There's Got to Be a Morning After

The game, the halftime show, the other halftime show, the ads, the betting, and even a few things that didn't have anything to do with Super Sunday -- it's all here!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Most years, I start off the day after the super
Bowl chastising Lucy Chapman, which is not real different from
how I start most radio broadcasts. There's always something, But
the day after the super Bowl, it's always like, Wow,
what a what a game? The halftime show and the commercials,

(00:20):
and it was all amazing. Lucy, what you think? Lucy's like,
I didn't watch it, Like Lucy, I can you know,
watch the super Bowl. It's the thing where everyone comes together.
They watched it, And then Lucy's like, I didn't watch it.
I watched I watched the paint dry and enjoyed myself
a lot more.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
So.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
You may have made the better choice yesterday, but this
is this the year where you say I watched it.
I watched all of it and loved it.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
No, okay, no, no, no, no, I didn't watch even
a second of it. It did happen to accidentally watch
that Lindsay Vaughn is Lindsay yeah, oh yeah, had that
camera on her way too long at least the audio.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, I didn't watch any of that. I saw saw obviously.
What happened to Olympic skier Lindsay Vaughn trying to make
another Olympic run and got injured a couple of weeks ago,
and I'm going to do it and it resulted in
what I heard was a broken leg. Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Brutal, So no, I did not watch any of the game.
I did try to read some of the reviews and
they're kind of mixed.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Really well, if you're a Seahawks fan, or you really
really like to watch a guy kickfield goals, and there
are certainly people out there for whom that description applies,
then it was a very, very exciting game. For most people,
it was a bit of a snoozefest. It got a
little interesting there in the fourth quarter, you know, one

(01:54):
of those things like, hey, if the Patriots would have
done this, they would have gone down there and then
then we could have had game. But that didn't work
out that way. For more on the football analysis year,
that's why we have Jim Rose here. I'm glad I
can be helpful to that and so much more. What
do you think about the game?

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I think Drake may had one of the worst play
worst performances in the history of a quarterback of the
Super Bowl. Sometimes you meet the moment, sometimes you don't,
and he really really struggled yesterday. He's really young, and well, yeah,
I mean, but he was missing wide open receivers and
you just can't do that in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Now they have won the game.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Hard to know, but if he completes some of those
frankly by NFL standards, very easy passes, then they have
a chance to control the ball a little bit more.
But you know, he got sacks six times. Some of
that was his fault, some of it was the offensive line,
some of it was Seattle. That fumble was very, very costly.

(02:54):
So it's pretty obvious that your team goes as well
as your quarterback goes. Steve Young said that. Actually, I
was watching it special the other day and he said, look,
the quarterback is the man for football. He handles the
ball on every snap. He makes the decisions with the
football in a split second. If your quarterback's having a

(03:15):
great day, you're probably gonna have a great day.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
If he's not, you're not. That's what happened to the
New England Patriots. Yeah, it's hard to be able to
hit those passes. I imagine when you're worried you're about
to get engulfed by a title wave of Seahawks on
every play, so he obviously was twitchy y, you know.
But now I mean for Patriots fans. And I was
texting with the one throughout the game yesterday and he

(03:39):
just kept saying, young team. Young team is you know,
just a young player. So for Patriots fans, it's obviously
remains to be seen whether Drake May, the current quarterback
for New England, goes on to be more like Tom
Brady or ends up being like and here's a good
reference for you here on a Monday morning, if he
ends up being more like Tony Eason. If I'm not mistake,

(04:00):
it was Easan who went in there and led the
Patriots into the Super Bowl against the eighty five Bears. Yeah,
and got destroyed and became a trivial pursuit answer. So
we'll we'll see how that goes. Obviously, the Super Bowl, though,
is about much more than just the game. It's about
the commercials, it's about the halftime show, it's about the Badgeantry,

(04:20):
and there's not much to speak on on that front either.
I didn't hate the Bad Bunny halftime show, didn't hate it,
But Scott, how did you know what?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
I flipped between both I watched the little bit of
the Bad Bunny halftime show, and I watched a little
bit of the Turning Point USA halftime show, and I
thought it was funny that there were a lot of
people looking at one going I can't believe this. I
don't know. It's just it's loud and I can't understand anything.
And that's not the assessment of Bad Bunny. That's the

(04:54):
assessment of the Turning Point USA halftime show. Are there
vocals in there? So that's how it started off here. Yeah,
the Turning Point USA guys do an incredible job of

(05:15):
providing enthusiastic conservative and Christian messages to especially young people
on college campuses. I don't know who was mixing the
audio board for it, but every time I turn over
for some of the loud rock and country music on
the Turning Point USA halftime show, which sounded great, I
dig all that, but I was like, I need a

(05:37):
little more vocal in the mix on that one, and
wasn't getting it. So that's maybe a little bit of
a audio level criticism here. But as far as the
Bad Bunny halftime show, yeah, I watched it. I thought
it was fine.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I'm sure Bad bunny would love to hear your assessment
of it was fine.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
It was fine. I had to find out do.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
You understand what you were listening to when you were
watching a bad Bunny?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I told my wife I about halfway through the halftime show.
I said, Honey, I said, baby, I said, Honeybaby, I said,
I just really like that. At least it's not like
a bunch of scathing political messages that I started to
laugh and said, actually, I can't understand a word he's saying.
Maybe it is, maybe it's a call to action for

(06:28):
Antifa across the country. And I just don't know because
I don't speak the language. But I checked the interpretation
of everything later, and what it seemed to have been
was a celebration of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico culture. There
was an actual wedding that took place during the halftime

(06:50):
show on stage. Yeah, and actually that was a real wedding.
They actually got married at halftime of the halftime show,
or at halftime of the super Bowl. Was part of
you didn't see it, any of it all, right, So
it was he comes out there and he's in like
the sugarcane fields, I guess of Puerto Rico, and there's

(07:12):
a fun marketplace and family activity is going on, and
so you see a wedding going on, you see a
family watching, you know, the halftime show on TV comes
crashing through their roof. There's a lot of dancing. I
did think it was very interesting that the Turning Point
USA halftime show started off with the guy saying, the

(07:34):
reason we're doing this and this message has been completely
maligned by those who hate Maga and that whole thing.
They think that the reason why they did a Turning
Point USA halftime show is because they're racist, Because well,
Bad Bunny is Latino and he's not speaking American and
it's just a bunch of Latino dancers and anti ice

(07:57):
messages from him, and because these guys racist, they want
a real American halftime show. What the guy said when
he introduced the show was there are so many parents
over the last few years who have watched the Super
Bowl halftime show with their kids and had to turn
it off because of the suggestive dancing and the twerking

(08:19):
and the themes and the music. And so then I
switch over to see what's going on with Bad Bunny,
and I see a whole parade of young women scantily
clad twerking their booties in front of the camera, and
I thought, yeah, that's that's the reason why the Turning
Point USA halftime show was going on, and for some loud,

(08:41):
cool rock and roll country music. But yeah, I wasn't
watching the show with my kids. They were off doing
their thing with their friends and all that. So yeah,
that's that's why they did it. But as far as
the rest of the halftime show, with the Bad Bunny
providing you know, some Latin culture and and music, thought
it was fine. Yeah, it was fine.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Well, twenty plus million people watched the Turning Point USA
halftime show. Yeah, and I gave it a lot of
people that flipped over from the super Bowl to go
to their computers.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I thought that Kid Rock's final song there, which I
guess is a cover of I believe a Cody Johnson song.
My Friend's over at Cat one of three can come
correct me. But that was an honor of Charlie Kirk,
and I thought that was beautiful. That guy can really sing.
There was one person, though, who was not a big
fan of the Bad Bunny halftime show, and that was
your favorite president.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
This is your favorite president, and this message is for
Bad Bunny, or as I call him, the nasty rabbit,
El Conejo Desagradable. He's a nasty rabbit and a stupid rabbit.
Anytime you see a guy in address, that's a very
stupid person. So he's a nasty guy, a horrible guy.
They call him bad Bunny. I call him the worst bunny.

(09:57):
Think about it, and nobody knows Bunny's quite like I do.
I get along very well with many of the highly
respected bunnies all around the world. I have a tremendous
relationship with Bugs Bunny. He said to me, what's up, Doc?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
He says, sound real, Sir, I said, you don't.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Have to call me Doc, you could call me Donald.
But Bugs Bunny is a tremendous bunny. He does a
fantastic job on the baseball field. He plays every position
you look at him, but he does a fantastic job.
I get along very well with Roger Rabbit. And what
happened to him was horrible. You know, they say, Sir,
who framed Roger Rabbit? Sir, I said, it was probably

(10:38):
the fake news and the Democrats. They frame everybody. But
he got a road deal and so we gave him
a parton because what happened to Roger Rabbit was horrible.
It was a complete and total witch hut, so we
gave him a parton.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
I got along very well with.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
The Easter bunny, who used to lead Crooked Joe Biten
around like he lost puppy. But the Easter Bunny said
to me, sir, you have the biggest Easter eggs the
world has ever seen. They're much bigger than crying Chuck
Schumer or the Peso store Obama. You look at Haakim Jeffries,
they have very small Easter eggs. But I have the
biggest eggs the world has ever seen. Nobody's ever seen

(11:15):
anything like it. They also got along well with little
Bunny Foo Foo, and I ended the war between Little
Bunny Foo Foo and the field mice. He was bopping
them on the head. I said, you can't do that.
You have to stop doing that. Well, we're going to
hit you with tariffs. So we ended that war. You know,
you look at it the peace President. So we get
along well with a lot of bunnies, but not the

(11:36):
nasty rabbit known as Bad Bunny. He's a horrible person
and a stupid person. El Canejo desa gradable, bad bunny,
nasty rabbit. He hs our country and he has no talent.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lucy didn't think that was really President Trump delivering that message.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Just said that what I am to as soon. That's
our good friend Sean. That is so the greatest Trump
impersonator on the planet Earth. That is so he does
radio in Philadelphia.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
You can't do it. He was popping him on the head.
You can't do it anymore. Here is the actual assessment
of the halftime show by President Trump. This is what
he actually said. This was his post untruth social He said,
the Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible, one of
the worst ever. It made no sense, is an affront

(12:30):
to the greatness of America and doesn't represent our standards
of success, creativity, or excellence. Nobody understands a word this
guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for
young children that are watching this from throughout the USA
and all over the world. This show is just a
slap in the face to our country, which is setting

(12:50):
new standards and records every single day, including the best
stock market in four to one k's in history. There's
nothing inspirational about this mess of a halftime show and
watch it will get great reviews from the fake news
media because they haven't got a clue of what's going
on in the real world. And by the way, the
NFL should immediately replace its ridiculous new kickoff rule make

(13:12):
America great again. President Donald J. Trump, I like the kickoffs.
At least we have some people returning kicks now. I
don't have a problem with that. But he didn't like it.
I meet. Immediately people jumped on there saying, how come
you're not watching your boy kid Rock, I thought you

(13:34):
liked the turning Point, USA, Why are you watching Bad
Bunny at all? If you don't like it, flip over
to the other thing, watch that, or do like Lucy
Chapman does and just sit back and just read a book.
He's right, though, that the fake news media loved it.
An ESPN reporter commenting on the halftime show was literally

(13:54):
in tears. In the wake of this show. The President
also called out Hunter hees, this is an Olympics skier
who went out of his way throughout opening ceremonies weekend
to say just because I'm wearing the American flag doesn't mean,
I represent everything that's going on in the US. There's

(14:15):
obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest
fan of, and I think a lot of people aren't.
The President didn't miss that one. He said on True
Social US Olympics skier Hunter hess a real loser, says
he doesn't represent his country in the current Winter Olympics.
If that's the case, he shouldn't have tried out for
our team. And it's too bad he's on it. Very

(14:37):
hard to root for someone like this make America great again.
That was the President and his thoughts on that skier.
The what he said about the halftime shows, he said,
this doesn't represent our standards for success creativity. Excellency called
out the disgusting twerking dancing and said about Bad Bunny,

(14:59):
no one can underst dan a word this guy is saying. Now, Jim,
did you watch any of the Bad Bunny halftime show?
I know you were did week on the Turning Point USA.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, I know I was watching it, but when he
started singing in Spanish, since I don't know Spanish, turned
me off. So all I did was sort of watch
some of the dancing and the visuals, and it turned
to me for a moment there, I thought this was
the super Bowl of Puerto Rico, because that's what the
entire theme of the halftime show was, Puerto Rico. I've
been to Puerto Rico. It's a nice country, but it

(15:29):
has nothing to do with the National Football League. And
when he handed the Grammy award that he has won.
I think he's won several Grammys. Actually, when he handed
one of them to the kid that was supposedly detained
by Ice in Minnesota, that just once again threw me
pretty much off the cliff.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Is that because that's.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
One of the great that is one of the great
lies perpetrated by the American news media, that this kid
was seized by Ice agents, that he was detained throw
in a cage. This is the ultimate jack booth thuggery
of immigration and customs enforcement. So in order to rebrand

(16:09):
this kid, he got a Grammy. And that's too bad
because that was just not true. Was that the that
wasn't the actual kid? No, but it's the same concept.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Is that what that was about? You think? No? Yeah, Well,
so he lost me there and then I flipped over
to the turning point. One.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Look, though, that music is not necessarily my personal favorite,
but I really appreciate what they were doing in a
Turning Point USA, of course, founded by Charlie Kirk, is
just not content to live with the legacy of Charlie Kirk.
They're trying to grow the organization and the theme from

(16:49):
Turning Point USA is every one of you could be
the next Charlie Kirk in your own way. So they're
trying to get kids, high school kids and college kids
to give back to their country. Charlie Kirk, his image
and his brand was hijacked by the left many times,
and then he'd reel it back in by saying, no,
this is what I believe. I believe that having a
family is the greatest joy you could possibly imagine, and

(17:12):
it makes for a great country. So find somebody that
you want to have kids with, marry him and do it.
Give back to your country. Read the Bible, read the Constitution,
and live that way, and if you do, you're going
to have a really happy life. I think kids today,
eighteen to twenty five year old kids today are looking
for something that is bigger and better than what they've

(17:35):
been exposed to for the whole of their lives, which
started with planes flying into buildings and everything thereafter.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
I think that when I turned over to the Turning
Point USA halftime show, not knowing a lot about the
country artists that were performing, I kind of thought maybe
you'd be, you know, kind of some acoustic guitars and
singing some Lee Greenwood kind of songs. These guys were
rocking it out show. Sure, they were really rocking another.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
The Green Day went political during the pregame show on
and it's just it's unfortunate, all right.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Brandy Carlisle and Charlie Booth did a great job with
the America, the Beautiful and the star Spangled banner. By
the way, we haven't talked about a couple of different
things here, including yes, that was a streaker, but he
was only topless for the super Bowl halftime show. What's
the point of streak in the game if you're not
going to be completely So this is a guy who

(18:33):
has done this before, and I guess he's done it
before at the super Bowl. Not to give him a
lot of credit, and I'm not going to give out
all the details, but this is a guy who is
has kind of built a following by marketing himself as
a day trader, he had his his phrase about how

(18:54):
to trade with him and his social media platform name
written on his back, and he ran around the field
for a while until he was tackled by security. I
think there was a member of the Patriots that also
helped bring him down. It was about as exciting as
the game got there on the field for a while.
So yeah, that was a streaker out there. But of

(19:17):
course there's always one more component to the game every year,
and that is the ads. As usually, if you're watching
the game with a bunch of people who watch exactly
one football game a year, that's when they talked during
the football and then when the ads come on, they're like, hey,
everyone quiet down. The commercials are on. So I don't

(19:39):
know if it was a concerted effort to make everything
as bland as possible this year, from the game to
the commercials and everything else. I'm sitting here this morning,
the day after. I can't really remember anything that really
grabbed me from a commercial.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Stand banana commercial early on with Ben's Diller was pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
When he fell off.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
He's trying to has made his you know up and
him on the performance, so he tries to do up
on him and he falls off the set and crashes
into the drum set and one.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
I didn't know who the other guy was, Benson Boone.
I think, well, it was an instacart coming.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
That was pretty funny. But the challenge I have, being
in the advertising business as I have been for forty
five years, if you don't know what the product is
and you don't know what the company is, I'm not
really sure that your ten million was well spent for

(20:40):
the thirty seconds And how many commercials? And maybe I'm
old and maybe I'm in the rocking chair, and maybe
I've got macular degeneration. But a show of hands, do
you remember any of the brands promoted in that Super
Bowl other than the traditional ones like beer?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (20:58):
And the answer is most people go, what what was that?
There was one commercial for Cadillac and it involved I
think it was a space rover on the surface of
Mars that was actually a It was actually kind of
a drag racing vehicle, and then it blew up, and

(21:19):
then Cadillac showed up. Wait a minute, show me a Cadillac.
If you want me to buy a Cadillac, show me
the Cadillac and tell me where I can get one, well,
you remember it, so that's well. But yeah, but that
was only because I knew Cadillac. But think of all
of the brands that were promoted during the Super Bowl,
for AI and for other high tech brands, I think

(21:43):
they're all private equity financed. And what do you want
me to know about this? How does it? Is there
an operating system? Is there a software system? Is there
something that I can buy the least that I can
follow and maybe one day need.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
And the answer to me it was no. The ones
that stick it out that I thought were good is
there's always a couple of ads that tug at the
heartstrings a little bit. Yeah, the dad given over his
potato farm to his daughter outdated Harvey ramtruck Dida, that was.
That was a good one. The dunkin Donuts with all
the the guys going back to the nineties and playing

(22:19):
some of those characters and seeing people like rkle you
know in there, that was that was good. I thought
that was well done. Kind of a good will hunting
and a dunkin Donuts thing. I thought that was good.
And I did enjoy Andy Samberg as not Neil Diamond
but me old Diamond singing sweet Caroline while springing mayonnaise
all over eone's food. That was a mayonnaise commercial that

(22:42):
was good. That was good, the Hellman's mayonnaise.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Over the last thirty five or forty years, Scott and
I've watched a lot of Super Bowls. I can remember
two commercials from the Super Bowl. Now, maybe it's just me,
but one of them was the McDonald's midget football commercial
about thirty five years ago, where the dad, it's a
midget football game, and the dads are out there pee
wee little kid, yeaheah, midget football, Lily, and they're you know,

(23:05):
they're out there like dads are and every dad whose
kid ever played pee wee or midget football knows what
we're talking about. And at one point they actually formed
a goalpost the dads did and it literally worked. The
next day I went to McDonald's and had a sandwich
because of that commercial, which is what they wanted. And then,
of course the Paul Harvey Farmer commercial for Ram Trucks

(23:27):
about fifteen years ago was good. Those are the only
two that I remember now. There have been funny ones
like the Tabasco Sauce exploding mosquito from years ago, but
it didn't make me go out and buy a bottle
of Tabasco sauce.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
I think my favorite of all time is still Puppy
Monkey Baby. Are funny. I like the funny. I like
the ridiculous ones. I want to just I want to
laugh at stupid stuff.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
And you can be ridiculous if you're going to spend
the ten million for a thirty you can be ridiculous
if people know what your brand already is.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Puppy Monkey Baby.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, we know about lace potato chips. We've probably all
bought a bag of laized potato chips. So you can
do a cool, feel good spot like that for laized
potato chips because people know what.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
Lays potato chips actually are. Neil says Scott. The answer
to Jim's question about the Cadillac ad was that the
Cadillac F one team was it's the newest F one
team on the grid this year, so that's why it
was important. So it was the live reveal of Cadillac
doing an F one thing.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, let me tell you, Formula one car is great.
Most people don't drive them, and that's a pretty expensive
way to tell people about your Formula one car ten
million for a thirty.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, then there was the I guess it was a
crypto trading the old coinbase, where the ad was ninety
nine percent just showing the lyrics on the screen to
Backstreets Back by the Backstreet Boys, and then it said
something about crypto and I'm looking at that going these
guys must have just like more money than they know

(25:01):
what to do with. What should we do for this ad?
I don't know. Just feature the lyrics to this song
against a background and then say coinbase. I remembered it though,
so I suppose that's not all bad. There were a
couple of gross ads, the singing toilets asking you to
check the color of your urea to make sure you
were hydrated. That was gross. And then my wife thankfully

(25:23):
missed the one before kickoff of guys shaving their hair, yeah,
all over their bodies, and then that clump of hair
was sitting there on the drain singing to you. If
my wife would have saw that, she'd still not be eating.
She'd be a permanent hunger strike. A lot of people
are emailing saying they like the Clydesdale and the bald eagle, and.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
Yeah, that was actually unfailed some time ago by Budweiser,
but a lot of people saw it for the first
time because it was on the Super Bowl. That's Budweiser's very,
very specific attempt to try and win back Americans.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, I did.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
After the Dylan mulvany mess. That's their chance to say,
you know what, we love the country. I don't care
what we used to do. We love the country now.
I didn't even see that. It's pretty cool. It starts
with a cold and a little chick, you know, eagle chick,
and they grow up together and.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I'll check it out. We now welcome Iowa Senator Jony
Ernst back to the program here on eleven ten kfab Senator,
good morning.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Hey, great to be with you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Before we talk about a variety of things here, I
first want to thank you very much for your never
ending dedication not just to the Root family, but in
passing Sarah's Law in honor of Sarah Root, that is
going to provide much better framework for what to do
in the instance where we have something terrible like what

(26:42):
happened to Sarah Root and the Root family. And I
know that you were watching with interest as the person
responsible for her death was sentenced. A lot of people
thought it should have been a longer sentence for him,
but at least, I mean a year ago, we never
thought this guy would ever be brought to justice. So
thank you very much for your dedication on that.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, it was an absolute privilege to be able to
do that. All of us wish that we hadn't had
to do that. But now we do have Sarah's Law
signed into law in honor of Sarah Root's memory. President
Trump figned out about a year ago, and it will
require that I detain any illegal who seriously hurt or

(27:25):
killed an American like Sarah, so that that perpetrator can
face justice in court. And special things goes out to
the Trump administration and in particular Secretary Christy Nome and
Secretary Marco Rubio. They worked very hard to find Edwin

(27:45):
mcgeea who killed Sarah, and it only took them weeks
to find him in Honduras, and then between the two
of them worked with the Honduran government to get him
extradited to the United States. It was an extraordinary effort
and I'm so grateful.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Obviously, illegal immigration ICE is kind of front and center
a huge topic throughout the country. Right now, You've got
people at an Iowa church and see or rapids who
have been not a church sanctioned event, but this happened
at the church. There were people in their teaching protesters
how to get between law enforcement and potentially dangerous criminals

(28:21):
during an apprehension. What did you make of that and
what could happen to people who are training people to
go out there and get arrested by law enforcement or
maybe shot and killed.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well, I think we all want to make sure that
people can peacefully protest, but certainly if you are impeding
authorized investigations, authorized activities by law enforcement, that in itself
could be a criminal activity. So it is my hope

(28:53):
that you know that people are not engaging in this way.
We've seen where it's gone completely in Minnesota with the
tragic loss of life of people who were impeding operations.
These are you know, they are authorized to execute the

(29:16):
types of warrants that they are. They are authorized to
apprehend illegal aliens, especially those that are criminal aliens in
our country, and please people, let them do their jobs.
They are making our communities safer. And it's the protesters
that engage in these again possibly criminal activities that are

(29:38):
making the communities less.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Safe, Jim Row.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Senator Joni Art. Let's talk about the White House for
a second. You know President Donald Trump pretty well. You
were very close to becoming his vice president in his
first administration. What do you make of this meme where
you had the Obamas on top of gorilla bodies.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh awful. I don't condone that type of activity. And
I don't know who posted that meme. I hope that
person has fired.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, he said he didn't watch it all the way through.
It was a jungle scape featuring a lot of politicians
faces on various animals. Trump was a lion, the Obamas
were monkeys. They took it down. He said, I had
nothing to do with it. I don't believe.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Well.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
At the same time, the President complains that people aren't
paying attention to how great the stock market's doing four
to one, k's in record territory, America's going great, and
then comments on Rob Reiner, you got the Obama thing here,
commenting on the Bad Bunny halftime show. Does the president
have anything Did he take any of the blame for
people not paying attention to things like the economy?

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Well, I think it's it's really important that all of
us talk about how strong the economy is moving. We
are moving in the right direction. I've noted before the
cost of gas right now across Midwest is about half
of the high point under the Biden administration. So we
are definitely moving in the right direction. We've got to

(31:06):
talk about it more. People will feel it, you know,
in their pocketbooks. Let's focus on the things that really matter.
But then, at the same time, you know, the people
at the White House that we're doing this, it was
just wrong. It was wrong to do it. They should
just admit it was wrong to do it. I'm glad
that it has been taken down, but we really need

(31:28):
to get back to where we're respectful of one another.
But we're focusing on the things that matter to our
everyday working families because things were rough under the Biden administration.
We are trending in the right direction, and we've really
got to talk about it and make sure that people
are following the stock market. People are following, you know,

(31:49):
how well the economy is doing with energy costs coming down.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
It is true, Senator Earth, that the stock market is
about the future. What you see today is it's in
the future, and if the stock market of Wall Street
does well, ultimately mainStreet.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Should do well.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
But Islands I suspect, much like Nebraskans struggle with the following.
Health Care costs are through the roof. Health insurance is
through the roof property. Casually insurance is through the roof.
A family of four doing the minimum can barely afford
anything today. Given those fixed costs. You are in the
Senate for another year or so. What are we going

(32:28):
to do about addressing those fixed costs that are not
actually part of the macro economy?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, exactly, Well, policies in the past have driven those
costs up. And you mentioned health insurance. Health insurance is
ungodly expensive. Why because the federal government was subsidizing health premiums.
But that wasn't going to the consumer. It was going
directly to those health insurers. So what did the health

(32:56):
insurance do. They just pocketed the additional subsidy that the
federal government was giving them and didn't lower the cost
of those premiums to the consumer. So the way the
policies have been executed in the past was wrong. Obamacare
was wrong. It was supposed to drive costs down for
the consumer. It absolutely didn't. So we have to change

(33:17):
the models, the models that will work for consumers, not
for the federal government, and not for those that are
just taking those subsidies as all. Well, we've got to
move smarter, not work harder.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I really appreciate the time today, Senator, Thank you very
much for taking it.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
New bed take care.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Well, do you know there was another walkout at the
end of the day Friday here in schools across the area.
No one got hit by a car to my knowledge
this time anywhere I checked. Is that what we're going
to do start eat week? Well?

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Guess what Nobody got hit by a car protesting ice today?

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, there was no No one should be struck by
a car during a peaceful protest that goes out into
the street where the cars are and tries to surround
car while damaging it. That'd be the correct response to that.
Of course, happened in Fremont a couple of weeks ago.
It turns out that the Super Bowl ad for Dunkin
Donuts was preemptively, very very popular for a lot of

(34:12):
student protesters who left school at the end of the
day Friday and went to the nearest Dunkin Donuts to
hang out and have ice, coffee and donuts. Didn't seem
to be much of a protest, perhaps just the excuse
to get out of school at the end of the
day on a Friday, on a nice Friday afternoon and
go to Dunkin Donuts. Go to Duncan.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
He doesn't want a donut in the middle of the afternoon.
There was a time when I could have a donut
into the middle of the afternoon, and I look like
the Ottoman Empire.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Here's what the principal at Westview High School sent out
to parents on Friday says, this afternoon, a group of
students held a walk out in connection to similar demonstrations
across the country. A top priority to support students academics,
social emotional needs while maintaining a safe an orderly learning
environmentlah blah blah. Here's what I like. Students are expected

(35:02):
to attend classes and understand there are natural consequences when
classes are missed truancy, missed assignments, tests, etc. Student or
a school protocol is that students not in class will
be marked as truant. Student protests and walkouts are not
school sponsored events, and instruction continued as scheduled. Today. That's

(35:25):
from Principal Lee at Omaha Westview out in northwest Omaha.
I wonder now if this continues to be a trend
at the end of the day on a Friday, if
those final period teachers will be encouraged to have big
tests or assignments in class that if you miss them
because you care so much about this issue, you got

(35:46):
to go out and protest. Not after school, not on
the weekend, but during seventh period. If you care so
much about it, sorry, do it after school. We got
a big test at the end of the day Friday.
I wonder if they'll start doing that now. I'll tell
you another group of people who were really into the
game gym and that is a lot of young twenty
something and thirty something guys. Many of them parked just

(36:09):
across the Mormon Bridge on what is exit one on
six p't eighty from northeast Omaha into Iowa. This has
become a popular spot for people during a lot of
sporting events. Do you know what why Because you due
to the GPS in your phone, you can't place sports

(36:30):
bests unless you're in Iowa. So the story here from
First Alert six News said yesterday on that exit before kickoff,
there were dozens of cars with Nebraska place pulled off
the road. If you were driving by and thinking, was
there an emergency? Did everyone just drive over a bunch
of tacks in the road and they got to wait
for someone to fix their tires? What happened?

Speaker 5 (36:53):
Here?

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Are they waiting out the bad weather yesterday? The weather
yesterday was fantastic. No GPS software tracks when someone's making
a sports bet on their phone. And since Nebraska doesn't
allow it and Iowa does, people just drive over there,
pull off the road, and they don't even get out
of their cars. I would think that at least you
get out and say, hey to everyone, what are you

(37:17):
betting on? How's your year going with your sports best?
And of course there are a lot of things that
a lot of young guys, including now teenagers, get these
sports betting apps on their phones and they get really
really hooked on them, which is, if you have the
money to blow and you think it's fun, have at it.
If you don't, and this is the way you're trying
to make a living, that's not a great idea.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Most don't. Well, this is interesting because I thought, and
I'm obviously behind the times, that I'm not much of
a gambler, at least not anymore. I thought you could
go into a game room in one of the Nebraska
casinos and you are eligible. You just couldn't bet on
Nebraska football if you were in Nebraska, but apparently not.

(38:00):
Apparently you got to be if you're going to vote online,
you got to be over in Iowa.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I think that with the that which you'd use on
your phone. I mean, I don't know if you can
go into one of the Nebraska outlets and bet on,
say the Super Bowl, I don't know. I'm not that
familiar with it. If you are, send me an email.
And the Zonker's custom was inbox scot at kfab dot com.

(38:28):
But online sports betting, to my knowledge, is illegal Nebraska. Now.
Of course, they're trying to get the signatures here and
get it on the ballot this fall, and then the
legislature they could take it up, but they probably won't.
This could be forced by the people. But anytime the
people say we want this, then it kind of especially

(38:49):
if it's something that's on the wrong side of a
conservative point, it gets slow walked into existence, like medical marijuana.
So think you got to be in Iowa to do
it from your phone. Well, that very well could be
the case.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
I thought that with the passage of the bill that
it was okay you could do it in Nebraska, but
there was a restriction on betting on Nebraska football right now.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
The story here says making a sports bet on your
phone is limited at best here in Nebraska. So you
got to go over to Iowa if you want to
do some of those things. Yeah, there are a lot
of people here who lives have been ruined by gambling,
and then there are certainly a ton of people who

(39:33):
are able to do it responsibly and enjoy it. But
if you've got young men doing this and it's just
as easy as getting on your phone and doing a
couple of clicks and taps and now you're betting money
you don't have, that's a problem.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
Well, the problem, of course is the online betting and
DraftKings and fan duel and some of these other services
that are easily downloaded onto your phone. It used to
be the you you had to literally turn in a
sheet and you had to have the cash. Okay, But
if the cash is in the form of a credit card,

(40:07):
or it's in the form of some sort of digital currency,
or it's not in your hands. It's much easier to gamble.
And we are finding this out. There's a lot of
there's a lot of research on this. The college kids
are in particular, very susceptible. Their brains and some of
the you know, waves and rhythms in their brains are

(40:28):
wired in a way at that age that makes this
highly addictive, much more so than other people. And it's
having a devastating effect on college kids. It's driving them
out of college because they don't have any money anymore,
or their parents yank them out of college because their
parents are looking at a credit card bill and go,
what's this. Yeah, So it's a huge, huge problem on

(40:49):
college campuses. I think it's an addictive issue that affects
millions and millions of Americans in a way that the
kind of recreational gambling that used to go on never did.
Now that that's not to indict casinos, because it's a
form of entertainment and people need to be personally responsible,
but this online betting and these these betting apps that

(41:11):
are so easy to access on a kid's phone, a
college kid, that needs some sort of restriction.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
If people were more responsible more personally responsible, we wouldn't
have many of the problems with you today, and then
we wouldn't have anything to talk about.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
I think this is a there's a personal choice that
is associated with people's individual behavior, and then there is
I think a truly mental addiction. And I think that
these apparatus, these apparati have had a devastating effect on
college kids that they've never ever experienced before.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
I think it's apparatus in the Zonker's custom What's inbox?
Got a kfab dot Com. I'll lead into sports Brief
with this email from Jim that says, I'm wondering if
Jim Rose notice Seattle's defensive line that have five or
six on the line, three more rushing up to the
line to get to the quarterback. I hope Matt Rule
was watching.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Well, Seattle has the people to pull it off, that's
number one. We'll see if Nebraska has the people to
pull it off. But you know this is We've got
spring practice starting a week from Saturday here, and.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
I'm not sure what.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
The pulse of Husker Nation is right now. I think
that I think that people are very skeptical. I think
that I think that they are not leaving the building yet,
but they are standing up and straightening their pants. And
I think that there is a lot of skepticism about
this coaching staff, about this head coach, about this athletic

(42:39):
department right now. So he better come up with some answers.
And he doesn't have a whole lot of time to
do it. He's got a whole bunch of new coaches,
he's got a whole bunch of new players, and when
you have new players and new coaches, it takes a while.
But you know what we saw out of Seattle was
relentless pursuit of the ball. And I mean every play

(43:01):
was the last play of the season.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Forms Well, we have it. Now, your top ten favorite ads.
This is America voting the USA Today ad Meter, and
I will give you the list from number ten up
to number one, and we can either agree or disagree.
I will tell you that sentiment won this year. Well,
Seahawks won, but for the ads, it was a big

(43:25):
on sentiment. Now, before I get to that, Lucy Chapman,
do you just feel completely left out? Lucy never watches
the Super Bowl, never watches the ads, you don't watch
them online. I mean, I want to take your temperature,
because you're not the only one who is in that boat.
There's at least three or four of you in there
that don't pay any attention to the game every year.

(43:46):
Do you feel completely left out?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I don't feel completely left out, but it is true.
I do not watch the game and never have. So
it's nothing political. I just never have.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Oh it's political. Everything's political.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
The commercials, maybe so. I did see online a commercial
that was kind of interesting that one of the football
players I don't know, like the Brett Farv type guy,
kept getting killed.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
Are you talking about the ad with Chris Hemsworth. Yeah,
that for the Avenger and not a football player.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
I don't know why I thought he was football Yeah, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Like fighting a bear and all that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Yes, what was that about?

Speaker 1 (44:25):
I was the Amazon LEXI. We don't call her by
her name because some people listen to this radio station
via that smart speaker and we'll turn it off.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
I did see that.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Okay, so let's see now you're in. Now you're fully in.
Let's see if that ad, the one that Lucy has
seen made the top ten. Number ten was the ring
ad where you can find your lost pets through other
people's ring doorbells.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
What.

Speaker 4 (44:49):
Yeah, you can get an app and if everybody else
in the neighborhood is on the app, that all of
their cameras can be activated if you lose your dog,
and then ideally somebody will see your dog, call you
and you'll be reunited.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Right, you can access their cameras.

Speaker 1 (45:04):
No, I think you can. You can make you shareable
what is seen in your You.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Can say I lost my dog to your neighbors and
then they can this apple easily. Well, maybe this map
app makes it easy to have everybody's cameras coordinated.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
All right, Number nine bud Light Keg, Shane Gillis and Malone.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
This is the this is the wedding scene where the
keg goes rolling down the hill and everybody chases after
and then Peyton Manning says, you know there's a trail.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
I didn't see that one was that late in the game,
because okay, it was in the fourth quarter. I was
kind of spotting maybe third or four. All right, NFL
and for being a champion.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
This is players about their engagement with all of these
youth organizations.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
I think it was also talking to their younger selves,
you know about all that so okay. So number seven, well,
I didn't like this one. This was no vartis. They've
got a test you can do about checking for prostate cams. Yeah,
I didn't like it either. It was tight ends and
it was you're supposed to relax your tight end.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
And it showed people's butts. Yeah, they weren't naked butts,
but they were butts that were enhanced digitally to look better.
And it has to do with prostate.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Certainly, a zoom in shot of Rob Gronkowski in his
football pants unclenching his rear end was not something I
needed for the game that important cause certainly hopefully it works.
Number six Infinity they did a Jurassic Park ad. I

(46:48):
didn't see this one either. I heard about it. They
got some of the original.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Sam Elliott, Sam O'Neil, and I think Laura Dern. At
least they digitally made them eighteen nineties versions again and
income the dinosaurs.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Yeah, they did that with another ad yet to come.
On our countdown, we're counting down the number one. Number five.
This is the michelob Ultra ad featuring Kurt Russell as
a ski instructor. Because last one down has to buy
Mick Ultras after the skiing and it's always this one

(47:24):
guy and Kurt Russell teaches him how to be a
much better skier.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Yeah, he's instructing this guy on how to be faster
because he's doing a snowplow down the hill while all
the other people are waiting for him. So he's got
to buy the michelobe, he's got to buy the round.
So he looks over and there's Kurt Russell looking like
old man winner saying, you know, the broken down ski coach.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, makes him a champion. That's fine. I like number four.
This was the Duncan Ad featuring everybody is younger version
of themselves in a nineties Saved by the Bell kind
of style dunkin Donuts and it's loosely based on Goodwill hunting.
Except was Goodwill Duncan with Ben Affleck and I saw

(48:07):
Alfonso Robero, Matt LeBlanc, Joey from Friends, Jennifer Aniston from Friends,
Erkele was in that ad. It was kind of fun.
I liked the nostalgia that hits where I grew up
in the eighties and nineties. But they already have you,
they don't need you, they need your son. Yeah, my
son won't have any idea what any of that is.

(48:29):
But all right. Number three this was the pepsi ad
featuring polar bears drinking pepsi and then getting caught on
the kiss camp and reveling in it, going yeah, we're
drinking pepsi.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
That's just like the executive at Fenway Park last spring
who got caught with his girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
Right yeah, going right after coke. I mean, a pepsi
ad that pretty much invokes Coca cola. The entire ad
is risky with their you know, polar bear mascot things.
This was number three that made number three number two.
This is the one I mentioned earlier that you know,

(49:06):
almost got me to tear up the Lays farmer. This
is the dad saying, yeah, it's time to turn over
the potato farm to my daughter, and they throw a
retirement party for him, and Lays was all about like, yeah,
it's family farms. Now. Do I think that this is
exactly how many of these farms across America cultivate the

(49:26):
potatoes that go into the potato chips. I don't. I hope,
so I think it's great. If this isn't all true,
I don't know, but most people think that's how potato
chips are made. Really, just take a potato, slice it
in the garage, fry it up, and boom. Well later
they had a thing saying, hey, scan this thing and
we'll send you a bag of potato chips. That was

(49:49):
these potatoes were in the ground within seventy two hours.
Their turn into your fresh potatoes. And there they come like,
I don't know, I was cute. I'm sure I've had
fresh potato chips. I'm sure I've had potato chips that
were sold twenty years beyond their expiration. They don't thought
they were all fine. There's no such thing as a
fresh potato chat. It's all fine. But that was certainly

(50:10):
a nice sentimental ad and they liked it. Your number
one favorite ad. This was the Clydesdale who was nursing
a baby bald eagle back to health and taking care
of it. They grew up together. Yeah, this is the
Budweiser Clydesdale American Icon. They learned to fly.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Yeah, and then they actually had at the Super Bowl
a Clydesdale and a bald eagle on top of the
Clydesdale and Budweiser paid extra to have them cut away
from the commercial to that shot at Levi's state. They
might as well have just said, hey, remember that ad
we put out on some social channels featuring a guy

(50:48):
who pretends to be a prepubescent girl selling beer, which
makes no sense on any level.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
We're sorry about that. Here is the ad executive who
thought that was a good idea. He's in the and
we're throwing bad cabbage at him and empty beer bottles.
So watch this for sixty seconds you see a guy
getting beat in the face with bad cabbage and tomatoes.
That would have been an effective ad. I think this
ad was kind of delivering the same message. The problem

(51:15):
was Scott. After that ad, there were no empty bottles
of beer because nobody was buying it. The well, I
don't think there was a beer in the entire commercial.
Maybe the guy is standing there because there's one guy
looking at another guy and they're watching the scenele you crying,
Gogo Sons.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
In my eyes, this was very cool and it's very
patriotic and it but it had actually been released before
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Many of them are so do we have a bottom five?
Looks like it? I'll give you in descending order, you
got the Wicks ad. This is a woman using Wi's
Harmony to create a website where she I don't know,
paints trees or something. Was It was an incredibly boring ad.

(52:05):
I have no idea what the product was. I think
it's about creating a website. It is, this is twenty
twenty six. Are people, especially young people, confused on how
to create a website? Now this one to your point, Jim, like,
they're not trying to get me to do this. They're
trying to get my teenage son to be involved in

(52:26):
this stuff. I bet the teenagers twenty somethings went crazy
for this ad, but the adults had no idea who
this guy was or what this was all about. This
was the Salesforce ad featuring mister Beast. Now the teenage
boys they know mister Beasts. They love mister Beasts. Mister
Beast goes anywhere and does anything. There's a huge crowd.

(52:47):
Police are involved and they have to shut the thing down.
He was just in the last couple of years they
tried to do a basketball tournament Lincoln. I think it
got shut down because there were too many people there.
They all follow this guy online and this was some
sort of clue thing where you have to look at
the ad and then go online, and there's clues in

(53:07):
the ad to figure out a password where someone was
gonna win a million dollars, and apparently people looked at
it and said, I don't know who this guy is
or what it's all about, but that's kind of on
brand for him. I imagine someone won a million dollars,
that's a good deal. Then you've got Serena Williams using
the Row weight loss drugs. She's lost thirty five pounds.

(53:31):
People are like, I don't care, all right. The second
least popular ad was for Zvedka Shake your Bots Off.
I think this is something where you put some flavoring
in a bottle of water and you shake it and
now you got pop or something, and there were robots dancing.
And then this is the one I mentioned earlier saying

(53:54):
is this really what they came up with? Coinbase, where
it just had a blank screen like you were watching
a karaoke screen and the lyrics to everybody Backstreets back
by the Backstreet Boys is going, and then it says
coinbase for cryptocurrency. People are like, what what? They spent

(54:14):
a ton of money on this, and that's what they did.
Like the karaoke screen for singing a song that no
one's ever sung at karaoke ten million, thirty plus the
production cost. But like I said, I remembered it.