Dress Up and Listen to This

A lot of talk about fashion today:  What to wear to the White House, church, school, and versus USC.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott for the most important thing in the world today
seems to be what is President Vladimir Zelensky going to
wear to the White House this time? You might recall
last time he was wearing some sort of army military
gear and the President said, oh, I see you dressed
up today, and mocked him for not having on a suit,

(00:20):
not having on a tie. He says, I dressed like
my people were all at war. I dressed like them.
He said, I can't believe you come here into the
Oval Office not wearing a suit. And that was kind
of how things started about six months ago when Zelensky
went to the White House, and then it was just
Trump and Dvance just taking turns, just swat swatting on

(00:46):
the president of Ukraine, and so that got ugly quick
and did not improve. Now since then, it seems like
everything's okay. President Trumps still looking to get some sort
of lasting peace agreement there in that region. As you know,
he met on Friday with President Putin, and as they

(01:11):
were walking in to the meeting space, the b to
stealth bomber, the same one that dropped the big bunker
buster on Iran, Russia's buddy, just happened to do a
little flyover. Oh yeah, this happens every Friday. Stealth bomber
flanked by fighter jets flies over. What an incredible flex

(01:32):
by the President of the United States. Hey, Vladimir, welcome
to America. Here goes the B two bomber overhead. And
you know what was amazing about then? I was watching
some of the coverage on MSNBC over the weekend and
they showed Trump greeting Putin and then walking in. But

(01:55):
they showed the handshake, and then they cut like we're
gonna do time lapse. It just cut to where they
get up right by the door. They cut out the
part where Putin is looking overhead, going what's that? MSNBC
cut out the part where the President, who already stands
about a foot taller than Vladimir Putin, flexed by flying

(02:18):
the stealth bomber that dropped the big bunker buster on
their friends in Iran as a way of saying, Hey,
hope everything goes okay today in this meeting. MSNBC is like,
the American people don't need to know about that. That
would see that would be that would look good for

(02:39):
the president, therefore would look good for America and that's
not what we do here. So MSNBC and the rest
would love another round of President Trump Vice President Vance
beating up Zelenski in the Oval Office. I don't know
that it's going to be the same thing. I don't
know that we're getting cameras in there or what's going
to happen. I know that it's coming up here after

(03:04):
eleven o'clock noon, Omaha time. Clay and Buck will be
all over it later this morning. So Fox News updates
throughout the day, Emery Songer with a lot more news.
If the President comes out and does a news conference afterwards,
you'll hear it here on eleven ten kfab But what's
he going to wear? Is he gonna wear a suit?

(03:25):
Is he gonna wear the military gear that you usually
see Zelenski in.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I don't know, fatigues type stuff. I've never seen him
in a suit.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
No, I've not seen him in ali or otherwise. No,
he doesn't wear like the fatigues. It's that black kind
of almost like a kevlar vest looking thing that Zelenski
usually wears. That's what he wore into the Oval Office
meeting with the President last time. He says, yeah, my
people are a war and I'm dressing like the people
who are fighting the war are as our president. I

(03:59):
get why he does it. I also get where the
president said, you couldn't put on a tie for a
meeting with the guys who were writing check after check,
providing weapon after weapon for you couldn't put on a tie.
But see that now dovetails into this next issue. As
we get here. Locally, I saw this posted. It was

(04:26):
I don't know that this was posted in Council Bluffs.
I think this is going around the country, and it
was posted on the Council Bluff School's parent page, so
I don't think this came from the district. I think
it was a parent that saw this said hey, what
do we think about this? And a lot of the

(04:46):
parents were losing their minds over this. It's a little sign,
little sandwich board kind of sign that was there parked
outside of Awe School as people were taking their little
ones into the first day of school here over the

(05:07):
last couple of weeks, and it says dress for success
even as a guest. See automatically, we're rhyming. That's good.
It's an attention getter. Dress for success even as a guest.
So as a guest, well, they're talking about the parents.

(05:27):
And now it has three pictures down the left side.
One is a pair of pants, the other one seems
to be a shower cap, and then the third one
is a T shirt, and next to the pants it
says bottom's up, no sagging pants, short shorts, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
So you use for the parents.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
So you see where this is going for any guests, parents, cousins, aunts,
and uncle's grandparents.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Or for the students.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Perhaps, but there's already a code for how kids are
supposed to dress. This certainly seems as though, and i'll
the last line of this sign will explain this is
directed at the parents and the adults, So dress for
a success even as a guest. Bottoms up, no sagging pants,

(06:19):
short shorts, etc. And then you got a picture of
some lady wearing a shower cap or something. It says
save the sleep wear and bonnets for home. She seems
to be wearing some sort of head covering like you
might wear as like a sleep cap or something like that.

(06:45):
And then it says next to the T shirt, tops
should fully cover the chest, and then wraps up by saying,
our little learners are watching. Let's lead the way parents
are furious, not all of them. There are still a
few adults here that we have raised in this culture.

(07:07):
There are still a few, but they're probably like, I'm
not going to go out there and say I think
this is a good idea, and I think the teachers
should probably also dress professionally. And when Vladimir Zelensky goes
to the White House, I hope his top will cover
his whole chest. That I know. And I learned this

(07:31):
years ago on this radio station when it seemed like
the overwhelming majority of KFAB nation was against me when
I suggested, and now let's quadruple down on this statement
that got so many people yelling at me years ago
when I said, when you go into God's house, when
you go to a church service, maybe you put on

(07:56):
a pair of khakis, put on a pair of slacks,
put on a nice shirt. Well, some people can't afford you. Well,
they're afforded a lot of you know, ratty looking attire,
which is very expensive. I'm not talking about someone who
only has rags to wear, and he wandered into church
and this is the first time he's getting the message

(08:18):
of Christ. I'm not talking about that. You know, I'm
not talking about that. I'm talking about Well, I can't
get my kids to go to church unless they've got
a basketball jersey on. And why not. Dad's wearing a
hockey jersey, you know. So hey, we're going to church.
It's a Sunday during the fall, so I better wear
my Mahomes jersey. You know, people got jerseys on, they're

(08:40):
wearing shorts. You got some of these girls that look
like they could certainly stand to wear more clothes, you know, like, hey,
let's put on the little shorty shorts with my cheeks
hanging out, and I'll have on a little haltertop. After all,
I am going to God's house. Now you think about that.

(09:03):
You know, God calls, God sends you a text message,
Hey what are you doing later today? Why don't you
stop by the house and we'll we'll have a little chat.
You're like, all right, well, I'll put on, you know,
my little shorty shorts and my little halter top and
my name is Russell, you know, and I'll head over
to God's house. I mean, if you're if you were
actually going to his house, wouldn't you put on maybe

(09:25):
a pair of pants or something. You know, but you're
going to church God's house.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Did you see his name is Russell?

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, it's Russell wearing a little halter top, little shorty shorts.
You know Russell. So I just said like, hey, why
don't you throw on it? But I can't afford. You
go into a Goodwill Salvation army thrift story you get
a pair of slacks for two bucks.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
If that you could even get cheaper than that.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
People, I can't believe you're judging. But you can't believe
I'm judging people. Have you ever listened to this show?
It's good that they're just in church. Yeah, are they listening?
I tell you what. The priest yesterday got after it
at my church service started going off on we need
to stand up for traditional marriage. You know, who among

(10:16):
us in here has a teenage daughter they want in
the locker room with a boy. I mean, he got
after it. I can't wait to go. I'll go to
church next Sunday. Be half as many people there, I know.
And then he said no, look he got after it yesterday.
I was like, I love this guy. I think he
got Here's what I think happened. Being a public speaker myself.

(10:40):
But see I have a great job compared to your
pastor at a church. I can't look out and see
the people who are falling asleep and not paying attention
to getting up and leaving, and not controlling their little
kids who are crying and screaming the entire time. I
can just sit here with my headphones on with only
my voice coming into my brain, and I don't see you,

(11:02):
and I can just imagine that everyone's paying rapt attention.
You know that. When I come out and say it's
seventeen minutes past the hour and I got something to
tell you, everyone just leans forward in their chairs, going, oh,
you know that, that's how you look to me the
pre And but if I feel like the segment's not

(11:23):
going well, I will sometimes get angry with myself or
the situation and start pushing things a little bit more,
you know that, right well? And And there are sometimes
like I'll be in here doing the show, Lucy's got
someone talking to her over there. Jim Rose manages to
wander back into the studio and he's banging away on

(11:45):
a keyboard, and I feel like no one's paying attention
anything I say, and I'll start getting a little fired
up about it and I'll start pushing down to the
gas pedal a little bit.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
I was gonna say that I'm always paying attention, but
I kind of like that that that.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I think the priest did not intend to go
into that message. And it was particularly bad yesterday. It's
like people brought their little kids and said, all right,
we're going to church in the morning. I don't want
any of you to sleep tonight. We're gonna load you
up with sugar and I'm just gonna pinch you every

(12:21):
couple of minutes to get you to shriek. And so
it was even louder than normal. It was really really
disruptive in there, and I think the priest got mad,
got fired up. He's like, all right, you're gonna tick
me off. Let's bring it back here. Here's what I
don't think is any and he got after it and

(12:41):
then he said, now, look, if any of this makes
you uncomfortable, what part of the gospel do you not
want to hear today because it makes you uncomfortable. I'm
right there, I'm fist pumping well at the same time,
going yeah, I'd probably needed to hear this message too.
I'm certainly not perfect. I mean really really close but
not perfect.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
That dude could have been could have been picking up snakes.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, it was. It was almost a snake hand Yeah
it was. It was a little bit of it was
almost snake handling. Uh. By the way, you hear the
guy about the guy who was out walking on some
trail in Tennessee and there was a rattlesnake coiled up,
had the rattle going, and the guy thought, I'm gonna
pick it up, and he did, and the snakes the

(13:28):
snake had to have been like really and so he
bit the guy killed the guy. And then there had
to be a meeting I'm sure from among like parks
people in Tennessee, going we need to say something. We
need to say. What do we need to tell? We
need to tell people don't pick up a rattlesnake. Well
this guy did. Yeah. This guy apparently didn't know. Do

(13:51):
we have enough signs up? We don't. The rattlesnake has
a sign, he's coiled up, he's rattling. People don't know
what this is.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
This is what has happened to education in our country.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
If we don't dress up anyway. They had to put
out a statement the Tennessee Parks Department would prefer it
for everyone's sake, if you did not pick up a rattlesnake. Yes,
we have to tell people that they didn't say all that,
but uh yeah, the people don't know how to behave
or do anything anymore. School, church, walking trail. It's just

(14:28):
people just walking around, just bumping into each other. It's
like these avatars in a video game that suddenly like
start glitching out, and they're just bumping into walls, going,
I don't know what to do, and we're all dressed terribly,
and we all act awful to each other. And anytime
someone points out like, hey, we could probably do a
little better, people like.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Oh, mister hyin mighty over there thinks he needs to
tell us how to dress when we go to school. Yeah, hey,
if I want to wear my bra and only my
bra to go pick up my kindergarten from school, they
that's how we're gonna do it. I got my sagging shorts,
I got my pajama bottoms on. You can see most
of my underwears.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, that's how I do it.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
What would you want? Just don't get out of the car.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's okay if you had planned on knocking it out
of the car, and then you're sitting out there waiting.
You're like, where is my kid? I'm gonna have to
go in. I got bunny slippers on. Yeah, we'll make
exceptions for situations like that. So that's got people all mad.
Parents had a mirror put up to them. Turns out

(15:38):
the rest of society wasn't all impressed with your cruddy dress.
And like I said, some of you teachers you could
follow along with this sign too, and certainly the kids,
but where do they Where do we think they learn
how to dress like this because some dad wasn't around
to tell his little teenage angel, hey, you can't dress

(16:00):
like that going to school.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know how some styles always come back around, you know,
like the elephant pants or hip huggers and all that
stuff was all popular in the sixties and then it
came back around in the eighties or the nineties. Maybe
the good styles of the eighteen eighties will come back around.
We'll be dressed in long dresses.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
And I'm hey, mom, I'm going out and I forgot
to do laundry and all of my bodices are dirty.
Do you have something I I can borrow?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, they'd be updated.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Oh no, we're going out on a date on Friday
night and my best smock is filthy. I forgot to
wash it. Does anyone have a moo moo or something?
I can wear something to cover all this up?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
I need help with all these buttons on my shoes.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yes. Can someone tie me up in the back. It's
going to take a while. There are a lot of
belts and latches and all sorts of things going on, snaps,
snaps and buckles. It's just so there's a lot going on.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
I'd go back to those days.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yes, And when you when you're doing that, make sure
a pull as tight as possible. Put your foot in
the middle of my back and yank on those straps
until I can't breathe anymore. That's what we need now.
Oh yeah, that was the host is, like, what time

(17:30):
is it? And where was I going with this? Oh? Yeah,
coming up here in a couple of minutes. A friend
of mine gave me the whole saga yesterday. I'll try
and distill it as best as I can. About a
fifty dollars charge he got from his kids college parents,
watch out for this as you're taking your kids to college.

(17:52):
This week. Watch out for this. I'll tell you next.
I have to ding a nineties music reference and that
last segment. Sometimes if a reference is so obscure that
I don't think anyone would know it, I'll just breeze
right past it. But Jeremy's calling me out on it.
And the zonker's custom was inbox Scott at kfab dot com.

(18:13):
He says, Russell nineties music reference ding. All right, Yes,
that was an ode to the Bloodhound Gang.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Oh, yes, the old Bloodhound Gang.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
The name of the song, and I didn't I didn't
title this song. I might know it pretty much by heart,
but I didn't come up with this song. But the
name of the song is and I quote, a lap
dance is so much better when the stripper is crying unquote. Now,
so let's move on with the show. So Jeremy picked
up Yeah, Jeremy picked up the reference, and I gotta

(18:48):
ding that. We got kids going back to college or
to college for the first time, like my daughter. I'll
be off Wednesday. Were dropping off the daughter at college
on Wednesday. Thank you, We'll be I'll be all right.
You know what got me over the weekends for your wife?
I know? Oh, my wife. I don't think she has

(19:10):
any tears left. She several days ago started what I
presume to be thirty seven straight days of crying. But
you know what got me over the weekend because I
don't tend to cry when i'm sad. I tend to
cry when other people are really happy. So my daughter
was talking about how she is.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
She don't cry around here a lot.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Not once my daughter's going to k State. I didn't
even know because I don't give a rip about K
State football, and I'm only just coming around to the
idea that I can't hate them anymore. But they've got
the week zero Ireland game this Saturday. So we're taking
my daughter to K State on Wednesday, and she already

(19:52):
has plans for Saturday to watch the Wildcats play football
from Ireland. They're having a big party on campus, and
she was all excited because hey, this is a really
big fun deal and there's big parties on campus and
all that, and I'm I was so happy because I
saw the excitement, like, Wow, this is gonna be really
really different and cool, and I got a little teared

(20:15):
up thinking about all this excitement in front of her.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Just don't let it get crushed too early.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
I know, I know. Well, yeah, Lucy, please do everything
you can to bring me back down here. Make sure
she doesn't get drunk and carried off by a sasquatch.
All right, Lucy, yeah, thank you. When you're taking your
daughter into your kid into college, make sure and assess
the damage around the dorm room. This is kind of

(20:46):
the same thing like when you're renting a car. You
walk to a little walk around, go there's a there's
a dent back here in the bump. You gotta do
this stuff because when you bring that car back. I
think people know this by now. You bring the car
back and you didn't say yeah, the back bumpers all
dent it up, then they're gonna ding you for it.
They're gonna say, well, he brought the car back and

(21:08):
the bumpers all smashed up, like but it was been
afore I left. Do we have any notation of that?
So my buddy takes his kid to college a year
ago after the semester, here's all the thing and all this,
and now they're going back to college here now, and
they said, well, here's your tuition rate for the year

(21:30):
and all this, and also here's a fifty dollars charge
for a gash out of the door in the dorm room.
And my buddy, who makes bazillions of dollars and is
a very busy man, is the wrong guy to say, hey,
here's a very small issue that's only gonna cost you
just pocket money, but just go ahead and pay it.

(21:54):
He's like, oh, suddenly I have a lot of time
on my hands. It went from a fifty charge from
the school into fighting with the chancellor of the university saying,
you know, there's a lot of other schools around here
where I can take my kid, and then finally posting
on the mom's group for other parents of this school.

(22:18):
Long story, really really short. He posted the picture of
the door because they did have a picture at the
start of the year of mom hugging son goodbye, and
they were standing by the door where the damage allegedly
was so you could see the door and the door
did not have any damage, and or actually, sorry, the

(22:39):
door did have the same damage on the first day
of school that it had on the last day of school.
So he said, this damage was already here, we approove.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Unless they did it when they were moving in.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Well, they decided to refund the money. But now they
go back to take the kid back to college. The
other day, he's in a different day dorm room. He
noted all the damage and everything, but he goes back
to the original door from last year's dorm room. Yep,
and you know, here's the fifty dollars to fix the door.
The damage was still there. That damage has probably been

(23:14):
on that door for forty years. Wow, and parents just
get dang like fifty dollars. All right, we'll just pay it. Hey,
you gotta be more careful. This guy fought it, and
then he posted the pictures and said, you know, are
the rest of you getting a hit with maintenance charges
to the room that aren't even being fixed. And all
these moms exploded. And now rather than one guy who

(23:39):
said we didn't damage the door and this could have
been settled, now you've got a parade of moms fired
up at the school going, hey, wait a second. You
charged me this, and you charged me that, And we
went out and checked that dorm room and it still
has the damage. Why are you charging us for damage
that you're not even gonna.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Fix so they can charge everybody every year.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yes, that's exactly what's happening, and the schools is like, oh, hey,
we know we're trying to do we haven't had a
chance to ar maintenance group is understand there. My buddy
has led a g hod against this school and he's
now warning everyone like, hey, when you take your kid
to college this week, check for any damage around the

(24:21):
dorm room because they'll nickel and dime you for it
at the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Nice job, Scott's friend.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
This is rather gritty and unfortunate that I have to
point out. So we'll do it and then try and
move on. Right. Story here from KMTV three News. Now
back to school time. Parents are mad at Omaha Public Schools,
saying we give you guys a lot of tax money
and you have these safety measures in place to keep
our kids safe. And it was just about a year

(24:50):
ago there was a shooting in the hallway at Northwest
High School. What are you guys doing to prevent this
from ever happening again? And ops said not much. They're like,
you should have metal detectors and all the doors. Well,
it's there's a couple of reasons why you wouldn't have
metal detectors at all the doors. One from a practical

(25:14):
standpoint of getting kids into the school, it would take
a long time. The first period of the day would
start late every single day, Like, we got a line
of kids out here. Everyone came running up at the
last time. Then we had to ask some girl, do
you have a gun in there? She's like, no, I've
got various you know, buckles and straps and stuff on

(25:35):
my shirt. And you know this this is my outfit.
It's got a lot of zippers and stuff on it. It
makes a ton of noise in the dryer and I'm
wearing at the school, Like, well, we got to have
you go through extra security because the metal detectors going crazy.
You got the football player with pins in his hip?
Do you have a gun? No, Like yesterday, it's the

(25:56):
pins in my hip. Remember how I got hurt in
the soap scrimmage last year and missed the entire high
school football season. They got pins in my hip? Well,
let's be sure. From a practical standpoint, it's not. It
doesn't make a lot of sense to do that at school.

(26:17):
But they do it at the airport. Yeah, when do
they ask you to show up at the airport two
hours before your flight. Let's just have the kids show
up two hours before their first class. Anyone else have
trouble extracting their kid from their beds to get them
on time to school running up there at the last second.
Tried doing that two hours earlier. Enjoy but Scott, whatever

(26:40):
we can do to keep these kids safe, we need
to do. All right, here's the sad reality on that one.
You got one kid with access to a gun. He
wants to shoot this other kid, but he can't do
it in class. Oh no, When is he ever going
to find the opportunity to get any other time in

(27:02):
the parking lot, at his house, at a party on
Saturday night. Maybe the owners should be on empowering schools
to do something meaningful for dangerous, threatening kids and parents,
asking parents to step up and parent their kid, and

(27:23):
asking the juvenile justice system to step up. And when
we have dangerous kids running around with guns, that we
actually do something meaningful on that front. Hmmm? Is any
of this because they're like, well, if we have metal detectors,
people bring a gun in here. Yeah, And if we

(27:43):
had metal detectors, then what are they gonna do? They're
just waiting the parking lot. I really want to shoot
that guy. I'll just hang out in the parking lot.
I'm sorry to point that out, but it's not the
metal detector issue. It's it's the fact that these kids
don't get really punished for anything anymore unless you miss

(28:04):
pronoun someone and then the hammer comes down. But if
you bring weapons to school, the worst it's gonna happen
is they'll just transfer you to another school. Well, we
can't have them not in school, We'll just transfer. I'm
sure a change of scenery will do a better job.
And now you've got kids just moving you know, well

(28:26):
someone else. It's like a football trade. We have a
kid we want to send to your school. He's really
really dangerous. Well, we've got a dangerous kid here. Let's
swap and see how it goes. And then when that
kid threatens your kid in class and you say, hey,
this kid's threatening my son in English class or on

(28:47):
the school bus or whatever, they say, well, we'll move
your son to a different English class, Like, well, why
is my kid have to move? Well, maybe your son
should sit up here on the bus driver's lap every
day to school. Why why is it on to some
my kid to do something different? This is the one
doing the threats. Well, we know, but we can't really

(29:08):
do anything with that. The whole thing is, it'd be
laughable if it weren't happening every single day in Nebraska's
public schools.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
Scott Byes News Radio eleven ten k FA.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I know this is really probably about the most important
thing in Lucy's world right now, and I apologize to you, Lucy,
and to all of your like minded friends for waiting
an hour into the program to bring this up. Lucy
is not a horse, but she has been chomping at
the bit for me to bring this up. And the
issue is, of course, I'll say it, Lucy, to keep

(29:50):
you from having to point this out, the alternate uniforms
for the upcoming football season, specifically again the USC Trojans
as the the Southern California football teams coming to Memorial
Stadium for a game against the Huskers on November first.
I saw this, Lucy, on a website I checked frequently,

(30:13):
and only today realize this is not the website I
thought it was trojanwire dot com. Turns out it's about
the USC Trojans. That explains a lot, okay, and why
I've gotten so many people pregnant. See, I thought people
are like to just.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Use Trojan you can be doing this college thing a lot.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, just use Trojans. So, I, you know, would get
into that situation and be like, who do you think
was a better running back of the Heisman Trophy winners
out of USC? You go, Charles White, you go, Marcus Allen,
you go. I see, I can't remember the Reggie Bush.
Couldn't remember his name for a moment. And it turns

(30:57):
out that did not prevent anyone from getting pregnant. And
then it pointed out to me, no, no, no, this
is not what you thought it was. So I'm on
Trojan wire again, logging another complaint. Dear sir, your suggestion
of talking about USC football has done nothing to prevent pregnancies.

(31:17):
Should I move on? Okay? On the Trojan website says
with the start of the twenty twenty five college football
season just around the corner, it appears as though at
least one Big Ten opponent has the Trojans circled on
their schedule this fall. On Friday, Nebraska unveiled all black
alternate uniforms they plan to wear against the Trojans on

(31:41):
November first, and then they quote eleven to ten Kfaebe
Husker and Cider Sean Callahan. First time since twenty twenty
that Nebraska will play a game in all black uniforms.
I don't remember which game that was when we wore
all black, but I'm guessing we lost because Number One,

(32:04):
We've lost a lot of games we should have won
over the last several years, and it seemed like anytime
we decided to go with alternate uniforms, we especially lost
those games. So Nebraska continues to say, Hey, we got
a great idea. We're going to go all black. We
want to see a black out of Memorial Stadium. USC

(32:27):
is coming to town, and we're going to have the
uniforms all black. We want the fan base to wear
all black. And a lot of people said, but it's
go big Red. It's the Big Red. How do we
continue to fight for the tradition of this football program
when we can't even wear the traditional uniforms and helmets

(32:49):
at a home game that might have some national attention
to it depending on how these two teams are doing
by early November. A lot of people are very mad
about this. So I'm going to resolve the issue for you.
The reason why you're mad and I'm not saying that
you don't deserve to be mad. I'm not saying you

(33:11):
don't deserve to look at the past performance and the
possibility of future results based on all of this. But
here's why you're angry. Okay, you're old. That's why you're mad.
I don't know what age you are, but if you're

(33:32):
mad about this, it's the reason why you're mad is
because you are old. It's like you looked into or
it's like you sipped from the wrong grail and began
aging rapidly. You chose poorly. There's your eighties movie reference

(33:56):
for this segment of the radio program.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Losy, I'm going to go with Uncle Buck.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, that part of Uncle Buck when someone thought they
found the Holy Great, drank from it and then aged
rapidly until they died. It was weird.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
It was.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
It was a weird part of Uncle Buck. No, No,
you're exactly right, Lucy. I'm not going to criticize you
until you you're wrong. People get mad when I do that. Well, yeah,
I'll tell you this. It was either Uncle Buck or
a movie that's essentially the same thing, Indiana Jones and
The Last Crusade, which, as I always point out is
the best of the Indiana Jones movies. Yes it is. So.

(34:46):
Oh it's because you're old if you're mad about the
alternate uniform and now, hey, I'm right there with you.
I'm old too. I don't love the alternate uniforms. I
want to see Nebraska in our scar litt and cream
anytime we go out and take the field anywhere, home jerseys,
away jerseys. I want him to be the standard. In fact,

(35:08):
I'll go a step further. You know what, I really
like those kind of mesh half shirt jerseys we wore
throughout the early to mid eighties. Those were awesome, dude.
I want those. I want the whatever micro Year wore,
I want those. I want. I want Emmett Johnson toning

(35:31):
the rock after Dylan Ryola flips it to him on
the option going around the right side. I want Emma
Johnson to get it in. People like grabbing his mess
jersey and then the tears off as they try and
and tackle him, because those jerseys were essentially tear away.
They're made out of paper mache or something, and you

(35:52):
could tear off the latter half of it and then
the running back keeps going. That's what I want, but at.

Speaker 2 (35:59):
Least there seems reasonable.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, they were the right color and everything. But the
reason why we want all of this is because we
are so old. Let me tell you, because I've done
some research onto this. Here's the research I've done. I
have occasionally, and against my better judgment, talked to my
teenage son, who is an athlete who also plays sports

(36:29):
video games. And the joke in my house, which only
I find funny, is that I'll go down to my
son's dwelling. This used to be, and I remember when
I did it. I bought a big TV and a
nice comfortable recliner, and then just in case anyone else

(36:50):
wanted to come down to watch football with me down
in the basement where it's always nice and dark, nice
and cold. I'm telling you. You come home from around
to golf on a hot sun like yesterday, you go
down to the basement, freezing cold, turn on the end
of the golf tournament and just sit there. There's nothing better.
I can't do that anymore because my son has taken

(37:12):
over the entire space. There's various bowls and plates and cups,
bottles and junk everywhere. That goes back to the first
Trump administration that he refused. He's like, dude, that's not mine.
I'm like, you're who else is down here? I don't know,
maybe you left it down here. So I'll go down there,

(37:36):
and he'll be playing some video game that's supposed to
be either a football or basketball game. But he's not
playing football or basketball. He's this is a video game,
and he's in the settings where you can change the
uniforms up, or he's like walking around the mall looking

(37:58):
at shoes. Yes, this is a component of today's football
and basketball games. You can just go shopping and you
can spend hours getting drippy uniforms right down to the shoelaces.
Who's paying for for your player? Oh, it's just part
of the game. You don't pay for it.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Oh that's teaching kids a lot.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Right, Yeah, someone else. My son has already figured that out.
So when he looks at his upcoming sports seasons, it's
never about like, hey, I need to really put in
the work and do this. It's can I get these shoes?
They're drippy? Can I get these socks? They're drippy? I

(38:45):
don't know any other phrase. Everything's drippy. And I guess
that's a good thing. So, and I've learned that my
son is not alone. He has the same fascination with
shoes and accessories that a woman in nineteen eighty one did.
Sorry if that's stereotypical, but I just keep waiting for

(39:07):
him to like say, oh, my player wears pantyhose and
pull penny hose out of an egg shell. Because when
I think about women's accessories and fashion in the early eighties,
I'm thinking shoulder pads and eggshell nylon nylons. I thought,
cause my mom would buy those, and I get a
chance to play with the eggshell, but she's like, don't
break them. I gotta put my nylons back in there.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Nobody put them back in there.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
I thought they did. No, I don't know. I was
a kid. I don't know. My son's not alone in
his loving the different jersey look and how we're gonna
pair this helmet with these pants and all this. I mean,
it's it's Frankly, I was a little disappointed, and then

(39:53):
I just came to realize, Oh, this is just how
all these guys are now. And these guys are now
going to college or thinking about where they're going to
college to play and It has been for quite some
time now, like a decade probably, it has been which
school has the cool uniforms? What do their alternate jerseys

(40:17):
look like? What do their practice jerseys look like? It
means a lot to these guys. I don't know that.
I mean, if you look at college basketball last year,
two of the best players in college basketball, young guys
ended up going to play for Rutgers. And my son

(40:37):
I was like Rutgers. He's like, oh, Nebraska's playing Rutgers
on Saturday. Can we go? I'm like, you want to
watch the Big Red? Yeah? Yeah, they're great, but Rutgers
And he said it's because the uniforms are cool, and
they are. They got that black and the red and
the silver and scarlet knights. It's a cool deal. I've

(40:57):
lost all hope. And he said, yeah, these guys went there,
you know, partly because the uniforms are drippy.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
I've lost all hope.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
It counts, it's what, It's part of the whole thing.
So if Nebraska is like, no, no, we are going
the same thing we've done since nineteen twenty seven. We're
doing the No young person, no young guy, no young
athlete is impressed by that. I know you're thinking, Scott,

(41:26):
that's ridiculous. This is the way gay men thought in
the nineties, and I should know. So it's this is
how it is right now. These guys care as much
about fashion, maybe even more so, than the wins and
losses for the school. So if you're looking at the

(41:51):
fact that Nebraska is going to have an all black
alternate uniform that we'll use as USC is coming to
Memorial Stadium on November one, if you're mad about that,
the reason why you're mad is because you slash. We
are old.

Speaker 5 (42:10):
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