Maduro Decommits from Venezuela

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What a day yesterday. I don't know which was the
more arrogant situation either the now former leader of Venezuela.
And I think it's important to call him that because
I guess won an election there once upon a time,
and then they had another one and he lost and
he said, I'm not leaving. He pulled a Wolf of

(00:21):
Wall Street, I'm not leaving, and just stayed the leader
of Venezuela. And the people down there were like, oh, okay,
I guess, I guess Maduro is still in charge. He's
not leaving. Why did we bother to have the election
where seventy percent of us said we didn't want him
in charge anymore? And he's like, yeah, it's new math,

(00:43):
and I'm I turns out I won, And so he
just stayed in power down there, and then he was
obviously still leading the military the various gangs and gun
runners and drug traffickers and human traffickers and all that
fun stuff. And then Trump said, all right, go get him,

(01:03):
and then we brought him up here to New York
and he saw a courtroom yesterday and they're like, what
do you have to say about all these charges of
all the guns and the drugs and the all that.
He's like, yeah, I did all that stuff, but I'm
not guilty of it, because this is what we do.
This is this, These are in my job responsibilities as
the leader of a South American nation. I believe I

(01:26):
am charged with the tasks of drug trafficking and gun
running and leading the gang members. So yeah, I do
all this. Of course I did all this stuff, but
I'm not guilty of it. This is just what's expected
of me. None of the stuff he actually said yesterday,
but this is essentially what this trial is going to
be about. So he pleads not guilty, and his wife

(01:47):
is like, I'm with stupid, and so she pled she
had the shirt on, and yeah, she had the shirt on.
So I was stupid and she's so dumb. She had
it on the wrong side. The arrow was pointing at
their attorney. And so he goes down there and pleads
not guilty. And that was incredibly arrogant. But then we

(02:07):
have a quarterback who commits to Nebraska, leaves Notre Dame,
commits to Nebraska, like, hey, this is going to be
a wonderful partnership. I can't wait to don the scarlet
and cream run out of that tunnel with my Husker
brethren and lead this Nebraska football team to victory. And
then he's like, wait a second, hey, hey Nebraska, Hey Kenny. Second, Yeah,

(02:31):
Kentucky's on the phone. Well I want to talk to
you all really all right? Well all right, well I'm
not going to Nebraska anymore. And he switches his commit
from Nebraska to Kentucky. And I you know what, I
almost got emotionally attached to this. This is why you
don't name them, you know, you bring these commits home.
The transfer portal madness is underway, and you bring these

(02:54):
guys in and you're like, hey, we got a new quarterback.
He comes from Notre Dame. His name is Kenny. Like,
oh Kenny, you know, quarterback Kenny. That has a nice
ring to it. I think I could get used to Kenny.
And then suddenly Kenny goes bounding off towards Kentucky. So
is it official? He's not coming out? He's going to Kentucky. Yeah,
he's not coming Well, seeing with Kentucky, he could change
his mind. Well, go four or five other places before

(03:17):
coming back to Nebraska. Anything's possible. He's got two weeks
four school starts, so Jim, when you and Sean callahandle
join us here in about a half an hour for
more of the Husker buzz action here. When you guys
are talking about these commits, I would prefer if you
didn't name them, because it gets personal when you name them.
Just don't name that.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I was laughing at uh at some of the members
of the news media going off on Kenny Mitchie this weekend.
You know, in fact, I gave one of them a
Texas said go easy on this guy.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Number one.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
He's never visited here, he's never talked to a single coach,
and you've got him winning a couple of Heisman trophies already.
And I got the text from the last night Rosie,
I'll never I'll ask you before I ever write another story.
I go, well, that'd be wise, because you look like
a dufis when you go off on how great this
guy's going to be in the Nebraska offense.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
And he flips. But that's the name we do.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
But journalism is far less lucrative than optimism.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
So we know that. Look what we do.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
This is the nature of our transfer portal era, and
it's it's frustrating, it's a wild ride and guys switch.
If we thought that high school kids switch their commitments
in the olden days with the letter of intend day,
watch this because agents are involved here and this is
the one thing that will drive coaches out of the business.

(04:34):
You're not even dealing with the kid. You're not dealing
with his family. You're not dealing with even an uncle.
You're not even dealing with Uncle Rudy. You're dealing with
some guy who's going to get twenty percent of the
hall before.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
You just had to get to mom. You get mom
on your side, and you get the kid not much.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
In the case of one basketball coach to get a
top five player, he was actually having sex with the mom.
And in my book, I'll tell you that is wow.
But the bottom line, I won't say it on campy
Bee because it's fairly local.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Look, if there's anyone on this Nebraska basketball team, I
hope Holyberg is just ready to go to work and
keep these guys happy because they're making you're doing fine.
They're making the fan base very happy. We got more
with sports brief coming ready. This ride for the transfer
portal is gonna go on another ten days. Traffic, weather, news,
and then Jim rows with a rough voice this morning,
but in good spirits. Hey, this is big stuff, Nebraska's

(05:27):
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Speaker 1 (06:20):
Chancellor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln decide I don't
want this job anymore, and the president of the NU System,
doctor Jeffrey Gold, former chancellor at UNMC, spoke out about
this proposed merger between the Border Regents and the Nebraska
Medicine Group after Clarkson is pulling their partnership from Nebraska Medicine,

(06:41):
and doctor Gold said, look, I understand that some of
these guys at Nebraska Medicine are concerned about the Border
Regents and then the University system taking over in Nebraska Medicine,
But if you actually read the contract, it says right here,
if Clarkson pulls their money their partnership, it defaults to
the Board of Regents. Yeah, so thanks for letting us

(07:03):
know your thoughts on this. But this is this is
already something that has been agreed to, so it sounds
like this is all happening. The regents meet Friday and
the University of Nebraska at Lincoln is looking for a
new chancellor because the guy who's only been there for
a cup of coffee and then had the faculty senate say,

(07:23):
we don't have any confidence in this guy. They had
a vote of confidence and it turned out they had
a vote of no confidence and their chancellor they said,
he's never around, we can't communicate with him, we never
see him on Campus's he's difficult then, obviously to work with.

(07:44):
And then they went asking him for his thoughts on
things and they couldn't find him. I don't know that
he knows where Lincoln, Nebraska is. Well, you know, he
got off to a rough start. If you'll recall his
college transcripts, made social media when he was hired, and
he flunked business typing, and he was not what you

(08:04):
would call an academic stalwart as an undergrad, and that
got him off to a really negative start, because you
know how college professors are. The thing that it's disappointing
is they paid this guy a lot of money to
be here. He's not here very long. He presided over
some major budget cuts. Yeah, not his fault. That's the
way it goes.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
They're going to pay him half of his seven seven
hundred thousand dollars deal for this year, and they're going
to give him a goodbye gift of one point one
million dollars. I wonder if, and I don't really understand
why that is, if he had left a week ago before,
now we get into twenty twenty six, does that not
guarantee him as much money as if he gets in
the new calendar. I wonder if there was some issue

(08:48):
with the timing here. But you know, at least he's
not like the superintendent of the Des Moines school district,
where he's an illegal immigrant running from the cops with
guns in his car or something like this. But it
does look like those who have been doing the hiring
for some of these jobs are more interested in checking
some boxes other than other boxes. And it's saying to

(09:13):
point some of this stuff out, I don't know. Richard
emails and says, what the heck, we already lost the portal.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Thank you for that, Richard. Nowhere for Riola. Yeah he
can come back here, he could change his mind. He hoping.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I was kind of, you know, Notre Dame needs a backup.
I was kind of hoping he'd go to Texas Tech.
That way he can fully express himself through Patrick Mahomes
and with no judgments. Yeah, you know, I mean he
went to Texas Tech and he can act like Patrick
Mahomes at Texas Tech like he did up here.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
He can do.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Little Patrick Mahomes things like he did here that started
to kind of wear people out.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
They can both have off years.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
They can both have extremely off years, although in the
case of Patrick Mahomes that had to do an offensive lineman
and receivers. I thought Texas Tech would be a great spot,
but they got Brandon Soresby, wh it was my favorite.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Quarterback that Nebraska played last year, Texas Cincinnati. The Cincinnati
quarterback's going to teach great.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
So whose Nebraska's gonna get, well, Shan callahandle tell Us
in ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Maybe we get Cincinnati's third stringer. Here's an actual conversation
I had with the guy yesterday. Oh, we were a
taskar fan knew we were chatting about this and that,
and I said, what do you think about this Maduro situation?
He goes, I don't know. I mean if he was
good enough to suit up for Notre Dame. I said, no, no,
he's This isn't the quarterback. This is the the former

(10:32):
leader of Venezuela. Oh, I don't know. So these are
the quality of people with whom I hang on a
daily basis. Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked the news.
The Trump administration thanked some news organizations yesterday because apparently,
even though they didn't tell Congress about the planned extraction

(10:54):
of Maduro and his wife, they did tell some members
of the media and thanked them because they could have
leaked it, and because the operational security of the mission
and the military members involved was paramount. Rubio said, frankly,
a number of media outlets had gotten leaks that this

(11:16):
was coming and held it. They didn't report it. We
thanked them for doing that, or lives could have been lost.
American lives could have been lost. So the New York
Times in the Washington Post knew about it, but Chuck
Schumer didn't. Because if you tell Chuck Schumer or other
members of Congress Democrat members of Congress, then next thing

(11:38):
you know, they're like, hey, someone tells Sean Penn to
let Nicholas Maduro know we're coming for him and he
goes into hiding or whatever. They would leak it that
the members of Congress would leak it. These are, of course,
members of Congress who told members of the military. Hey,
you don't have to follow any instructions from our commander
in chief or our Department of War. One of those

(12:02):
members of Congress is firing back a little bit. Senator
Mark Kelly is speaking back after the War Chief Pete
Hegsath President Trump. They've censured the Arizona Democrat after his video,
and others said in a message to troops, you don't

(12:22):
have to listen to these guys. They threatened to reduce
his military retirement rank, which would then impact his retirement pay.
Kelly said, Hey, my military record is not anything that
the President Trump or Pete Hegzeth gets to take away,
and he said I would put that against Trump's military

(12:46):
record any day. Well, Trump is the commander in chief,
and therefore he outranks you. And if you were a
member of the military when your commander in chief said hey,
we need to do this, that you better do it
or get out of the military. So now that's going
on back and forth. But it's sad that these guys

(13:07):
couldn't tell members of Congress, hey, here's what we're doing
in Venezuela because it would get leaked to Maduro and
his military. But you can tell the media about it.
The fake news media kept it under wraps, but guys
like Mark Kelly probably couldn't. It's a sad state of affairs,
all right. So you don't like the McRib, here's what

(13:29):
you do when you see McDonald's, when you see the
golden arches up there and it's time for the McRib,
what you do is either order something else or go
someplace else. You got Wendy's, you got Runza, you've got
Burger King, you got four or five guys selling burgers.
One of them is named five guys. Just don't go

(13:52):
to McDonald's. And you're gonna sue like, I don't think
it's real rib meat, and they're implying its rib meat.
I don't know what it is, and frankly, I don't
want to know. Ignorance tastes like barbecue bliss, and I
don't need your lawsuit potentially destroying the McRib. You don't
want to know, You don't want to know where the

(14:13):
food comes from. I don't need to know where all
my food comes from. And you can tell RFK Junior
and Ronald McDonald that Lucy Chapman's right there. Courtney Donaho,
Craig Evans, Jim Rowse. My name is Scott Vorhees. Thank
you so much for being with us on news radio
eleven ten kfab. Apparently Immigration Customs Enforcement agents decided to

(14:33):
check themselves into a Minneapolis area Hilton branded hotel room.
Does that mean it's Hilton, It says Hilton, No, no, sorry,
Hampton in I didn't realize that was one of the
Hilton branded hotels, but Ice was staying at the Hampton Inn.

(14:56):
That's a good budget I'd say upper upper budget hotel.
They got the Continental breakfast. It's not going to be
too fancy. Did you just create a new phrase. I
think that this savvy travelers and parents like Hampton. That's good.

(15:16):
It's not upper budget, it's a yeah, well budget that's
where I stay.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
If I'm just oh, I've heard about some of the
places you stay if I stay lower budget too.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
I, honest to goodness, went to check into a hotel
room as people were leaving and demanding their money back
for that hotel the only room available in the entire area,
and I said, I'll take it. He goes, do you
want to take a look at the room first? So
a budget hotel room, that's where I stay. When I'm

(15:50):
traveling by myself. When I'm traveling with my family, especially
my wife, we go upper budget. That's uh, yeah, I
think that's that's your Hampton, and that's an upper budget hotel. Scott.
Don't you ever stay in a nice hotel? Why? At
no point have I ever been on vacation going, yeah,

(16:12):
we're gonna get a great hotel and stay there the
entire time we're on vacation. Now, a hotel room's just
a clean place, and that's my wife's only criteria. I
want a clean place. I don't want to come out
of there teeming with bedbugs. It'd be great if there
were zero bedbugs, but I certainly don't want to be
teeming with them. I want to come out of there

(16:34):
in a clean room, be nice. If the towels in
the bathroom weren't didn't have weird phantom brown stains on them,
that'd be good. And that's both true when we check
in and when we check out of the room. What
are you people doing in hotel? Anyway? Upper budget Hampton

(16:57):
in so Ice decides to stay at the Hampton Inn
Twin Cities suburb up in Minneapolis St. Paul, and that's
when the staff once they realized the bookings came from
DHS Department of Homeland Security email addresses and they were
using government rates. Oh, there's a government rate for staying in.

(17:21):
I didn't realize that it's higher. Well, I apparently their
money is no good at the Hampton Inn. One of
the Hampton ends up around Minneapolis because they were told
ICE agents were told, sorry, you're not welcome here. If

(17:42):
I had a dollar every time you were told you're
not welcome, yup? Is that as you check in they
recognize you or as you're leaving, like you will not
be allowed No more will you be allowed to stay
at a window. So ICE officers who have been deployed

(18:04):
to Minnesota, amid the fact that it's a city in
America therefore has an immigration problem that the Trump administration
is looking to fix. This is not everyone's assessment of
the situation. It's his mind for what it's worth. So
these guys are staying in there and then the staff said, uh, oh,

(18:26):
we got ICE staying here. No thanks, and they told
him you're not welcome here, and they said, hey, that's
our company policy. The Hilton company policy is not allowing
any ICE agents to stay at our properties. That was

(18:46):
news to Hilton's corporate offices, who quickly distance itself from
the move of this particular hotel spokesperson, saying Hilton hotels
are meant to be open to all guests and stress
that the property is independently owned and operated. This was
a decision made by local management and not of the

(19:08):
Hilton brand. The company said they're investigating. The hotel has
apologized for what Hey, thanks for letting us know. This
is your dec You've decided you would rather like some
of the hotels here in Omaha who've decided to be
hotbeds for gang and human trafficking activity, where you've got

(19:30):
people coming all hours of the day and night, and
not your normal travelers looking to stay here in Omaha
and catch the zoo or the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting
or whatever it is that they're doing in town. Instead,
these are people in there just using some of these
hotels from some pretty historically decent hotels as operational points

(19:52):
for gang and trafficking activity, drug activity, and the like.
These hotel owners have apparently decided, I did, we would
rather be used as home base for gang members than
for the law enforcement officials who are coming into our
communities to root out criminals, and so, hey, thanks for

(20:14):
letting us know. They told ICE, you're not welcome here.
The affected ICE personnel are being contacted to make sure
that they know that they're welcome at any of these
other hotels. Hilton says we don't tolerate any form of discrimination. Now.
The hotel in question is owned by a group called

(20:37):
ever Peak Hospitality. They're also apologizing. They said the decision
was inconsistent with its policies, and they say, we acted
quickly to address the situation. Oh, who got fired? Let
me check the story. Nobody. So when you say you
acted quickly to address the situation, what does that mean. Well,

(21:01):
once we realized we got caught and this might be
a pr nightmare, we apologize to the guests who were
told you're not welcome here. Members of law enforcement, not
welcome here. The hotel's Google reviews site filled with sharply
divided comments, some slamming the move, others praising the refusal

(21:23):
to host ICE. A DHS assistant secretary tells Fox News
the hotel was sighting with murderers and rapists when they
canceled the reservations. I wonder who they call. I wonder
who the hotel calls when they've get people that are
causing some problems.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
In their hotel.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Well, I'm sure that you. I bet they call somebody
like a psychiatrist. They reach out to Governor Tim Wallas
and say, we need some money. We've got some problems here.
And I understand you're just throwing money around and announcing
yesterday that he would not be running for reelection minnesot
to Governor Tim Walls, who is almost the Vice president

(22:03):
of the United States of America. Let's pause and reflect
on that possibility for just a second. So Somalia would
have been real happy with that. Just think all of
America could have been across our fruited plain, the same
issue they're having in Minnesota where Somalians are taking up

(22:25):
refuge and not getting any of the taxpayer money assigned
for taking care of these Somalia refugees. Instead, that money
is going to a bunch of liars, thieves, cheats, and
in some instances back to Somalia where he's funding terrorists.
So this is what is under investigation up there. This
is why Tim Wall says he's not running for reelection,

(22:47):
but that's not what Governor Wall said. He says he's
not running for reelection because Republicans obtained this process, all right,
So there is a parent fraud and abuse that Walls
either was or was not aware of. That's not the issue.
And he's he's he's dropping out of the race, and
it's Republican's fault for pointing it out and therefore tainting

(23:10):
his governorship. Is that what's going on here? Apparently? So
I got an email yesterday from Kevin sent via the
Zonkers custom Woods inbox Scott at kfab dot com and says, Scott,
I guarantee that Tim Walls is running around wearing a
tuxedo with giant letter letters G O V on the
back and playing with one of those paddles with a

(23:31):
string and a ball on it, saying this thing is warped.
Why do I always get the warped ones? That's my
blazing saddles? Thank you for that seventies movie reference for
this segment of the radio program. Kevin, very nicely done.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
All he needs to be is cross sided, and you've
got Governor Laptamine. No, it's it's so sad. It's sad
for the people of Minnesota. It's it's got to be
infuriating for them. And this was a political decision. Not
only was he going to lose, but he was going
to drag down a whole lot of Democrats with him,
including potentially a Senate candidate up there.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
And then state of Minnesota hasn't.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Elected a member of the United States Center for the
Republican Parties is of the year two thousand. So this
situation is pretty acute. And it seems to me that
you have tremendous stress and pressure now on all of
the overseers and the oversight of all of this money,
not just in Minnesota, but across the country, because look, California,

(24:31):
just by sheer numbers, is far worse than Minnesota. California
probably has significantly more waste, fraud and abuse in the
medicaid system than Minnesota does. But I gotta tell you,
if you go, if you went on the website, the
Minnesota website, the state website, it's pretty easy to get stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
I mean, it's really easy to get stuff. Well, let's
get stuff we need. Lucy needs a new computer. Well,
they pulled money from snuffle up Agus and the rest
of the Sesame Street Gang, the the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting announced that their board of directors voted to dissolve
the organization following a loss of federal funding. This is

(25:12):
the slush fund. I mean, the ability for the government
to set aside money for public broadcasting on radio that
is NPR, on television that is PBS, and they give
it to this board of directors, and then they designate
the funds to NPR and PBS. But Congress, as you know,

(25:33):
polled those taxpayer dollars from the public broadcasters last summer,
and now the Corporation for Public Broadcasting says, well, I
guess our group here is done. Fifty eight year old organization.
The Senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy, said, good riddance. He said,

(25:57):
this organization funneled your tax dollar to NPR and PBS
to call birds, roads and country music racist. I would
like to hear any one of those reports. I could
see where some people I can make an imaginative leap
to an assertion that country music is racist, not because

(26:20):
I think it is, but I can get there. As
far as roads, yeah, I guess if they're building or
maintaining in some areas but not a how are birds.
Why are we calling birds racists? Did NPR call birds races,
swans doves?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, you know, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was the
clearinghouse for federal funds to public broadcasting stations across the country.
That dates back to nineteen sixty seven when they created
the Public Broadcasting Act, which brought to us mister Rogers,
neighborhood and all the other good stuff. And when you
funnel money to that organization, because theoretically, Congress people don't

(27:00):
know whether the PBS station in Keyakuk, Iowa, deserves one
hundred thousand whereas the one in Snowhomish, Washington gets two fifty.
They let the Corporation for Public Broadcasting do that. But
they were cut loose from all of their funding with
that big beautiful bill that slashed a billion dollars out.

(27:21):
Now NPR, which is the big network, NPR, they have
their own money and they were getting their own donations.
They're fine. It's like Nebraska Public Media.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Fine.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Those guys have lots of money. They had fifty million
in the bank in Nebraska as of the springtime, just
squirrel away money for a rainy day, which was wise.
They also get thirteen million a year from the state
of Nebraska, and they get all of the other stuff,
but they were probably getting something from the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting too, So that'll be a hit, and this

(27:52):
will dissolve, and maybe if a Democrat becomes president again
and a Democrat Congress decides that we got to have
PBS back, maybe the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will continue.
What I've maintained from the beginning is I think there's
quality stuff on PBS. I watch PB, I watched Nebraska
Public Media. But get out into the street and sell

(28:12):
your soup man, do just like the rest of us.
Go out there, get sponsorships, you tell a value story.
But to rely on tax supported funding for your operation
is to me anti American.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, there's there's nothing out there that says that this
programming can't exist. Whether it's Sesame Street and that's kind
of a separate deal now because they've gone into streaming,
but whether it's some of the good programming and reports
on NPR Click and Clack Farmer, even though that show
has not produced new episodes for several years because one

(28:47):
of those guys died. But that's that's fantastic stuff, and
that what you might see on PBS. I'll flip around
channels and I'll see like, oh, here's a concert from
several years ago that they're airing here, and it's good stuff.
I did find the NPR report on racist birds. By
the way. It has to do with how some birds

(29:07):
are named for old white people, and because we're talking
about old white people, obviously they are racist. And so
you've got, according to this report, here Nutall's woodpecker, Casson's
vieiro or vireo, Casson's auklet, but Terry's sparrow, Bachmann sparrow.

(29:30):
I didn't realize that members of BTO had been naming birds,
but they said, well, this guy was a very, very
racist person and his theories supported efforts to justify slavery.
So once we started naming birds for these people, these
birds names need to be more inclusive, then more black
people will want to get into bird watching. I don't

(29:50):
know that anyone outside of the the true bird watching
experts realized that we had racists birds out there. But
that's thee that's part of where NPR use your tax
dollars to let us know that's that's fan and if
you like that kind of thing. They are available for you.
If you like us, we're here for you too. In

(30:12):
the Zonkers custom woods inbox Scott at kfab dot com.
Dave emails and says, from what I've experienced driving around
I eighty in Omaha, I'm surprised there's not an accident
every mile every day. Bunch of morons couldn't deal with

(30:32):
that every day. And by the way, not as big
as your fair city. But we here in Beatrice have
a fair number of people who probably also should not
be behind the wheel, Signed Dave in Beatrice. I don't
disagree with Dave and Beatrice Beatrices.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Uh, and that's treacherous down there, especially at drivetime. Please
you're gonna want to watch out, Brian Beatrice.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Please tell me the city town community where everyone says,
you know, the driver here actually pretty good. Where would
that be?

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Not Saigon and not Hochi Min City. Wasn't expecting the
Saigon reference. Not losing on Switzerland, not Paris. Maybe things
are better in Greenland. We had the leader of the
leader of Denmark says President Trump's gonna come and take
Greenland over our dead bodies and me everyone. It was
so funny. They had the UN meeting yesterday, and everyone,

(31:27):
and when I say everyone, I mean a very specific
group of nations, including China and Russia, who spoke out
against the taking into custody of Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro.
So China and Russia are upset about that, and they
had to get together let us know. But then they

(31:48):
also had the Prime Minister of Denmark saying Trump is
not going to take Greenland. This is after Trump said
He's like, yeah, you know, we're looking at it. But
if we want to take Greenland, what's Denmark going to
do about it? They've added one dog sled to their
military up there. There's nothing they can do. Now people

(32:08):
are like, is Trump gonna go to war with Denmark
over Greenland? Is Trump gonna go to war with Venezuela.
There's two things that you should really look at here
with both Venezuela and Greenland. And Trump has said both
of these things out loud, whether it's Venezuela with their
ties to Russia and China, or in Greenland. Trump said

(32:32):
that the island is full of Chinese and Russian military
and ships. Now he's looking at some of these strategic
areas Venezuela and Greenland are strategic areas for Russia and China,
and America is trying to box out. This is a
defensive strategy more than it is an offensive one by

(32:56):
the President of the United States to stop what they're doing.
And as many as people are like Trump's gonna go
to war over Greenland, China and Russia know exactly what
he's doing and they don't like it, we should maybe
pay a bit more attention here. I'm not sure he's
completely wrong on this. What do we have any details

(33:16):
as to whether that guy who left Notre Dame to
play for Nebraska never visited here and probably never will.
Then he switches his commit to Kentucky. Is he's still
a Kentucky Wildcat at this point in the morning, or
is he like my wife trying to place an order
at a restaurant.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
You know, here's what I'll have. Which do you think
is better, Nebraska or Kentucky. I heard that perhaps Nebraska
might be better. Okay, Kentucky, I'll have that. Is there
any dairy in the Kentucky If so, I don't want that?
And you know what changed my mind? Can I look
at the menu again?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
You say stuff? About your wife. That isn't true. I've
been around your wife. She's not flighty like that. He's
not flighty. She just she's not indecisive. That's the difference.

Speaker 1 (34:01):
She the only times I've ever seen my wife be
very decisive when placing an order, that's always followed up
with and no, she she's regretted that decision every day since.
No one blames her, but she has a few times
I've seen her be incredibly decisive, Like she get the menu,
she says I want this, and then the server comes over,
what do you want and says I'll have this, and

(34:25):
then the person leaves, and within a minute my wife
is suddenly like, well, hang on, if you can see
our server again, let them know I want to change
my mind. Is okay?

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, that I think can be problematic, which explains why
you're not invited to a lot of restaurants around.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Well, I just imagine it's difficult to take this minschi
guy's sandwich order when when they're ordering, I'm wout the
room and no want the French deav No, I'll just
go to the south. Is it too late to change
my mind?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Well, this is the nature of the transfer portal and
as Sean told us back in the six o'clock hour,
agents run this now, WHI is just dreadful to me. Look,
I'm all about representation. I've never had one. People have
offered to be my agent through the years, and I've said,
I negotiate my own deals. I don't put my deal
in somebody else's hands. So I've always negotiated my own deals,
which also might explain.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Why I look at us.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Exactly like I said, as long as I keep bringing
my own money, it's great. But you know now, because
we have a structure in college sports where each program,
the player personnel decisions used to be almost solely the
purview of the head coach. Now you have a staff
of what they call player personnel people led by a

(35:43):
general manager, just like you have in the NFL or
Major League Baseball. And this guy's job and Patrick Stewart
is the general manager Nebraska. His job star trek different
Patrick Stewart. Uh, this guy's responsibility is to literally filter
through all of the candidates who might be in the
transfer portal, and then who are in the transfer portal

(36:05):
through their representation. See, it's illegal for Nebraska to reach
out to Kenny Minchie while he's at Notre Dame. We
can't talk to Kenny while he's there. Now, once he
enters the transfer portal, we can do anything we want.
But that's how you skirt around the contact rule. You
have the Nebraska people talking to other people who are

(36:29):
close to the athlete, and it's the same way in basketball. Well,
the challenge is you can't trust these people because they
have one motive in mind, and that's money. Okay, we
all saw, we all saw Jerry McGuire. Okay, this is
a very clear depiction of the agent culture. My job
is to get the most money from my guy because
then I get more.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, but you hear capitalism. An agent like Jerry McGuire
is working with a player who people have heard of
and want. Who's the agent for a backup quarterback? You
can't make up his mind as to where he wants
to play.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Well, it's uncle Rudy or cousin Ned who just closed
his tire store on Levenworth. This is the other challenge
is that you guys, you have guys who are close
to a really good athlete who's in high school or college.
They might have been like a de facto dad growing
up er, some sort of a mentor. This is the
person the kid trusts more than anybody. Well, they may

(37:23):
have no more competency to execute a smart transaction for
their kid than I have of performing an appendectomy.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
It's just on the phone with the various teams going
show me the money. Hang on, I'm getting another call.
Hang on, you show me the money. I love black people.
That's such a good movie. That's I love black people.
Keep a gooding. Junior is getting his ancient to scream
things at him, tell me you love black people. I

(37:51):
love black people. Such a great movie. We speaking of money,
by the way, and black people. Actually, here's the latest thing.
The Trump administration is doing the tick. Everybody off America
is marking the let's say, if I can remember this
term here, it's not the bi centennial. It is the

(38:12):
semi quinn centennial, two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of our nation. And we're doing so with some
new coins. Jim. Now, previous administrations had come up with
some designs on these new coins honoring Frederick Douglass, the
abolitionist civil rights icon Ruby bridges, the women's suffrage movement,

(38:40):
which doesn't have to do with women suffering no more
than Lucy does every day. Suffrages mean that that's the
right to vote. So it was all right, we're going
to have some coins, and we need to make sure
that every single demographic box has checked. You know how
this works. Well, the Trump administration has come out now
and we have any of those people lesbians or trans well,

(39:02):
I see, I don't. I don't know. Frederick Douglass might
have been I don't. I don't know. I didn't know him.
But now we've got the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee, which
I don't know who these people are. I suspect though,
with this administration, it's the same hand picked group deciding, Hey,
a guess who's playing the Kennedy Center tonight. It's Lee

(39:22):
Greenwood again and Kid Rock and Kid Rock is playing
on Friday, and the Carpenters, they're all playing there. Well,
this group came out and they've rejected all these previous designs,
naturally previous administrations. And this is the president installed here

(39:44):
during the semi Quinn centennial celebration. And so we're getting
some nude coins. They're actually already starting in circulation, and
they don't really show anything it's you know, hands together,
it's some you know, scenes from the Heartland, the Mayflower Compact,

(40:06):
the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the Constitution Russia,
the Gettysburg Address. No, it's so these are the coins
that began circulating this week, and these designs honor these
important things throughout our nation's history. Quarters Well, we've got
a we got a half dollar, nobody dimes, a diamond nickel,

(40:30):
and even the penny. Even though we stop making pennies,
there are some special pennies that have these designs, like
the bi centennial coins that said seventeen seventy six and
nineteen seventy six. These will say seventeen seventy six and
twenty twenty six. What we don't know is whether they're

(40:52):
going to do. And this was a fascinating conversation the
other day on Glenn Beck Show. Justin Barclay was filling
in for him over the holiday and they were talking
to the Secretary of the Treasury and they said, yeah,
we're going to do some special dollar coins bearing the
image of President Trump. People are like, he can't put

(41:13):
his likeness on money. We can't put president's faces on
money until they've passed away, and George Washington said, I'm
not going to have my portrait on coins. We are
done with kings. Well, that just goes to show those
protesters are right. Trump wants to be a king. He
wants to put his face on money. You know why
he wants to do this, right, it's to promote Trump,

(41:34):
to tick you off. So you don't like the coin,
give it to me, Give it to Jim. He needs
money more than anybody. Nobody uses a half dollar anymore,
no one uses actual money anymore. Now, yesterday it's Rosie
GENOZI had to do with the twenty twenty six elections.
In the fact that Nebraska legislature is getting underway. Tomorrow

(41:55):
is their first day. We have a new voting a
special interest group that just fired up in Nebraska. They
call themselves Respect Nebraska Voters, and they say that the
reason why they're forming, and it's a special interest group.
They're raising money and supporting candidates and lobbying the legislature

(42:15):
and all the rest. The reason why they say they're
getting started here is to push for the things that
Nebraska voters already approved. That they say, the legislature or
the governor's office or the state of Nebraska have not
fully implemented like medical marijuana. Like medical marijuana is one,
but they also point out paid sickly even minimum wage.

(42:38):
Now these things have been implemented, but they change some
of the parameters. Did the Nebraska legislature say, well, wait
a second, we don't need to give a living wage
so to speak to fifteen year old baggers at a
grocery store. A lot of small businesses who rely on
trying to bring up young workers in their community and

(42:59):
employ them. You know, we're not trying to give these
guys the ability to support a family of four. This
is going to cripple a lot of small businesses across
the area. So they did change some of that same
with the paid sick leave in terms of which businesses
with how many employees have to provide so much time. Well,
this group says no, No, the people of Nebraska spoke,

(43:20):
We've voted, and now you guys got to do the
stuff we told you you got to do. Yes, but
the people of Nebraska are wrong. Many of the people
in Nebraska, they are not small business owners. I suspect
that the people involved with the Respect Nebraska Voters special
interest group are not small business owners. I also expect

(43:42):
that many of them are really just trying to hang
their hat on medical marijuana, which they want to turn
into recreational marijuana. They started talking about this yesterday and
then and then the Governor's office said, all right, well,
we are are Nebraska Medical Care Commission just to proved
a new round of some new regulations last night. We're

(44:04):
moving in the right direction. It's going to be fine.
And this group is like, we told you a year ago,
over a year ago, to start medical marijuana. Where's all
of our medical marijuana. It's in the vate pins, in
your kids middle school bathroom. Of it's in the vate pins,
but it's in a lot of.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
I don't believe necessarily that their whole objective is to
convert medical marijuana into recreational marijuana. I think there is
a faction of those people that would like to do it.
They're they're capitalists. They see vast, vast arrays of money
coming in like Colorado and Washington. But this is a
point well taken. It seems to me that the administration
is dragging its feet on this because it doesn't want

(44:46):
medical marijuana. I'm one of these people that believes that
a physician has the capacity to decide whether this person
is suffering from terminal cancer would benefit from having legal
marijuana prescribed or their specific condition, that it won't just
be a free fall of people, you know, rolling joints

(45:06):
on the street corner and then selling them for a
buck apiece, which.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Is what we have now. By the way, not only
do we have it now, if anyone wants to go
buy some recreational marijuana, you can get hit it. It's
not hard to be out there smoking it. Apparently no
one's going to bother you, whether you're at the park,
you're at church, where you're at a rock concert. Apparently
no one's going to bother you. Because we see this
all the time. And it's not just a guy smoking

(45:30):
a big old fatty. It's the people with these vappins.
You don't always know that they're getting stoned with their vappin.
And if it's not that, it's some of the synthetic
stuff that you can buy in so many gas days
that to me is much more dangerous. Oh my gosh,
I had no idea. I was talking to someone probably
just over a year ago about some of that stuff
you can buy in the gas days, very very scary,

(45:51):
and I said, you can't really get high out that stuff.
He's like, oh yeah, you can. You can die.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
Actually, I've known teenagers that have gone into shock with
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
You got to watch that carefully. And we're not talking
about the little chocolate donuts or Grandma's cookies or beef jerky.
That's some of the stuff that is plastic Marijuonetic marijuana
comes into a lot of different names.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
And you know, the challenge, of course is enforcement, and
everybody wants to pass laws to create this whole new
industry that needs to be regulated, regulated by who, enforced
by who. Who's going to pay for the investigators and
the enforcers. You're going to turn it over to the
state patrol. Again, we got seventy seven thousand square miles.
That's a lot of space to cover to go find

(46:32):
some meth lab or some vape shack, you know, in Fedford,
and ascertain whether they're breaking the law. When we provide
for this, we don't have the infrastructure to support it.
And that's a frustration for me as a taxpayer because
I believe there is a lot of fraud and abuse
and in waste there.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
But if you can't uncover it. What happened nothing. I
saw a billboard this morning at about seventy eighth and
Dodge Ish, and it promoted, Hey, if you're coming to Missouri,
stopping Rockport, we got everything you need. It was a
cannabis dispensary. Hey, just about an hour away, come on

(47:10):
down to right now. I remember going to Rockport to
get fireworks back in the day. And you can get
fireworks too. Why works and marijuana stand you know that's
not a bad idea, stopping Watson. You can get and
you can use the Roman candle to light your joint,
That's right, you can. You can get a punk and
you can light your joint and your silver salute and

(47:32):
your bottle rockets and we'll do all that. So it's
it's look people there. There are certainly some people who
are using medical marijuana as an excuse for recreational and
there are some people who live with a loved one,
be it apparent of spouse, a kid who suffer from
everything from seizures to glaucoma that could be helped through

(47:57):
medical marijuana. And I would prefer that doctors be the
ones to be able to prescribe that which might be
able to provide these people some relief. But even in
those instances, we're not talking about Grandma sitting there was
hooked up to an oxygen tank smoking a joint. We're
talking about various lotions and pills and things like that
you can take. And I don't know why those things

(48:20):
are not available now, but.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Again in part because we don't really have the enforcement
infrastructure DH. I mean, if it's under the Bureau of
Examining Boards, which typically has disciplined doctors, they probably have
three or four or five investigators for the entire state
of Nebraska.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Are you kidding me? I think it's funny that we've
got this group that is a form now called Respect
Nebraska Voters, and they're going to push to get the
legislature to adopt the things that the voters told them
in the popular vote that we wanted them to do. Well,
we also got something else in those votes, this legislature.
If you don't like them, vote for a new lawmaker

(48:58):
to go in there and do the thing in the
way that you want them to be done and hold
them accountable. I don't know what you tell these guys.
It's like, all right, we're getting together signature is to
tell you people to do the stuff that we voted
on to you to do. Well, you voted for them too.
You don't like it, then vote for a new person.
We've got elections coming up for that too.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
We didn't really talk about it yesterday, but there is
momentum for these ballid initiatives to bring about what is
commonly referred to as a you know, a consumption tax,
which would eliminate all the other taxes. And this is
something that has been brewing for the last three or
four years. It's getting more momentum because people who make

(49:38):
promises before election day don't keep them after election day.
And there is a property tax crisis in Nebraska, and
nobody wants to address it head on and risk losing
an election by doing something that might be politically very challenging.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Well, stop me if you heard this before. Governor Pillen
says that property taxes are a priority of these legency
have been for four years.