you? I wanted to know aboutthe tables, the little four top tables

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that were there. You could buy. They're selling tables, you don't They
just opened the place you rent themto sit at at a concert. I
wanted to know about that. Iwanted to know about the whole street situation.
A little tough to get in because, uh, just one lane there.
They're gonna rework that. At somepoint I had questions. I got

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him answered. Didn't feel like itwas a time to just come out on
a Monday morning just spitting fire.And I'll tell you another thing about these
democrats our country today, Like wegot to ease into that. I'm gonna
do that in like three minutes,okay, because you need to do it.
A lot of stuff is happening,right, Yeah, Yeah, that's
that's what you usually hear when youtune into this show. Why that guy

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is just really mad. He says, the country's all going to hell,
and it's going there in a handbasket. I didn't even know we had
a hand basket. I'm probably morelike full of deplorables, didn't you know?
That's right. Yeah, I hadto clear all the deplorables out of
my handbasket so I can put thecountry in there and then escort it to
hell. Tom emails and just saysand talking about the Lionel Richie concert,

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he just says, I wonder ifthey know the Commodoores and the subject line
is eighties movie reference ding. Thankyou, Tom, appreciate that one.
You got that one, Lucy?Uh? Blues Brothers. No, it's
a good guess, but no,I wonder if these guys know the Commodoresletch,
you got the actor right? That'sfrom vacation. Ah, excuse me,

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Holmes, what it is? Bro? My family? We're not from
around here. No kidding, I'llchange the word. All right. Uh,
fantastic two o'clock in the morning andsuddenly you hear a big crash outside.
Have you ever been awakened by abig crash outside? Lucy? Uh?
And not recently? Have you everbeen? I mean sometimes you wake

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up and when things go bump inthe night or crash or bang or some
sort of loud sound that you canimmediately attribute to thunder. So now you're
trying to be like, all right, what was that? Is someone breaking
into the house? I get mymy my high capacity baseball bat assault bat

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and put the silencer on it.Does that have a bump stock on it?
It does? Yeah, I boughtit at Bumpstock. Little bump Little
River band played bump Stock. You'resaying you went to bum stock. That
was an amazing event. So firstthought, you hear a crash, you

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know, in and around your house. You wake up, you know,
you're disoriented, and you grab whateverweapon at your disposal and think, all
right, here's what I'm gonna do. You stay here, honey, I'm
gonna go get murdered by whoever breakinto the house, which would probably be
the most likely thing that happened.So then you quickly determine, like,

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wait a second, so the crashcame from outside, it's not inside the
house. The alarm is still activated. No one got into the house,
all right, So what was it? Have you ever walked all over your
house out in the garage, walkedaround your property knowing that there was a
loud crash, something fell, somethingbroke, and you walk all over the

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place and you can't find what itwas. Do you ever sleep again after
that? That's about the weirdest thing. You just basically have to go,
well, this house is haunted,and I'm gonna try and go back to
sleep. Yeah, it's the weirdestthing. Right, Well, sometimes you
wake up and there's a crash,there's a big loud sound, and there

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is a cause for it. InWest omaha a lot lately. If you,
especially if you live on a cornerlot and have a nice white vinyl
fence, the sound you hear inthe middle of the night is the sound
of teenagers doing their impersonation of koolaidMan. Oh yeah, as they go

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smashing through your fence. We've talkedabout this before, yeah, and I
thought it had ended. Now,now the school's out, it's time to
go hang out all night, goofaround with your buddies and go smashing through
fences. Now, the lady thatKMTV three news win yesterday, No,

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no tomorrow, KMTV three News latenineteen hundred No, no, no,
no, no, KMTV three Newsnow, oh that one, Yes,
that's the They are talking to alady who had this happen a few months
ago. In fact, it mighthave been the one we talked to.
So she went and got the fencerebuilt and guess what, Oh yeah,

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go smashing through it again. Wow, fifteen hundred dollars to replace it.
I don't know what costs fifteen hundreddollars. They didn't knock the whole fence
down, They smashed through a coupleof Depending on how many teenagers there are,
they just all go careening through fences. It's the Kool aid Man challenge.

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Of course, you've got to filmyourself so you can post on social
media doing it. And you justgo barreling through a fence. I want
somebody to film me breaking some oftheir stuff. Whose stuff do you want
to break? Well, police mustknow at least some of these kids.
Oh you mean you want to gobreak their stuff in the middle of the
night. Correct, What doesn't evenhave to be in the middle of the

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night. I don't care. Giveme some of your stuff. I'm going
to break it and then you canpay to replace it your little Is that
really the best way to handle this. I think it's going to give them
the direct you know that would befun? Just and go. I have
a fun challenge. It's called Ithrow your Xbox in the swimming pool.
Yeah that's something more than fifteen hundred. Oh yeah, just take a bat

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to their video games? You knowwho else? Like, the police don't
know who did this. I'm notsaying they know absolutely who did this,
but they've got a I'm sure they'vegot a list of little uh nah delinquents.
The police, I mean they're outtrying to deal with this kind of
stuff. But I don't know thatteenagers who just bust through a fence or

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kick in a fence is real highon the radar. You know who knows
who did this? They're friends,well, they're friends and their parents,
their parents, their parents know.If you're listening to this right now and
your teenage son is still asleep,he'll still be asleep for another four hours,
his shoulder hurts, you know,and you're like, yeah, my

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son's absolutely the kind of honyak that'sright, hanyak nincom poop, ne'er do
well, guttersnipe who would absolutely goand run through Mama Rosen Roses fans down
the street. Why don't they runthrough their own fences, run through your
own fence. Why then you'll haveyou're still doing challenge. Oh you don't

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want your stuff to be broken?I see, do better. Here's what
I recommend you do. What ifyou have a vinyl fence, especially if
you're on a corner lot, whichit makes it real easy for someone to
see like, all right, there'sa fence, we can jump through and
they get out. They're probably gonnago somewhere in the middle of that fence.

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What's on the other side of thatfence. I have lots of ideas.
Yeah, Doberman's a big statue,a big heavy metal statue. You
know what I put on the otherside of my fence, you know those
big samurai statues of PF shangs.I even wondering what happened to it.

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I stole those and put it's allfor a good cause, and I put
them on the other side of myfence. And I try to figure out,
like if I was a dumb teenager, where would I jump through this
fence? Probably about right here.You're gonna jump through, and you're gonna
right and run right into Chang.Right, well, yeah, and you
know who gets in trouble for.You're gonna run right into Perry Francis Chang.

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You know who's gonna pay for thatmedical bill? You totally worth it.
Here's another guy they talked to inthe story. Guy's name is Gary.
He says, I've lived here fortwenty years and I'm angry. Here's
the quote. Quote I'm an oldveteran, so sometimes my anger will arise
in a strong way. Unquote.Put Gary on the other side of that

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fence. Gary would work. GaryI'll support that. You know, you
probably can run faster than Gary.Gary's an old veteran, but I bet
you can't run longer than Gary.At some point, you're gonna be like,
he won't stop chasing me, andthat's when you finally give up,
and that's when he gets you andno one ever sees you again. There's

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just going to be some piano wireand a shallow grave, which I think
is a perfectly respectable punishment for breakingsomeone's fence. You are harsh, quit
jumping through fences. I would justI'd reinforce the backside of these fences with

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metal, iron steel. What doyou got a bunch of rebar back there?
And then you know the last razorwire. I'm fine, I'm fine
with Gary murdering these guys, butrazor wire, that just sounds I'm gonna
push back on that. Let's faceit, these kids are going to see
razor wire at the top of afence at some point in their line.

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If the old vetter, right,if the old veteran Gary beats them to
death with a shovel and then buriesthem with that shovel, that's somehow okay.
But if they jump through a fenceand run under the razor wire like,
ah, that's cruel. The lastthing you gotta do after you reinforce
the back of your fence with somesort of steal, is you gotta do

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the same thing that these kids do. I mean, they don't jump through
these fence just for the amusement oftheir own buddies. They got to film
it. This has got to beon video posterity. So the last thing
you gotta do is set up avideo camera, security camera pointed right at
that fence, so you can watchone of these little passages try and jump
through your fence and bounce off ofit halfway back to the street while going

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ah, my shoulder. Make sureyou get the kind of camera that picks
up sound. You'll want to hearthat, and then you can post that
on the Uh what's the internet?Yeah, that's right, the YouTube.
No, the one where everyone's gotthe neighborhood app where they Oh what's that
called? I don't I never lookat it. I don't know what it

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is. Oh you. The onlything I can think of right now is
open table. That's where you makea reservation for a restaurant. Now I'm
completely blanking on it, neighborhood something. Post it on there so everyone can
every day. Yeah, so everyonecan enjoy that. You can get a
sponsor for it. And you broughtto you by the Douglas County Youth Center.

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You know some store next door?Yes, you post it on next
door. Make sure that's where youpost it, and say turn the sound
up for this one and SFW.That kid is going to be cursing the
sweet sweet sound of a teenager whojust broke his shoulder on your steel and
it. Why would you have topay for it? He's the one that

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ran through your fence. Yeah,but how are you going to get him
to pay for it? If he'sOh, I'm saying you say the homeowner
is responsible. If I decide toreinforce the back of my fence with iron
and this kid hurts himself by tryingto jump through it, I'm not paying
nothing for that. Try and getme to pay for it, Well,

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you will be sued. No,they what's fine? Not doing it?
All right? Lou Ann emails viathe Zonker's custom wos inbox got a kfab
dot com says, will you pleasethank everyone who attended our fifty fifth Annual
garden walk yesterday. We had arecord breaking attendance. Absolutely the garden walk
fundraiser for the Monroe Meyer Guild.Wonderful thing, perfect weather yesterday. People

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open up their backyards and say,come look at all the wonderful garden stuff.
We have a friend of mine hostedone of the gardens yesterday and super
super busy. Oh yeah, great, great trade time. In Singapore,
you are currently not allowed to havea cat as a house pet. Wait

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a minute, here's the wait aminute what, here's the reason why.
Because when they created the band innineteen eighty nine, they said cats tend
to shed fur and defecate or you'rein a in public areas, and also
make catterwalling sounds, which can causeinconvenience to your neighbors. So you're not

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allowed to have a cat. Well, they're finally now saying, all right,
all right, we'll think about lettingyou have a cat. You can
have a dog. Apparently dogs don'tdo any of that stuff. They don't
make a lot of catterwalling sounds.But they're thinking about the dogger walling sounds.
Yeah, they're thinking about letting youhave a cat. And one of
the funny things about this is theysay a lot of people have cats anyway,

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and neighbors will use this as leveragein neighborly disputes, Like I'm going
to call the police and let themknow you have a cat, and this
is Singapore, Like they'll come killyou, probably andy, or at least
cane you in the public square.What do you think they'd do if you
jump through someone's fence in Singapore,they'd cane you. We need to bring
back public canings and outlaw cats.It was over the weekend when we got

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the details out of Israel. NowI'm surprised that the Israeli forces we're still
out there looking for these hostages apparently, and I don't know. Do they
not have Internet or CNN in Israel. If you'd asked all of the college

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students and protesters in this country,they didn't care about the protesters, like,
you know, let them go.Who cares that Hamas came in there
and killed over twelve hundred people andtook a bunch of people hostage. You'll
let it go. That happened inOctober. It's June. Of course,
they were saying this back in February, But like, hey, sometimes you

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just got to let it go.You're never going to see those people again,
nor should you be able to.You know, if Hamas wants to
annex some of your people, andthen I guess you just have to let
them. So you're fluent in sarcasm, right, I don't need someone going
that guy in the radio is standingup for Hamas. I am not stick

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tone is that Israel despite the factthat a bunch of know nothing idiot mostly
college age protesters or fifty year oldprotesters on college campuses, despite the fact
that they told Israel like, hey, stop stop doing this, stop fighting
back trying to you know, whydon't you just give up because Hamas still

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has our people held hostage. Well, just agree to the ceasefire. Well,
see, the ceasefire was suggested byHamas and it didn't involve giving back
the hostages. So no, ifHamas wants to end this, then they
can give back to hostages. Butthen there's nothing to stop you from killing

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them. Yes, that's exactly right. Well that's not fair. No,
and by the way, we weren'tplanning on killing any of them until they
attacked us on October seventh. Again, this is all Hamas's fault, so
Israel was still out there looking forthe hostages. According to The New York

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Times, the military operation that happenedin the middle of the night Friday night
Saturday morning was weeks of planning afterintelligence suggested the whereabouts of the hostages,
and then they put everything in ina residential neighborhood, In a residential neighborhood.

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I didn't I people say that Hamasis hiding behind innocent civilians, and
in this case Central Gaza, ina residential neighborhood. And so anytime Israel
goes into a neighborhood, apparently,according to the protesters, they're just out
there committing genocide. Hamas isn't inthose There's nothing but innocent people in those

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neighborhoods or schools or healthcare centers.This was in two buildings and a residential
neighbors hood in the community of Nuseratin Central Gaza. So weeks of planning.
And oh, when I said thatthis happened in the middle of the

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night, that's when we in Americagot the message. It happened on Saturday
afternoon is real time, so daylight, hoping to catch Hamas. By surprise,
they found four hostages, and whenthey were secured, the coded message
went out on the radio quote thediamonds are in our hands. That was

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the code word. The biscuit isin the basket, the swamp is in
the thing. Really, you couldjust as long as you used to go
the noun is in the noun,anything would work. But in this case
the coded message was the diamonds arein our hands, because they were absolutely

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valuable. Biscuits are valuable, soit has to be diamonds. A twenty
six year old for biscuits are valuable, twenty six year old, a twenty
two year old, twenty seven yearold, and a forty one year old
all abducted during that musical music festivalraid on October seventh. These guys on
October seventh were listening to live musiclike you did on Saturday night at Little

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Riverband, like I did last nightfor earth Wind Fire and Lionel Richie.
And you know, one moment,you're there just having a concert, you're
having a great time, it's timefor a cool change, or you're dancing
on the scene lane or whatever,and next thing you know, horror,

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and you got the mixed emotion ofdealing with the fact that you've seen people
around you murdered. If you're aliveand you've been held hostage, hours turn
into days, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and maybe
you hear, hey, there's protestsall over the world telling Israel just give

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up, stop looking for you,and then in the middle of a Saturday
afternoon, here come your rescuers.They didn't forget about you. They didn't
listen to the protesters all around theworld saying, oh, just give up.
You know, if you weren't occupyingthese poor Palestinians, if you let

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them have some of this property,then they wouldn't have to kill and take
hostage your people. Thanks, Adolph, I'll take that under consideration. In
the meantime, we are going togo and try and get back these people,
four at a time if we needto. And that's what they did.

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Do you know what else, Itwasn't all over the news. It
was there were news outlets talking aboutit. Oh here in America. Yeah,
Fox News had it at the topof every hour throughout the day here
on eleven ten kfab. But you'reright, there are probably others that didn't
see it as that big a deal. Here's another news story that perhaps you

(38:21):
missed as it pertains to Israel.Who is this guy? Oh, his
name has not been made public,but the people who told the world about
him, and again this is probablynot something that you've heard reported, is

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an alum of Columbia University in NewYork City. And Columbia University was one
of the epicenters of the anti Israelprotests that erupted there that Columbia didn't do
anything about. And this very wealthyalum contacted Columbia and said, I am

(39:04):
considering giving a very large sum ofmoney to your university where I graduated.
I mean, no matter where yougraduated, whether it's Columbia or in my
case, the University of Nebraska atCarney. You get messages every once in
a while going come to this event, a little fundraiser, and I've been
to some of those. They area lot of fun. Or just write

(39:27):
us a big old check like Iwould love to. I'm not in a
big old check writing mood right now, nor am I in the state of
finances I can write you a bigold check. I'd love to, you
know, if it ever happens,I'd certainly love to do that. But
you know some people. It's hardto believe, but some people have more
money than us, Lucy. Weare rich beyond our wildest dreams. In

(39:52):
other ways. Yeah, So Idon't know who reached out to who,
but this guy was communicating with Columbiasaid I have money set aside here to
give to your university, but I'mconcerned that there are Jewish students and faculty

(40:13):
members at Columbia who have fled thatcampus because they don't feel safe, and
that your people, your administrators aswell as public safety officers don't seem to
be taking this threat seriously. Itlooks like you're bowing the knee to all
of these demands by these anti Israelprotesters, and are you going to do

(40:34):
anything about this. I don't knowwhat response he got, but apparently it
wasn't enough for him to decide togive that money or write that check to
Columbia, so he contacted bar elanUniversity in Israel. This is a I

(40:57):
don't know how their football team isthere, but when it comes to research
areas like energy, environment, cryptography, bioconvergence, quantum technology AI, this
is one of the best universities inthe world. They do a lot of
bioconvergence research there. Oh, Iyou know that's got to be some of

(41:20):
the most difficult research. Yeah,well it's you feel like, I don't
know what bioconvergence is. Well,it's it's convergence with a biological component to
a Q. The do a lotof that stuff, and they're the best
at it. They're one of thebest at it. And so he called
up this university and said, you'redoing all this scientific research, and I

(41:45):
would like to give you this money. I thought about giving it to where
I graduated from Columbia, but apparentlythey don't want it. Would you like
my money? And they said wewould if is it okay to say yes?
Yeah, yeah we would. He'slike, do you find your university
to be pro Israeli? Yes,as a matter of fact, we are

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a university in Israel, and yeah, Israeli students feel very safe here it
is at are you okay good enoughfor me? And wrote a check or
did venmo? I don't know,two hundred and sixty million dollars. All

(42:31):
Columbia had to do, Sad Columbia. All Colombia had to do was just
stand up for the rule of law. Now they're sad clown right if I
and this is something that I'm considering. My daughter is a year away from
graduating from high school, and Idon't know why i'd pay for college.
College is super expensive. There's questionsabout the return and the investment depending on

(42:55):
what field study you're going into,and all the rest of this stuff.
Maybe in some instances better just goright in the workforce, you know,
But at the same time, thecollege experience super important. I'd like her
to do it. But I'll tellyou what, if she decides to go
the college or university route, I'mnot paying anything for it. Apparently there's
a lot of colleges you can justshow up and just say I live here

(43:17):
and not pay for it. Soif you can do that in the quad
or in the the house of theprovost or whatever, then why can't you
just go into a classroom, likeget a schedule, go into the classroom,
and when they say your name isnot on the attendance, she just
go genocide Israel committment. They're like, oh, okay, all right,

(43:37):
fine, you can be here.We want to make sure we're allowing you
to have your First Amendment space hereand then just get an education and just
live there. Well, you would, you'd get an education, but you
wouldn't get a degree. That's fine. They probably would capitulate and give a
degree at the end of that.You know, just protest loud enough.

(44:00):
I have squatters' rights to a degreefrom this university. Why the heck would
I pay? Everyone else just goesand just lives there. So all Columbia
University had to do was just standup for the rule of law and what's
right and what's the right course ofaction, and they would have gotten some
money. He was probably only goingto give a paltry sum like one hundred

(44:22):
million dollars jump change, but justto send a message, he gave two
hundred and sixty million dollars to thisuniversity in Israel. That's going to build
a heck of a wing. That'syou probably do both wings on that one.
Remember how Colorado legalized recreational weeds andthat was ten years ago. January

(44:50):
first, twenty fourteen was the firsttime you'd go buy your legal weeds in
Colorado. It was an Iraq warveteran who made headline worldwide as the first
person in the US to legally buymarijuana. The place where he bought that
from dispensary in Denver's Illyria Swansea neighborhood, if that's how you say it.

(45:16):
Swansea neighborhood, where this historic purchasewas made, has a sign on it
saying it is temporarily closed. It'sall boarded up and parking lots abandoned.
But for but just a bunch oftrash that's both rubbish and probably some homeless

(45:36):
people. I'm not calling them trash, it sounds like anyway, there's a
lot of stuff collecting around this area. But the ability to go buy legal
weed at this and several other placesnot one of them. This story here
from Politico. For years, Colorado'smarijuana market was just printing money. People

(46:01):
are coming in there, they're openingup this place, they're opening up that
place, and you could just printmoney. In twenty twenty two point two
billion dollars and this was just Coloradoand that was text, right, mm
hmm okay. But now a fewyears later sales have dropped. That's only

(46:27):
one point five billion dollars. Butsomething happened there. Well, the pandemic
got a lot of people just tobe like, I'm just gonna hang out
here and smoke weed, or openup my own weed shop, or find
other ways of getting the high thatI want or whatever. Or I don't

(46:49):
like the federally regulated stuff you canget at the store. I know a
guy who will sell it to mein an alley somewhere. You know,
people are going back to getting athow they use to. And I'm guessing
that the amount of money spent onweed and Colorado is a lot more than
one point five billion. And Coloradoisn't getting all that tax money. People

(47:12):
don't tend to put that on theirtaxes. And are there any sales tax
you'd like to declare? Well,I bought a lot of marijuana in the
last year from a guy named Rick, So there, let us think about
this timeline. This started going down, the revenue started going down in twenty
yeah, and when did the borderopen? Because I'm thinking the drug cartels

(47:38):
had to have taken quite a hitwith legalized marijuana. Sure, yes,
I think you might very well beyondtoo something. Layoffs, closures, downsizing,
supply glutt caused weed prices to goway down. They might be selling

(48:00):
more than they were just a fewyears ago. But when you've got seventeen
businesses on one block. It seemslike prices have to go down to get
your business. Somehow, that doesn'tseem to work out the same for coffee
shops, but no, it does. Not a million coffee shops in every
corner. Those prices don't seem togo down that much. But there's just

(48:23):
cheap, largely unregulated, intoxicating hempderived products. And since marijuana remains federally
illegal even though they have reclassified it, if you are a business operator,
you have sky high taxes and regulationsand everything else. So everyone thought like,

(48:46):
oh, we're going to Colorado.It's the green rush they called it.
Are you just selling all this week? Well, it hasn't worked as
well, and a lot of placesare shutting down, and a lot of
people who smoke a lot of weedare like, I think I have a
job. I don't know, Idon't really feel like going. And it
turns out homelessness is way up,drug problems are way up, productivity is

(49:08):
way down. That was happening whenthey started selling weed though. It's you've
been to Colorado Springs? Yeah,have you been lately? Because I can
remember going fifteen years ago and thengoing ten years ago, big difference I
think we went there after it waslegal. How old are my kids?

(49:31):
Eh, we went there after itwas legal, But I I don't even
pay any attention anymore. How couldyou not mean they were every street because
we didn't go into the city.That's why. Okay, So when I
say you went to Colorado Springs,I don't know the area. Monument is
that close enough? I was overthere. Isn't that Pike's Peak? Yep?

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We went to Pike's Peak? Andyou know what's on top of there?
A rock marijuana sorry, eight marijuanadispressaries next to a coffee show.
This email from Katie, who sendsthis via the Zonker's Custom was inbox of
Scott at kfab dot com. Thankyou, Katie for jumping in our Zonker's

(50:15):
custom. Wass inbox? I hopeyou like it in there? She says.
I was raised in the mountains ofColorado, and when I visited home
right after the legal marijuana law passed, there were at least ten pot shops
in a town of approximately five thousandpeople. I noticed the last time I
visited about a year ago. Thereare now only about three of these shops

(50:37):
left, same population. But peoplejust can't make any money at it.
Katie says. My son lives inAlaska. He said they're seeing the same
thing. The shop owners are nolonger making the money they once did,
so they're closing or moving to smallerplaces. As we think about what to
do along these lines. Now,there's currently no proposal to allow recreational marijuana

(51:01):
in Nebraska. The medicinal marijuana people, as you heard on the program last
week, trying to get the signaturesto put that on the ballot, and
there are those who want recreational marijuanasaying this is exactly what we want.
It's just one step closer to gettingthe legalized weed we want. A lot
of the medical marijuana people say that'snot what we're looking to do, but

(51:23):
you're welcome to sign the petition.The people rather than sign the petition,
try and roll it. You know, it's a delicate balance there. But
in the reality of the situation isis that there are a bunch of people
out all across Nebraska just smoking pot. Usually they're vaping it, and no
one knows they're doing it. AndI don't see police busting you know,

(51:45):
every middle school kid with a vapepin and a middle school bathroom all the
time they should. So how illegalis it? Well, here's something else
that is got a lot of popularity. And there's a news story here from

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a website called The Lever that sayswe estimate that seventy million Americans did this
at least once last year, makingthis humble American pastime the largest participation sport
in the nation. You want totake a crack at it. Uh,

(52:28):
well, pickleball's been super Oh yeahpopular. Now, this is something that
used to be like in the seventies, especially the late seventies early eighties.
Good guess, but no curling?No? Oh badminton? Bowling? Oh,
bowling is good. Did you gobowling last year? No? I

(52:49):
don't know that. I think Idid. I need to go bowling more
office. Yeah, but where doyou go pick a spot? But see,
here's here's the problem we have withbowling right now. Whether you're going
to the What's It's Bowl arrow Now, which by the way, is a

(53:10):
nationwide chain. It only sprang upabout ten years ago, but it's now
the biggest bowling company in the world. It owns three hundred and fifty bowling
centers and counting. And they boughtthe old it was thunder Alley, and
then it was I remember what theycalled it after that, but now it's
Bowl Arrow. That's the big onein Elcorn out there by Minards, right

(53:35):
off of you know the highway andthe other highway, Dodge and Highway,
like two hundred and fourth Street,thirty four, thirty six whatever, so
thirty one. Yeah, one ofthose out there, two hundred and fourth
Street. They bought that big oldplace. But when you say, well,
where do you go, you apparentlydon't immediately think about that, because

(53:58):
I don't. I'm sure that likea lot of these places where you've got
a lot of hours, especially duringthe daytime where it's a traditional bowling experience,
and then at night or on weekendswhen there's families and kids and teenagers
there, it's a little different.The lights are damned, it's galactic space

(54:21):
black light bowling, the balls areall neon, the music is blaring,
they've got sports on the TV screens. And the problem is is that the
teenagers are like, oh, thisis cool, a cosmic bowling experience.
This is awesome. We want crankthat music up. And then you've got
the people who are like, we'rehere for our Thursday night League. Can

(54:43):
you turn that crap down, We'retrying to bowl. Don't put the water
buffalo. Yeah, turn the lightson, turn the music down. We're
trying to bowl here, you know. And so the the old guard want
a traditional bowling experience. Meanwhile,the bowling alleys are like, that's great.

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When we provide everyone all the timea traditional bowling experience, something amazing
happens. No one shows up exceptfor you old people. We need to
bring in young people in here.So we crank the music and everyone's in
here just having a great time andwe're packed. But it's then you end

(55:28):
up running off your core audience.And doesn't this happen in a lot of
different things, everything from golf.I'm a golfer. I want a traditional
golfing experience. I've learned to livewith one person playing their music while we're
golfing. I'll never say anything aboutit. It's when two people are playing

(55:50):
their music and like one guy's gotlike old school rap, the other one's
got new country, and they're goingon at the same time, and I'm
like, can you just pick one? Just pick one. I haven't been
on a go off course in awhile. Yeah, So you're saying that
there are people playing music while they'regolfing, and the courses allow this.
Yeah, generally you've got it loudenough to where you can hear it in

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your group, but you don't wantit to spill over in the other groups.
So there's there's a there's a generallyaccepted volume level. I don't like
it, and I and some peoplelike my dad have an accepted volume level
of zero. I have just Idon't want to be that guy, like,
can you turn your music? Ijust I barely even notice it anymore.

(56:34):
The only time it bothers me iswhen you've got two people playing their
little speaker at the same time.Then it bugs me, But you know
whatever. But they're also golf coursesthat said, hey, you're gonna be
golfing, and over here on theright side, like in the rough and
off to the short right area offthis green, we're going to put in

(56:54):
a big cup with a big flagin the middle of it. And that's
where these soccer players are gonna playsoccer golf, and they're gonna be kicking
soccer balls into this big cup thereon the side of the green, And
isn't gonna be great never caught onin Omaha. I don't know if there's
a course that still does it.And I always said, if I go

(57:15):
to the first tee and a coupleof guys wearing their Adidas, you know,
Diego Maradona shoes come up and go, hey, Broke, can we
join you guys, We'll play alittle little soccer gol, a little foot
golf or whatever they call the stupidthing. That's when I probably just just
quit playing golf, though I havedone that with the soccer ball, and

(57:37):
it is fun. Took my kidsout and did it. It was fun.
The guy who was actually trying toplay golf there didn't think it was
real fun. But but there's alsoI mean, you can also go with
church. You know, there's somepeople want a more traditional experience, and
some people are like, turn thelights down, crack that music up,
and let's just have a big funrock concert. If you want to mend

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Jesus, I guess that's fine,Yo. No, not the same thing
it is. It isn't the samething. It's not the same thing.
No, Because if you have somebodyplaying music on the golf course, the
only thing that's going to have somebodyplaying music and spending half of the sermon
time playing rock music and giving usa concert for their own edification. Then

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that's a problem because then you couldbe losing people. They end up gaining
a lot of people who have neverbeen to church, but if they're there
not hearing anything, that's going tomake any difference in what difference does it
make if they're there. That's theseesaw though. You know, in each
of these examples, you bring insome new people, but you lose the
people that want the experience that they'dcome to expect, whether it's bowling or

(58:44):
church. For some people, they'rebowling alleys their church, and then they
look at these big bowling alley centersowned by the same franchise, and I'm
sure every single location is different.I've not actually been bowling recently at this
particular location in Elcorn for a whilewhile. But there are people that say
they don't maintain the alleys in thesame way, and you know that everything's

(59:07):
all dingy, and I go andcomplain to a manager, and the managers
like, bruh, I feel you, I'm gonna I'm totally gonna get on
that, and they don't do anythingabout it. So I love the old
bowling alleys. But when's the lasttime you went to one? It was
probably a year and a half.So no, I'm not part of the

(59:28):
people keeping them afloat see, butI could be. I spent an entire
summer in my youth. I thinkit was Wednesday Morning was the Wednesday Morning
Coke and Hot Dog League. TheBrunswick location there off ninety six the Mockingbird
Drive is right down the street fromwhere I grew up, and so my
buddies and I like, I wouldmow my lawn on Wednesday mornings and my

(59:50):
dad would give me the three bucksto go down there. That's shoes in
three games, a bowling and acoke and a hot dog for three dollars.
Yeah, I grew up in thenineteen forty. It was It's a
cheap league you could be in andwe'd play against other kids, and our
team won the league. And infact, Lucy, I don't mean to
brag, but you're looking at theMVP of the Wednesday Morning ten and eleven

(01:00:15):
year old Cocaine Hot Dog League atBrunswick Christmas Vacation. No real life.
Oh I thought that was a quote. No, it's not a movie quote.
It's my life. I've got thetrophies and the patches to prove it.
Didn't you see them lined up behindme here in the studio? Well,
I wondered what they were. I'mnot gonna win these trophies in nineteen
eighty five and not parade them aroundthe rest of my life. What do

(01:00:37):
you do with old trophy's side?I mean, come on, I can't
throw them away. They're in abox right in the basement. I know
where they are. If you wantto see them all, I don't.
I think you should be able totake the little plaque off the front reuse
them. But there's one I'm gonnaat some point get back to bowling again

(01:00:58):
because there's one thing in my life. This may be the only thing that
I have not checked off. Iwant to crack two hundred. I've bowled
bowling. Yeah, I've bowled inthe one nineties several times. Do you
know how many people are laughing rightnow? I know for some people it's
my dude, my grandma has atwo to eleven average. Like I know,

(01:01:22):
I blow it in the tenth.I've bowled the one nineties so many
times and then I all I gottado is just pick up that spare and
then get another ball, and II'm gonna break two hundred. I've never
done it. I joke. Let'sdo it a live broadcast at a bowling
alley. Fun, make it happen. We did a gourmet club at the

(01:01:44):
UH when they had a bowling alleythere by Oakview. We did a bowling
gourmet club. Another gourmet club.I wasn't invited to. I take it
no one wanted you there. Lucywould have showed up with her own ball,
her own shoes. She'd be thatcool person, you know, drying
her hands off on the blower andlike, hey, can you guys keep

(01:02:05):
it down. I'm trying to bowland done the old Pete Webber spinning that
thing off the right side. Ibet you got some game. I watched
some bowling, some teenage bowling.What do you call it? Championships?
High school kids, high school orcollege? I don't know what, but
I don't know what they're doing.Now. Did you have you seen new

(01:02:27):
bowling? New Boy? They useboth hands like granny style. Really yeah,
it's weird and I don't like it, And I say no, rejected
denied. Do they, you know, do it between their legs and put
the bumpers up like a three yearold. They were making strikes, some
of them, but no, that'sthat's stupid. I want to go bowling

(01:02:53):
with you and your teenage friends.I gotta see this. Scott Voices News
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