An Explosive Week

Whether it's storms, fireworks, or political bombshells, we have a lot to make us duck-and-cover.

Episode Transcript

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Scott Vordez. We got this emailfrom Rob and the Zonker's custom woods inbox
Scott atkfab dot com, and Iimagine Rob is saying the same thing that
a lot of you are thinking.I don't want to fight with you this
year. Okay, You're entitled toyour opinion, and this is America.

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You can be dead freaking wrong ifyou want in this country, and so
I'm not gonna fight with you.You can just sit there and waller in
your being dead wrong misery and ifthat makes you happy on some level,
then by all means, have atit. The rest of us will be
out here loving life and America.Of course, I'm talking about fireworks.

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Rob says, I welcome the storms. It means the fireworks stopped what because
you know it was loud when thefireworks are going going off. Now the
storms come in here where you havethunder all night, You've traded one bang
for another bang, except this timeit's Mother Nature lighting that wick. People

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hate fireworks. Look, I getit. There are some individuals out there
who personally have reasons for whatever theymight be, to hate fireworks. Could
be anything from PTSD to it freaksout the dogs. Look I get it.

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And then some people just don't likefireworks because, oh, someone's out
there having fun. Someone better stopthat. They're out there, they're lighting
off fireworks and they're laughing, andthe kids are playing, and the guy's
out there smoking, and the kidsout there drinking a beer, and it

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just all looks like a lot offun, and someone ought to stop it.
They didn't invite me. Some peoplejust cranky about fire works, And
by people, I mean Lucy Chapman. I'm oh, I didn't you are
listening. I am, you know, I am listening. I'm not so
cranky about it, and especially sadlysince we lost our dog that was so
scared of them, It'll be alittle bit of an easier year in that

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aspect. But I'm more concerned withpeople who are so careless with them,
which there are a lot of them. And if they land on my roof,
or if they land on your roofand your house catches on fire,
my roof is wet, well everybody'sis this year. Yeah, people hear
stories like this. There was aguy Sunday night near Abbott Drive and Crown

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Point Avenue. I didn't realize thosetwo roads intersected that's that's way up north
unless Crown Point comes back to allright, So somewhere down there, there's
a the party down down there overthere, A bunch of people are out
there and they're according to law enforcement. The story here from k e TV

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News Watch seven, there was Ishouldn't laugh at this. There's a guy
out there who was injured while throwingfireworks. I'm guessing they weren't those little
snaps. The only fireworks with whichI'm familiar that are you're encouraged to throw,

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you know, the little snaps,little white piece of paper again,
I know what you're talking about,gunpowder inside, and we give them to
our children. Here, throw theseat your sister's feet. Dance. I
love snaps. I'll never stop lovingsnaps. Those are such great fun.
I'm sure this guy wasn't throwing snaps. He probably was holding fireworks that he

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obviously should not have been. Andof course you gotta wait until the wick
goes way down, otherwise you're apuss. So you gotta you gotta wait,
and then then you throw that thingin the air and explodes just a
couple of feet from your face,and everyone's like, whoa blake? You're

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so brave man, you're crazy andyou're like yeah, and you try and
you give the rock and roll fingers, which is easier to do because your
two middle fingers are gaunt. You'reconstantly looking like you got the bull by
the horns because you like, howcome you can't how come you don't wear
your wedding ring? Oh yeah,he got no finger there, so he

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has it taped on. This guyhad injury. This guy had injuries to
it. He's got one of thosehands like Chubbs. There's your nineties movie
reference for this segment of the radioprogram. You don't got that one,
see it? No, it's aneighty show, But no, I know,
Happy Gilmore. That's Carl Weather's characterwho lost his hand with an alligator

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bit it off. Now he's gota wooden one that gets run over by
a truck and so it's like summerfingers, summer fingers. Some aren't gotta
hands, got a hand like chubsand uh yeah, this guy has injuries
to his hand from the fireworks.I hope he doesn't try and sue the

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fireworks manufacturer. Well you didn't saynot to hold on to china. Yeah,
yeah, let me know how thatgoes. You didn't say not to
hold in my hand and throw itlike sir, it's it's it's sold with
a tube. You gotta put themortar shell in the tube. I don't
know if it's a mortar shell,but it's gotta be something pretty big.

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Because we were kids, we'd allhold little black cats and stuff in our
fingers and light them and throw them, and every once in a while though
want to go off. I mean, it wasn't Fourth of July season until
a little black cat or lady fingergorilla or something like whatever, those things
little firecrackers. It wasn't for itwasn't Independence Day season until one went off

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in your hand. I remember oneyear one went off in my hand,
and I just started running while beingchased by my dad because I'm just howling
and and like grabbing my hand andjust running around my grandma and Grandpa's house
while my dad's chasing me. Hedoesn't know if my fingers all blue off

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or what. But the faster Iran, the better my hand felt.
So I just started running and howling. Yeah, that's when it's when you
can't feel the tips of your pointer, finger and thumb. That's America.
To me, I'm guessing this guywasn't holding little fireworks. He was holding

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big, stupid fireworks. Why wouldthey shape this thing like a baseball if
you weren't supposed to hold it inyour hand and throw it. I don't
know. I don't know this guy. I don't know what happened. I
mean it says Omaha police said aman was injured while throwing fireworks. Maybe

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he wasn't. Maybe he you know, sometimes mistakes happened. Maybe he was
being as safe as possible and afreak accident or something like that, but
probably not. How that happened onSunday night? Well, how do we
know he wasn't throwing boxes of fireworksto put onto a truck and he hurt
his hand when he smashed it inthe door of the truck. When you're

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just all it says is you're throwingfireworks. That doesn't have to mean that
they're lit, right, I'm guessingif this guy was throwing boxes of fireworks,
he was throwing them on a campfire. What happens with a lot of
the whole box? WHOA, that'sprobably all right. So he's in critical
condition. Oh yeah, Oh Ididn't say that, Oh, his story's

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not funny anymore. It was funnywhen you think maybe he lost half of
his fingers, Like that's fine,but yeah, I don't know what happened.
Uh. And I'm looking at myinbox to see if anyone who's referenced
JPP here in the Zonkers custom wasinbox. There was a football player for

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the New York Football Giants Lucy afew years ago. Was there Jason Pierre
Paul I think was his name,And he lost like a finger and a
half while holding a firework in hishand. And then he was like,
well, I guess it's gonna beharder to intercept passes, but I can
still tackle this guy. Just gonnahave to really wrap him up. Grabbing

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his jersey's not gonna be as easyas it used to be. And he
went right back into playing football.He was good. Yeah, you know
what way Tommy Ione lost probably sayinghis name on Tommy Iomi Iomi? Uh?
Uh? Which who black Sabbath?Black Sabbath? Like I think all
four of the tip of his fingers. The day he was supposed to go

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into his new band, the drummerfrom def Leppard only had one arm and
he only has one arm. Butanyway, people hear stories about a guy
getting his handlung clean off or whateverhappened, and they're they're secretly happy.
They're like, yeah, serves themright, be out there shooting off fireworks.
People hate those who are shooting offfireworks. I don't I love it.

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It'll all be over in a fewdays. Just be thinking. I
mean, it seems like I getit if you're younger, if you're in
your twenties, and you're like,I hate fireworks. You know, Hey,
it's like five days before forth July. Why can't you wait until the
fourth? And I guess I getit because so many different cities have had
set up all these rules and likeyou can't shoot off fireworks until, like

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you know, in a in afive minute window on the night of Independence
Day. But but if you're oldlike me, they used to set up
those firework stands. I don't thinkI'm misremembering this. It seems like it
was June first and suddenly fireworks standsto start popping up in Ralston, and
we just start riding our bikes overthere and buying fireworks and we'd blow them

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off all month. I remember tothink of it, no wonder my neighbors
hated me. I would sit there, I'd wake up first thing in the
morning, I'd go out there witha bowl of black cats, unravel them
from the string, put them inthe bowl, and light them one by
one, bang, bang, bangall day. And that was fun.

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I would give anything to be asexcited about anything in my life as I
was about, even the eighty thirdfirework and a string of black cats that
I individually lit off and threw thereon the ground and watched it go off.
Well, I would much rather seeyou do that than have somebody light
an entire brick. That's just dumb. Oh I do that. Oh no,

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it's it's a total waste of money. But it's so satisfying. You've
clearly you've clearly never done it towatch them all just go off. Oh
my gosh, I love it.We can't be friends. We can't be
friends, all right, I'm inthe market for a new friend. Email

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me if you want to be myfriend, and bring over the fireworks and
the punks, both the ones youlight fireworks with and your friends who like
offspring. A moment ago, Lucysaid she couldn't be my friend. Anymore
because I when I was a kidand would still do this today if I
if I actually bought these things.There's probably one reason why I don't do

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this anymore. What's this, Well, that would be buying a brick of
firecrackers, unfurling it, lighting oneend, And Kristen emailed Scott at kfab
dot com and said, it's afuse. Fireworks have a fuse, candles
have a wick, and now shecan be my friend. Yeah, there's

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a reason why both of you guyswill be sitting alone by yourselves at night
on Independence Day like baby, allright, Uh, now you're technically you're
right, but it's it's it's thesame thing. Call it a wick if
I want to. Anyway, youunfurl a whole brick of fireworks and you

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light the fuse at one end andwatch the whole string, my mate,
until the whole thing goes up.And Lucy said, how can someone do
that? Because it's awesome. That'show That's why the main reason I don't
do it anymore is because i'd haveto clean it up. Oh yeah,

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that makes a mess, and Godbless you for cleaning it up. Oh
yeah, I clean up my stuffnow. But when I was a kid,
we would light all this stuff up. I never remember cleaning any of
it up, and I don't thinkmy dad did. I don't think my
parents did. Sorry, I mean, no, wonder you again. I've

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come into the realization that maybe myneighbors had reason to not like me.
Wait, so your neighbors didn't likeyou growing up either. I was a
kid. Yeah, but Lucy said, because I love just lighting off a
whole string of fireworks, that shecouldn't be my friend. I said,
I need a new friend. Leahemails says, I'm your friend. Let's
blow some stuff up. Except shedidn't use the word stuff Leah, let's

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do it. Yeah, let's blowsome stuff up. So you got a
new friend and I do. That'snice? Yeah, mine, my new
friends have to fill out applications.Are you jealous that I've got I've got
this new friend? No, youdon't want to be my friend anymore.
I'll be your friend after fourth ofJuly? Can you still be my work

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wife? Mmm? Have you everfelt comfortable with that term? People refer
to you as my work wife?By people, I mean me, you're
my work wife. As long asI don't have to cook for you.
No, but you brought me ata peanut butter metal Yeah, chocolate peanut

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butter candy yesterday. I ate that. I ate that yesterday. Don't tell
anybody that was my lunch yesterday.That's it. We don't want anybody to
know that because at Costco they didn'thave a ton of them. And it's
the perfect ratio for Reese's peanut buttercups. What isn't that how you say
it, whatever, it's the perfectit's perfect ratio for chocolate to peanut butter.

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And so they're perfect, and wehave to get more. I'm gonna
start zipping through some emails here inthe Zonker's custom was inbox. The first
one I get is from Twitter.All right, here's an email that you
get once in a while that sayssomething like, hey at scotty v kfab

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because that's my Twitter handle. Itsounded like a good idea at the time.
Scotty v kfab. Check out thenotifications you have on Twitter. Uh
oh, someone's jealous. I haven'tbeen on Twitter in a few days.
And people say, well, you'resupposed to call it X. Now I'm
never gonna call it X. That'sdumb. I don't think I'm ever gonna

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call it X. Maybe I'll callit zitter. I'll meet you halfway Twitter
X. But the email I getfrom the social media platform says Twitter.
The email address is notify at Twitterdot com. I'm not supposed to call
it Twitter. Plus, this isbull that you've got thirty one recent notifications

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on Twitter. No, I don't. I've fallen for this before. If
I have thirty one notifications, likethree of them are people who actually like
posted or added me or liked somethingI posted a week ago or whatever.
A few more of them are botsthat ended up liking something I posted four
years ago. And the rest ofthem are people I don't even follow on

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Twitter, where it's like, oh, look but this person posted, like
I don't care what this person posted. It's why I don't follow them.
Why is it showing up in mynotification feed? I wonder if that costs
you. Not you, but Iwonder if it costs those people to do
that, to have them sent outto your notifications. Oh no, I

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just you know the only reason Iwould send it for it. The only
reason I'm on Twitter is I gotyelled at by someone wants because I wasn't
on Twitter. Like, fine,I'll go on Twitter. I'm only on
Twitter to find out the truth.Ain't nobody got time for it. I
don't need any more social media inmy life. But Twitter's all right.

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I'll check out my Twitter in thenext break, all right, This email
unsigned says, You'll remember a fewyears back, the fireworks season was much
longer. However, Mayor Stothard's neighborscomplained to her that the peasants were celebrating
their freedom too loudly and for toolong, and before that July was over,
a new shortened fireworks season was passedand imposed upon the subjects of her

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Highness. I bet if you tooka vote, though an overwhelming majority of
people in Omaha would vote to havefireworks only be put out there by licensed
fireworks display engineers, and only onthe night of Independence Day, I wouldn't

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go that far. Most people apparentA greater number of people hate fireworks,
you know, for the record,I don't hate fireworks. If you can,
if you can guarantee me that they'renot going to start a fire someplace,
then you can shoot off fireworks fromfive pm until five am for five
nights I don't care. I don'tcare. Just don't start a fire.

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Sounds like freedom to me. Justdon't started I gaing fire. Right.
Let me ask a question, becauseyou said, you know, for dog
owners, the dogs freak out whenthey hear fireworks, which I get.
I had dogs when I was akid. We had one dog that absolutely
hated the fireworks, probably because Iwas shooting them off right outside the house
one mornight, noon and night afterthe other, morning, noon, and

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night. But what do the dogsdo during thunderstorms? We get every single
night, freak out just like that. Well, what do you mine did?
Look, I'm not trying to bea jerk here. Everyone says how
smart dogs are. When do theyrealize, after whether it's a few weeks

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of fireworks or an entire season ofthunderstorms, the explosions you constantly hear outside
are not coming to get you.It's okay, you can calm down.
When do these smart animals realize thatthis has nothing to do with you,
Just hang out, calm down.Never if the owner has caused the problem,

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which I fully admit I did.So you're saying in order to I
like this idea, and this iswhat I hear you saying if you have
a dog that's freaked out by fireworks, light off fireworks and throw them at
the dog. No, I'm notsaying that same saying that if you got
a kid with a peanut allergy,just wip peanuts at your kid. I

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this is that was my fault.Our Reagan was my fault because when it
stormed, when he was just alittle tiny puppy and it would storm,
I would hug him and say,oh, it's okay, don't be scared,
when in fact he probably wasn't.But then he associated, oh,
well, if I'm scared, Iget hugs and get to get on the

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bed and cuddle up. I thinkit's the owner's faults. I'm scared right
now? Are you can? Iat least get a peanut butter treat.
I'll throw some peanut butter, Yes, peanuts at you. I want to
talk about politics, and I can'tbelieve I just said that. Let me
read a few more fireworks emails.Though. Kevin says, my senior year

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five of US buddies cut open hundredsof firecrackers, poured the powder onto paper,
and wrapped it in duct tape.Added a very long fuse and lit
that sucka. It sounded like abomb went off. Carl arms went off,
and neighbors came outside. Minutes laterthe cops drove by God bless America.
Yes, Kevin, we can befriends. My late brother did the

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same thing, only he put itin a glass jar. And that's why
he's your late brother, and that'swhy he's my You know where he is
today. He's dead. He wasn'tkilled by fire and he was he wasn't
killed by fireworks, but maybe he'sEvery time there's thunderstorms, that's your brother
up there blowing off homemade fireworks.He had glass in his leg, and

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that was when he was a kid. He carried glass, little shards in
his gus till the day he died. Every once in a while, you'd
have that that friend. He's like, my uncle's coming over today, and
you knew what that meant. Itwas going to be homemade fireworks. It
was either the uncle or you know, the dad that hardly ever comes around.

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My dad's coming over. You're like, I didn't even know you had
a dad. And he shows upwith like gunpowder and a big tube and
just starts blowing tennis balls. Aroundthe neighborhood. Oh a potato gun.
Yeah, yeah, yeah it.No father who was always around, no
uncle who would be a regular guestover to the house, would ever do

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this. But that guy you'd onlysee once in a while show up there
wearing like a mesh tank top.Come out, kids, Do you want
to see something like tube and gunpowder? Absolutely? Anyone got any tennis balls.
I had a brother in law likethat and he I don't remember what
it was because I don't want toget him in trouble. But he's dead

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and so we don't have to worryabout that either. But they blew up
a van. It was way outin the It was way out in a
field, and they put something init and blew up a van just to
see what would happen. But he'sgone to Were they listening to the doors
when this happened? Maybe a bitby Bruce McCullough of Kids in the Hall

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that says, if you're truly adoors fan and just goes through this whole
litany of things, and the firstthing is steal a car, even if
you own a car, steal acar the car on fire, then you
can say you're a doors fan.Dennis emails Scott June and July were like
science lab to us as kids inWyoming. Taping bottle rockets to balsa wood

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airplanes, yes, oh cool,filling ten cans, filling tin cans with
water, and taping three and fourblack cats together to see how high we
could launch a soup can. Welearned a lot. Ryan says, only
rich people can light off an entirebrick. Not back in the eighties that
stuff was so cheap. Yeah,but you had to get it across the

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border undetected. I love buying fireworkson Fourth of July, even if I
don't need them, because the deals, it's like by nineteen for the price
of one, you're like, allright, just take the whole tent.
You basically just fold everything up inthe tent, you know, tie it
all up, and it's like eightybucks and you just walk out there with

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an entire fireworks stand. You startbuying stuff at six o'clock on Fourth of
July. They're just shoveling things inyour car. Here. Take this.
Take this. Kids. When wewere younger, we had to drive very
carefully when we got fireworks so asnot to alert the police. Coming back
from Missouri. Yeah, my fathera horrible influence on me. Here's a

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common refrain this time of year.If the cops stop us, Oh boy,
we were fishing and then the firewe have story. We'd have the
fishing poles and everything in there andlike the fireworks, the illegal fireworks we'd
get from Watson a rockport would belike under the bait. We had like

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a special compartment in under the Igloocooler where we'd have fire illegal fireworks.
Larry taught you had a smuggle.Oh man, lv is a man,
dude, he is the I likehim even more. Yep, Dave says,
some poor bastage out there doesn't knowthese are his last few days with
all ten digits. That's true.Lucas liked when I called a guy a

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puss. So it reminded me ofmy summers as a kid. And the
manliest held it the longest. Ifit blew up in your hand and you
didn't cry, you were a legend. This brings back a lot of childhood
memories. Slash trauma. That's fromLucas and regarding the guy. This all
started with the guy who had fireworkgo off in his hand while he was

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throwing fireworks the other night, andwe were talking about potential injuries, and
Dave says, maybe it was hisrotator cuff. Yeah, he was in
the wind up and yeah, that'show far are you going to throw that?
And Julie says, today's fireworks discussionhas me absolutely in stitches. Quote.

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I didn't I didn't know you hada dad. Thank you for quoting
me. Can't you remember like whenyou were a kid, some kid you'd
hung out with every day for fouryears and never thought anything of, like
I've never met his dad would suddenlysay my dad's coming over today and you're
like, what, he's alive?Well, this ought to be good.

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Let's find out why your dad's neveraround. And that he shows up and
opens up the trunk. Out comesthe gunpowder, the tennis balls, and
the tubes. It's got the Smugglersblues. Here. What's your name,
Tim, It's Tom Here? Holdthis? Okay? You know? Oh
it's great. What'd you say?I said? He has the Smugglers blues.

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There's your Glen fry reference for this, No, Louder, there's your
Glenn Frye reference or Miami Vice segment. Well, that's the Glenn fry song
from Miami Vice Smuggler's Clothes. Iquit. No, you're on the right
track. No, I mean notreally quit. No. Lucy thirty minutes

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ago said she can't be my friend. Now she can't be my co worker.
Yesterday was a great day here atthe radio station because our boss left,
I know, and I didn't getto see him. It was his
last day. And so today it'slike, how long do we have before
we have a new boss where wecan just come into work and just screw

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around every single day, Like,who's gonna fire me? At this point,
I don't have a boss. Yeah, but see I do. I'm
gonna start smoking in the studio.Yeah, Craig used to work with Todd
and Tyler. They still smoke inthe studio. He's enjoying the show.

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Yeah, these tapes will be playedback a couple weeks when we get a
new boss. Yeah, privately inthe office, and uh, what were
you trying to do here? Right? All right, we're gonna do an
air check session. I'm like,I know exactly what day this was.
All right, We'll do a newstalk show politics next Scott Bories News Radio

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eleven ten kfab see here's the dirtylittle secret about this show. Even when
we talk politics and we do news, we do it with the same spirit
as we've been talking about the restof this stuff. At least when we
can get away with it. Truthbe told. This isn't on the air,
right, we'll edit this out beforeit goes on the air. I

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would do this for free. Whichpart laughing with you? Okay, show's
been goofy today. You want tosober up, and let's sober up here.
This is your black coffee in themore when you've just been goofing off

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all night. Here's your sober upaudio. This nation was founded on the
principle that there are no kings inAmerica. What each each of us is
equal before the law. No one, no one is above the law,
not even the President of the UnitedStates. Today's Supreme Court decision on presidential

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immunity that fundamentally changed. No,it didn't for all, for all practical
purposes, Today's decision almost certainly meansthat there are virtually no limits what a
president can do. Holy cow.Lucy Chapman had a brilliant point yesterday.
Let's just quickly review Donald Trump isaccused in the time that he was still

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president of saying, I think Ihave a lot of questions about what happened
on election Day twenty twenty. Wehad accusations over here, We had some
shady things going on over here,has some shenanigans going on over here,
and I be based on everything that'shappened to me in the presidency, from

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wire tapping my campaign to saying therewas Russia collusion, impeaching me over chumming
up with the president of Ukraine,who has legitimate questions over the former vice
president, current president Joe Biden,who fired again a pro Ukrainian prosecutor looking

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into Russian dealings with the Ukrainian energycompany where Joe Biden's son Hunter was a
board member, despite having no knowledgeof any energy companies. And Joe Biden
bragged about withholding American funds from Ukraineso they could battle Russia. This was

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during the Obama Biden administration when Russiawent in there the first time and Joe
Biden threatened to withhold American aid toUkraine until they fired that guy who was
helping Ukraine looking into Russia, andTrump was talking to Zelenski about that,
and they impeached Trump for it bythe same Congress. That's just shoveling money
towards Vladimir Zelensky, all of thishistory. So Trump says, basically,

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I question the validity of what happenedon election Day twenty twenty. And because
he did that as president, they'relike, well, we have to hold
him accountable of something. Now,what Lucy said yesterday was that she is
just a regular Joe here in America, Joe Anne. Because you're a girl,

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Joe Jo, you can absolutely sayI think the twenty twenty election was
rigged. Do the FEDS come andtake you away? Are you in court
for that? Can you call upthe Secretary of State of Georgia? And
so I have serious questions about whatyou guys did on election day, in
terms of mail in ballots, interms of some precincts being open at odd

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times, we had various people changingthe rules in ways that should only come
from the state legislature. You cancall up Georgia and you can complain to
the Secretary of State. Nothing willhappen to you. So the idea here
that President Biden is saying is thatno one's above the law. And that's
the crux of this Supreme Court decision. If Lucy Chapman is just regular boring,

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old, average American who has gotso little going on in her life,
just some miserable Okay, okay,just a regular American. If you
can do those things, then thePresident of the United States can do those
things. And if it's not illegalfor you to do it, not illegal
for the president to do it.But because the President did it, like

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he can't do it. The Presidentsaid I can't do it. I have
immunity. The Supreme Court says,yes, during your duties, if you're
not doing anything that otherwise would beyou know, against the law or whatever.
Yeah, you can do these things. This is exactly what the Supreme
Court decided yesterday. That the presidentis not above the law. He's the
same as you and me with respectto this. Now, how do we

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take this? Joe Biden thinks wehave a king. The Supreme Court Justice
Sonya Sotomayor said that now the president, thanks to the Supreme Court yesterday,
can order Navy's Seal Team six toassassinate a political rival and be immune while
doing so. This is this kindof Hilary furious. Yeah, this is

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the kind of guano that came outof the reaction to what the Supreme Court
did yesterday. So one of theSupreme Court justices that was the part of
the majority vote yesterday said something interestingin a majority opinion related to this.

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What Clarence Thomas said was really interesting. He said that the special counsel who
handled the federal cases, both federalcases against Trump, wondering whether that special
counsel, Jack Smith, is evenlegitimately allowed to be special counsel, saying

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that the Attorney General and the Bidenadministration, Merrick Garland, overstepped his authority
in naming Jack Smith to oversee thecases, saying Jack Smith's office needs to
be established by Congress, and JackSmith himself needs to be confirmed by the
Senate, and Joe Biden didn't doeither of these things. So let's see,

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there's a process where if you're goingto create the office of the Special
Council and then name that person tobe special counsel, the office has to
be established by Congress and the appointmenthas to come with approval by the United
States Senate. And the same persontoday or last night who said I dissent.

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What the Supreme Court did was theyestablished a king and we don't have
kings in America. And this isa horrible ruling by the Supreme Court.
We have a set of laws inthis country, and no one's above the
law. You need to follow theserules. It's what makes America America.
Now, as far as I wasconcerned, I didn't follow any of the

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rules in a setting up the guywho leveled the federal charges against my political
opponent and saw it through all theway to the Supreme Court. I didn't
follow any of those rules. Idon't have to. I'm the president.
Like, wait a second, didn'tyou just say no one's above the law?

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You didn't follow any of the laws? And how we got to this
point to begin with? But whyget by? You know, there's so
much that people banter about, andwe do the same thing. We are
professional banterers here on news radio eleventen kfab. I think if aliens came

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to America and said, hey,we're just looking here to gas up on
our way to someplace else. Bythe way, what's going on here in
the America? You call it?Is it America or just apostrophe America?
Like you know, some people callit America, But here in America,
the aliens say, I understand there'san election for your leader. What's this

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about. If you were to boilit right down, it's these people over
here support this candidate and they can'tunderstand at all why you would support the
other candidate. And that's true forboth, Like people see President Biden in

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that debate and they listened to hisstatement last night and they look at it
and go, I don't understand howpeople can support that guy. And then
other people say, well, lookat Trump. The guy is he's unhinged,
he calls people name, he's he'sbeen indicted on thirty four counts.

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He's a convicted felon. He's gota check in with his probation officer if
he becomes president. Who's really theleader of the free world, the president
or his probation officer. He's kindof a scumbag, and he's orange.
I don't understand why you'd support thatguy. And and here's our standoff.
Well, first of all, Joeis looking pretty orange at the UH at

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the debate. No, he waspasty at the debate. He looked orange
er yesterday. Oh was it yesterday? Yeah, he got his color back
yesterday. He kind of looked likea cave newt last Thursday. The people
who are vehemently supporting this administration todayis for a couple of reasons. That

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first, they are not doing research. They're not diving into the things that
have been accused of Biden and accusedof Trump. Do your research on both
of them. You learn something onboth of them. Promise you that.
But it's also mostly one issue voters. Well, I think the people who

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would tend to vote for President Biden, their one issue is, yeah,
we ask some questions about him andhis policies, but he has one big
thing going for him. He's notTrump, and we hate Trump. And
that's the issue. And I thinkyou've got the same kind of call to
personality, if you will. Onthe other side, they're a peace people

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that no matter what Trump does,they just love the guy. I think
that's probably true. But he isa brawler. He fights for him and
he doesn't just shrink back and go, oh, you're right, I'm sorry,
I shouldn't do the He's just abrawler and they love him. Well,
I think that's true, But Ithink you have to go to this
the same question that has asked itevery single presidential debate, and you have

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to answer that honestly, and thenyou should have your decision from that.
And the question is were you betteroff four years ago? Now you can
take that question, answer it andexpand it to why you are or you
are not? But you're you're askinghard working, tax paying Americans to answer

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that question. I lot everybody toask themselves that question. There are a
lot of people who are who tendto vote more politically left who I don't
know that you could charitably describe alot of these people as working, tax
paying Americans. So when you askthem, are you better off? Like,
yeah, my student loans have beenforgiven someone else? Is you voted

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me a higher minimum wage which Idon't pay, But it deals with the
benefits I get. You know,I get more benefits now because it's tied
in to the minimum wage. Soyeah, I'm better off, Which is
why you would have to ask yourselfthe follow up questions. You have to
ask yourself if you are better off, why and take that rabbit hole.

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If you're better off because you don'thave to pay your bills anymore, then
go to McDonald's. Here's one areyou better off? There? One big
example of where I think that youcould draw a very stark difference between what
Trump would do and what Biden woulddo. Panama not van Halen, not

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just a van Halen song, butyou went there at the same time that
I did. Panama, the CentralAmerican nation of Panama doesn't like that so
many, hundreds of thousands of peopleare crossing through Central America, coming through
the Darien Gap of Panama, andthey're looking to either find asylum and be

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it Mexico, which is not reallythe case because Mexico doesn't operate that way,
so they're coming to the United States. Panama doesn't like that hundreds of
thousands of people are crossing this dangerousterrain of Panama to get to the United
States, and so America said,we're sorry. Panama said, look,
we want to close down this route. And there's a lot of repatriated migrants

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coming to this area who cross intoPanama illegally, and it costs us a
lot of money in terms of enforcementand all the rest of this stuff.
We can't do it. Biden justsaid sorry about that. We'll pay for
these people. Biden is paying totake care of the costs of repatriating migrants
who cross into Panama illegally and bethere for those people who are illegal immigrants

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in nation other than America. Doyou think Trump would do that? I
don't. If you have a joband you pay taxes, there is I
don't get how you think this is. Okay, Biden did it. I
don't see where Trump would. Andfinally, here, Hunter Biden, have
you heard of revenge porn? Thatmeans if you're with someone, you take

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some pictures or whatever, you can'tpost them online after you break up to
seek revenge in this person because theybroke up with you. Right, Hunter
Biden is suing Fox News for revengeporn. They posted the contents of the
laptop which included him and compromising positions, and he said, that's revenge and
that's why he's suing Fox News.That's an imaginative lawyer gets weirder and weirder

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