Reagan / Trump-Bacon / PHill / Racist Heat

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vordiez, We've got a screening of Reagan starring Dennis
Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller is in this one, and
Mina Suvari and John Voight. This is a chance to
see a movie that doesn't come out until tomorrow. We said,

(00:24):
we're busy tomorrow. We've got pregaming to do for Nebraska's
football game on Saturday Tomorrow. We got high school football
action tomorrow. We want to see a movie tonight, and
everyone said, but we all want to go as all right,
We're going to see two movies tonight. We got seven fifteen,
seven twenty five. Now, I went over this with Gary
and Jim about a half an hour ago, and I

(00:46):
want to quickly restate you cannot buy tickets for tonight's
showings of Reagan at the Marcus Majestic Theater one hundred
and forty fourth in Maple Thanks to our sponsors. That
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(01:07):
Giant Films, Patriotic Productions, Marcus Theaters, and we hear a
News Radio eleven ten kfab. We already bought all the
tickets for every seat in both theaters tonight, So the
only way you can go is to win them. If
you already won them, you should have received an email

(01:27):
late yesterday afternoon saying here is your past. If you
have that past, you have a seat. I don't know
which seat. It's not a fixed like you're gonna be
right here and you're gonna be It's gonna be kind
of based on when you show up. But we're not
giving away more seats than there are spots in the theater.
So you're there if you don't want to be stuck

(01:48):
there front row over on the left. I'll say this too.
They've redesigned a lot of the theaters over the years
that even the front seats aren't like they used to be.
I saw a sneak preview of Independence Day back in
what was that nineteen ninety six when that great movie
came out, but we got the front seat clear over

(02:11):
on the right side. I think that started a lifetime
of neck pain for me, because you're looking up going
is that Will Smith? Is that an alien? Ah? The
theaters are designed a lot better, and the seats all
recline and so you can kind of get comfortable in
view it your own but there are still some people
who say, but I don't want to sit in the

(02:32):
front row. I get it, But if you want seats,
then you're gonna have to get there to get the
best seats if you have not won tickets yet. I'm
going to be at the movie theater again. That's the
Marcus Majestic Theater, one hundred and forty fourth in Maple

(02:52):
I'll be there at five o'clock this afternoon. We are
holding some seats back for those who are like I
want to go so bad, I'll show up two hours
early to get a pass. I don't expect you to
sit there for two hours. You're welcome to you can
hang out with us. I might play a little piano.
There's a bar there. Lucy might start swilling. I don't
know what's gonna happen. I think by probably six thirty

(03:15):
or so, there's I can envision a scenario where I'm
playing piano and Lucy, who's been imbibing since Tuesday, is
there on top of the piano, wearing a slinky dress,
singing lyrics to a song that I'm not playing. That's
what I want to see tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Are you from the past?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's what I want. That's what everyone wants to see tonight.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well, they're not going to that's from the past. Those
days are done.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Or they've only Eric are they?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, those days are gone.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Eric Carmon, my favorite character from South Park. No, they
those days are either gone or they've only just begun.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, it'd be different.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Which would be the lyrics you're singing? Well, I'm playing
copa cabana at the piano, like Lucy. Got to get
on the same page here.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Going too fast. The tempo's too fast.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Lower down Lucy's singing, mister Roberto, I'm playing the Rose
by Bett Midler. That's what the people want. There's a
piano right there in the lobby of the movie theater, and.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
By mister Robato. Anybody that was at the Sticks concert recently,
not like the Robots in the Behind.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Robots in the Behind sounds like a sci fi.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Movie behind the band, I mean.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
For guys of the it's a sci fi movie for
guys of a certain persuasion.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
That did come out wrong.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Sorry, or maybe it's just right. Wow, train of thought
completely derailed now sorry. Wally is like, wait, what am
I doing in this picture? I know I haven't had
work in several years, but I don't know if I'm
ready for that kind of film. There's here Wally reference

(05:12):
we'd never done on the show. Dang. All right, So
tonight I mentioned yesterday at this time, I said, I'm
gonna be there tomorrow night at five o'clock, and we'll
have some tickets back for people that want to come
and get them and see the movie. And some poor
guy went to the movie theater yesterday at five o'clock.

(05:33):
I try and be clear in what I'm saying, but
I know some people are you get busy, you hear
different things. And so some guy went to the movie
theater yesterday and was asking the employees where do I
get tickets? What are you talking about? I was told
the radio station was here. Who so they not able

(05:55):
to get tickets. You might think that I took pity
on him and gave him tickets. No, I don't have
any more of those to give away. You gotta be there,
So here are your chances. You wanna get there at
five o'clock get the tickets while supplies last. I don't
have hundreds of them. So if you're thinking I'll drop

(06:17):
by it some I would love to accommodate everyone. I
know that some people are going to be turned away.
This also means if you show up at the theater
tonight expecting to get tickets, there's a very good chance
you won't have them. And that's the case, you can
still hang out with us. We're gonna be stationed over

(06:38):
I think by the bar. I'm gonna play piano. Lucy's
gonna be jumping up and down on top of it,
and it'll be a fun time. We're also doing a
live radio show from six until seven here on news
Radio eleven to ten kfa B from there the movie theater,
so you can kind of hang out and goof off

(06:58):
with us while we do that. But it doesn't guarantee
you're gonna see this movie. You can buy tickets for
another movie. You go see Deadpool Wolverine if you haven't
seen that yet. You can buy your tickets early for Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice,
and then you can just wait for when does this
movie come out? By the way, when does Beatle? Is
it next week for Beetlejuice or is it two weeks?

(07:19):
I tell you what, I want to see this Reagan
movie tonight. I'm really looking forward to it. But the
movie I really want to see since nineteen eighty eight
is Beetlejuice too, aka Beatlejuice Beetlejuice. So that's what's going
on tonight. Here's what's going on on the radio show. Now.

(07:44):
There's a news organization called Pro Publica. I don't really
have a great read on this. Certainly there are those
on the political right that say it's a left leaning
news organization, and there are those on the left who
say it's a right linging, right leaning news organization. So

(08:05):
I don't know. I suspect that they're a left leaning
news organization that occasionally will throw a bone to the
right just to say, no, we're fair and balanced, like
Fox already says fair and balanced, even though they're fair
and balanced out with some of the other news media. Anyway,

(08:26):
this organization says, you know, according to emails obtained by
our organization, how do you just obtain emails to Congressman
Don Bacon's staff members. Here's the accusation. It's January twenty

(08:46):
twenty two. I think what was going on in January
of twenty twenty two, The Huskers did not make a
bowl game, so football season had been over here for
a month and a half. I think there was another
push for you to wear masks here in Douglas County
at this point. After put the masks on, take the

(09:09):
mask off, put the mask on again. Most people did
not put the masks back on. It was a simpler
Jetler time. In January of twenty twenty two, it was
about a year after how did President and waiting Kamala
Harris put it? Trump sent an armed mob to the Capitol,

(09:32):
That's what she said, and her speech in Chicago the
other day. It was a year after that. We're still
dealing with some of that. Oh and Donald Trump had
pleaded on social media that a primary challenger should step
up there and take on Don Bacon for his congressional seat.

(09:57):
To say that Trump and Bacon were not friendly was
an understatement. Bacon had Let's see, he voted for the
infrastructure bill. Trump didn't like that. There were a lot
of Republicans that voted for that bill. But Bacon also

(10:17):
was not one of those who said, like, I don't
work on Trump's team. I he had some comments about,
you know, Trump shouldn't have said this. Trump shouldn't have
done that. Had his thoughts about what happened on January sixth,
and Trump not seeing one hundred percent loyalty from Bacon,

(10:39):
changed his mind on the guy that when he showed
up here just before the election in twenty twenty, President
Trump welcomed Don Bacon to a huge ovation like Bacon,
We love Bacon, loved Bacon. You know, they were all friendly.
But a year and a half later, not so much.
So that's why it was interesting that Team Trump, this

(11:01):
was the Trump business organization, Trump Media, That's why it
was kind of interesting. According to the story, that Trump
Media reached out to Don Bacon's office to try and
fast track a visa for a Trump Media guy from
North Macedonia who wanted a visa so he could come

(11:21):
to America. The Trump Media is based in Florida. Why
in the world will they reach out to Don Bacon. Well,
the accusation here from this organization Pro Publica is that
Bacon was now trying to suck up to Trump. Hey, like, hey, sorry,
we're on the outs right now, what do you need

(11:42):
or Trump was looking for an angle to try and
get back into, like try and say, look, I'll potentially
support you in your re election bid. But you got
to do something for me.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Okay, But this is all just just their ideas that
it could be. This is nothing that's backed up.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
This is all all the insinuation from this story. Okay,
I'm going to highlight some important details here in my
own time. I'm working on it. We're getting there. So
the insinuation is maybe Trump said, look, maybe you can
get back on the Trump train and you can win

(12:21):
your primary and you can win reelection. But here's what
I want you to do for me. We got this
Chief Technology Officer, Vladimir Novatski lives in North Macedonia. He
had had his visa approved, but he said, all right,

(12:41):
I got so I have a visa. I guess the
next step is to go to an interview with the
US embassy to finalize the move to get to America.
But he couldn't get an interview with the embassy for
another almost two years. So this is where we try

(13:05):
and grease the wheels a little bit. Is there any
chance that you can help fast track move up to
the front of the line our guy. Now, even this
news story says this kind of thing happens all the time.
If you know someone in a high ranking place, like
a member of Congress. You reach out to that member

(13:28):
of Congress and go, hey, I'm hoping you can do
me a solid. This happens all the time. It is
not illegal. It's just a matter of you know, it's
a matter of who knows who, and over here you
have favoritism. There's your eighties movie reference for this segment
of the radio program. That's a deep cut. You want

(13:50):
to take a swing at that.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
One less than zero.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
This is all just a matter of who knows who,
and over here you got favoritism. That's raising Arizona be
taking these huggies and whatever cash you got. So this
is not illegal. Now it looks sordid, right, especially when
it's Trump and Bacon, Like, what's going on here? I
thought these guys didn't like each other. Now something's going on.
Something's going on, right. There's one little detail here that

(14:19):
you have to dig into the article to find out.
The guy from Florida who made the request of the
office here in Nebraska's second District to help out this
visa is a guy named Andrew. Andrew has worked in
He's a Nebraska guy, He's a Ralston guy. So you know,

(14:41):
there's no one better spoken by me Ralston High graduate
class of nineteen ninety five. Holy cow, we got a
thirty year reunion next year. That sounds old. So Andrew
worked in Nebraska politics, worked with John Bruni, worked with others.

(15:02):
Andrew was fairly new with Trump media at the time. Saw,
I suspect, and I haven't talked to Andrew too long.
I suspect. Saw an opportunity to raise his stock with
his new employers. Oh, I understand, we need this guy.
Let me see if my friends in Nebraska can help
us out. Reached out, talked to his friends in Nebraska.

(15:23):
They said sure, and they made it happen, because again,
it's all about who knows who right. There's also one
other detail in the story that they completely left out,
and that is if you contact Congressman Don Bacon's office,
whether you're the former president of the United States, whether

(15:44):
you're a guy who used to be a mover and
shaker in Nebraska politics now working with Trump media, or
whether you're just a guy, non gender specific guy in
Nebraska and you reach out to Congressman's office, haven't you
heard all those ads? I was denied benefits for this.

(16:06):
They I reached out to the Veterans administration. They thought,
according to their records, I was dead. I said, I know,
I don't look that great, but I think I'm alive.
And they had to reach out to Don Bacon's office
and say, can you restore my life with my VA benefits?
They got that done as quickly as possible. They do
this kind of thing for anyone who calls them for

(16:27):
any reason within reason, but that's they take a lot
of pride in that. He mentions it in his political ads.
How many people would ever need to call a congressman's
office to say, hey, I need some help with something.
Very few, probably more than we think. But even though
it's not something that you know, I want to vote

(16:48):
for a congressman who can help me out if I
need to get someone a visa from Macedonia. This is
not exactly something that is going to appeal or apply
to a lot of people here in this district. But
they're proud of it because they know there are some
people need help with stuff, and they get stuff done.
They've got a good office for it. So this guy

(17:08):
reached out to his friends in the office, can you
help out? And Congressman Bacon himself even said yeah, let's
help now, because I imagine someone went to the boss
and said Trump Media. Now. No one says that Donald
Trump himself called the office and said I need this
guy here. No one says that there's no proof of

(17:31):
anything that Trump knew anything about this. We have a
statement from a spokesperson for Trump Media, and they said,
quote pro Publica. Again, that's the journalism organization here, Pro
public La Pro pro Publica has grotesquely manufactured this hit

(17:52):
piece by fabricating statements, misusing stolen communications containing our employees
private information, and maliciously insinuating wrongdoing where categorically none exists.
There's also another part in this story. The young woman
who works for Don Bacon's office or did. I don't
know if she still does. She's the one who they

(18:13):
reached out to, and she said I didn't know whether
I should do this, which they then twisted into she
had reservations about doing something that seemed out of place
here in the office. She called the organization back and said,
you're twisting my statements. I'd rather not be in the story,

(18:33):
and they said no, and they put her statements out
there anyway, even though she didn't really ever say, like
I felt like I needed to do this or again,
there's no legal issues with what happened. It's common for
members of Congress to help expedite visa applications, and they say,

(18:56):
typically it's a person who's within the congressman's district. Well,
what they don't point out in the story is it
was a guy from Nebraska, from Don Bacon's district who
just started working with this group, moved to Florida, asked
his friends back home to help. They helped, and here
we have the story that says, well, a lot of

(19:18):
concerns raised here, and the course they point out there
the guy's name is Vladivir Noovotsky, probably Russian. Probably probably Russian,
you know Trump and those Russians. If you actually dig
deeper into the story, you'll find, oh, I just had
a heap and help and a nothing Burger plane. They

(19:39):
didn't even put any sauce on it. Fox News Update next.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Scott Byes Snooze Radio eleven kfab.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
The heat is racist, not the Miami Heat. I don't
know all of those guys. It's a basketball team in Florida. No,
this is the actual heat. According to the story here.
WAWT six News talk with some researchers from the University

(20:09):
of Nebraska Medical Center, and they say, we have what
they call urban heat islands here throughout Omaha, which seems
to me like they missed a tremendous opportunity. The idea
is is that you look at the entire city landscape
and you kind of do a thermal imaging temperature scan. Say, oh,

(20:31):
over here it's ninety seven degrees, but over here it's
ninety nine degrees it's hotter over here. Why is that? Well,
we call it an urban heat island. That's stupid. There's
only one name for that. If you have an area,
let's say, a pocket where it's hotter, how is that
not a hot pocket?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
How nicely done?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Thank you. So I'm gonna call them hot pockets hot pockets?

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Oh, maybe I will don't bite into it.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Maybe I won't call them hot pockets. Do you have
time for a quick story?

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (21:05):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Where am I going?

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Moved into my first apartment in a hot pocket by
the way, downtown Omaha, Nebraska at about twenty second in Howard, Oh,
the loft apartments over there are twenty second and Howard,
that are really nice. Yeah, they are now they're really nice. Now,
Back in nineteen ninety seven, before they were all renovated
and revitalized and the rent got jacked up when I

(21:29):
was paying I think two twenty five a month, they
weren't that nice. But I loved it. I loved it there,
loved my landlord, my neighbors. Some of them are a
little sketchy, some of them were a lot of fun,
A lot of great stories about it. But here's the
story I'm going to tell this time about this. I
wasn't exactly making a ton of money, did I mention?

(21:51):
I was living in a two twenty five a month
apartment in downtown Omaha twenty second and Howard all right?
So really about the only thing I decided I was
going to eat pretty much non stop were that which
were pretty good, easy to afford. Hot pockets. I ate
so many hot pockets when I was in that apartment.

(22:12):
I haven't had one since. I don't know that I
could eat another one. That's when I learned, like, oh,
if you eat the same thing over and over again,
you can ruin that it was mostly the ham and cheese.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Well, I would think that by now, if you ate
that many hot pockets, all of the burns inside of
your mouth would all just be calcified or uh.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I have, but see I didn't have. I didn't have
a great microwave either.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
So see you ate them cold.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well I don't. I don't have it.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
They didn't die.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I also don't have a lot of patience, so I know,
like the instructions. Some of the instructions on these food
items are so stupid. It's like put in the microwave
for a minute and then flip it over, microwaver it
for another minute, and then take the wrapper off and
microwave it for fifteen and a half seconds. Then take
it out and let that sit for twenty minutes, and

(23:02):
then you'll eat it like I'm hungry. Now, this is
going in for one minute and forty four seconds and
then I'm gonna eat it. It's where the ends of
it are gonna be the hot as the sun, and
the middle is gonna be frozen, and I'm gonna eat it.
So maybe if I'd eaten the hot pockets correctly, I
wouldn't have gotten so sick of them. No offense to

(23:24):
hot pockets. I kept me alive back in the late nineties.
I just don't know if I can have any more
of those hot pocket So you thought Jim Gaffigan was
the only guy that does riffs on hot pockets. I've
been riding that guy's coattails for years. So researchers at

(23:47):
the University of Nebraska Medical Center have identified these hot
pockets in Omaha after analyzing data collected over the last
couple of years. They deployed heat cap sharing technology around Omaha,
and they went from the river, not the radio station,

(24:07):
the actual and to over to Boystown. What we in
west Omaha, we like wester Omaha, then Boystown. No one
cares about us. You're out near one hundred and eightieth
and Q Street. You might as well just die. Come
on med at Center. But they just looked at what

(24:28):
they decided the city was downtown Omaha to Boystown. And
what they found is that there's some areas of Omaha
where there's almost a ten degree difference. And they noted
it's a ten degree fahrenheit difference. Thank you for noting that.
I am not great at the math that it takes

(24:48):
to get from fahrenheit to celsius, but I know if
you had a ten degrees celsius difference, this would be
a bigger story. So they found look at it, some
areas of town. You had up to a ten degree
fahrenheit temperature difference from some areas of town to other

(25:10):
parts of town. They spent a lot of time studying this. Now,
how much did this cost? I don't know how much
it costs. I don't know how much time it took.
But do you want to go out in a limb
and without any previous knowledge or study or money or
grants or anything to do this? Lucy? Do you want
to go out in a limb and try and guess

(25:31):
what types of parts of town might be cooler or
hotter than other parts of town?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Hmmm, I'm not sure, but I would guess that concrete
would have something to do with it.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
Wow, did you go to school for this?

Speaker 2 (25:46):
No?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
So wait, areas where there's less shade and more concrete
asphalt might be hotter than those areas where there's more
grass and more tree canopy, A canopy to shade thing.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Shocking.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
But yeah, you know what, I'm gonna look at this
story and see if you're right?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
See, let's see yeah, ye oh my god, oh my gosh,
that's exactly right. What I know you, well, I think
you get. That's what you get. The you get the
multiple days you're aware, you get a lifetime supply of
a rizerny. The San Francisco treats. Yeah, areas where there

(26:28):
are fewer trees and more concrete end up being hotter
than other areas. Well, I remember how I started all
of this, The heat is racist. Turns out that people
who live downtown tend to be more of persons of color.
Now some of those colors are white people who live downtown.

(26:51):
They don't count for this story. No, they Like I said,
I was living downtown, I don't twenty second Howard, I
don't even know where the nearest tree was, don't even know.
So I guess when I was living downtown, I must
have been an exception, you know, because there are only
black black people that live downtown, and they were put

(27:13):
there due to redlining, which has been illegal since I
don't know, a million years ago, probably not as long
back as it should have been. But this is where
banks would not, uh you know, give you an opportunity
to build up a new business or a home or
whatever in some areas because they felt that those were

(27:35):
blighted areas. Know whether or not. That blight had to
do with issues related to location crime and according to
the story here black and brown people. I don't know.
I don't know, but they said that basically, if you're
living around downtown, you have a pretty good chance of
being a person of color. If you're living downtown, there's

(27:55):
not as much in the way of trees. There's a
lot of pavement down there, and it's gonna be hotter
down there, and so therefore we need to do something.
What do we gotta do, Well, we need to have
more trees. Wait, what we need to plant more trees downtown.
It's gonna be kind of hard to drive along Farnham
with a big tree in the road that the street

(28:17):
car is gonna have to move right around that. We
need more sheltered bus stops.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's not gonna cool things off. We're just gonna take
going to take the sun off.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Of you, which is better than nothing. Of course, how
about instead of sheltered bus stops, how about you'd bring
an umbrella with you. Cooling centers, they say, we don't
have as many cooling centers downtown you can walk to.
That's a lot of the homeless centers are downtown. You

(28:47):
can walk over there to the Santa Francis House, Stephen Center,
the Open Door Mission, and or you can go go
into some business and say I'm homeless and I feel
like I'm gonna die. Someone help me. Someone will help you.
But they still say all of this is super racist,
and we need to do it as part of the

(29:08):
City of Omaha's Climate Action and Resilience Plan, which is,
and I'm not making this up CARP for short. We
need to carp. We need CARP funds to do all
of this. It seems to me that we're missing a
couple of other things. Apparently the people in the study

(29:30):
feel like if you're black or Hispanic and you live downtown,
you're probably living in one of these really cruddy places
that might not even have air conditioning. Never mind the
fact that due to the revitalizations we've seen downtown, including
in my old beloved home there at twenty second and Howard,

(29:52):
a lot of these areas are actually really nice. There
are a lot of people who live downtown in much
nicer spaces and a much higher cast then maybe some
of the nicer neighborhoods you might see in Midtown or
West Omaha. Never you know, apparently some of the people
live in downtown. Maybe the researchers don't know this. They

(30:13):
might be black, and they might be very well off,
and they might have plenty of air conditioning, and during
the hot you know, the heat like we've seen here
this week, maybe they're not just standing out there in
the streets sweltering waiting for someone to come save their
lives from the government. It could be that they're at work.
You know. This story also assumes if you're black and
living downtown, you're living in a shine Nolah hol and

(30:36):
you don't have a job. I don't think that's the case.
They make a lot of assumptions that that's the case,
but they spend a lot of apparently time and resources.
Let us know, it's hotter in some areas because of
pavement and lack of shade. A couple of emails here.
Scott atkfab dot com talked earlier about this insinuation that

(30:58):
Trump and Bacon were who were working together to try
and get some foreigner here on some expedited visa through
Don Bacon's office, and we explained how ridiculous this story was.
Colleen email Scott at kfab dot com in the Zonker's
Custom Woods Inbox says, I had a three thousand dollars

(31:20):
tax refund due during COVID and didn't get it for months.
I finally called Don Bacon's office and had it within
two weeks with interest. And then you have this from
Travis says, it's funny you say Bacon's office help with
this visa. I recently reached out to his office and
said there's nothing they can do to assist with visa applications.

(31:40):
Oh well, I there is. I don't know your specific
circumstance there, Travis, but I would say maybe call them again.
I don't know. Now. Regarding the heat and the story,
here from the Med Center said that heat is hotter

(32:04):
in areas where there's no shade. Wow, mind blowing. Here's
a story you might want to If you've got kids,
you might want to watch out for this one.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Now here's the part of the show where Lucy says
she's glad she doesn't have kids.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Sarens in North Carolina are warning of a book that
has a lithium ion battery in the book. It was
left in the car on a hot day in direct sunlight,
and the battery kind of took that heat and sun
and eventually and melted their car. Thankfully, the kid wasn't
in the car in the car seat at the time.

(32:40):
The book is called JJ's Potty Time. And this book
from Cocoa Melon has a battery in it because it's
one of these books where you push buttons or turned
the page and it makes sounds. Question what sounds are
coming from a book called JJ's Potty Time. Now, we

(33:00):
also impact a lot of Iowa, especially the western seaboard
of this fantastic state. There is a story that has
gripped Iowa probably more than anything else, including the start
of whether it's Hawkeye or cyclone football season or Reavers whatever.
And it has to do with Phil. Phil is the

(33:24):
name they've given to the water buffalo because it escaped
around the area of Pleasant Hill, Iowa. Pleasant Hill gets
shortened to p Hill aka Phil. Now, one might ask,

(33:49):
how exactly does a water buffalo end up in suburban
Des Moines. There's a guy who I guess has what
he calls the Iowa Farm Sanctuary. This is a farm
animal rescue organization. No no, no, no, no, sorry, that's

(34:12):
the group that's taking this water buffalo in i don't
know if this guy, who had at least three I
believe water buffalo. I don't think it's like an animal sanctuary.
I think he just likes to have unusual animals. Therefore,
he has a history of animals escaping from his home. Now,

(34:37):
this guy, his name is Prim pr e m. He
had a few water buffalo. This guy Phil escapes and
so therefore, when suddenly people are walking around Des Moines
and they see a water buffalo, they're like, well, let's
see water buffalo native to area of Asia, and we

(35:03):
are not in areas of Asia. There's a good chance
that this escaped from the zoo or from Prem's house.
So they called up the zoo. No, all of our
I don't know if we have water buffalo, but if
we did, they're probably all accounted for. Call Prem all right.
So Prem I said, oh, yeah, I'm sure the water

(35:24):
buffalo escaped. And if you see him, kill him. He's
aggressive and needs to be euthanized.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
I that doesn't sound good.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know about water buffalo. Everything
Lucy I do know about water buffalo comes from Larry. Nope,
the cucumber vegietails, that's right, everybody got water buffalo.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Your fat foot line is blow hole. Where did we
get them?

Speaker 4 (36:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Everybody got a water buffalo. I can't hold that flow
to the door and sucking the door. Yeah, got it? Yeah?
And then the art of choke comes in there and
tells him to stop.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
You want to hear something really freaky?

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
What the creator of veggietails? His name is Phil.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
I think that's right. Isn't that the bhil Vassar? Yeah?
I think so. Yeah. We had him as a guest
on the radio show way back when it probably goes
back seventeen years, shortly after I started here. We had
him on the show that was.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Great Water Buffalo Full Circle.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah. And and the sad thing about that conversation is
my kids had not yet reached the age where we
were listening to silly songs with Larry or watching some
of the veggietail stuff. And so I interviewed the guy,
and I would love to talk with him again. I
think he died, though no one of those guys died.

(37:11):
I think unless I and I do this from time
to time, unless I just killed somebody who's alive, you
want to look that up.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm doing it.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
I love how the Artichow comes in there and says,
you can't sing the song because we're going to get
nasty leather letters. Because everybody does not have a water buffalo.
Kids will be crying, where's my water buffalo?

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well, they could go back to I Love my Lips
or the hairbrush.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Love my lips? How do you know so much about
veggie tail?

Speaker 2 (37:39):
I talked to Phil Wesser when I first got into radio.
It was one of my first interviews ever.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Really, and you listen to all of silly songs with
lyric I love that stuff. It's so funny.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
They're fun.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
That guy alive or dead?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
I'm looking, how long does it take?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Well?

Speaker 2 (37:55):
This long plus.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
And I'm not moving forward with the show. Oh until
we find out if that guy's alive or dead.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Why are you sure it's Vassar?

Speaker 4 (38:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:06):
All right? Oh so you're going to visher?

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Okay? I thought Vassar was wrong.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Oh he's still alive. Okay, sorry sorry Phil, he is
alive and fifty eight years old. Oh whit, young white
full alive. Okay. So yeah, anytime I hear about this
water buffalo in Des Moines, I immediately sing that song in
my head. But I suspect that water buffalo are very

(38:38):
much like buffalo buffalo where people like me who grew
up in Omaha where there are no buffalo roaming. Even
though people not from anywhere around here think, oh Omaha, Nebraska,
it's where the buffalo roam. There's buffalo up and down.
So there are people not from Nebraska, Iowa, New Yorkers,
people in Los Angeles and they go, oh, there's a

(38:59):
water buffalo loose in Des Moines. That checks out. They're
just buffalo with the buffalo row where the water buffalo row.
I figure this is a normal occurrence, like moose just
walking down the street everywhere you go in Alaska. You know,
this is just kind of how it goes, right, No,
it's not how it goes. But growing up in Omaha,
I kind of thought that buffalo are a lot like cows.

(39:20):
They just hang in a buffalo stance. There's your Nina
Cherry reference for this segment of the radio program. They
just kind of stand there.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Can you roller skate around a water buffalo?

Speaker 1 (39:32):
I would be very careful roller skating around the buffalo
or the cows. So I figured they just kind of
stand there in a very non aggressive way. And then
you find yourself up in the black Hills of South
Dakota and it's oh, stop here, I want to hang
out the side of this car and take a picture
of this buffalo. And the buffalo swings its giant buffalo

(39:55):
head at your car and then starts chasing after your
car at a speed that you didn't know buffalo could achieve.
That's when you realize, oh, they're not like cows at all.
These guys are jerks. I imagine the water buffalo is
probably much the same. We look at a picture of
it and think it's a big dumb animal, just sits
there and stares at you, no offense cows, And it's

(40:19):
not so when this guy says, yeah, the animal is aggressive,
and he told the authorities and they said, I think
the water buffalo got out of your place. He's like,
good that things aggressive and should be euthanized. How long
has this by guy been governor of South Dakota. So
what happened next was now the search is on for
the water buffalo. On Saturday, after the water buffalo had

(40:43):
fled authorities, a police officer shot it. Did it kill it.
We don't even know if it hurt it. Water buffalo
are big and tough, and we're not sure if the officer,
actually he said, shot at it. Now it's kind of
a question as to whether or not the animal was wounded,

(41:05):
which begs a real serious question as to the proficiency
of that police officer. What area, What are the circumstances
you were shooting? Was this thing standing there? Was it moving?
Were you moving? Can you not hit a water buffalo?
That's a big thing.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
But their skin is very tough.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah, but I'm saying I think rhino. I think that
it's not. I think it's more tough than a buffalo
because it doesn't have all of the fur. It's just like,
it's just a weird looking, hairless buffalo.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
I thought that they had lured it out of the
water and then tranquilized it.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
They did, that's with a snow cone. That's what they
did yesterday. But an officer on Saturday shot it. The
water buffalo is like, hey, what what gives man? Well,
I thought you were going to attack me. I am now.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I wasn't going to.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, everyone's watching. I can't just stand here and take this.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Oh I got it.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
So that was on Saturday. Then the water buffalo runs
off and no one can find it for several days, Like, wait,
how does how does a water buffalo in suburban Des
Moines just hide? Now, we had our mountain lion here
in Ralston last year. That was a lot of fun

(42:33):
for me. I understand how a mountain lion can hide.
You can get down into the grasslands and there's a
water buffalo. It's a big a water buffalo. So that
was on Saturday. Then no one can find it, and
no one can Finally on Tuesday night they found it
just kind of hanging out in a sandpit. Why did
anyone think to look in the sand pit earlier? So

(42:57):
water buffalo is hanging out. Now the authorities show up.
We got the police department, We've got the sheriff's office,
we got the zoo, we got an Animal Rescue League
of Iowa, got a couple other local police departments, and
they're all showing up. And it says they tried to
quote coax the animal out of the How do you
coax a water buffalo with anything?

Speaker 2 (43:19):
With a lady water buffalo?

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah, that's where you're at. Yeah, that's where you're asking
your big fat friend, Like, hey, put this wig on,
We're gonna put some red lipstick on you. You're gonna
act like a lady water buffalo. Why me, I worked
in a bugs bunny cartoon. Come on, okay, hey, you
hot stuff. Why don't you come out here and hang

(43:43):
out with me? Awhile water Buffalo's like, I don't know
about this. I've been burned on tender before, Sue. Now
it's hanging there in a sand pit Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Oh God, don't tell the governor.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
And then they huh. And then they looked and they said, well,
it's getting late and there's storms coming in. Let's try
and catch it again in the morning. Like this water
buffalo has eluded you for four days. You're gonna give
it an all nighter head start. And they delivered phyllis

(44:21):
in a storm. Well they did so. Now Wednesday morning,
I don't know if someone I don't know if they yeah, Phillis,
I like it. Phyllis. Yeah, they delivered phyllis. They delivered
phyllis Phil, Goddess Phil. And then the next morning he

(44:41):
is like, all right, thanks guys, it's really all I needed.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Wait, was this Phil was in a hole?

Speaker 1 (44:51):
He was in a sand pit, a hole, not quicksand
described as a sandpit.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Like that's what you call a guy with no arms
and no legs in a hole.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Bill, I think he was in a bunker at the
Des Moines Country Club. He was at TCI in a sandtrap. Okay,
So now I don't know if someone had to stand
out there all like, you know, there was someone like sir,
This water buffaloes eluded us for four days. How are
we gonna not keep an eye on it all night
and in a storm and hope it's still going to

(45:22):
be here in the morning. Well, I'm glad you asked, Dave,
you're gonna sit out here all night and keep an
eye on that thing. So set up a BIV whack
and have a great night whatever reason. Now it's the
next morning they find the water buffalo hanging out in
some pond, and now they shoot it again, this time
with a tranquilizer dart. What is funny about this?

Speaker 2 (45:49):
It just reminds me of some comedy movie that is
really bad. It's like a Super Troopers. Yeah, it's so bad,
it's good.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Right, And then so now they can't attacked the guy
where it had escaped from his place, and they said, all.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Right, wait, they're just now contacting him.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
No again, they said, all right, now we got your
water buffalo. He says, I don't want it. He says,
I have surrendered ownership of the water buffalo, which is
a convenient thing to do when this giant animal gets
out and it could destroy property. Not mine. Oh yeah,
it could have been anyone around here. Now, how often

(46:28):
is Christmas morning you run downstairs and you're like, I
know what that present is. It's the water buffalo I wanted.
Then you have one for a while and you realize
this is more work than I thought. And that's when
you take it for a drive to Pleasant Hill, Iowa
and just release it out in the sand pit. Happens
all the time. So they contact the guy like, do
you want this back? No? Not mine? Okay, whatever, dude.

(46:51):
So now it's the Iowa Farm Sanctuary, an animal rescue
organization that I'm sure is not set up to accommodate
water buffer, is going to take ownership of Phil. So
we have now an end to the story. We think.

(47:13):
I think they were going to check it out to
make sure it was okay from being shot, either with
a bullet or a tranquilizer dart left out in the rain, land,
left down in the rain. I don't have any fur
I'm cold. How are you cold? It's seventy two degrees overnight.
Well it's cold. Oh, it must be a woman water buffalo.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
That's why phyllis didn't work.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
My wife's listening going. Did you just compare me to
a water buffalo?

Speaker 3 (47:42):
Scott Gorhees News Radio eleven T KFAB.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
I'm continually impressed by KFAB nation in the spectrum of
messages we receive on this show. Jim emails Scott ATKFAB
dot com. It says I was stationed in Pakistan while
in the United States Air Force lots of water buffalo.
They are aggressive and big and strong. It would take

(48:07):
a high powered rifle to kill one. And then we
also have this message from Kevin says, I think I
saw that water buffalo the other night at the Spearmint
Rhino looking for a date.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Maybe that's what happened. He got depressed.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
And if those if those two emails aren't a reflection
of the host of this program, then I don't know
what is. At least we don't have this here in
the Midwest. In Texas, they now have a warning on
the Gulf of Mexico shores, especially Corpus Christy. A warning

(48:46):
that we've got marine polychates from the am finomid day
family are washing up on shore, and it says warning
about these particular bugs. What are these? They're more commonly

(49:08):
known as fireworms or bristleworms because they have bristles on them,
and if you get stabbed by one of these worms,
it will feel like your skin is on fire. According
to the Texas A and M Institute for Gulf of
Mexico Studies, they said, warning, your worst nightmare is washing

(49:28):
up right now. Fireworms inflict pain on anyone that dares
to or accidentally touches them. It literally feels like your
skin is on fire for about three hours. Your skin
can feel sensitive to the sting for weeks, depending on
where it's stung you. The fireworms release a neurotoxin through

(49:53):
their minuscule white bristles, which extend when threatened and break
off when touched. And apparently they're all over the beaches
of South Texas, especially Corpus Christie. Have fun, dad, Can
we go swimming? Yeah at the pool? Not going to

(50:16):
be out there getting attacked by fireworms.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
You said, stabbed.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Yeah, they get little itty bitty bristles like think about Lucy,
you know, when.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
To be stung or do they carry little nimes?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
I think if they will, if they are extending their
little bristles on purpose to try and get you, that
sounds like a stabbing.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
That's more stabby.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah, you're right. You know how you're walking through the
grass on a hike or in long grass to try
and find your golf ball after an arrant t shot,
you know how it is, and suddenly you rub up
against a thorny weed and suddenly your legs and socks
and shoelaces or whatever are completely covered in whether cockle

(51:05):
burrs or something like that. It's like that, except it's
stinging fire for about three hours and paying for several
weeks afterwards. And it doesn't usually happen to you. It
happens to your kids when they're out there swimming in
the gulf. Yeah, good times, good times. So suddenly that
water buffalo doesn't seem so bad, does it. Berkshire Hathaway

(51:27):
hit a major milestone yesterday and tomorrow is Warren Buffett's birthday,
so he's going into his ninety fourth birthday tomorrow, making
even more money, as the company just passed one trillion

(51:48):
dollars in market capitalization, Like well, I thought they already
had a bazillion trillion dollars. No, Berkshire Hathway actually is
the first non tech company, like exclusive tech company, whether
that would be Apple or Microsoft. It's the first non

(52:08):
tech American company to pass one trillion dollars in market capitalization.
So there's a chance that Warren might be able to
scrape together enough money to get a dilly bar at
Dairy Queen tonight. But as is always the case, and

(52:31):
longtime listeners to this program know what's coming, but listen anyway,
it's a short one. As is always the case, anytime
you talk about Warren Buffett or Berkshire Hathaway, people are
like trillion dollars. Why can't they pay for this? Why
can't they pay for that? Why can't he give me
this money? Why can't they just do everything? Why can't
he pay off the national debt? Why can't they pay

(52:51):
off my student loans? Everyone always got their handout when
it comes to Warren Buffett. So we wrote a song
about it with the help of Janis Joplin. Here we go,
Old Warren won't you buy me a brand new Ford truck?
My friends all drive Chevyes. My old car just sucks.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
Worked hard all my lifetime, just can't make a buck.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
So a Warren, won't you buy me a brand new
Ford truck?

Speaker 4 (53:24):
Oh Warren?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Won't you buy me a plasma TV? Deal or no
deal is trying to find me?

Speaker 4 (53:35):
I want to watch Oprah and Graze and that on me.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
So, oh Warren, won't you buy me a plasma TV?
Oh Warren? Won't you buy me a steak ad gold rats?
My stomach is empty, your.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Wallet is fat. Prove that you love me and pick
up the check. So, oh Warren, won't you buy me
a steak caad.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Go round everybody? Oh Warren? Won't you buy me a
brand new Ford truck? My friend's old drives cheffies.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
My old card yes SUPs, worked hard all my.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Lifetime, just can't make a buck. So, oh Warren, won't you.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
Buy me a brand new Ford drug?

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Well? That's it, With apologies to Jennis Joplin. That is
O Warren here on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
That just made me feel happy inside.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
It is my hope that Jennis Joplin haunts me. For
destroying her song. Mercedes Benz.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Yeah, you're hearing those old voices.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
I love Dannis Choplin. Those what old voices?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
One it used to work here? Helped you out with
that song?

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Who was that?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
That wasn't all you and me? Really?

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Well you still work yourself?

Speaker 3 (55:04):
No more?

Speaker 1 (55:05):
No, that's oh you don't like it now that it
is me? And then doing an overdub of me.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
The story to make me a nostalgic feeling because you're
right there in front of me. I thought it was
people that. I thought it was a couple of people
that Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
It's fine. How could you sing while you were singing? Oh,
it's magic, right, it's happy birthday. Warren Buffett Tomorrow, ninety
four years old, speaking of businesses going to be an
awkward encounter when they get back to the office at
a business in Colorado, I heard a slight guffaw out

(55:46):
of you.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Are you talking about the apartment complex?

Speaker 1 (55:49):
No? Oh, okay, what are you talking about the.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
Gang that took over an apartment complex and Aurora?

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Oh that was in Colorado. I saw that story. I
thought it was in New York or something. This is
a place where they're housing illegal immigrants and those who
live in the complex just formed a gang knowing that
no one was going to come and stop them. They'd
just been going door to door and robbing people, which
is dumb to rob people in your complex of fellow

(56:16):
illegal immigrants, knowing they probably don't have anything either. But
it's never stopped criminals from doing criminal stuff before. So
that's an Aurora Colorado correct. Yeah, yeah, that's all going great. Yeah,
that was another thing in the story we let off
the nine o'clock hour with that quick recap. The accusation

(56:37):
was that Trump and Bacon were conspira conspiring to bring
some foreigner here into America that worked with the Trump
tech team, and Bacon was helping him do it and
moving his application for visa up to the front of
the line. And we talked about how dumb the whole
story was, and I forgot about one of the dumb

(56:57):
points in the story from the organization Pro Publica. They
noted they said, Trump, well, seemingly, you know, he is
in favor of closing our borders, Like that is so
dumb there, Yeah, there's there's no difference, right, And a
guy who is a tech worker who has applied for

(57:17):
and received permission for a visa application to come legally
into our country. And the thousands and thousands per day
of illegal immigrants streaming across our southern border. We don't
know who they are. They filled out no applications. Yeah,
totally the same thing. You guys are the best. No,

(57:39):
this is a different story.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
This was the.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Do we say what business it was? I don't think so.
They just says a there was a fifteen co workers
were on a team building retreat. That happens team building retreat.
Maybe you go out bowling, you go out to a

(58:08):
conference in Las Vegas or something.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
Next throwing it could.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Be an axe throwing. I wouldn't do that with any
of my co workers. These fifteen co workers, though, had
a different idea. They are, after all, in Colorado, Like,
we got a great idea, we're going to try and
reach the summit of Mount Schevano San Isabel National Forests,
And they set out on this team building retreat where

(58:33):
they were going to take the Blank's cabin trailhead at
sunrise and then they were going to try and reach
the summit. I don't know the elevation of Mount Shavano.
I'm guessing it's if they were starting to sunrise. This
is apparently a day long trek to hike this. So

(58:54):
one group that they said, all right, we're going to
split up. One group took the easy route apparently, and
they got to the summit. Good for them. The other
one stopped in the mountain saddle area and they said,
you know what, we're not up to it. We're going
to turn around. And that's where one guy was part
of that group like, oh, why didn't I break off

(59:15):
with the other group full of the actual hikers. I
got here with all the people who are like, I'm tired,
I'm hungry, I'm hot, you know whatever, I want to go.
I've never been to the summit of this peak. I
want to go. And so he left them. I got
We're not going to come all this way and not
reach the summit. I'm going. They're like, all right, whatever, man,
good luck. Well he got lost. Now he made it

(59:39):
eleven thirty in the morning, made it, and then he
became disoriented as he began his dissension. The colleagues who
had gone before him made his dissension on the correct
path even more difficult by collecting the belongings they'd left
on in the bowld field to suggest the right path,

(01:00:03):
you know. They were like, we're gonna leave markers so
we know how to get back down. Well, when they
went back down without him, they just picked up all
their stuff, like, I'm sure he'll be fine. He wasn't.
He ended up in a steep boulder and screen field
on the northeast slope towards Shiavano Lake. And now he's
trying to share his location with co workers. He's like,

(01:00:24):
got messages with him like I don't know where I am,
and I put a pin drop and they said, well,
we're not coming back up there. Why don't you go
back up to the summit and then take the correct trail.
He tries to tell them, if I knew where the
correct trail was, I would have taken it to begin with.
They're like, I don't know what you want us to do.
So he goes back up the mountain. Now it's four

(01:00:47):
o'clock in the afternoon. They started this at sunrise. Now
he makes it and drops another pin at four pm.
Then the storms rolled in with on top of this
mountain freezing rain and high winds. He lost his cell
phone signal at nine pm his coworkers said we might

(01:01:11):
want to call someone and reported him missing. Rescuers searched
through the night with difficulty due to the weather. The
next morning, self service had been restored. I'm surprised he's
still got any battery. That guy needs to do an
endorsement campaign with whatever a cell phone provider is, and

(01:01:32):
reported his location to nine one one. Researchers found him.
He was freezing. He was wiped out, tired, hungry, probably
still disoriented, and not at all happy with his coworkers.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
That team building did not go well. It did not
learn anything.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
Now, this does all happen the other day, which means
earlier this week they all had to go back to
work together, right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
I hope he quit, right? Friends like that? Man, I'm
telling you, well, you know, secret sand will be easy, right.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Yeah, We're gonna get you a GPS.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
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