What'd I Miss?

I survived the bears and bison, but not the attacks from gas pumps and credit card fees.  We also talk today about whether it's good or bad news that so many Nebraskans are off EPT support, get a Strait of Hormuz update, provide some welcome news for dogs in Ohio, and more!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and thank you so much for getting up
here and spending part of this Monday morning or all
of this Monday morning with us here. This is Nebraska's
Morning News on news Radio eleven ten KFAB. I'm Scott Vorhees,
Craig Evans right there, Lucy Chapman, and Jim Rose as well,
and after being gone for a week, my appreciation to

(00:20):
Gary Sadelemeyer fifty years with this radio station, and then
Peyton high Lock fifty weeks with this radio station for
jumping in here and assisting last week. And of course
a huge thanks to Jim and Lucy for everything that
I presume that you did while I was gone last week.

(00:41):
I missed you all terribly as I spent time with
buffalo and or bison.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And it's were you gone? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I was gone on last week. I missed you too, Lucy,
but you're hoping you didn't listen. I don't know what
the difference is between a buffalo and a bison, but
we just kind of used it interchangeably as we went
through the What did I refer to this as the
Vorhees Family Great American American two fifty summer road trip

(01:12):
or something like that, we went to Rushmore, we saw
a Devil's Tower. We went through Big Horn State Park
in Wyoming. We went to Yellowstone and spent a few
days over there, and went down through the Grand Tetons,
and then spent a very long time driving back across
Wyoming and Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Basically just drove for a week.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
We spent an entire week essentially in the car with
each other, did my family. And when we you know, yesterday,
we were still talking to each other. So that's that's
a successful family road trip vacation.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And I'm not going to spend the next three hours
saying and then we and I'm not going to do that.
I'll give you a couple of observations though, right off
the bat, when you're going to the National parks, Mount
Rushmore and Yellowstone, for example, you know what, this whole
experience was gratefully devoid of thugs, thugs and protesters and

(02:15):
people looking out there to cause trouble, and you know,
kids running all over the place, running amuck without anyone
saying tyson, stop that. You know, it was just wonderful
families and people from around the world who were there.
And I saw a lot of people wearing their red,
white and blue as they were going out there to

(02:35):
see the faces on Mount Rushmore or Old Faithful. I'll
also admit this. I I've never been to Yellowstone, and
I was completely ignorant to everything that Yellowstone is. I
thought Yellowstone was some trees and some fields and a
few animals running here and there, and a geyser. It

(02:59):
is absolutely amazing. And you could spend an entire week
just to Yellowstone and not get your fill of that.
It's incredible. Lucy, have you ever been.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Oh, yeah, you have, Yeah, Yellowstone. Yeah, I didn't know
there was to get off that wooden path though you
don't want to do that.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
No, No, we were.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, we had the bear spray and didn't get a
chance to use it, though we did see a bear.
We saw a chamber of commerce bear. This bear just
lumbered across the You have a leisure suit on. Oh,
it's just it looked like Heath mellow. No, it just
went across the road and they just hung out around
the cars doing bear stuff. I'm gonna eat these flowers.

(03:40):
I'm gonna lay down in the grass, I'm gonna, you know, pose.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
You know, he didn't look like Yogi bear with the
tie and the hat. No, it was an adorable I mean,
I say little comparatively. It wasn't a giant grizzly. It
was a little black bear and it was adorable. And
it's kind of just kind of hanging out there. We were,
I don't know, fifteen twenty yards from it.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
And that was it in Yellowstone.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, that was in Yellowstone.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
We saw wolves and elk and pronghorn and bald eagles
and it was and just wonderful people and you know,
so yeah, we I didn't know there was such thing
as the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is how they
referred to it.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
So we went hiking, saw waterfalls and all the beauty
out there, absolutely amazing.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Did you see any big tall mountains? Did you go
to the Rockies?

Speaker 2 (04:33):
We went?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Then we went to did I say Grand Tetons. We
went down at the Grands. Yeah, they got big tall mountains.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Town, big tall mountains.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
So a wonderful experience, but no thugs, you know. And
I was reminded of this when I saw the story
here about a food festival in Seattle where two guys
got into beef and started shooting at each other. Of course,
you know, they get one guy that he's got a
couple of guns on him, because if you're going to
a food festival in Seattle, he got a at least

(05:00):
two guns. Well, yeah, you know, in case someone looks
at you funny, what are you supposed to do? And
just that whole attitude. I'm just so tired of it.
I hate it. And I didn't see any of that
stuff when on vacation in the National Parks. Now Here
is one thing I noticed that several businesses, especially around

(05:22):
your National Parks where we went to Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone,
you stop in there to get ice cream, ice cream
and more ice cream. Because my kids love vacation Dad.
Vacation Dad wants ice cream every night. Vacation Dad. When
we sit down to eat and they say, does anyone

(05:44):
want anything to drink besides water? The kids look at
me because when we're eating in Omaha, I just give
them a quick little shake.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now we're not but vacation Dad, Yeah, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Whatever whatever you want to do, Vacation Dad is super fun.
Vacation Dad had a lot of money. Vacation Dad decided
to go on a family road trip in the car
when gas prices have never been higher, and at least
not other than like the COVID spike. I paid four

(06:16):
eighty eight for a gallon of gasoline outside of Yellowstone,
and I couldn't go down the street and pay less.
There's not a whole lot were we stayed around West Yellowstone, Montana.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, but in that area you can do a lot
of coasting downhill.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yes, and I did take advantage of that downhill. Everyone,
you know, stop eating so much ice cream. We're adding
weight to the car, Like, Dad, are you talking to yourself? No,
but when we stopped at all these places got food,
ice cream, and more ice cream. A lot of these
businesses are just coming right out with it and saying,

(06:54):
we're adding a credit card fee here. I'm I don't
know that I've seen or noticed any place here in
Omaha that just comes out and telegraphs, here's our credit
card fee. And I'm thinking, all right, I've never been
to Yellowstone before, and these some of these little towns,
tourist places around it. Did they just get credit card

(07:18):
machines out there? Has this heretofore not been a thing
maybe in this area of the world. Really, for all
these years, people like, hey, if you're going to Yellowstone,
make sure and bring a lot of cash because they
don't take any plastic.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Has this never happened before?

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Because they're suddenly like, WHOA, how we supposed to process
all this stuff here? It's going to cost us a
couple of bucks, and we're passing that on to you.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm not saying that, as a small business owner that sells,
let's say, ice cream, that it's cheap to have someone
do the credit card processing. I know there's a fee
to it. Here's what I prefer. Just add a dollar
or whatever to whatever I'm buying and don't tell me
you're adding another five percent or whatever as a credit

(08:05):
card fee. I would rather be ignorant and have you
extract the money from me that way than to say, hey,
if you're paying cash, you can save a couple of bucks.
I don't want to know that. I'm also not going
to carry hundreds of dollars in cash on a family vacation.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
The convenience of the debit card, I'm all in on it.
Just tap, tap, swipe, insert tap and they say, I fine,
if you're if you're paying cash, you can pay this.
But if you're paying credit cards, We're gonna have to
charge you thirty seven percent at really, is that how
much the processor is charging. I don't know what it is,

(08:46):
like three or three and a half percent or whatever.
They're all doing it.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Well.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I don't think they do it on debit cards. I
think it's just credit cards. I could be wrong.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
I didn't know anyone asking, you know, because most people, yeah,
most people, you know, the debit card can also be
used as a credit card.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
They just go ahead and add the fee and that's
all right.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Though I was vacation, Dad, I'm only now just becoming
aware of it because I'm back in here looking at
how much we spent going Holy smokes.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
So my daughter's not gonna be able to.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Go to college here next week because we spent too
much money on ice cream. Now the eleven ten KFAB
Certified Transmission Sports Brief. Here's Jim Rose.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Okay, Scott, good morning, everybody. Huskey football has decided on
fan Day. It'll be Saturday, August eighth, two to three
thirty pm in the Hawks indoor practice Center. Media days
for Big Ten football to this week Tuesday through Thursday
from Chicago. Nebraska is on the podium Thursday. The deal
is this, coaches and players do forty five minutes with
the writers, then forty five with the broadcasters, then get

(09:52):
on their private jets and come home. All of this
with a backdrop of cooling fan interest. And not just here.
Colorado's season ticket sales are way down. Nebraska's trying to
move seats. They're offering two tickets for fifty dollars to
the Bowling Green Game and a modified season ticket package
of three games. Seems a lot of Husker football fans
are spending on volleyball these days. It was Hall of

(10:14):
Fame Day for baseball. Three more Boys of three More
Boys of Summer go in, starting with Carlos Beltron, the
former second round pick of the Royals before a trade
that sent him first to Houston, then the Mets. Joins
Andrew Jones and Jeff Kent in the Hall this year.
Beltran was a hot shot, five tool player who says
I became a better ballplayer when I became a better man.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
There's another team that I want to have the opportunity
to say a few words my shield drinks, Giara Evan.
Carlos being your father has been the greatest owner of
my life.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Baseball has given.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Me an incredible career, but you guys always give me
reason to be a better man.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Nineteen years in the Big league's four hundred and seventy
five home runs fifteen hundred rbi. He's going in as
a New York He and Jones are just the third
and fourth center fielders elected into the Hall of Fame
in the last fifty years. Sunday scores his Royals. His
former Royals got beat by Detroit. Now I should say
Riley to beat Detroit final five to four. Tampa Bay, Boston, Minnesota.

(11:15):
The White Sox and Mariners also got wins in the
American League and the National League. Jacob and Mizzerowski, who
is the starting pitcher for the Brewers who routinely throws
the ball over one hundred miles an hour, struck out
the first seven Colorado Rockies and a route to the
Brewers eleven to two win that sets a franchise record,
fanning the first seven batters of the game. Cincinnati over

(11:37):
the Cardinals five to three. San Diego beat Miami. The Mets, Pirates,
and Nationals also got wins. Atlanta three to two over Baltimore.
The Angels beat San Francisco and an inter league play.
The Phillies bomb the Yankees eleven to four, Omaha four
to three over Salt Lake City. One of college sports
true gentlemen is gone. John Anderson, forty three years head coach,
forty three years head coach of Minnesota baseball thirteen hundred wins,

(12:02):
died suddenly over the weekend at just seventy one. You
talk about loyalty. He was born on Minnesota's Northern Iron Range.
He came to the Gophers as a high school kid,
played there, served as an assistant there, and then head coach.
His team's finished first or second in the league twenty
four times in his forty three years. Tony Romo, the
NFL quarterback then broadcaster, was locked up late last week,

(12:25):
pulled over in Milwaukee, failed several field sobriety tests sufficient
suspicion of dui. He had just played in a golf
tournament and shot thirty five over. Apparently was medicating himself
over the thirty five over sports his news on Nebraska's
news weather in traffic station k ifibby. Husker Info strongman

(12:46):
Sean Callahan has been dispatched to media days in Chicago.
We'll hear from him when the Huskers take the podium
on Thursday, but it starts tomorrow k Faby newst Time
in the morning, six twenty six.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
All right, Jim, thank you, Lucy Chapman now with times save.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Three seventy eastbound from one hundred and eighty two hundred
and sixty eight. The right lane is closed in that
Roadwork continues at seventy second and L.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Construction at seventy second and L. How am I going
to get to Bonson's.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Bonson's there's a.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
Business there in the eighties for boats.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Would they sell water, water.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Skis, life jackets, the boat stuff? Yeah? All right, do
you have a bons Do you have a mild? Now? No?
I just do you want to boat? Now?

Speaker 1 (13:28):
I suddenly, Lucy said, seventy second in L, and I
immediately thought of Bonson's. And I couldn't help myself but
give them a thirty year or two late plug.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Do you know what boat stands for? Bet on another thousand?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah, someone has a boat, don't.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
They a boat?

Speaker 4 (13:45):
A boat is the most unique economical element of our
capitalist system, and that is the buyer and the seller
are equally happy on the same day, which.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Is the worst investment a boat or a swimming pool.
Good question, All right, I got your muse on that.
We'll think about it. Either is a good place to
be today? One oh three. It feels like temperature in
the mid one teens. Got this in the talkback mic
portion of the Zonker's Custom Woods in Box, Scott.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Yes, I don't know if you've been living under a
rock or not. No, but every hospitality that I've been
to in the last year has a thing called processing charge.
They name it a whole bunch of different things, but
almost every small business and restaurant, for sure, are adding

(14:36):
those fees on. You're gonna have to get out more, buddy,
before you go on some rant and embarrass yourself.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Hey, I'm not gonna put up with that. I could
get out as much as I as much as you
think I should, and I will still go on a
rant and embarrass myself.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
He he does it for at least an hour between
nine and ten every day.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Whether or not I get out is not going to
have any baron and whether or not I go on
a rant, make an ass of your and embarrass myself.
But no, I haven't gotten out much this last week.
I was gone my first days off since Gary retired
in December, a long time I have not been out,
and so I got out.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's a whole world out there, isn't there.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah, I've been building up money that I could spend
on the family vacation, on gas and processing fees.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Well, how do you think that?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
How do you think these credit card companies are worth
hundreds of billions of dollars?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yeah, they're they're they're doing pretty well by accident. But
see here, here's my point. The processing fees shouldn't be
tacked on to what they're you're paying now. I guess
on some level I appreciate that a business would say, hey,
if you're paying cash, then you can save three percent
or whatever it is that this particular restaurant or hotel

(15:47):
or whatever it's going to charge you. But most everyone
is just you know, tapping the plastic right now. And
we have for a long time. Credit cards, debit cards
have been around for a very long time. Why are
the businesses suddenly coming out and going, we're going to
do a three percent convenience fee? And maybe they I

(16:07):
figured they've probably always done this, but they just added
the additional cost.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
It's always costed them. It's always costed a business and
cost that's I know that didn't sound right, always cost
a business.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
I know that extra syllable is going to cost you
an extra three percent.

Speaker 4 (16:21):
Loosey, it's okay. Always do is dogpile right? It has
always cost them more money. But to my point, when
you used to go out before, they.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Would just add it to the it would just be
part of what you pay. So rather than this bill
is going to come out to one hundred dollars, you
can pay one hundred dollars cash, or you can pay
one hundred and three dollars with our three percent processing fee.
I would just presume that they would just charge everyone

(16:54):
like one hundred three dollars and two dollars and just
even it out, because I don't want to see the Well,
it's three percent for the processing fee, and then it's
two and a half percent for the restaurant tax, and
then we have minimum wage laws in the state that
make it such that we have to pay our workers more,
which means everyone gets paid more, and we're gonna add
you know, three and a quarter percent to that. Just

(17:16):
just charge me pretty whatever you're gonna charge me and
let me live in ignorant bliss and just say, well,
everything costs a lot of money. Well, last year, the
credit card companies made one hundred and twenty billion dollars
on fees and interest. I thought Trump said one hundred
and twenty billion dollars on your little processing fee. Is
that why my college age daughter gets nineteen mailings a day?

Speaker 2 (17:39):
That's one of the reasons.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
Hey, would you like to tell me credit just for
Fogg and this marror, you get a thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't think they can do that like they used to.
When I was in college in the nineties at Carney,
I got they all the credit card companies the first
couple of weeks of school would all set up right
there near the student union, and hey, sign up for
a credit card, real credit card, and sign for credit card.
I don't think they let them do that.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Anymore, because what they do is just turn it over
to the burser's office, and they're already charging them for
student loans.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
They just wrap the whole thing up. Yeah, that's right now.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's it's a huge, huge business and the largest This
is the other thing people forget, the one category in
the country that tops any other category in marketing and
advertising credit. They spend more money promoting credit in this
country than cars, than restaurants, clothes, anything else. Nothing compares

(18:36):
with the amount of money the credit card companies spend
in advertising.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's my favorite. Sheinad O'Connor song. Ah, nothing compares to
the amount of money that they credit card companies spend
in advertising.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
So the idea is to get folks to go ahead
and buy a credit card or sign up for a
credit card, use that money, and never pay it off.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Right, Well, they credit card companies hate me because I
pay it and you know what they're onto us too.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
By the way, if you haven't noticed, and I won't
mention by name, but there is a large furniture store
in Nebraska that does business from all over the country,
and they have a nice little setup there where the
guys like Jim Rose come in and they say it's
seventeen months same as cash for this, okay, And then

(19:25):
I go ahead and figure out if I pay this
much every month, I'll meet the seventeen months and never
have to pay the interest accrued. And they figured they've
got me locked up right now. And I don't get
as good a deal as other people when I walk
in and say, is that the best you can do
on this? And before Rosie got into the system, sure,
Jim bow Wow, Now it's no, that's the price for you,

(19:47):
big guy.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
They take a look at it and they say, this
guy pays it off. Yeah, not a good customer, because
if you've ever mistimed that last payment.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Numbers been, Now you owed all this interest.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Fees and at large. Gosh, we had one of those
tank on that. Yeah, the first time I'd ever gotten
to one of those deals. I didn't know how it worked.
Young married guy doing something and suddenly he was thinking
of other things like here's your monthly payment. Now I'm
like holy smokes with her.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, that was a tough lesson learned.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Well, there was a friend of mine, his brother worked
in the appliance department at a very prominent furniture store,
and this guy was so good with folks from North Omaha.
He would come in and he'd explain to him, Okay,
now how much money do you make every month? Well,
how much do you bring home? Because you want to
buy this washer dryer? Well, I bring home this much.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
He said.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Okay, Well, here's the deal, this one right here. You
have to pay this much every month to avoid interest.
He'd literally coach him. Well, pretty soon there was a
line of people that were coming in to see just
him because they word have gotten out. This one guy
over there, he says this, and he teaches us how
to do that, and we wind up not having to

(20:59):
pay any interest because he lets us know we can
afford this. And once in a while he'd say you
can't afford that. You need to buy this one over
here and it and the guy sets sales records. Yeah,
even the owner of the company, a famous investor in town,
would say.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hey, who's this guy? I wonder what story you're talking about.
Speaking of the economy, the Gallop Economic Confidence Index is
still way down, but it's up from month over month.
In May, a lot more people felt pessimistic about the
economy than they did in June, but that number is

(21:37):
still that people think that the economy is terrible. Didn't
notice since everyone's going out and they're going on vacation,
they're doing road trips, they're flying around the country, they're
going to see the Odyssey.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
There.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
People are still going out and doing stuff, or at
least if you're not going out and doing stuff, you're
doing what is now the great American pastime of just
ordering stuff to be delivered to your house, which is,
as I believe, bringing us every day closer to what
I think is going to be. We're all going to
end up working for Amazon, and our job will be

(22:17):
that we just go to the warehouse and deliver to
ourselves that which we ordered online. That will someday be
all of our jobs. I saw that here in our lifetimes,
God willing, that twenty percent of the nation's energy supply
will be used up by data centers. And most of

(22:37):
that's just from my daughter posting on Instagram all of
the pictures she took on our vacation. This is a
bad day, Jim to be a Haitian because the Supreme
Court ruling last month cleared the way for the President
and the Trump administration to wind down TPS, which is
temporary Protected status. The idea being is that you come

(22:59):
here from parts unknown, and you say, well, I need
to stay in America because if I get sent back,
if I have to go back to my home country,
I'll be murdered by gang members and gorillas. Whether those
gorillas are gu or goo, you have no idea the
dangers I would face if I had to go home.

(23:20):
And over the decades since President George HW. Bush signed
TPS into law in nineteen ninety, the idea used to
be that if they're like a natural disaster or a
war torn country, we're not going to make you go
back there. Now it's like, well, I don't want to go.

(23:40):
I got a good thing going here, and I've got
taxpayer funded welfare and food stamps happening here in America.
And if you send me back to my home country,
I have hay fever and I'm allergic to the air
in Haiti or Sudan or whatever. So we just let
everyone stay here. Well, President Trump said, we're not doing
this anymore. So as a result, starting today, about three

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hundred and fifty thousand TPS recipients from Haiti and several
other nations are set to lose their work permits. Starting
in September, about one hundred and ninety thousand people from
El Salvador could lose their TPS protection. Now a lot

(24:25):
of this, and here's where the media is saying, well,
there's the Ice is planning sweeps, all right. The media
doesn't know that. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn
that Immigration Customs Enforcement is planning sweeps to round up
and deport Haitian immigrants who have not who no longer
get that TPS protection and one of the big places

(24:46):
they're looking to do it Jim Springfield, Ohio. Do you
remember why Springfield, Ohio. This was a big part of
the especially the debate between President Trump and President hiding
leaning in twenty twenty four. Remember what President Trump said,
the allegations made during the summer of twenty twenty four.

(25:10):
These people eat dog food. They don't eat dog food,
they eat dogs as food. He said that homeowners and
people pet owners in Springfield, Ohio, they're eating the dogs.
They're eating the dogs there. It's a disaster that they're
eating dogs.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
So ICE.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
According to CBS News, ICE is planning sweeps to round
up into port Haitian immigrants as their legal status expires
starting today and Springfield, Ohio is the biggest target. Now
here's the estate. Do they get to take their dogs
with them? Here's the statement from the Chamber of Commerce
in Springfield, Ohio.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
That's damn oh.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Look how happy they are, tails Wagon. They're thrilled they
can go out in the backyard again, without being concerned
about ending up on someone's supper plate. The local picnic table,
think of the bun, Well, that's only for Docsin's weeder dogs. Yeah,

(26:13):
this is this happy times. This is a good time
to be a dog in Springfield, Ohio.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
The Ohio Humane Society breathes a very very heavy sigh
of relief.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well, yes and no, now there might be more dogs
running around because they're not being chewed on. Did anybody
ever prove yes or no that people were eating dogs
Jim in Springfield, Ohio?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Proof? What do you want? Because we do?

Speaker 4 (26:42):
And then the left made fun of Trump when he
said it, but he said, no, no, they're eating dogs there.
That's how bad it is in Springfield, Ohio. But nobody
ever actually found out whether that was.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
True or not.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
It doesn't matter anymore. Come on, what do you want proof?
I want proof? There's sorry, there is no fact anymore.
There is only that which we want to believe.

Speaker 4 (27:05):
Or is that wonderful philosophical giant George Costanza used to say,
it's not a lie if you believe it.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
The Nebraska Examiner is that with the piece looking at
poverty in Nebraska, is this good news? Or bad news
Jim Rose. It says that the number of Nebraskans receiving
public food aid has declined year over year by about
seventeen percent. That's about twenty five thousand people. A year

(27:35):
ago we're getting snap assistance, food stamps, welfare, and now
a year later, twenty five thousand people no longer receiving that.
It sounds like great news, right it is.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
It's because we, thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, we've
made it harder to get them. You have to prove
that you truly do need them. This was the whole
point of the Big Beautiful Bill and what they were doing.
And even though they really didn't actually cut any entitlements,
they just cut the growth. They said, this is about
only making certain that the people who truly need them
get them, not folks who have scanned the scam the system,

(28:10):
or folks who know their way around or can fill
out the form, or people who are not in this
country legally.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think this is great news. Now.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
The advocates for these underserved folks are up in arms
because they believe that, okay, this is just going to
signal a cut in benefits. Well, yeah, you want to
have benefits cut, because that means they're only going to
the people who truly need them.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
There are two groups who are among those voices that
say that twenty five thousand fewer people year over year
on Snap assistance is a terrible thing. There's one called
Nebraska Apple Seed and another one called Nebraska for Us.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
These are a couple.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Of organizations that take up the cause of we need
more of this, not less of it. And some of
the things they're pointing at are well it the application.
The average time to process an application used to be
three days, and now it's five days. Or if you
call up here, you're gonna wait on hold for an

(29:12):
extra ten minutes. In May, you were waiting on hold
on an average of thirteen minutes. But then as these
these these benefits came to an end last month in June,
you were waiting on hold almost twenty three minutes.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh my gosh, that's a tremendous imposition. Twenty three minutes.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
What's the idea that you're on hold? And now twenty
minutes has gone by and you're like, you know what,
I don't need to feed my family.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I guess this isn't that important. I got stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
What do you got to do because all the big
beautiful Bill and some of the adjustments made here in
Nebraska are saying, is work a few hours a week
or volunteer a few hours a week. Here you can
find someplace to volunteer twenty hours and you'll still get
your SNAP benefits. And then when you get those SNAPS benefits,
you can't use them to buy red bull and gummy worms.

(30:04):
That's all we did. And these people are acting like, well,
people are just gonna have to eat their kids. Yeah, no,
there's no one's going to be able to eat. They're
gonna have to eat their children. And it's just there's
never been so bad, Scott. It's a lifestyle. Entitlements have
become a lifestyle for too many people. Not everybody who's
on these benefits treat it like a lifestyle. Some really

(30:27):
are embarrassed to get them and are working their rear
ends off to get off of them.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
God bless them, and that's what this is for. That's
what the wealthiest nation on earth should do. But to
too many in this country, and it's multi generational now,
it's not a new phenomenon. It's been going on for
the last thirty years. They have treat and they do
treat these benefits like a lifestyle. If I know my
way through this system, I can get my phone, my

(30:53):
utility bills, my housing, my education, my food, my car,
my health insurance. I can get absolutely everything from the
government and not have to work at all.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
And when the hardship they're pointing at is you'll have
to wait on hold an extra ten minutes. I don't
know when the last time you called any one for
any wait leste other than Jim's h VAC company. You're
going to be routed through panan Pan, and you go
through anyone else for any other reason except except o flarity.
Right now, you got Nebraska's Morning News with Lucy Chapman,

(31:26):
Craig Evans, Jim Rose. I'm Scott Vorhees back from a
week off where I still we saw. So it's so
funny how when you're going through like Custer State Park
and Mount Rushmore area and then over to Yellowstone, the
first time you see a buffalo or a bison, I
still don't exactly know the difference, but let's just for

(31:52):
semantic's sake, just refer to a buffalo. The first time
you see a buffalo, you lose your mind.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
Kids are going crazy. My wife is like, oh my gosh,
I want to pet it.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
No, no, no, no, you don't do not pet the fluffy cows.
Didn't you see all the t shirts for sale in
the gift shop. Don't you stay away from the buffalo.
So the first time you see a buffalo, you lose
your mind up there, it's so exciting. The ninety eighth
time you see a buffalo, you're like, get out of
the road because you're going through Yellowstone at dusk, where

(32:28):
if you want to see animals, And we saw all
the animals you want to be at dusk in the
Lamar Valley area of Yellowstone. We saw buffalo and elk everywhere, buffalo.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
Or just in the road.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
And one of them was coming right at our car
and I couldn't go around it because it was in
the middle of the road, and I'm trying to back
up to give it some room, and the guy in
the truck behind me is like, where do you think
you're going, Like, there's a giant buffalo. I don't need
it to suddenly try and head butt my car, try
and flip me like a grandpa. So I'm trying to
back up. Guy behind me won't move. So we're all

(33:08):
sitting there in the car and I said, nobody move
or make eye contact with it, and it just lumbers
by the car, kind of side eye on the thing.
The buffalo don't care. All the animals at Yellowstone are
thankfully pretty well behaved and used to humans.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
So we saw.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Those, and we did see a bear and wolves. The
wolves were exciting. We're just like the wolves.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
How close was the bear fifteen twenty yards? Wow?

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah, because we pulled off the road there and the
bear goes across the road and now it's on the
other side of the road and there was a poll
out there, so we pull over there and the bear
came right up really close to our car, close enough
to the car where I felt like we were fine,
not so close where I felt like, what are we
going to do if this bear suddenly wants crawling the

(34:00):
car with us. We had the windows down like the tourists.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
We are. How big was the bear? Bear?

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Size it bear? No, it was a black bear. They're
good sized. It's you know, bear sized. Whatever you're picturing
a bear size to be. You don't want you don't
want to be Jackie Moon. You don't want to be
wrestling the bear. No tonight at Yellowstone National Car wrestle
a bear. No, we didn't didn't do any of that,

(34:27):
So it was it was a very very nice time there.
But it's funny how the first time you see a buffalo,
everyone's so excited, and then like the two hundred and
twenty seventh time you see a buffalo, you like, get
out of the way. There's more buffalo. Kids won't even
look up from their phones and no one cares. But
the first time, that was exciting stuff. Sure, Now where

(34:47):
did you stay? And you stayed in Custer State Park
for a night or two? We around, No, we spent
a couple of nights around Mount Rushmore, a little lodge
area in Custer State Park. Yeah, that was another thing
outside of Custer State Park but really close to Mount Rushmore.
And this was the perfect lodge experience. I like an
experience where you've got new cabins around here, and then

(35:09):
you got the lodge, you got your variety of how
you can stay. My wife likes air conditioning, so we
make sure and find a place that has air conditioning.
We're not camping or doing anything like that. Fine, when
you have a lodge experience. Everyone's kind of there and
there's usually a fire pit and you can make somemores,
and there's green space to throw a frisbee around or whatever.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
That was great.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Now I thought that I had booked the same experience
based to what I had seen online for Yellowstone. We
pulled up to this place.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
A little less than advertised. The rooms were nice. The
exterior to this place, I mean, here's here's the reality.
The view right over.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Hegen Lake with the mountains in the background outside of
West Yellowstone, Montana A plus plus plus, absolutely perfect. I
had a little balcony there outside our room. You could
sit there, and that's what I had to wake up
to every morning. The rooms were nice. I'd give them
a B plus. I mean, it looked like some guys
came in there and renovated the rooms and didn't do

(36:11):
things like finish the trim or put you know, a
fancy or this or that in there. And so my wife,
of course, was happy to point all this stuff out.
I think, don't worry in the Google reviews. Google reviews
were fine, and it was clean. It was good, but
so what I paid for it, though, because I thought
it was a lodge because it.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
Has you didn't you didn't give what you paid for.
It's it was like a travel lod ah. It is
like a motel experience. And as soon as I pulled up,
I said, oh no, this isn't what I wanted. But
we made the best of it, totally fun. Well, it
was the peak season. I mean, it's the peak traveling.
You're not going to get a break on the rates
during the peak travel. This is how South Dakota, Wyoming,

(36:51):
Montana have no state income tax.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
You know how it is though, I mean the room,
the room was fine, the place. The place was fine.
It was perfect location, beautiful view, rooms were clean. What
more do you want? Well, I'll tell you what I want.
I paid this much money for it. Now I've got
my hand a little higher in the air. Now if
I'd paid half as much money, okay, I would say
this is one of the best plays I ever stayed.

(37:13):
But I paid twice as much than I feel like
I should have for it, and I got half as
much experience there. But whatever, we didn't go there to
stay in the hotel. It was just nice to shower
and sleep for a few hours. The ac works good.
Before I you know, of course that dad on vacation.
Come on, guys, we're losing daylight. Let's go, Come on,
let's get up. Come on, we got a Continental breakfast rating.

(37:35):
Let's get some Let's get some stale French toast sticks.
Come on, these are the best fresh stoe sticks you
ever had.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Well look at looking at the timeline of your a
little opus here this you know, this might be one
of the last chances you guys have to take a
whole family vacation.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
My daughter's about to go back for her sophomore year
at college, and so that's this actually was her fault,
because well I was. I had a couple of different
plays we must assess blame. This is her fault. I
had a few different places in mind for our little
family road trip, which was going to be shorter due
to certain circumstances.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
But she said, but I.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Had my heart set on going onto Yellowstone and my
wife really wanted to go, and I've never been, and
so we made it work. And then again thanks to
Peyton for jumping in here last Thursday and Friday making
that work, and of course Jim and Lucy Craig as well.
But she wanted to go and I said, well, honey,
all right, this is what we're going to do because
you don't have a lot of summer of vacations left

(38:33):
with this family. She goes, well, it's not like, you know,
I go through college and I'm not going to be
able to go on vacation. I said, no, no, no,
we're just going to stop inviting you. Yes, getting a
little tired of her.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Well, but you also, she's also going to find out
what I've got other things I need to do during
the summer. She's going to become less available than she
thinks she is, even though she's gone into her sophomore year.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
When you get a sixteen and nineteen year old and
to everyone's working and everyone's got activities, to be able
to take a week where no everyone can get the
week off, big deal. You take advantage of that and
you go for a drive. And that's what we did.
I'm very very thankful we did. It was a wonderful time.
I want to be very careful how I explain this.
I'm only using these names for purposes so you can

(39:19):
immediately understand here. It would be like as if President
Trump fired Governor Pillin. Now, of course, listen carefully Trump
did not fire Pillin, but the circumstances are such that
the leader, it sounds like the leader of Turkey Airin
Iwan fired a governor in a province in eastern Turkey

(39:44):
because that governor went on a cycling expedition out there
to promote the sport in a festival in his area.
And that's fine, but he was wearing the full cycling outfit,
including cycling shorts. He is not exactly the kind of
guy that you probably want to see in cycling shorts.
I don't know what kind of guy you want to

(40:05):
see in cycling shorts, but I'll let your business be
your business. So this guy looked like he was smuggling plums.
They were very, very tight, and he posted the media.
He posted the photos all over social media and they
went viral, and everyone's like to see that. Everyone said,
we don't want to see our governor out there wearing
the stuff that looked like it was painted on. And

(40:26):
so it was such an embarrassment that the President of Turkey,
it sounded like, fired him because out there wearing biker
shorts and posting the pictures on social media. They said,
this is a traditional setting, this kind of thing is
completely unacceptable. So it would be like, now, again, this

(40:47):
didn't happen, but it would be like if President Trump
fired Governor Jim Pillen because Governor Pilam was out there
wearing bicycle shorts tight bicycle shorts and posting the pictures online,
which again didn't happen. I gotta say that multiple times.
For those who listen with only half an ear, you
should open up both ears. We got a lot of
good stuff here.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
He runs like five miles every day, so yeah, but
he's out there.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
I hope he's wearing those nineties areas basketball short the
really big ones. Is What in the heck is going
on in Seattle? The story about last evening the food
festival in Seattle where a couple of guys got into
an argument and then they pull out their guns and
start shooting at each other. They got one guy in custody.

(41:32):
He had a couple of guns on him.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Again.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
He was heading to the Seattle food festivals called Bite
of Seattle, one hundred thousand people a day to the
Seattle Center over the weekend. And these guys get into
a fight over what which food truck has the better
food on a stick? What are we fighting about why

(41:55):
do we bring our guns to the food festival, the
family friendly food festival, and see these guys get beef,
I mean, an argument with each other and start shooting.
You had three people dead and four injured. One of
the injured is a two year old kid. That happened

(42:16):
yesterday in Seattle near the Space Needle, but on Friday
on top of the Space Needle. Have you seen this
video of what happened on Friday, Lucy.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
No, I haven't seen anything from the Space Needle in decades.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
I've never been to the Space Needle. I guess I'll
drive my family there next year. How can we drive
even further away? We see Yellowstone, let's just keep going.
It's the Space Needle.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
I have it.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
I've seen it.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
I've never been to the top of the Space Needle
except during Fraser episodes.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
It's right there on the opening graphic. Yeah you can
see it.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Yes, Good morning, Seattle. I'm listening the Fraser, by the way,
best TV show of all time fifteen. So on top
of the Space Needle, on the observation deck. It's not
quite enclosed, like if you go to Empire State Building
or something like that. It's still open. Air, but there's

(43:17):
a ten foot kind of a slope glass window that
they figured, well, no one's going to climb this thing,
or in the time it would take for someone to
try and climb this thing, security would rush over there
and say, all right, get off the it's you would
have to really, really know what you're doing to be
able to scale this ten foot plate glass window and

(43:39):
jump over the thing, which is exactly what two guys
did on Friday, broad daylight at the Space Needle. These
two guys went over there quickly scale, jumped over the window,
and then there's a little ledge that you can stand
on on the other side of it. The video shows

(44:00):
one guy doing a gainer off the thing, and then
both these guys float down with backpack parachutes. Police are
looking for two eighty year old black women. Check out,
I'm kidding, it's two white guys in their twenties. Of course,
you know. The two parachute bros are like, bro, you

(44:21):
think we do it? Pro totally do this, bro, you know.
So these guys go up there and jump off the
Space Needle and even though they go floating to the ground,
and there's video everywhere of these guys floating through the
air and to the ground. Police say, we don't know
who they are or where they landed or what they did.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Well, that's part of the mystique of base jumping. You
don't want to be noticed. You don't want anybody to
question you and ask you who you are.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
No, no, but what by the time you land you
would think like, all right, a couple of guys are
now parachuting off off the space needle. Probably the first
part of conversation was is this illegal? Well, it's gotta be, yeah, probably,
But what exactly is the statute?

Speaker 2 (45:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Just go find those guys and we'll charge them with something,
they say. Potential charges include trespassing. Well, they bought their ticket,
did they? Does the ticket expressly say no base jumping?
There are signs that say no base jumping off of
the space needle.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Why did they buy a ticket if they climbed up
the outside of the building.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
They didn't they they were on they were they were
up there with all the tourists.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Okay, so they bought a ticket, yeah, passing.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Well the trespassing I guess would be on the ledge,
on the other side of the protective glass.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah, but by then they're gone.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yeah, I think it's generally expected that you're not supposed
to be on there base. They weren't on there for long.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Right, Base jumping is fascinating. It's not something I could
ever do, but it is fascinating and very secretive.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
I say it's not something I could ever do, but
I was one of those those people who repelled down
the side of the Woodman Tower years ago in that
fundraiser for the Boy Scouts, because they said, Scott, do
you want to repel down the side of the Woodman Tower?
I said, yeah, sure, why not? I also jumped out
of a perfectly good airplane doing skydiving and crete a

(46:18):
few years after that. I am not exactly a daredevil,
but if someone says, hey, you want to do something stupid,
I'm usually in got this email here from MJ that says,
welcome back, Scott. It was great hearing Gary, but I
realized I'd gotten used to you. Good to hear your

(46:38):
trip as a success. That doesn't exactly sound I mean,
that's probably the nicest bit of fan mail I've ever received.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
You.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
You'd beaten me into submission with your your broadcasting over
these last several months here and I miss Gary, but
I'd gotten used to.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
You beat me into submission, right, Well, every morning you
voluntarily get a beating about the head and shoulders. The
email doesn't say I'd realized that I really enjoyed listening.
It doesn't say that, no, i'd gotten used to. You've
become somewhat familiar to me. Well, whyever, you're listening and

(47:19):
there are a lot of people asking that question. Believe me,
I am just so glad that you are here. I'll
tell you what we didn't see. We didn't see anyone
messing with the animals, whether it was at around Mount
Rushmore or Yellowstone. And we just told you about the
guys that went base jumping off the space needle. Well,
in San Diego they got a video of a guy

(47:42):
out there kicking a sea lion. Not at Sea World,
just a sea lion out there on.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
The beach.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
And so the mayor of San Diego is saying, I've
asked the authorities to investigate possible federal law violations. Now
what's interesting is the people who live around San Diego
are looking at this saying there's too many sea lions there. Anyway,
they probably deserved it.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
The sea licking.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Well, you've been there. You've been to San Diego, even
to San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
I've never been to San Diego. I've been to San Franco.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
They're just there too.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
They're everywhere, but for a it's and that's why I
think is always funny for a tourist. You come over
there and you're like, wow, look sea lions. For the
people who live there, they're calling them a slimy water
dogs and various other phrases. Out there is sea cow,
you know, so there they don't like them.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Same thing with well they don't need to be kicked though, right.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
The same thing when you're driving around Yellowstone and you
come along a bear in the road, you're like, oh
my gosh, it's so exciting. The people live up there
going get out of the way bear. You know, it's
just a out of the way moose, as if it
could understand English, get out of the way, bear, out
of the way, moose.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Honk honk, moose. Doesn't know what that means. It might
be a mating call.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
All right, let's ask just what you need in your car,
and we're all here for you on Nebraska's Morning News
to put some names to that crew. You got Craig
Evans there, Lucy Chapman, Jim Rose, and I am Scott Vorhees.
Thanks again to Gary and Peyton for jumping in here
last week. Gary Sadlemeayer about fifty years on this radio

(49:23):
station and Peyton high Lock about fifty days fifty weeks
on this radio station. Each jumped in and allowed me
and my family to take the week off. Now we
managed to do that at a time when Iran and
America were fire and shots at each other and oil
was going up, which meant gas prices were spiking. The

(49:44):
most I paid for a gallon of gas in my
life was on this last trip, a family road trip,
just outside the West Entrance to Yellowstone. You're like, you
can't buy gas there? Yeah, where am I supposed to
buy it? This is only a few gas stations, and
he here's where it is. And I needed gas. So
now you know what it's like to be in California

(50:04):
every day. Yeah, paid an inflated rate four dollars and
eighty eight six. That is the most uppaid for a
gallon of gas, and put several gallons in there. And
but now oil prices are coming down, which means Jim,
it is now time for a Straight of Horror Moves update.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Okay, this is so bad. How many of these did
Gary do last week?

Speaker 4 (50:29):
Uh well, we've debated it and we figured if we
played this we'd lose another third of the audience.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
So that's all right.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
We have millions and millions of listeners, right, probably need
to have some layoffs, right, No, is that not how
it works?

Speaker 4 (50:44):
Well, this is what this is what happens when a
beagle sings, Oh, come on, you love the Straight of
Horror Moves update. Now, the Strait of horr Moves update
is a good idea, but this singer needs to go
back to selling shoes.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Hey, this is one of the most famous bands of
all time.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
That You Two, Yeah, you two is on cave to
be singing about the Straits, and.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Format couldn't get Bono to do it. That's jassity Bono.
That's the closest thing.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
We could get.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
So your Straight of Horror Moves update is this is
now the third day where we haven't been attacking each other,
and the markets are like, well it's all over. Yeah,
we we have peace in the Middle East. Let's sell.
We don't need to jack up the cost of a
barrel of oil and stocks are rallying and so forth.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but does

(51:31):
anyone think that this is going to last forever? I mean,
is are going to be like the last time we
had two and a half days without some war footing
over there in the straight of horror moves it's and
we're going to start striking each other again. This is
not going to last. We're dealing with absolute thug criminals
over there and what is left of the leadership of

(51:51):
Iran and all of their terrorist proxies that they're funding
over there. There will be more attacks. There will be
a cargo ship that's attacked. There'll be a drone that
goes and does something stupid. Why can't we just.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Fire off a missile to Jordan, or they'll fire off
a missile in Iraq or some American based in Syria.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Look, I appreciate the optimism here, but when suddenly there's
a missile that goes someplace, it then turns into completely
the other way and it's nothing but abject pessimism, like, oh, well,
we're just getting World War III.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Now.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
I mean, this has been five months and this has
been going back and forth here, and the markets act
like every single time something a little out of the
ordinary happens, it's it's an amazing change we've never seen
before and we'll never see again.

Speaker 4 (52:40):
Well, the president, of course, has remarkable power. When he
says things, people listen. And when he says I feel
very good about the way things are going okay, that
affects the market. He says, we're gonna we're gonna give
another diplomatic shot here, We're gonna take twenty four to
forty eight thirty six hours off from bombing, and that

(53:02):
makes people optimistic that it's going to come to an end.
A little straight talk, Scott would go a long way
with the American people right now, because what we're getting
right now is spin. We're getting political spin, and it's
it's not healthy for the country. It's not healthy for
the republic. People are wondering and worrying what is true
and what isn't This president says things that aren't necessarily true,

(53:27):
and what has he said that's not Well, we're this
close that this will be over in two weeks or
we're very very close to a deal. They want to
make a deal. No, they don't want to make a deal.
Now they might say let's get together and talk, which
they're doing now. I think they're over in Oman, I believe,
and the Pakistanis are talking to the Iranians about what's

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happening over there. And you know, maybe a few Afghans
and a couple of UAE representatives. But nothing's going to
change until we have a regime change. And the United
States has a history of doing this. We go in
and change people. Tried to do it in the Bay
of Pigs. That one didn't work out back in nineteen
sixty two. But in the case of Iran, we eliminated

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a socialist. He wasn't even an Islamic cleric. We eliminated
a socialist in the nineteen fifties, and but the shaw
in charge there because we were unhappy that he was
nationalizing all of these American businesses that had been invested
in the nation of Iran. So we've done this before.
Now it's a little more difficult today because they have
a real army, and they have one hundred million people

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in the country and they probably don't.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
And none of them have guns. The only people who
have the guns are the.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
People getting shot at, not the people, but I don't
know where President Trump has lied to the American people.
He hasn't lied, but he's been providing false information.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
No, he has been consistent on his main points. Iran
can't have a nuclear weapon.

Speaker 4 (54:52):
This will be over in two weeks. That well, this
will be over in a month. That's up to Iran.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
I guess.

Speaker 4 (54:59):
Okay, I'm one hundred percent behind this. I'm one of
these guys that's not complaining about gas prices even though
I live twenty five miles away from the office. That's
my choice to live twenty five miles away as opposed
to twenty five minutes.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
Yeah, but you have a private limo that comes here right,
provided by the company.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
That's not true.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
But I believe that we should be doing something to
keep a Ran from getting a nuclear weapon, because if
they fire off a nuclear weapon at somebody, even if
it's not us, that destabilizes the entire globe. And if
we think we have high gas prices now, or if
we think that the stock market dropping one percent hurt
WAYLA drops forty five percent, which could happen if we

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destabilize the globe. So I'm one hundred percent behind doing this.
But I mean I'm also a student of the Vietnam War,
Scott and the Vietnam War is the is the most embarrassing,
debilitating that that was the event that changed the American
confidence in our government because we didn't go in there
to win it. We went in there to mess around.

(56:02):
Same thing with Iraq. We didn't go in to win it.
We went in there to mess around. Look for some people.
Shoot these guys. If we think they're bad guys, they
shoot at us. We lose some boys. Go in there
and get the job done like we did in Kuwait.
And if we do that, this problem is solved. We

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have to sell to the world. This is the world.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
According to Rosie, we got to sell to the world.
They cannot have.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
One of those. So either you're with us or you're not.
If you want to be a bystander and just watch
this great But we have the power in the might
to go in and change the regime in Iran, and
we have to do it. But everyone people are not trustworthy.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
If everyone says that this is the most dangerous regime
on the planet, that they're trying to get a nuclear
weapon and they'll use it, they're not going to use
it for to tourists or might or strength like a
China or something, or like North Korea. They'll use it
because they're crazy. Then it it's fine. I think with
me and a lot of people that it would take
a little bit longer than perhaps the president like a

(57:03):
two weeks. The President says, two weeks and everything. Two
weeks to flatten the curve, two weeks to take out Iran,
two weeks to get the new ballroom built, two weeks
to rebuild the house. In the money Pit with Tom
Hanks and Shelley Long, there's your eighties movie reference radioprogram.
Great movie. So the President always says, it's a great

(57:25):
fun movie. I can't leave for two minutes and you
hop in the sack with Max, the great quotable movie.
The President has not put anything on Truth Social Today
about Iran, but he did late last night post a
high efficiency particulate air filter that is a giant hundreds

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of miles wide long or long wall between Canada and
the United States to filter out the Canadian wildfire smoke.
So that's his level of concern for what's going on
in Canada right now with the wildfires.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
Host that you know, look the country, Scott looking the country.
I believe the country can handle tough news. I think
there's a generation of our country that can't handle it,
but most of us can handle bad news. Just shoot straight,
just tell us here's what we're gonna do. We and
the Israelis are gonna invade Iran in the next thirty days. Okay,

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we're gonna send some stupid to telegraph it now. But
the point is he needs to be straight with the
American people. He needs to say we have special operations
groups that are gonna go in there and fix this.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
So everything going on and or on, whether it's disillusionment
and what the President said, or maybe people think this
wasn't necessary, or it's gone on too long, or gas
price is too high. Maybe I don't like the tariffs.
Maybe I just don't like what the President says or
how he says it, and all the rest of this stuff.
They say that all of this has raised some scary

(58:59):
warning sign for Republicans ahead of the rapidly approaching November midterms.
They talk to a reliable GOP voters in Iowa as
well as other states, and they found that about twenty
percent of them. One out of five reliable Republican voters
in Iowa are thinking about whether they just stay home

(59:20):
and don't vote in the midterm or vote for a Democrat.
You are not a Republican. If that's what you're thinking,
that's fine, and you can go vote for whoever you want.
I mean, you're not a conservative, right, I'm not going
to tell you who to vote for. But now, of

(59:41):
course they're blaming this on Trump. I wonder how much
of it, though, has to do with the fact that
because one of the big things that President Trump has
been hammering all year and especially now this morning on
true Social as he does often, is he's hammering on
Republicans saying, look, eliminate the filibuster, vote for the America Act,
do the things we need to save this country, grow

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a spine and do this. And they won't do it,
which means that the ultra trumpy Republicans are mad at
all the thun you know, Republicans and all those people,
And there are probably obviously some Republicans you hear from them.
I hear from them that they're just tired of President Trump.
But I don't know how you voted for the guy
two years ago and thought you would get something different

(01:00:26):
than what we've seen over all lifetime.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
Is part of it is part of it is Trump.
Trump went after John Cornyn, Trump went after Bill Cassidy,
Trump went after Tom Tillis. Now, I don't know what
world he's in, but I needed those guys to vote
for me before they leave office. And yet I funded
their opponents in primaries. Now, if they had funded my

(01:00:49):
opponent in a primary, I'd have given Trump the middle finger.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Two. That's number one. Number two.

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
Lisa Murkowski in Alaska has a legitimate point about the
Save Act and the capacity under the Save Act's current conditions,
and she's offered lots of amendments that have not been
voted on that would be make it very difficult to
vote in Alaska, Okay, her people, because they have to
prove citizens. And to say nothing of the fact the

(01:01:14):
twenty percent of the country is not accessible by road,
so she has some legitimate of the country of the
state of Alaska is not connected by road, so she
has a legitimate concern about the impact of the Save
Act on voters in her state.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
You just have to plan a little further out you do.
I'm a request of mail in ballot. Here's a copy
of my photo ID and here's how it works.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
There are issues, There are legitimate issues that the president
is stubborn.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
There's eighteen people in Alaska. We can figure this out.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Okay,