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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I hear that clip that starts off the program about
how we grew up Lucy with the This is how
they were trying to get us not to take drugs.
This public service announcement of a guy frying eggs in
his kitchen.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
This is your brain.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is your brain on drugs. Any questions now? And
now we are so many years later, so many years later,
because we're old, and I think that there are people
out there saying, well, I don't think the drugs are
all that big a deal. I think that we need

(00:41):
to have everyone in this country be non binary and
on some sort of recreational drug. But you know, you
need to watch out for eggs. Eggs, right, you know
a lot of cholesterol. Where are we at with that?
Before I get the egg industry all all mad at me?
Where are we today on Wednesday, April twenty third? Or

(01:03):
eggs good for you?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Good for you? Depends? It depends on what you fry
them in, how you prepare them, and whether there are
any artificial food dies in those eggs.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Right, Just fryb and bacon, grease and eat them all
up and you'll be good. Put a little salt on them.
Salt is good for you.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
That was the biggest concern in the world when we
were growing up, which I hope my kid doesn't know.
I hope my kid doesn't do drugs.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey, that commercial kept me off drugs, scared straight, kept
me out of jail and what else. Oh, And I
knew I was pathetic.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
No, that's a different commercial. That well, they're all different.
That was not for the kids. That was for the adults.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Stop belittling, And I knew I was prothetic.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Stop belittling your children and then try and make them
some breakfast and tell them not to take drugs. This
is your brain. My brain is an egg? Is it real?
Is it just the size of an egg? If you
crack it open and fry it, then it really looks

(02:13):
like it's doing something. In fact, I think my brain
on drugs is probably better, right, because if you just
have an egg, what do you have? It's just an egg.
But if you crack it open and fry it, now
you've got breakfast. You could do a fried egg sandwich.

(02:33):
You could do breakfast for dinner, which is always a
favorite I think of my house. I mean, the you
got possibilities when you have a fried egg. But just
an egg. Someone get me some drugs. Do you make
a valid point? Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
They're trying to tell you, don't make your brain like
an egg, right, and hopefully that nobody needs to tell
you your brain is better than an egg.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think they were saying that you just you take
drugs and you get off fried.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I understand what they were trying to say. I just
told you it kept me off drugs.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
I think the people who created that I had were
probably high as flipping kites when they did that. Oh wait, wait,
wait wait, I got it, I got it. Okay, we
can do this. Let's do this. Let's crack an egg. Yeah,
we'll put it in a frying.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Pan, and we'll tell people that it's like their brain. Yeah,
this is I'd like to have been in that session
these guys.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The Dow's up another thousand points here today. That's great. Uh.
Trump won't get any credit for that one. But when
the Dow goes down a thousand points tomorrow, that'll be
his fault and we'll have new stories on how Americans
are fearing the economy. Sorry, that was just a side notes.
I looked at what was going on on Wall Street anyway.

(03:50):
Enough with the marketing what I'm used to you ignoring,
I'm not ignoring you. And now I was gonna go
a little further down the what it was like to
be on the marketing team. Really, there were a bunch
of guys with the munchies. I think that was going
to take three minutes to say that. It wasn't going
to go anywhere, And it wasn't that funny. But it's
funny that I think it's funny. When we were growing up,

(04:12):
that was something everyone knew. The egg and the frying pan.
Don't do drugs, Nancy Reagan, our first lady, don't do drugs,
just say no. And now today it's arguments in every
state across the country as to what constitutes a male
or a female, and who gets to go in what
bathroom and on what sports team, and what we're going

(04:33):
to be able to eat. Did we fix the don't
do drugs thing? Oh that's the other part. Now, all
the stuff that you used to not like they didn't
want you to take any of that stuff. It's available
in every strip mall. You can get it through the
male It's all over the place.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
So mostly from your parents' cabinets.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Look, let's start with food. I got hungry here thinking
about this. Let's start with food. I've been trying to
figure out since yesterday when r. F K Junior said,
we're gonna get rid of all these food dies. Right,
we don't want all these artificial food dies. Even though
they say you can get rid of all of these dyes,

(05:15):
and that still doesn't probably mean that any issues will change.
It's not like kids are automatically overnight healthier. All right,
what are we doing and more importantly to what foods
are we doing it? What changes? Because when I hear
like the FDA says, we have a lot of synthetic

(05:35):
food colorings that we just don't need. They're artificial, they're synthetic,
and they're in all these different foods. And don't worry,
they have other things they can do to create the
same thing. You won't even be able to tell a difference.
I can tell a difference. You can tell you not, yes,
I can.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
You've had something that has been dyed with tumerica or
with beats.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
That's the thing. When they started talking about, well, here
are the other things they can do other than the
synthetic food dies. Oh yeah, what's that? Well, they could
do pigments from beats. I don't want pigments. It were
fruit loops soaked and beat juice. Yes, is that what

(06:19):
we're doing?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Where this is going? Yes, I hope. So it's one
thing to say that, all right, here's what we're gonna
get rid of, Citrus red number two and orange be
Those two synthetic food colorings will be gone within the
coming months, Citrus red number two and orange B. And
I'm like, all right, what, pardon my language? What in

(06:45):
the heck I decided not to mildly curse? What in
the heck does that mean? What can't I eat? And
then they start saying, we got other stuff too, Oh yeah,
a lot of other six remaining synthetic dies FD and
C green number three, f D and C red number forty,
f D and C yellow number five, F D and

(07:06):
C yellow number six, F D and C blue number
one and F D and C. I don't know what
F D and C means food and drug and color.
I don't know blue number two. We hope to have
all this stuff from the food supply by the end
of the next year. All right. If we have where's
the forty FD and C red number forty. There was

(07:30):
citrus red number two and red number forty that need
to go away. How many different red dyes do we have?
Can the rest of them be used? And can I
still eat fruity pebbles and have them taste good? Because
when you said you can't tell the difference, Lucy, this
is going to cause you to have to pretend that

(07:51):
you're an unhealthy tub of goo like I am.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Okay, Now my mind goes there every day, so we're good.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
My tub of goodness is such that I don't eat
this stuff for five meals a day. It's every once
in a while. I like to have some stuff that
maybe isn't all that good for me. That's why I
don't eat it every single day. So I'll give you
one example. And I don't know whether it's good bad

(08:18):
for it. I think, really anything if you eat it
NonStop probably isn't all that great. You have a well
balanced diet. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese blue box that which
used to cost twenty seven cents now I don't know
eight bucks. I don't know how much a box of
macaroni and cheese costs. I grab the six pack, I
throw it in the cart and move on with my

(08:40):
life because I'm wealthy beyond my wildest dreams, and I
can afford the six pack of the Kraft Macaroni and
cheese and the blue box and you put that cheese
on there, which has a hue to it that doesn't
occur naturally in nature. But they changed it. They screwed
around with it over the years, tried to make it

(09:00):
more healthy, probably, and now it tastes different than it
used to. And I know, I don't mean to brag.
I'm in a bit of an aficionado when it comes
to the Kraft macaroni and cheese, having eaten it pretty
exclusively when I was living in an apartment by myself
and soon will be again. It's just a matter of time. Yes, WHOA.

(09:26):
But then you got neighbors above you, and you're like,
are they clogging up there? What are you people doing?
I prefer to be on the top floor if possible,
But that's fine. I've eaten a lot of Kraft Macaroni
and cheese, and I still once in a while, maybe
once every month and a half probably on average, I
get that box. I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm eating the

(09:48):
whole thing. I'm gonna sit here, I'm gonna watch football,
and I'm gonna eat some macaroni and cheese. And I
eat it. It just tastes different. I don't think my
palette has changed. I think that stuff in the I
think the cheesy powder changed it. Now it's still the
same color. Now what about the color? When I hear

(10:10):
all these food dyes are going away, I'm like, all right, Well,
apparently if we got red number forty that goes away,
or yellow number five or love potion number nine, and
if any of these things done on the list, any
of these things go away, then we've got other options, right, yes?
Or what happened if yellow number five goes away? Is

(10:31):
that where they ended yellow food dies? Did the first
four yellow food dies kill everyone on content?

Speaker 3 (10:38):
I don't know this for sure, but I believe that
I saw a documentary on this, and the numbers are
odd because the numbers you don't see didn't necessarily kill anybody,
But they did not do what they'd hoped. Maybe not
as deep of a color, or maybe the flavor was
off whatever.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I don't know. I didn't know that food dies really
had a flavor. Well, I don't know that they do.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm just saying that the numbers you don't see are numbers,
are sure concoctions.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
It didn't make so I hear that these particular synthetic
dyes go away. And RFK Junior says, we're working with
all the business leaders in the industry to get rid
of these dies. And they're all really they're excited about
the changes. It's going to be fine food giants like Pepsi,
General Mills, Tyson Foods, Craft that Macaroni and Cheese Dude,

(11:34):
that macroi Hines and Kellogg's, he said. RFK Junior said,
we're gonna get rid of the dies one by one.
We're going to uh, we're gonna make our food healthy again. Great,
What does that mean? What foods? They won't really tell
you what foods. You have to really dig and find
one or two in this article, one or two in

(11:56):
that story like that are actually by name. These eyes
are using these things.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Here.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Is that alone tell you something? Go on? Yes, it
tells me ignorance is bliss. I don't want to know
this stuff. But I've been digging. Here's what I found. Skittles,
M and M's, Twinkies, fruit loops, maybe fruity pebbles and peeps.
I figured peeps they're just evil. I mean, no, they're

(12:22):
not evil. They're fantastic. But I don't eat them all
day every day. I want to, but they're not available
all day, every day throughout the year. Yeah, that color
of yellow or pink also seems to be something designed
in a lab a laboratory by evil geniuses, and God
bless them. So we don't eat this stuff every day.

(12:43):
But then I find out a few other things. Sometimes
they put a little bit of food coloring in things
that we wouldn't normally think of, beyond candy, beyond pop,
beyond breakfast cereal, stuff like the rind of an orange
and orange is an orange? Enough? Make it more orange?
And find me something that rhymes with orange orange. You're

(13:05):
glad I told you about that. Sometimes sometimes kids listen
to the show and they love dead jokes. Also, the
casings of sausages. Sometimes they're like, I don't know about
that color. Throw a little maroon in there. We want
we want a little a little uh deep red in

(13:29):
that sausage casing. Well I gotta have. I don't want
earth tone sausage casings, So don't take this down. And
then I read this. They talk to some lady that
runs a bakery. She makes these little macaroons and she
makes them with various different things, and she says, people

(13:51):
love our little blue macaroons. This one specifically is the
little blue macaroon with fruity pebbles. Sounds great again, not
five meals every day. Once in a while, you pop
one of these things or eight of them in your mouth.
It's fine, it's okay. And she says, people love this stuff.
We do use the red food dye in it, including

(14:11):
red number three in the mix, and it really makes
them pop. And then she said this. This is a
woman named Alison who runs a little bakery in North Carolina.
She said, if we didn't use dye in our product,
everything would be this sort of creamy brown color. Adding
color really makes things pop and it really makes things sell.

(14:36):
And then they said, as if that's not gross enough
to what Lucy said earlier. Well, they don't have to
use synthetic dyes. Food makers can use natural hues made
from beats, algae, and crushed insects. I did not make
that up. That was not thrown in there to see
if you were listening. Yeah, mostly crickets, beats, algae, pigmans

(15:00):
from purple sweet potatoes, radishes, red cabbage, and crushed insects. Look,
I don't I'm willing to sacrifice an entire nation of
unmilitary ready, fat little bastages. I don't want fruity pebbles
made with crushed insects. Already. That honestly too much to ask.

(15:25):
You are already eating crushed Don't say it. Don't you
say it? You know no, I am not. I have
some things to say about this. Fred and Barney do
not crushed insects. I don't eat crushed insects. I don't
eat chocolate covered insects. I'm not eating insects. Every once

(15:47):
in a while, you're out in a boat and you're like, ah,
probably I just swallowed something, But we're gonna pretend like
I didn't. But that's different. We can use Bee's algae,
red cabbage, and crushed insects to achieve the same color.

(16:09):
Are we sure we're not going too far with this? Look,
I'm on board. A lot of the stuff that the
Trump administration is doing. I'm willing to take away and
see approach. I'm on board with some of this stuff.
A lot of the stuff. The doge that's coming up
with like, why are we spending money on this? Why
are we spending money on that one hundred percent? Let's go,

(16:30):
let's doze it up. And then I hear this, do
we really want to be that healthy? Do we really
want to eliminate the option? Yes?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
And you want me to say what I have to
say next?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten. KFAB Email Scott atkfab
dot com. Scott, please stop your mindless silly die rant.
Just go to Sam's and buy a five year bulk
purchase of all your gooey fat favorites and move on. Well,
I was gonna do that anyway, even before I saw

(17:03):
this story. RFK Junior says, all these different synthetic artificial
food dies need to go. I'm like, okay, but don't
change the flavor of a Kraft macaroni and cheese because
you guys have already done that. And what else is
going to change? What the color is going to change?
What flavor is going to change? And they said, oh,
it's going to be fine. Even though this bakery, this

(17:25):
baker says that you know, if we didn't include the
food dye in our product, everything would be this sort
of brown color. But they said, well, food makers can
use natural hues made from beets, algae, purple sweet potatoes, radishes,
red cabbage, and crushed insects. And now I can't stop yelling.
And Lucy said, you want me to tell you something,

(17:47):
and I said yes, And now I want to hear that.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
As far as crickets, I just sent you the table
that talks about all of the different flavors that each
bug and larvae. No, and so anyway, you can take
a look at that if you want. If not, fine,
but you are already eating crickets comes by a different
name along the ingredients list that you would never think

(18:13):
is buzz.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
You're saying that they put on the list of ingredients. Yes,
I get a candy bar. I don't know if there's
crickets in candybars. I get a bag of chips, and
it's listed right there on the ingredient list.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
But if you don't know what the what they're calling it,
you would not see it. You wouldn't recognize it. But
if you go and you find out exactly what they're
calling you, and that's easy to find. I just didn't
have the time right now. But what I wanted to
say you talk about, and you mentioned it several times.
It's not like you're going to sit and eat pebbles,
fruity pebbles, or Twinkies or Kraft Macardian cheese. You're not

(18:51):
going to eat that time after time after time, all
day long. That's the only thing you eat. And I
understand that that's a decent argument, except that everything has
dyes in it, So it doesn't matter if you just
eat twinkies all day because whatever you're eating virtually has
dies in it. So if they take those dies out,
then yeah, it could very well make a difference. If

(19:14):
you look back at society pre nineteen eighty and even
into the eighties, sum people were thin. It was weird
to see somebody who was overweight, Am I right?

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yes. The only things that I ever saw that was
like morbid obesity when I was growing up was in
the Guinness Book of World Records, the two twin brothers
on the motorcycles, the fattest twins right for morbidly those Yeah,
those guys.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, And you do see that still today, and you
see people who now.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I see those guys every time I go to the store. Yeah, yeah,
so what changed? Well, they added these wasn't the artificial die.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, it wasn't just artificial dies. But what happens when
you put artificial dyes and stuff. Yeah, it does make
it look better, it does make it taste a little
bit better. But you just said yourself. Dies don't have
any flavor. So what happened? People saw this delicious pop
of color? Do you think that the bakeries, to use
your example, do you think that the bakeries in the

(20:18):
fifties and sixties and seventies had any trouble selling anything?

Speaker 2 (20:21):
No, of course not.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
So to say, well, we wouldn't be able to sell
as much without this, That might be true only because
of the conditioning that we have today, that we're walked
to see that color.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
We're walking along, we're not even hungry, we don't even
want a little treat. We passed by a star window
and there's some bright red confectionery treat they're sitting on
a little platter, and we can't help ourselves. We're just
ding pavlogs, Pavlov's dog, you're not wrong, dang, And we
just go in there and we just shove it all
in our faces. But okay, so so what so what part?

(20:57):
I'll tell you what. I'll take care of my caloric intake.
I will raise my kids and and everyone else do
whatever they want. I don't care if people are all
sitting there in various stages of diabetes, that's on you. Well,
in all of the products, then how's it taste? Some

(21:19):
of the emails here are disgusting, and I blame you.
Oh okay, thanks, Well, I'm reading the news story.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Don't have any cake in there?

Speaker 2 (21:29):
All right, there's no no, there's no cake in the inbox.
I don't think I found that that granola bar that
expired in twenty seventeen here in one of the drawers
yesterday or the other day, and you didn't want it.
So I guess you just don't want food anymore. I
wish we're trying to figure out what foods may fundamentally

(21:52):
change as a result of our FK Junior deciding we
all need to be healthy. So this guy, he gets
the Carekennedy jeans, one of the best looking families of
all time and Ted and so he's blessed with those
Kennedy jeans and he looks great constantly. Tan, I don't

(22:13):
know how old? How old is that guy?

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I think he's like ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
See RK Junior is ninety eight years old. He was
actually older than his dad would have been. It's amazing.
Let's see that's that's that family. They're just amazing. So
it looks great. He's in good shape. And he's like,
I want everyone to look great. So how are we
going to do that. We're gonna get rid of synthetic food, colorings,

(22:41):
artificial dies this year from some of the things that
you eat, Like, so, what are these things that I
eat that you're going to potentially change? And they said, oh,
citrus red number two and orange be Orange be. I
love her, one of my favorite hip hop artists. I

(23:03):
don't know what orange Bee is.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
It's probably an orange dye.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Green number three. Wel come, everyone else gets a number
and orange gets a letter? And what about orange A?
I want A that's better than B, as good as
se no offense if your name is B. Yeah, I
want to know what changes. I don't want to know
what the color and number is? What food? And they said, well,

(23:30):
some of this stuff is in Skittles, M and M's, Twinkies,
fruit loops, fruity pebbles. What about cocoa pebbles. Peeps? Yeah,
I figured about peeps. I think peeps are created in
a nuclear lab. That's what makes them so good, only
when you roast them. But then they said, like they

(23:52):
put some of this stuff on orange rinds. Are there orange?
Are there are oranges coming out of the grove that
are like that? One looks some sort of tope painted.
I don't know. I'm a city boy. I never go
out in nature. I'm allergic to it. Are there oranges
coming out of the what do they come out of

(24:13):
the ground like potatoes? I don't know. Are creatures giving
birth to oranges? I don't know where oranges come from.
That's disgusting. And well, you're the ones saying I'm eating insects.
You're the ones saying I'm having a steady diet of
crickets every day. We all are are oranges coming out
of an orange grove in various colors of like some

(24:35):
sort of brown. I don't know about brown. Eh, have
this it's a beige? Don't you mean an orange that's trying?
Is that? Is that ripe? And then they're like, we
got people over here painting oranges.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Well, if they don't paint them, they gass them.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Who tell me more about put them in a room and.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
They fill the room with gas and it ripens them.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Is that true? Yes? For some fruit. Yes, I'm gonna
hit the button. Are you serious right now? They gassed
them into having a better color?

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Or or.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
I'm all right? Good enough for me, I'm hitting the button.
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Conspiracy if anybody can look it up and it's true,
it's not a conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
They said food makers can use natural hues made from beats, algae,
and crushed insects. I grant, I kinda what hughes grant? No,
I kind of lost my mind when I heard about
the crushed insects. That's led to some emails. All Right,

(25:47):
Adam is laughing at me. Lol, dude, is how he
starts this email. Thank you Adam sent to Scott at
kfab dot com and the Zonker's Custom Woods inbox. L Oh, well, dude,
you are most certainly eating crushed insects every single time
you eat anything made with grain. I worked at a

(26:09):
factory that may Does anyone want to hear the rest
of this stuff? Not really? But yeah, I know well
to his point, Yes, when we're scooping up nature, processing
it and making this that comes in a bag, or
that which comes in a pouch, or this that goes
in a box, we can't pick out every single leg, wing,

(26:34):
or thorax out the ball. It's a possibility that. Look,
that's fine, I'm fine with that. I don't. I am
certainly not the person you want to hear. Just as
soon as I say, like, eh, gross, crush insects. I'm
also the same person if I'm at a picnic and
there's a couple of flies that land on my hot dog.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, they just throw up all over it.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah. Do I take the hot dog and just throw
it as far as I can? No, I show away
the flies. I eat the hot dog. You want to hear.
How else I've sometimes navigated in my life depending on
a range of factors. This is not this is a
case by case basis. But in most cases, I'm at

(27:17):
a restaurant, I'm eating some food. It's really good food.
I find a hair in my food. Some people absolutely
lose it. There are people losing it. Just the fact
that I mentioned that, you know what I do, I
figure it's probably mine I pick it out, I throw
it to the side, or I put it in your
food when you're not looking, and I eat the rest

(27:38):
of my food. So I'm not like, eh, I'm not,
but I also don't want this. Really. The thing that
discussed me the most about this is the beats, like
uh oh beats, like oh, we're gonna make fruit loops.
We're just gonna we're gonna make this this wonderful little
grain circle and made of whole oats and grains and

(28:04):
all the rest of the stuff. And since we can't
use the artificial color in to make a green or
yellow or red fruit loop, we're gonna just dip this
stuff in various beats. I don't want my cereal dip,
not how it would happen. I'm gonna dip it in beats.
I don't want that.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
It would probably be like the red dye number forty
or whatever. They would put beats, and they would have
it in the same form, whether it comes in a
powder form or whatever, and it's sprayed on the food
or it's added to the batter whatever. It's not gonna
taste any different.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Can't the government just do with this the same thing
they do with everything else. Don't just tell us, Just
do it and don't tell us. Ignorance is blister. There's
a lot of people happy about this. They don't. Yeah,
they don't know what they're talking about. People happy about this.
These people don't eat nothing but peeps every single day.

(28:59):
These people like people are happy about this. They're the
ones who have stupid things like gym memberships and they
eat salads. They're like, I am on the Mediterranean diet.
I don't even know where the Mediterranean is. I know
where raisin canes is.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
You have to, as I said earlier, you have to
consider the dies in everything you eat. You're not sitting
down eating twinkies every day, but you are sitting down
and eating dies every day.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
And I don't care, and I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
But other entire countries, entire governments in other areas have said, no, sure,
this is not good for us.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yeah, I don't care what other countries do. This is America.
If I want to be a gelatinous tub of guts,
that is my right as an American.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
And as I started to say, then why don't we
put LSD in the food? Why don't we put nicotine
in the food.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Why don't we what.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Substances that will eat away at your arteries or your heart,
and then you decide what you want to eat. It's
up to you.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Put it on the ingredients. Let me know, like, this
food is infused with nicotine, and if I like it,
I might eat it once in a while. Some egg
plant then, because it does have nicotine.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Yes, night shades, night shades, that would be a egg plant.
And I want to say tomatoes are part of the
night shade family, but I'm not under present on that.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
An egg plant has nicotine. Yes, this, I'm going to
text you then, egg plant emoji? This is is this
what you're talking about? This? Let me text it to
you three times? Why I know what you're talking about? Yes,
that's it. And then you said that if they put

(30:55):
insects in foods, they have to list it in the ingredients.
I'll I'll now be looking for Actjetta domesticus in the
ingredients of my foods. That is the common cricket. They're
domestic Am I eating crickets? Yeah? Well, how come RFK
Junior isn't going to do something about that? Food? Food dies.

(31:20):
Food dies we got to get rid of. But we
can put crickets in my oatmeal. Hey, thanks, thanks government.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
At least it's not a roach.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
That's a whole different hour of ranting radio. But we're
not going to do that next. What are we going
to do next? A sampling from the Zonker's custom was
inbox sent to Scott atkfab dot com. Unsigned he doesn't
want anyone to know or she that they are listening, says,
just want to thank you and Lucy for all of
the useless facts and gibberish that helps the monotony of

(31:55):
the day go by. I couldn't have said it any
better myself. That's what we do, useless facts. And are
all of our useless facts? Are they all useless? And
is it all gibberish?

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Obviously not. I'm not the opinion that they are gibberish
or useless a little bit.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think the emailer's right it is gibberish. Well it
is right now. Yes, got into a conversation in the
last hour about r FK Junior trying to eliminate synthetic
and artificial food dies from our food. And you know
why we talked about that because I don't want to
talk about trans kids again today. Has anyone's mind changed
on this subject since the last time it came up,

(32:41):
over and over and over again. I'm not saying I
have a problem with anyone. Am I talking about it now?
All right? Briefly, I'm not saying I have a problem
with anyone at the unicameral level doing anything about this,
because these spineless jellyfish school administrators across the state of

(33:02):
Nebraska refuse to do anything about it. They tell their
kids time to go to science class. They won't even
define male and female in these science classes when it
comes time to who's going to use what restroom, who's
going to play on what sports team? How are we
going to address you by your preferred pronouns? You know, they,

(33:25):
these spineless administrators won't do a thing about it. So
here comes Trump saying we're going to take some of
your federal funding away. Here comes State Senator Kathleen Kalth
of Omaha saying, we have to define this because you
guys won't. Someone had to write this down. Listen to
this quote. Males and females possess unique and immutable biological

(33:50):
differences that manifest prior to birth and increase as they
age and experience puberty. Wait, it's supposed to increase. It
goes on to talk about who's gonna play on what
sports team, who's gonna go, and what bathroom and all

(34:11):
the rest of this stuff. So they're arguing about this.
Apparently this whole conversation is once again gonna come down
to State Senator merv Repee of Ralston, the same one
who torpedoed Winner take All to give every electoral college
vote in Nebraska to the candidate who wins the popular

(34:31):
vote in the state, which is the same thing that
every other state does except Nebraska and Maine. And yes,
Nebraska does it the right way. Every other state's wrong.
But we can either try and get them to play
the game we want to play, or we can get
in the game that's actually being played. Repe said, let's
get them to play our game. All right, let's check

(34:54):
does everyone else in the rest of the country you
want to play our game here in Nebraska?

Speaker 3 (34:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (34:58):
All right, thanks a lot for weighing in. And now
he says, I support the exclusion of males playing on
girls sports teams, taking spots on teams away from girls,
taking records away from girls, potentially taking scholarship opportunities away

(35:19):
from girls. I support that but I think they should.
We should not draw the line at locker rooms and bathrooms.
I don't want a guy to play on the girls'
sports team, but I'm fine with a guy going into
the girls bathroom in middle school. That's apparently what's being
said here, and he's not the only one. We also

(35:40):
had this in the Omaha World Herald the other day,
a message from Nebraska faith leaders to our state senators.
For all of our children, please oppose LB eighty nine.
This is Kathleen cous bill to protect women in sports
and space, and it's got all these different faith leaders,

(36:03):
the reverend, this, the reverend doctor, that, Bishop Nelson, all
this stuff, Deacon Lee. It says, as Nebraska religious leaders,
we affirm the rights and dignity of transgender Nebraskans. All
children deserve the same experiences of joy, friendship, and confidence

(36:25):
that sports teams can provide. All human beings deserve to
be treated with respect and given access to such basic
decencies as being allowed to use a bathroom. For all
of our children, Please oppose LB eighty nine. Do these
faith leaders, God bless them, believe that this bill doesn't

(36:46):
allow kids to use a bathroom. That's what they said,
these kids should be given access to such basic decencies
as being allowed to use a bathroom. You can use
a bathroom, the one that corresponds with your gender, the

(37:06):
bathrooms available. You can play on a sports team, the
one that corresponds with your gender. But I don't want to. Well,
do we have to force them to bend to your will?
Because your will will? And I say this all the time.
An adult wants to make a decision about how they dress,

(37:27):
what name they want to go by, fine, have at it,
have a great time. Most people, when they want to
use a public restroom, want to get in and out
as quickly as possible, as quickly, quietly privately as possible,
without any kind of big hubbub or anything. No one
wants any hubbub when going to use a public restroom.

(37:48):
This is true of everyone, no matter how they identify
or what they're thinking. But my goodness, do you think
the kids will be given like they'll be denied spaces
to use bathrooms with this bill? That's says a lie.
This is an absolute lie, and I suspect that these

(38:11):
individuals know it. As I said last week, can a
cis gender biological male? This is someone born male and
still for whatever reason, identifies as a male otherwise known
as male. Can a guy decide to play on the
girls volleyball team? No? Why not because he's a guy.

(38:37):
Go sit in the corner and think about that one
for a while. So this is the latest going on
at the unicameral. Frankly, it's a ridiculous conversation that we
even have to have. And I mean that on all
different levels. One because, as I said, spying, the school
administrators refuse to identify male and female. And we also

(39:04):
have what three kids in the entire state for whom
this would apply. Now there are a lot more who
identify as non binary, because that's interesting, But I don't
know how many of them are. Like and I'm gonna
go play on the golf team, Like talking about what

(39:29):
four kids? How many are we talking about? Just bring
them up before the unicamera and ask them what do
you want? Figure it out. It's hammer it out. You
could do this in the back of an SUV with
the number of kids we're talking about. The biggest problem
in school bathrooms is kids go in there. Everyone's in

(39:50):
there vaping marijuana, and they get beat up in there.
They don't care. So much. Right, they don't care that much.
All right, I know now we got this. Here's a
little town meeting they just had. The first thing I
think of when I look at the story is it

(40:10):
keeps talking about South Omaha landmark. What are we gonna
do with these over here in South Omaha? Do you
think of the grain silos off of thirty fourth in Venton,
otherwise known as you're on I eighty and you're right
at this split, especially if you're going I eighty eastbound,

(40:33):
you can either head towards South Omaha and Bellevue to
your right, or you can sweep it around and go
north to downtown. Or you can continue to go straight
and go check out the zoo and Council bluffs. Wild
animals abound, no matter. I'm kidding. I don't think of

(40:55):
those grain silos as being South Omaha. Now. I know
Venton that's well south. In any other circumstance it would
be South Omaha. You know what causes me not to
think about them as South Omaha. They're just north of
the interstate For some reason. As soon as we start
heading down over here and then these things are over here,

(41:17):
I don't really think of them as South Omaha Landmarks.
But it's probably the wrong thing that we're talking about.
The grain silos. There, big beautiful grain silos, full of grain.
No they're not what is in them. They're full of
graffiti anything. Yeah, they're full of graffiti. They tried to

(41:38):
put some big old banner signs like we're gonna make
them pretty and put those up there. I guess that
didn't do it. So now there are developers who want
to turn most of those silos into apartments and town
homes four buildings, two hundred and thirty three apartments and

(42:00):
town homes, two hundred seventy eight parking stalls. And they're
even gonna leave a few of the grain silos. I
don't know if that's three four one and a half.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
In case they have some extra grain that they really
can't do it all.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
They said we wanted to preserve the unique history of
the site. I don't know if they've been paying attention.
Do people think that the grain silos are not unique
history that need to be preserved. People think they're ugly
and they need to come down now. Me I like
them because they've been there my entire life, and I'm

(42:39):
as an old man now resistant to change. But they
if they implode them, if they build extra silos on
top of them, if they build more on the other
side of the interstate. It really doesn't make any difference
to me because this is at thirty fourth inventing. I
live near one hundred and sixty eighth in Maple. This

(43:00):
isn't my neighborhood. So they went and talked to the
people who live down there, and the number one thing
that they're concerned about the increased traffic. First from all
the construction vehicles coming in to take down the silo.
How do you take down these silos? It's not like, oh,
we'll just take this piece and we'll unhinge that and

(43:25):
we'll I mean giant cylinders of concrete. How do you
take these down and not just have a tidal wave
of a broken concrete like, oh, we didn't know the
wind was going to be coming from this direction this day. Sorry?
How to implode them? Right? But there's gonna be dust,

(43:46):
junk and rubble and dust. I can't imagine the dust everywhere.
How do you do this? And let's go? I think
this sounds like fun. Is there a plunger? I mean
like when you like an acme. Yes, it says act
me on it. When you want to blow up dynamite
and to like open a cavern or you know, a

(44:07):
new opening to a cave or something like. We rigged
the dynamite and we got some sort of wire coming
over here, and it's rigged to this this thing that
like when you pump up your bike tires and you
push down and I have a sound effect for this,
and you push down and kabluey. I want to implode

(44:30):
some silos. But however it is that they end up
taking this stuff down. The residents say, we're gonna have
trucks in and out of this neighborhood. Is gonna be loud,
it's gonna be messy. There's gonna be a ton of traffic.
And then they have to come back and they have
to build up all these apartments and town homes. That's
gonna take forever. That's gonna be a bunch of construction traffic.

(44:50):
And then sometime between now and the end of time,
what do you think would be done first the silos
are down, the apartments are up, or something that's done
with the crossroads, which gets done first? The silos probably
silos first, then street car, well probably street car, then silos,

(45:12):
and then sometime around the time then I'm welcoming the
birth of my great great grandchild. Then something at the crossroads.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Well you'll get news of something at that point.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Right, Yeah, there'll be an announcement, there'll be an artist,
there'll be a brand new artist rendering, right, a new
management company. Then they actually have the apartments and town
homes open, and you're gonna have two hundred and seventy
eight parking stalls and all kinds of traffic in that area.
And they said, we already have people speeding up and

(45:43):
down these streets. Cars are already flying up and down
the street. Well, that's true of everywhere. But these are
people who a lot of them have lived down there
for decades. This is family home territory for some. And
as far as the grain silo doesn't bother them, the
grain silos there like, yeah, we bought the home with

(46:06):
the silos there, doesn't bother us. The construction, the noise,
the apartments, the town homes, the increased traffic through this area.
We didn't sign up to live next to that. Of course,
there are some that say, what kind of apartments, Well,
they're described as market rate apartment and town homes. That's

(46:28):
not luxury, super expensive, but it's also not public housing,
which is kind of a different conversation. We're seeing more
and more apartment complexes go up all over town, and
the argument has always made, we need affordable housing in Omaha.

(46:52):
I look at these apartments and I hear about what
some of these units are going for. Affordable for whom.
When I was still in college got my first apartment
downtown Omaha, two hundred and fifty dollars a month is
what I paid. That's affordable housing. That's a whole lifetime

(47:17):
of stories from the time spent living in a two
hundred and fifty dollars a month studio apartment in downtown Omaha.
Loved it, mostly because I didn't die, But you know what,
it was a good joint. It was fine. Today that
particular building has been completely renovated and the spaces in

(47:40):
there are luxury beautiful, and they're going for probably a
couple thousand dollars a month. All the new stuff going
up over here over there, all these apartment complexes close
to two thousand dollars a month rent. Now I understand
as a gen X kid. Whatever I used to pay
when I was in my twenties should be what it

(48:03):
still costs today. I get it. I'm trying to get
over it. It's hard. I still think cable should be
thirty three dollars a month. Time warner cable should be
thirty three dollars a month. I guess it costs more,
so I understand things cost more, But how's a young

(48:23):
person fresh out of college supposed to afford two thousand
dollars a month rent for that amount buy a house? Well,
then he gets into the cost of buying a house
and who's going to lend you money to be able
to do it, Especially since a lot of these kids
fresh out of college they can't find a job. AI
has seen to that they have so much student loan debt,

(48:44):
no one will loan them any money. Their money coming
into money going out ratio is way off. So what's
affordable housing? Turns out Omaha has lots of affordable housing
for these kids back in the bedroom where they grew
up with mom and dad. Didn't mean to go into

(49:05):
that rant, but market rate apartments are probably things that
I would find to be fairly expensive, Ollie says. I
grew up two blocks west of those silos. My mom
still lives there. My paper route went up to the
silos on the west. Every time someone wants to do
anything with those silos, it fades away because they get

(49:28):
over zealous and realize the cost to demolish and then build.
They will probably sit for many more blighted years. The
mog emails and says those silos were built with World
War II on the horizon. They're made out of thick
reinforced concrete designed to be bomb resistant in case Nazi

(49:50):
bombers showed up. They may not come down as by
controlled demolition as easy as you think. I have no
idea if that's historically accurate, but it sounds cool. No
wonder people want to live there at thirty fourth in
Vinton bomb shelters. I know they'll be fine, Greg says

(50:10):
am I remembering correctly. But back when they widened the interstate,
they talked about demoing the entire silo site, but the
company that owned them was still using them, so the
state paid them a chuck of change and they sawed
off a couple At the end, they sowed off a
couple of What do they do, just dump them on
the other side of the interstate. We just paved right

(50:31):
over the top of them. Now use it for braving, right, Yeah, yeah,
why not do that? Just flatten the thing out, have
a few more lanes of traffic. That way. You can
come off of four eighty downtown merging onto Iight westbound,
and there's like twenty seven lanes of traffic and they're
all full, and you're like, I guess I'm getting off
on forty second. Can't get over in the other lanes.

(50:55):
So the state paid them a chunk of change and
they sawed off a couple at the end. Then the
company closed it down for good and it's just been
a draw for the homeless and wayward teams? Is that
what's going on down there? And does anyone talked with
them about what they want to see? Taking our home
to their encampment. The guy emailed earlier and said, am

(51:19):
I misremembering or they did? That silo complex used to
come further south and then they cut a couple of
them off to widen the interstate down there, Lucy, that
is true. We got this via the talkback mic when
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Speaker 1 (51:47):
Years ago, I helped to cut down two of the
silos on the south side of that complex before they
widen the interstate. You have to get scaffolding that attaches
to the side of the silo, and then a gangplank
similar to what window WANs use it attached to it,
and then a giant concrete saw that you screw to
the side of the silo and cut off sections. Then

(52:08):
you have a crane that blowers them to the ground.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Yeah, or or or just blow the thing up. I
support that. Just get Paul Bunyan out there. He'll cut
the thing down with a giant axe and Babe the
Blue Ox will take them away. Yeah, let's just get
a team of lumberjacks out there. Timber Boom. We just

(52:39):
wiped out most of this neighborhood near thirty third invented. Oh,
we'll rebuild. We told him to didn't we tell them
to move? We said we had the sirens down, We
had the sirens go off. They thought they were fake. Yeah,
they thought it was a mistake. Someone is getting their
rear and absolutely chewed on and not for fun who

(53:00):
yesterday we talked about it on the radio yesterday morning
based on what happened Monday night. By ten o'clock northwest Omaha,
parts of Alcorn had the tornado sirens go off. This
was a surprise to a lot of people because we
weren't under a tornado watch, we weren't under a thunderstorm watch.

(53:22):
Suddenly we had a severe thunderstorm warning and then the
sirens went off. It wasn't suddenly suddenly. We were saying
all day here on Monday, don't start coming at me like, well,
they don't send up the weather balloons. We don't know.
All day Monday we said we got a chance of rain,
maybe a thunderstorm this evening. We said that all day Monday.
That's from the National Weather Service, not anything that we

(53:44):
just make up. So at nine to thirty four was
the first severe thunderstorm warning for Douglas County. But even
after seeing that, because it was you know, sixty mile
prior winds, small hale was associated with this one, it was,

(54:05):
you know, it's a pretty good storm. But then the
sirens went off, we were like, where are the sirens
going off, people go outside to look. Lots of lightning,
but nothing happening in Omaha yet it would probably be
another twenty five thirty minutes. But you figure, okay, that's
why the sirens go off. Sixty mile per hour wins

(54:28):
and there was some ping pong ball size hail associated
with that storm. Just in case you're outside, hanging out
doing outside stuff quarter after ten on a Monday night,
might want to seek some shelter. I didn't really think
anything of it until Tuesday morning. Not only we learned,
not only were we surprised everyone living in Omaha by

(54:51):
the sirens going off, you know who else was surprised.
Douglas County Emergency Management. Oh no, the ones who manage
the emergency side irons. They don't turn them on. Suddenly
it was like, do are the sirens going off? Are
our sirens going off? So suddenly that's when we here
in the media as well as concerned citizens, said wait

(55:13):
a second, what do you mean the sirens weren't supposed
to go off? They said, well, the sirens are really
only supposed to go off either for tornado warnings or
our threshold is eighty mile per hour winds and or
baseball size hail, some that could be damaging to the
point where if you're out you could catch your death

(55:36):
out there. All right, well we didn't have those things.
So what happened. Here's what they said, Well, we have
a company that Douglas County contracts with for our siren program.
It's called American Signal. It's based in China, and it

(55:57):
no I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I think I'm kidding.
I don't know, So American Signal, they said, well, yeah, Well,
first of all, let's focus on the positive here. We
got the sirens set up to where it can go
off really in specific neighborhoods almost We want to let

(56:17):
people in specific areas, like really really fixed pinpoint areas
know that it's your part of Omaha that is in
for some strong winds hail. So we let them know.
And the storm did come through this area, like Bennington
got some pretty good sized hail. Most of it was

(56:39):
thankfully pretty mushy, didn't do any damage. But still the
people in Bennington, the siren went off for them because
that's where the storm is coming. If you're down in Papillion,
you didn't see anything with sirens didn't go off in Papillion. See,
it worked the way it was supposed to, except that
it wasn't supposed to go off. The storm didn't meet

(57:00):
the threshold for having the sirens go off at all.
And then we said, all right, so why did the
sirens go off? And they said, well, there was a
typo in a computer program that triggered the severe weather
sirens to mistakenly activate late Monday night.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Wait a minute, was it a typo in a program
which means it has to be rewritten, or it's a
typo that somebody was inputting for this storm.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
They did not elaborate on the typo. This story here
from k e TV News Watch seven, and then county
emergency officials also said, we're not available to talk anymore
because we are in a special training all day. Oh okay,
I wonder what that's related to. This sounds like someone

(57:49):
meant to type in hail and accidentally typed in large
devastating tornado. It's a typo. Hey, when I do that,
I know, you know? Is it really a simple as
someone was putting in sixty mile prior win and accidentally
put in eighty? Is that possible? I don't know, but
what we're concerned about is next time the sirens go

(58:10):
off for people like ah, sounds like a typo. I hope,
and Douglas County Emergency Management hopes that's not the case.
Scott voices. The Daily Dispatch from the Babylon Bee satirical
news website has this headline today, Democrats begin chugging artificial

(58:32):
food dies to protest to RFK Junior. Isn't that just perfect? Also,
it notes that the next pope will be chosen via
Ninja Warrior obstacle course. Pope Francis is lying in for visitation.
If case you want to go over to the Basilica

(58:53):
and take a look. I heard the report this morning
that they were trying to get people to stop taking
selfies with the open casket.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
What No, that's a thing.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
That is a thing. People are taking pictures, selfies smiling. Hey,
what's up everyone? Hey guys, I'm here with the pope. Yo.
That's so wrong. Scott voices Mornings nine to eleven on
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