February 24, 2025 • 50 mins
After discussing DOGE and "The Five Things You Accomplished Last Week," I mentioned that Red Bernie Sanders was in Omaha this weekend ... which led to me getting all worked up about what these lying pupateers did to ruin college and retirement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott VORGIEZ, this is it. Federal employees have till midnight tonight.
I expect that's Washington, DC, East Coast time to reply
to an email. Can you let's just think about this
for a second. You get an email from your new boss.
Actually it's not even your new boss. It's your new
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boss's buddy who's advising your new boss. So it's basically
you look at it like, ah, this is there's a
new sheriff in town and they just sent me an email.
And the email said, please tell us five things, just
five bullet points on what you accomplished this past week.
(00:51):
First of all, would you think how degrading? How dare
you are you suggesting that I'm not an essential employee?
You don't know who I am, but you already have
decided you've got to fire me. So after your haughtiness
and ego decides to, you know, wear itself out after
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throwing a temper tantrum, and I think all of us
would probably do that. There would be and I'm not
saying it would be outward. You could be you could
be like a duck, right, look very cool on the surface,
but underneath your feet or swimming furiously to keep you
above water. Now you know you you could look cool.
I don't like to look cool on the surface. Well
why start now? And uh but meanwhile inside you're like,
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well you some of you know you're You're like Porterhouse
you some of them. There's your nineteen eighty movie reference
for this segment of the radio program, They're coming at
you fast today. Porkys good guess, But no, it would
be Caddyshack.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Okay, I never saw Porky's I heard about it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, I actually neither of I.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I would carry I cannot respond to this email. I
am too busy.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
When I was a kid, I really wanted to see Porky.
But oh see, now that would be an excellent response.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It would be the truth.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, a five bullet points on what I've accomplished during
the previous week. Well, i'll tell you what. I'm gonna
try and get to that next week because I'm pretty
busy with what I do for you this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Week and covering for all my coworkers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Right, that's that's the first thing that showing up. I mean,
I can't help but do another movie reference, this one
from the nineties. How is this not sitting down.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
With the Bobs office space.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If you're not familiar, and usually I just do the
movie quote and then move on and leave people like
I don't know what is All he does is watch movies. No,
sometimes I watch TV. So in the movie office space,
they bring in the consultants. They're both their names are
is Bob, and so you sit down with the Bobs,
(03:09):
one of them played by John c McGinley, former guest
on this radio program aka Doctor Cox from Scrubs. But whatever,
So the Bobs sit you down. They sit everyone down
and John c McGinley Bob says, so, what is it
that you say that you do here?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's pretty good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's what this email is. They've learned their policy on
how to go in there and see what's going on
in the business from office space, and it's just a
matter of time until someone burns the building down. What
is it that you say that you do here? Give
me five bullet points on what you've accomplished during the
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previous week. Let's say that you don't send back some
email going how dare you to All I've been doing
for the last twenty three years is workingrely is tirelessly
at this job and doing the best I can, and
you come in here and reduce me to someone that
just started, or you know, someone who hasn't been doing this.
(04:16):
How dare you after you let your ego take this out,
or you don't respond the way Lucy suggested, I'll get
to you next week. I'm really busy right now. I
think they'd probably appreciate that email. By the way, but
let's say you take the email at face value. They
want five bullet points on what you've accomplished during the
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previous week. It would be hard to do that, I
think for a lot of people. Not that you couldn't
figure out five things you did the previous week that
are a benefit to in this case, the taxpayer, the country,
you know, whatever, your department. You'd have to think of
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five things that Elon Musk would be impressed by. Then
you'd have to spend a little time wondering is Elon
even going to read this. It'd be hard for me
not to put in. You know, I'd have like three
things I did. I'd finish with something I did, but
the fourth bullet point would be I also single handedly
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helped repopulate the world with Walrus's well, not single handedly,
and female Wallace Waler's friend and I had a very
busy week and we've we've begun repopulating the walrus population
here in DC just to see if they were paying attention,
because part of me thinks no one's actually going to
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read any of this. A part of me thinks that
they just want to see how many people are at
their breaking point and be like, all right, that's it,
that's the last straw, and they quit, they resign, or
they don't respond and say all right, we told you,
and then they get fired. Who's gonna read all this?
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Is Elon gonna sit down and grate everyone's papers? Is
he gonna come back to some low level employee who's
been there five months. No one knows what this person does,
whether it's a good something or not. But do you
think Elon Musk is gonna be grading this going? All right,
I've reviewed what you said you did last week here
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and we're looking over your job as a cafeteria worker
here at the Pentagon and you put down you served
breakfast every day last week, and you put down that
you served lunch every day the past week. Let's talk
about lunch. Do you need to serve lunch every employee,
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and Elon's gonna examine every single one of them. I'm
not buying it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, why would Elon Musk have to sit down and
hand read thousands of emails. He just writes a program
picking out the whatever keywords are. He'll spit those out,
you know, like naps, right, if you have a nap
in your email?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But what if you refiel the napkins? Is that going
to come back? Is all this guy does is sleep?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, there you go lunch again, you're fired.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And then next week at lunch you're like, where are
the napkins? Ah? That's right. I think that they're probably
just trying to frustrate those workers who are like, they're
not really going to lay people off, are they? And
then you get an email tell me what you do,
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and they just say, all right, I've had enough. I'm out.
Because if you don't want to be there, they don't
want you there. I don't want you there as a
taxpayer and concerned citizen. I don't want you there. They
don't want you there. And people are like, but some
of these might be really important jobs. Yes, yes they
might be. And then they'll find a new person. They'll
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hire that person they'll train that person, and then that
person will do that job. Look, what part of this
did you think? What part of draining the swamp did
you think was going to be clean and pretty? And
then we have Trump's response. There are people who apparently
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are concerned about their future. And I am being sincere
a rare moment of sincerity when I say, if you're
an employee who you've been working for the government for
a long time, you do your best effort every single
day as long as you show up and your key
card gets you in the building. You do your best
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work that day. And then you go home and you
think about what you did and maybe how you can
do it better tomorrow. You know, that's an attitude you
try and have every day. Not going to meet that
every day, but you do care. You care about the
job you do, You care about how what you do
affects your coworkers in addition to the American people, and
you truly truly care. And now that person is concerned.
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Am I about to lose my job just because of
some number in a spreadsheet I might not have replied
to an email correctly. Look, I get it. Trust me
when I tell you I get it. You know what,
I have to submit to my bosses every Thursday morning
an email with I think seven bullet points on what
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I slash we on this radio station did over the
past week. Do not send me some snarky email about
how in the world do you make all that stuff up.
It must be hard for you to make up things
that you do every week. Clearly they don't actually listen
to you on the show. Now, I agree with you
on that point, but I'm not saying that to be like, hey,
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I gotta do it, you gotta do it. I'm saying
that to say this is common practice. Elon Musk is
right now a middle manager trying to justify his existence.
What are you gonna do in this job? I'm gonna
make life miserable for the people under me and make
them fill out a bunch of spreadsheets and emails and stuff.
It's got to be in this type of font and
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this type point like why because I said so, you know,
and then they got to send it all back to me.
I'm not going to read any of it, but then
I'm gonna take credit when someone under me does well,
like well, yeah, we asked them to focus on this
because they told me. They were focusing on it, they
already been doing a good job on it, and I said, yeah,
that's great, keep doing that. And then look at this.
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Look at how great it was. Boy, I'm a good leader.
Middle managers, well, I picked the wrong day to do
that rant. They're probably all listening today. They know, though,
do you know why they know? Because they were once
subject to the whims of middle managers, and then they
got into that job and said, well, I'm not going
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to be like the last guy. Of course they were.
You can't help it. So Elon's now the middle manager,
he's the consultant, he's one of the bobs. And then
there's Trump. Trump's in charge. Trump's not reading these emails.
Trump is just, I think, trying to, as he said
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he would do several times, drain this swamp. So as
there are legitimate people out there worried about their job,
they see their boss. The President of the United States
threw this out on truth Social yesterday. It was a
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meme featuring SpongeBob square Pants, the undersea cartoon character who
is a sponge? I guess his name's Bob. I mean,
have we determined that is he a sponge? Whose name is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Bob or a.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Kid show or is his name SpongeBob? I guess? And
his bottom half is square and he wears pants, so
his name SpongeBob SquarePants. Just in case you're like, Scott,
we know what this is, all right? So anyway, this
cartoon character, whether you know what it is or not,
is scratching its spongy head with a pencil and staring
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bleary eyed at a pad of paper. And then you
see what's written on the pad of paper. That's the meme.
You can have the paper say whatever you want. So
Trump put this out and here's what the pad of
paper says. This is supposed to be some mystery government
employee who says, here's what I got done last week,
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cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the
office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and
Elon some more. I found that tweet that I talked
about with Gary on Kfab's Morning News. Elon Musk had
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retweeted this the other day and is from a government
employee who is very, very concerned about having lost this
job to be there for kids. So the other day
she says, I was terminated from dream job with the
Children's Bureau yesterday due to the Federal Restructuring Executive Order
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from DOGE. I am unemployed for the first time since
I was fifteen years old. I hope you get your
blanking cheap eggs. Only she didn't say fudge. So that's
what she said about a week or so ago. She
was helping kids dream job and this is all so
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we can get cheap eggs. You know she's unemployed. Just
because she tweeted that, people started digging through her previous tweets.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They didn't have to go very far.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You usually don't.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
From last October, the same government employee tweeted, didn't have
any meetings today, so I've been wearing my jammies all day,
but now I have a meeting in thirty minutes. So
putting on a hoodie eventually that what the hell life
gonna get you. So let's see, your dream job was
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living the wh Actually, now that I look at it,
here it says WFH, not WT.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Work from home.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, thank you from was not the word I was
going to put in that acronym. Based on what she
said in the first one about eggs, I figured, oh,
this is some dirty thing. Yeah, eventually at work from
home life gonna get you. Yeah, she's no meeting makes
more sense now, yeah, thank you. So last October she says,
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no meetings again today. Wearing my jammies all day again today.
But someone's gonna make me have a zoom call meeting
in at thirty minutes, So I gotta put on a shirt.
You know that work from home life gonna get you.
Sometimes I'm gonna have a meeting, gonna have to look
like I'm doing She tweeted that out. So yeah, I
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mean the media, the anti Trump media, is going to
make it look like the only people who have been
cut loose or will be cut loose, are like the
people in charge of air traffic control. I hey, Trump
and and Elon. They fired all these guys, and now
planes are crashing into each other every day.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I thought the only people getting let go were FAA
people and Parks department, everybody who works in the forestry department.
I thought they were all gone.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, yeah they can't. We can't go trees anymore. Those
trees are just going to be like, well, all the
US Forestry Service is gone. Now what are we supposed
to do? Who's going to water the trees. Isn't that
what they do?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeh?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Look, I know, I know, I know. There are several
very important Forestry Service employees.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Has anybody checked on Greg Wagner.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh, he works for the Nebraska in the Park system.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Isn't it still a government job.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Not a federal government job? Okay? So Greg, Greg's an
essential employee.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
He is so essential, one hundred essential.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Greg Wagner comes in here Friday mornings with various duck
and animal calls, and he even will sometimes bring in
a rod and reel. You know, if we're talking about fishing,
so we can do this is sound effect on that
during hunting season, he's tried to bring in various shotguns.
We said, Greg, we can't fire. He's like they're blanks.
Like you still can't fire a shotgun in here. Greg
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Wagner is so crazy that I would not be surprised
that we checked into it, and Nebraska Himan Park says,
we don't have a record of anyone named Greg Wagner
ever having worked here, and we realize he's just some crazy,
homeless guy that shows up in here once in a while.
It has a cup of coffee, comes in here with
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an outfit on even though it's radio and starts making
duck calls.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That would be awesome to find out something like that,
that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And you see him on TV too. He does spots
on TV even better. And that's that's why I guess
where the outfits? You know makes sense? But uh so,
like and we're just checking on uh Greg, we do.
We don't have an employee named Greg Wagner. And you're like,
what in the world's going on? Where was I? Oh? Yeah,
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people getting laid off. It's also USAID is now getting
cut loose. This is the organization that most of us
had never heard of. And then we heard and saw
the acronym us AID. You said, us AID or as
Lucy sees it, you said, and now I can't unsea that.
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But technically it's I think they You don't say us AID,
it's us AID. It's what they called the group. And
you think like, oh, this is an organization that takes
care of people all over the world, and some of
them do. But then you realize, like, wait a second,
it looks like this political hack got rewarded with a
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very high level job to go work for this taxpayer
funded agency. And it's it seems like her only resume
point in her favor is she was an Obama and
Biden hack. She's the one who started the wire tapping
and Faizi stuff there against the Trump campaign. Huh, And
she got this job. What else is going on in
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this organization? And that's where you find out that it
too often does nothing and they get tons of money.
Now there are people who work within it who got
because they saw the same thing, like USAID great, I
want to work for this wonderful organization, and they go
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in there with the best of intentions and they want
to do great things around the globe because they think
that's what they're doing. And now maybe they're realizing, oh,
that's not what this is. So the Trump administration said
yesterday it's eliminating two thousand positions at the US Agency
for International Development USAID and placing all but a fraction
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of these other USA staff members on leave. And Gary
asked a great question this morning on kfab's Morning News.
He said, let's say you're you know, in Honduras or
Thailand or something like that, and they just said, like, well,
you've been furloughed, you're on leave and You're like, but
do I stay here? Do I come home? Is someone
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paying for me to come home? What about all my
Do I leave all my stuff here? Am I fired?
Like I said, this is not going to be pretty draining.
The swamp is not going to be pretty. Mistakes will
be made. I don't know if this is one of them.
But if you look at the macro, it's easy to
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be like, yeah, I get rid of all these guys.
If you think about that person who was like, I
didn't do anything wrong and now what I'm stuck and
the congo I someone gonna come pick me up? Is
there an uber that gets me back to Indiana? I
don't know what to do here? Yeah, you can definitely
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have some sympathy while also rooting on Trump and Musk.
So that's the latest on that front. Scott Boys, Snooze
Radio eleven, Kfab can email Scott at kfab dot com
and the Zonker's custom woods inbox and says, my wife
just walked into my office and she was listening to
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you while running a couple of errands. She was laughing
at how much fun you were having on the air
this morning. All right, look laughing with me, laughing at me.
If you take any kind of good vibes away from
this program at any point, I have done my intended job,
and I can put that down as one of my
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one of my five, because I I'll have something this week.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No use, you can put all five of those things down.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Ken's wife was laughing. That's one that's huge, Honest to goodness.
If if they said, hey, we just had a big
client who was listening to your show and they want
to advertise on this radio station because of your show,
and it's an eighty bazillion dollar account, I would be
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very happy with that, and I would rank it right
there with some listener was checking out the program, maybe
on a Monday morning, where I mean, it's kind of
hard to be in a real bad mood this Monday
compared to last Monday, when it was snowing and snowing
and snowing and followed by cold and cold and cold.
I mean, this one week later and things are so
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much better. But I don't know what's going on in
your life. If you tune into this program and you
take away a good vibe from it, maybe even a
chuckle or a gifa or a chortle, a giggle of
some sort. Then I am so honored by that. Even
if you're laughing at me, that's fine. I will be
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You're whipping boy anytime. In fact, Jerry emails and the
subject line is Elon, and then the only thing he
says here is you're so effing contrary feather brain. That's
from Jerry.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Is he talking to you or to Elon?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know. I want to believe that he's talking
to me, because I have never been called a feather
brain before. I'm honored. Most people say I don't have
a brain. I'm going to forward them this email from
Big Ja. I do too, very light. It's a feather brain.
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We had Red Bernie in town on Friday us. Isn't
that the new Captain America movie, Red Bernie, Red Bernie?
Captain America, Red Bernie? Where where foul? Now? Captain America
has to take on a foe he thinks is a
meek old man, but then he starts getting going and
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turns into this giant hulk of a kami a red comie.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Okay, so Omaha had had a weekend with Bernie.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Much like that. Yes, I think probably Jane Kleb was
on one shoulder and uh, I will put State Senator
Terrell McKinney on the other shoulder, and they're like, yeah,
Megan Haunts on the other shoulder. Hey, look everyone, Bernie's here. Hey,
Bernie can shake his hand now he's worried about germs here.
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We had a really great time at a lot of speakers.
I noticed Bernie just sat on the couch wearing shades
all night. That's that's how he likes to party. That burn.
US Senator Bernie Sanders of Russia, i mean, for of Cuba,
spoke in Omaha on Friday night as part of his
national tour. That's right, Bernie Sanders is on tour. The tickets, yeah,
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the tour is called now look an Evening with Bernie Sanders.
What'd you say about tickets.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It's tough to get them.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't think he charged for this.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Right, When there's only twenty tickets to begin with, it's
tough to get them.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
No, they well, they did move it into a larger
area because there were so many people that wanted to come.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, I mean it's like when Taylor Swift says, we're
going to do a show at the h the Admiral
you're like the admiral. You just you know that it's
going to sell out, so you can then move it
into a bigger arena and make yourself seem like a
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bigger deal.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is that a trick, right? I've never heard that so many.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We just managed to get this other venue to immediately
agree to take this on, and we've magically transferred to
the tickets. It happens anyway, Bernie Sanders, they were going
to do this at the labor Union Hall. I can't
even think where or what that is? Not the firefighters
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Union hall? Where's the Where's the laborer Union Hall? The
cops are over one hundred and thirty second in center,
firefighters are just off sixtieth and I eighty. Where's the
Laborer's Union Hall? I don't even know if I can
find it by looking up Laborers Union Hall? Do you
want me to waste time doing it better? Because people
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are going to email go it's over here, And even
though I should let them, I feel like, oh fifty
six and Sorenson.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh I've actually been there.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I still can't picture it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's yeah, it's a it's kind of tucked back a
little bit off of sorts and just like barely off.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Jeez, I just looked at my phone and there's eighty
thousand messages between my son and my wife. And you
think is something wrong now, something about what he wants
to do after school?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, why are you on that thread all?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Because they seem to think I'm his dad and that
I should and that I should be a part of
these parenting decisions. I'm at work, I'm doing work. I've
got to do five things this week to convince Elon
to keep me on for next week.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's one a day.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I know, I got you know, if you think about it,
and they're like, give us five things? Five? Yeah, is
there one thing every day that you did? But like
I said earlier, it's not what you did, it's what
you think Elon would be impressed that you did. Yeah. Sorry,
Back to Bernie. Bernie is on tour.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He's on tour. Jeez, Labor Union office Hall.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We're going to do it the Labors Union, but so
many people ARESVP, they moved it to the downtown Marriott
so they were described here on the story from KMTV
three News Now. Hundreds of community members filed into a
ballroom and an overflow area that was set up in
the hallway to see Bernie Sanders. What was his message
(28:22):
is national tour?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I mean, what is he on tour for? What is
his message?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
The tour is it's called fighting the oligarchy? Where we
go from here?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Did he bring it with him?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah? He brought the oligarchy. Yeah, and everyone just lined
up and took turns fighting it. And as it turns out,
oligarchy won because Trump's still there. Right, Yeah, that's what
he describes as the oligarchy. Let's let's let's just find
some terms. Oligarchy is a power led by a handful
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of centralized group of very rich business leaders, horrible rich
business And you're like, but Trump's rich and Elon's rich,
Yes they are, and Biden was rich, and you know
who else is rich? Bernie Sanders what, No.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He's never had a job job in the public sector.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Now, it's hard to find out what his worth is
because it's obviously incumbent upon him and his reputation to
make sure no one knows how much he's worth. So
estimates are on the low end, he's worth a paltry
three million dollars. On the high end, fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Oh really, that's not that much.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I know, granted, not that much. But when you all
you've done is work a government job for all these years.
And I mean, he can't invest in the stock market, right,
that'd be very Unbernie Sanders like of him. So then
you think, yeah, so where does he get his money?
Obviously he's not spending on clothes and a haircut, so hey,
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tour book deal. And what I don't think Bernie Sanders
is crooked. I honestly don't think he's one of these
guys who is like, I tell you, you paid me
the money. Oh, make sure you get your deal. We'll
get you your airline parts. You know. I don't think
he's like one of those guys. But I do think
that he's become very wealthy speaking to our book deal.
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And that's fine. I don't be grudge of any of that.
But then don't turn around and describe the duly elected
president of the United States who was not bought and
paid for by you know, the election wasn't bought and
paid for by anybody. People went and voted, We counted
the votes. Trump won. How about that. This is not
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an oligarchy. This is still the same government we've always had.
Therein lies the problem. Bernie Sanders doesn't like our government.
He doesn't like our constitution, he doesn't like our free
market capitalism in this country. Instead of our oligarchy. He
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wants democratic socialism, which is communism, which is socialism, which
is nothing that has ever worked long term for anybody
anywhere in the history of anything.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So and how long has he been in office, sergees?
Since the sixties? Right, yes, seventies.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
He started off as like the mayor of Burlington or
something like that, and that kind of worked his up,
so various government offices since he was very young.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
So for somebody who does not like the way that
this government runs, and he's been in it for fifty years,
when do you say, well, I guess this is the
way it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, but that does make money. That was a pretty
good Bernie impression. We don't use get impressions out of you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Bad impressions out of me. Basically, the Bernie Sanders impression
is Jackie Mason, the old comic and the star of
the worst movie of all time. You want to take
a crack at that one?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Back to School?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
No, that was Rodney Dangerfield, But no, he wasn't. Jackie
Mason was not in Back to School Jackie Mason, but
you're on the right track. Jackie Mason was brought in
to be the Rodney Dangerfield character. He was kind of
brought in to replace Rodney in a sequel. No, he
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just Rodney was among those who are like, no, this
is gonna be terrible. I don't want anything to do
with it. And they made it anyway, and it was
the worst movie of all time. And that is Caddy
Shack Too. Caddy Shack Too is terrible, just terrible. Theme
(33:03):
song was really good as another one by Kenny Loggins.
Nobody's fool. Nope, no, you'd recognize. We'll come back with it.
Uh So Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders on tour. Who is
his opening act? Joan Baiez I thought, uh so Bernie
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shows up here and says the working families in Nebraska
and people all over this country are struggling just to
make ends meet. Agreed, all over this country. We have
a major housing crisis all over this country, major healthcare
crisis all over I'm quoting here, all over this country.
The price of food going up at the grocery store,
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cost of childcare, college unaffordable. Working people are struggling. They're
struggling to pay the bills. But so far right, he's right.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I can get on board with all of that.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And then he faults Trump because Trump wants to cut
government spending and be able to provide massive tax breaks. Now,
his problem is that these massive tax breaks would go
to everybody, including the wealthy, which is always the straw
man argument they bring up. If you give two people
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a tax break of twenty percent of what they paid
in taxes last year, yes, the person who paid a
lot more in taxes is going to see more money
back as a percentage they should. That's fair. Bernie doesn't
want fair. He wants to continue to take from those rich,
horrible people who didn't earn a penny in their life,
even though he's rich, and he'll probably tell you he
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earned every penny of it, and he did, you know,
so did the other rich guys. And he wants it
all to go towards people who apparently aren't working. He
wants them to be more dependent on government. That's what
socialism is. And as far as this idea about well,
people are struggling to make ends meet and the cost
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of this going up, he mentioned college. Now's when I
start breaking pencils in my hand my other hand, because
I'm going to try not to let this be a
central theme of the radio program for the next several
months and probably then again a couple of years after that.
(35:24):
But there's a very sad truth that I'm forced this
week to admit. Lucy. Remember, shortly after I was hired
here on this radio station, we brought a daughter into
the world. I recall that I called into the morning show.
You and Gary and Jim were in here, and I said, hey, everyone,
(35:45):
we had a baby. It's a girl. Her name is Grace.
And everyone's like, yay, you know, they're all happy. Well,
guess what, my baby girl turns eighteen tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Are you going to cry? No, yes, you are. I
can see it now.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I might not.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You're crying now.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I might not tomorrow because it turns out she's not
even going to be in town.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
What she's not letting her parents spend her eighteenth birthday
with her.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
We went out last night and we'll get together tonight
after her brother's basketball game. Then she's got some school
thing and she's going out of town for three days
with all classmates and all that. I hope she has
a great time. Yeah, I know, it's it's it's weird,
but what isn't so anyway? Where was I? Oh? Yeah,
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she's a senior in high school and we've been I
would like to think that we did a great job
in saving for college over the years since she was born.
I recognize that it was important to save for college,
and we've saved, and we've saved, and we did the
five twenty nine plan. Even though the five twenty nine
(37:01):
plan got into the ring with inflation and got destroyed.
I might as well have just taken that money chucked
it into Carter Lake.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Did you lose money on it?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
No, we just didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
You just didn't gain any just didn't we.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Got well, you're like, well we had a little gain here, Yeah,
but inflation outpaced that gain by about fifteen points.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You could have taken that money and bought comic books
from the nineteen seventies and held on to them until
she was eighteen, and then they'd be worth millions. I
could have.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Gone to the boats and bet it all on black
and probably been in better shape than I am now.
So yeah, So, but if it's a five twenty nine plan.
It means a tax framing taken out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway,
I'm going to try not to let this be a
central theme in the months and years ahead, but I
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also anticipate that they're there are a lot of people
who've either just gone through this, are going through it,
or will in the next few years. And that is
something like, I know things are different than when I was,
you know, a teenager then moving on to college in
the nineties. I know things are more expensive. I get it.
(38:20):
I'm not mad that things have gotten more expensive, and
I am appreciative. Before someone starts emailing going you know,
you don't have to send her to big time university.
They got this school and they got that school, community college,
you can take online course. Yes, I know. I'll raise
my kids, thank you very much. When we look at
our options. Though. The thing that makes me really really mad,
(38:44):
and this is me I'm not angry. I'm not yelling.
Which voice is scarier if I start yelling or if
you know that I want to yell. But instead of yelling,
I'm just very very calm, very measured in my commons.
Because you know it's about to pop right.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Well, you said you're not angry.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh, you're right, I'm sorry, not angry. Not angry. Here's
what makes me angry when someone like Bernie Sanders, and
the only thing that he's got going for him, as
far as I'm concerned, is he will at least come
out and tell you he's a socialist. He doesn't like
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our former government or our economy. He doesn't like that
we have a form of free market capitalism in this nation.
He doesn't like any of it. He wants socialism, communism,
progressive democrat, call what you want. It's he's a comedy,
and he at least admits it. Other people come out,
they run for office as Democrats and Republicans and they
(39:51):
say I'm fighting for the little guy and I want
to do this and all that. And all these guys
come out and say like things like the government's too big,
and there's too much waste, and there's too much we
really need to go in here, line by line and
take a look at it, and no one ever does it.
And then when Trump does, they're like, hey, hey, what
are you doing. You could tell people right now, say
(40:11):
what do you think about this quote? And I don't
have the exact quote, but I'm really close when I say,
what do you think about this quote? The government has
gotten too big and too bloated, and it's getting out
of control, and it's it's creating a horrible national debt
that we can't expect our kids and grandkids to pay
for forever. We've got to get it under control. We've
(40:33):
got to look through this big government, find the elements
of fraud and waste line by line, because there's a
lot of it out there, and we got to take
a control on it. We got to get a handle
on it right now. And you say, hey, young people,
what do you think about that? And they're like, I
hate Trump, I hate Musk. He's getting rid of people
Like all right, who wha wha wha. That was said
(40:54):
in two thousand and eight by Barack Obama. I can
find a similar quote in twenty twenty from Joe Biden.
They all say this, Trump and Musk are the only
ones doing something about it. So the only thing Bernie
(41:16):
has going for him is that he'll at least admit
he's a comedy. The rest of these liars come out
and they're like, we gotta do this, and we got
to fight for the little and then they don't do it.
And here's my evidence, and here is the reason why
I'm angry. When Bernie Sanders says, well, the cost of
healthcare through the roof and college is unaffordable, Well, gee,
(41:38):
how did both of these things happen? A trip down
memory lane comes us to the crossroads where one senator
was standing up against Obamacare. That senator was Nebraska's Ben Nelson.
This is not a rant against Ben Nelson, is just
putting you back into the proper per It's two thousand
(42:01):
and when was then eight nine ten? Sorry, I won't
make that sound anymore. In the radio, uh, somewhere somewhere
back in the old timy times, ben Nelson said, I
don't think this is a good thing for Americans, and
then they sweetened it up for him, and he's like, oh,
I'm sorry. What I meant was it's great, and we
(42:21):
got Obamacare. Tucked in to Obamacare was not just the
lie if you like your doctor, if you like your insurance,
you can keep your doctor, you can keep your insurance.
It turns out that was a lie. And when people
said this isn't going to work, it's going to be
too expensive, taxpayer dollars are going to go to it,
(42:41):
So our taxes are going to go up, and our
premiums and our deductibles are going to go up. Oh
no they won't. You guys are just racists. You wouldn't
be saying this if it was a white president, Like,
what has nothing to do with that? And all that
stuff happened. It all got more expensive. But also tucked
into Obamacare was the federal take over of student loans
in this country. So let's see here, public colleges and
(43:07):
universities tied in to the federal government. Back when Lucy,
let's say I'm a student, I want to go to college,
and Lucy is the lender, and I say, Lucy, can
I have money for college? And Lucy's like, I don't know,
because if you default on your loans, I don't know
if this is a good idea. So she would only
(43:28):
give me a little bit of money. I then give
that to the college. The college recognizes, well, at some point,
Scott and Lucy run out of money. We have to
keep costs down because we can't lose money. We can't
have people default on loans. Then we don't get paid.
It's a bad system. So when that was the system,
college costs were kept down, and then the government came
(43:51):
in and said, Lucy move. Now Lucy doesn't exist. Oh boy,
now the government is the one telling me how much
money do you need for college? And then the college
over here says, wait a second, our buddy, the federal government.
I mean, if Scott defaults on his loans, the American
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taxpayers already pay for it. We don't lose any money.
And the government's like, we'll roll the dice. We think
Scott's probably gonna pay, and if not, we'll go after him.
So we'll charge him this percentage interest and he'll pay
us back, and we the federal government and make money.
But you know what, we make a lot more money
if more people take out student loans. Colleges and universities,
(44:34):
you want to keep getting federal funding. Of course, we
do jack up costs. And what do you know, after Obamacare,
college costs went through the roof, and suddenly if you
reach out to the colleges, they immediately say, well, how
(44:54):
much money do you need to borrow for college? We'll
take care of that. We'll take care of that. In fact,
I tell you what, here's our astronomical cost that we
say how much it costs to go to college. Here,
tell you what, We'll cut that in half, which is
still astronomical. But now it feels like you're getting a deal. Right,
Wait a second, I used to be seventy five notes.
(45:15):
Now we're looking at like thirty seven thousand dollars. Oh,
this is a lot better. And I tell you what,
we have such faith in you to be a great student.
We want you to be a part of this college.
Let's take that down here. We'll give you ten thousand
dollars in scholarships. How about that. You're like, wow, these
guys are just giving me money. This is great, all right.
Tell you what, boy, I know it had been. We're
(45:35):
still looking at the amount of good amount of money,
like thirty thousand dollars for college, but it used to
be seventy five. We got it down to thirty for you.
It's a steal, right, it's a deal. And I'll tell
you what. We'll give you some low interest loans. If
you can't pay him back right away, that's fine. We'll
just put them in deferment. You don't have to pay
them back right away. Now they're not going to tell
you the interest will continue to accrue when you're not
(45:56):
paying back your student loans. But don't worry. At some point,
we're going to make sure you got a great job
and you're gonna be able to pay those loans back.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Well, these are kids going to college. They should know that.
They don't have to be told that. They don't know
it's still a crue interest.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
They don't know it, and their parents don't.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
Well, then they need to go to college.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
And so costs went through the roof students and families.
Because my eighteen year old daughter, she can't really take
on a loan, I end up taking on the loan
and so now it's on me. And so everyone is
now incentivized to take out loans for the cost of college.
And the college costs keep going up, and the government
(46:35):
continues to make sure that you're incentivized and pushed towards
student loans. They make all this money. College has gotten
completely unaffordable to where a family making a good amount
of money, has been putting money away for years suddenly
looks at the cost of college and says, I can't
afford this, And thank goodness, there are other I mean,
(46:59):
your big time colleges and universities. The ones whose names
we all know are not your only options. But then
your kid says, but I want to go to the
big college, and you're like, well, now, as your parent,
I guess I have to just destroy and crush all
your dreams. That's a fun conversation to have, you know,
(47:20):
So it just great. But it is better to crush
those dreams now and then not saddle your kid with
student loan debt, because then your kid gets saddled with
student loan debt. So now they're trying to get out
of the nest even more, get a job, find some
(47:40):
place to live. Well, all right, so now we're trying
to find rent, as Courtney Donahost said on kfab's Morning News,
so we kind of brought this up a few hours ago.
I interjected and brought it up a few hours ago.
Courtney said, I have a friend who constantly has to
turn down college graduates who are trying to rent apartments
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because their income to debt ratio is so lopsided that
they're not a good they're not a good risk to
rent apartments to them. And these are affordable apartments, which
is kind of a misnomer anymore. And so now these
guys they can't get started. So what happens They moved
(48:22):
back in with mom and dad. Mom and dad start
paying for more stuff that comes out of their retirement savings.
And then what happens at some point they want to retire,
They don't have any money left over, and all of
that is looming over Here is the government, who once again,
the ones who caused this trouble, the ones who orchestrated
all of this. I didn't even point out how Biden
(48:43):
single handedly was trying to crush this so called evil
for profit colleges. They gotta pay, We got to stop
them from doing that. That stuff was most of those
guys were lower tuition rates, lower room and board rates
than the big nonprofit colleges and universities the state schools,
and Biden shut them down so you'd have fewer options,
(49:04):
fundeling you more into the state colleges and universities, making
you get student loans, and the government orchestrated all of this.
And then here comes the government seemingly surprised, like, oh wow,
so your kids are still living with you, you don't
have retirement savings, and now you want to retire and
you need someone to take care of you. Well, the
government would be great at that. You know what, Let's
(49:26):
just go to universal health care and let's finally go
to socialism. So when the biggest socialism of them all,
Bernie Sanders, comes to Omaha and says, it's terrible. The
cost of college is unaffordable. You guys did this. You
did it on purpose, and we're continuing to let it
happen and go, well, I don't know how to pay
(49:46):
for college. Yeah, what are you going to do? You're
going to let Trump and Musk immediately start draining the swamp.
And I hope someone enlightens them as to what's going
on here, because, let's face it, Trump and Musk. Trump
has never had to worry about how am I going
to pay for Tiffany to go to college? He's never
(50:06):
had to worry about that. And Elon's like, I've never
had to worry about where little Square root Pie four
square is ever going to go to college or whatever
his kid's name is. They've never had to worry about that.
Someone make sure Trump and Elon sit down in the
White House this week and listen to this podcast, because
(50:27):
this is the biggest thing going on with families across
this country. Scott Voy's Mornings nine to eleven on news
radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott VORGIEZ, this is it. Federal employees have till midnight tonight.
I expect that's Washington, DC, East Coast time to reply
to an email. Can you let's just think about this
for a second. You get an email from your new boss.
Actually it's not even your new boss. It's your new
(00:24):
boss's buddy who's advising your new boss. So it's basically
you look at it like, ah, this is there's a
new sheriff in town and they just sent me an email.
And the email said, please tell us five things, just
five bullet points on what you accomplished this past week.
(00:51):
First of all, would you think how degrading? How dare
you are you suggesting that I'm not an essential employee?
You don't know who I am, but you already have
decided you've got to fire me. So after your haughtiness
and ego decides to, you know, wear itself out after
(01:13):
throwing a temper tantrum, and I think all of us
would probably do that. There would be and I'm not
saying it would be outward. You could be you could
be like a duck, right, look very cool on the surface,
but underneath your feet or swimming furiously to keep you
above water. Now you know you you could look cool.
I don't like to look cool on the surface. Well
why start now? And uh but meanwhile inside you're like,
(01:37):
well you some of you know you're You're like Porterhouse
you some of them. There's your nineteen eighty movie reference
for this segment of the radio program, They're coming at
you fast today. Porkys good guess, But no, it would
be Caddyshack.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Okay, I never saw Porky's I heard about it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
No, I actually neither of I.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I would carry I cannot respond to this email. I
am too busy.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
When I was a kid, I really wanted to see Porky.
But oh see, now that would be an excellent response.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It would be the truth.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, a five bullet points on what I've accomplished during
the previous week. Well, i'll tell you what. I'm gonna
try and get to that next week because I'm pretty
busy with what I do for you this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Week and covering for all my coworkers.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Right, that's that's the first thing that showing up. I mean,
I can't help but do another movie reference, this one
from the nineties. How is this not sitting down.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
With the Bobs office space.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If you're not familiar, and usually I just do the
movie quote and then move on and leave people like
I don't know what is All he does is watch movies. No,
sometimes I watch TV. So in the movie office space,
they bring in the consultants. They're both their names are
is Bob, and so you sit down with the Bobs,
(03:09):
one of them played by John c McGinley, former guest
on this radio program aka Doctor Cox from Scrubs. But whatever,
So the Bobs sit you down. They sit everyone down
and John c McGinley Bob says, so, what is it
that you say that you do here?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That's pretty good, thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's what this email is. They've learned their policy on
how to go in there and see what's going on
in the business from office space, and it's just a
matter of time until someone burns the building down. What
is it that you say that you do here? Give
me five bullet points on what you've accomplished during the
(03:56):
previous week. Let's say that you don't send back some
email going how dare you to All I've been doing
for the last twenty three years is workingrely is tirelessly
at this job and doing the best I can, and
you come in here and reduce me to someone that
just started, or you know, someone who hasn't been doing this.
(04:16):
How dare you after you let your ego take this out,
or you don't respond the way Lucy suggested, I'll get
to you next week. I'm really busy right now. I
think they'd probably appreciate that email. By the way, but
let's say you take the email at face value. They
want five bullet points on what you've accomplished during the
(04:37):
previous week. It would be hard to do that, I
think for a lot of people. Not that you couldn't
figure out five things you did the previous week that
are a benefit to in this case, the taxpayer, the country,
you know, whatever, your department. You'd have to think of
(04:57):
five things that Elon Musk would be impressed by. Then
you'd have to spend a little time wondering is Elon
even going to read this. It'd be hard for me
not to put in. You know, I'd have like three
things I did. I'd finish with something I did, but
the fourth bullet point would be I also single handedly
(05:21):
helped repopulate the world with Walrus's well, not single handedly,
and female Wallace Waler's friend and I had a very
busy week and we've we've begun repopulating the walrus population
here in DC just to see if they were paying attention,
because part of me thinks no one's actually going to
(05:44):
read any of this. A part of me thinks that
they just want to see how many people are at
their breaking point and be like, all right, that's it,
that's the last straw, and they quit, they resign, or
they don't respond and say all right, we told you,
and then they get fired. Who's gonna read all this?
(06:07):
Is Elon gonna sit down and grate everyone's papers? Is
he gonna come back to some low level employee who's
been there five months. No one knows what this person does,
whether it's a good something or not. But do you
think Elon Musk is gonna be grading this going? All right,
I've reviewed what you said you did last week here
(06:32):
and we're looking over your job as a cafeteria worker
here at the Pentagon and you put down you served
breakfast every day last week, and you put down that
you served lunch every day the past week. Let's talk
about lunch. Do you need to serve lunch every employee,
(06:53):
and Elon's gonna examine every single one of them. I'm
not buying it.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, why would Elon Musk have to sit down and
hand read thousands of emails. He just writes a program
picking out the whatever keywords are. He'll spit those out,
you know, like naps, right, if you have a nap
in your email?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
But what if you refiel the napkins? Is that going
to come back? Is all this guy does is sleep?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, there you go lunch again, you're fired.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And then next week at lunch you're like, where are
the napkins? Ah? That's right. I think that they're probably
just trying to frustrate those workers who are like, they're
not really going to lay people off, are they? And
then you get an email tell me what you do,
(07:45):
and they just say, all right, I've had enough. I'm out.
Because if you don't want to be there, they don't
want you there. I don't want you there as a
taxpayer and concerned citizen. I don't want you there. They
don't want you there. And people are like, but some
of these might be really important jobs. Yes, yes they
might be. And then they'll find a new person. They'll
(08:06):
hire that person they'll train that person, and then that
person will do that job. Look, what part of this
did you think? What part of draining the swamp did
you think was going to be clean and pretty? And
then we have Trump's response. There are people who apparently
(08:28):
are concerned about their future. And I am being sincere
a rare moment of sincerity when I say, if you're
an employee who you've been working for the government for
a long time, you do your best effort every single
day as long as you show up and your key
card gets you in the building. You do your best
(08:50):
work that day. And then you go home and you
think about what you did and maybe how you can
do it better tomorrow. You know, that's an attitude you
try and have every day. Not going to meet that
every day, but you do care. You care about the
job you do, You care about how what you do
affects your coworkers in addition to the American people, and
you truly truly care. And now that person is concerned.
(09:15):
Am I about to lose my job just because of
some number in a spreadsheet I might not have replied
to an email correctly. Look, I get it. Trust me
when I tell you I get it. You know what,
I have to submit to my bosses every Thursday morning
an email with I think seven bullet points on what
(09:40):
I slash we on this radio station did over the
past week. Do not send me some snarky email about
how in the world do you make all that stuff up.
It must be hard for you to make up things
that you do every week. Clearly they don't actually listen
to you on the show. Now, I agree with you
on that point, but I'm not saying that to be like, hey,
(10:04):
I gotta do it, you gotta do it. I'm saying
that to say this is common practice. Elon Musk is
right now a middle manager trying to justify his existence.
What are you gonna do in this job? I'm gonna
make life miserable for the people under me and make
them fill out a bunch of spreadsheets and emails and stuff.
It's got to be in this type of font and
(10:26):
this type point like why because I said so, you know,
and then they got to send it all back to me.
I'm not going to read any of it, but then
I'm gonna take credit when someone under me does well,
like well, yeah, we asked them to focus on this
because they told me. They were focusing on it, they
already been doing a good job on it, and I said, yeah,
that's great, keep doing that. And then look at this.
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Look at how great it was. Boy, I'm a good leader.
Middle managers, well, I picked the wrong day to do
that rant. They're probably all listening today. They know, though,
do you know why they know? Because they were once
subject to the whims of middle managers, and then they
got into that job and said, well, I'm not going
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to be like the last guy. Of course they were.
You can't help it. So Elon's now the middle manager,
he's the consultant, he's one of the bobs. And then
there's Trump. Trump's in charge. Trump's not reading these emails.
Trump is just, I think, trying to, as he said
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he would do several times, drain this swamp. So as
there are legitimate people out there worried about their job,
they see their boss. The President of the United States
threw this out on truth Social yesterday. It was a
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meme featuring SpongeBob square Pants, the undersea cartoon character who
is a sponge? I guess his name's Bob. I mean,
have we determined that is he a sponge? Whose name is.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Bob or a.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Kid show or is his name SpongeBob? I guess? And
his bottom half is square and he wears pants, so
his name SpongeBob SquarePants. Just in case you're like, Scott,
we know what this is, all right? So anyway, this
cartoon character, whether you know what it is or not,
is scratching its spongy head with a pencil and staring
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bleary eyed at a pad of paper. And then you
see what's written on the pad of paper. That's the meme.
You can have the paper say whatever you want. So
Trump put this out and here's what the pad of
paper says. This is supposed to be some mystery government
employee who says, here's what I got done last week,
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cried about Trump, cried about Elon, made it into the
office for once, read some emails, cried about Trump and
Elon some more. I found that tweet that I talked
about with Gary on Kfab's Morning News. Elon Musk had
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retweeted this the other day and is from a government
employee who is very, very concerned about having lost this
job to be there for kids. So the other day
she says, I was terminated from dream job with the
Children's Bureau yesterday due to the Federal Restructuring Executive Order
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from DOGE. I am unemployed for the first time since
I was fifteen years old. I hope you get your
blanking cheap eggs. Only she didn't say fudge. So that's
what she said about a week or so ago. She
was helping kids dream job and this is all so
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we can get cheap eggs. You know she's unemployed. Just
because she tweeted that, people started digging through her previous tweets.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They didn't have to go very far.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
You usually don't.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
From last October, the same government employee tweeted, didn't have
any meetings today, so I've been wearing my jammies all day,
but now I have a meeting in thirty minutes. So
putting on a hoodie eventually that what the hell life
gonna get you. So let's see, your dream job was
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living the wh Actually, now that I look at it,
here it says WFH, not WT.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Work from home.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Oh, thank you from was not the word I was
going to put in that acronym. Based on what she
said in the first one about eggs, I figured, oh,
this is some dirty thing. Yeah, eventually at work from
home life gonna get you. Yeah, she's no meeting makes
more sense now, yeah, thank you. So last October she says,
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no meetings again today. Wearing my jammies all day again today.
But someone's gonna make me have a zoom call meeting
in at thirty minutes, So I gotta put on a shirt.
You know that work from home life gonna get you.
Sometimes I'm gonna have a meeting, gonna have to look
like I'm doing She tweeted that out. So yeah, I
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mean the media, the anti Trump media, is going to
make it look like the only people who have been
cut loose or will be cut loose, are like the
people in charge of air traffic control. I hey, Trump
and and Elon. They fired all these guys, and now
planes are crashing into each other every day.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I thought the only people getting let go were FAA
people and Parks department, everybody who works in the forestry department.
I thought they were all gone.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, yeah they can't. We can't go trees anymore. Those
trees are just going to be like, well, all the
US Forestry Service is gone. Now what are we supposed
to do? Who's going to water the trees. Isn't that
what they do?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeh?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Look, I know, I know, I know. There are several
very important Forestry Service employees.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Has anybody checked on Greg Wagner.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh, he works for the Nebraska in the Park system.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Isn't it still a government job.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Not a federal government job? Okay? So Greg, Greg's an
essential employee.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
He is so essential, one hundred essential.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Greg Wagner comes in here Friday mornings with various duck
and animal calls, and he even will sometimes bring in
a rod and reel. You know, if we're talking about fishing,
so we can do this is sound effect on that
during hunting season, he's tried to bring in various shotguns.
We said, Greg, we can't fire. He's like they're blanks.
Like you still can't fire a shotgun in here. Greg
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Wagner is so crazy that I would not be surprised
that we checked into it, and Nebraska Himan Park says,
we don't have a record of anyone named Greg Wagner
ever having worked here, and we realize he's just some crazy,
homeless guy that shows up in here once in a while.
It has a cup of coffee, comes in here with
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an outfit on even though it's radio and starts making
duck calls.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That would be awesome to find out something like that,
that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
And you see him on TV too. He does spots
on TV even better. And that's that's why I guess
where the outfits? You know makes sense? But uh so,
like and we're just checking on uh Greg, we do.
We don't have an employee named Greg Wagner. And you're like,
what in the world's going on? Where was I? Oh? Yeah,
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people getting laid off. It's also USAID is now getting
cut loose. This is the organization that most of us
had never heard of. And then we heard and saw
the acronym us AID. You said, us AID or as
Lucy sees it, you said, and now I can't unsea that.
(18:31):
But technically it's I think they You don't say us AID,
it's us AID. It's what they called the group. And
you think like, oh, this is an organization that takes
care of people all over the world, and some of
them do. But then you realize, like, wait a second,
it looks like this political hack got rewarded with a
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very high level job to go work for this taxpayer
funded agency. And it's it seems like her only resume
point in her favor is she was an Obama and
Biden hack. She's the one who started the wire tapping
and Faizi stuff there against the Trump campaign. Huh, And
she got this job. What else is going on in
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this organization? And that's where you find out that it
too often does nothing and they get tons of money.
Now there are people who work within it who got
because they saw the same thing, like USAID great, I
want to work for this wonderful organization, and they go
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in there with the best of intentions and they want
to do great things around the globe because they think
that's what they're doing. And now maybe they're realizing, oh,
that's not what this is. So the Trump administration said
yesterday it's eliminating two thousand positions at the US Agency
for International Development USAID and placing all but a fraction
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of these other USA staff members on leave. And Gary
asked a great question this morning on kfab's Morning News.
He said, let's say you're you know, in Honduras or
Thailand or something like that, and they just said, like, well,
you've been furloughed, you're on leave and You're like, but
do I stay here? Do I come home? Is someone
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paying for me to come home? What about all my
Do I leave all my stuff here? Am I fired?
Like I said, this is not going to be pretty draining.
The swamp is not going to be pretty. Mistakes will
be made. I don't know if this is one of them.
But if you look at the macro, it's easy to
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be like, yeah, I get rid of all these guys.
If you think about that person who was like, I
didn't do anything wrong and now what I'm stuck and
the congo I someone gonna come pick me up? Is
there an uber that gets me back to Indiana? I
don't know what to do here? Yeah, you can definitely
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have some sympathy while also rooting on Trump and Musk.
So that's the latest on that front. Scott Boys, Snooze
Radio eleven, Kfab can email Scott at kfab dot com
and the Zonker's custom woods inbox and says, my wife
just walked into my office and she was listening to
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you while running a couple of errands. She was laughing
at how much fun you were having on the air
this morning. All right, look laughing with me, laughing at me.
If you take any kind of good vibes away from
this program at any point, I have done my intended job,
and I can put that down as one of my
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one of my five, because I I'll have something this week.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
No use, you can put all five of those things down.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Ken's wife was laughing. That's one that's huge, Honest to goodness.
If if they said, hey, we just had a big
client who was listening to your show and they want
to advertise on this radio station because of your show,
and it's an eighty bazillion dollar account, I would be
(22:15):
very happy with that, and I would rank it right
there with some listener was checking out the program, maybe
on a Monday morning, where I mean, it's kind of
hard to be in a real bad mood this Monday
compared to last Monday, when it was snowing and snowing
and snowing and followed by cold and cold and cold.
I mean, this one week later and things are so
(22:39):
much better. But I don't know what's going on in
your life. If you tune into this program and you
take away a good vibe from it, maybe even a
chuckle or a gifa or a chortle, a giggle of
some sort. Then I am so honored by that. Even
if you're laughing at me, that's fine. I will be
(23:00):
You're whipping boy anytime. In fact, Jerry emails and the
subject line is Elon, and then the only thing he
says here is you're so effing contrary feather brain. That's
from Jerry.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Is he talking to you or to Elon?
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I don't know. I want to believe that he's talking
to me, because I have never been called a feather
brain before. I'm honored. Most people say I don't have
a brain. I'm going to forward them this email from
Big Ja. I do too, very light. It's a feather brain.
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We had Red Bernie in town on Friday us. Isn't
that the new Captain America movie, Red Bernie, Red Bernie?
Captain America, Red Bernie? Where where foul? Now? Captain America
has to take on a foe he thinks is a
meek old man, but then he starts getting going and
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turns into this giant hulk of a kami a red comie.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Okay, so Omaha had had a weekend with Bernie.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Much like that. Yes, I think probably Jane Kleb was
on one shoulder and uh, I will put State Senator
Terrell McKinney on the other shoulder, and they're like, yeah,
Megan Haunts on the other shoulder. Hey, look everyone, Bernie's here. Hey,
Bernie can shake his hand now he's worried about germs here.
(24:40):
We had a really great time at a lot of speakers.
I noticed Bernie just sat on the couch wearing shades
all night. That's that's how he likes to party. That burn.
US Senator Bernie Sanders of Russia, i mean, for of Cuba,
spoke in Omaha on Friday night as part of his
national tour. That's right, Bernie Sanders is on tour. The tickets, yeah,
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the tour is called now look an Evening with Bernie Sanders.
What'd you say about tickets.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
It's tough to get them.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't think he charged for this.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Right, When there's only twenty tickets to begin with, it's
tough to get them.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
No, they well, they did move it into a larger
area because there were so many people that wanted to come.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Yeah, I mean it's like when Taylor Swift says, we're
going to do a show at the h the Admiral
you're like the admiral. You just you know that it's
going to sell out, so you can then move it
into a bigger arena and make yourself seem like a
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bigger deal.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Is that a trick, right? I've never heard that so many.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We just managed to get this other venue to immediately
agree to take this on, and we've magically transferred to
the tickets. It happens anyway, Bernie Sanders, they were going
to do this at the labor Union Hall. I can't
even think where or what that is? Not the firefighters
(26:22):
Union hall? Where's the Where's the laborer Union Hall? The
cops are over one hundred and thirty second in center,
firefighters are just off sixtieth and I eighty. Where's the
Laborer's Union Hall? I don't even know if I can
find it by looking up Laborers Union Hall? Do you
want me to waste time doing it better? Because people
(26:43):
are going to email go it's over here, And even
though I should let them, I feel like, oh fifty
six and Sorenson.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Oh I've actually been there.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I still can't picture it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's yeah, it's a it's kind of tucked back a
little bit off of sorts and just like barely off.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Jeez, I just looked at my phone and there's eighty
thousand messages between my son and my wife. And you
think is something wrong now, something about what he wants
to do after school?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Well, why are you on that thread all?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Because they seem to think I'm his dad and that
I should and that I should be a part of
these parenting decisions. I'm at work, I'm doing work. I've
got to do five things this week to convince Elon
to keep me on for next week.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's one a day.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I know, I got you know, if you think about it,
and they're like, give us five things? Five? Yeah, is
there one thing every day that you did? But like
I said earlier, it's not what you did, it's what
you think Elon would be impressed that you did. Yeah. Sorry,
Back to Bernie. Bernie is on tour.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
He's on tour. Jeez, Labor Union office Hall.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
We're going to do it the Labors Union, but so
many people ARESVP, they moved it to the downtown Marriott
so they were described here on the story from KMTV
three News Now. Hundreds of community members filed into a
ballroom and an overflow area that was set up in
the hallway to see Bernie Sanders. What was his message
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is national tour?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I mean, what is he on tour for? What is
his message?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
The tour is it's called fighting the oligarchy? Where we
go from here?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Did he bring it with him?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah? He brought the oligarchy. Yeah, and everyone just lined
up and took turns fighting it. And as it turns out,
oligarchy won because Trump's still there. Right, Yeah, that's what
he describes as the oligarchy. Let's let's let's just find
some terms. Oligarchy is a power led by a handful
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of centralized group of very rich business leaders, horrible rich
business And you're like, but Trump's rich and Elon's rich,
Yes they are, and Biden was rich, and you know
who else is rich? Bernie Sanders what, No.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He's never had a job job in the public sector.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Now, it's hard to find out what his worth is
because it's obviously incumbent upon him and his reputation to
make sure no one knows how much he's worth. So
estimates are on the low end, he's worth a paltry
three million dollars. On the high end, fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Oh really, that's not that much.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I know, granted, not that much. But when you all
you've done is work a government job for all these years.
And I mean, he can't invest in the stock market, right,
that'd be very Unbernie Sanders like of him. So then
you think, yeah, so where does he get his money?
Obviously he's not spending on clothes and a haircut, so hey,
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tour book deal. And what I don't think Bernie Sanders
is crooked. I honestly don't think he's one of these
guys who is like, I tell you, you paid me
the money. Oh, make sure you get your deal. We'll
get you your airline parts. You know. I don't think
he's like one of those guys. But I do think
that he's become very wealthy speaking to our book deal.
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And that's fine. I don't be grudge of any of that.
But then don't turn around and describe the duly elected
president of the United States who was not bought and
paid for by you know, the election wasn't bought and
paid for by anybody. People went and voted, We counted
the votes. Trump won. How about that. This is not
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an oligarchy. This is still the same government we've always had.
Therein lies the problem. Bernie Sanders doesn't like our government.
He doesn't like our constitution, he doesn't like our free
market capitalism in this country. Instead of our oligarchy. He
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wants democratic socialism, which is communism, which is socialism, which
is nothing that has ever worked long term for anybody
anywhere in the history of anything.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So and how long has he been in office, sergees?
Since the sixties? Right, yes, seventies.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
He started off as like the mayor of Burlington or
something like that, and that kind of worked his up,
so various government offices since he was very young.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
So for somebody who does not like the way that
this government runs, and he's been in it for fifty years,
when do you say, well, I guess this is the
way it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, but that does make money. That was a pretty
good Bernie impression. We don't use get impressions out of you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Bad impressions out of me. Basically, the Bernie Sanders impression
is Jackie Mason, the old comic and the star of
the worst movie of all time. You want to take
a crack at that one?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Back to School?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
No, that was Rodney Dangerfield, But no, he wasn't. Jackie
Mason was not in Back to School Jackie Mason, but
you're on the right track. Jackie Mason was brought in
to be the Rodney Dangerfield character. He was kind of
brought in to replace Rodney in a sequel. No, he
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just Rodney was among those who are like, no, this
is gonna be terrible. I don't want anything to do
with it. And they made it anyway, and it was
the worst movie of all time. And that is Caddy
Shack Too. Caddy Shack Too is terrible, just terrible. Theme
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song was really good as another one by Kenny Loggins.
Nobody's fool. Nope, no, you'd recognize. We'll come back with it.
Uh So Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders on tour. Who is
his opening act? Joan Baiez I thought, uh so Bernie
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shows up here and says the working families in Nebraska
and people all over this country are struggling just to
make ends meet. Agreed, all over this country. We have
a major housing crisis all over this country, major healthcare
crisis all over I'm quoting here, all over this country.
The price of food going up at the grocery store,
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cost of childcare, college unaffordable. Working people are struggling. They're
struggling to pay the bills. But so far right, he's right.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I can get on board with all of that.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
And then he faults Trump because Trump wants to cut
government spending and be able to provide massive tax breaks. Now,
his problem is that these massive tax breaks would go
to everybody, including the wealthy, which is always the straw
man argument they bring up. If you give two people
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a tax break of twenty percent of what they paid
in taxes last year, yes, the person who paid a
lot more in taxes is going to see more money
back as a percentage they should. That's fair. Bernie doesn't
want fair. He wants to continue to take from those rich,
horrible people who didn't earn a penny in their life,
even though he's rich, and he'll probably tell you he
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earned every penny of it, and he did, you know,
so did the other rich guys. And he wants it
all to go towards people who apparently aren't working. He
wants them to be more dependent on government. That's what
socialism is. And as far as this idea about well,
people are struggling to make ends meet and the cost
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of this going up, he mentioned college. Now's when I
start breaking pencils in my hand my other hand, because
I'm going to try not to let this be a
central theme of the radio program for the next several
months and probably then again a couple of years after that.
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But there's a very sad truth that I'm forced this
week to admit. Lucy. Remember, shortly after I was hired
here on this radio station, we brought a daughter into
the world. I recall that I called into the morning show.
You and Gary and Jim were in here, and I said, hey, everyone,
(35:45):
we had a baby. It's a girl. Her name is Grace.
And everyone's like, yay, you know, they're all happy. Well,
guess what, my baby girl turns eighteen tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Are you going to cry? No, yes, you are. I
can see it now.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I might not.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
You're crying now.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I might not tomorrow because it turns out she's not
even going to be in town.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
What she's not letting her parents spend her eighteenth birthday
with her.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
We went out last night and we'll get together tonight
after her brother's basketball game. Then she's got some school
thing and she's going out of town for three days
with all classmates and all that. I hope she has
a great time. Yeah, I know, it's it's it's weird,
but what isn't so anyway? Where was I? Oh? Yeah,
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she's a senior in high school and we've been I
would like to think that we did a great job
in saving for college over the years since she was born.
I recognize that it was important to save for college,
and we've saved, and we've saved, and we did the
five twenty nine plan. Even though the five twenty nine
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plan got into the ring with inflation and got destroyed.
I might as well have just taken that money chucked
it into Carter Lake.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Did you lose money on it?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
No, we just didn't.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
You just didn't gain any just didn't we.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Got well, you're like, well we had a little gain here, Yeah,
but inflation outpaced that gain by about fifteen points.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
You could have taken that money and bought comic books
from the nineteen seventies and held on to them until
she was eighteen, and then they'd be worth millions. I
could have.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Gone to the boats and bet it all on black
and probably been in better shape than I am now.
So yeah, So, but if it's a five twenty nine plan.
It means a tax framing taken out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway,
I'm going to try not to let this be a
central theme in the months and years ahead, but I
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also anticipate that they're there are a lot of people
who've either just gone through this, are going through it,
or will in the next few years. And that is
something like, I know things are different than when I was,
you know, a teenager then moving on to college in
the nineties. I know things are more expensive. I get it.
(38:20):
I'm not mad that things have gotten more expensive, and
I am appreciative. Before someone starts emailing going you know,
you don't have to send her to big time university.
They got this school and they got that school, community college,
you can take online course. Yes, I know. I'll raise
my kids, thank you very much. When we look at
our options. Though. The thing that makes me really really mad,
(38:44):
and this is me I'm not angry. I'm not yelling.
Which voice is scarier if I start yelling or if
you know that I want to yell. But instead of yelling,
I'm just very very calm, very measured in my commons.
Because you know it's about to pop right.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Well, you said you're not angry.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh, you're right, I'm sorry, not angry. Not angry. Here's
what makes me angry when someone like Bernie Sanders, and
the only thing that he's got going for him, as
far as I'm concerned, is he will at least come
out and tell you he's a socialist. He doesn't like
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our former government or our economy. He doesn't like that
we have a form of free market capitalism in this nation.
He doesn't like any of it. He wants socialism, communism,
progressive democrat, call what you want. It's he's a comedy,
and he at least admits it. Other people come out,
they run for office as Democrats and Republicans and they
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say I'm fighting for the little guy and I want
to do this and all that. And all these guys
come out and say like things like the government's too big,
and there's too much waste, and there's too much we
really need to go in here, line by line and
take a look at it, and no one ever does it.
And then when Trump does, they're like, hey, hey, what
are you doing. You could tell people right now, say
(40:11):
what do you think about this quote? And I don't
have the exact quote, but I'm really close when I say,
what do you think about this quote? The government has
gotten too big and too bloated, and it's getting out
of control, and it's it's creating a horrible national debt
that we can't expect our kids and grandkids to pay
for forever. We've got to get it under control. We've
(40:33):
got to look through this big government, find the elements
of fraud and waste line by line, because there's a
lot of it out there, and we got to take
a control on it. We got to get a handle
on it right now. And you say, hey, young people,
what do you think about that? And they're like, I
hate Trump, I hate Musk. He's getting rid of people
Like all right, who wha wha wha. That was said
(40:54):
in two thousand and eight by Barack Obama. I can
find a similar quote in twenty twenty from Joe Biden.
They all say this, Trump and Musk are the only
ones doing something about it. So the only thing Bernie
(41:16):
has going for him is that he'll at least admit
he's a comedy. The rest of these liars come out
and they're like, we gotta do this, and we got
to fight for the little and then they don't do it.
And here's my evidence, and here is the reason why
I'm angry. When Bernie Sanders says, well, the cost of
healthcare through the roof and college is unaffordable, Well, gee,
(41:38):
how did both of these things happen? A trip down
memory lane comes us to the crossroads where one senator
was standing up against Obamacare. That senator was Nebraska's Ben Nelson.
This is not a rant against Ben Nelson, is just
putting you back into the proper per It's two thousand
(42:01):
and when was then eight nine ten? Sorry, I won't
make that sound anymore. In the radio, uh, somewhere somewhere
back in the old timy times, ben Nelson said, I
don't think this is a good thing for Americans, and
then they sweetened it up for him, and he's like, oh,
I'm sorry. What I meant was it's great, and we
(42:21):
got Obamacare. Tucked in to Obamacare was not just the
lie if you like your doctor, if you like your insurance,
you can keep your doctor, you can keep your insurance.
It turns out that was a lie. And when people
said this isn't going to work, it's going to be
too expensive, taxpayer dollars are going to go to it,
(42:41):
So our taxes are going to go up, and our
premiums and our deductibles are going to go up. Oh
no they won't. You guys are just racists. You wouldn't
be saying this if it was a white president, Like,
what has nothing to do with that? And all that
stuff happened. It all got more expensive. But also tucked
into Obamacare was the federal take over of student loans
in this country. So let's see here, public colleges and
(43:07):
universities tied in to the federal government. Back when Lucy,
let's say I'm a student, I want to go to college,
and Lucy is the lender, and I say, Lucy, can
I have money for college? And Lucy's like, I don't know,
because if you default on your loans, I don't know
if this is a good idea. So she would only
(43:28):
give me a little bit of money. I then give
that to the college. The college recognizes, well, at some point,
Scott and Lucy run out of money. We have to
keep costs down because we can't lose money. We can't
have people default on loans. Then we don't get paid.
It's a bad system. So when that was the system,
college costs were kept down, and then the government came
(43:51):
in and said, Lucy move. Now Lucy doesn't exist. Oh boy,
now the government is the one telling me how much
money do you need for college? And then the college
over here says, wait a second, our buddy, the federal government.
I mean, if Scott defaults on his loans, the American
(44:12):
taxpayers already pay for it. We don't lose any money.
And the government's like, we'll roll the dice. We think
Scott's probably gonna pay, and if not, we'll go after him.
So we'll charge him this percentage interest and he'll pay
us back, and we the federal government and make money.
But you know what, we make a lot more money
if more people take out student loans. Colleges and universities,
(44:34):
you want to keep getting federal funding. Of course, we
do jack up costs. And what do you know, after Obamacare,
college costs went through the roof, and suddenly if you
reach out to the colleges, they immediately say, well, how
(44:54):
much money do you need to borrow for college? We'll
take care of that. We'll take care of that. In fact,
I tell you what, here's our astronomical cost that we
say how much it costs to go to college. Here,
tell you what, We'll cut that in half, which is
still astronomical. But now it feels like you're getting a deal. Right,
Wait a second, I used to be seventy five notes.
(45:15):
Now we're looking at like thirty seven thousand dollars. Oh,
this is a lot better. And I tell you what,
we have such faith in you to be a great student.
We want you to be a part of this college.
Let's take that down here. We'll give you ten thousand
dollars in scholarships. How about that. You're like, wow, these
guys are just giving me money. This is great, all right.
Tell you what, boy, I know it had been. We're
(45:35):
still looking at the amount of good amount of money,
like thirty thousand dollars for college, but it used to
be seventy five. We got it down to thirty for you.
It's a steal, right, it's a deal. And I'll tell
you what. We'll give you some low interest loans. If
you can't pay him back right away, that's fine. We'll
just put them in deferment. You don't have to pay
them back right away. Now they're not going to tell
you the interest will continue to accrue when you're not
(45:56):
paying back your student loans. But don't worry. At some point,
we're going to make sure you got a great job
and you're gonna be able to pay those loans back.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Well, these are kids going to college. They should know that.
They don't have to be told that. They don't know
it's still a crue interest.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
They don't know it, and their parents don't.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
Well, then they need to go to college.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
And so costs went through the roof students and families.
Because my eighteen year old daughter, she can't really take
on a loan, I end up taking on the loan
and so now it's on me. And so everyone is
now incentivized to take out loans for the cost of college.
And the college costs keep going up, and the government
(46:35):
continues to make sure that you're incentivized and pushed towards
student loans. They make all this money. College has gotten
completely unaffordable to where a family making a good amount
of money, has been putting money away for years suddenly
looks at the cost of college and says, I can't
afford this, And thank goodness, there are other I mean,
(46:59):
your big time colleges and universities. The ones whose names
we all know are not your only options. But then
your kid says, but I want to go to the
big college, and you're like, well, now, as your parent,
I guess I have to just destroy and crush all
your dreams. That's a fun conversation to have, you know,
(47:20):
So it just great. But it is better to crush
those dreams now and then not saddle your kid with
student loan debt, because then your kid gets saddled with
student loan debt. So now they're trying to get out
of the nest even more, get a job, find some
(47:40):
place to live. Well, all right, so now we're trying
to find rent, as Courtney Donahost said on kfab's Morning News,
so we kind of brought this up a few hours ago.
I interjected and brought it up a few hours ago.
Courtney said, I have a friend who constantly has to
turn down college graduates who are trying to rent apartments
(48:01):
because their income to debt ratio is so lopsided that
they're not a good they're not a good risk to
rent apartments to them. And these are affordable apartments, which
is kind of a misnomer anymore. And so now these
guys they can't get started. So what happens They moved
(48:22):
back in with mom and dad. Mom and dad start
paying for more stuff that comes out of their retirement savings.
And then what happens at some point they want to retire,
They don't have any money left over, and all of
that is looming over Here is the government, who once again,
the ones who caused this trouble, the ones who orchestrated
all of this. I didn't even point out how Biden
(48:43):
single handedly was trying to crush this so called evil
for profit colleges. They gotta pay, We got to stop
them from doing that. That stuff was most of those
guys were lower tuition rates, lower room and board rates
than the big nonprofit colleges and universities the state schools,
and Biden shut them down so you'd have fewer options,
(49:04):
fundeling you more into the state colleges and universities, making
you get student loans, and the government orchestrated all of this.
And then here comes the government seemingly surprised, like, oh wow,
so your kids are still living with you, you don't
have retirement savings, and now you want to retire and
you need someone to take care of you. Well, the
government would be great at that. You know what, Let's
(49:26):
just go to universal health care and let's finally go
to socialism. So when the biggest socialism of them all,
Bernie Sanders, comes to Omaha and says, it's terrible. The
cost of college is unaffordable. You guys did this. You
did it on purpose, and we're continuing to let it
happen and go, well, I don't know how to pay
(49:46):
for college. Yeah, what are you going to do? You're
going to let Trump and Musk immediately start draining the swamp.
And I hope someone enlightens them as to what's going
on here, because, let's face it, Trump and Musk. Trump
has never had to worry about how am I going
to pay for Tiffany to go to college? He's never
(50:06):
had to worry about that. And Elon's like, I've never
had to worry about where little Square root Pie four
square is ever going to go to college or whatever
his kid's name is. They've never had to worry about that.
Someone make sure Trump and Elon sit down in the
White House this week and listen to this podcast, because
(50:27):
this is the biggest thing going on with families across
this country. Scott Voy's Mornings nine to eleven on news
radio eleven ten KFAB
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