Aurora BOREalis / AI Music / Ricketts

I tried last night, I really did!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott fores at the risk of diving in to kind
of the same water as I was drowning in yesterday.
At this time, I will say, I'll give you an
update on two things. First of all, a lot of
people enjoyed yesterday's radio show. It has not yet been
posted to the vintage for his podcast link. It willed

(00:22):
this morning. And there's a really good reason why I
didn't get posted yesterday. I forgot, so we'll get that
up there. In fact, let me start loading files right now.
We'll get that done. So here's an update to yesterday's program.
Yesterday I came out and accused all of you on

(00:42):
social media of posting your smartphone enhanced photos of the
northern lights, which showed beautiful ranges of greens, pinks, reds,
purples and colors that I had not heretofore seen in
nature and certainly not in the northern sky. They were amazing.

(01:04):
And then I heard, yeah, well that's kind of enhanced
by your smartphone. Your night vision lends on your smartphone
when taking photos with these new smartphones really enhances the
images with the naked eye, especially if you're around Omaha,
you probably wouldn't even notice any of this if you

(01:26):
if you'd just been driving north on one hundred and
forty fourth Street and looking at the sky, you wouldn't
notice anything, but your camera'd be like, hey, take a
look at this. So I said, you were all, let's see,
let me check the transcript liars, thieves and Charlatan's for
your AI social media posts of the Northern lights. So

(01:49):
I was having some fun with that yesterday. Boy, I
was getting a lot of blowback. Scott. I don't know
what your problem is. People are just having a good
time going out there and looking at the lights. Scott,
I don't know why you posted that fake story about
Matt Ruhle on your Facebook page. All right?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
That?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, well I know no, Lucy, I reposted a fake
story one that I knew was fake. Here's the quick
background on that one. After Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, he comes
back on the air, and then there started going around
on social media, and I saw it over and over
and over again. It's been weeks and I figured everyone

(02:31):
most everyone has seen it by now. It's this fake
story about on Jimmy Kimmel's first night back from suspension.
He's got some country singer I'd never heard of, or
some veteran I've seen a couple different versions of it. Anyway,
some great American stands up to Kimmel and puts him
in his place. Is Kimmel's trying to weasel his way
out of you know, hey, you're no here, and hey,
let me tell you this Jimmy Kimmel, which which of

(02:53):
course never happened, never happened. So people were sharing it
going great. Look at the transcript on the No video
of it exists. It never happened. And I don't know
why someone started that and started forwarding it. I presumed
either people knew it was fake or they just kind

(03:15):
of like the sentiment of someone telling Jimmy Kimmel where
to stick it. I don't have any I don't care
what Jimmy Kimmel does. I don't care for whom he votes.
You're an entertainer. If I turn onto your entertainment show
at night, I do expect to be an attempt in
entertainment and to be funny, and sometimes he delivers it
and sometimes he doesn't. I like The Man Show that

(03:37):
was a million years ago. So as long as he
is and Adam Carolla can get along, I love me
some Adam Carolla. I love the Ace man, so Kimmel's
his buddy. There must be some good in him, so
I don't care. But then someone got a hold of
the fake story and decided to insert Matt Rule in it.

(03:58):
Jimmy Kimmel on his first night back from suspense, and
welcome Nebraska football coach Matt Rule. And it's the same
premise except with some Matt Ruhle football stuff in there.
That serves the same purpose, and that is to, with
as few words as possible stoically put Jimmy Kimmel in
his place, which again never happened. So I figured enough

(04:22):
people had seen the fake Kimmel post and then would
delight in the oh, okay, this is funny. So I
reposted that and said I watched it. I had to
have surgery to put my job back in place after
seeing this. Plus the musical guest was Morris Day and
the time great show. So by my standard, I'm putting

(04:43):
out there that in twenty twenty five, Jimmy Kimmel welcomes
the football coach from Nebraska on his show, which amazingly
a lot of people like I've never heard about this,
and the musical guest was Morris Day in the time
that had two tun and ahea half hits in the
mid eighties, and people were like, where's the video of this, Scott.

(05:07):
I looked online. I didn't see where Matt Rule was
on Jimmy Kimmel's show. And then I started getting chastised, Scott.
People are gonna believe you. Hey, I can't help that.
I whether I'm not trying to fool anybody. If you
read it and know it's fake and get the spoof, great,
I hope you were entertained by it. If you read

(05:29):
it and thought it was real and enjoyed it anyway, fine,
But I don't know. I started getting hammered by everybody yesterday.
I'm feeling it. I'm feeling it, you know. I occasionally
I keep them in a box in the basement, but
I'll bring them out once in a while and try
them on feelings. I will occasionally allow myself to feel

(05:53):
my feelings. So I got people yelling at me for
getting mad about the Aurora borealis, and I got people
yelling at me for the Matt Rule post. And I
got people yelling at me, going I can't believe you're
gonna be taken over for Sadlemeyer. You couldn't even You're
not even qualified to wear his jockstrap. And it's true,
I've tried it on. It's weird, that is it weird
that that was done by request by Gary.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
But we don't want to know anymore about that. Thanks.
Did you really feel Do you really feel bad today?
Right now? You're sitting there all sad hearted?

Speaker 1 (06:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Then? I was feeling bad yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Okay, so it didn't last.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
So then my wife said, my wife said, you should
go out with me. Let's go out tonight and take
a look at the Northern lights.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
What you see pictures?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
And oh, then you haven't seen my Facebook. Come right now,
I will describe the whole scene for you. And don't worry.
This will only take whatever I determine a moment to be.
So I said, let's do that, because honestly, I was
feeling bad that I was making people feel bad for

(07:10):
enjoying the Northern Lights. I was taking. I felt like
I was taking that joy in a simple thing away
from them. So I was feeling bad about that, and
I said, during yesterday's show, you know I'm just kind
of goofing with you here. But so also I accepted
my wife's invitation because I thought you wanted to go
make out. I was like, let's do this, let's go.

(07:33):
I don't know where makeout point is, you know, I'm
trying to remember, like where when I was a teenager,
would I take girls to, you know, go into seclusion
and you know, have like, you know, make out point,
in which I realized now as a man in my forties,
still clinging to my forties for another fifty one weeks,
I'm I realize now that that sounds like the same

(07:55):
thing a serial killer would say, where can I take
this young lady to some secluded spot so I can
murder her and no one will find her body. It's
kind of the same motivation. It's the young girl secluded spot.
But see, when I was a teenager, it was for
purposes of, you know, making out. At least that was

(08:17):
my intention. That was very rarely her intention, and as
you've already guessed, it was also not my wife's intention.
She actually just wanted to go look at the lights.
So we go. We find a spot where a lot
of cars are all gathered. We went north of Bennington.
I just picked. I was like, do you want to
go north of Fremont and north of Blair. She's like, oh,

(08:40):
north of Blair is a lot closer. I said, it's
it's practically the same distance we live out in northwest
omahash But so I just picked a street like we're
heading north. So we ended up north of Bennington on
one hundred and fifty sixth Street where we run out
of road.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I was going to ask you, did you see you
then closed over that way because I'm having some trouble
getting some information about that stuff.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
No, not not there. You can the first time, by
the way, I've been to the one hundred and sixty
eighth and is it Aida, Yeah, intersection, that's reopen. Fantastic
baffo job there, City of Omaha. So that's that's really good.
So we go. We're north of Bennington. We're one hundred
and fifty six and the edge of the earth and

(09:25):
a bunch of cars are pulled off the road and
people are all pulling off here and getting off here
and and everything, and everyone's kind of doing the same thing.
It was kind of fun. I'll be there together collectively
to see the northern lights. And to get mad at
all the cars that were pulling up and not turning
off their headlights for an excruciating amount of time, like
do take turn off? What are you doing? Turn off

(09:47):
your headlights? These people weren't even thinking about it. They're
like feet of the dark. A lot of these are
young people, like I don't know. I got this car
and my dad said, your headlights are on auto, you'll
never need to to them. I don't know how to
turn them off. And people are leaning into the driver's
side window, going, you gotta turn this thing off? How
do I turn them back on? When I get people

(10:09):
are driving off into the darkness without headlights on. They
don't not to turn them on. It was fun and
then everyone's kind of hanging out and we had the
same feeling. It was this like, look, this is a
really nice way to be together for something where no
one's gonna die. It's like it's it's just kind of fun.
We're not staring at a screen. We're staring at the

(10:32):
sky and we're waiting for this celestial phenomenon to reveal
itself to us and we can all go ooh ah.
And I haven't had an experience like that since I
was broadcasting live from Beatrice doing play by play for
the totally Eclipse of the Sun back in two thousand

(10:53):
whatever that was, by the way, your eighties movie reference
for this segment of the radio program. You want to
take a shot at that one? No, zang ah, really
you don't have that one. That's all part of the
opening song to Little Shop of Horror. Wo. Man, we

(11:13):
don't I don't quote Little Shop of Horrors enough on
this program. I could, it's been a while. It's been
a while. I could sing the entire Dentist song for
you right now if you want, or mean Green Mother
from out of Space. No, wow, man, what a great movie. Anyway,
we're there to see. I was there in Beatrice or

(11:34):
for the total Eclipse of the Sun and that and
to see and to be around a big group of
people as we saw totality and everyone's oh wow. And
then some person like put your glasses on, you're gonna
go blind. And I'm looking at this other guy, going
stop doing that in public. You're not supposed to and
you're gonna go blind. I mean, there was I was

(11:54):
trying to make sure everyone was not going blind. And
it was a really, really nice time, and I thought,
let's fine, let's do it. Let's do that. I didn't
go out. Two nights ago. My wife and son went
out and they reported back and showed me the pictures
and said, yeah, that was pretty cool. Though my wife said,
you know, if I certainly saw a lot more through

(12:16):
the phone than through the naked eye, which was the
basis of my rant yesterday. So I said, all right,
let's go out and do it. And you know what
we saw. We didn't see the Aurora borealis. We saw
the Aurora bory bss. We saw Jack squat. I saw nothing.

(12:37):
It was nothing, absolutely nothing last night. If you look
through your phone, there was maybe a little bit of
a greenish tint. But my wife also was like looking
at other people, going, yeah, that guy also looks kind
of green. I think it's just what the phone does.
And I was I was so mad. I went past

(12:59):
being mad into just laughing about how ridiculous this was.
My rant yesterday came true, and I think that the
reason why the northern lights weren't at all visible to
us anywhere around. I posted this on Facebook. I'll tell
you what I posted on Facebook here in a moment,
but I got similar reports from people around Omahan Blair saying, yeah,

(13:21):
we got nothing last night. I don't know if it's
too much cloud cover, it just didn't happen, or we
were there too early. You know. The innerwebs said, really,
the best time to see this between ten pm and
two am. You know what my best thing to do
between ten pm and two am is lying there sleepless,
tossing and turning, stressing myself out, not going out and

(13:42):
looking at the northern lights. So I didn't do that.
We were there at like, I don't know, eight thirty
too early. We didn't even get the pregame show for
the northern lights. I kind of threw my naked eye
saw a hint of something that might have been kind
of pinkish. It was like a slight, you head, pink, medium,

(14:03):
rare northern light there for just a moment, And so
what did I do? I just was laughing about how
stupid it was, and we were all kind of out
there laughing, and so I took a picture of my
floor mat in my dark car, hence the picture of
almost total blackness that I posted on facebooks that here's

(14:24):
my picture of the northern lights.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Feel pretty proud of yourself. Yeah, my feelings.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
I went to look at it, thought it was funny.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
I thought it was fun I thought it was comments.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
No, the comments that was in nineteen eighty.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
There was something on that picture. It looks like there's
tails on it.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, well I needed to It doesn't work if it's
just a total blackout picture. That is like a political movement.
If you post nothing but just a black box. Oh
that you had to see that's a black Lives Matter post.
And if you don't post that, going back to twenty
twenty on this one, then everyone else at your high
school is like, oh, are you racist? You didn't post

(15:01):
a black thing on your social media. So you had
to have a little bit of light to show that
it was an attempt to take a picture of the sky,
and I felt that taking a picture in the floor
mat kind of gave enough of a light thing. I know,
it looked like people were like you, you just you
don't know how to work your phone. I took two
or three different pictures to find just the perfect kind

(15:25):
of sort of light that looked like maybe I was
trying to take a picture of the sky and there
was nothing there. I spent a lot of time on
that picture and posted that. I said, here's my picture
of the northern lights. My wife said, no, no, no,
I swear if we stay out here for another eight hours,
we're gonna see something amazing. I felt like I was
in the Great Pumpkin in the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox.

(15:48):
Scott at kfav dot com Joe email says, did your
wife also ask you to go snipe hunting? Yeah, we're
actually doing that this weekend. I'll report back on Monday.
And then Kevin says, here's my problem with this, the
northern light thing. Has no one ever seen Maximum Overdrive?

(16:10):
I have not. Did you see that?

Speaker 3 (16:12):
I have not? Okay, do you think i'd saw it? Really?

Speaker 1 (16:15):
So? Yeah, But sometimes the movies I haven't seen, you
switch it up on me and you're like, that's a classic.
I can't believe you haven't seen it. I remember the movie.
I don't know why. I was too young and that
just didn't pop up since then. It's a movie. But
it was also a comment that there was something from
outer space that caused a disruption here on earth, and

(16:39):
I fully believe that is what's happening here today. People
are losing their ever loving minds, and I blame it
all on the Northern Lights. Now that's an interesting theory, Kevin.
But four the Northern Lights. If you're in the North,

(16:59):
the Great White North, I saw that movie. It was
hard to get that high with that last note. There
no way a flashy headed mutant, are you friendly? No
way a radiation has made me an enemy of civilization.

(17:21):
When that dog suddenly took off flying in that movie,
I showed this to my kids. I don't know. I
think I had them during COVID and I could literally
show them anything and they'd watch it just because they
were bored out of their minds. So I showed them
Strange Brew and they thought the whole movie is pretty
dumb and weird. And then that dog hose head took

(17:45):
off flying, and my kids lost it. They thought that
was about the funniest thing they've ever seen. And I
love that movie. Why did I bring? Oh yeah, if
you're in the Great White North, the Northern lights are
a phenomenon where you're like, oh, yeah, there they are,
you know, yeah, Northern lights are out again? Yeah how
about that? I think you pretty much see them just

(18:08):
about all the time, right, And that was also part
of my rant yesterday, like, is it special if the
Northern lights come here? Isn't it more special to see
them in Iceland. We'll take it away from Canada for
a moment and people people go and they see it
and they're like, this is life changing. I imagine it is.

(18:28):
But if it comes here, it's like wow, you know.
But also, as I said yesterday, this occurrence of the
Northern lights being visible with the naked iyron Omaha allegedly
is the fifth such time this has happened in the
last two years.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
It happens, Yeah, we'll look at the last two years.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
You want to boil down everyone losing their ever loving
minds to just the last two years.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
I think it is.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
This goes back aways. But I'll tell you this, I
don't know if it's the Northern lights or the lack
of the Northern lights or whatever. Is anyone else just
really dragging gluteus maximus. This morning, I am exhausted. I
had to extract my teenage son from his bed with
the jaws of life to get him up on his
feet and to school this morning, and he and I

(19:19):
were feeling the same thing, just exhausted. Lucy, are you good?

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Well, it's hard for me to tell you if I
am sleepy or not, or tired or not, because I'm
pretty much always tired.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Lucy is kind of in a very like a transcendent
dream like state at all times, which is how guys
feel when they look at her. Well, sorry, was that
out loud? Yeah, I'll report myself to HR Scott Voices
News Radio eleven ten kfab speaking of total fake stuff

(19:55):
like the Aurora bss. Is that how you pronounce it, borealice?

Speaker 3 (20:01):
I believe that's.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
What I said, boring urses. Yeah, all right, speaking of
fake stuff, there was a someone pulled the fire alarm
at a high school in the Houston area the other day.
Not exactly news. This kind of thing happens from time

(20:23):
to time, though I only remember I think one time
at Ralston High School where someone had actually pulled the
fire alarm. I always figured, like you could probably find
out who did it. I thought there were cameras, or
there would be some teacher or someone who would see

(20:44):
you and rat you out. Plus I enjoyed being in class.
I was that weird kid as I was having fun
in there and whether learning or goofing, and I didn't
want to just leave. If I wanted to leave, I
just find an excuse to leave. I did have a
It was so easy to go stop by the office

(21:05):
and then just swipe a whole stack full of get
out of classroom free cards. They had little pink slips
like I've got a note. I yeah, like a hall
pass right, So I had. I had a whole stack
of those. And you know who never thought to ask
what business I had out there? Any substitute teacher. So

(21:29):
I never thought, like, I'm going to pull the fire alarm.
I didn't want everybody to get out of class just me.
So someone pulls the fire alarm, but this one is
a little different. Therefore, News, this was a coordinated thing.
Someone pulled the fire alarm, and at the same time,
other students started sharing to all of their fellow classmates.

(21:53):
And and anytime someone goes on the instant snap talk
or whatever, and all it's just wildfire throughout all the students.
They're all getting it. And then some of these kids
are getting it afforded on to their parents who are
sending it to the news. Do you guys know about this?
Someone pulls the fire alarm, and then someone had already

(22:14):
started sharing a video of a big part of the
school on fire, and so students are in the school
fire alarm goes off. Your first thought is that's probably fake.
Someone either pulled it or there's some sort of technical
problem or whatever. But hey, I'm not going to argue.
Let's get up and walk out of class, single file line, right.

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But then people start getting these things popping up on
their phone, and all these kids are looking at each
other going, oh, my gosh, look at this. Half the
school is on fire. And of course not all the
students were in on it, it being this was AI.
Someone had done AI to make it look like part
of the school was on fire. So now students are

(22:58):
getting this and they're thinking, wait, is this my part
of the school? Are my friends right now on fire
down the hall? And panic sets in. Parents are seeing this,
going oh, that's my kid's school. So suddenly it goes
from oh, that's kind of a harmless prank, you know,
pulling the fire alarm. Don't do it, even though I

(23:20):
think it happened three times a day when at Burke
High School in the last couple of years. So it
goes from kind of a harmless prank to panic and chaos.
This fake photo with the image of the school on
fire like spreads like part in the pun wildfire, and

(23:41):
students were losing it, parents were losing it news fire.
I mean, everyone's calling the police. They're calling nine to
one one and so a fire emergency response. They're all
on their way out there. Nothing's happening. The school's not
on fire. It was just AI to make it look
I guess you can just ask your AI make it

(24:02):
look like my school is on fire, and AI is like,
what could possibly go wrong with wanting to create this image?
They don't AI. It's only a I not full. I
doesn't have the intelligence to say maybe I shouldn't create
this image that is not going to do the world
any good.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
It's just like, okay, yeah, well everybody thought this is
going to be such a great idea. How you like
it now.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
That's the same basis of there's lawsuits by parents whose kids.
Sorry to take this down a really dark road for
a moment, but it's the reality of the situation. They're
suing like Chat, GPT or GROCK. I don't know all
the difference between some of these different AI platforms, but

(24:51):
they're suing the platforms because their kid was asking AI
how they should go about committing suicide and AI didn't
have It's only a it's not full I same thing.
It doesn't discern whether it's a good idea to tell
this kid how to go about doing it. It's just like, Okay,
you asked me to do two plus two and I'm

(25:14):
going to tell you what the answer is. And so
these kids are researching this stuff and AI is like,
I can help with that, and parents are like this
that needs to have the intelligence not to tell people
how to do this. Well, that's it's awful that it's
being used for that, And sadly, if a kid has
those ideations, sometimes it's going to come to a very

(25:36):
tragic fruition. As I try and spin this back out
of a very dark place. I don't know if people
are going to be able to sue and win some
of these platforms, but this is what we're getting ourselves into,
some of this fake stuff. Here's another example here, Lucy

(25:57):
Enjoy one of the hottest country songs sweeping the country
right now. I mean light and.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Beat down, but I don't stay.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
I get in trouble for posting music on the podcast,
but this isn't real music.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
This is ai a story that I survived, not been
through hell, but I'm still alone.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Millions and millions of views on social media platforms, rising
the charts on like on various country charts. The song
is called Walk My Walk. The artist is Breaking Rust.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
You can kick rocks if.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
You don't like how I talk, I'm gonna keep on
talking changing. A lot of songs are dumb, and I'm
not like this music today. If you go back and
listen to some of the music we love that hit
us just the right feels when we were kids, you
listen back now and you're like, that's kind of a
dumb song, but I like it. This is a dumb song,

(27:05):
but I kind of like it.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Who's getting the money?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
I don't know, Because that is that There is no
artists called Breaking Rust, and there is no song that's
not a real song. I mean, but or or is it? Okay,
I'm gonna try and find another example of this.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
It's a real song in the fact that it is
a song that has music and lyrics and structures and
it's built right, It's built like a song, So.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's a real song. It's a song right. Here's the
one I was looking for in the commercial break. Now
there's this whole sub genre of music that's taking eighties
and nineties rap music and turning it into like a
nineteen fifties soul You're gonna be alright, and oh my gosh,

(27:55):
I would nothing embarrasses me. But you probably don't want
to know how many hours I've spent listening to some
of this stuff. Here's the best one I've heard so far.
Listen to this, Let's kick it Save. It's an Ice

(28:18):
Ice Baby live band.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Ice Save and not Ai.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
I think it is collaborate. Listen brand new inventions. Let
me tightly like a hard boon daily and not Yo,
I don't know, turn off the lives. This is the
greatest thing I have heard since I heard Vanilla Ice

(28:46):
do Ice Ice Baby speak of that.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Boom your brain like a poisonous mushroom.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
And I'm listening to this going this is fake. I
think it is. I've heard a straight out of Compton,
which I can't play on the air. I've heard AI's
nineteen fifties soul version of Tupac's California Love.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Well.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
This is by far the best thing I've heard in
a long time. And I'm thinking, you know what else
could happen? Actual people could get together, put this music
together and go out and do it live. Jump, I'll

(29:38):
do it. I think what the world needs is a
white boy going up there and singing R and B
fifty soul. Is that is? Tell me if I'm wrong,
if I have the wrong read in the situation, let
me know. But I think what the world needs is
finally for a white guy to take black music and
do it.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Is that I'd go for that show. Second, my camblo,
the good is all stand.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
I already know all the words.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
No, I just drove back, swing to the next stop,
and I'm heading to the next top.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
This is so freaking good.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Well, why are we here at all?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
This? I don't We don't need us why I know?
And so now I'm people are like, this is terrible.
This is fake music. It's generated by artificial intelligence. It's
not real. I'm like, all right, let's you want me
to listen to some of the real music out here today?
Do we need to compare and contrast? Most of it
is awful, just absolutely awful. That is amazing. Now it's

(30:44):
gonna sadden me that some of you are gonna show
me what awful taste you have by emailing me going
that's terrible. I wouldn't listen to that, Like, hey, check
yourself before you wreck yourself. That's all I gotta say.
That's all that should be said. So of course, the
radio stations are like, do we play this? The charts
are like do we allow this to chart? And to

(31:06):
Lucy's point, if you create this on a computer, is
that music? Do you get royalties? Does Vanilla Ice get royalties?
Why would Vanilla Ice get royalties? He stole the beat
from Queen and David Bowie with their song under Pressure Bum,
but this song doesn't use that beat and it just

(31:28):
takes the homage of the nineteen fifties soul sound. So
then now some of the like the old artists are like,
so wait a second, whether we were it's not exactly
a motown sound right there, but like a Teddy Pendergrass
or something like that. He's like, all right, So if
I was the inspiration for this, do I get paid?

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Like?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
You don't get paid if you were the inspiration that
caused someone else to make a brand new song. And
what's the difference really in using the tools to make music,
the tools either being a guitar, a piano, or a
computer to create something like this.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Okay, so then the money goes to the person sitting
behind the computer keyboard.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
I would give that person money. I would buy that album.
There's a whole bunch of them out there.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
I don't think it's not the same thing. You have
to have some You have to have some talent to
play a guitar. You have to have some talent. To
be able to sit down and write lyrics, you have
to have some talent. The only talent this keyboard Warrior
has is how to program. And where I can't program,

(32:41):
I respect that talent. No, this is not No.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Do you play any games, like any apps on your
phone or do you do anything? All right? Well you're
on Facebook, yeah, all right, So that's an app that
someone created, right, and you're like, hey, it took talent
to do this. You had to be right place, right time,
put it out there and get people to gotta use it.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
It's the same thing, right, No, it just isn't. It
just isn't.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Well, here's yet another eighties movie reference to quote one
of my favorite eighties movies. I don't know if it's
art but I like it.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Batman.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
That what Wow, you got it? You got it. That's
the joker. That's Jack Nicholson. Batman. I'm so proud of
you right now, Scott goes it. Anytime I dare to
sing something on the air, I get the same two people.
Sometimes if it's really off all, I get three or
four people that always email us say stop singing on

(33:43):
the air. It's terrible, we hate it. Yet I'm not
arguing with you.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's awful that they would do that.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
That's fine. No, I'm not disagreeing with you. But I
don't know if you've noticed over the years, but your
protestations have yet to stop me from doing it. But
I admire your your stick to itiveness and thinking this
this will be the email that finally breaks through. Uh

(34:10):
spoiler alert, it won't. Scott, don't tell me you're gonna
be doing karaoke Friday and singing when you're jump. I
mean that you're gonna be hosting kfab's Morning News with
the great Lucy Chapman and the Jim Rose. And you're
not gonna be doing that stuff on filling in for
Gary for the next twenty five years? Are you? And

(34:33):
the answer is probably not, but we'll see day and over. Yeah,
we'll see, we'll see. Here's my favorite news headline of
the day, Omaha races to complete street repair work before
winter season hits. There's winter season could hit three years

(34:55):
from now, and you're still not gonna get all this
road construction done? What all the road construction?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
All?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Right? We're what do we a couple weeks out from
winter season really hitting us? Quickly? Take down the L
Street Bridge over to seventy second, get that done, and
all the work downtown. What they're talking about is some
of the resurfacing projects like one hundred and twentieth and
fort some of those projects, not the downtown, midtown L

(35:24):
Street Bridge seventy second work and all the rest of
this stuff. Hey, but good luck. Can't tell you how
much I appreciate you spending time with this radio station.
We love doing this, all of us do. And I'm
Scott Vorhees. I hope it's evident when you listen to us,
when you listen to me, that we really really love
doing this. I have a fun job. I get to

(35:44):
talk about the fake Northern lights and occasionally grill and
elected representative and we have Senator pet Ricketts here of nebrassaway.
They studio lights. Did you go try and see them
with the naked eye last night? They didn't exist. You
got to look through your special night time smartphone like, yeah,
that's not really to see the real images. Yeah, like
this is ai.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I thought I just missed it. I thought I was
just like I forgot about it and forgot to go look.
But oh it wasn't really there.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Okay. No, Like every party I ever tried to go to,
I'd go and they're like, yeah, it's kind of lame tonight.
You should have been here last week. Man, it was great,
it was incredible, and it will never happen again. Senator,
Welcome to news radio eleven ten KFA be always good
to have you back again. Do we just delay a
shut down? Are we in halftime right now? Is this

(36:29):
gonna happen again here in a couple of months. I
would hope the Democrats would learn the lesson here. This
is a bad idea that they put a lot of
strain on a lot of families. Whether it was our
air traffic controllers who I read some of their handwritten
letters on the floor of the Senate, our customers of
board protection people, our law enforcement officers, people on snap.
All those people, their families were strained by what the

(36:49):
Democrats did. What we have done, though, is we did
pass three appropriations bills. We got nine more left to do.
We'll be teeing those up and trying to get those
done before January thirtieth, and we'll try and make as much.
And by the way, all those at least five of
them have come out of committee are by Parsons, so
they've got Democrat votes already. So I expect that Democrats
ought to want to try and get these things past.
That's the way it's supposed to work. However, they're so

(37:12):
afraid of their far left wing. Who knows.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
I mean, just to remember, remind people, this continuing Resolution
we originally put on the floor was the same one
they had voted for it four times in a row
already as recently as in March, So this was not
a surprise to them. What was in this This was
the same thing they had voted for four times already
in nineteen months. And it's because they got this not
be down by their far left wing that the Democrats

(37:36):
couldn't come around and do it again. And it's just
they're so they're so paralyzed. But that far left wing
just wants to burn everything down.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
If they want to shut it down again. It's not
like we have a brand new Senate in place here
as of this coming January. It'll be the same people
feeling essentially, I think the same way about things shutting down.
The government didn't work to get what they wanted last time.
I don't know why here in ten weeks it'll be
any different. But why is it? I mean, the American
people look at this and go, wait, we only can

(38:03):
fund the government for a couple of months. Here. We
got to do this again.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well, we are. The point of this was to get
to January thirty. This is give us time to pass
more of these appropriations bills. So we're already in our
new fiscal year. We've just passed three of the twelve.
We want to have more time to get more passed,
and if we can, you know, move along with the
Democrats will work with us to be able to get
these appropriations bills passed, which, by the way or by Parson,
they come out of the Appropriation committee with Republican and

(38:28):
Democrat votes. That's the proper way to actually fund government
and set the priorities and so forth, and as again,
this is what happened. You know, we tried to work
with Democrats when they were in power with Joe Biden,
and you know, for example, a couple of years ago,
we passed all twelve of these bills out of committee
by Parson, and Chuck Schumer refused to bring them to
the floor, so we never got a chance to vote
on him.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
This all goes back to and the reason why the
government was shut down. It goes back to something that
was probably as a result of the night that I
first met you September eleventh, two thousand and six. I
was introduced to you by KFAB host Tom Becka. At
the time, he's like, this is Pete Rickis. He's going
to be a US Senator. Now what you'd hoped was

(39:11):
a little sooner than you would be you were running
If again years he's going to be a governor, then
he's going to be a senator. Tom had incredible foresight,
but you were running for Senate against ben Nelson. Didn't
work out the way you'd wanted to, and for America,
because of ben Nelson's Cornhusker kickback vote, we got Obamacare

(39:33):
a few years after that, and this was the basis
of the shutdown. Meanwhile, you got people across America saying, wait,
my healthcare costs are going up. People with private health
insurance are feeling that. Certainly people on the Affordable Care
Act Obamacare feeling that because taxpayer dollars have not been
used here to try and artificially keep those rates low.
This is the reason why the government shut down, And

(39:54):
it goes back to all this big issue of everything's
just really, really expensive right now.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
This was the reason the Democrats gave when they fought up.
They could have given that same reason in March.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
They didn't.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
These you know Obamacare Biden COVID bonuses they wanted were
the ones. They were the ones that set that up, right.
They set the expiration date on and by the way,
they set their expiration date to the end of this year.
They set the ev mandate expiration dates the end of
twenty twenty or twenty thirty two. So it shows you
where they actually care. They cared more about evs than

(40:26):
they did about people in healthcare. But you know, this
demonstrates that Obamacare is a failure, and that's why not
one Republican voted for Obamacare. Not one Republican voted for
these you know Biden pandemic COVID bonuses thing. It's a
bad idea. It's not working. We're given thirty billion dollars
a year at insurance companies and yet rates go up
and up and up. We need to have a different approach.

(40:48):
Obamacare is clearly a failure. Republicans will be coming back
with our approach to how we should address healthcare. We
believe that, for example, if we're going to give thirty
billion dollars to insurance companies, why don't we just take
that money, give it to people, allow them to be
able to buy their own health care insurance, allow them
to do it across state lines, so you create true competition. Yes,
you can create high risk pools like states used to

(41:09):
do for people with pre existing conditions. There are other
solutions out there that will actually address these high health
care costs that allow people more opportunity to be able
to control what they're doing. Versus the lie that Obama
told us when he said you can keep your doctor
and healthcare costs to go down.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Is it too hard to just tell the American people, like, look,
we need to treat health insurance the way you do
auto insurance. You don't use your car insurance to replace
your your coolant. You use it for really really important things.
And there's so much competition because you can buy auto
insurance with someone in North Carolina can buy you can
buy here in Nebraska. It's a more competition that brings

(41:47):
costs down. Is that too hard a model? It's already
right there.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I mean, we trust people to buy their cars, their houses,
we can trust them to buy their own healthcare, all right.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Senator Pete Ricketts here with us on news radio eleven
ten kfab. As far as these families say, we want
to get back to work, we want to get back
to work. Well, now that we've known since late last
week that the Air Traffic Controllers TSA, some of these
furloughed workers could get back to work as early as today,
and they're still apparently saying, well, it's it's too hard

(42:16):
to get everyone back to work. I thought they've been
chomping at the bit to work. What's going on now
people are still getting delayed at airports.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Well it hopefully what we're going to see is now that,
for example, air traffic controllers know they're going to get paid,
that they'll start returning back to work. Many of them
were taking sick days and that sort of thing, you know.
And again it was a lot of pressure on some
of these folks that I read some of the letters
on the floor of the Senate. It is going to
take a few days to process all this. I mean,
people aren't going to get paid immediately tomorrow. It should

(42:44):
start coming, you know, it'll take a few days, probably
early next week people actually start getting paid, and it'll
so it'll take a few days for government to get
kind of back to a normal thing. When we think, look,
this was the longest shutdown in government history. Thanks to
the Democrats. We've created a huge disruption here. It's a
big bureaucracy. Now we got to I got to turn
it all around, and it's just gonna take a little
bit of time, I think, to get back in.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
So many people are just looking, as we talked about
a moment ago, the cost of everything going up here
and being unaffordable. And so you got President Trump saying,
all right, we're gonna pay these workers have been working
a whole bunch of money. We're gonna give money back
to the American people that can buy their own health
insurance and fifty year mortgages. Is it hard for you
guys in the United States Senate to keep up with

(43:25):
the president because every time he posts something in all
caps on truth social the journalists are like, is this
now the way it is in America? And you guys
have to respond, is it you head on a swivel? Right? Well?

Speaker 2 (43:37):
President Trump is clearly man who spent four years thinking
about what he was going to do when he got reelected,
and he is. One of the reasons he got elected
reelected was to bring down costs. We've done that with energy.
You know, gas hit four seventy nine under Biden. It's
come back down. Now we have to do And frankly,
a lot of this was driven by reckless spending, including
the you know Biden Obamacare, COVID bonus. I mean, we

(44:00):
we pumped out a lot of money into the economy,
and that's what's part of what's driving inflation. If you
go back and look at this fiscal year which just
ended September thirtieth, seventy four percent of the spending in
that fiscal year was in the first two quarters, and
Joe Biden was still president for you know, four of
those six months. So we've got to bring our spending down.
This administration is doing that. I think you'll probably see

(44:22):
the deficits down twenty percent this year roughly. We got
to get that spending down. We've got to open up
our energy resources. That's part of what for example, when
we passed in the big tax bill we passed in July,
that one big beautiful bill that's got leases in it
to be able to start using our energy resources. Continue
to bring those costs down, and then of course we
got to look at our supply chains. We need to

(44:43):
get some of these trade deals finalized. And then once
we get some of this stability back into economy, I
think you'll start seeing those prices come back down again.
But you know, it's we've got you know, we spent.
We just had a Biden administration that four years was
spending like drunken sailors, like two trillion dollar deficits. That
takes a while. You're just not going to turn that
off and have the economy recover back down to normal

(45:05):
inflation levels.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
The American people are talking about the cost of whether
it's property taxes or energy costs, you know, seem to
be rising healthcare costs, unaffordability for especially young couples to
be able to buy a house. The Democrats got their
latest members sworn in yesterday as the House got back
in session here at the end of the shutdown, and
the first thing they did was schedule a vote on Epstein.

(45:29):
Is there a disconnect there? I think that it does
show that.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Look, certainly, we want to make sure that we're protecting
the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, and we want transparency. Those
are all important things. We do need to tackle the
things that are driving most households here crazy, which is
these high prices, which means, you know, look, we got
to get in and start dealing with some of these
issues like getting you know, starting using our energy resources,

(45:54):
making sure that we're undoing the regulatory red tape that
Joe Biden put in place, get our expending now. Those
are all things that are going to help us start
bringing those costs down. And that's part of what we
have to do to be able to help out American families.
That inflation is really that killer that's really hurting families.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
And the guy for the Democrats who has to go
out there and reassure his base everything's great and it's
getting better. Is New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer. You've
worked with this guy, you see him there is I mean,
he already has kind of a long face. Are his
jowels hitting the ground right now? With how droupy his
face is based on what's been happening lately.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Well, I think Chuck Schumer is kind of the face
of what's wrong with the Democrat Party right now. They're
so afraid of their far left radical wing that they're
paralyzed right. You know, again, as I said, you know,
they've voted for the same continued resolution of March and
got the snotpeat out of them, and now they're afraid
to move without permission from their far left wing that
what they're doing is okay, and that far left wing

(46:52):
just wants to burn everything down, and that you know,
that's really not the way our country is supposed to work. Obviously,
we have two party system, checks and balances. That's a
good thing. But for to have somebody that is driving
the Democrat Party just to burn everything down, that's a
bad thing for our country.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
So what are you doing back in Omaha? I think
the people are emailing going I thought the government was
all back in session. Isn't he supposed to be in Washington.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Well, we have the state home work period, so we
get to come back and do the work that we
do in the states. So I've been traveling around. For example,
I was in Beatrice yesterday, took a tour of the
Beatrice Community Hospital, talking with them about some of the
challenges they face and trying to bring healthcare costs down.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
You know.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
They talked about some of the problems we got with
regard to just finding people to be able to work.
I mean, that's a challenge in every industry, but again
that drives up costs when you can't find enough nurses
or doctors to be able to supply your hospital. They
talked about some of the problems that they have with
regard to Medicaid Medicare advantage and how they're getting claims rejected,
and that again drives up costs. If those insurance companies

(47:54):
are automatically rejecting claims as they come in, that just
takes you know, creates more friction and drives more problems
into their cost spaces there. So they're worried about some
of the red tape that's going on here with the stuff,
so we're just listening to them about talking about some
of the things that would actually help them be able
to bring those costs down.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
I know you've got a very busy day ahead. Thank
you very much for stopping by here and putting us
on the itinerary today. It's always good to see you.
My pleasure, Scott, thanks for having me. Nebraska Senator Pete
Ricketts right here for Scott Fordes News Radio eleven ten
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