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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordy.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We've got a few locations around town getting some brand
new vending machines. Lucy, what do you like in a
vending machine? Do you have a go to?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Oh? You know, I like to have a fresh butter
fingers always good, But you know, when they're in the
vending machine, it can be a little bit iffy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Roll the dice, Lucy, come on. That's the theme for
the day, trying to get Lucy to live a little bit.
My go to on for vending machines once in a while.
Not I mean, we're talking. It's probably been a couple
of years since I've done this, probably because our vending
machine's pretty peaked here at the radio station. But my
go to for a long time was mountain dew and
(00:38):
hot Tomali's. Oh good choice, great combination.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You don't put them together. You don't put them in
the can, do you no?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But I'll swish down a mouthful of hot to mollies
with with the mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That's that's my version of live a little It's the
reason my stomach lining is non existent.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well but it is. It is living though.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah. So we got some new vending machines going up
around town. These vending machines a little different though. These
vending machines have STI kits. Whatever happened to STDs? Do
we eliminate STDs? They're now sti's. It's the same thing. Apparently,
we don't want to call them a disease. You've got herpaclapamidia.
(01:21):
Oh no, a disease, No, no, no, an infection. That
doesn't change the fact that I've I got something I
don't want, and I've probably been given to a lot
of people here recently. How long have I had it?
Probably a few days. Oh, that could be three or
four different people. Wow, impressive. So we got STI kits,
(01:43):
COVID kits?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh no, what you know?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You got to know? Those are two things you have
to know.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Pregnancy tests, Oh yeah, no, wound care kits. Wait, what condoms?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And lube?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Pregnancy tests, ventanyl test strips and emerging see contraceptive. That
sounds like a party to me if you need all
of them at one time. Oh my gosh, I hope
you don't have COVID. Did you just fall down?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I should have all of those things. I hope you
don't have COVID.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, and I know that this is on fire worse
than that car Lucy was talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But I hope I don't have something that for most
people causes a very mild cold. You might not even
show any symptoms. Oh no, I tested positive for COVID. Also,
I'm pregnant. I don't know who the father is. And
it turns out this is fentanyl. Good, that's what I
thought it was. And I need wound care. And don't
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forget the condoms and lubricant. These are all in a
vending machine.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
How how much would that call?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
How much did that call?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, it's an exact total of jack no money, they're free.
The machine doesn't ask for a name. It tracks demographic
data like zip code, age, race, ethnicity, and gender. I
wonder how many people going in there to get this
stuff don't know their zip code, let alone their ethnicity
and gender. So here's my favorite thing. People go to
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the vending machine, they get the STI test kit. I'm
proud to say, I don't know how this kit determines
whether or not you have a variety of I'll use
the term STDs. I think that's the terminology most of
us grew up with, and we're concerned about I hope.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Maybe they just have a list of people that they
know that do and they just check your name against it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You know, we were growing up in the eighties and
nineties it was like if you sit down on a
public restroom you.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Could get all kinds of STDs.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, it's not really.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
True, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So you get the STI test kit and then you
put it back, you shove it back in the vending machine.
Someone from the health department comes along.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Again.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They don't know you, they don't know your phone number,
they don't know any of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What do they do.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They just come along the next day and post a
post it note on there and say, hey, to the
person who was worried about it, Yep, you've got herpaclaphamidia.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Now wait a minute, now, that that can't be.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't know. These things are free.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Maybe you take those things to the health department. No,
you put it right back in.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Right back in the vening machine. I'm guessing that's where
you put your thing, just determine whether or not you
got any stuff on it, you know, like where the
where you put the coins in. You're just like, what
is the U what is this for?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I put this in here G five and then it
tells you eventually whether or not it's diseased. And it's
all free, and you're thinking nothing's free.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's Beyer dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And by the way, where are these vending machines in
case I find myself needing one?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, I'll tell you next.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Scott Ford's News Radio eleven ten k FA brand new
vending machines around town. We've got four and a half
of these. The fifth one isn't installed yet because they're
trying to get some electrical hookups at the Sienna Francis
Emergency Shelter in North Downtown. But the places you find
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these vending machines, which according to the story here from
WAWT First Alert six, these are vending machines from the
Douglas County Health Department. And in them you find and
I quote STI, sexually transmitted infection test kits, COVID test kits, condoms, lubricant,
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pregnancy tests, tampons, pads, wound care kits, emergency contraceptive and
fentanyl test strips. And this is all at the low,
low price of nothing. They're free, And you're thinking that
they're not free. Everything has a price, probably taxpayer funded. No,
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the veny machines are paid for by grants and private donations.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, what do you think of grant is.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think it's probably not someone named Grant, probably someone
named Susie. But no taxpayer dollars are used, except the
Health Department, which is paid for by taxpayer dollars. I mean,
someone's got to be out there stocking this stuff, doing
the work on this stuff. And right now we've got
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four of these up. The fifth one will be at
Siena Francis. Here's where the other four are at the
Charles Washington Library. Where's the where's the Charles Washington The
Washington Library. I think that's in northeast Omaha. The Nebraska
Urban Indian Health Coalition. I don't know if you've ever
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been over there at the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition,
but I tell you what, it's hard for me to
visit there and not be like, Wow, this is this
place is crazy. I need to get some condoms in lube.
So that's a good thing that's over there.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Then there's the American Dream Bar that is as a
strip club, it's a dancing night spot. Off of I
eighty and between seventy second and eighty fourth Street. Scott,
how do you know where it is? I love the
American Dream.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
When I said that to my friends, they said, well, Scott,
what are you all about? I said, I'm the American Dream.
What I meant was life, love and pursuit of happiness.
They took me to a strip club that's also a
biker bar. How do these things happen?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's semantics and misunderstanding. And then there's the Douglas County
Health Department. You can find them there as well, and
kind of set up in an electrical hookup at the
Sianna Francis House. And the person from the health department says,
it's been one of my dreams of having all this
stuff accessible for everyone.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Weren't these things available?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's funny I have before you put out some reason there,
The guy from the health department says, been one of
my dreams of having all this stuff accessible for everyone.
First of all, all this stuff is accessible to everyone.
You have to actually go into a clinic and get
the help that you need. And see, kind of one
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of my dreams to have people not living and fornicating
in the streets and then be like the next morning,
going wow, I need some emergency contraceptive. Well that's another
way of saying the morning after pill, which is another
way of saying based on some people's beliefs and probably
some rooted in science. I don't know when it comes
to the first couple of days afterwards. I'm not a biologist,
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but it seems like this is abortion for free in
public vending machines, you know that, which is accessible to
people living on the streets, people in need, children, you know, anyone, anyone.
It just might come up there.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
See.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's kind of my dream that maybe there wouldn't be
so many people homelessly fornicating in the streets.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
With open wounds.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
See, that's just one of my dreams. I have small dreams,
though I don't dream big, like free vending machines of
STI kids like this guy. A girl, her name is
Leah with the Health Department. She's leading the charge on
this project. What were you gonna say there, l Chap.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I was just gonna say, basically what you just said,
isn't this stuff? Hasn't this stuff been available anyway? I
don't think that the uh the Morning After the are
you forty six missile filthy wan whatever it's called what?
I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I love the way you said whatever it was you said.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The Morning After pill, the yeah, yeah, m hm. I
don't think that's available. I think that that there is
a machine that it is available, but it's in a
bar in I think the downtown area. I believe that
to be true.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You can get the Morning After pill. And is it
one of those claw games where you're like, oh, shoot,
I spent the only dollar I had. I got four
tries at the claw game to get that emergency contraceptive.
I couldn't do it. Guess I'm having a baby.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Where are you playing the claw game for twenty five
cents a try?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
In the arcade at the West Roads? Is that still there?
Here's the here's the part that really got me. The
chief development officer with the Sienna Francis House, guy named
Chris tells WWT six quote, these are things that are
going to save people's life lives unquote. I couldn't help
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a key in on one particular item available at the
vending machine, and that is the lubricant. Don't start rushing
to turn off the radio. I'll just leave that one
out there as save people's lives. I don't know that
something that could be used for comfort is necessarily a lifesaver.
(11:31):
But you know what, maybe I've been doing it wrong.
So heck, I don't know. There's so much about all
this stuff that I just don't know anymore. But I
know that these things are available at various we want
the available with the health department and that strip club
over there. Omaha, Nebraska. You know, grew up in this town.
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It was not uncommon us growing up in this town.
You'd be your parents are like, all right, we're going
to go out. We're going to go to the Children's museum.
Then we got to stop buy Nebraska Furniture Mart where
Missus b rolls up on our electro scooters say hi,
make sure you're getting everything you need. And then you
go and get a dlly bar, and well there's your
neighborhood billionaire. There's mister Buffett. Hi there, mister Buffett, Hi, Hey, kids,
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how you doing. You know, it's a nice place you
would go and find this park that had like a
rocket ship. You can climb up to the top of
the rocket ship and the park and we probably went
to church that morning. It was a really nice place,
and then we stopped by this vending machine and just
load up on propylactics. That was how we had our
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childhoods here in Omaha. So after the tax, after the
grant and the private donations, which according to the story
should last for about five years, it's not going to
last for five years. They said in the first week,
about one hundred and twenty items got into the hands
of people who need them. I'm guessing that one hundred
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and eighteen of them were people going what is this?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Is it free? What does it work?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And then they are like I'm gonna get that, okay,
And some guy walks away with tampons, you know, like
I didn't know if it worked. That's good. I might
have a bloody nose later, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm guessing why would choose tampons.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He just is pushing buttons to see if it worked.
So probably a lot of this stuff just went to
people who just wanted to see if this stuff worked
and it was free. So based on that rate, I
think they I don't know how much all this stuff costs.
But let's look backward here to last Friday, and I
was thinking about this as I was sleeping in Friday morning.
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This is not the way it used to be. It
used to be, Lucy, and you remember this. Lucy was like, Hey,
I was wondering if I could take the day after
Thanksgiving off. Oh no, we couldn't possibly do that. We
need traffic updates at two o'clock in the morning because
everyone's going to be packing all the malls and shopping
centers opening up for Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I'd forgotten that those days are long after Yeah, those
days are long gone.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I remember one Black Friday morning where it was determined
that Black Friday was such an important morning that Roger
Olsen would be here in the studio. You'd be here
in the studio doing traffic updates and it was a
super important morning. So well, if it's that important, Gary,
how about you and Jim work? Oh no, we're not
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gonna work, but you can work. And I had to
go into a radio station that was otherwise closed in Wichita,
Kansas and be able to connect from there just to
be on in a dark, unfamiliar building. Wow, be on
the radio, I does Black Friday was such an important morning.
That we had to have all hands on deck and
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buy all hands, I mean our hands and the B
team's hands. You're an a teamer. But those days are gone,
and it's amazing. After they killed Black Friday? Why do
you think they what do you think they did?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You were they first?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, let's not worry about who they are. Okay, what
do you think? What were the actions they took that
killed Black Friday?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, I know that there were an awful lot before
it ended completely towards the last few years, there were
an awful lot of really violent confrontations at department stores.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Part of the fun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, but these got really violent.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ah, come on, this is how this country was built,
you know, exploring the great unknown, going out there, having
a little sense of adventure. You know, there's no guarantees
in life. Sometimes you get on a subway and you
don't know what you're gonna face. Sometimes you go into
a department store to get a great deal in a
shape razor and you said, no idea what might lie ahead.
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But you got to be ready for anything. It's part
of that American can do spirit all right. Internet and yeah,
sometimes people got great deals on computers. Sometimes they got
killed in a stampede, you don't know. So they stopped
doing these Okay, we're letting everyone in at the same
time to go rushing into the store, rampaging through here
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and ransacking the place. And some of them stopped opening
up all together. Others said, we're gonna start having our
Black Friday savings today, and you're looking at the calendar,
going it's October twelfth. You know, it's like we're like,
oh no, oh.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah. A lot of them started on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Some of them started on Thanksgiving and all, but they
just and they pushed more people online. And then the
retailers after everything that they did to kill the fun
and yeah, sometimes the danger a Black Friday, then they
had the nerve afterwards to come back and say, you know,
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we were really counting on Black Friday sales to lift
us up this year, but it just wasn't the same.
Some places opened up and there was no one waiting
outside to come in. Well, it's amazing, you know, for
people like me who want to shop, not necessarily at
three o'clock in the morning on Black Friday. I've never
done that, but my wife used to, and it used
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to be a family thing, like we'd get together with family,
and she and sister in law and maybe one of
the nieces who was old enough to go out there,
and part of that fray would go out there and
brave danger, armed with like a pith helmet and a machete,
and they'd go out there and they'd try and hack
their way into getting a deal on a scarf and
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some gloves or whatever. They'd come home with crap they
didn't even need. But it was on sale, And by
on sale, I mean it's the same price it was
last week. Don't but it now has a new sign
above it that says, you know, here's the price, and
it's been marked up four hundred dollars, and they slash
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that price and put the same price underneath it, this
four hundred dollars less, never mind the fact it was
this price a month ago.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Has that ever happened? Yes? Does it happen regularly?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Stop disparaging retailers.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Oh, I'm not even close to being done disparaging some
of the retailers. So as I was saying, I like
to go in and go to a brick and mortar
place to get stuff, especially clothes. I want to know
if this is going to make me look fantastic, and
I can't always tell that online. I don't know what
size I am today or what this particular is such
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a girl, but this particular manufacturer of pants thinks I am.
I mean sometimes thirty five thirty five, which is apparently
an impossible length. I'm not thirty five thirty How long
are my legs? Like thirty five thirty three I think
would be an appropriate length. I'm trying to get back
down to thirty four the waist, not the length. So
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I'm just gonna keep stop shaving off the bottom of
my feet until I lose a little bit, you know.
But sometimes one size is not the same size, you know.
So some manufacturers are like, this is an extra large
shirt and you put it on and you're swimming in it,
and another one's an extra large shirt and it's not
big enough.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I don't know. I gotta try the stuff on.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So you go into a brick and mortar place, and
what do you find? Nothing in your size? Or if
you do well, there might be some stuff over there
that some other people have tried on and then they
threw them in the ever growing heap of clothes outside
the fitting rooms. We don't have the staff that either
will or can sort all that stuff and put it
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back on the shelf. So if you want to go
wading in to old ma trash heap full of clothes
over there to try and find some pants, I mean,
my goodness, have at it, you know. And it's just
everything just looks ransacked. Not after a Black Friday rampage.
I'm talking about just a regular day. It's it's gotten
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pretty sad in some of these places. People won't work,
can't work, don't do a good job working. You try,
and you know, find someone who works at that story,
can't find him. Like that episode of the twilight Zone
we talked about yesterday. The guy's wandering the streets looking
for him. It wasn't because he was concerned about civilization.
He wanted to ask someone a question about some phone,
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and he couldn't find anyone. And that's what that Twilight
Zone episode was all about. I think, and and and
then you finally find someone, and it's some kid who
won't look in the eye, is all shifty, and he
grinding his teeth and he's between meth breaks, and you're like,
I was wondering, do you have I didn't see these
on the shelves. Is there more in the back? I
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don't think we have a back. Yeah, you have a
there's there's a storeroom area. Is there anything back there?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know, man, I've only worked here three years.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You know, like people are hard to find, they're unhelpful,
they don't know anything. They're not putting stuff back on
the racks or back on the shelves. Everything's in disarray.
And then they spread out all the Black Friday savings,
try to push you online, try to and then they
have the nerve to come out and say, all right,
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so we didn't do all the fun Black Friday stuff
that we used to, and we spread out all the savings.
We'd try to push people online, and then they come
out on Monday and go, well, it was a pretty
weak Black Friday. Hardly anyone was here. It's almost like
that's exactly how you wanted it. Look, I want to
go into a store. I want to try something out.
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I want to I want to touch it, I want
to feel it, and I want to buy it right
there and star. I want to take it home. I
want to have an experience like here. I'll tell you
I'll name the retailer. This is no surprise. We have
some great retailers out there. One of them, I'll only
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give us initials. It's NFM. My wife called me on
Sunday and said, can you come down here to the mart.
I'm trying to decide between these two beds. I said, oh,
we're buying a bed.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh, and you're gonna have separate beds.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
No, no, no, like what do you carry?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You're making me sleep? I sleep in the basement, you know.
So no, I'm trying to decide between these two beds.
And I said, well, do you really need some help
deciding or have you already decided? And I'm gonna waste
my time all the going all the way down and
he's like, no, just come down here. Like fine, so
go down there.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
There is a surprise party at the mart.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
No, she was actually trying to decide between two beds.
So I said, honey, you're the one who says we
need a new bed. We've had this bed now for
fifteen and a half years or so. And I know
that because my wife when she was pregnant with our
second kid, who is now this scroungy teenage boy who
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just turned fifteen. My wife said, I'm not going to
go through another pregnancy, especially during the summer months, in
an uncomfortable bed. I need a new bed. I'm like,
we'll get a new bed. So we went, I got
a bed, and now all these years later, she's like,
you know it's lost. It's I don't know, buoyancy or whatever,
you know. I was like, what do you think we're
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doing in here? Like, no, you can still see the
imprint after you get off the bed. I'm like, I'm
trying to lose weight. She's like, no, beds just don't
last this long. We need a new bed. I'm fine.
So we went and got a new bed. Worked with
a very helpful guy named Phil. He helped us, helped
my wife choose the bed that she felt we needed,
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and then they got all the you know stuff arranged for,
Like do you want them to haul away the old mattress? Absolutely,
So that time ended up being this morning. About an
hour ago. A room of strapping young men came in
from Nebraska Furniture Mart. They brought in the new giant mattress,
got rid of the old giant mattress which is upstairs.
Through kind of this, you gotta go this way and
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then that way up this narrow you know, upstairs, which
is really hard to get a mattress up and down
this stuff. And my wife said, it was like watching
an ant form. These guys just like who you know who.
They were in and out in five minutes. Here's a
new bed, getting the old mattress out of here, and
they it was. It was just in and out. The
whole process was great. That's the experience I want when
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I go to a brick and mortar retailer, and I
don't find that. I usually get that at most places.
And this is something that used to be something that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You would do, you expect.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And your expectations would be met. And now you go
into a place, whether it's a retailer or a restaurant
or whatever, and you end up, you know, being asked like, oh.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you you know you you're you're.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Going to pay for this? And then the thing comes
up there and says what tip you're going to leave?
And like it starts at twenty percent, twenty twenty five,
thirty percent. You're like, I just came here recently. It
didn't used to have to tip at this particular place.
Seems like maybe starting at twenty percent is a little presumptuous.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
But you do it because you're like, well, I don't
want to be a cheap guy come in here all
the time. I don't want I'm spitting in my food
or whatever. And it just seems like the portion sizes
are getting smaller, the service is getting worse, and the
quality is getting worse, and it all costs a whole
lot more. And we're a bunch of jerks and Karen's
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if we complain about it. Well, I'm complaining about it.
And I wouldn't have said anything except these retailers that
have done a shoddy job for many of them for
all this time. You know, then had the nerve to
come out after ruining Black Friday and say, well it
was pretty weak Black Friday. It was the matter with
you people like, hey, you trained us to do this,
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and they'll be surprised. And we've been trained by you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So that's all.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Are you sure? Probably did you get it all off
your chest?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah? Thing about that bed though?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Did you get the guy that doesn't cause imprints?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well, I told the guy, I said, what's the warranty
on this one? Because I'm planning on gaining a lot
of weight in the in the weeks to come, you know,
it's egnog season, let alone the years to come.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But there was something about that bed. Man.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Did I get a terrible night's sleep?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And it does?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I know, we seemingly only have the one mouse. The
we had the one mouse. That mouse is no longer
with us. He's been repurposed, and so now the other
trap is sitting there baited and waiting, but still waiting.
So I think we're all good there with that mouse issue. No,
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as I mentioned a moment ago, this morning we got
got a brand new bed, looking forward to a good
night's sleep tonight in this bed. As I said, this
bed we just got rid of was the one who
my wife demanded fifteen and a half years ago, like
I'm not going to carry around your baby, yeah, in
thiscomfortable bed. I need a new bed. I'm like, okay,
(27:41):
it's fine, whatever you want, honey. That was her pregnancy craving.
Some people want marshmallows. She wanted a new bed. So
we got a new bed, and I really didn't think
anything of it until last night was going to be
the last night in that bed, and I'm lying there
in my bed last night, and I'm looking at the
crack in the door as I lie.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
There, the door in your bed.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
No, I'm lying there in bed. I'm looking across the room.
Could be the first problem, just a little sliver of
light there where the door is kind of up against
the doorframe, and I'm seeing something in my head all
night that hasn't been there in years, because, as I said,
this is the bed we've had for over fifteen years,
which meant when we got it fifteen years ago, before
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my son was born. My daughter was like two, and
it was around that time when every morning, except for
those mornings I get up and go to work, but
like every weekend morning was exactly the same thing. I'd
lie there and I'd hear her get up, probably at
some ridiculous hour, and then she would come to the
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door and not open it up, but just crack it
a little bit and you know, stick her little face
in there.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And I'd look over and I'd say, all right, come here.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And the bed, that new mattress we got fifteen years
ago was so tall thick that the little two year
old Grace couldn't climb up on the bed. So I'd
reached down, I'd pull her up there and then she'd
snuggle and cuddle with me in bed. And I don't
know why, I suddenly got super nostalgic and sad about that.
(29:20):
Last night I couldn't sleep. I mean, I still have
the daughter. She's a senior in high school. Now, stupid
time time. Why you punish me, Hooty and the blowfish.
But last night I couldn't stop thinking like, this is
the bed that for the last fifteen Christmases, we would
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force the kids. Even last year when these two kids,
both teenagers, you know, Christmas morning, you're like, all right,
we're up. Let's have some Christmas. Like Nope, first you
have to cuddle with us in bed. There's not enough
room for all of us in the bed. Get in
the bed and we'd all I'd make us sit there
and cuddle with at this because that's what you do.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
You know, there's one thing you can do to prevent this.
Stop getting so close to people. I know, stop getting
so wrapped up.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know, I so rarely, you know, displayed any kind
of affection for my kids. I left let to the help.
But every once in a while the kids got to
get to me and.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's a very sweet story.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I just got super sad last year and.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Then I couldn't sleep, So I guess that was one
last gift this mattress gave me. Not missing it because
I tossed and turned all night. I think I got
like seven and a half minutes of sleep last night.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
So, so is the new one going to be tall?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah, I think it's about Oh, you haven't even seen it.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, but I think my kids can get in it now.
I didn't make I told my daughter that as she
came in there, you know, and told me good night.
She's still awake long after I've gone to bed, and
I was telling her that, and she's like, oh, she
jumped in bed and she's I.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Know, what a sweet girl.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
I know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I tried to tell my son. He was like whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
My son just is continuing to look and sound like
Lebron James. He's a hairline is receding somehow. He's black.
I don't know. He's just he's walking around just going
our ball. Ain't it's our ball? Ain't it dar ball?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Ain't it?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is my son. He's just kind of becoming Lebron
James tried to get him into some level of nostalgia.
He wasn't having it and he shuffled off. He teenage,
smelled stinky feeted his way off to bed. But at
least my daughter was sweet about it.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordy.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We've got a few locations around town getting some brand
new vending machines. Lucy, what do you like in a
vending machine? Do you have a go to?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Oh? You know, I like to have a fresh butter
fingers always good, But you know, when they're in the
vending machine, it can be a little bit iffy.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Roll the dice, Lucy, come on. That's the theme for
the day, trying to get Lucy to live a little bit.
My go to on for vending machines once in a while.
Not I mean, we're talking. It's probably been a couple
of years since I've done this, probably because our vending
machine's pretty peaked here at the radio station. But my
go to for a long time was mountain dew and
(00:38):
hot Tomali's. Oh good choice, great combination.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You don't put them together. You don't put them in
the can, do you no?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But I'll swish down a mouthful of hot to mollies
with with the mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
That's that's my version of live a little It's the
reason my stomach lining is non existent.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Well but it is. It is living though.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah. So we got some new vending machines going up
around town. These vending machines a little different though. These
vending machines have STI kits. Whatever happened to STDs? Do
we eliminate STDs? They're now sti's. It's the same thing. Apparently,
we don't want to call them a disease. You've got herpaclapamidia.
(01:21):
Oh no, a disease, No, no, no, an infection. That
doesn't change the fact that I've I got something I
don't want, and I've probably been given to a lot
of people here recently. How long have I had it?
Probably a few days. Oh, that could be three or
four different people. Wow, impressive. So we got STI kits,
(01:43):
COVID kits?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh no, what you know?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You got to know? Those are two things you have
to know.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Pregnancy tests, Oh yeah, no, wound care kits. Wait, what condoms?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And lube?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Pregnancy tests, ventanyl test strips and emerging see contraceptive. That
sounds like a party to me if you need all
of them at one time. Oh my gosh, I hope
you don't have COVID. Did you just fall down?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I should have all of those things. I hope you
don't have COVID.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yeah, and I know that this is on fire worse
than that car Lucy was talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But I hope I don't have something that for most
people causes a very mild cold. You might not even
show any symptoms. Oh no, I tested positive for COVID. Also,
I'm pregnant. I don't know who the father is. And
it turns out this is fentanyl. Good, that's what I
thought it was. And I need wound care. And don't
(02:45):
forget the condoms and lubricant. These are all in a
vending machine.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
How how much would that call?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
How much did that call?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Oh, it's an exact total of jack no money, they're free.
The machine doesn't ask for a name. It tracks demographic
data like zip code, age, race, ethnicity, and gender. I
wonder how many people going in there to get this
stuff don't know their zip code, let alone their ethnicity
and gender. So here's my favorite thing. People go to
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the vending machine, they get the STI test kit. I'm
proud to say, I don't know how this kit determines
whether or not you have a variety of I'll use
the term STDs. I think that's the terminology most of
us grew up with, and we're concerned about I hope.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Maybe they just have a list of people that they
know that do and they just check your name against it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You know, we were growing up in the eighties and
nineties it was like if you sit down on a
public restroom you.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Could get all kinds of STDs.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh yeah, right, yeah, it's not really.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
True, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
So you get the STI test kit and then you
put it back, you shove it back in the vending machine.
Someone from the health department comes along.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Again.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
They don't know you, they don't know your phone number,
they don't know any of this stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
What do they do.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They just come along the next day and post a
post it note on there and say, hey, to the
person who was worried about it, Yep, you've got herpaclaphamidia.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Now wait a minute, now, that that can't be.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I don't know. These things are free.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Maybe you take those things to the health department. No,
you put it right back in.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Right back in the vening machine. I'm guessing that's where
you put your thing, just determine whether or not you
got any stuff on it, you know, like where the
where you put the coins in. You're just like, what
is the U what is this for?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I put this in here G five and then it
tells you eventually whether or not it's diseased. And it's
all free, and you're thinking nothing's free.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's Beyer dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
And by the way, where are these vending machines in
case I find myself needing one?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, I'll tell you next.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Scott Ford's News Radio eleven ten k FA brand new
vending machines around town. We've got four and a half
of these. The fifth one isn't installed yet because they're
trying to get some electrical hookups at the Sienna Francis
Emergency Shelter in North Downtown. But the places you find
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these vending machines, which according to the story here from
WAWT First Alert six, these are vending machines from the
Douglas County Health Department. And in them you find and
I quote STI, sexually transmitted infection test kits, COVID test kits, condoms, lubricant,
(05:51):
pregnancy tests, tampons, pads, wound care kits, emergency contraceptive and
fentanyl test strips. And this is all at the low,
low price of nothing. They're free, And you're thinking that
they're not free. Everything has a price, probably taxpayer funded. No,
(06:13):
the veny machines are paid for by grants and private donations.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, what do you think of grant is.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think it's probably not someone named Grant, probably someone
named Susie. But no taxpayer dollars are used, except the
Health Department, which is paid for by taxpayer dollars. I mean,
someone's got to be out there stocking this stuff, doing
the work on this stuff. And right now we've got
(06:40):
four of these up. The fifth one will be at
Siena Francis. Here's where the other four are at the
Charles Washington Library. Where's the where's the Charles Washington The
Washington Library. I think that's in northeast Omaha. The Nebraska
Urban Indian Health Coalition. I don't know if you've ever
(07:00):
been over there at the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition,
but I tell you what, it's hard for me to
visit there and not be like, Wow, this is this
place is crazy. I need to get some condoms in lube.
So that's a good thing that's over there.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Then there's the American Dream Bar that is as a
strip club, it's a dancing night spot. Off of I
eighty and between seventy second and eighty fourth Street. Scott,
how do you know where it is? I love the
American Dream.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
When I said that to my friends, they said, well, Scott,
what are you all about? I said, I'm the American Dream.
What I meant was life, love and pursuit of happiness.
They took me to a strip club that's also a
biker bar. How do these things happen?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's semantics and misunderstanding. And then there's the Douglas County
Health Department. You can find them there as well, and
kind of set up in an electrical hookup at the
Sianna Francis House. And the person from the health department says,
it's been one of my dreams of having all this
stuff accessible for everyone.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Weren't these things available?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
It's funny I have before you put out some reason there,
The guy from the health department says, been one of
my dreams of having all this stuff accessible for everyone.
First of all, all this stuff is accessible to everyone.
You have to actually go into a clinic and get
the help that you need. And see, kind of one
(08:37):
of my dreams to have people not living and fornicating
in the streets and then be like the next morning,
going wow, I need some emergency contraceptive. Well that's another
way of saying the morning after pill, which is another
way of saying based on some people's beliefs and probably
some rooted in science. I don't know when it comes
to the first couple of days afterwards. I'm not a biologist,
(09:00):
but it seems like this is abortion for free in
public vending machines, you know that, which is accessible to
people living on the streets, people in need, children, you know, anyone, anyone.
It just might come up there.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
See.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's kind of my dream that maybe there wouldn't be
so many people homelessly fornicating in the streets.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
With open wounds.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
See, that's just one of my dreams. I have small dreams,
though I don't dream big, like free vending machines of
STI kids like this guy. A girl, her name is
Leah with the Health Department. She's leading the charge on
this project. What were you gonna say there, l Chap.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I was just gonna say, basically what you just said,
isn't this stuff? Hasn't this stuff been available anyway? I
don't think that the uh the Morning After the are
you forty six missile filthy wan whatever it's called what?
I don't know how to say it.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I love the way you said whatever it was you said.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
The Morning After pill, the yeah, yeah, m hm. I
don't think that's available. I think that that there is
a machine that it is available, but it's in a
bar in I think the downtown area. I believe that
to be true.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You can get the Morning After pill. And is it
one of those claw games where you're like, oh, shoot,
I spent the only dollar I had. I got four
tries at the claw game to get that emergency contraceptive.
I couldn't do it. Guess I'm having a baby.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Where are you playing the claw game for twenty five
cents a try?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
In the arcade at the West Roads? Is that still there?
Here's the here's the part that really got me. The
chief development officer with the Sienna Francis House, guy named
Chris tells WWT six quote, these are things that are
going to save people's life lives unquote. I couldn't help
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a key in on one particular item available at the
vending machine, and that is the lubricant. Don't start rushing
to turn off the radio. I'll just leave that one
out there as save people's lives. I don't know that
something that could be used for comfort is necessarily a lifesaver.
(11:31):
But you know what, maybe I've been doing it wrong.
So heck, I don't know. There's so much about all
this stuff that I just don't know anymore. But I
know that these things are available at various we want
the available with the health department and that strip club
over there. Omaha, Nebraska. You know, grew up in this town.
(11:57):
It was not uncommon us growing up in this town.
You'd be your parents are like, all right, we're going
to go out. We're going to go to the Children's museum.
Then we got to stop buy Nebraska Furniture Mart where
Missus b rolls up on our electro scooters say hi,
make sure you're getting everything you need. And then you
go and get a dlly bar, and well there's your
neighborhood billionaire. There's mister Buffett. Hi there, mister Buffett, Hi, Hey, kids,
(12:21):
how you doing. You know, it's a nice place you
would go and find this park that had like a
rocket ship. You can climb up to the top of
the rocket ship and the park and we probably went
to church that morning. It was a really nice place,
and then we stopped by this vending machine and just
load up on propylactics. That was how we had our
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childhoods here in Omaha. So after the tax, after the
grant and the private donations, which according to the story
should last for about five years, it's not going to
last for five years. They said in the first week,
about one hundred and twenty items got into the hands
of people who need them. I'm guessing that one hundred
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and eighteen of them were people going what is this?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Is it free? What does it work?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
And then they are like I'm gonna get that, okay,
And some guy walks away with tampons, you know, like
I didn't know if it worked. That's good. I might
have a bloody nose later, you know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm guessing why would choose tampons.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
He just is pushing buttons to see if it worked.
So probably a lot of this stuff just went to
people who just wanted to see if this stuff worked
and it was free. So based on that rate, I
think they I don't know how much all this stuff costs.
But let's look backward here to last Friday, and I
was thinking about this as I was sleeping in Friday morning.
(13:47):
This is not the way it used to be. It
used to be, Lucy, and you remember this. Lucy was like, Hey,
I was wondering if I could take the day after
Thanksgiving off. Oh no, we couldn't possibly do that. We
need traffic updates at two o'clock in the morning because
everyone's going to be packing all the malls and shopping
centers opening up for Black Friday.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
I'd forgotten that those days are long after Yeah, those
days are long gone.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I remember one Black Friday morning where it was determined
that Black Friday was such an important morning that Roger
Olsen would be here in the studio. You'd be here
in the studio doing traffic updates and it was a
super important morning. So well, if it's that important, Gary,
how about you and Jim work? Oh no, we're not
(14:34):
gonna work, but you can work. And I had to
go into a radio station that was otherwise closed in Wichita,
Kansas and be able to connect from there just to
be on in a dark, unfamiliar building. Wow, be on
the radio, I does Black Friday was such an important morning.
That we had to have all hands on deck and
(14:55):
buy all hands, I mean our hands and the B
team's hands. You're an a teamer. But those days are gone,
and it's amazing. After they killed Black Friday? Why do
you think they what do you think they did?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You were they first?
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Well, let's not worry about who they are. Okay, what
do you think? What were the actions they took that
killed Black Friday?
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, I know that there were an awful lot before
it ended completely towards the last few years, there were
an awful lot of really violent confrontations at department stores.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Part of the fun.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, but these got really violent.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Ah, come on, this is how this country was built,
you know, exploring the great unknown, going out there, having
a little sense of adventure. You know, there's no guarantees
in life. Sometimes you get on a subway and you
don't know what you're gonna face. Sometimes you go into
a department store to get a great deal in a
shape razor and you said, no idea what might lie ahead.
(16:03):
But you got to be ready for anything. It's part
of that American can do spirit all right. Internet and yeah,
sometimes people got great deals on computers. Sometimes they got
killed in a stampede, you don't know. So they stopped
doing these Okay, we're letting everyone in at the same
time to go rushing into the store, rampaging through here
(16:26):
and ransacking the place. And some of them stopped opening
up all together. Others said, we're gonna start having our
Black Friday savings today, and you're looking at the calendar,
going it's October twelfth. You know, it's like we're like,
oh no, oh.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Yeah. A lot of them started on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Some of them started on Thanksgiving and all, but they
just and they pushed more people online. And then the
retailers after everything that they did to kill the fun
and yeah, sometimes the danger a Black Friday, then they
had the nerve afterwards to come back and say, you know,
(17:06):
we were really counting on Black Friday sales to lift
us up this year, but it just wasn't the same.
Some places opened up and there was no one waiting
outside to come in. Well, it's amazing, you know, for
people like me who want to shop, not necessarily at
three o'clock in the morning on Black Friday. I've never
done that, but my wife used to, and it used
(17:28):
to be a family thing, like we'd get together with family,
and she and sister in law and maybe one of
the nieces who was old enough to go out there,
and part of that fray would go out there and
brave danger, armed with like a pith helmet and a machete,
and they'd go out there and they'd try and hack
their way into getting a deal on a scarf and
(17:48):
some gloves or whatever. They'd come home with crap they
didn't even need. But it was on sale, And by
on sale, I mean it's the same price it was
last week. Don't but it now has a new sign
above it that says, you know, here's the price, and
it's been marked up four hundred dollars, and they slash
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that price and put the same price underneath it, this
four hundred dollars less, never mind the fact it was
this price a month ago.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Has that ever happened? Yes? Does it happen regularly?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Stop disparaging retailers.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Oh, I'm not even close to being done disparaging some
of the retailers. So as I was saying, I like
to go in and go to a brick and mortar
place to get stuff, especially clothes. I want to know
if this is going to make me look fantastic, and
I can't always tell that online. I don't know what
size I am today or what this particular is such
(18:47):
a girl, but this particular manufacturer of pants thinks I am.
I mean sometimes thirty five thirty five, which is apparently
an impossible length. I'm not thirty five thirty How long
are my legs? Like thirty five thirty three I think
would be an appropriate length. I'm trying to get back
down to thirty four the waist, not the length. So
(19:10):
I'm just gonna keep stop shaving off the bottom of
my feet until I lose a little bit, you know.
But sometimes one size is not the same size, you know.
So some manufacturers are like, this is an extra large
shirt and you put it on and you're swimming in it,
and another one's an extra large shirt and it's not
big enough.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I don't know. I gotta try the stuff on.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So you go into a brick and mortar place, and
what do you find? Nothing in your size? Or if
you do well, there might be some stuff over there
that some other people have tried on and then they
threw them in the ever growing heap of clothes outside
the fitting rooms. We don't have the staff that either
will or can sort all that stuff and put it
(19:52):
back on the shelf. So if you want to go
wading in to old ma trash heap full of clothes
over there to try and find some pants, I mean,
my goodness, have at it, you know. And it's just
everything just looks ransacked. Not after a Black Friday rampage.
I'm talking about just a regular day. It's it's gotten
(20:13):
pretty sad in some of these places. People won't work,
can't work, don't do a good job working. You try,
and you know, find someone who works at that story,
can't find him. Like that episode of the twilight Zone
we talked about yesterday. The guy's wandering the streets looking
for him. It wasn't because he was concerned about civilization.
He wanted to ask someone a question about some phone,
(20:36):
and he couldn't find anyone. And that's what that Twilight
Zone episode was all about. I think, and and and
then you finally find someone, and it's some kid who
won't look in the eye, is all shifty, and he
grinding his teeth and he's between meth breaks, and you're like,
I was wondering, do you have I didn't see these
on the shelves. Is there more in the back? I
(20:59):
don't think we have a back. Yeah, you have a
there's there's a storeroom area. Is there anything back there?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I don't know, man, I've only worked here three years.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
You know, like people are hard to find, they're unhelpful,
they don't know anything. They're not putting stuff back on
the racks or back on the shelves. Everything's in disarray.
And then they spread out all the Black Friday savings,
try to push you online, try to and then they
have the nerve to come out and say, all right,
(21:30):
so we didn't do all the fun Black Friday stuff
that we used to, and we spread out all the savings.
We'd try to push people online, and then they come
out on Monday and go, well, it was a pretty
weak Black Friday. Hardly anyone was here. It's almost like
that's exactly how you wanted it. Look, I want to
go into a store. I want to try something out.
(21:53):
I want to I want to touch it, I want
to feel it, and I want to buy it right
there and star. I want to take it home. I
want to have an experience like here. I'll tell you
I'll name the retailer. This is no surprise. We have
some great retailers out there. One of them, I'll only
(22:14):
give us initials. It's NFM. My wife called me on
Sunday and said, can you come down here to the mart.
I'm trying to decide between these two beds. I said, oh,
we're buying a bed.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh, and you're gonna have separate beds.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
No, no, no, like what do you carry?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
You're making me sleep? I sleep in the basement, you know.
So no, I'm trying to decide between these two beds.
And I said, well, do you really need some help
deciding or have you already decided? And I'm gonna waste
my time all the going all the way down and
he's like, no, just come down here. Like fine, so
go down there.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
There is a surprise party at the mart.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
No, she was actually trying to decide between two beds.
So I said, honey, you're the one who says we
need a new bed. We've had this bed now for
fifteen and a half years or so. And I know
that because my wife when she was pregnant with our
second kid, who is now this scroungy teenage boy who
(23:13):
just turned fifteen. My wife said, I'm not going to
go through another pregnancy, especially during the summer months, in
an uncomfortable bed. I need a new bed. I'm like,
we'll get a new bed. So we went, I got
a bed, and now all these years later, she's like,
you know it's lost. It's I don't know, buoyancy or whatever,
you know. I was like, what do you think we're
(23:36):
doing in here? Like, no, you can still see the
imprint after you get off the bed. I'm like, I'm
trying to lose weight. She's like, no, beds just don't
last this long. We need a new bed. I'm fine.
So we went and got a new bed. Worked with
a very helpful guy named Phil. He helped us, helped
my wife choose the bed that she felt we needed,
(23:59):
and then they got all the you know stuff arranged for,
Like do you want them to haul away the old mattress? Absolutely,
So that time ended up being this morning. About an
hour ago. A room of strapping young men came in
from Nebraska Furniture Mart. They brought in the new giant mattress,
got rid of the old giant mattress which is upstairs.
Through kind of this, you gotta go this way and
(24:21):
then that way up this narrow you know, upstairs, which
is really hard to get a mattress up and down
this stuff. And my wife said, it was like watching
an ant form. These guys just like who you know who.
They were in and out in five minutes. Here's a
new bed, getting the old mattress out of here, and
they it was. It was just in and out. The
whole process was great. That's the experience I want when
(24:45):
I go to a brick and mortar retailer, and I
don't find that. I usually get that at most places.
And this is something that used to be something that.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You would do, you expect.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
And your expectations would be met. And now you go
into a place, whether it's a retailer or a restaurant
or whatever, and you end up, you know, being asked like, oh.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Do you you know you you're you're.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Going to pay for this? And then the thing comes
up there and says what tip you're going to leave?
And like it starts at twenty percent, twenty twenty five,
thirty percent. You're like, I just came here recently. It
didn't used to have to tip at this particular place.
Seems like maybe starting at twenty percent is a little presumptuous.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
But you do it because you're like, well, I don't
want to be a cheap guy come in here all
the time. I don't want I'm spitting in my food
or whatever. And it just seems like the portion sizes
are getting smaller, the service is getting worse, and the
quality is getting worse, and it all costs a whole
lot more. And we're a bunch of jerks and Karen's
(25:47):
if we complain about it. Well, I'm complaining about it.
And I wouldn't have said anything except these retailers that
have done a shoddy job for many of them for
all this time. You know, then had the nerve to
come out after ruining Black Friday and say, well it
was pretty weak Black Friday. It was the matter with
you people like, hey, you trained us to do this,
(26:10):
and they'll be surprised. And we've been trained by you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
So that's all.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Are you sure? Probably did you get it all off
your chest?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah? Thing about that bed though?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Did you get the guy that doesn't cause imprints?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Well, I told the guy, I said, what's the warranty
on this one? Because I'm planning on gaining a lot
of weight in the in the weeks to come, you know,
it's egnog season, let alone the years to come.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But there was something about that bed. Man.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Did I get a terrible night's sleep?
Speaker 1 (26:50):
And it does?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I know, we seemingly only have the one mouse. The
we had the one mouse. That mouse is no longer
with us. He's been repurposed, and so now the other
trap is sitting there baited and waiting, but still waiting.
So I think we're all good there with that mouse issue. No,
(27:18):
as I mentioned a moment ago, this morning we got
got a brand new bed, looking forward to a good
night's sleep tonight in this bed. As I said, this
bed we just got rid of was the one who
my wife demanded fifteen and a half years ago, like
I'm not going to carry around your baby, yeah, in
thiscomfortable bed. I need a new bed. I'm like, okay,
(27:41):
it's fine, whatever you want, honey. That was her pregnancy craving.
Some people want marshmallows. She wanted a new bed. So
we got a new bed, and I really didn't think
anything of it until last night was going to be
the last night in that bed, and I'm lying there
in my bed last night, and I'm looking at the
crack in the door as I lie.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
There, the door in your bed.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
No, I'm lying there in bed. I'm looking across the room.
Could be the first problem, just a little sliver of
light there where the door is kind of up against
the doorframe, and I'm seeing something in my head all
night that hasn't been there in years, because, as I said,
this is the bed we've had for over fifteen years,
which meant when we got it fifteen years ago, before
(28:26):
my son was born. My daughter was like two, and
it was around that time when every morning, except for
those mornings I get up and go to work, but
like every weekend morning was exactly the same thing. I'd
lie there and I'd hear her get up, probably at
some ridiculous hour, and then she would come to the
(28:50):
door and not open it up, but just crack it
a little bit and you know, stick her little face
in there.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And I'd look over and I'd say, all right, come here.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
And the bed, that new mattress we got fifteen years
ago was so tall thick that the little two year
old Grace couldn't climb up on the bed. So I'd
reached down, I'd pull her up there and then she'd
snuggle and cuddle with me in bed. And I don't
know why, I suddenly got super nostalgic and sad about that.
(29:20):
Last night I couldn't sleep. I mean, I still have
the daughter. She's a senior in high school. Now, stupid
time time. Why you punish me, Hooty and the blowfish.
But last night I couldn't stop thinking like, this is
the bed that for the last fifteen Christmases, we would
(29:43):
force the kids. Even last year when these two kids,
both teenagers, you know, Christmas morning, you're like, all right,
we're up. Let's have some Christmas. Like Nope, first you
have to cuddle with us in bed. There's not enough
room for all of us in the bed. Get in
the bed and we'd all I'd make us sit there
and cuddle with at this because that's what you do.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
You know, there's one thing you can do to prevent this.
Stop getting so close to people. I know, stop getting
so wrapped up.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know, I so rarely, you know, displayed any kind
of affection for my kids. I left let to the help.
But every once in a while the kids got to
get to me and.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's a very sweet story.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I just got super sad last year and.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Then I couldn't sleep, So I guess that was one
last gift this mattress gave me. Not missing it because
I tossed and turned all night. I think I got
like seven and a half minutes of sleep last night.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
So, so is the new one going to be tall?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Yeah, I think it's about Oh, you haven't even seen it.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Yeah, but I think my kids can get in it now.
I didn't make I told my daughter that as she
came in there, you know, and told me good night.
She's still awake long after I've gone to bed, and
I was telling her that, and she's like, oh, she
jumped in bed and she's I.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Know, what a sweet girl.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
I know.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I tried to tell my son. He was like whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
My son just is continuing to look and sound like
Lebron James. He's a hairline is receding somehow. He's black.
I don't know. He's just he's walking around just going
our ball. Ain't it's our ball? Ain't it dar ball?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Ain't it?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
This is my son. He's just kind of becoming Lebron
James tried to get him into some level of nostalgia.
He wasn't having it and he shuffled off. He teenage,
smelled stinky feeted his way off to bed. But at
least my daughter was sweet about it.
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