Weird Wild Stuff

The title of today's episode refers to the variety of topics discussed, as well as the name of the vintage store we celebrate later in the program.

Episode Transcript

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Scott VORGIEZ, do we need tocheck in with this breaking news. Chief
Legal correspondent Shannon Breeam reporting now onFox News. Let's listen in here to
see what the Supreme courts just decided. It is that time of year when
the Supreme Court rules the way thatthe FDA has regulated me for pristone.
So this case is over. Thedoctors didn't have standing access remains for the

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drug. But now watch for twoor these three of these states to say
that they are going to now filetheir own legal challenges and try to prove
they do have standing to actually getto the merits of how the case has
been handled, the drug has beenhandled by the FDA. Call that a
boomerang case than Shannon case. Itcould be coming back all right, stam
buying case. There's more coming upmomentarily. Shannon, thank you, all

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right, we'll check back in here. But it's one of these rulings where
someone says, I think the SupremeCourt should make a decision on this,
and they look at the person makingthe petition and saying, you don't have
standing to bring this case to us, which has got to be the equivalent

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of what many of us have gonethrough, and I went through yesterday where
you have to make claims with yourinsurance company. Got storm damage? Anyone?
Have storm damage last night? Anyone? So you're on the phone with
your insurance company. You got it, you know, it's like, well,
you got to call the claims department. And then you get the message.
It says, claims department's a littlebusy right now, but weight on

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hold and we'll get to you.Your wait time is over twenty minutes,
Like, oh, does that meanmy waight time is twenty minutes or sometime
between twenty minutes and the end oftime. And then forty five minutes later,
suddenly a voice comes on the line. You've got your phone on speaker.
It's sitting over here to the left, you're doing other stuff. You

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kind of hear this music in thebackground, and then suddenly someone says this
is Wanda and claims I help you. And then for a second you stare
at the phone and wonder who's talkingto you and why because you've been on
hold so long and you honestly don'tremember why you called these people. And
then you talk to them for afew minutes and they say, oh,
well, we don't have this,Someone should have provided this. Well,

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is this something you do? No, that's another department. And after waiting
on hold for forty five minutes,they tell you, sorry, you really
didn't need to call us. It'sgot to be something like that when you
make it at the Supreme Court andthe justices say you don't even have the
standing to bring this case? Well, could someone have told me that years

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ago? It's not like, youknow, unless we're trying to decide the
two thousand presidential election. It's notlike we have an issue. And the
Supreme Court says we can rule onthat right now. Just bring it on
over here, will take a look. These things take years and they get
in this case, this has beenabout four years in the making. Then

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you get there and say I'm readyhere to present my case, Like,
why you you don't have any businessbringing this case? That's brutal, dude.
So the Supreme Court is upheld fullaccess to the abortion drug. Now

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that right now means exactly jack,because a lot of these stays are chill
trying to figure out who's going tobe able to get what when, how,
But that's what the Supreme Court hasdecided on. Are they making rulings
today. It is that time ofyear here, this summer June July,
when the Supreme Court suddenly, justout of nowhere, says we decided something,

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or like, oh, let's runover there and see what they have
to say. In fact, oneof my favorite stories today has to do
with someone who brought a case andthe court decided they don't have standing now.
The reason that they decided it alittle different than how I would have
decided it. We'll talk about thisa little bit more later. But Leah

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Thomas, this is the swimmer whoswam under a different name and gender with
one school, and then changed nameand gender to swim for another school and
started winning all these women's races.And finally it took someone Riley Gaines,

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to stand up and go that swimmeris not a woman. Well, Leah
wants to swim in the Olympics,but the Olympics are still lagging behind.
They have this weird thought that maybeguys shouldn't participate in women's events, and
so Leah brought the case and thejudge says, you don't have standing in

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this case now. The reason thatthe decision was made is because Leah thus
far doesn't even seem to have hadto try to qualify in any of the
races that would get Leah in positionto swim in the Olympics. But I
think it had been more funny ifthe judge said, you're saying that women
should be able to compete in women'ssports, you're bringing this case. You

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don't have standing because you're a guy. But that's not what they did.
Good morning, Lucy Chapman, Goodto see you today. Oh, good
morning, Scott, good to behere. This is something that a lot
of us understood. Certainly our parents'generation understood this, their parents' generation understood

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this, and especially today when collegecosts, I mean, there's an old
phrase about something being through the roof. Cost of college right now is so
far through the roof that if itlooked down, you couldn't even see the
roof from where they are, maybethe roof of the International Space Station.

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We have long since passed through theroof costs for college. College costs have
gone to ridiculous speed as they jettisoninto outer space. And so there are
a lot of families saying I'm gonnahave a hard time affording your post high
school education. That you're looking todo. Now, there's you could go

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into debt for the rest of yourlife, take out student loans. Maybe
President Kamala Harris will forgive them oneday. You know, that's a viable
option. So there's there is asubset of people, young people on social
media that they came running out totell their peers like all breathless, like,

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guys, guys, you'll never believeit. I only just heard.
Did you know? Sorry, I'vebeen running to try and tell you.
Guys, did you know that youdon't have to go to college to enter
into a career to start making money. There are all these jobs out there.

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It's blue collar work. You couldbe a construction worker. You could
work on a crew, you couldwork in the world of agg production.
You could be a plumber, youcould be an electrician. There are all
these jobs out here, and thesekids are like, dude, come bruh,
what what are you talking about?Like no, seriously, for reals,

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guys, you just go like youdo an apprenticeship and then you start
working and you make a bunch ofmoney like what after five years? Like
no, like today, you youbetter not be lying about this. Over
the first half of twenty twenty four. The hashtag blue collar has racked up

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a half a million posts in theopening months of this year on TikTok,
sixty four percent higher than last year. As a lot of young people posting
about mechanic or construction worker have aspike in popularity. They said, guys,
you'll never believe this. You canwork and you make really good money.

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Now you're gonna have to work.Now. That's probably gonna cause some
people to be like, I didn'twant to work, So it's like they
only just heard that you don't haveto go now. Certainly, I'm not
demonizing college. At some point,I'm probably gonna have to go back to

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the doctor kicking and screaming for something. And I would prefer that my doctor
had spent some time in a collegeclassroom. So yeah, there are certainly
some jobs where getting a degree adoctorate, for example, might be a
fine idea. But not everyone isor needs to go to college. And

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somehow someone said I went into constructionwork. I make a bunch of money.
I'm not in debt. My peershave been through three years of college.
They're eighty seven thousand dollars in debt. I've got eighty seven thousand dollars
in my checking account. Someone saidthat I should roll one of these over

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into a CD. I don't knowwhat that is. I'm gonna meet with
a financial advisor and find out.Apparently you make money. It's kind of
cool. I'm gonna see what that'sall about. Now, if you excuse
me, I'm gonna go hang somedry wall. I'm gonna go install it
toilet. I'm going to go outin a call where just calling me to

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come out costs one hundred and fifteendollars. And then this feminine guy is
gonna me standing there, not thatthere's anything wrong with that. He's gonna
say his lamp won't work. AndI take the lamp and I plug it
into a different outlet and it works, And I have to tell this guy,

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Oh, the reason why the lampdoesn't work and that outlet is because,
for some reason, the bottom plugon this two plug outlet has to
do with that light switch over thereon that side of the room. See
if we plug it back into thisoutlet and turn the switch on, the
light turns on. Yeah, thatthat outlet has to do with that light

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switch over there. How long youjust move into the house fifteen years.
You've been here fifteen years. Ohokay, wow, anyway, it's one
hundred and fifteen dollars for just comingout and plus mileage, so one hundred
we'll call it, call one hundredand thirty. Yeah, you can pay
in cash, one hundred and thirtydollars. Yeah, there's money to be

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made. There's golden them to ourhills. But of course we are talking
about generation WTF. I don't knowwhat we're is. I don't know if
this is gen Z. I thinkI'm definitely at that age where I'm just
gonna look at these darn kids todaythrough the rest of my life. This

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will be for the next one hundredyears. I look back at people who
are teenagers or early twenties and Ijust call them millennials, and someone will
have to constantly remind me, No, the millennials are in their thirties.
Now, I'm like, that doesn'tseem right. I think millennials are probably
about sixteen years old now, likethat, No, born after the millennium,

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well after you know what, callthem whatever you want. So this
generation teens and twenty something's going intotrade work had to kind of ruin it
a little bit. You know why. One of the big reasons this hashtag,
whether it's electrician or construction worker,mechanic or blue collar plumber or whatever.

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Do you know why a lot ofthese are spiking because some of the
people, like this twenty seven yearold girl named Lexus, some of the
people who are doing this work andI'm not suggesting they don't know how to
do the work, but they're doingthe work and filming themselves doing it while
wearing tight clothing, and then theypost the video like this electrician, this

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girl Lexus, she has two plusmillion followers on TikTok, and she shares
clips of herself installing utility outlets orfixing wiring, opening up the break or
box, that kind of thing.But of course she has to do it
while wearing these tight, little shortyshorts and like a really clingy top.

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And I've watched some of these videosand I gotta say they're just fantastic.
I mean, she's doing quality work. But I'm guessing that most of the
reason why people are suddenly like,wow, look at construction work. This
is great is because we've got influencersdoing this who are attractive, not to
say, attractive people can't do thiswork. But we had to put a

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spin on it. And of coursethis story, which is in the Daily
Mail this week, then suddenly switchesfrom people. Young people are going into
the trades. They're making good money, they don't have to take on student
loan debt. They can get workingpretty quickly. But then look what else
they could do. This girl's checkingout breaker boxes. She posts videos and

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she makes two hundred thousand dollars ayear alone just from influencer deals based on
clicks on various social media outlets andbrand deals, and people like the post
on social media, and someone says, we'd love to work with you,
you know, And then the nextthing, you know, she's like,

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my hands get tired and you know, kind of leathery after a day of
installing copper wire all day. That'swhy I use Jurgins, you know,
or whatever lotion. I don't evenknow if that's still a thing, so
i'm you know. Then then she'sgot like an influencer deal and for that
she makes two hundred thousand dollars ayear. And then it says like,
but she still does some electrical work. That's great. Well, at least

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she's set up for when the West, when the rest of the world has
decided she's too old and not cuteenough to follow on social media, like
in another month or two twenty seven, she's right there on the precipice.
Couldn't you be a lot younger thanthat? Twenty seven? Are you a

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grandma? Look at this milf doingelectrical like she's twenty seven. Like,
I don't know, she seems old, but at least she's, you know,
set up for knowing how to dowork for the rest of her life.
Good for her, And she saysshe received she's received thousands of messages
from people saying I would also liketo work in a trade. So that's

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good. If you're a teenager ortwenty four year old is laying around the
house not even close to getting upfor the day. I mean, my
goodness, it was at nine totwo am. Won't you won't see these
people for hours as they sleep inyour house and eat all your food and

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don't even bother to lift a finger, don't even seem to have the motivation
to go out and do something.And they're like, I think I'm gonna
go back to school. I gotbetter idea, Why don't you put on
these shorty shorts and go out thereand film some influencer videos of you cleaning
out the gutters and maybe you getsome clicks and maybe it could be a
career. But you're gonna have todo that soon because you're not gonna be

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able to live in this house hereby the end of next month. Good
luck? All right? What dowe got here? We're still Are you
gonna quit? No? I don'tthink I'm gonna quit at summer. At
some point I'll get fired. Shouldwe talk about what were you? Do

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you mean the topic? Or no? Okay? Should we talk about Leah?
Yes? Should we pivot back tothat? All right? And in
the course of that conversation here next, I will say the thing that I've
wanted to say on the radio forthe last two weeks. But I'm like,
no one's gonna find the humor init. I don't mean it literally,

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it's a joke. I'm not gonnasay it. I probably will next.
Scott Vorhees News Radio eleven ten kfaban email here that my knee jerk
reaction is just to reply all toeveryone in the email and tell this person
exactly where to go. But I'mnot gonna do that. I'm gonna let

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it simmer for a few minutes andthen I will issue a measured response once
I had cooled down a little bit. See, I'm growing, still talking
about it on the radio. Butit's making progress. No, it's growth.
It's growth is you know why notbecause I've matured, but because I've
realized that the headaches that I createfor myself with the knee jerk reaction email

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response aren't worth all of that problemdown the road. It's a lot better
just to email back and go.You're right, so lucky to have this
email. So growth. Speaking ofgrowth, Leah Thomas, who is You

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know, a lot of people demonizeLeah having been born male swam competed as
a mail in college swimming events andfinished somewhere down towards the middle to the
bottom of the pack in these races. But then Leah said, I'm gonna
put on a different type of swimsuitand I'm going to compete against the gal
And Leah started winning races and peopleare like, that's not fair, and

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I say, yeah, but she'sthe only one out there swimming with a
rudder, which does tend to slowyou down. And yes, I will
use that joke forever if having theopportunity to talk about Leah Thomas. Well,
Leah failed in this challenge against rulesthat stop Leah from competing in women's

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races. Now, the judges said, you don't have standing to bring the
case because, and here's what theysaid, Leah is not a member of
the USA Swimming when the legal casewas started. Leah has not competed in
female events for the purpose of qualificationor selection for world aquatics competitions such as

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the Olympics. Now, the complaintwas brought saying transgender women, which is
a fairly new term maybe you knowit better as dudes. Dudes should be
able to compete in women's sports atthe Olympic level. And this case here,

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which is brought by the Court ofArbitration for Sport, it's a three
judge panel. We're able to dismissthe request. Not because they ruled on
whether or not transgender should be ableto compete in whatever race, competition,
gender, whatever. They were ableto give by themselves more time for waiting

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into that controversial area. They justsaid, oh, you don't have standing
to bring this case. Maybe ifsomeone else had brought it, we could
do it. But now, fortheir part, World Aquatics had banned men
those who have been through male pubertyaka men. Boy, we had a
lot of on this. They've bannedmen from competing in women's races. They

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created an open category for which transgenderathletes or anyone would be eligible. But
that's for Worlds, it's not necessarilythe Olympics. So Leah Thomas says the
transgender women aka men should be ableto compete against women in the Olympics,
and at least for this upcoming OlympicGames. They decided to punt in a

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legal way on this one and notallow this to happen. Riley Gaines has
reacted to this. This is thewomen's swimmer who competed against this guy Leah
at the college level and has beenspeaking out against it ever since. I'll
tell you what Leah had to sayafter a Fox News update. Next Scott

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Gordies News Radio eleven ten k FAD. Hey, it's a Thursday morning,
Lucy. What are you doing thisweekend? Working? Are you? Are
you working all weekend? Yeah?I'll shoot yeah, Well I got to
find something else to do. Ihad everything set up this weekend, and

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I was going to spend the weekendfinally had a little time here. I
was going to work to cancel Pride. But from everything I've heard and read,
I can't. So all these messagessay you can't cancel Pride. I'm
like, let me look at myschematics again. I let's see here.

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I'm pretty sure if I do this, and then well that's depending on that
happened. Maybe I can't, andmaybe I should take these guys at their
word, because I was going tocancel it. I was going to cancel
Pride. Didn't know if I coulddo it myself, didn't know if I
needed to have a committee, ifthere needed to be a vote or whatever.
But yeah, I was going tocancel Pride. And then a lot

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of retailers and uh and Hollywood typesand social media messages said, nah,
it's it's Pride month and you can'tcancel Pride. I'm like, well,
crude, Now what am I supposedto do this weekend? It's all set
to cancel Pride. I've been toldI can't. Is it just that I

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can't? Can someone else cancel Pride? I don't know this? Can governor
DeSantis of Florida cancel pride? CanDonald Trump cancel pride? San Francisco?
Just all right? So let melet me explain this bit because it'll be
some people like he's serious, hewants to kill gay people. I see

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that. I just love parsing words. So when I hear that, there's
this whole movement like it's it's June, It's Pride month, and you can't
cancel pride? Like all right.First of all, pride depending on your
interpretation of the phrase and how you'reapplying it. Pride isn't always a good

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thing. Pride's one of those thingsthat you know, if you pick up
the good book once in a while, you can overdo it on pride.
You can be too proud, youcan be proud about the wrong thing.
Pride isn't always a word that onlyhas one connotation and it's a positive one.

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So first of all, if we'relooking at it like that, pride
could be a bad thing, butnot always. My son managed to get
through his eighth grade year. Atthe end of the school year with the
best grades he's ever earned in school, including he worked his way up to

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a bee in Spanish class, whichis super impressive because his grade was a
lot lower than that, and hemanaged to work hard, put in the
effort and get it up to aB. And the most amazing thing about
that is, my son doesn't speakany Spanish, yet somehow he managed to

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squeeze off a B in that class. I'm not sure what the measurement is
for a grade. I ask himsome things that Nate tell me, some
things in Spanish. I lob himeasy ones, like what's that word in
Spanish? He doesn't know, buthe got a B. So on some
level, I'm proud of him.He put in the effort, he got

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good grades, and he's definitely achip off the old block. He managed
to squeeze out a pretty good gradein a class that, looking back on
what he was allegedly learned in theclass, doesn't know any of it.
He managed to compartmentalize and procrastinate whatdo you like binge study and just have
enough knowledge to turn out to beover one test and then quickly forget everything

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he learned and move on with hislife, just like his old man did,
just like most people do. Yeah, proud of the guy, So
that's I don't think that that's abad thing. I have pride. And
if someone came to me and said, I'm canceling the pride you have in
your kids, Like, you knowwhat, you can't cancel pride, okay,

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because no one can do that forme. They can't cancel you know
who can cancel the pride I havein my kids? My kids and every
once in a while, I don'tknow they completely cancel it, but they'll
make decisions or I'll get a barrageof text messages for my wife. Do
you know what your daughter just said? You know that does put a damper
on that pride. There is oneother person that could cancel that pride?

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Who the teacher? Because if thisis set on a bell curve, Ah,
sure, yeah, I mean ifit's all, if none of the
kids know anything I supposed to be, you'd be pretty easy to get.
Yeah. Yeah, everybody's getting d's. It might you might be he might
be right there. The teacher's like, I'm sick of these kids. Yeah,
but I'd be proud of him forother things that he does. Okay,

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you know my son's to the pointnow again, he's fourteen years old,
going into his freshman year of highschool. My son is at the
point he doesn't do things without beingasked. Oh god, no, but
we only have to ask him nowfour times before he does things, and
that's a new record low down fromthirteen fourteen times. The last eight times

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are just hollered. So now he'sdown to only being asked four times to
do something and then most of thetime he kind of does it. So
just overflowing with pride for the youngman. You can't cancel that pride.
So when I hear pride also hasto do with being gay, like it

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does, Yeah, all right,well that's that's fine. Have at it,
and you can't cancel pride. Like, WHOA, I don't know why
you're yelling at me. I wasn'tplanning on canceling pride. I don't think
that I can cancel your pride andwhatever it is you're proud of, even

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if I wanted to, Well,you can't cancel. I wasn't going to.
Why are you yelling at me becauseyou can't cancel pride. I'm like,
all right, Suddenly it seems likeyou're trying to pick a fight with
me. Then San Francisco said,we are so full of pride. We're

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declaring ourselves a sanctuary city for LGBTQpeople, Like, all right, all
right, if if we follow thisthrough on all the all the words that
have just been provided us, theterm sanctuary city. Oh, is I

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going to tell you what Riley Gaineshad to say about Lea Thomas too,
that I forget that part. I'llforget it if you did. I'll forget
if I believe you did. Forgetit because I don't remember. Leah Thomas
just posted on Twitter the headline transgenderswimmer Leah Thomas Riley gains Sorry, Riley
Gaines, the female swimmer had tocompete against this guy. Leah Thomas complained

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about it ever since. Riley Gainessays transgender swimmer Lea Thomas loses legal challenge
in the Court of Arbitration for Sportruling, and she posts that story and
says, great news. Leah Thomaswon't be able to compete in women's category
at the Olympics or any other elitecompetition. He has just lost his legal

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battle in Court of Arbitration for Sportruling. It's a victory for women and
girls everywhere. She's also posted callingon the NCAA to strip him of every
award, title and record he stolefrom a deserving female athlete. Do you
think that Elaban No, But that'sLeah Thomas's sorry, that's Riley Gaines's reaction

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to Leah Thomas, transgender woman akaman not being allowed to compete in women's
sports at the Olympic level, atleast not now. Two more years of
the Winter Olympics because we do thatstupid stagger of the Olympic Games, and
four more years for the next SummerGames. Now, San Francisco has just

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declared itself a sanctuary city for LGBTQpeople. Now, sanctuary city has to
generally do with illegal immigration. Ifyou're in the country illegally and you're running
in the shadows, going but allyou want to stay here. I'm not
a criminal. They want to deportme, Like come to San Francisco,
come on, get over here,and like, I'm in Oakland, could
just hang on and you're just runningover there. I'm almost there. And

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you make it and you make itto San Francisco and you're like, oh
my gosh, thank goodness. They'relike, oh, come on here you
and we'll we'll take care of you. Meanwhile, like Roscoe Pea Coletrain's on
the other side of the city linegoing, you know, it's all made,
you know, all mad boy,the boss hogs there and uh,
you know, but you made itto San Francisco and they say no one

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can take you and deport you fornothing. And then they find out the
person you're giving shelter to is likea mass murderer. But the person's also
in illegal immigrants. So I'm surethat he didn't mean to do it.
If the system weren't, you know, so mean and racist towards him,
he wouldn't have killed those people.But we'll we'll shelter you. So the
idea is, you're in San Francisco, it's a sanctuary. You can't be

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deported back to El Salvador because you'vemade it to San Francisco. To follow
that through. San Francisco says weare a sanctuary for LGBTQ people, particularly
transgender and gender non conforming people,meaning if you make it to San Francisco,
you won't be deported. I don'tknow what. I don't know what

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the sanctuary part of it means.Especially it's especially weird because right now,
if you're like a gender non conformingperson and you're found to be illegally gender
non conforming in you know, Papillion, they'll deport you to San Francisco.
So that was a bad joke.Sorry. So wait when we're talking about

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canceling Pride or San Francisco saying we'rea sanctuary, Wait, what are we
talking about? Is there a placehere in this country? Because if it
is, let me know where itis and I'll fight against it with everyone
else. Is there a place wherethey find LGBTQ people and kill them,
put them in jail, deport them. There's not, So what are we

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talking about. Are the people like, oh, I understand that you're here
in our state masquerading as a gayperson, Well, we will not allow
you to have any pride in thathere. See so that we already been
told you can't cancel Pride. AndSan Francisco is a sanctuary place, So
what are we talking about? Arewe talking about these horrible places that say

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if you're a kid and you wantto go right around the parents and just
go into some clinic or whatever andsay I would like to do puberty blockers
and hormone therapy and I want tohave the gender reassignment surgery and all.
You don't need to involve my parentsin this. Hey, I'm thirteen,

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I'm a man of the world.Will pardon me, woman of the world,
and I want all this stuff cutoff. Let's go, you know.
And there are some places that say, I don't know if that's a
good idea to do that to kids. Maybe we shouldn't do that to kids.
Is that by canceling that is thatthe cancelation of pride that we're talking
about. Is that San Francisco saying, Hey, if you're a kid and

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you run away to San Francisco andyou say I want gender reassignment surgery,
They're like, oh, you socute, come on in, and they
give it to you. Is thatthe sanctuary we're talking about, Because outside
of that, I don't see anyonetrying to cancel anything. Sounds like San

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Francisco just said, yeah, comeon over here, we'll give the old
hack and whack to the kids andeveryone will be better for it. Sanctuary
city for gender non conforming people.I don't even care if you're gender non
conforming, even though I don't.You only know what that means, but

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I know what they say it means. I just I don't you be you.
I don't care. I honestly don'tcare. But if you're not going
to let adults decide what kids getto do what, or who gets to
compete in what sport or shower nextto you at the local fitness workout facility,
well then I guess that's canceling pride. We talked a few days ago,

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Lucy, that I was singing asong all night long while dancing on
the ceiling and running with the nightin September after a shining Star under a
shining star in a boogie Wonderland.Hello. So that was Earth Wind and

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Fire and Lionel Richie at the ChiHealth Center Center this past Sunday night.
I had a great time. Youknow who didn't have a great time?
Who? Maxine and Linda? Ohno, what happened to Maxine and Linda.
Maxine and Linda went to the ChiHealth Center Center for this concert on
Sunday night. And even though thispolicy has been in place not just at

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CHI, but a number of placesover the last six years or so that
say, look, we want youto come in and enjoy the concert,
don't bring your purse. I knowpolicy's been around a long time. Whether
you're going to a concert or afootball game sporting event, A lot of
times there's only you're allowed to bring, like all of your belongings in that

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which would fit in a box thatcarries a deck of cards, and maybe
your phone, your keys. Idon't know you got one of those Swiss
army knife things on your keys.Oh man, that looks dangerous. You
could Chinese throwing star that thing fromthe section two thirty seven and hit Lionel

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Richie right in the leg. SoI can't let you bring that in there.
So, I mean, this isif you've gone out to events over
the last six years, especially womenlike guys, this is not really a
problem. Every once in a whileyou're like, oh, I can't bring
my Swiss army knife in here.My firearm. I can't bring my firearm
in here. Thought this was America? Is this concert in America? I

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can't bring any of my firearms inhere. You know. So every once
in a while guys have to betold no, no, you can't bring
that stuff. Women who are like, Okay, I know we're going to
a concert and the kids aren't coming, but we still might need snacks,
you know, like we're bringing likecoolers of water and chips and handy wipes

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and giant bottles of hand sanitizer andyou know anything we might need. I
got a big old purse. Well, it might be cold in there.
I need to bring a jacket.I need to bring an umbrella in case
it rains when we leave the eventcenter and we don't know what shoes I
want. I'm gonna bring three orfour different pairs of shoes and I'm gonna

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put them all in this bag.And they go in there with this giant
backpack saddle bag full of stuff,and someone stops him and says, you
can't. It has to be likea like handbag sized. You know,
here's the size of the purse you'reallowed to bring in here, and we're
gonna have you open it up sowe can look in here. And the

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guy's like, ah, man,because they know exactly what that means.
That you've waited in line for along time. The show's about to start,
and your wife or girlfriend has justbeen told you can't bring all that
stuff here into the concert. Youknow what that guy's got to do turn
around and walk all the way backto the car. And because he's guy.

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He's like, I'm not gonna paytwenty dollars to park right in front.
I'm gonna pay a dollar twenty five. But some meter two miles away.
He's like, walk all the wayback to the car, put this
back in the car. But atthat point, your ticket's already been scanned.
In some instances, we don't allowre entry sometimes anymore. Most events,

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you got it right, Most events, they wouldn't do that. So
Maxine and Linda tried to bring inbig purses and there's no guy with him
to walk it back to the car. There was no guy. So security
guard guy says, yeah, yourpurses are too big. Now they look

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down because when you walk in,no matter which entrance you're there, at
the security you got to go throughthe metal detectors and there's a table there
right well, there's a pile ofpurses on the ground there. I don't
know if anything was in the pursesor what. But these ladies said,
can we leave our purses here?And they said the security guard said,

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sure, no problem, I'll justsit here and babysit your purses all night.
That's not what he's saying, thatI have nothing better to do.
In fact, it be my privilegeto babysit your purses. Let's write your
name on them. Make sure youknow what. I'll remember you, and
I'll be here waiting with your purselike a little human purse tree when you
come out of the concert. Youguys, have a good time, tell

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a lot of richie. I said, Hi, that's what they said.
Happened now the security guard he's probablylying. He said no. They said,
can we believe our purses here?And we said, we don't have
a policy that allows you to leaveunattended bags here. And if you leave

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your stuff, man, if youwant to just throw it here on the
floor, might be here later,might not really at the end of the
night, robot might come in.Anything that we confiscate here at the end
of the night is going to bequote thrown away unquote, And I think
we all know what that means,recycled. I think it means that if

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none of these security personnel want thisrecycled, then it will be thrown away.
You can't throw away that perfectly goodpocket and I'll take it. Oh,
that's a nice purse. I don'thave one in that shade of beige.
I'm gonna take that purse and they'renot stealing it. You've discarded it.
This no longer belongs to you.Someone else decides to have it,

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then that's good. So yeah,recycled. But they said the staff member
said, these will likely be disposedanything left behind, anything discarded and or
unattended, will be thrown away.And then they went in. Now for
their part, they took out thephone, wallet, key, credit cards,

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cash, They took all that stuffout there. I don't know why
they took cash out. Can't usecash there, I know, but still
nice to have cash once legal tendercan't be used I know once in a
while. So they said, well, we took the stuff out valuables and
left the purse there because I thoughtit was going to be babysat and I

(41:23):
came back, purse is gone.I was like, hey, where's my
purse? And they said, oh, there was a bunch of stuff under
that table. We threw it away. Now here's the dumb part. Where
did they throw it away? Dothey bring in an incinerator? I would
think that, oh, we threwit away. I would immediately look around

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and go, well, there's atrash can there and a trash can there.
I presume that my bag is inone of these trash cans and you
look and it's not there, andyou think, well, where is it?
You mean threw it away? Oh? I walked to the city dump.
I went to the Douglas County landfilland threw it away. I wasn't
gonna throw it away right here.I so like the purse is gone.

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And this Maxine says this is adesigner purse and it must be nice because
she says it costs two hundred dollarsand the designer the name is here.
I don't know how to pronounce it, which means it must be a really
good purse. Brahmen, you're acool chick. Do you know what this
is? Embarrassed to say? Idon't know how to how do you spell

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it? B r A h m, I N brahmin, brahmin. I
feel really low now because I don'tknow how to never heard of it?
Oh, I feel bad. Well, I you shouldn't feel bad. Your
Fisher Price purse is really really nice. And look at those day glow colors.

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I mean, you know you can'tmiss it. My purse is Cosco.
That's right. Kirkland Kirkland. Nothingwrong with that. So she says,
this is a designer brahmen, LikeI thought you were talking about a
purse. That is my purse.It's a promin so it says it costs
him more than two hundred dollars,and I want to be compensated for my

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purse, she tells WOWT six news. The vice president of Communications for the
Metropolitan Entertainment Convention Authority MECCA, whichmanages the Chi Health Center Center, says,
well, we talked to the eventstaffer, and what do you know,
he gives a different account of whathappened than what the ladies said happened.

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It's like I told him they can'tleave the stuff here. I told
all these people that can't leave thestuff, they're the only ones complaining.
By the way, these are verynice purses. While you're looking it up,
yeah, I like them. Isit worth two hundred dollars? I
mean it's a it's a bag youput stuff in, right, Yeah,
I mean they're on sale for twopoint fifty at Dillard's. Basically you're welcome
Dillard's. Yeah. Basically accomplishes thesame thing as a ziploc bag or a

(43:52):
you know, high v grocery bag. Right, Yeah, I don't see
any clear one. You can putyour stuff in there. You can put
your stuff in there, you putyour weed in there. So she says,
well, we talked to the staffmember and he said I was up
front with the concert goers that bagstorage was not permissible. There's no reasonable
expectation you should have that your purseis still going to be here, and

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anything discarded will be deemed to havebeen left unattended, that you don't want
it anymore, and we'll dispose ofit. We extend our apologies to Maxine
and Linda, but we will notbe compensating them. And this policy has
been in place for six years,not just here, but anywhere you wanted
to go do anything. Clear bagpolicy can't bring in big purses, We're

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not going to do. You can'tbring in all this stuff. So like
they were surprised. So you're thinking, well, if it's a two hundred
dollars perse, why not run itback to the car? Well, they
asked him. Maxine said, well, running our purses back to the car
would have made us, would havemade us late for the first set,

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would have missed the first couple ofsongs. By earth, wind and fire.
They had fire they did have wasn'tjust earth and wind, it was
all three. So it would havemade us late for the first set,
and we would have had sore feetbecause we were wearing heels. And then
they talked about how they danced onthe ceiling all night with Lionel Richie.
Oh wait, were you dancing allnight or whatever? They probably took their

(45:20):
shoes off and reception old Bunyan feet. But we're both wearing heels. We
can't run like well, then itsounds like you're not bringing in this purse
and someone just got your purse.Her purse didn't get thrown away. There's
someone. I can't say it likethat. Yeah you can, Yeah you

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can't. I don't think there's anythingwrong with it. No one stole the
purse, you discarded it. Youbasically put us put it on the end
of the driveway with a sign thatsays free purse, and someone said great
and they took it. Sorry,ladies, can't bring your big purses in

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Moose out front. Should have toldyou maybe they should have some lockers there,
lockers. I don't know. It'snot a water park. Well,
sometimes you bring stuff that you reallytruly don't know. I'm not suggesting that
they didn't know. Maybe they don'tgo to a lot of shows. Here.
I'll make this real easy, Okay, don't bring anything in? Yeah,

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well a car key. You can'teven bring your phone into some of
these places. That's true if you'venot been to one of these concerts where
they say this is a phone freeexperience. You got to put your phone
in a bag and then you're givena piece of paper with like where your
bag is or whatever, and youthink, I'm never going to see this
phone again. You're filled with distressand you're like, oh no, I

(46:52):
don't even know how to function.I don't have my phone. I'll never
see it again. There's no waythey're going to be able to find it.
And then you come back after theshow and it's like the smoothest thing
ever. Here's your phone. Weunlock the bag. You know what,
Actually, I guess you have yourphone. The phone's in a bag,
and then they unlock the bag foryou. It's super easy. They don't
just have a pile of bag ofphones over here. I remember how this

(47:15):
works. I've done this twice andJohn Mulaney and I think it was Dave
Chappelle, and you cannot use itin the bag. No, you can't
open the bag, and you can'tdo it through the bag. Well,
no, you can't take any videoof it. Well, yeah, you
could answer a call on speaker.I think you need you need to have

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an actual thumb hit the home buttonto be able to answer the thing,
right, and you can't do thatwith the bag anyway. You think this
is going to be terrible, andit's super super easy, and midway through
the show you don't even remember thatyou don't have a phone to play with
what you're probably enjoying the show moreenjoying the show and having an experience.

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But I want to know what happenson the slow songs. What do you
mean what happens on the slow songwhen you have to illuminate the audience?
I know, I know you gotabout six six weed smokers out there with
a light. Well, the onlyconcert that I've heard of here in Omaha,

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and I'm sure there have been more, but the only concert that comes
to mind, and I didn't go, even though I probably should have,
was I don't know if it wasthe White Stripes or just Jack White,
but he said no phones. Andplus like Jack White, to my knowledge,
doesn't exactly have any torch songs whereyou've got the light on your phone.
You're like, oh, they're playingseven Nation Army bum bum bum bum

(48:43):
bum boom boom. Yeah, gottahold my phone up for this one.
So that's not exactly that's a stopperright there. But the shows that they
said no phones is because they didn'twant video or audio taken of these jokes
that they would like people to hearfor the first time. Will John Mulaney,
for example, takes him through therest of the country. That makes
sense, and that was fine.I didn't need to have my phone for

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that. And I guess you don'tneed to have your purse for these things.
You know, I don't know whoruined it. I don't know who
was Like I'm bringing in a giantpurse. And then like they're making baloney
sandwiches and you know, a bigAquaNet and all that stuff. Well,
you can still I could keyster agun in there. No, you have

(49:29):
to walk through garbage. Yeah,well that's why I can't get in any
shows like walk through the garbage detector. Beep beep beep, no, sorry,
your garbage metal detector. I knowthat is. They're like looking,
they're patting me down, going Idon't know. Is it your belt?

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Yes? My belt? Like didyou try and keyster a gun? No?
You know, Lucy, is justa short segment here, and I
don't think I want to do thistomorrow morning, and it's not going to
it'll expire by the weekend. Sothis seems like the perfect time to give
you this story. And I wantedto let you know. As I mentioned

(50:13):
in the last hour, Lucy,remember I said I had growth, I
was growing up. Did you sayyou had growth? Growth? I had?
I had growth growing And this isanother example of my growth, of
my maturity level. All right.Sometimes we get a story about and everyone

(50:37):
just calmed down, it's not goingdown that road. I'm just using this
to kind of set this story upand remember a lot of growth here.
Sometimes we get a story about ayoung female teacher who decides that an even
younger male student is for her,he's mine, and they end up doing

(51:04):
extracurricular activity and then someone finds outand it's like, hey, you can't
do that, you're his teacher.And then there's all these people let's call
him women saying this is terrible,And there's all these people let's call him
guys saying nice, you know,and and it's just and people are like,
that's so immature. And this isnot one of those stories. This

(51:24):
is not a story where a youngfemale teacher tried to have a relationship with
a teenage male student. It's notit's not okay. This is a story
of two young female teachers who triedto engage in extracurricular activities with a teenage

(51:45):
male student. Two two Wisconsin highschool business teachers have resigned while the school
district found inappropriate behavior between them anda student while on a class trip.
These two teachers, they're a techmessages saying we want to cuddle and have
fun with you. We want tocuddle and have fun with you, and

(52:08):
if your friend wants to join us, just ask him. And then one
of them used a social media appto send the student five photos of herself
in various stages of undress. Shethought maybe that was a bad idea when
the following morning, there was ateacher confronting a group of boys laughing while

(52:30):
looking at a phone, going noway, dude, and turns out they
were looking at those pictures. Soone of the other teachers, who wasn't
invited to this party suddenly found outabout it and tattled. Meanwhile, the
kid, the boy, the teenagerat the center of this is once again

(52:52):
going to have to see some sortof you know, some surgeon or someone
to deal with the carpal tunnel fromthe endless high fives he's been getting over
the last few days. His dadwon't stop hugging him. But the teachers
have have been uh well, they'vebeen placed in administrative lee, but they

(53:12):
just preemptively resigned. Maybe this isn'tthe job for them. If only there
was something that they could do asan outlet for their proclivities, well,
amusement park should not be one ofthem. Yeah. No, So see,
I'm not sitting here looking at astory about some kids, some guy

(53:35):
in a relationship with his teacher.This is totally different. This is totally
different. This is two female teachers. I'm totally on board with your growth
male students. See growing Up.Got a Fox News update in just a
moment, and then I will finally, we'll take two this week. Introduce
you to my friend Leah. You'llmeet her next Scottes News Radio. Eleven

(54:00):
days ago. We had the breakingnews at this time that Hunter Biden had
been found guilty and all the chargesagainst him. While my friend Leah was
sitting here and I said, I'msorry, Leah. We were going to
interview you about your life, yourbusiness and some great pairs of like sparkly
leather pants and things like that,but we had to reschedule that for today

(54:21):
with the breaking news. So nowbring I'm looking around at everything barring anything
derailing this conversation. Officially now welcometo news Radio eleven ten kfab. This
is Leah Robert's Denimi, the ownerand proprietor of Weird Wild Stuff Vintage Clothing
store at forty ninth and Levenworth.Leah, Hello, Hi, thanks for

(54:44):
having me. When did you getrid of the bowl cut? You and
I were friends in as little littlekids, Like my memory is, We're
sitting there on the floor of myroom is like five or six year olds,
and then you were gone and Ididn't see you again until high school.
I ran into you somewhere. Iwent to Saint Thomas Moore. Yeah,

(55:06):
that was school. Bad decision,wasn't You left us at Bloomfield Elementary
in the Ralston School District, andI thought, well, I'm never going
to see her again. And uh, it's it's been great to reconnect with
you over the years. But yourmom did she start this store? Yep?
She started in nineteen ninety seven.Your mom was super cool genie,

(55:30):
right, yep, very very dearmom. Knew my mom, Yeah,
talk for hours. Yeah, yeah, my my mom's super cool as well.
But your mom is like like superlike hippie chick cool. So,
uh, do you remember when shestarted this store and you're like, and
she said, Lee, I'm gonnastart a store Weird Wild Stuff. Yes,

(55:51):
Like how did the name come tobe in India? It was from
the Johnny Carson Yeah, this WeirdWild Stuff. Yeah, it's that's Dana
Carvey is Johnny Carson on Saturday NightLive with that Weird Wild Stuff. So
she decided this was in nineteen ninetyseven. You said to start this clothing

(56:12):
store. So it's just out ofhigh school. Where do you find vintage
clothing enough to be able to starta store to not only sell it but
also rented out to people? Doyou know where you find all this?
Like? Did it come from hercloset. Some of it did. This
is like a glorious garage sale kindof thing. Glorified garage sale. And

(56:36):
now there's actually like massive companies thatpull things from like ragstock and stuff like
that. So that's how she gota bunch of it. And then when
I would get it, the goodstuff would come from customers that bring it
in, I buy it from them. How much of the vintage clothing that's

(56:58):
in there now, and by theway, we'll get into how Leah took
over the business and how it's comingto an end at the end of next
month. They're at forty ninth andelevenworth. But how much of the vintage
clothing is made new to look vintage? And is that stuff it pales in
quality comparison to the real deal?Right, Sometimes that's what people want so

(57:22):
and a lot of it's like basicallythe same materials, So sometimes that works
well for people. It's easier toget a good size in. And tell
me about some of the stuff inthat store. Well, there's hippie stuff
like bags, incense, and jewelry. I make a lot of the jewelry

(57:45):
there, and there's posters, tapestries, go go boots, are all for
sale now. We used to onlydo rennels on those. And there's a
lot of vintage disco stuff that weused to only do rennels on and those
are all on sale now. Yeah. I've come in there several times over
the years going I have to MCan event that has a retro theme.

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So I've gotten the disco stuff,I've gotten the hippie stuff. Some of
the eighties stuff I still have inmy closet, but I had to go
in there a few times and justsome of the ridiculous like neon crazy patterned
like eighties pants and stuff like that. You've got all of it, and

(58:29):
great prizes to to rent some ofthis stuff. And I'm sure that there
have been people over the years thatdon't bring the stuff back, and they
bring it back in terrible quality.Where are those bodies buried if they ruin
your stuff? Fortunately it didn't happenvery often. There was a few spilled
red wine incidences with the white tuxedosor like split pants from people trying to

(58:52):
do, you know, certain dancemoves. Yeah, well, it's a
little easier to mend some pants thantry and get red wine out of a
Saturday night fever outfit or something likethat. But you know, it's is
a really really cool store and I'mgoing to be so sorry to see it
go. But I I'm wondering ifwhen you took over this business, we

(59:14):
lost your mom way too early.We're not going to go into that,
suffice it to say that you andI and everyone who knew her misses her
very very much. That was intwo thousand and a what years. She
passed in two thousand and eight,and I took over and bought it in
two thousand and nine. I wouldlike to tell you about how I made

(59:36):
the decision. So I wasn't reallysure what to do when this all happened,
because I would have to buy itfrom her estate and whatnot and move.
Yeah, it's living at the time. It's not as easy as here's
the keys of the store. It'sall yours if you wanted. So I
was really struggling with it. Ididn't really know what to do, and

(01:00:00):
I had a dream where I wason a city bus going up Leavenworth Street
and an old lady that kind oflooked like the witch from Snow White walked
up to me and slid a ringof keys over my hand, and I
got off the bus and the shopwas across the street, and I went

(01:00:22):
in to the shop and my momwas at a case like showing me things,
and my stepdad was turned around andnot involved at all. So and
then I basically woke up and Iwas like, well, got to take
over the shop it that's what youtook from that. I took from it,
like, you know, if it'slike a weird, wicked witch kind

(01:00:43):
of a thing, like I gota note she had like a good feeling
about her. She wasn't like itwas a witch. Yah. All right,
okay, all right, it was, you know, it just wasn't.
She was a really sweet person whojust had an unfortunate hump and really
weird crooked nose. I was like, well, you're scary looking, but
thanks for the keys. And youjust said, all right, We're moving

(01:01:06):
from El Paso back to Omaha andI'm running a vintage clothing store. Had
you had any experience in running thestore at all? I worked there briefly
when I was a kid, Imean when she first started, and I
did some cashier work at like Shopko. So I was like, you worked

(01:01:27):
at shop Co. Awesome, Soyou decided now I have to learn how
to not. I mean it's onething to Greek customers and they come in,
which is totally you learn how todo no. I mean, like
you know how customer service and justbeing awesome and all that, but just
like paying taxes and all this stuff. If you know, a water main

(01:01:49):
breaks inside, you know, whatdo I do here? And I'm sure
that there were several times in theopening weeks and months of running the store
you're like, oh, I gotto call my mom and as oh,
she's not. I mean that's apretty common thing. How many times you
lose a parent and you just instinctivelythink like, oh, I just got
to call my mom and ask herabout this. Oh wait, I can't.

(01:02:10):
You know, so you decided totake over the store, did you
feel like this is something I'm goingto do for a few months and then
I'll sell it because this isn't thecareer or life path I'm taking. It'll
just be a short time thing andthen we'll move on. Or I guess
I never really had any thought ofwhen or how long. I would just

(01:02:34):
give it a shot and if itworked, it works, If it didn't,
then something else I'll show up tomorrowand we'll do it again. And
I had no idea. So howdid you come to make the decision that
after let's see two thousand and eighthere, So sixteen fifteen, sixteen years
now it's time to shut her down. I think I'm just ready for something

(01:02:57):
else, and a lot of differentpuzzle pieces kind of came together. So
I just rather, uh, youknow, do it on my terms instead
of if something tragic or anything else, or you know, if I know
anything else comes up, then Ijust, yeah, what's going to happen

(01:03:19):
to that store? I'm not surethe landlord's not gonna sell it yet,
so well, see, I hopesomething cool goes in there, though.
Yeah, if I have any youknow, push your pull level. Well,
right now you're you're selling all thestuff in there, as you mentioned,
things that used to be available justfor rental, Like I want to
own the Sequin leather pants, youknow, like now you can go buy

(01:03:40):
them, right How much stuff doyou have left? Because you made the
announcement just a week or two ago, and you're going to be open through
the end of next month, unless, of course, all the stuff is
purchased then and that's it. Butwe do have a lot of like furniture
and things like that. That's gonnahave to be obviously last, but we'll

(01:04:00):
see. I've got a storage init, and I'm gonna continue to put
things online when I finally get achance to do that again, and then
maybe do some pop ups in thefuture. I'd like to keep making my
jewelry and do that kind of thing. What were the first things that your
loyal customers said, like, you'reselling all the stuff, I have to
come in there and buy this.What are the first things that went Oh,

(01:04:23):
there's some really bad suits, youknow, I love those. Some
really bad plaid pants which are great. Yeah, some of the disco shirts.
There's still some left. There's plentyof left plenty for everyone. What
did you want, Like, thisis not for sale, I'm taking this.
There's a few things like that ridiculouspaper. I have a paper dress.

(01:04:50):
I have a paper dress that's uha Campbell's soup like paper dress.
I'm definitely keeping that because that's oneof the first things I bought when I
took over. So did you feelany guilt, like this is something my
mom started, Maybe I shouldn't sellit. No, I feel like I've

(01:05:11):
well, I've done this three yearslonger than she did it now, so
I feel like it's I've kind ofdone, you know, my time.
I guess. I don't mean tomake it sound like a because it's been
no. I've enjoyed every every minute. I've never regretted it. Well,
I've got a number of people emailingwho knew your mom, and many of

(01:05:32):
them know you as well, andthey just wish nothing but the best for
you. I appreciate. I alwaysknew if I came in there, I
was going to find some really funkyvintage clothing and a big smile from mile
friendly Leah Roberts enemy good luck herewith the rest of the next month and
a half of Weird Wild Stuff VintageStore at forty ninth and Levenworth, and

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