Post-Holiday Talk Radio Potpourri

Today's batch smells like Big Beautiful Bill lies, fireworks and vets, Ozzy, and hugging your kids a little tighter.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a radio station. We mention this all the time,
with whom you laugh, cry and get through the day together.
Before we get into some of what you saw on
social media regarding the big beautiful bill and media media
regarding that bill and wondering if you got this impression,
let's first give you the latest from Texas. The Mystic Camp.

(00:21):
This is the Christian camp on the Guadalupe River in
Kerr County, Texas. They haven't specified the number of kids
versus the number of councilors, nor do we have any
details as to how many more campers and others from
the camp remain missing, but they did provide a number,

(00:42):
and that's at least twenty seven campers and councilors dead.
This is due to the flooding over the weekend, absolutely
unimaginable tragedy. Perhaps you heard the details about a rescuer
with the US Coastguard was there helping to evacuate kids

(01:02):
during these floods, and he said, we were trying to
get these kids out of the camp, sometimes two at
a time. And he said some asked if they could
bring their stuffed animals with them. These are little little kids,
and he said, of course, you can a twenty six

(01:23):
year old Coastguard swimmer named Scott Ruskin who was assisting
with the US Coastguard rescuing these kids. It's it's just
so awful. And yes, there have been a number of

(01:43):
really ugly comments on social media in the wake of this.
You've got kids there at a Christian camp, and it
seems like some people decided to fall all over themselves
to be the first to scramble on social media and say,
what did these kids not pray hard enough? Were they
not praying good enough? Please, if there's anything that I

(02:10):
ever babble on this radio program, I hope that this
comes through. Don't be bitter, don't be angry. Don't be bitter.
These are people baiting you. I don't know if they
truly believe some of the stuff that they spew online,
but they're baiting you to get really really mad and
fight with them on social media. Don't fall for it.

(02:36):
You can find your own way to move on. Carry
them in your heart so that they can not decide
not to make comments like that on social media, but
while doing so, not only pray for the souls that
have been lost there in Texas, but people like Scott Ruskin,
the Coastguard rescuer, who, yes, it's great to rescue some

(02:59):
of these kids, and I hope that he and others
like him first responders down there remember that. But there
will be a lot of people who were more in
recovery mode and they weren't able to rescue everyone. And
in some cases they're recovering bodies. And we're talking about police,
we're talking about emergency first responders, firefighters, we're talking about

(03:22):
some of the camp counselors who survived down there. Wondering
if I could have done anything more to save every
single one of these kids at this camp. Please pray
for them as well. Now back to the political news

(03:42):
of the day. Have you gotten the impression that once
the President signed that bill on Friday on Independence Day,
that immediately I don't know if he was using ice
or people who had been previously in jail for crimes
against humanity on January sixth, did you get the impression

(04:03):
that President Trump was just sending a gestapo out there
to find people on medicaid and slap that medicaid taste
right out of their mouths. On the fourth of July,
or at least in the days that followed like, the
President signed that bill and immediately people would be kicked
off Medicaid. Did you get that impression? Because when you

(04:27):
look at social media, it's all this the All these
people are going to be kicked off Medicaid. What are
we going to do with all these people? All these
hospitals are going to closet. Let's focus on a couple
of stories here. I saw over the weekend before we
delivered the punchline on the story, shall we. I saw

(04:50):
a bunch of people on social media, of course, upset that,
you know, the President Trump and Hazel care more about
the bottom line of all of their rich, billionaire fat
cat friends, because that's what this bill was all about.
It's we take money from medicaid and we just give
it to fat cat rich people. The rich people probably

(05:12):
in some instances, were like, please, I couldn't possibly take anymore. Well, okay,
if you insist, just back that Brinks truck right up
over here, and we'll take more of that money. You know,
I guess why not? You know what the heck, right,
you only live once. This money come from poor people, right, love.

(05:36):
I love getting money from poor people. This is great.
So I think people got that impression, but one of
the things I saw on there, and this is the
only comment I responded to on social media, just because
I struggled on social media seeing all of the whether

(05:59):
it's lies, whether it's ignorance, whether it's people whose hearts
are in the right place, who worry about what might happen,
and after all, their elected representatives tell them all the time.
Once President Trump signs this bill, vulnerable people will lose
their health care coverage. People who need it will lose

(06:21):
their health Cooking here and you hear that often enough,
I'm sure that there'll be some people who believe it,
and they go on to social media hearts in the
right place to decry what they've seen here. Especially on
Independence Day, I saw a lot of comments like, this
is not the country that I was raised to believe

(06:43):
it should be. This is not the nation I want
to live in. Some of them are liars, some of
them are ignorant. I don't know. I tend to give
people the benefit of the doubt, but there was one
guy who who posted on there that said, and I'm
sure he wasn't the only one. As soon as Congress

(07:06):
passed that bill, that big, beautiful bill, hospitals across this
country and in Nebraska will already close, and he specifically
said that the McCook hospital would close. Well, I looked
at that and thought, you know, interesting, I thought maybe
I would have heard something about that in the news

(07:28):
if this were the case, And I looked into it,
and McCook Community Hospitals announced the closure of a hospital,
but not the hospital in McCook. It was a very
small hospital in the incredibly small town of Curtis, Nebraska.
There's a I thought it was an ag college and Curtis.
Maybe it used to be. Now they call it a

(07:48):
tech college. Might be ag tech, I don't know, but
it's a small town, about eight hundred people. Numbers have
been dwindling from that Curtis College out there for years.
Numbers have been dwindling within the community for years, and
this particular hospital there has been in financial dire straits

(08:11):
for a very long time. I don't know why, and
it's not important to me to try and look at
the books of this particular hospital. But m'cook bigger community
and not far from Curtis, so they didn't announce the
closure of this hospital at hospital Is. If you're thinking

(08:32):
giant building a bunch of staff that's a bit more
grandiose than what we had here. This was a medical
facility and Curtis now certainly there are people in the
community who could certainly benefit from having this particular clinic there.
But the reality is is small town Nebraska, not every

(08:54):
town has a so called hospital. Sometimes your hospital is
forty five to sixty minutes away. When this hospital in
Curtis closes, and it's not clear whether that's already done,
or if it's happening, or if they announced the closure,
if it just happened, or whatever, the people in that
community have three options available to them within about forty

(09:17):
five minutes at Gothenburg, at North Platte, and at McCook.
So when people are like, well, they said, because we're
losing all this money. You know, they're stripping money away
from hospitals in this bill, we can't stay open anymore.
And I know a couple of things not to be
the case. First of all, it wasn't McCook, it was Curtis.

(09:40):
McCook is still open. I know that there have been
dollars set aside in Nebraska. Another place to try and
help out rural healthcare facilities. Like this one. So what
I don't know is were they going to close anyway,
and it kind of sounds like they were unless they

(10:01):
got an infusion of cash. Were they going to close anyway?
And did they just decide to time the announcement of
the closure, like, hold on, wait until the president signs
this bill and then we can close and blame it
on President Trump. Because immediately it was as people suddenly knew, Oh,
eighty five percent of the people in this county voted

(10:22):
for Trump, and now Trump just closed their hospital. I
wonder if this is what they voted for. It's interesting
because there are a couple things at play here. First
of all, no one is just kicking a bunch of
people off medicaid. There are work requirements to be able to.

(10:44):
If you want your medicaid and you're able bodied and
can work and choose not to, that time is coming
to an end for some people. Other people can work
some hours a week, they can volunteer some hours a month.
It's not a lot. We're not asking for a whole
heck of a lot. People who are in the country

(11:06):
illegally who shouldn't be getting Medicaid will no longer be
getting Medicaid. When someone goes to the hospital on Medicaid,
and I know I've gone through this a few times
in the past week, bear with me for just a moment.
When someone goes to the hospital with Medicaid coverage, the
Medicaid reimbursement from the federal government is only pennies on
the dollar versus when someone has whether it's Medicare, which

(11:30):
is still not as much, not one hundred percent, Obamacare
not one hundred percent. If they have their own private
health insurance, they have health insurance through their employer or whatever,
they end up paying like one hundred and fifty percent
to cover what's not paid by the government and Medicaid reimbursement.
When you have people in the hospital crowding these healthcare

(11:52):
clinics and they don't have any health insurance, so they
have Medicaid, well, someone's got to pay for that, and
raises everyone else's taxes, raises everyone else's rates. When you
eliminate the people who are going in there and that
hospital is only being reimbursed pennies and the dollar, and
you're eliminating the illegal immigrants and others who are taking

(12:12):
advantage of the system, there's more money for Medicaid. There's
more money for these hospitals to be able to pay staff,
keep the lights on, and be able to take care
of their communities. There's more money for these rural communities
based on what happened in this bill. So when they
announce before the President even signs the thing, well, we're

(12:36):
closing because we're losing all this money. Either they're ignorant
or they're lying, and they're lying and playing politics with it.
Because here's the other thing with this bill. There's another
story here locally about this woman says, well, I'm going
to visit my brother. He's a paraplegic and he needs

(12:58):
Medicaid to survive. Does anyone do you honestly think I
almost started yelling, I'm not going to. Do you honestly
think that a paraplegic, someone paralyzed from the neck down,
who's on Medicaid to be able to live and survive?

(13:19):
Do you honestly think that this bill tells this kid
his name's Stephen, but his nickname is the Deucer. I
like that the Doucer. Does anyone think the President's like,
all right, fine, Theducer has had it too good for
too long. This guy can blink once for yes and

(13:39):
two for no. I'm sure he could probably find some
job to do, take away his Medicaid coverage and tell
him to get as lazy paralyzed, but back to work.
Do people honestly believe that's what just happened in this bill?
If that's a belief that you have, it's wrong. I'm

(14:01):
happy to tell you it's wrong, and I think the
media knows it. I don't know why KMTV three news
Now did that story, but they did. They didn't put
anything in there about the chances of the doucer losing
his Medicaid is somewhere down to zero percent or less
than zero percent. They didn't put that in there. Do

(14:26):
people believe that? If so, I'm happy to tell you
your belief is incorrect. And as I started this rantoff,
there are people who believe that as soon as the
President signed this bill, that people are immediately stripped of
their healthcare coverage. Do you believe that? Do you know
when these work requirements take effect? Do you know when

(14:50):
the first person could possibly be stripped from their Medicaid,
whether that's any legal immigrant I imagine for some people
based on ice operations, that's already happening. But if we're
talking about Americans who are on medicaid, the first person
who could be stripped from his or her medicaid these
are people who are either like young, single individuals, they

(15:13):
don't have dependence on them. We're not talking about disabilities.
We're just talking about people who are just not working
can choose not to the first time that individual can
be stripped of their Medicaid is after these new work
requirements take effect. Well when is that? Isn't it today

(15:35):
first day back after the President signed it on the
holiday on front. No, it's not today first, the next month,
No later this year, No January first. No, it's January first,
twenty twenty seven. So we've given now people a year

(15:57):
and a half to figure something out so that you
can work, so you can take care of yourself. Hey,
heads up, this free ride for some people is coming
to an end. You have a year and a half
to figure something out. And people are like, this is

(16:19):
the most inhumane thing I've ever heard. How can we
do this? How can we do this to people? Do what?
Tell them? If you can work, you have a year
and a half to find a job. I know you
got the impression that President signed it, and we just

(16:41):
go around and start slapping Medicaid away from indigen disabled people.
None of that is true. It's not like we're hey,
we're kicking old people. Hey, i know you're ninety two
years old, but I'm sure you can do something. You
can hold a sign right crossing guard, get out of here.
None of that's true. And you know, if you're between

(17:03):
the ages of nineteen and sixty four and you want
to have Medicaid, then you had there have to meet
the work requirements, which aren't much, or you have to
get an exemption a year and a half, which is
interesting for the timing of this, and I'll tell you
why that is next. Scott Voriez News Radio eleven tien

(17:25):
kfab Another interesting thing here about this the provision that
you have to work in order to maintain some Medicaid
eligibility rules that don't take effect. As I mentioned a
moment ago, loudly and often. They didn't take effect on
Friday when the President signed it. They don't take effect today,
later this year, or even next year. It's January of

(17:48):
twenty twenty seven. So there are we doing this? Is
America doing this because we want to give people a
year and a half to get everything together, so no
one immediately loses coverage. Yeah, maybe. Or here's what I wonder,
are we doing this because of the midterms, which is

(18:13):
that's an interesting question because if if you were to
implement the requirements, if you were to show people like,
all right, this person is now working, these people still
have their Medicaid, don't worry, it's okay, this family is
still doing fine, It's all good. Look, these hospitals are

(18:34):
not closing. If you wanted to fully implement all of
this and show people, look, it's not that big a
deal that I would think that you'd want to do
it well before the midterms so that this other thing
can't happen. And that thing is people still yelling and
screaming that people are going to be kicked off Medicaid
and hospitals are going to close, and no one's going

(18:56):
to be able to be able to see a doctor
ever again unless you're one of Trump's rich friends. They're
going to be yelling and screaming about that through the midterms.
So if you wanted to blunt that, you would have
the provisions of the bill take effect so it doesn't
happen or, of course, the flip side of that argument
is they know what's going to happen and they don't

(19:16):
want to see the carnage across the country because they
want Republicans to get elected in the midterms. Republicans like
maybe Brett Linstrom, the former state senator, announced this morning
that he is going to campaign to represent Nebraska's second
congressional district. As you heard live here on KFAB last week,

(19:38):
Don Bacon's not running for reelection. Brinker Harding announced on
news radio eleven to ten KFAB he's in, and Brett
Linstrom announced today on his website that he is running.
So you got Branker Harding Brett Linstrom in a Republican primary,
and a number of Democrats have already jumped into that
phrase as well. It's a long way to go until

(20:01):
the mid term. Makes me wonder if people are still saying,
remember that bill, people are going to be kicked off Medicaid,
if people are going to remember between now and a
year from November, oh yeah, I remember that. That's right,
that might happen, or if they're not going to know
that the provisions don't take effect until January twenty twenty

(20:24):
seven and they'll say, you guys have been telling me
all these people are going to be dead in the
streets because of that bill. Never happened, which will be
the case. I just wonder why they're not implementing it earlier.
I mean, look at the timeline here. Trump announced tariffs
on some of these countries. All the stock market's gonna
go down to zero, goes the other way, record highs.

(20:48):
Israel and Iran start poking each other's chest. Trump intervenes, Oh,
President Trump just got us into World War three. Never happens.
Oh Trump signed the bill. Everyone's gonna lose their healthcare coverage.
It never happens. So I don't I don't know why

(21:13):
they're not implementing some of these provisions earlier. What this
might do, either whether it's due to the midterms or
if it's just a happy accident. But there's one other
thing that happened related to our elections in this country
that President Trump is mocking. But I don't know if

(21:33):
I believe him when he's mocking it. I'll explain next
Scott Boys. Lucy Chapman provides Timesaver traffic updates during kfab's
morning news and when she's still forced to sit here.
She provides traffic updates when necessary, Like now.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Am I forced to sit here?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Forced to chain to her chair?

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh that's what that is, all right? Seventy five northbound
JFK northbound. You've got a stalled semi blocking the right
lane at L Street. That's scut traffic now. It was
just a little slow through there. Now you're backed up
to about Chandler. So stay in that left lane to
get around that, or better yet, avoid this area altogether.
That's the right lane northbound at L.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Just avoid the area during this backup. Yes, not like forever.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
No, you can come back.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I don't want mayor Rusty Hike to be like, hey,
what gives dude? What the heck? Bellevue is a great area.
I just don't know why we have one of the
most accident prone roads getting us to and from there.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Because how fast they drive. I hadn't been on the
JFK for a while.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Oh it's not just the JFK, it's every street.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Of course, are of course not, but I was. It
was enough to make me say, wow, this is this
is a fast traffic fast Yeah, well, yeah, I don't
I would probably say that about the Dodge Expressway if
I isn't there every day.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Sure, right, it's all a combination of the same thing.
It's people just not paying attention while driving, not doing
a good.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Job while driving, having too much to do.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Why I tell my kids I got two teenage drivers.
My son has a school permit now, And I tell them,
you have to assume. In fact, I was driving with
my son yesterday. He's at the wheel. I'm there in
the passenger seat, not at all nervous, because I'm not
gonna let him drive unless I can sit in the
passenger seat and not be nervous. I'm doing that for you.

(23:40):
So we're at a stop sign and here comes some
guy up to a four way stop, and he's coming
in hot and it's my son's right of way. He
can certainly go. He's been stopped there. This guy is
still coming down, but we both notice, and I don't
say anything. We both noticed this guy doesn't look like
he's gonna stop. So if my son comes through the intersection, yes,

(24:03):
that's the right thing for him to do, traffic wise,
but common sense wise, it doesn't look like this guy
is gonna stop. So my son waited, and the guy
came to a screeching halt. And then my son went
and my son said, didn't know if that guy was
going to stop?

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
And you don't, right, because I drill into my kids' heads.
You have to assume that every other driver on the
road is drunk and dumb. Take a look at what
they're doing, and when you're driving amongst them, take a
look at that car and go, all right, what's the
dumbest thing that that guy can do? Right now? Presume

(24:41):
he's going to do it, and be ready just in
case it happens.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Oh yeah, I've had so many driving tips. One day
we'll do an entire show about it.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yep, it's a Scott's driving school. I would charge less,
which is still a lot of money than the regular
driving schools. Do you know how much driving school costs?

Speaker 2 (24:58):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Do you want to tell? All right? Drivers said, three
days worth the classes and then test with the instructor.
How much the instructor where you're actually driving with the instructor,
how much does that cost? Now, Now you don't know
because a couple of reasons. When we were growing up,
we would do that through school. And now here's the
part of the show where Lucy says she's glad she

(25:20):
doesn't have kids. No kids, So what's the how much
do you think it costs through the school? No, no, oh,
this is they don't They don't really do that anymore. Okay,
so you got a few options out there that are
actually like rated through the DMV.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Okay, so maybe for three lessons you said three.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Day is worth a classroom and then one hour out
driving with an instructor.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Just one hour about that?

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yeah, it's not very long.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
If that can cost much, I'm going to say two hundred.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Bucks, five hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I'll do it for half.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
I know.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
I'll teach you how to drive.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, do you really want to drive with these kids
at the wheel?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Ummm?

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Why don't you go driving with my son and see
how you do with that one.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Well, here's the thing. You got to get him out
on country roads that are not gravel. Well, even you
got to do that too, because you got to get
used to doing that. But you got to get him
out on country roads where you're not going to run
into traffic so they can learn how to encounter other cars. Yes,
and don't get on the inner street, do.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Not, maybe not immediately at some point you got to
get him out there, though maybe not. If your kids
are nervous about doing any of this, then they're not
ready to drive. I don't care what the their birth
date says. All right, let's talk about this. Is President
Trump not being completely honest when he says anything. I know,

(26:46):
I hear you. Some people don't like President Trump. There's
like two people that don't like President Trump, and the
whole country everyone else is on board. It's amazing. Is
President Trump not being fully honest with us when he's
mocking Elon Musk's latest political move. Maybe you didn't even

(27:07):
catch this over the weekend. We were too busy celebrating
America's independence by shooting off Chinese fireworks and in my case,
drinking Russian vodka. But you know, however it is that
you celebrate, that's on you. Maybe you didn't even notice this,
but Elon Musk is so mad about this big, beautiful bill,

(27:29):
and he's so mad with President Trump, and he doesn't
like the Democrats, so he said it's time I'm funding
a third political party. I don't know how any of
that is actually going to work, but as you see,
Clayton Anderson, the Nebraska astronaut on social media. He has

(27:52):
a recurring hashtag on his social media idiot and this
is from a science you know, NASA space type of standpoint.
He says, never bet against Elon Musk. Did I say
that right? It felt like I slurred it hashtag never
bet against Elon Musk. So people have been telling Musk

(28:18):
for years you can't do that, and he just keeps
doing it. So when he says I'm going to start
the America Party, it's time that the Americans have a
legitimate third party. Meanwhile, the Libertarians, the Green Party, the
legalized Marijuana Now, and all these other you know third

(28:39):
parties are like, hey, we're legitimate, are you. So Elon
Musk says, I'm funding this and we're going to disrupt
America's two party system. Now, this is something that Americans
have said over and over again. Yes, I think it'd
be great, but it never happens because we have this
phenomenon where let's just take a look at Nebraska's second

(29:02):
congressional district. You need someone who's hardcore conservative enough to
get through the primary, but then not so crazy hardcore
conservative that you can't win in a rather purplish district,
which that's how we get Don Bacon over and over again.
And you know, some of the hardcore read Republicans are like,

(29:23):
he's not maga enough for me. Some of the liberals
are like, yeah, I can live with Bacon. And so
that's why you get people going out to vote for
Kamala Harris and Don Bacon and people are like, this
doesn't make any sense. If only we had a legitimate
third party in this country, then blah blah blah. But
it never happens. No one's funding it, and it seems

(29:44):
like some of these things that have started up, you know, grassroots,
they never really go anywhere. They all kind of get
cannibalized by Republican or Democrat. Now, you could certainly get
some candidates that are more libertarian who get elected to
and time again as a Republican. Ran Paul of Kentucky,
for example, he's a libertarian, but libertarians don't win anything,

(30:08):
so he's a Republican. You know, they all get absorbed
by the two party system and then in a like
a presidential primary, the third party candidate can disrupt things,
but they're not going to get elected. But now Elon
Musk says, we're going to have a real third party candidate,

(30:30):
and we're going to win this thing, and I'm going
to fund it and it's going to be great. People
are like, is Elon Musk running for president? No, he's
not an American citizen. He allegedly can't.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
But well, his third party might be able to change that.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Who knows? Who knows?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Ye listen to this, what if this? And you know,
I think politics, most of it is all theater. What
if the fight between Trump and Musk is nothing more
than that they're not really fighting, they are not really disagreeing.
But this gives Musk the opportunity to hope to start

(31:07):
this third party, bringing in the Democrats who are not
on board with some of the stuff that the Democratic
Party has done over the last twelve years. And the
Republicans who misunderstood didn't know what was going on, don't
see the big plan, and so they're dissatisfied with Trump
bringing all this together, he could have a pretty large party.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
And like Lucy has a conspiracy theory and.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
It's all based out of a theater.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
I agree with you, though, as I started here, I said,
as President Trump not being honest with us when he's
saying things like and he goes on True Social of
the weekend. He says, quote, I am saddened to watch
Elon Musk go completely off the rails, essentially becoming a
train wreck over the past five weeks. The one thing
third parties are good for is the creation of complete

(31:56):
and total disruption and chaos. And we have enough of
that with the radical left Democrats who have lost their
confidence and their minds. Republicans, on the other hand, are
a smooth running machine that just passed the biggest bill
of its kind in the history of our country. Right.
First of all, Republicans are not a smooth running machine. No,

(32:18):
radical left Democrats have lost their their minds. I don't
know that they've lost their confidence. They seem very very confident.
Like I said, I hope that they're having fun, but
it doesn't look like they are. They don't seem to
be real happy warriors. But remember how Trump got into
all of this, that very first moment, all those Republicans

(32:40):
running for president in the Republican debate and primary, and
they stood up there and they said, if any of
you won't pledge right now, if you don't win the
Republican primary for the presidency, if you don't pledge right
now to support the person who wins this primary. Raise

(33:00):
your hand if you say, I promise I will support
the primary winner and I won't start a third party campaign.
If you can't do that, raise your hand. One person
on that stage raised his hand. It was DJT. This
guy is disruption and chaos, and I do think. I mean,

(33:21):
he's not real thrilled all the time with the Republicans,
but he's also not completely It doesn't completely demonize every
single thing any Democrat's ever done. I mean, he's been
against the war on terror, some of the things that
President Bush has done. He's been a bit more of

(33:41):
a social liberal on some things. He's a bit of
an interesting chameleon. But I don't think that it's like,
let's stick my wet finger in the air and see
which way the wind's blowing. I think that's genuinely who
he is. And I do think that's why some more
left leaning people have secretly voted for him, and they're
not going to tell their friends because then they'd be

(34:03):
blasted into space. But I think President Trump is disruption
and chaos. I do think that's what the country has
needed on some level. That's why we have this part two. Also,
we like sequels. I mean, we go out to the
movies and see them all the time. But I don't
know that he's completely honest when he says he doesn't

(34:24):
want Elon Musk to go in there and throw a
monkey wrench into think and completely disrupt the system. Now
he's not. I don't think he's gonna be able to
run for re election now for a third term. That's
not something that we're expecting.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Now. He don't be a vice president, right, sure, I'm
not sure how that is.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
He could be Speaker of the House. Yeah, so yeah,
he just can't be that. The phrasing is about being
elected to it. But anyway, I do think he wants
some disruption. And if Elon Musk is saying, well, I'm
going to do a more moderate third party, perhaps President

(35:07):
Trump says, all right, well, then this Republican Party needs
to go full maggot. That's the only way to win it,
and then then crystallizes even more into Trump's party, or
maybe you know, once I'm out of office, I don't
care anymore. I think he still cares. You don't run

(35:28):
for president because you don't care. But I do think
he's interested in what Elon Musk is doing. And I
do think that these guys will come back on the
same side of the political spectrum at some point before
the midterm. Tesla shares are down about seven percent right now,
and there's a few reasons why that is. Also why, Lucy,

(35:49):
have you noticed I used to see a bunch of
cyber trucks on the road. I don't see hardly anymore.
If I see one now, it's pretty rare. You're right,
just in the last couple of months, but Tesla shares
her down. I'm not seeing a lot of Tesla's on
the road. Two reasons why that is, First, Elon upset
the Democrats by going with Trump. Then he upset the

(36:09):
Republicans by going against Trump. Now no one wants to
drive one of his cars. And in this big beautiful
bill there are that EV mandate is gone. People are
allowed to buy whatever they want. This is what Trump says.
He says gas powered hybrid's doing well, new technologies, no
more EV mandate, and so people don't have to buy Tesla's.

(36:31):
So there's some of that right now. Elon is uh,
he's having a tough time right now. He's still the
world's richest man. He'll be okay, but Fox and KFAB
news updates and your next crack at one thousand bucks
coming up next. You're on eleven ten KFAB. I hope
you had a wonderful Independence Day weekend. I did, And

(36:56):
even though there was certainly tragedy in the news, it's
uh and that certainly caused a put a damper on
the weekend. And I'm not blaming what happened in Texas, like, hey,
those guys, all those kids died in the flood totally
ruined my weekend. What a buzzkill. But if if you

(37:20):
have sympathy, if you have empathy, then I don't know
what it does in your life. I'll tell you what
it does in mine. When I was hanging out with
friends and enjoying the weekend with my family, it just
added a little bit more richness, I think to it,

(37:40):
knowing that I it's super I don't even want to
say this out loud, but because it sounds super selfish
to say this, but when you know that others are
suffering and you're there enjoying a weekend with family and friends,
you either look at it and you can go one

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of several different ways. You can either not enjoy it.
You can say who cares, I don't know those people
and enjoy it, or you can enjoy it even more
knowing how precarious and precious life is, and you can
still give prayers to those who are suffering, not just

(38:24):
those who lost loved ones, but the first responders who
are down there in Texas saving kids or in some
cases doing recovery efforts. Some of the things that they
see on a daily basis, but especially in the wake
of something like this, haunts them the rest of their lives.
These camp counselors who lost friends and kids, their lives

(38:45):
will never be the same. So when you're thinking about, oh,
it's terrible for the families of those kids, it is,
but for the survivors as well, it's just cripplingly sad.
So you can have a thought towards all of those individuals,

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and you can hug your kids a little bit more.
It adds a bit of richness to it. It adds
that that tinge of sadness. It adds that bit of perspective.
At least that's what it does for me. As I said,
you know, something like that happens, you can either, you know,
just ignore it. You can just be like h whatever,

(39:27):
or you can you can appreciate life a little bit
more knowing that it can be taken from us in
the blink of an eye. So when I was hanging
out with my family, when I was hugging my kids,
when I was toasting with friends on Saturday night, when

(39:52):
I was blowing off fireworks on Friday night, what happened
in Texas hadn't happened by Friday night, but I was
doing so with that little extra bit of appreciation. And
I hope that doesn't sound selfish. I certainly don't mean

(40:13):
it to. So on Independence Day night, I think and Lucy,
you and I both live out in northwest Omaha, so
we were experiencing the same sounds of fireworks trying to
blow a hole in the ozone layer until one o'clock
in the morning. We have a lot of fireworks tents

(40:35):
around out on West Maple in that whole area. Were
they on Friday? And maybe they're doing it on Thursday too,
because sometimes when you get closer to the fourth than
you realize, Wow, we got a lot of inventory here.
We got to sell this, We got to make money
for this nonprofit or whatever we're doing, they'll do like
buy one, get one three on Friday? Was it by one?

(40:57):
Get eighty seven thousand free? Because there was no shortage
of fireworks blowing off I mean over and and I'm
not talking about like when you expect it. Nine ten
fifteen's kind of that sweet spot. But ten thirty, eleven o'clock,

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eleven thirty midnight, one am, people are still like, I've
got stuff to blow off. It was crazy this year.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
I heard the stuff that was at about five ish,
just the noise maker stuff.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
A five pm. Yeah, those are kids blowing off parachutes.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Hated it.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
You hate it.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
I hated it. I wanted to go yell at them
to stop, but I didn't.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
What I didn't on Independence Day You're like, these kid's
blowing off fire away?

Speaker 2 (41:52):
I didn't. I kept it to myself. And by seven.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Now you set it on the radio and you got
to get lectured. Why you gotta be lectured? Why because
it's Independence Day?

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Didn't stop them?

Speaker 1 (42:05):
I know. But you're complaining about it now, Just what's
the big deal.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I didn't complain. I said I wanted to go tell
them to stop. That's not complaining complaining is I don't
know why I have to put up with this noise.
That's not what I did.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Put some headphones.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I didn't like it.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Go put on your walkman and listen to one of
your sticks albums.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
So I just turned on both of the big fans
in the bedroom and the TV up loud and off
to Snoozeland.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
I went, Well, both of our big fans on this
radio show are pretty disappointed in you right now.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
No, I think they like it.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Look do I love trying to sleep and it's one
o'clock in the morning and people are it's still blowing
off fireworks? I don't love it, But turns out I
was able to wake up on Saturday morning. How about that?

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Well, get yourself some big fans.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
You've heard, you've heard the show. I don't have any
big fans. I don't have any medium sized fans. I
don't have any little fans.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
The problem with that is that if you ever don't
have the fans anymore, you get so used to them
now you can't sleep in silence.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Yeah, I can't sleep until it sounds like I'm in
some sort of industrial wind. Yeah, well it it got
loud on Friday night, and I loved it, even when
I was trying to sleep, going, Okay, you've made your point.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Oh are you complaining?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
No, I it sounds like it. I was. It was
more of a slight smile on my face, rolling my
eyes at it. But you know, what the heck? Right,
what the heck? And people always like, but my pets
and my veterans and my pet veterans. You people, people
have pet veterans and they get out of the fans

(43:56):
and they're like, I can't handle it and all and
and look, I know that sounds super We talked about
this last week. There are veterans who deal with stuff
that if you haven't dealt with it, I haven't. It's
stuff that we can't understand. And you know when they
deal with it every day. They deal with it in January, February, March, April, May, June,

(44:18):
and yeah, around fourth of July can be triggered by that.
But now here we are in July seventh. You know
what they're doing. They're dealing with it, and in a
month from now they'll be dealing with it. And there's
a number of things that can trigger it. Sometimes just
the way a cloud looks. Sometimes it's just the thought
about an old friend. There are so many things I

(44:39):
know that people every year around Independence Day start to
come out and say we shouldn't shoot off fireworks because
the veterans don't like it. Some veterans are out there
blowing stuff up with stuff that they stole from Fort
Hood and they're having a great time, and some veterans
are triggered by it. But like I said, I don't

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know how many of them would ever say and that's
why we don't want you to enjoy this time with
your family and friends and blow off some fireworks. They
just find a way to deal with it. And they're
dealing with stuff every single day, and they're also like, look,
we're not that soft. We can handle some fireworks. We
might not love it, but you know we every day,

(45:23):
every day, we're dealing with stuff. Every day there's stuff
that triggers us. And some of the people who are
saying like we shouldn't shoot off the fireworks because the
veterans don't like it, they're just using them as an
excuse to do what Lucy wants to do, and that
is slap fireworks away from every kid and dad and
grandpa across dol Maha and beyond. You're just just using

(45:47):
them as an excuse. You don't care about them stuff.
You don't even care about the pets. You just like
I don't like it. I'm trying to It's eight o'clock
at night and I'm trying to sleep and people are
out there having fun. I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
I didn't say a word, not even on Facebook or
Twitter or x or whatever it's called today. I said nothing.
We didn't have any real injuries though, either did we.
I didn't hear about any.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Didn't hear about any around here. I'm sure there were some. Uh,
the only the only nationwide story I saw in the
wake of like well, I think some kids decided to
blow some stuff up, and we certainly did when we
were kids. Coffee cans no offense to Folgers or what

(46:30):
was the other big sanka, Sanka Sanka and Folgers, whatever
coffee you'd get in a big can, a big metal can, Sanka.
I don't even think we didn't have anything against Sanka. No, boy,
we tried to blow those cans. Eight sometimes yeah, sometimes

(46:51):
we would allow our parents to get the coffee out
of there before we would blow up the coffee can. Oh,
It was great, but these kids took it maybe a
little bit further on Independence Day because three school buses
blew up in Marshall County, Mississippi. They blamed these kids,

(47:12):
their young kids. They say. It's not clear how the
fires were started, but apparently it had something to do
with fireworks. These kids blew up three school buses. Now
I don't know if they I don't know if they
lit everything up at one time, like tying wicks together

(47:32):
or whatever, or if they blew up a bus and
thought that was fun, let's blow up another bus. I
don't know, but they destroyed these things. They set these
buses on fire somehow in the parking lot of the
high school on I guess Friday night into Saturday morning.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
This is Mississippi. In Mississippi, you know why they did that.
Because those kids don't have weight in a snowstorm for
their bus.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Yeah, that's probably true. So that was the only nationwide
perhaps fireworks story that I heard about. If there's something
I missed, then I suppose that's okay, because let's tell
you what I did on Saturday night.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
What did you do?

Speaker 1 (48:25):
It was our high school reunion, the Ralston High School
class of nineteen ninety five, got together for revelry and
hugs and copious amounts of beverages of questionable fermentation, and
it was a wonderful time. This was the first reunion

(48:46):
we've had in Ralston. I don't know, it just kind
of worked out that way over the years. So over
Independence Day weekend, you thought, well, fourth of July and Ralston,
that's just perfect. So since the fifth of July I
was on a Saturday, we reserved the party room at Bushwhackers.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
The granary Greenery, No, on the.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Back side of the granary. It's all kind of the
same ownership group.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
But it's been there since you guys were in high school.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
I know, well, we couldn't get in there in high school.
It's a park. But yeah, we were in the the
party room at Bushwhackers, and the party room is where
the mechanical bowl is. It's so we had a great time,
I saw. The thing I loved about the reunion was
hearing from my former classmates that they really enjoyed seeing

(49:38):
people they hadn't seen in years, including talking to people
that they really didn't interact with much in high school.
But it was kind of like making new friends out
of old friends, and it was a wonderful, wonderful evening.
And many of them said, are you going to talk
about us on the radio on Saturday? And I said, no,

(50:02):
there are a few of them I could talk about, but.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Those are the ones I want to hear about.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Yeah. No, we had a just an incredibly wonderful time.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
And were you on the planning committee?

Speaker 1 (50:16):
I am the planning committee. I didn't realize planned that
whole thing. Yeah, I didn't realize when I was elected
senior class president at the age of I guess seventeen,
senior year of high school, thirty years ago. It was
not until the last week or two of school when
someone from the Ralston Alumni Association reached out and said, hey,
let us know how we can help you with planning

(50:36):
reunions for years to come. And I said, planning reunions.
Didn't realize that the senior class president position is a
term for life. Take that Members of Congress, President of
the United States. No Kings, Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
I did not know you were class president vice president.
I don't know if I should be impressed or sad.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
All right, here's the only thing I'll tell you about
the reunion because I did have a microphone in my
hand for part of it, and because it's kind of dumb,
I had to be up like on the balcony at
one point with the mic in my hand because we
were showing a class video and I needed to get
the TV as loud as possible, so I had to
position a microphone under the TV. I know, totally rigged

(51:23):
position a microphone under there. So in order to do that,
I started off by saying, please turn your attention the screen.
But I was up on the balcony and everyone else
was down below, and my head is telling me, don't
say it. Not everyone gets your sense of humor here.
There's a lot of people here, including some spouses that
don't know you at all. Don't say this. But I

(51:44):
I couldn't help it. So I'm standing up there. I'm
looking down on them, and I said, so here, I
am doing the same thing I did in high school,
looking down on you people.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
That's beautiful. Did anybody laugh?

Speaker 1 (51:58):
I don't know. They started chucking barbecue at me. But
I had a great time. And look, go to your
high school reunion. It's easy and fun is go to
your high school reunion. I bet Lucy hasn't been to
a single one, have you. Nope, Well you got your

(52:20):
sixtieth coming up, so hey, based on your comments. A
moment ago, they were shooting fire res off five pm.
I'm trying to watch my pictures, Scott voice. Sorry Lucy
for calling you.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
Old, but that's all right, I feel it.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Do you want to tell us about that traffic issue again?
Or how's that looking there on the Kenndy Freeway.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
I don't know, let me put okay, all right, sorry, yeah,
it's still blocked. The right lane is blocked on seventy
five northbound at el Street. And while we're talking about it,
zipper murr. I am seeing a single line of traffic
all the way back almost to Chandler. Use both lanes
and then once you get up to that closure, let

(53:11):
the cars next to you go, and then you go.
It's the zipper merge. Get traffic moving through there a
lot faster.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
People get so mad though, that guy cut me off.
Now it's a zipper merge.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
I waited in line this whole time, right, yeah, not
get in front of me.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
No, it only makes me mad when I chose not
to zipper merge. Like it's a half mile before the backup,
and I just get over into the right lane. M
and then I sit there and everyone else is zipper emerging.
I'm like, well, I could have gone up there, but
you know it's because I You do that, and then
someone either won't let you in and now you got
a problem or someone you know you have to like,

(53:49):
like I'm I get in here, and then they get
mad and they feel like you cut them off. Like,
but this is not how this is supposed to work.
That's not how any of this is.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Supposed to work, right, Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
You had one guy down in Plasma shooting another guy
on that Stretcher road the other day. He got mad.
He was coming up real fast behind him, and then
I don't know, the guy didn't get out of his
way or whatever, and the guy took a shot and
shot out his back window and the bullet went in
the driver's head rest on the right side of it,

(54:20):
just interest from this guy's skull.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
All right, look, put the guns down. I'm seeing now.
I think you're listening. I think they're listening, Scott. Yeah,
I'm seeing traffic in that right lane, good, all the
way up to where you need to get over into
that left lane. So let's do this. Everybody get into
the left lane for a minute, merge and then once

(54:44):
you get up there, if you're in the left lane,
let them in one car at a time. You only
have to flet one car in front of you, and
then the car behind you'll let in a car.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
It's hard for people of my generation, Ma, Ma, my
generation Gen X to zipper merge because all we had
growing up was velcrow and buttonflies zippers old school. That's right.
Here's another great Independence Day weekend story. It's just not

(55:13):
Independence Day weekend until you find out that a roller
coaster was stuck someplace. Thankfully, these guys weren't stuck upside down,
but riders had to be escorted off Cedar Point. That's
in Jerry, Sandusky, Ohio. Brand new roller coaster calls.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Can I remember your brother?

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Yeah, Siren's Curse is the name of this roller coaster,
and what could possibly go wrong on Siren's Curse. It
just opened on June twenty eighth, and riders went up
there and they were stuck on someplace on the roller
coaster for about forty minutes, and then they got them

(55:54):
off of there and they said, all right, sorry about that,
and they reopened it, and then riders were open for
a few more minutes, and then they got stuck again
and they're like, all right, we're shutting it down. Everyone
was safe, everyone was okay. But is it really Fourth
of July weekend? If someone doesn't get stuck on a
roller coaster or someplace.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
I want to know why I didn't get a ding because.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
I don't know what you're talking about. Didn't catch that reference.
Not sure why you said it.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Hey, remember your brother? Yeah, I don't know Tommy boy
based in Sandusky.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Okay, that he didn't have a We.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Really haven't watched the same movies.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
We didn't have a brother. Well, I don't talking to the.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Girl he wanted to go out with, and he was
just being an idiot because he was okay, idiot.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
He said something about remember your brother. Okay, all right,
thank you for that. Fox News update. In just a moment,
Scott Boorhees News Radio eleven ten kfab Lucy Chapman's there,
I am, Scott Vorhees. A lot of response here, and
the Zonker's custom was inbox to Lucy saying we need
to zipper Murger out there. We'll get to that in
just a moment. First, a Dundee family, According to KMTV

(57:06):
three news Now, a Dundee family is warning neighbors after
their cat was killed, killed, murdered by fill in the blank.
H do you know the story by Bigfootman, Sasquatch and
Mothman took turns throwing this cat to and fro Oh.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
No, that's terrible.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
This is your scenario. I'm just going with you down
this road.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Kitten juggling.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
It's hard to suggest that it was completely consensual. See
he likes it. No, there was no kitten juggling, juggling,
cat juggling. Let's call Steve, no Martin, that's is that

(58:03):
the jerk?

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Well, it was actually from his one of his albums,
and then he put it in the jerk.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
Okay, the cat was killed by a coyote. What these
people that come up here drug mules and coyotes.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
Was it with a commie hammer?

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Yeah, it was yeah, wy Lee coyote. No, they say
a coyote or maybe a coyote killed their cat. The
story here from KMTV three news Now says Ben and
his family never saw it coming. Quote. Our daughter was
leaving early for softball practice early morning and discovered on

(58:47):
the way out our family cat had been attacked and
killed overnight. Fortunately we had security cameras. We were able
to go back and see and look in what had happened,
and it was pretty clear in the video it was
a coyote that got the cat. Now, if you're not
familiar with Dundee, Dundee is not a rural community. Dundee

(59:07):
is right in the middle of Omaha, well, middle East.
We're in the middle East, in the eastern half of
of the Omaha metro areas. Omaha continues to expand west
the middle of what is the middle of Omaha anymore?
For a while there it was like, yeah, about fiftieth
and Dodge, and it was seventy second in Dodge And

(59:29):
now is it ninetieth and Dodge?

Speaker 2 (59:31):
No?

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Probably, yeah, maybe west Roads six, six eighty the middle
of Omaha. All right, so in the eastern section of Omaha.
But yeah, Dundee, just north of fiftieth and Dodge streets
where you'll find, among other things, the greatest business in Omaha.

(59:55):
What is it? E Creamery. Oh and then right across
from them is news Radio eleven to ten k fabe. Yes, yeah,
we're here, We're here in Dundee.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
And a farmer's market coming.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Uh. Are we okay? Yeah, I didn't know that. I
mean we're here at all hours of the day and night, evenings, weekends,
middle of the night, midle of the day. Have you
ever seen coyotes? Really? I have seen here in Dundee.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Yeah, that across going across Underwood. Yeah, I've seen lots
of raccoons. Yeah, lots of possum. One of them had
to drive by saying he ain't playing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Ain't playing possum, he playing dead. Are we? Uh? Do
we have like packs of wolves running around here?

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
I don't think we have wolves because we don't have
wolves or bears or tigers. While we're on the subject,
I don't know in in Nebraska, but I will say
I saw I had a coyote was in the intersection
of seventy eighth in Dodge about a year ago, and
had just down for that because didn't want to hit him.

(01:01:02):
But about five years ago, I'm driving along and I'm thinking,
what is it I see ahead? I'm on Dodge. What
is I see something moving?

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Oh yeah, it had to be turkeys. It was a deer.
It is a deer crossing dodge going back, probably to
the creek, right, Yeah, it's very around and there are
a deer in uh Memorial Park with the creek there.
They don't I don't think they live there, but they
show up there once in a while.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Just so many people, traffic and everything. I'm surprised that
we have this kind of wildlife. They but they call
them urban cowboys, not rhinestone cow wait cowboys. No urban coyotes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Yeah, urban There are urban coyotes, not urban cowboys, right yeah,
not urban cowboys, urban coyotes.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Rhinestone coyotes, like a rhinestone coyote killing cats, Dundee, USA.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Yeah, they's riding on a horse.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
I don't know. So here's what they say. They say,
keep your pets on a leash. It's my cat.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Cats can be on leashes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
They don't love that. No, keep house pets cats indoors.
Never deliberately feed or approach a coyote. Here here, here, kiddy,
cover your garbage cans and compost bins. Compost, cover your
compost bins.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
What do you put in that compost?

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Cats? Bring your small pets inside overnight if you've got cats.
But if you've had cats running around all night, don't
you kind of expect that that cat's gonna get roughed
up and maybe killed, probably by other cats.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
Yeah, it's usually the it's gonna be other cats or
owls if it's a really small cat.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Yeah, if you could, well, it could be. No, you're
you're laughing, but it's true. Could certainly be. Did you
see the video big homeless encampment down the street from here.
Maybe one of them has got him on a rotisserie.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
I am legend.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
That's disgusting. Why would you say that? Not?

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
I am legend?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
What was it the you are a legend? No, your
movie references are legendary.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
OA opening scene a book of Eli. So did you
see the video of the dog? This is in California.
But he fought off five coyotes for over an hour?

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
An he won? No, I didn't, and he got adopted.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
I that's that's awesome. I did see the A woman
in Texas is arrested. This is other criminal behavior, not
done by animals against other animals. This is a woman
who was out of town for a few weeks. And
I don't know if her neighbors said or she had
cameras in the house or whatever, but she goes on

(01:04:02):
Facebook and said, yeah, my neighbor has sent me photos
that showed that this woman was basically living in my
house while I was gone, and she trashed the place,
ate all my food, left her garbage all over the place.
So this woman goes on Facebook and said, does anyone
know who this trash is robbing my house while I'm

(01:04:23):
out of town. One of the responses to her Facebook
post again this is she posted photos of someone who
had destroyed her house, was living in her house trespassing.
Anyone know who this trash is robbing my house while
I'm out of town. Well, this woman named Misty posted
on there and said people need to mind their own business.

(01:04:46):
This woman called me trash just because I broke into
her house and stole some stuff. She don't even know me,
but she thinks it's okay to call me trash. Police
arrested this woman named Misty charged her with breaking into
the house and stealing her stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
See no, if she would have just broken in, ate
the food, took a nap, took a shower, and then
moved on, nobody would have been the wiser.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
You still can't do you want someone to break into
your house, take a shower. No eat your food?

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
No, okay, they wouldn't eat my food.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
Okay, so maybe you shouldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
I'm just saying she didn't have to trash the place.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Yeah, if someone, if the family in Dundee had said, hey,
anyone know who this trash coyote is that killed our cat?
Suddenly the kadie is like, I don't know why you
have to get personal. It's pretty good impersonation of a coyote.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
How do you know?

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
How do you know what that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
It is?

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
An impersonation of a coyote?

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
How do you know? It's a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Everyone knows.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
My apologies. That's a terrible thing to lose.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
A pet zipper merge. Yes, you said that we got
problems on Kennedy. Huh must be a day that ends?
And why you want to give us the parameters one
more time? All I heard is seventy five Highway and
my brain immediately turned off because I'm not going that
way today. No offense to Bellevue.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Well, it's a nice place to be.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
I was there on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Uh yeah, it's still the right lane is still blocked.
I see a lot of people must have bailed at
Q Street and trying to get back on anyway, if
you use a zipper merge, which it does look like
some people are using that zipper merge and it is
helping because traffic's only backed up now to about Q Street.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
There's some emails on the zipper merge. Zonker's custom was
inbox Scott at kfab dot com. Doug says, guys, I
will never like the zipper merge method because then you're
a jerk hole running past people in line and forcing
your way in.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
But if everybody was using the zipper merge, you would
not be running past those people because everybody would be
going a little bit slow.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Here's another email, and from Don's perspective, he says, as
recently as two weeks ago, there were signs on I
eighty that said construction ahead, keep right. The mixed messaging
is not helpful. Are you supposed to keep right or
are you supposed to zipper merge. Christy just says Nebraskans
are too self righteous to zipper merge. I don't even

(01:07:22):
know what that will mean. Yeah, self righteous, I would
think if we're if well, I think she's talking about
the people. Let's say the left lane's blocked so you've
got a line of people in the right lane, and
then you got people coming down the left lane, and
the self righteous nature is I'm not letting them in.
They can't cut in front of me, not knowing this
is how we're supposed to traffic. Yeah, I get it.

(01:07:47):
You know why I decide whether or not to let
someone in traffic in front of me, whether I like
their truck.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
If we're trying to get onto the Dodge Expressway westbound
from six to eight. If I'm coming from northbound sixt eighty,
I let people in that are coming from southbound six eighty,
and not everybody does. And what also happens is you
go to let somebody in that's coming from southbound, they
don't have any choice. I mean, they didn't have any

(01:08:15):
choice of which way to go. You do that, you
leave a little gap, and then somebody on your right
or on your left, they try to get into that
gap that you've just left for the six eighty southbound person.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Here's the funniest Here's the funniest thing I'll say all day,
and maybe the only funny thing I'll say all day. Okay,
everyone just be considerate and look out for one another. Hey,
you're right, Assie. That's hilarious, right Ian. The email says
on the fireworks and veterans. As a veteran, I need
all the Karens to stop trying to use veterans as

(01:08:46):
a reason to control other people's enjoyment of the Fourth
and other holidays. For that reason too. None of my
veteran friends and I have any issue with them, and
we love setting off fireworks. None of us are that soft,
but we do have issues with people trying to use
us or our service as a way to scold others
when they're trying to enjoy a fun weekend with their family. Now,

(01:09:09):
that's what I said earlier, And I said, yes, there
are some veterans who are triggered by the fireworks, but
you know what else triggers them throughout the year, anything,
and they deal with it. They're American heroes. Now, I
said the same thing earlier as this emailer, but I
wanted to read his email because that's a veteran who
agrees with me, which proves I'm right. Let's just basking

(01:09:33):
that for a second, shall we. There I felt skiing there.
That felt good. That felt good. End of an era.
As Ozzy Osbourne gave his last ever what he says
is his last ever live performance. As I guess it
was a fantastic show. Wasn't his opening act Metallica? It

(01:09:53):
was like a there was a day long music metal festival.
Anthrax was there, Metallic Guns n' Roses and it was
a just an incredible metal festival. And it was at
Soccer Stadium in England. And then Ozzy Osbourne and Black

(01:10:13):
Sabbath got up there and the original Black Sabbath lineup
performed for what will be Ozzy's last time singing and
a live performance. And yeah, I guess he was singing
coming Home and it seemed that he was on the

(01:10:34):
brink of tears as the crowd was there singing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
On the verge of tears, probably for most of the show.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
Yeah. Well, we're going to have some of our legends
retiring and dying in the years ahead. Let's honor them
while they're here. He's seventy six years old and has
been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Nice job, Ozzie. That would
have been an incredible concert.