April 8, 2025 • 55 mins
Many are not happy with Rep. Bacon and Sen. Grassley for their recent Congressional action on President Trump's tariffs. And they're not happy with me for welcoming them to the fight (which is what they better be doing here). We also talk about the Nazi pic from a small Nebraska town, Gov. Pillen's war on taxpayer-purchased pop, the closing of a beloved Ralson landmark, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
They are not happy. In Iowa a Senator Chuck Grassley,
they are not I heard one guy uh called him
a rhino. Chuck Grassley has been a staunch conservative since
Neptune was formed. But he had one little thing saying,
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you know, maybe the president should suggest the tariffs and
then Congress approved them, and people are like, ah, come on, Chuck,
what do you now. Let's and Don Bacon has kind
of done the same thing. Voters here in Nebraska second
District not happy with Don Bacon because he suggested the
same thing. Maybe Congress should be the one approving these. Now,
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before everyone says that's it, I've had my torch lit
and my pitchfork sharpened, and now I know where I'm going.
I'm going to kfab and we're gonna we're gonna march
on Scott Voorhees today. Those before you get really really
mad at me when I tell you that Chuck Grassley
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and Don Bacon are right and you're wrong to be
mad at them about this. Now, calm down, everyone stop.
Put put that cleatus, put it down, put down the pitchfork.
Before you get all mad, hear me out, I'll wait
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till you stop yelling at the radio. They're still lucy,
They're still they're still yelling.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They they're yelling.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They're yelling and using words I can't say on the radio.
You want some.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Popcorn, I'm gonna get some popcorn.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
How do you like How do you like your popcorn?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Lots of butter?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, yeah, like real butter or some of that day
glow butter that comes up in the I do like it.
But you can't have a lot of that, right, It
can't be good for you put something that has that
nuclear glow, so much of it in your body and
once in a while you do it. All right, They're like,
all right, they've calmed down.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's probably not good.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Okay, not all the time. Everything in moderation, right, No,
but go on, Okay, if think about this, President Kamala Harris,
stop stop. I can't. I can't do this. Everyone's just
gonna yell at the radio.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Are you suggesting that in the future.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, I'm thinking that had Kamala Harris been victorious and
was now in her one hundredth day or whatever, we'd
be in close to one hundred days in the Harris
administration and Kamala Harris wants to do some stuff, and
she's like, I'm going to executive order this, and I'm
going to executive order that. I would like to think
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that Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon would stand up and say, no,
this is not how this go. You need to ask
for congressional approval for this. Okay, all right, calm down
a little bit. Yeah, but they didn't do it when
Biden and they didn't do it. I know, I know,
why are they just doing it Trump? I know. I'm
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not saying that they're one hundred percent right on what
they're doing with this timing philosophically, though they're right. This
shouldn't just be where the executive branch just starts throwing
out a ton of executive orders. When it comes to
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stuff like tariffs against trade partners, this should be Congress's responsibility.
And you liars and hypocrites have been advocating this responsibility
for years. You've sometimes you talk about sometimes we hear
members of Congress talk about tariffs. They talk about how
we're getting played by China and other nations. And you
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know who said some of the stuff. Well, here's one
from when was this nineteen ninety six ish circa nineteen
ninety six, Nancy Pelosi, as a still not very young
but younger member of the House from California, was talking
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about free trade. This is Nancy Pelosi back in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
The average US MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming into
the United States is two percent, whereas the average Chinese
MFF tariff on US goods going into China is thirty
five percent. China only allows certain industries into China, and
therefore only two percent of US exports are allowed into China.
On the other hand, the US allows China to flood
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our markets with a third of their exports. In terms
of jobs, this is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all.
Not only do we not have market access, not only
do they have prohibitive tariffs. Not only are our exports
not let in very specifically, but China benefits with at
least ten million jobs. Now, if you take a country
the size of China with a very cheap and in
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some instances slave labor, the lack of market access, the
rip off of our intellectual property, the transfer of technology,
you have a serious threat not only to our relationship
but to the industrialized world.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I'm Donald J.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Trump, and I approved this message. Trump has put that
out as a political message online. That's why you've got
the boom boom boom music behind it. They didn't used to.
I mean, it was the nineties. Everything was kind of
club and you know, this new level of hip hop
and disco, and it was a really great scene. But
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they didn't do that during the House of Representative speeches.
That was Nancy Pelosi in nineteen ninety six, in June
of nineteen ninety six railing on the floor of the
House about how America has just taken it to from China.
China is just absolutely destroyed when it comes to this
trade and how it's incredibly unfair and someone ought to
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do something.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Oh, come on, scot things changed, every thing's changed for yeah,
she changed her mind.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh yeah, another person. And by the way, what's Nancy
Pelosi saying now? Of course, that these tariffs are going
to destroy the world as we know it. The same
thing Bernie Sanders is saying the same thing now about tariffs.
Bernie Sanders hates these tariffs because, as you said, Lucy,
things have changed. What changed Trump? Trump has changed everything.
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All these things that Pelosi was railing about in nineteen
ninety six, Trump is doing something about who else complained
about the terriff and how we shouldn't We should have
more tariffs against China, and we should deal with some
of these American companies who have pulled roots out of
this country, taken jobs from America and put down these
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roots in nations that are more than happy to take
all of the jobs and all the manufat and all
the property taxes, and then they send these stuff back
to America. We don't put a terrif on it because, Ay,
we're nice guys, we want to go along, get along. Meanwhile,
we're losing jobs and American manufacturers still producing here can't
compete on the market. You know who else complained about
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this in two thousand and eight, Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders
is that.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
We need to not worry about manufacturing in America because
what we should establish is a policy of unfitted free trade.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
We don't need tariffs.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
What we need is to allow corporate America the freedom,
the freedom to throw American work is out on the street.
People are making fifteen twenty twenty five bucks an hour
healthcare pensions. Throw them out on the street because somehow
mount of President. We are going to create wealth in
America and good paying jobs in America. As we shut
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down plans we move to China operations there, Hey, work
is twenty thirty cents an hour, and we bring the
product back into this country. And anyone who goes shopping
in a mall knows how difficult it is today to
find the product made in America.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That is two thousand and eight. That's Bernie Sanders saying
we need more tariffs against nations like China. There has
to be some penalty for these American companies who take
manufacturing and jobs away from this country, take it to
other countries, send their stuff back to American consumers. We
don't put a tariff on it, yet American manufacturers can't compete.
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This is something that Trump railed about back in the eighties.
This is something he said he would do if elected president.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He's been elected president. You would think that Nancy Pelosi
in nineteen ninety six and Bernie Sanders in two thousand
and eight would be pretty happy about it. But of
course they're not beating why because Trump, Which brings us
back to our friends Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon. What
they're saying is Congress should have the power power of
tariffs and taxes. The president can suggest I think we
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need to put a fifty four percent tariff on China,
and then he'd send it to Congress and they would
debate and then they would decide. I don't mind that.
But why is Trump doing it this way? Well, because
he's a maniac, and because well, let's not rule that out,
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but he's a maniac with a plan right now, and
he knows if he goes through Congress on all this,
if he suggests to them, hey, we need to add
another ten percent tariff on some of these things coming
from China, what'll happen. Well, it'll go to Congress. Someone's
gonna have to draft the bill. It's going to take
a while, and then they're gonna have to put the
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thing up. All right, Well we've heard it. We've got
to have a first, a second, and a third reading,
and it's got to go to committee. We got to
talk about a committee, and it's got to come out
of committee. Then we got to schedule a vote in
the House, and then that's going to be delayed, and
then we're going to go on recess for a month.
Then we're gonna come back. This will never get done
because that's what problem. That's the problem we have a Congress.
It's also a good thing. If Congress was just going
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by the day to day whims of whatever they wanted
to do and get like, all right, we're doing this today,
that would probably be an issue depending on who was
in power in Congress. But that's what the president's doing.
There should be this, this checks and balances. I would
prefer that. Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon say, we think
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because some president down the line might be doing executive
orders that we don't like, we think that this should
go through Congress. But we appreciate what the president is
doing here. We see his vision and we want to help.
We also realize the expediency of how some of these
things they lose their teeth. If China knows like, hey,
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we're gonna tear a few win, I don't know sometime
in November, like it loses all of its teeth if
it's not immediate. So we're going to work with our
colleagues here in the Senate and the House and work
with the President of the United States to have a
unified front against these nations taken advantage of us. So yes,
this should go through Congress. But mister President, let us
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know what you want. We'll have a quick conversation and
we'll get back to you within a day or two.
After all, we're here, we're getting paid. I don't know
if there's anything the American people find more important than
trying to get all of this resolved as quickly as possible.
After all, Wall Street's just going to tank and tank
and tank. And oh the Dow's up fourteen hundred points. Huh.
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We've made up all the losses so far less than
an hour into trading. As one of the days it
was down last week, one of those days is gone.
All the panic of one of those days last week
is gone. Huh. You would think the media would be saying, hey,
happy days are here again, because the reason why they
told you and I told you this would happen, the
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reason why they were screaming on Thursday and Friday in
the early part of the day, yesterday's oh Trump's tariffs,
world markets. They don't know what to do with this.
Like these guys on Wall Street, they know what they're doing.
At some point they look at each other and go, Okay,
are we done losing money. Let's go back to making money.
We all like it better when we're making money. And
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this happens all the time. Something happens causes the markets
to panic, there's a little bit of a correction, and
then it comes back stronger in just a matter of days.
Did anything change? Did Trump pull all the tariffs?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Did China say hey, sorry about that, We're gonna drop
all our tariffs. Let's have tariff free trade between No?
Nothing changed. What changed? The people on Wall Street decided
they were done losing money. That's all we had. We
had a little bit of weirdness at the Wall Street
garage sale for a couple of days, and then now
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things are moving back in the right ta direction. And
maybe later this week did my correct again. But all
these people are like, oh, you're gonna lose everything in
your retirement account. No one's gonna be able to retire ever. Again,
that's malarkey. Sorry, mister President Joe Biden variety for using
one of your terms, But it's malarkey. These guys are lying,
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dog dog faced pony soldiers, that's what they are. So
Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders are liars and hypocrites. Chuck
Grassley and Don Bacon are doing the right thing, but
they're going about it the right way. They're also not
recognizing or maybe they are, and maybe they just don't
like Trump. Suddenly. Bacon has been a bit more in
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the anti Trump camp at times. Grassly is not. But
I would like to see them say, yes, Congress needs
to do our job too, and we're ready to fight
with the president on this. Let's just do it as
a unified front. That's how this should be. So we'll
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we'll see what ends up happening with all this. Probably
the most likely thing is enough Republicans. Let's say it's
the House bill, enough Republicans in the House go with
this Don Bacon idea that Congress should be the one
applying the tariffs against these countries, so the president would
have that authority taken from him. In the House bill,
it's passed, it goes to the Senate. It's passed in
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the Senate, same reason. All the Democrats are like, yeah,
take authority away from Trump. Enough Republicans go, well, we're
not really taking authority away, but we are to. And
so then it goes to the White House, and what
happens Trump vetos it. Yeah, thanks a lot for letting
me know you don't like my authority. This is me
vetoing your veto of my authority. If you need anything else,
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feel free to hit me up on truth social make
America Great Again veto. And that's another five percent tariff
against Vietnam. You know, I mean, it's probably the most
likely thing that happens here. This email, unsigned says Don
Bacon wants Alexandria Ocazio Cortez, il haan Omar and Jasmine
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Crockett to determine tariffs. Don Bacon doesn't seem to realize
how many people voted against Tony Vargas. No, I don't
believe Don Bacon wants aoc ilhan Omar and Jasmine I
got hired because I'm a black woman. She just said
that the other day and talking about how great DEI
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is at Crockett. I don't think that he wants them
to determine tariffs. Even if he did, they can't, you
know why, because they're not in the majority in the
House of Representatives. Two years that might change, but as
of now, they they can't even determine the lunch menu.
Don Bacon wants Don Bacon to determine tariffs. And like
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I said, if we had President Kamala Harris in office
and the Republicans were in charge of the House and
they said, wait a second, she can't do all those
executive orders. We need some approval, you would say good
for them, you know you would. But I would prefer
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that Grassly in the Senate Bacon in the House say
we want to work with the President on this, and
it has to be done quickly. But this has to
be unified front and let's face it, Congress should really
have her hand in this, so let's work together. That's
how this should go. Nothing's going the way I wanted to,
but that's at least we're getting a little bit closer.
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Let's see here. Richard says, you know that Bacon did
this just to impede Trump. He hates the guy. If
he had proposed this bill next year, then maybe you
can make an argument as to the motivation of this action.
Richard says, I normally agree with you, but today is
a swing and a miss. You can argue his motivation
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all you want. Like I said, they're Grassley and Bacon
are on the right track to being correct. I would
like to see them be even more correct by talking
about how this is exactly what we need to be
doing against China right now. After all, I just played
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you the clip of Nancy Pelosi arguing as much in
nineteen ninety six. So what will probably happen is they'll
pass the bill, Trump will veto it, and they're going
to get even more mad, which is gonna make a
lot of Maga Republicans even more happy as we continue
to make enemies out of friends. But President Trump also
did something else yesterday, and this was pretty funny. He
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welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the twenty twenty four World
Series champions, to the White House, and all of them,
I guess show. I don't know that any of them
sat it out. Mookie Betts when he was on the
White Sox in twenty nineteen, he did not go to
the White House because Trump. Mookie Bets decided to go yesterday,
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and it's not because he's on team Trump. He says, Look,
it's not about me. My decision shouldn't take attention away
from my teammates. This is about the Dodgers. He also
threw in there. He says, well, it comes with the territory.
Being black in America in a situation like this, it's
a tough spot to be in. Being black in America
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is like what happened with Mookie Bets. You have an
incredible athletic gift, you get paid hundreds of millions of
dollars to play the game of baseball, You've won now
a second World Series, and you've been invited to the
White House to meet with the President. Is that the
black experience in America that most black people are having,
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or is Mookie Bets just a bit outside when it
comes to being out of touch?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Oh that was a baseball reference, just side.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's right. Yeah, being black in America is like this,
I gotta gotta take my private jet to the White
House again. Yep, that's what it's like. That's being black
in America. Thanks Mookie Betts. Anyway, he and they all went,
so what did Trump do yesterday? Well, and talking about
all the Dodgers, especially Shohio Tani, Trump said he's a
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movie star. He's got a good future. Yeah, he's doing
all right for himself. Otani is a great baseball player
in anything he wants to do on the field, whether
it's pitching or hitting and and yeah, he's an attractive guy.
He also does pretty well with the side bets, but
that's an issue for his agent anyway. Trump also said
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it's great to have the Dodgers here. We also have
a couple of senators here. Talking about the two Democrat
senators from California, that would be Alex Padilla and former
Congressman Adam Giant Eyeballs Shift, he says, we got a
couple of senators here, but I don't particularly like them,
so I won't introduce them.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
You know, Yeah, I'm gonna laugh about it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But that's so it's funny.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But I know it's funny, but it's brutal. But yeah,
but you know, the other funny part is they weren't
even there. They didn't even show up. Okay, that's yeah
because Trump, so Trump decided to call him out anyway,
and they weren't even there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten k FA.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I'm not arguing that President Trump is wrong here, and
I'm not arguing that Senator Grassley and Congressman Bacon are
wrong in saying we need to have Congress bring some
of these back in here. It could be that they're
and I know you're gonna yell at me when I
say this, because, let's face it, Don Bacon has not
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exactly been real trumpy over the years. But it could
be that they want Congress to have this authority to
take the executive authority on tariffs away from a future
Democrat president to undo some of what Trump has been doing.
But that's dependent on a Democrat winning the White House
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and the Republicans lose, the Republicans keeping the House, who
knows what the future might hold this authority, who gets
to do what win? And then some district court judge
doesn't even have jurisdiction jumps in there and says, wait,
you can't do that. This is going to be like
this for the rest of our lives. In the meantime,
President Trump is exercising the authority that he has to
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levy these tariffs, reciprocal reciprocal tariffs, reciprocal tariffs on these
nations that have been gouging us for decades. Nancy Pelosi
said as much in nineteen ninety six. You heard the
clip of her saying it. Earlier this hour, Bernie Sanders
was complaining about it. In two thousand and eight. Trump's
doing something about it, Grassling and Bacon say hey, we
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want to play let Congress, And now they're not saying
that if you give Congress the authority to do these tariffs,
that we're not going to do what President Trump is doing.
But let's face it, some of these guys who have
been in office for a long time, long time Republican
and Democrats, they've never done anything about this. Why would
that change now? So all this is going on, and
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one of the issues is, well, we want America to
have more power when it comes to making some of
this stuff, especially that which we need for tech, including
automobile manufacturing, and we need these rare earths. We need
the critical mineral and rare earths to be able to
mine them. That's jobs in America. That's rare earth materials
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cultivated and produced here in America. In fact, don't we
have that going on in Nebraska? Isn't that what we
want to do in Ukraine? The answer to that last
question is, yes, we're trying to get an agreement with Ukraine,
But what about this Nebraska. Oh yeah, did Nebraska? We
have this big we have all this big mine of
rare earth minerals, and can't we just go down and
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get it. Here's the timeline Former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Heidaman,
not Governor Heineman, but Lieutenant Governor Levon Heidaman. When he
graduated high school in the seventies, he was with a
company that drilled the first hole in this property down
in Johnson County, Nebraska. That was in the seventies, and
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they said, Wow, we've got some rare earth minerals that
we can have here. That was in the seventies. Since then,
no mine. It's been fifty years. We haven't created a mine.
But I thought there was a company there is. It's
called Neocorp or Niocorp Developments, and they've secured the permits
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for a billion dollar project to be able to mine
the rare earth's here in Nebraska, the rare earth minerals.
But they don't have enough funding and the Biden administration
wouldn't give them the permits necessary to move forward. So
this could get moving here with Trump, I expect that
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it would. They need more money. They need the government's
help to push the process and make it go faster.
I imagine the investors will come out of the mines
and provide the money, because there's definitely money to be
made if government starts pushing the project forward. But it's
been fifty years. We know the stuff. He's here in Nebraska.
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We haven't been able to mine any of it, Lucy.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yeah, but Neocorp has been in fact that I think
I sent you a bunch of stuff about them about
five years ago. While Yeah, they've been trying to get
something done there through there for a while now. And
after hearing you say rare earth so many times, I
think I really want to hear I just want to celebrate,
please thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah. If well, if you want to go back in
the day music, we're going to have that coming for you.
We're taking a little time out some of this conversation
to put a pin in the last conversation. If you think, like,
all right, we're gonna take this rare earth mineral mining
and cultivation away from China and bring it to America,
we're gonna have to move. We have the ability, we
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just don't do it. And that's true for whether it's
oil refineries, whether it's mining, whether it's drilling. We have
all this stuff, we just don't do it. We just
let all these other nations take advantage of it.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Well, I think especially with the mining, because the mining
really does cause some damage to the earth around it,
the area around.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Its well, anytime there's good regulations.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
If there's an earthquake in California, it'll be blamed on
the mining and Johnson County, Nebraska, and mostly because fracking
is just fun to say, but that has nothing to
do with the rare earth.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
If this is your childhood, get it hands.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Who taught you how to do this stuff?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You are right?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I learned it by watching you. This is your radio show.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What did the kid have? Was it cigarettes? Was it alcohol?
Did he have a bunch of cocaine there? Because I remember,
even as a kid looking at that going that dad
doesn't look like he does drugs.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yes, I think it was alcohol.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I can't remember? But it was after school, right, yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It was an after school uh PSA. The public service
announcement of the dad catches his son with you know,
some sort of something or other, like where'd you get
this stuff?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
All right? I learned it from watching you. I'm looking
at this guy's got no was it porn? I don't
know what were you watching? After school? The It was
like some guy wearing a dickey and like wire rimmed
glasses and a receding hairline. I'm like, that guy's not
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smoking on the pot, you know, But I don't know.
I mean, that was the early eighties. It was a
crazy time.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm Scott Vorhes. There's Lucy Chapman. What were we saying
yesterday of just dismissing it as that was the sixties?
What are you gonna do? What was that conversation yesterday?
Because I'm just remembering there was a great email that
came in. Here we go. Lisa sent this in and said,
and see it. We'll maybe remember when I read the email.
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Lisa said, nineteen sixty six, nineteen sixty seven. I was
in first and second grade. During recess, I would occasionally
leave the playground cross the street to purchase cigarettes at
the corner store from Missus Ray, the school janitor. She'd
give me a quarter cigarettes for twenty cents a pack,
and I'd get to keep the nickel, which I use
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what I would use to get penny candy. It was
a special time. That's from Lisa that in a minute.
Don't remember what we were talking about that led her
to send that email, But we just said something about
the you know, late fifties, early sixties into the sixties,
as I was a different time.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh it was Dennis the Menace. It was the Dennis
the Menace convers.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Right, right, right, Yeah, they had a woman custodian.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
In the sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yes, I know it was a very progressive school district.
Well she was probably old, you know, and beyond her
child bearing years, so she was like forty one, forty two.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Yeah, in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, all right, hag apparently that's the end. That's the
end of your usefulness. Can you push a broom? Well,
it's domestic enough for us. Get into that school and
mop those floors.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
If you want your mind blown, go look up the
actual ages of some of the actors in the sitcoms
from the sixties, seventies, and even in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I know. I see these memes come up all the time,
and I'm always fact checking them, like this is what
a dad looked like in the eighties, and it'd be
like the dad from you know, some movie, and uh,
you know, and then you look and go he was
thirty eight years old.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm like fifty eight.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He looked like he was one hundred and eighty. Yes,
mind blown.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
The Golden Girls is what gets me. How old were
the Golden Fifties?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yes, and I've had a full head of gray hair
for years.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
But in fact, they might some of them might have
been in their forties, but their characters were just early fifties.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Let me think about it. They were all working.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I know, yeah that's true, but they.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Looked like I would have thought they were like seventy eighties.
But you look at somebody who's seventy today, they look
like they're fifty.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yes, yeah, they're They're out. They somehow are there clinging
to this idea that we we all have to CrossFit
every single day. If we're not doing CrossFit, then what
are we even doing? Brouh Like, you know what, you've
lived a good law life. You have an extra donut
and uh sit around and watch a basketball game? Did
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you watch the basketball game last night?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Should have wait?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I love the basketball game?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Should I have waited till I was seventy to do that?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I have an extra donut?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Well, you got to train. You gotta train for it,
so you have a donut once in a while in
your entire life and then in your seventies, just donuts
for donuts. I'm Scott Forhe's a certified health expert and
personal trainer here on news Radio eleven ten kfab basketball
game was amazing last night. It's a word about March madness.
Some people complain. So all the number one seeds made
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it to the Final four? Oh did they? So I'm
gonna talk to you the way you sound. You did
the best teams play the best at the best time,
creating the best Final four games ever with a great
National championship game that came down to the wire and
a controversial last second where this guy wasn't able to
put up a shot and you're like, someone grab the ball.
(30:57):
Do so if you grab the ball at least it's
a traveling violation and there's still a couple seconds left
in the clock, you'd get a steal or file the
guy and get the rebound. And still you gotta let
the game in there. Oh man, it was an exciting
end of that game. Good, good for Florida.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Good.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I liked that coach and uh I liked the coach
of Houston as well. But this is it was a
great final four. But there's no Sin Durilla is their
own number one seeds. So what it was a great
final four. Now to the topic that we should be
(31:32):
discussing here. This popped up over the weekend on social
media and some listeners send it to me, and I
spent more time than I really should have yesterday just
really trying to figure out if this was a picture
that would really be associated with Aurora High School in
beautiful Aurora, Nebraska. Aurora is a couple of hours west
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of Omaha on I eighty, just under a couple of hours.
If you live in Graton, that's a little closer. If
you live downtown a little further away, if you live
at forty second in Jump, don't do all all right, let's.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Get put your address in whatever you were talking about, basketball,
all right, So Aurora, Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
The picture was two kids holding a Nazi flag and
the backdrop were some red lockers in presumably the locker room.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Of the school, and turned out to be a quilt.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
No, this is different than that conversation at Omaha Fashion
Week we had the other day. This is a real
Nazi flag. This is like you can't explain like it's
a quilt pattern. It's not it's a Nazi flag. It's
a red flag with the swastika in the middle. It's
a Nazi flag. And there was the two kids and
their faces were blurred or the picture was cropped in
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such a ways you couldn't see their faces. So this
came out and people were like, look at what happened
at Aurora High School. I can't believe the hate in
that community. I'm like, all right, timeout. A lot of
times when there's a picture and you can't really tell
where this is being taken, suddenly every school, this is
at every school, like this could have happened in Ipsilani,
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it could have happened in Mudley, Kentucky. We don't know
what makes you think it's Aurora. And one lady who
was posting it, she was adamant this happened at Aurora
because she's like, anyone who's ever been in Aurora's locker
room recognizes those lockers. It's red lockers, just mesh metal
red lockers. You know who else has those lockers? Everyone?
(33:45):
We had those at Ralston. For a second, I was like,
I hope this wasn't at Ralston. But then Aurora Public
Schools put out a press release and they said, the
students involved have been identified and dealt with. I'm like, okay,
now we have Aurora. Finally we had Aurora Public Schools
saying we've this did happen in our locker room. It's
(34:09):
a flag that symbolizes hate, and we're taking steps to
discipline those students as well as prevent any future issues.
The Superintendent of Schools, Jody Phillips said, whenever a situation
occurs on school ground, we're notified, we begin the process. Quote,
we look to see if there's anything as far as
code of conduct, board policy is related to that situation,
(34:32):
and then from there they would issue consequences school discipline
as appropriate as outlining the code of conduct. So what
does that mean?
Speaker 7 (34:42):
What?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, what these kids did and holding a Nazi flag
and one of the kids giving a thumbs up, this
is disgusting. You could absolutely take this as a threat,
particularly against Jewish students and potentially minority or gay students
because of the whole Nazi thing. What I really don't know,
(35:05):
and what the people in the community of Aurora do know,
is what are we dealing with with these two guys? Well,
there's three of them. There are two guys holding the flag,
one doing the thumbs up, and then someone else who
took the picture, unless they did the self timer. But
let's say it's these two students smiling thumbs up Nazi flag.
(35:28):
What do we have here? Do we have neo Nazis
who have threatened fellow students, or do we have what
is very very commonplace with today's youth, and frankly everyone's youth,
but particularly today with the social media, the stuff spreads
a lot quicker. Do we have a couple of dumb
arses who thought this would be funny and they're not hateful,
(35:55):
and they're not racist, and they're not anti Semites, they're
just super super dumb. I tend to think it's probably
the latter that these kids can be made to be
explained to them, like, look, this isn't funny. Whether these
guys are whatever, you're just like, I don't know what
(36:19):
you were thinking here. But it was posted on a
social media page that I think was called Aurora Goofy
Students or something like that, And so the idea was,
it seems to me that everyone's posting more and more
outlandish stuff on the page, and these guys thought, well,
we can win this battle and so we post here.
(36:42):
But there's one other thing that I think really has
to be answered to determine what's really in the hearts
and minds of these particular students, and that is, Okay,
this wasn't something that you etched onto a pillowcase. This
is a real flag. This is a banner that you
got from somewhere. It wasn't something that seemingly was just
laying around or that you made. Someone had to go
(37:05):
and buy this, someone had to order it online. There
was some forethought involved in this, right. It wasn't like
you're just I was just making a pattern on my
trapper keeper. The kids still have trapper keepers, and I
made a swastika because it's an interesting thing. I wasn't
really thinking about it. These guys had in their possession
(37:28):
a Nazi flag, which now makes me think, all right,
what's going on with these guys. But of course the
people on social media are just hideous. They're like, oh, yeah,
this is what Trump's America looks like. This is what
(37:48):
you find in small town Nebraska, nothing but hate and racism,
and Aurora's letting it. These kids learn this thing at home,
they learned it in their community and this is what
Aurora is like. And then you get people on there saying, oh,
I went to Aurora, I graduated in two thousand whatever,
and oh, yeah, this is how Aurora has always been. No,
it's not. Aurora is a great community. I don't know
(38:11):
what's going on with these idiots, but the community knows
who these kids are. They know who their parents are,
and I'm interested to see now how they're dealt with
because this is ugly for these students. There's no need
to extrapolate this further into this is what small town
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Nebraska looks like, or this is how white people are
or this is what Trump's America looks like, or whatever
it is that you want to say. But of course
people are gonna say what they're gonna say. I don't
know what these kids were thinking, but I bet some
of you we hit the shores of Aurora and that
(38:55):
we're still beaming in pretty So how's our signal today?
I know we've been doing a little work lately, but uh,
you know, when you get a little older, we're one
hundred years old, sometimes you have some work done to
the transmitter, the chin, you whatever. So for those of
you checking in Aurora, I'm not promising I'll read any
(39:15):
emails on the air, but I would be curious your thoughts.
If you're in that community scottikfab dot com. That's how
you reach us, Scott at kfab.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Dot com, Scott Voice.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Now. Mostly what I have in the inbox is people
telling me that our clip earlier this hour of If
This was your childhood and it was the commercial of
the dad asking his son where'd you get this stuff?
You all right? I learned it from watching you. We
have confirmation from several listeners here at scottikfab dot com
that it was the old marijuana that the young man
(39:49):
had that apparently his dad was a huffin on. So
we got that resolved. Still waiting for some clarification on
what's going on if you just joined us. There was
some picture online posted on a forum for Aurora students
where it was apparently students trying to out outlandish each other,
(40:11):
and the postings were like Aurora, goofy students or something,
and so these two guys just happened to have a
Nazi flag and they posted in the locker room holding
it up and giving the thumbs up. Pretty bad. They've
since been welcome with a full ride to Columbia University.
But so will if we find anything that we can
(40:35):
pass along in the air, I'll let you know. Governor
Pillin yesterday decided that if you have can we just
say food stamps? It's like EBT, snap cards and all
the rest of this stuff. Everyone, I mean, is we
stopped saying food stamps? We go that has a negative connotation.
Why well that the idea that people have, you know,
(40:57):
on food stamps sounds terrible. Instead they're on supplemental nutritional
assistance program. Well, what's that? It's food stamps, but we
just don't call it food stamps anymore. So people have
been allowed in Nebraska like almost every other state, and
maybe maybe that's still the case. I think Nebraska is
(41:17):
now the second state to ask the US Department of Agriculture,
can we curtail what food stamps are used for, specifically
the buying of soda, pop and energy drinks. What would
be the argument in favor of the taxpayers? Now understand
(41:41):
what this is. These are people who having a hard
time getting buy there's a program available to them. We're
talking about the working poor, and you know, in the
end of the month, we're all just one paycheck away
from suddenly needing to be in a situation where if
there's government assistants to be able to get bread, eggs, meat,
(42:02):
that which we need to take care of ourselves and
our families. I think any of us at some point
would swallow our pride because we need to swallow something,
and we would use that assistance to be able to
get the food we need to feed our families by
any means necessary. We do this, right, Okay, Now I
know you're like, I'll tell you what I do. All right,
that's great, that's you. Some people take advantage of this program,
(42:25):
and some people really take advantage of this program because
they use they well they either sell their food stamps
to others so they can get the cash so they
can buy alcohol or drugs, or right now they're using
taxpayer money. This is taxpayer money. This would be like
you going to your neighbor, Hey, Bob, Yeah, it's me,
(42:48):
your neighbor, Wickwhack. And that's the guy's name. It's a nickname,
family name, Wickwhack the third. So Wickwhack says, hey Bob,
having a hard time feeding my family right now now,
I was hoping you could lend me a few bucks
so I could buy what's necessary to feed my family.
You're like, you know what, wick Whack, You've always been
a great neighbor and I love your name, and I'm
(43:11):
gonna give you. How much do you need? It's like,
you know what, just twenty bucks. That's finey. It's like, great,
thanks for the twenty bucks. I'm gonna go buy a
bunch of pop and energy drinks. You take care of yourself.
You're like, whoa, whoa, Wickwhack. I thought you're talking about food.
This is food. Don't shame me, because that's the argument
(43:31):
in favor of this, like, well, it just shames those
who are on food stamps not to get what they want. Well,
so we're not talking about what we want. Some of
this pop and the energy drink stuff, some of it
can be pretty expensive. If we're talking about energy drinks.
And some of the people buying the pop, they're not
they don't even have they're not even buying the cheap stuff.
(43:55):
They're like, I'm gonna buy doctor Pepper when Doctor Thunder
the generic and is perfectly fine. It's a couple bucks cheaper,
and it's right here next to the doctor Pepper. Just
buy the doctor thunder Well, then people will know I'm
poor or thrifty. So Governor Pillen said, we don't want
(44:17):
people on food stamps to be able to buy soda
and energy drinks. This was a request made yesterday. I
guess the US Department of Agriculture has to approve that.
And of course there are some people arguing saying this
is a terrible thing to do to poor people who
(44:37):
have an addiction to doctor pepper or diet doctor pepper,
you know whatever it is, energy drinks. How am I
supposed to wake up in the morning not to go
to my job if I'm not allowed to get energy drinks.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Scott for Yes News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
I have feelings. You know, I've been getting yelled at all.
Day started off when I said, Chuck Grassley and Don
Bacon are right. They're not one hundred percent right as
right as I'd like to like to see them be,
but they are right. Congress should should join President Trump
(45:14):
in a unified front when it comes to these tariffs.
Of course, if Congress takes away Trump's ability to do
the tariffs, that loses all of his teeth. It would
take forever. We wouldn't get anything for months, if anything,
and China would be laughing all the way to the
American destroying bank. But there's no reason that Congress can't
(45:37):
fight alongside the President on this stuff. And besides, if
we had President Kamala Harrison office and she was doing
a bunch of stuff on executive order and guys like
Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon were saying, whoa, whoa, whoa,
we want to curtail her power, you'd be like, yeah, Chuck, go,
Chuck Grassley is the best. But because Trump's involved here,
(45:57):
it's like that guy's a rhino and I never liked it.
Come on, it's Chuck Grassley. We're talking about Chuck Grassley.
So I started off on that and I got all
these emails people yelling at me that says Mike says,
you are wrong, Grassley, Pelosi, Sanders. These guys who have
(46:21):
been in the Senate for nearly one hundred years each
and Don Bacon and Congress for approximately eight years have
done absolutely nothing about tariffs. Along with the rest of
the legislative branch. Their position is whine and then sit
on their thumbs. Trump has finally done something about it.
I know. I said that and now they're like, all right,
we want to play too. What they haven't said is
(46:44):
that they would end anything that Trump has done. Now
they might, but let's deal with that if that's what
it comes to. Brett says, I have my torch and
pitchfork ready. He says, Scott, you know I love you.
We're on the same page with almost everything. But on
this one you're talking out of both sides of your
(47:05):
mouth and are completely wrong. On one hand, you seem
to understand the urgency of the negotiation tactics involved with
these things to make these changes quickly. On the other hand,
you acknowledge how slow and bogged down and inapt Congress is. Yes,
so let's try and make Congress move as strong and
as swiftly as President Trump is doing. That's what I'm
(47:27):
hoping to see here, Bratt says. So Don Bacon and
Chuck Grassley, they're going to negotiate with all these nations
to make deals that favor America. Come on, man, so
he says, he's going to do the torch and pitchfork thing.
By the way, Don Bacon just released a statement about
(47:48):
twenty minutes ago. He said, quote, the Constitution clearly gives
the authority for taxes and tariffs to Congress, but for
too long we have handed that authority to the executive branch.
This is less about the actual tariffs laid by the
Trump administration, some of which I support because they are reciprocal,
(48:10):
but more of a commitment to uphold the Constitution. Congress
has the power of the purse. Our founders created checks
and balances for a reason. That's the statement here from
Don Bacon. Then I'm getting yelled at and courtly is
threatening violence against me because I had the audacity to suggest,
(48:32):
and Lucy supported me on this, that Eddie and the
Cruisers wasn't a great movie. The soundtrack was a million
times better. And we had John Cafferty of John Cafferty
and the Beaver Brown Band. They are the ones who
had the top ten hit with on the Dark Side
from that movie and soundtrack. He was on the show
about forty five minutes ago, and he was a lot
of fun. He made us some pancakes that were a
(48:53):
little burnt. They were on the Dark Side.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
Oh my gosh, I got it.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
I can't tell you how happy I was when I
thought this morning about having John Cafferty say that, because
I gave him the line and he said, you want
me to say that? And I just said, yes so badly,
I want you to say that. So Cory says, all right,
I was gonna let the defending Don Bacon thing slide,
but then you go and brate Eddie and the Cruisers.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
It was a terrible movie.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Well, now Coray is gonna probably redact this last day
and he says, Lucy, would you please lean over the
table and punch Scott in his bruised ribs?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (49:34):
Bruised?
Speaker 4 (49:35):
Oh yeah, from your kid.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Yeah, I told you yesterday I got bruised ribs. And
Corley is gonna try and kick me while I'm down.
Speaker 6 (49:45):
I'm sorry, Coraley. We talked about this before the before
the show, and it was a bad movie. It really was.
It was a great movie that I loved to watch.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
A bad movie. Yeah, I just saw it like a
year ago.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Full disclosure. I've never seen the entire thing. I've listened
to the entire soundtrack and that's great. And now people
are yelling at me, going, come on, Scott, I mean
listen to you all morning as a Ralston kid. Are
you not going to make the announcement about the biggest
story of the day. All right, let's do this a
little bit ago on their Facebook page, we got this message.
(50:22):
In fact, this is so sad, but not unexpected. I
think we need some sad music to go along with
this announcement. Lucy, would you please get your flute and
accompany me while I read this?
Speaker 4 (50:38):
Pulling it out right now?
Speaker 3 (50:40):
All right, ready, After sixty incredible years, Johnny Sortino's Pizza
will be closing its doors.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Our last day will be Saturday, May thirty. First, we
want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our great
customers for your support, memories, love and laughs over the years.
Sherry has been working in the family business since nineteen
sixty five at the age of eleven, and we all
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feel it's a good time for her and her husband,
Dana to retire now that they're both in their seventies.
But you never know, maybe you'll see us again someday.
From our family to yours, thank you for being a
part of this journey. We hope to see you one
last time to say goodbye. Much love, Dana and Sherry, Brian,
Ben and Lindsey. One final note, be sure to use
(51:41):
up your gift certificates. Yeah yeah, that's David. It's amazing
you can talk while also playing this great flute song.
That message from Johnny's Sortino's Pizza after sixty years closing
its doors a Ralston institution, and I got an email
(52:04):
from Scott shortly after that announcement was made. He says.
Sortino's just posted their closing up for good on May thirty.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
First.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
That area is now pretty much dead to me, he says,
with the Ralston Bank gone, well, hang on, Ralston Bank
is Wells Fargo. It still looks the same from both
the outside and the inside. And I got a great
look at the inside because that's where my mom worked
when I was a kid, and that's where my mom
(52:34):
was geez, fifty years ago next month when the tornado
tore the roof off the SUKCA. My mom was in
the Ralston Bank that day. So as long as that
bank is still there and it looks like the Ralston Bank,
I don't care that Wells Fargo has the sign outside,
it's still the Ralston Bank. And I had to go
in there for a meeting a couple of years ago
(52:55):
and it's like this place hasn't changed at all. Inside
it's great.
Speaker 6 (53:00):
Yeah, And great because grandmothers are still there. That's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Well, that's the next thing, Scott says, So the Ralston Bank.
He says, that's where I got my first bank loan ever.
And then he says Grandmother's has gone. What And Scott said,
that was my worst too many hurricanes experience. And grandmother
H and H Chevrolet is gone from the southeast no
northeast corner of eighty fourth and L. H and H
(53:25):
has moved. And he says, runs us still down the street,
but it's not the same. Very sad about Sortino's. That's
from Scott an so ob South Omaha Boy, sent to
Scott at kfab dot com. I don't know, Lucy, if
you've ever been to Sortinos. Oh my gosh, since you
didn't play Optimus League football and basketball and soccer Gladiator soccer.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
A big sports hub hangout.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Oh my gosh, that's why you didn't go in there,
because there were all these kids in the back party
room running around eating pizza and playing video game and
having a party to celebrate. Hey, we just had one
win this season. Our season's over and we're going to
have a pizza party at Sortino's. Three times a year.
At the end of like soccer, baseball, or basketball or
football or whatever season. If you played all this stuff
(54:15):
growing up, we didn't have like one kid I only
play this sport. We all played everything, and at the
end of the year, we'd all have a pizza party
at Sortino's.
Speaker 6 (54:24):
I have been there many times, and I am very sad,
and I'm also very much kind of ambivalent because so
another another Omaha icon is gone. I'll mad at them.
I mean, you know, you got to do your life.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
I know, well that's that's how it goes. But I
want to broadcast live from there one time next month
when you're in their last Yeah, we'll do it, all right.
And I want to eat a bunch of pizza, and
I don't want to pay for it, So.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
There you go. That's one way.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
Sorry, Sorry, you're going out of business. Can I get
some stuff for free? Scott Bor the Babylon Bee has
put out the greatest news story I think of all time.
The headline here China retaliates against tariffs by putting worse
fortunes into cookies. Stuff like less than happy outcomes are
(55:16):
in your future. Your baseball team is unlikely to make
the playoffs. Or full control of Star Wars will soon
soon go to the same people that made the Snow
White movie. Or a Mexican mariachi band will soon move
in next door. And what would that sound like, Jim Rose,
(55:36):
a Mexican mariachi band soon moves in next door. Oh,
I was hoping for more. Yeah, that's not so bad.
That sounds good. All right, Well, we'll get Jim to
come to rehearsal tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (55:50):
Scott Voyes Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
They are not happy. In Iowa a Senator Chuck Grassley,
they are not I heard one guy uh called him
a rhino. Chuck Grassley has been a staunch conservative since
Neptune was formed. But he had one little thing saying,
(00:23):
you know, maybe the president should suggest the tariffs and
then Congress approved them, and people are like, ah, come on, Chuck,
what do you now. Let's and Don Bacon has kind
of done the same thing. Voters here in Nebraska second
District not happy with Don Bacon because he suggested the
same thing. Maybe Congress should be the one approving these. Now,
(00:47):
before everyone says that's it, I've had my torch lit
and my pitchfork sharpened, and now I know where I'm going.
I'm going to kfab and we're gonna we're gonna march
on Scott Voorhees today. Those before you get really really
mad at me when I tell you that Chuck Grassley
(01:08):
and Don Bacon are right and you're wrong to be
mad at them about this. Now, calm down, everyone stop.
Put put that cleatus, put it down, put down the pitchfork.
Before you get all mad, hear me out, I'll wait
(01:28):
till you stop yelling at the radio. They're still lucy,
They're still they're still yelling.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
They they're yelling.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
They're yelling and using words I can't say on the radio.
You want some.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Popcorn, I'm gonna get some popcorn.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
How do you like How do you like your popcorn?
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Lots of butter?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, yeah, like real butter or some of that day
glow butter that comes up in the I do like it.
But you can't have a lot of that, right, It
can't be good for you put something that has that
nuclear glow, so much of it in your body and
once in a while you do it. All right, They're like,
all right, they've calmed down.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
It's probably not good.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Okay, not all the time. Everything in moderation, right, No,
but go on, Okay, if think about this, President Kamala Harris,
stop stop. I can't. I can't do this. Everyone's just
gonna yell at the radio.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Are you suggesting that in the future.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
No, I'm thinking that had Kamala Harris been victorious and
was now in her one hundredth day or whatever, we'd
be in close to one hundred days in the Harris
administration and Kamala Harris wants to do some stuff, and
she's like, I'm going to executive order this, and I'm
going to executive order that. I would like to think
(02:54):
that Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon would stand up and say, no,
this is not how this go. You need to ask
for congressional approval for this. Okay, all right, calm down
a little bit. Yeah, but they didn't do it when
Biden and they didn't do it. I know, I know,
why are they just doing it Trump? I know. I'm
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not saying that they're one hundred percent right on what
they're doing with this timing philosophically, though they're right. This
shouldn't just be where the executive branch just starts throwing
out a ton of executive orders. When it comes to
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stuff like tariffs against trade partners, this should be Congress's responsibility.
And you liars and hypocrites have been advocating this responsibility
for years. You've sometimes you talk about sometimes we hear
members of Congress talk about tariffs. They talk about how
we're getting played by China and other nations. And you
(04:00):
know who said some of the stuff. Well, here's one
from when was this nineteen ninety six ish circa nineteen
ninety six, Nancy Pelosi, as a still not very young
but younger member of the House from California, was talking
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about free trade. This is Nancy Pelosi back in the nineties.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
The average US MFN tariff on Chinese goods coming into
the United States is two percent, whereas the average Chinese
MFF tariff on US goods going into China is thirty
five percent. China only allows certain industries into China, and
therefore only two percent of US exports are allowed into China.
On the other hand, the US allows China to flood
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our markets with a third of their exports. In terms
of jobs, this is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all.
Not only do we not have market access, not only
do they have prohibitive tariffs. Not only are our exports
not let in very specifically, but China benefits with at
least ten million jobs. Now, if you take a country
the size of China with a very cheap and in
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some instances slave labor, the lack of market access, the
rip off of our intellectual property, the transfer of technology,
you have a serious threat not only to our relationship
but to the industrialized world.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I'm Donald J.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Trump, and I approved this message. Trump has put that
out as a political message online. That's why you've got
the boom boom boom music behind it. They didn't used to.
I mean, it was the nineties. Everything was kind of
club and you know, this new level of hip hop
and disco, and it was a really great scene. But
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they didn't do that during the House of Representative speeches.
That was Nancy Pelosi in nineteen ninety six, in June
of nineteen ninety six railing on the floor of the
House about how America has just taken it to from China.
China is just absolutely destroyed when it comes to this
trade and how it's incredibly unfair and someone ought to
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do something.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Oh, come on, scot things changed, every thing's changed for yeah,
she changed her mind.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh yeah, another person. And by the way, what's Nancy
Pelosi saying now? Of course, that these tariffs are going
to destroy the world as we know it. The same
thing Bernie Sanders is saying the same thing now about tariffs.
Bernie Sanders hates these tariffs because, as you said, Lucy,
things have changed. What changed Trump? Trump has changed everything.
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All these things that Pelosi was railing about in nineteen
ninety six, Trump is doing something about who else complained
about the terriff and how we shouldn't We should have
more tariffs against China, and we should deal with some
of these American companies who have pulled roots out of
this country, taken jobs from America and put down these
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roots in nations that are more than happy to take
all of the jobs and all the manufat and all
the property taxes, and then they send these stuff back
to America. We don't put a terrif on it because, Ay,
we're nice guys, we want to go along, get along. Meanwhile,
we're losing jobs and American manufacturers still producing here can't
compete on the market. You know who else complained about
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this in two thousand and eight, Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders
is that.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
We need to not worry about manufacturing in America because
what we should establish is a policy of unfitted free trade.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
We don't need tariffs.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
What we need is to allow corporate America the freedom,
the freedom to throw American work is out on the street.
People are making fifteen twenty twenty five bucks an hour
healthcare pensions. Throw them out on the street because somehow
mount of President. We are going to create wealth in
America and good paying jobs in America. As we shut
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down plans we move to China operations there, Hey, work
is twenty thirty cents an hour, and we bring the
product back into this country. And anyone who goes shopping
in a mall knows how difficult it is today to
find the product made in America.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That is two thousand and eight. That's Bernie Sanders saying
we need more tariffs against nations like China. There has
to be some penalty for these American companies who take
manufacturing and jobs away from this country, take it to
other countries, send their stuff back to American consumers. We
don't put a tariff on it, yet American manufacturers can't compete.
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This is something that Trump railed about back in the eighties.
This is something he said he would do if elected president.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
He's been elected president. You would think that Nancy Pelosi
in nineteen ninety six and Bernie Sanders in two thousand
and eight would be pretty happy about it. But of
course they're not beating why because Trump, Which brings us
back to our friends Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon. What
they're saying is Congress should have the power power of
tariffs and taxes. The president can suggest I think we
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need to put a fifty four percent tariff on China,
and then he'd send it to Congress and they would
debate and then they would decide. I don't mind that.
But why is Trump doing it this way? Well, because
he's a maniac, and because well, let's not rule that out,
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but he's a maniac with a plan right now, and
he knows if he goes through Congress on all this,
if he suggests to them, hey, we need to add
another ten percent tariff on some of these things coming
from China, what'll happen. Well, it'll go to Congress. Someone's
gonna have to draft the bill. It's going to take
a while, and then they're gonna have to put the
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thing up. All right, Well we've heard it. We've got
to have a first, a second, and a third reading,
and it's got to go to committee. We got to
talk about a committee, and it's got to come out
of committee. Then we got to schedule a vote in
the House, and then that's going to be delayed, and
then we're going to go on recess for a month.
Then we're gonna come back. This will never get done
because that's what problem. That's the problem we have a Congress.
It's also a good thing. If Congress was just going
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by the day to day whims of whatever they wanted
to do and get like, all right, we're doing this today,
that would probably be an issue depending on who was
in power in Congress. But that's what the president's doing.
There should be this, this checks and balances. I would
prefer that. Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon say, we think
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because some president down the line might be doing executive
orders that we don't like, we think that this should
go through Congress. But we appreciate what the president is
doing here. We see his vision and we want to help.
We also realize the expediency of how some of these
things they lose their teeth. If China knows like, hey,
(10:52):
we're gonna tear a few win, I don't know sometime
in November, like it loses all of its teeth if
it's not immediate. So we're going to work with our
colleagues here in the Senate and the House and work
with the President of the United States to have a
unified front against these nations taken advantage of us. So yes,
this should go through Congress. But mister President, let us
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know what you want. We'll have a quick conversation and
we'll get back to you within a day or two.
After all, we're here, we're getting paid. I don't know
if there's anything the American people find more important than
trying to get all of this resolved as quickly as possible.
After all, Wall Street's just going to tank and tank
and tank. And oh the Dow's up fourteen hundred points. Huh.
(11:40):
We've made up all the losses so far less than
an hour into trading. As one of the days it
was down last week, one of those days is gone.
All the panic of one of those days last week
is gone. Huh. You would think the media would be saying, hey,
happy days are here again, because the reason why they
told you and I told you this would happen, the
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reason why they were screaming on Thursday and Friday in
the early part of the day, yesterday's oh Trump's tariffs,
world markets. They don't know what to do with this.
Like these guys on Wall Street, they know what they're doing.
At some point they look at each other and go, Okay,
are we done losing money. Let's go back to making money.
We all like it better when we're making money. And
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this happens all the time. Something happens causes the markets
to panic, there's a little bit of a correction, and
then it comes back stronger in just a matter of days.
Did anything change? Did Trump pull all the tariffs?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Did China say hey, sorry about that, We're gonna drop
all our tariffs. Let's have tariff free trade between No?
Nothing changed. What changed? The people on Wall Street decided
they were done losing money. That's all we had. We
had a little bit of weirdness at the Wall Street
garage sale for a couple of days, and then now
(12:58):
things are moving back in the right ta direction. And
maybe later this week did my correct again. But all
these people are like, oh, you're gonna lose everything in
your retirement account. No one's gonna be able to retire ever. Again,
that's malarkey. Sorry, mister President Joe Biden variety for using
one of your terms, But it's malarkey. These guys are lying,
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dog dog faced pony soldiers, that's what they are. So
Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders are liars and hypocrites. Chuck
Grassley and Don Bacon are doing the right thing, but
they're going about it the right way. They're also not
recognizing or maybe they are, and maybe they just don't
like Trump. Suddenly. Bacon has been a bit more in
(13:42):
the anti Trump camp at times. Grassly is not. But
I would like to see them say, yes, Congress needs
to do our job too, and we're ready to fight
with the president on this. Let's just do it as
a unified front. That's how this should be. So we'll
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we'll see what ends up happening with all this. Probably
the most likely thing is enough Republicans. Let's say it's
the House bill, enough Republicans in the House go with
this Don Bacon idea that Congress should be the one
applying the tariffs against these countries, so the president would
have that authority taken from him. In the House bill,
it's passed, it goes to the Senate. It's passed in
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the Senate, same reason. All the Democrats are like, yeah,
take authority away from Trump. Enough Republicans go, well, we're
not really taking authority away, but we are to. And
so then it goes to the White House, and what
happens Trump vetos it. Yeah, thanks a lot for letting
me know you don't like my authority. This is me
vetoing your veto of my authority. If you need anything else,
(14:48):
feel free to hit me up on truth social make
America Great Again veto. And that's another five percent tariff
against Vietnam. You know, I mean, it's probably the most
likely thing that happens here. This email, unsigned says Don
Bacon wants Alexandria Ocazio Cortez, il haan Omar and Jasmine
(15:10):
Crockett to determine tariffs. Don Bacon doesn't seem to realize
how many people voted against Tony Vargas. No, I don't
believe Don Bacon wants aoc ilhan Omar and Jasmine I
got hired because I'm a black woman. She just said
that the other day and talking about how great DEI
(15:33):
is at Crockett. I don't think that he wants them
to determine tariffs. Even if he did, they can't, you
know why, because they're not in the majority in the
House of Representatives. Two years that might change, but as
of now, they they can't even determine the lunch menu.
Don Bacon wants Don Bacon to determine tariffs. And like
(15:53):
I said, if we had President Kamala Harris in office
and the Republicans were in charge of the House and
they said, wait a second, she can't do all those
executive orders. We need some approval, you would say good
for them, you know you would. But I would prefer
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that Grassly in the Senate Bacon in the House say
we want to work with the President on this, and
it has to be done quickly. But this has to
be unified front and let's face it, Congress should really
have her hand in this, so let's work together. That's
how this should go. Nothing's going the way I wanted to,
but that's at least we're getting a little bit closer.
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Let's see here. Richard says, you know that Bacon did
this just to impede Trump. He hates the guy. If
he had proposed this bill next year, then maybe you
can make an argument as to the motivation of this action.
Richard says, I normally agree with you, but today is
a swing and a miss. You can argue his motivation
(17:01):
all you want. Like I said, they're Grassley and Bacon
are on the right track to being correct. I would
like to see them be even more correct by talking
about how this is exactly what we need to be
doing against China right now. After all, I just played
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you the clip of Nancy Pelosi arguing as much in
nineteen ninety six. So what will probably happen is they'll
pass the bill, Trump will veto it, and they're going
to get even more mad, which is gonna make a
lot of Maga Republicans even more happy as we continue
to make enemies out of friends. But President Trump also
did something else yesterday, and this was pretty funny. He
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welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the twenty twenty four World
Series champions, to the White House, and all of them,
I guess show. I don't know that any of them
sat it out. Mookie Betts when he was on the
White Sox in twenty nineteen, he did not go to
the White House because Trump. Mookie Bets decided to go yesterday,
(18:09):
and it's not because he's on team Trump. He says, Look,
it's not about me. My decision shouldn't take attention away
from my teammates. This is about the Dodgers. He also
threw in there. He says, well, it comes with the territory.
Being black in America in a situation like this, it's
a tough spot to be in. Being black in America
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is like what happened with Mookie Bets. You have an
incredible athletic gift, you get paid hundreds of millions of
dollars to play the game of baseball, You've won now
a second World Series, and you've been invited to the
White House to meet with the President. Is that the
black experience in America that most black people are having,
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or is Mookie Bets just a bit outside when it
comes to being out of touch?
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Oh that was a baseball reference, just side.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's right. Yeah, being black in America is like this,
I gotta gotta take my private jet to the White
House again. Yep, that's what it's like. That's being black
in America. Thanks Mookie Betts. Anyway, he and they all went,
so what did Trump do yesterday? Well, and talking about
all the Dodgers, especially Shohio Tani, Trump said he's a
(19:23):
movie star. He's got a good future. Yeah, he's doing
all right for himself. Otani is a great baseball player
in anything he wants to do on the field, whether
it's pitching or hitting and and yeah, he's an attractive guy.
He also does pretty well with the side bets, but
that's an issue for his agent anyway. Trump also said
(19:43):
it's great to have the Dodgers here. We also have
a couple of senators here. Talking about the two Democrat
senators from California, that would be Alex Padilla and former
Congressman Adam Giant Eyeballs Shift, he says, we got a
couple of senators here, but I don't particularly like them,
so I won't introduce them.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
You know, Yeah, I'm gonna laugh about it.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
But that's so it's funny.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
But I know it's funny, but it's brutal. But yeah,
but you know, the other funny part is they weren't
even there. They didn't even show up. Okay, that's yeah
because Trump, so Trump decided to call him out anyway,
and they weren't even there.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten k FA.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I'm not arguing that President Trump is wrong here, and
I'm not arguing that Senator Grassley and Congressman Bacon are
wrong in saying we need to have Congress bring some
of these back in here. It could be that they're
and I know you're gonna yell at me when I
say this, because, let's face it, Don Bacon has not
(20:53):
exactly been real trumpy over the years. But it could
be that they want Congress to have this authority to
take the executive authority on tariffs away from a future
Democrat president to undo some of what Trump has been doing.
But that's dependent on a Democrat winning the White House
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and the Republicans lose, the Republicans keeping the House, who
knows what the future might hold this authority, who gets
to do what win? And then some district court judge
doesn't even have jurisdiction jumps in there and says, wait,
you can't do that. This is going to be like
this for the rest of our lives. In the meantime,
President Trump is exercising the authority that he has to
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levy these tariffs, reciprocal reciprocal tariffs, reciprocal tariffs on these
nations that have been gouging us for decades. Nancy Pelosi
said as much in nineteen ninety six. You heard the
clip of her saying it. Earlier this hour, Bernie Sanders
was complaining about it. In two thousand and eight. Trump's
doing something about it, Grassling and Bacon say hey, we
(21:58):
want to play let Congress, And now they're not saying
that if you give Congress the authority to do these tariffs,
that we're not going to do what President Trump is doing.
But let's face it, some of these guys who have
been in office for a long time, long time Republican
and Democrats, they've never done anything about this. Why would
that change now? So all this is going on, and
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one of the issues is, well, we want America to
have more power when it comes to making some of
this stuff, especially that which we need for tech, including
automobile manufacturing, and we need these rare earths. We need
the critical mineral and rare earths to be able to
mine them. That's jobs in America. That's rare earth materials
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cultivated and produced here in America. In fact, don't we
have that going on in Nebraska? Isn't that what we
want to do in Ukraine? The answer to that last
question is, yes, we're trying to get an agreement with Ukraine,
But what about this Nebraska. Oh yeah, did Nebraska? We
have this big we have all this big mine of
rare earth minerals, and can't we just go down and
(23:06):
get it. Here's the timeline Former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor Heidaman,
not Governor Heineman, but Lieutenant Governor Levon Heidaman. When he
graduated high school in the seventies, he was with a
company that drilled the first hole in this property down
in Johnson County, Nebraska. That was in the seventies, and
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they said, Wow, we've got some rare earth minerals that
we can have here. That was in the seventies. Since then,
no mine. It's been fifty years. We haven't created a mine.
But I thought there was a company there is. It's
called Neocorp or Niocorp Developments, and they've secured the permits
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for a billion dollar project to be able to mine
the rare earth's here in Nebraska, the rare earth minerals.
But they don't have enough funding and the Biden administration
wouldn't give them the permits necessary to move forward. So
this could get moving here with Trump, I expect that
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it would. They need more money. They need the government's
help to push the process and make it go faster.
I imagine the investors will come out of the mines
and provide the money, because there's definitely money to be
made if government starts pushing the project forward. But it's
been fifty years. We know the stuff. He's here in Nebraska.
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We haven't been able to mine any of it, Lucy.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
Yeah, but Neocorp has been in fact that I think
I sent you a bunch of stuff about them about
five years ago. While Yeah, they've been trying to get
something done there through there for a while now. And
after hearing you say rare earth so many times, I
think I really want to hear I just want to celebrate,
please thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah. If well, if you want to go back in
the day music, we're going to have that coming for you.
We're taking a little time out some of this conversation
to put a pin in the last conversation. If you think, like,
all right, we're gonna take this rare earth mineral mining
and cultivation away from China and bring it to America,
we're gonna have to move. We have the ability, we
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just don't do it. And that's true for whether it's
oil refineries, whether it's mining, whether it's drilling. We have
all this stuff, we just don't do it. We just
let all these other nations take advantage of it.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Well, I think especially with the mining, because the mining
really does cause some damage to the earth around it,
the area around.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Its well, anytime there's good regulations.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
If there's an earthquake in California, it'll be blamed on
the mining and Johnson County, Nebraska, and mostly because fracking
is just fun to say, but that has nothing to
do with the rare earth.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
If this is your childhood, get it hands.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Who taught you how to do this stuff?
Speaker 7 (26:03):
You are right?
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I learned it by watching you. This is your radio show.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
What did the kid have? Was it cigarettes? Was it alcohol?
Did he have a bunch of cocaine there? Because I remember,
even as a kid looking at that going that dad
doesn't look like he does drugs.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Yes, I think it was alcohol.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
I can't remember? But it was after school, right, yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
It was an after school uh PSA. The public service
announcement of the dad catches his son with you know,
some sort of something or other, like where'd you get
this stuff?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
You?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
All right? I learned it from watching you. I'm looking
at this guy's got no was it porn? I don't
know what were you watching? After school? The It was
like some guy wearing a dickey and like wire rimmed
glasses and a receding hairline. I'm like, that guy's not
(26:59):
smoking on the pot, you know, But I don't know.
I mean, that was the early eighties. It was a
crazy time.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
I'm Scott Vorhes. There's Lucy Chapman. What were we saying
yesterday of just dismissing it as that was the sixties?
What are you gonna do? What was that conversation yesterday?
Because I'm just remembering there was a great email that
came in. Here we go. Lisa sent this in and said,
and see it. We'll maybe remember when I read the email.
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Lisa said, nineteen sixty six, nineteen sixty seven. I was
in first and second grade. During recess, I would occasionally
leave the playground cross the street to purchase cigarettes at
the corner store from Missus Ray, the school janitor. She'd
give me a quarter cigarettes for twenty cents a pack,
and I'd get to keep the nickel, which I use
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what I would use to get penny candy. It was
a special time. That's from Lisa that in a minute.
Don't remember what we were talking about that led her
to send that email, But we just said something about
the you know, late fifties, early sixties into the sixties,
as I was a different time.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Oh it was Dennis the Menace. It was the Dennis
the Menace convers.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Right, right, right, Yeah, they had a woman custodian.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
In the sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yes, I know it was a very progressive school district.
Well she was probably old, you know, and beyond her
child bearing years, so she was like forty one, forty two.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Yeah, in the sixties.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, all right, hag apparently that's the end. That's the
end of your usefulness. Can you push a broom? Well,
it's domestic enough for us. Get into that school and
mop those floors.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
If you want your mind blown, go look up the
actual ages of some of the actors in the sitcoms
from the sixties, seventies, and even in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
I know. I see these memes come up all the time,
and I'm always fact checking them, like this is what
a dad looked like in the eighties, and it'd be
like the dad from you know, some movie, and uh,
you know, and then you look and go he was
thirty eight years old.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yeah, I'm like fifty eight.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He looked like he was one hundred and eighty. Yes,
mind blown.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
The Golden Girls is what gets me. How old were
the Golden Fifties?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yes, and I've had a full head of gray hair
for years.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
But in fact, they might some of them might have
been in their forties, but their characters were just early fifties.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Let me think about it. They were all working.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Yeah, I know, yeah that's true, but they.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Looked like I would have thought they were like seventy eighties.
But you look at somebody who's seventy today, they look
like they're fifty.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yes, yeah, they're They're out. They somehow are there clinging
to this idea that we we all have to CrossFit
every single day. If we're not doing CrossFit, then what
are we even doing? Brouh Like, you know what, you've
lived a good law life. You have an extra donut
and uh sit around and watch a basketball game? Did
(30:05):
you watch the basketball game last night?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Should have wait?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I love the basketball game?
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Should I have waited till I was seventy to do that?
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I have an extra donut?
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Well, you got to train. You gotta train for it,
so you have a donut once in a while in
your entire life and then in your seventies, just donuts
for donuts. I'm Scott Forhe's a certified health expert and
personal trainer here on news Radio eleven ten kfab basketball
game was amazing last night. It's a word about March madness.
Some people complain. So all the number one seeds made
(30:37):
it to the Final four? Oh did they? So I'm
gonna talk to you the way you sound. You did
the best teams play the best at the best time,
creating the best Final four games ever with a great
National championship game that came down to the wire and
a controversial last second where this guy wasn't able to
put up a shot and you're like, someone grab the ball.
(30:57):
Do so if you grab the ball at least it's
a traveling violation and there's still a couple seconds left
in the clock, you'd get a steal or file the
guy and get the rebound. And still you gotta let
the game in there. Oh man, it was an exciting
end of that game. Good, good for Florida.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Good.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I liked that coach and uh I liked the coach
of Houston as well. But this is it was a
great final four. But there's no Sin Durilla is their
own number one seeds. So what it was a great
final four. Now to the topic that we should be
(31:32):
discussing here. This popped up over the weekend on social
media and some listeners send it to me, and I
spent more time than I really should have yesterday just
really trying to figure out if this was a picture
that would really be associated with Aurora High School in
beautiful Aurora, Nebraska. Aurora is a couple of hours west
(32:00):
of Omaha on I eighty, just under a couple of hours.
If you live in Graton, that's a little closer. If
you live downtown a little further away, if you live
at forty second in Jump, don't do all all right, let's.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Get put your address in whatever you were talking about, basketball,
all right, So Aurora, Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
The picture was two kids holding a Nazi flag and
the backdrop were some red lockers in presumably the locker room.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Of the school, and turned out to be a quilt.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
No, this is different than that conversation at Omaha Fashion
Week we had the other day. This is a real
Nazi flag. This is like you can't explain like it's
a quilt pattern. It's not it's a Nazi flag. It's
a red flag with the swastika in the middle. It's
a Nazi flag. And there was the two kids and
their faces were blurred or the picture was cropped in
(32:58):
such a ways you couldn't see their faces. So this
came out and people were like, look at what happened
at Aurora High School. I can't believe the hate in
that community. I'm like, all right, timeout. A lot of
times when there's a picture and you can't really tell
where this is being taken, suddenly every school, this is
at every school, like this could have happened in Ipsilani,
(33:21):
it could have happened in Mudley, Kentucky. We don't know
what makes you think it's Aurora. And one lady who
was posting it, she was adamant this happened at Aurora
because she's like, anyone who's ever been in Aurora's locker
room recognizes those lockers. It's red lockers, just mesh metal
red lockers. You know who else has those lockers? Everyone?
(33:45):
We had those at Ralston. For a second, I was like,
I hope this wasn't at Ralston. But then Aurora Public
Schools put out a press release and they said, the
students involved have been identified and dealt with. I'm like, okay,
now we have Aurora. Finally we had Aurora Public Schools
saying we've this did happen in our locker room. It's
(34:09):
a flag that symbolizes hate, and we're taking steps to
discipline those students as well as prevent any future issues.
The Superintendent of Schools, Jody Phillips said, whenever a situation
occurs on school ground, we're notified, we begin the process. Quote,
we look to see if there's anything as far as
code of conduct, board policy is related to that situation,
(34:32):
and then from there they would issue consequences school discipline
as appropriate as outlining the code of conduct. So what
does that mean?
Speaker 7 (34:42):
What?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, what these kids did and holding a Nazi flag
and one of the kids giving a thumbs up, this
is disgusting. You could absolutely take this as a threat,
particularly against Jewish students and potentially minority or gay students
because of the whole Nazi thing. What I really don't know,
(35:05):
and what the people in the community of Aurora do know,
is what are we dealing with with these two guys? Well,
there's three of them. There are two guys holding the flag,
one doing the thumbs up, and then someone else who
took the picture, unless they did the self timer. But
let's say it's these two students smiling thumbs up Nazi flag.
(35:28):
What do we have here? Do we have neo Nazis
who have threatened fellow students, or do we have what
is very very commonplace with today's youth, and frankly everyone's youth,
but particularly today with the social media, the stuff spreads
a lot quicker. Do we have a couple of dumb
arses who thought this would be funny and they're not hateful,
(35:55):
and they're not racist, and they're not anti Semites, they're
just super super dumb. I tend to think it's probably
the latter that these kids can be made to be
explained to them, like, look, this isn't funny. Whether these
guys are whatever, you're just like, I don't know what
(36:19):
you were thinking here. But it was posted on a
social media page that I think was called Aurora Goofy
Students or something like that, And so the idea was,
it seems to me that everyone's posting more and more
outlandish stuff on the page, and these guys thought, well,
we can win this battle and so we post here.
(36:42):
But there's one other thing that I think really has
to be answered to determine what's really in the hearts
and minds of these particular students, and that is, Okay,
this wasn't something that you etched onto a pillowcase. This
is a real flag. This is a banner that you
got from somewhere. It wasn't something that seemingly was just
laying around or that you made. Someone had to go
(37:05):
and buy this, someone had to order it online. There
was some forethought involved in this, right. It wasn't like
you're just I was just making a pattern on my
trapper keeper. The kids still have trapper keepers, and I
made a swastika because it's an interesting thing. I wasn't
really thinking about it. These guys had in their possession
(37:28):
a Nazi flag, which now makes me think, all right,
what's going on with these guys. But of course the
people on social media are just hideous. They're like, oh, yeah,
this is what Trump's America looks like. This is what
(37:48):
you find in small town Nebraska, nothing but hate and racism,
and Aurora's letting it. These kids learn this thing at home,
they learned it in their community and this is what
Aurora is like. And then you get people on there saying, oh,
I went to Aurora, I graduated in two thousand whatever,
and oh, yeah, this is how Aurora has always been. No,
it's not. Aurora is a great community. I don't know
(38:11):
what's going on with these idiots, but the community knows
who these kids are. They know who their parents are,
and I'm interested to see now how they're dealt with
because this is ugly for these students. There's no need
to extrapolate this further into this is what small town
(38:32):
Nebraska looks like, or this is how white people are
or this is what Trump's America looks like, or whatever
it is that you want to say. But of course
people are gonna say what they're gonna say. I don't
know what these kids were thinking, but I bet some
of you we hit the shores of Aurora and that
(38:55):
we're still beaming in pretty So how's our signal today?
I know we've been doing a little work lately, but uh,
you know, when you get a little older, we're one
hundred years old, sometimes you have some work done to
the transmitter, the chin, you whatever. So for those of
you checking in Aurora, I'm not promising I'll read any
(39:15):
emails on the air, but I would be curious your thoughts.
If you're in that community scottikfab dot com. That's how
you reach us, Scott at kfab.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Dot com, Scott Voice.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Now. Mostly what I have in the inbox is people
telling me that our clip earlier this hour of If
This was your childhood and it was the commercial of
the dad asking his son where'd you get this stuff?
You all right? I learned it from watching you. We
have confirmation from several listeners here at scottikfab dot com
that it was the old marijuana that the young man
(39:49):
had that apparently his dad was a huffin on. So
we got that resolved. Still waiting for some clarification on
what's going on if you just joined us. There was
some picture online posted on a forum for Aurora students
where it was apparently students trying to out outlandish each other,
(40:11):
and the postings were like Aurora, goofy students or something,
and so these two guys just happened to have a
Nazi flag and they posted in the locker room holding
it up and giving the thumbs up. Pretty bad. They've
since been welcome with a full ride to Columbia University.
But so will if we find anything that we can
(40:35):
pass along in the air, I'll let you know. Governor
Pillin yesterday decided that if you have can we just
say food stamps? It's like EBT, snap cards and all
the rest of this stuff. Everyone, I mean, is we
stopped saying food stamps? We go that has a negative connotation.
Why well that the idea that people have, you know,
(40:57):
on food stamps sounds terrible. Instead they're on supplemental nutritional
assistance program. Well, what's that? It's food stamps, but we
just don't call it food stamps anymore. So people have
been allowed in Nebraska like almost every other state, and
maybe maybe that's still the case. I think Nebraska is
(41:17):
now the second state to ask the US Department of Agriculture,
can we curtail what food stamps are used for, specifically
the buying of soda, pop and energy drinks. What would
be the argument in favor of the taxpayers? Now understand
(41:41):
what this is. These are people who having a hard
time getting buy there's a program available to them. We're
talking about the working poor, and you know, in the
end of the month, we're all just one paycheck away
from suddenly needing to be in a situation where if
there's government assistants to be able to get bread, eggs, meat,
(42:02):
that which we need to take care of ourselves and
our families. I think any of us at some point
would swallow our pride because we need to swallow something,
and we would use that assistance to be able to
get the food we need to feed our families by
any means necessary. We do this, right, Okay, Now I
know you're like, I'll tell you what I do. All right,
that's great, that's you. Some people take advantage of this program,
(42:25):
and some people really take advantage of this program because
they use they well they either sell their food stamps
to others so they can get the cash so they
can buy alcohol or drugs, or right now they're using
taxpayer money. This is taxpayer money. This would be like
you going to your neighbor, Hey, Bob, Yeah, it's me,
(42:48):
your neighbor, Wickwhack. And that's the guy's name. It's a nickname,
family name, Wickwhack the third. So Wickwhack says, hey Bob,
having a hard time feeding my family right now now,
I was hoping you could lend me a few bucks
so I could buy what's necessary to feed my family.
You're like, you know what, wick Whack, You've always been
a great neighbor and I love your name, and I'm
(43:11):
gonna give you. How much do you need? It's like,
you know what, just twenty bucks. That's finey. It's like, great,
thanks for the twenty bucks. I'm gonna go buy a
bunch of pop and energy drinks. You take care of yourself.
You're like, whoa, whoa, Wickwhack. I thought you're talking about food.
This is food. Don't shame me, because that's the argument
(43:31):
in favor of this, like, well, it just shames those
who are on food stamps not to get what they want. Well,
so we're not talking about what we want. Some of
this pop and the energy drink stuff, some of it
can be pretty expensive. If we're talking about energy drinks.
And some of the people buying the pop, they're not
they don't even have they're not even buying the cheap stuff.
(43:55):
They're like, I'm gonna buy doctor Pepper when Doctor Thunder
the generic and is perfectly fine. It's a couple bucks cheaper,
and it's right here next to the doctor Pepper. Just
buy the doctor thunder Well, then people will know I'm
poor or thrifty. So Governor Pillen said, we don't want
(44:17):
people on food stamps to be able to buy soda
and energy drinks. This was a request made yesterday. I
guess the US Department of Agriculture has to approve that.
And of course there are some people arguing saying this
is a terrible thing to do to poor people who
(44:37):
have an addiction to doctor pepper or diet doctor pepper,
you know whatever it is, energy drinks. How am I
supposed to wake up in the morning not to go
to my job if I'm not allowed to get energy drinks.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Scott for Yes News Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
I have feelings. You know, I've been getting yelled at all.
Day started off when I said, Chuck Grassley and Don
Bacon are right. They're not one hundred percent right as
right as I'd like to like to see them be,
but they are right. Congress should should join President Trump
(45:14):
in a unified front when it comes to these tariffs.
Of course, if Congress takes away Trump's ability to do
the tariffs, that loses all of his teeth. It would
take forever. We wouldn't get anything for months, if anything,
and China would be laughing all the way to the
American destroying bank. But there's no reason that Congress can't
(45:37):
fight alongside the President on this stuff. And besides, if
we had President Kamala Harrison office and she was doing
a bunch of stuff on executive order and guys like
Chuck Grassley and Don Bacon were saying, whoa, whoa, whoa,
we want to curtail her power, you'd be like, yeah, Chuck, go,
Chuck Grassley is the best. But because Trump's involved here,
(45:57):
it's like that guy's a rhino and I never liked it.
Come on, it's Chuck Grassley. We're talking about Chuck Grassley.
So I started off on that and I got all
these emails people yelling at me that says Mike says,
you are wrong, Grassley, Pelosi, Sanders. These guys who have
(46:21):
been in the Senate for nearly one hundred years each
and Don Bacon and Congress for approximately eight years have
done absolutely nothing about tariffs. Along with the rest of
the legislative branch. Their position is whine and then sit
on their thumbs. Trump has finally done something about it.
I know. I said that and now they're like, all right,
we want to play too. What they haven't said is
(46:44):
that they would end anything that Trump has done. Now
they might, but let's deal with that if that's what
it comes to. Brett says, I have my torch and
pitchfork ready. He says, Scott, you know I love you.
We're on the same page with almost everything. But on
this one you're talking out of both sides of your
(47:05):
mouth and are completely wrong. On one hand, you seem
to understand the urgency of the negotiation tactics involved with
these things to make these changes quickly. On the other hand,
you acknowledge how slow and bogged down and inapt Congress is. Yes,
so let's try and make Congress move as strong and
as swiftly as President Trump is doing. That's what I'm
(47:27):
hoping to see here, Bratt says. So Don Bacon and
Chuck Grassley, they're going to negotiate with all these nations
to make deals that favor America. Come on, man, so
he says, he's going to do the torch and pitchfork thing.
By the way, Don Bacon just released a statement about
(47:48):
twenty minutes ago. He said, quote, the Constitution clearly gives
the authority for taxes and tariffs to Congress, but for
too long we have handed that authority to the executive branch.
This is less about the actual tariffs laid by the
Trump administration, some of which I support because they are reciprocal,
(48:10):
but more of a commitment to uphold the Constitution. Congress
has the power of the purse. Our founders created checks
and balances for a reason. That's the statement here from
Don Bacon. Then I'm getting yelled at and courtly is
threatening violence against me because I had the audacity to suggest,
(48:32):
and Lucy supported me on this, that Eddie and the
Cruisers wasn't a great movie. The soundtrack was a million
times better. And we had John Cafferty of John Cafferty
and the Beaver Brown Band. They are the ones who
had the top ten hit with on the Dark Side
from that movie and soundtrack. He was on the show
about forty five minutes ago, and he was a lot
of fun. He made us some pancakes that were a
(48:53):
little burnt. They were on the Dark Side.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
Oh my gosh, I got it.
Speaker 2 (48:59):
I can't tell you how happy I was when I
thought this morning about having John Cafferty say that, because
I gave him the line and he said, you want
me to say that? And I just said, yes so badly,
I want you to say that. So Cory says, all right,
I was gonna let the defending Don Bacon thing slide,
but then you go and brate Eddie and the Cruisers.
Speaker 4 (49:22):
It was a terrible movie.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
Well, now Coray is gonna probably redact this last day
and he says, Lucy, would you please lean over the
table and punch Scott in his bruised ribs?
Speaker 4 (49:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (49:34):
Bruised?
Speaker 4 (49:35):
Oh yeah, from your kid.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Yeah, I told you yesterday I got bruised ribs. And
Corley is gonna try and kick me while I'm down.
Speaker 6 (49:45):
I'm sorry, Coraley. We talked about this before the before
the show, and it was a bad movie. It really was.
It was a great movie that I loved to watch.
Speaker 4 (49:54):
A bad movie. Yeah, I just saw it like a
year ago.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Full disclosure. I've never seen the entire thing. I've listened
to the entire soundtrack and that's great. And now people
are yelling at me, going, come on, Scott, I mean
listen to you all morning as a Ralston kid. Are
you not going to make the announcement about the biggest
story of the day. All right, let's do this a
little bit ago on their Facebook page, we got this message.
(50:22):
In fact, this is so sad, but not unexpected. I
think we need some sad music to go along with
this announcement. Lucy, would you please get your flute and
accompany me while I read this?
Speaker 4 (50:38):
Pulling it out right now?
Speaker 3 (50:40):
All right, ready, After sixty incredible years, Johnny Sortino's Pizza
will be closing its doors.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Our last day will be Saturday, May thirty. First, we
want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our great
customers for your support, memories, love and laughs over the years.
Sherry has been working in the family business since nineteen
sixty five at the age of eleven, and we all
(51:17):
feel it's a good time for her and her husband,
Dana to retire now that they're both in their seventies.
But you never know, maybe you'll see us again someday.
From our family to yours, thank you for being a
part of this journey. We hope to see you one
last time to say goodbye. Much love, Dana and Sherry, Brian,
Ben and Lindsey. One final note, be sure to use
(51:41):
up your gift certificates. Yeah yeah, that's David. It's amazing
you can talk while also playing this great flute song.
That message from Johnny's Sortino's Pizza after sixty years closing
its doors a Ralston institution, and I got an email
(52:04):
from Scott shortly after that announcement was made. He says.
Sortino's just posted their closing up for good on May thirty.
Speaker 1 (52:12):
First.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
That area is now pretty much dead to me, he says,
with the Ralston Bank gone, well, hang on, Ralston Bank
is Wells Fargo. It still looks the same from both
the outside and the inside. And I got a great
look at the inside because that's where my mom worked
when I was a kid, and that's where my mom
(52:34):
was geez, fifty years ago next month when the tornado
tore the roof off the SUKCA. My mom was in
the Ralston Bank that day. So as long as that
bank is still there and it looks like the Ralston Bank,
I don't care that Wells Fargo has the sign outside,
it's still the Ralston Bank. And I had to go
in there for a meeting a couple of years ago
(52:55):
and it's like this place hasn't changed at all. Inside
it's great.
Speaker 6 (53:00):
Yeah, And great because grandmothers are still there. That's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Well, that's the next thing, Scott says, So the Ralston Bank.
He says, that's where I got my first bank loan ever.
And then he says Grandmother's has gone. What And Scott said,
that was my worst too many hurricanes experience. And grandmother
H and H Chevrolet is gone from the southeast no
northeast corner of eighty fourth and L. H and H
(53:25):
has moved. And he says, runs us still down the street,
but it's not the same. Very sad about Sortino's. That's
from Scott an so ob South Omaha Boy, sent to
Scott at kfab dot com. I don't know, Lucy, if
you've ever been to Sortinos. Oh my gosh, since you
didn't play Optimus League football and basketball and soccer Gladiator soccer.
Speaker 4 (53:50):
A big sports hub hangout.
Speaker 2 (53:52):
Oh my gosh, that's why you didn't go in there,
because there were all these kids in the back party
room running around eating pizza and playing video game and
having a party to celebrate. Hey, we just had one
win this season. Our season's over and we're going to
have a pizza party at Sortino's. Three times a year.
At the end of like soccer, baseball, or basketball or
football or whatever season. If you played all this stuff
(54:15):
growing up, we didn't have like one kid I only
play this sport. We all played everything, and at the
end of the year, we'd all have a pizza party
at Sortino's.
Speaker 6 (54:24):
I have been there many times, and I am very sad,
and I'm also very much kind of ambivalent because so
another another Omaha icon is gone. I'll mad at them.
I mean, you know, you got to do your life.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
I know, well that's that's how it goes. But I
want to broadcast live from there one time next month
when you're in their last Yeah, we'll do it, all right.
And I want to eat a bunch of pizza, and
I don't want to pay for it, So.
Speaker 4 (54:54):
There you go. That's one way.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
Sorry, Sorry, you're going out of business. Can I get
some stuff for free? Scott Bor the Babylon Bee has
put out the greatest news story I think of all time.
The headline here China retaliates against tariffs by putting worse
fortunes into cookies. Stuff like less than happy outcomes are
(55:16):
in your future. Your baseball team is unlikely to make
the playoffs. Or full control of Star Wars will soon
soon go to the same people that made the Snow
White movie. Or a Mexican mariachi band will soon move
in next door. And what would that sound like, Jim Rose,
(55:36):
a Mexican mariachi band soon moves in next door. Oh,
I was hoping for more. Yeah, that's not so bad.
That sounds good. All right, Well, we'll get Jim to
come to rehearsal tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (55:50):
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