A Day Without Immigrants

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordie.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
It was supposed to be on Sunday, but I guess
it was celebrated. If you will here in Omaha yesterday
a day without immigrants or I read stories here in
the local from the local TV stations. K E TV
Newswatch seven had a guy who was described as a
self employed construction worker who decided to take the day off.

(00:26):
What you're self employed, you can you can decide to
take the day off. It wasn't like I'm gonna show
you I'm gonna show my boss where to stiga. You
think you could do this job without immigrants? Wait, you're
you're the boss. So in other words, this guy just
decided to take a few hours off. But it also

(00:47):
says he pulled his daughter out of school for what.
I'm gonna show the schools that what it's like to
have a day without immigrants. I'm gonna have my daughter
get a day behind in her school work and miss
out on the educational principles that we hope are being

(01:07):
taught her at the local educational level. We'll show you, guys,
I'm gonna make my daughter ignorant, stupid? What what are?
And by the way, I love that in my example here,
those who are celebrating the day without immigrants sound like
white trash rednecks. You think you can do it without

(01:28):
Like hey, who whoa whoa. All right, So this guy
is a self employed construction worker who missed work, that's
that's all on you, or if you had work to
do yesterday. And I presume as a self employed construction worker,
and I'm automatically thinking that he's working outside for at

(01:51):
least part of his job. Yesterday, with the temperatures falling,
in the wind howling throughout the day, was probably not
a great day to be up on scout effolding or
a roof for putting up walls or whatever it is
that you were doing. So it's probably not a great
day for that anyway. That's like me protesting at ten

(02:12):
thirty at night. I'm going to bed. You guys deal
with it, Like, don't you usually go to bed at
this time? Well, yeah, but this is a protest sleepy
time and pull my daughter out of school. You're within
your right to do that, And in some examples it's
probably not the worst idea. But here's a whole list

(02:35):
of mostly restaurants that I'm not going to read their
names on the radio. I don't need any backlash. They're businesses.
They can decide what to do. But I'll say this
to all of the businesses who participated in a day
without immigrants. People in the community were either trying to
come to work. I imagine there were some people, as

(02:58):
the business owners said, well, you've got community leaders here
who are trying to send a message, so we're not
allowed to open. It's gonna look like a slap in
the face. We're going to look like a bunch of
Maga jay six ers if we open and let our
employees work and make money today and serve our customers.

(03:20):
So I imagine that there were probably business owners that
wanted to open who closed under pressure. I wonder who
was writing the checks and paying them, Like, hey, you
should be closed on Monday. Let's send a message. I
can't be closed on Monday. I got a business to
run here, all right, how much do you usually make
a day? This much money? We'll double it. Why don't

(03:41):
you close? Send a message, get your name in the news.
It'll be worth the publicity. So all these restaurants and
places closed. I wonder how many employees wanted to come
to work. I wonder how many people in the community
wanted to go and patronize these low businesses, eat at

(04:02):
the restaurants or whatever, and all of them said the
same thing. Story here from k E TV News Watch
seven says, our business is built on immigrants, My family
is immigrants. Where everything we wanted to show us support
no one. And then you know WWT First Alert six

(04:22):
the soon to be John Nicely lists First Alert six.
He had announced he's retiring next month. Side note, a
lot of people have been obviously wondering if I'm going
to take over for John Nicely on the five, six
and ten o'clock news on First Alert six. Lot of people,

(04:44):
a lot of people, thousands and thousands of people have
been asking, well, basically, assuming I guess Scott vorhe is
going to take that job. And the answer is yes,
if the dozens of plastic surgeries that would be required
for me to look good on television take and I'm

(05:05):
gonna do him, I'm certainly gonna do him. And if
all of those work out and I actually look good,
then yes, I'll be taking over for John Nicely. You'll
see me on TV. If this is probably a pretty
big if, if all the plastic surgeries take hold.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
So you're saying it's just a pretty face that they need.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
No, John Nicely is more than just a pretty face.
He also has a sculpted chest. A lot of people
don't know that about John. Hard working guy, lovely man.
I'm a big John Nicely fan, and it's gonna be
disappointing to not see him on TV. I'm gonna have
to go over to his house.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Does he know it?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
He will? John, what's going on in our town?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm retired, I need to know.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Anyway, The soon to be John Nicelyelest's first Alert six
talked to the owners of another place. They said, well,
most of our customers are either first or second generation immigrants,
so it's important for them to know that we're with them.
And then here's km TV three that says, you know,
we had to close to oppose and here's where they

(06:23):
finally put the fine point on it. We had to
close to oppose President Trump's policies on immigration. And then
they said, then we talked to this guy. He says, yeah,
I was. I was still at work yesterday. I guess
because he said he watched people try to come into
his business all day. But he had a sign in

(06:44):
the door and said it's a day without immigrants or whatever.
And he says, yeah, I'm losing thousands of dollars of revenue, Sir,
you are, And do I really want to call this
guy an idiot? You're an idiot. And as I have
said several times, if you're sitting there saying, well, we

(07:06):
want to show solidarity with immigrants and we oppose President
Trump's policies on immigrants, again, if you talk to people
who've come to this country, even illegally. And I've always
given grace to those people who are not violent, drug pedaling,
human trafficking, gang membering, terrorist, watch listening thugs. I've always

(07:30):
given grace to those who aren't in that box. And
there are several people who aren't, but they're living in
basically a drug lord infested community. They can't make money,
they can't take care of their families. And here's America

(07:50):
saying don't come here as they look the other way
and kind of give that, you know, right hand, beckoning
like come on in, come on and come in, as
they're looking the other way, going yeah we didn't see it.
Come on in, come on in. You know, America is
looking the other way on immigration policies, and you have
a chance to come to this country and make money
and take care of your family and be there for
your kids. Every single one of us would do that

(08:12):
for our families. I give grace to those individuals. This
country needs to have a better and streamlined immigration process.
But at the same time, you ask those people, who
I presume all these businesses are standing in solidarity with. You,
ask those people do you want that criminal element you

(08:33):
fled in your home nation to come to America and
take up root in this country? And every single one
of them will say no. And the ones who say no,
I think they're fine. They're saying that because they're human trafficking,
drug lords, gang member terrorists, watchless thugs. And is that
who the businesses are showing solidarity with. Because Trump's immigration

(08:55):
policies root out those bad guys and get them out
of here. He wanted Canada and Mexico to be stronger
on helping us with that. That's why the threat of
tariffs were hanging over both those nations. Yesterday, Mexico about
twenty three hours ago said all right, fine, let's talk.

(09:16):
And then later yesterday afternoon, Canada said we're sorry, we'll
talk and sorry about the inconvenience. So sorry, you know,
they're very polite, and so now they're talking. And then
there wasn't even a threat against I think it was

(09:37):
El Salvador. Yeah. L Salvador's president just said we'll take
deporties from America anytime, and sator secretary should say, call
him secretary now. Marco Rubio said, oh, thanks, we didn't ask,
but thank you for that. El Salvador is like, we're
here to help, baby, you know, just don't threaten tariffs

(09:58):
or cause any problems for us. We want to help.
And that's called getting in line, and it's for the
betterment of especially people in this country, including immigrants in
this country. So all these businesses that closed yes closed yesterday,
what is it that you're supporting. You're supporting you not
making money, not allowing your employees to make money, pulling

(10:22):
your kids out of school, which is about the dumbest
thing I ever heard. And you're standing up for the
drug lord, human trafficking terrorist watch list thugs who are
coming into this country to make life miserable for you here,
just like they made life miserable for you and your
people in the country from whence you came. And if

(10:44):
that's that's a lot to put on a sign, so
I guess they just put you know, it's a day
without immigrants. Absolutely asinine. James says they should do another
day without immigrants, except this time call it a day

(11:05):
without illegal immigrants and see who closes shop. You know,
this whole day without immigrants, we're protesting Trump, who's rating
our communities and just pulling out people who are immigrants
and sending them back to countries they've never even been to,
which is an absolute lie, an absolute lie, and they

(11:27):
know it's a lie. Trump is getting rid of criminal
illegal immigrants, and that is not illegal immigrants by virtue
of their running a foul of this rather misdemeanor law
of being criminal. Now I'm talking about people who are murderers,
drug lords, assaulters, human traffickers, horrible, horrible people, guys that

(11:51):
don't pay the parking meter. I mean, some of the
worst people you could ever think of. Teenagers to go
to school when it's twelve degrees outside without a code on,
some of the worst of the worst. If that were
the case, we would have a never ending supply of
teenagers deported from Almaha, Nebraska. Shouldn't you have a code

(12:12):
on I'm fine, twelve degrees, I'm good, all right, getting
the van and then they're deported. So to James's point,
they should do another one and call it. If they're
opposing what Trump is doing, then call it it's a
day without illegal immigrants and close business. If that's the case,

(12:35):
we'll see who does that. Tad emails and says, I
welcome these businesses doing this. Now I know where not
to go. I would not be so fast on that.
I understand the reaction, but as I look at the
list of businesses, especially the restaurants in southeast Omaha, they

(13:00):
could probably come up and punch me right in the face.
And then if my jaw doesn't have to be wired shut,
I'd be like, I appreciate your feedback. Could I have
some manchiladas? I mean, some of the best food in
town is served by these restaurants, So yeah, my selling

(13:20):
out my values for a cheap, delicious plate of Mexican food. Yes, please,
I am what I am. Now California has just told
and people are like, this is a slap in the face.
All right, you tell me how it's supposed to work.

(13:42):
California is already subject to the same thing that the
rest of the country is, and that is continued inflation,
which has cooled a bit and stands to be better
this year. But a lot of these businesses that repair homes,
they have been lost in the devastating wildfires in the

(14:03):
Los Angeles area, they're still either They had to purchase
all the construction equipment during the past couple of years
when rates were really high on this stuff, because they
had to have the materials standing buy so that when
someone says I lost my house, I need it rebuilt,
they're like, we've got the material, we can get started,

(14:23):
and we can do this job. And that's how this
business works. You can't say, all right, yeah, we can
rebuild your house, when can you get to it. It's
probably going to be a year and a half. That
company's not going to get the business. They buy this material,
they have it ready to go, and they bought it
at the rate it was available, which was really flipping expensive.

(14:44):
And then you got all the regulations in California that
take more time. Governor Knews him to his credit, is
trying to streamline some of the process so we can
get these homes rebuilt. But you're rebuilding these homes, and
in some cases they're very expense homes. And even if
they're not, all of these homes are going to be
worth more when they're rebuilt and brand new than they

(15:07):
were before. And like I said, a lot of them
are really really fancy, multimillion dollar homes before. So now
everything's more expensive. And so now you go to the
insurance companies and say, homes rebuilt, will take that insurance please,
And the insurance company says it's going to cost more money,
and people are like, hey man, what gives Like, how

(15:29):
do you think this is supposed to work? State Farm
has told the people of California, we're looking at an
emergency rate. They're asking the California Department of Insurance to
okay an emergency rate increase as a result to the wildfires,
the average being twenty two percent. State Farm says, we've

(15:56):
lost over two and a half billion dollars over the
last decade or so. Our financial rating was recently downgraded,
and it's just one disaster after another that's really pricey
to rebuild. So we whether it's car insurance, people are

(16:19):
buying more expensive cars, and people are like, why is
my auto insurance going up? Well, the car that you're
driving now is probably worth twice what a similarly sized
vehicle was worth five or ten years ago, especially if
you got one of these fancy electric cars or one
of those cyber trucks that kind of looks like a dumpster,

(16:41):
but I think it's cool anyway. All that stuff is
more expensive, and if you get into a crash with it,
it's a lot more expensive to replace a repair, which
means that those people who are driving jeloppies and there
aren't a lot more of those on there because President
and Obama had them all destroyed during Cash for clunkers,

(17:02):
which then raised the cost as it lowered the availability
of use vehicles, which then made auto insurance rates go up.
Everyone's auto insurance rates have gone up as homes have
been destroyed by hurricanes and flooding, tornadoes, wildfires. Then the

(17:23):
cost to replace all this stuff is so much more expensive,
and then State Farm has the audacity to say, all right,
all of these expenses, we can't continue to lose a
bunch of money. We're gonna have to charge people more.
And people have the nerve to act surprised, and then

(17:45):
you know what we're paying employees or what we're doing here.
Minimum wage Nebraska just went up. Nebraska voters last November
voted to require paid sick leave, and I said, there'd
be a lot of small businesses and those who hire
a lot of temporary employees who can't afford to do that. Well,
guests who went running into the unicameral yesterday begging the

(18:05):
legislature to do something about paid sick leave. A lot
of small businesses and those who hire temporary employees, they say,
we can't afford to do this. We're having to cut
people and cut hours. A lot of the people who
are impacted are those who are already on a pretty
strict budget or and or are younger people maybe just

(18:28):
trying to get started, or teenagers who are looking for work,
which then leads us to that which I posted on
Facebook the other day about how in the world people
are supposed to make ends meet, especially young people. I

(18:48):
admit I have a rather pollyannic view of this because
I was trying to do all this in the early nineties,
early to mid nineties, when it was hole much easier
to do it, and so I look at young people
and go, well, just you know, why can't you do this?
Why can't you do that? I'll give you some of

(19:08):
the realities of this next Scott Vores. We were talking
last week on the radio and this came in at
the end of I guess it was last Monday show
because and I took the rest of it last week off,
celebrating a day a week without Scott, just like, ye
see what you guys can do without me around. And

(19:29):
it turns out no one noticed. But this came in
at the end of the show and I kind of
glossed over it. I posted it on Facebook and got
great conversation on there, and I wanted to bring this
up for just a little bit of banter, not a lot,
a little bit of banter here this morning. And it
has to do with picture yourself back where you were

(19:51):
in your early to mid twenties. You are either maybe
you're coming out of high school and you're entering the workforce,
you're coming back from the military, you're coming out of college,
and you're now trying to say, all right, time to
start what my fifteen year old son refers to as adultery.

(20:12):
I told him that's not the term and he knows that,
but he and I think it's funny when he does
things that are more adult and nature is like, oh,
I'm committing some adultery now, my wife says, stop saying that,
like it's funny. So you're now trying to commit adultery.

(20:33):
You know, you're trying to find a place to live,
you're assuming your own payments, you stop asking your parents
for money. You know, you're trying to move up in
the business, start a career, start a family, whatever, you're
committing adultery. Again. This is otherwise known as being an adult,
growing up, getting out of the nest. Now for me,

(20:56):
that would be happening for me in the mid to
late nineties, late nineties, and obviously the cost of everything vehicles, housing, rent, insurance,
gas so much better. And I was talking about that

(21:19):
about how just much, how much more expensive it is
for people to start off. I mean that which you
could afford a pretty decent apartment, especially if you've got
a roommate, You could afford a pretty decent apartment without
too much strain on your budget. Now what a lot

(21:39):
of us are paying in house payments, mortgage payments, that
doesn't even begin to cover what a rent payment is
at a decent apartment, but alone, what's happening now with
mortgage payments. We're talking about that in this email came in.
We're talking about the financial realities for young people coming

(22:00):
up today. Now here's the math sent in from an
esteemed listeners at scott I recently looked at my budget
and cost back in nineteen ninety eight. My apartment rent
when I lived there in nineteen ninety eight was five
hundred and fifty dollars a month. I made twelve dollars
an hour, split the rent with the roommate, so two

(22:22):
twenty five plus half the utilities heat electric, internet, internet
in nineteen ninety eight, didn't you just get a disc
from CompuServe. Hey, I got sixty days of free internet,
and when that runs out, then I'll get the free
disc from a Netscape navigator or whatever whoever was offering
what anyway, heat electric internet, probably cable that was about

(22:45):
sixty bucks a month, garbage water included with the cost
of the rent. Man. That takes me back looking at apartments,
here's how much it costs. Utilities included, Cable included, garbage
water included. Looking at all that stuff, car insurance was
about seven hundred dollars a year, and he says, my

(23:07):
cell phone costs about twenty dollars per month again nineteen
ninety eight. Cell phone. I didn't have a cell phone
in nineteen ninety eight.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, well you know you wouldn't have. I did.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
I didn't need one. I didn't want one. I apparently
want one now, but I can't live without it. So
here were all of his costs in nineteen ninety eight.
It was just about enough to get by and still
have some spending money left over and save about one
hundred dollars a month and a mutual fund and put
away about fifty dollars every month for an emergency fund.

(23:40):
Smart guy. I wasn't doing that either, man. I was
nineteen years old, sitting there and in the office of
our HR director at the radio station. I was out
at the time, and she said, if you take just
a small part of your paycheck right now and put

(24:02):
it into an investment account four to one K, what
a great time to get started in that. I'm like,
I can't afford to part with anything I've I'm barely
making enough money as it is, and all my costs
are such that I guess I didn't want to sacrifice
fifty bucks a month or whatever. Probably couldn't have. She's like,

(24:23):
if you're making a huge mistake, I'm like, I'll be
fine now. I think man if I got started ten
years early, about ten years earlier in a four oh
one K, that'd been nice. Anyway, that's just an extra
ten years I get to work, all right. So here

(24:44):
were all of his costs in nineteen ninety eight, and
he says, I looked it up. Now, rent, same place,
same apartment complex, nineteen ninety eight, five fifty a month. Now,
he says, rent is eighteen hundred dollars per month starting
salary from my old job. Or he was making twelve
dollars an hour is now twenty dollars an hour. So

(25:08):
rent has more than tripled, the money has less than doubled.
Car insurance has doubled from about seven hundred to about
thirteen hundred dollars per year, and internet, it says now
one hundred dollars per month, depending on who you go
with cell phones seventy dollars per month, again depends on
who you're going with. So he says wages went up

(25:30):
roughly twenty five percent. That doesn't exactly check out. The
rents have gone up one hundred percent. Again, I have
different math than you, but the email says, no wonder
people feel like they're drowning. Now. I really feel for
today's young people. Now. I posted this on Facebook and

(25:51):
people are like, so, what's your solution. My solution is
a time machine.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
The solution is fifteen minute city. The solution is government
forcing you to live less expensively because they'll provide the
housing and in these fifteen minute cities, you won't really
need a car, you won't need insurance. I don't know
how this all comes about.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Now, you're not saying that's what you want. You're saying
that's what that's what some geppettos, you know, the orchestrators
behind the scene, are trying to push everyone to it.
They've made everything more expensive so you have to depend
more on government and live more socialistically. So when they
say hey, let's take from the rich and give to you,

(26:40):
there's a lot more people out there going yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
I'm not saying that'll they.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Pay for your health insurance and we'll pay for that
and you don't need a car.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
What I'm saying is that the prices that you have
just laid out there. All of those things have gone
up very quickly, and the talk of fifteen minute cities
all popped up about four years ago.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Long longer than that. I was talking with a friend
of mine who does some work with like city planners,
and he was likening what they did to a doctor
telling you, like, if you want to live, you need
to eat more of this, less of this, and do
more of this exercise and take these prescriptions or whatever.

(27:21):
And I said, are you really likening lanes of traffic
to a doctor telling us here's what you need to
do to live.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah, I could see that.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
He did not laugh at what I was prescribing as
his own self importance. But he was too self important
for that.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Can you explain it any better?

Speaker 2 (27:43):
They've been No, They've been pushing it for a very
long time. It is very orchestrated, like you said, but
but you can. You can either look at it as
they're doing that or we're doing that, because you also
have a lot more people who are more than happy
to keep electing the mindset that is leading us down

(28:05):
this path. But that's weird, is we.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Are allowing option number one.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
We're allowing them to lead us down this path. There
are more and more people in this country who don't
think it's fair that there are people out there making
x amount of whatever they consider to be rich dollars,
or the CEO would make more than a person who
just got hired to work part time. They don't think
that's fair. And all of this has gotten more expensive.
What we've done with taxes with rates, Like I said earlier,

(28:34):
President Obama said, We're going to get rid of all
the clunkers. We're gonna do cash for clunkers and get
all these old cars off the roads. Did that solve
global warming problems? No, what it did was it took
all of these affordable vehicles use cars off the road,
and now the used cars are worse, probably worth, probably
are selling for two to three times more than they

(28:55):
used to or that they should, which makes them also
more expensive to insure. Now, I was talking about this
in relation to young people trying to start out. Here's
some of the conversation on my Facebook page. Emily says, sadly,
this is the reality not just for young adults. I'm
fifty one. I'm struggling to make ends meet the cost

(29:16):
of outrageous rent along with overinflated bills, cell phone, car insurance,
internet groceries, et cetera, makes life for the middle class
very difficult. Melanie says, I know exactly what you mean.
It's so ridiculous right now. Earlier this year, I took
what I made it my first time job out of college,
and adjusted for inflation. I made more adjusted for inflation

(29:40):
and my first job out of college back in two thousand,
No wonder. I have to work two jobs to keep
up with rent and bills. And people are like, yeah, yeah,
me too, and like this and all the rest of it.
And of course you got some people who say, well
today's young people. Here's Jayson and saying someday people will

(30:01):
wake up and realize there are real consequences for electing
bums that enact policy which debases our currency while simultaneously
kicking the accountability can down the road which is full
of potholes. And then there was one that was talking
about these darn kids today, which I can't find because

(30:23):
there's too many comments. Oh here we are, Johnny says.
The reality is that younger people consider most once as needs.
Watch financial audit with Caleb Hammer on YouTube and you'll
see that overspending, unwise spending, and mismanaging credit is what's
holding young people back. They spend beyond their means. He

(30:45):
creates budgets based on income, needs and debts so they
can dig out. It's alarming. He has hundreds of episodes
like this that a lot of people won't pay attention to.
I mean, when I was coming up, my Caleb Hammer
was Orman say do this, do this, do this, and

(31:07):
you know, and there are others as well, but I
didn't need someone to It's like, you know, people say, like, oh,
how come you don't have a fit bit. Like I
don't need a fit bit to tell me how many
steps I need to get into each day to be healthier.
I have pants, and if I put my pants on
and after a month or two my pants are fitting tighter.

(31:30):
I don't blame the pants. I don't need a fit
bit to tell me you're not getting your steps in.
My pants are telling me I need to get a
few more steps in. I don't need Susie Orman or
Caleb Hammer or some YouTube video or Dave Ramsey or
anyone to tell me, hey, you're not doing well in
your budget. If I get to the end of the
month and I can't afford to eat.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Well, then that takes care of the pants problem.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah. Then George Washington told me you don't have enough
money right now? Yeah, you're right, that would solve the
problem of the tight fitting pants. Yep, it all works out.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Right, there's a circle.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
So I don't know to relate this to. One of
the big problems with all this is the mismanagement of
our tax dollars and our currency by government, which goes
back to what Trump and Musk and Doze and the
federal government are now trying to do. And people are

(32:27):
having a collective conniption hissy fit over anything that either
of them suggests that we could do. And you need
to ask these people as they're putting all these screeds
on Facebook, social media and all the rest of this going.
Trump doesn't care about this and what's gonna happen with that?
And I can't believe Elon said this. Just ask them,

(32:50):
say all right, not saying your complaints aren't legitimate, but
let's see if we can at least start off on
this common ground. Do you think that everything that America
has done, all the policies, all the spending, and all
the taxes, the devaluing of our currency, the inflation, all
this stuff. Do you think that where we've been financially

(33:13):
as a country is just great and there's no room
for improvement? And if they say yes, it's only because
they hate Trump, they don't honestly believe that, or they
don't actually pay for anything themselves. And there's more and
more people in this country for whom that's true. But
if you ask them, like, do you think everything in

(33:33):
this country has been great and there's no room for
improvement and they say absolutely, have them go lie down
and put a cold compress on their foreheads other people,
or check them in to an asylum somewhere. Those people
are crazy.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Scott Boyes, News Radio eleven kfab Lucy.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
I had no idea in my life that sour doughs
starters would be such an important topick of conversation and
so important to the building block of not just my life,
but apparently billions of Americans every single day. It's either
nurturing the sour dough starter, getting a sour dough starter,

(34:19):
taking excess sour dough starter and sharing it with friends
who don't have one, and then of course naming the
sour dough starter at some point, I guess you actually
make bread out of it and people eat it. But
I don't know that anyone. I don't know if that
actually ever happens. All I ever hear about this would

(34:40):
be from my wife and her friends is all of
the stuff there about we have to get the starter.
We've got to grow the starter. It's weird. I've got
some sort of mutant yeast organism growing in my home,
and I'm the only person who seems concerned about this.
Have you gotten in on sour dough starter craze?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
What exactly are you concerned about?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Haven't you ever seen the blob?

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Yeah, I've had it before.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
You've had the blob.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
I've had the blob. It's been many years. I would
like to get some more. It's so good for you.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Talk to my wife.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Sour dough bread is so good for you.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
I know we every once in a while. This growing creation,
the science project in my kitchen actually does lend itself
to edible bread, and it is really good.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
But I don't you just didn't know it was such
a big thing.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah, it seems like all I ever hear about now
is the condition of our and others. Sour dough starters.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, people have gone into mourning if something has happened
to their starter.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I heard all about how my wife went over to
her friend's house and she had some starter in the fridge,
but she's also handsome starter. The friend gave her out
there on the countertop, and my wife looked at it
and said, well, how long has this been sitting here?
She said, oh, it's been kind of sitting out like
there for a couple of months. I haven't done anything
with it. And my wife said, you can't eat this.

(36:16):
This has gone bad. You're gonna poison your whole family.
Oh my gosh, you saved my life. Thanks. And then
my wife said she started to put it down the sink.
I said, well, no, you can't put it down the sink.
It's gonna solidify in there. It's gonna come up the
whole works. Really yeah, I'll solidify and at some point
you have a major stoppage in your pipes. You can't

(36:37):
put it down the sink. Got throw it out.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Because it will grow, yeah, and take over other pipes.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Sour dough starters, big big deal, creeps me out. And
my wife named it so it's like we have a pet.
It's just very very well.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Are you're allergic to it?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
I don't think so. It's the only pet we've ever
had have not been allergic to. All Right, story here
from the KFAB radio news team. Craig Evans had this
earlier today on kfab's Morning News, and it goes back
to the eighties. A former University of Iowa healthcare employee

(37:19):
apparently saw a coworker named William and said I think
I'd rather be William and basically stole the identity of
this coworker. Now, this is back in the nineteen eighties
where the digital imprint was almost next to nothing, and

(37:45):
I don't know how. I mean, if you're a healthcare employee,
you probably have access to certain records and you can
falsify documents and make it look pretty convincing, which this
person did. Back in the eighties, a former Universe of
Iowa healthcare employee named Matthew stole the identity of his

(38:05):
coworker William so convincingly that as Williams started to notice, like, wait,
I've got loans being taken out in my name and
this is a problem, Matthew helped the like lead the
charge saying this guy's crazy, he thinks he's me, and

(38:31):
the ruse was so convincing that the victim of this
identity theft was medicated and even jailed for a year
for impersonating himself. This is a Twilight Zone episode. This
happened in Iowa, happened in Cedar Rapids, and it goes

(38:55):
back almost forty years. So this guy is like, wait
a second, that guy's not me. I'm me like and
and meanwhile that guy is like, I don't know. Guys
pretty pretty crazy. This is like an episode of Star
Trek where you get like a doppelganger or something like,
I'm the real Kirk. Shoot shoot him. No, don't shoot me,

(39:17):
shoot him, he's the impostor. That actually happened. The victim
was taken under like medical supervision, medicated, and even jailed
for impersonating what ultimately ended up being himself.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Okay, so can he go back and sue the people
that told them he wasn't him?

Speaker 2 (39:43):
I don't know, I mean you yeah?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Yeah? And answer is a car they put him in
a hospital or something.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
The answer is yes, you can sue. I don't know
if you can win. I don't see how you you don't.
But listen to this the guy who uh lived under
this this guy's identity for thirty five years, including getting
married and fathering kids. Now, it should be noted he
didn't assume this guy's identity and just march into the

(40:10):
house and and you know, begin the continuing a relationship
with this guy's wife and kids. It's not like the
movie Face Off. It's it's kind of like the movie fau. No,
he just assumed the no identity. They had his own life, yeah,
it had his own life under this guy's identity, got married,
father kids, and then meanwhile, this guy the the criminal.

(40:35):
Now his wife and kids are like, wait a second,
who's this? I thought I was married to a guy
named William. I thought my dad's name was Big Willie. Nope,
it's Matt. So fifty nine year old Matt of Wisconsin
now is being sentenced after basically stealing this guy's identity

(40:56):
for nearly forty years. How much jail time do you
think he's been sent.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
In Wisconsin?

Speaker 2 (41:04):
Maybe sentenced in Iowa. The theft, the criminal activity happened
in Iowa.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
He stole the identity and apparently moved up at some
point to Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Okay, sentenced here maybe three.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Years, twelve years.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I was good.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
I would hope it would be more.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
Yeah, but I want to know the real William.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Yeah, big Willie, the real one. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
What did he do over those thirty five years? He?
I mean he I assume used his own identity still
because he had no idea that it had been stolen.
And how do you steal it? Did they work that
you said they worked together?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Yes, at Iowa Healthcare.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
And so he just at some point, the criminal just
at some point decided he was going to take this
guy's name.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yeah, And.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Did he quit his job there than immediate? How do
you go to HR and say, well, we're both William.
Now that's a.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Good point because if they were working together, then you'd
have the documentation. And wouldn't you think like if if
Jim Rose steals my identity, I mean, he's already stolen
what some people say is my voice even though he
was here. Even though he was here first people think
we sound the same. And I'm gonna go ahead and

(42:27):
say that Jim's impersonating me. So let's say Jim starts
walking around going I'm Scott Vorhees. Now I know I'll
say it with you. Why in the world would he
want to do that? Why lower yourself to a position
of even less prestige and respect that he has now?

Speaker 3 (42:45):
But we all know, for sake.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Of argument, he just starts walking around going, Hi, there,
how are you today? Drinking coffee with a mug that
says I'm Scott Vorhees. Wouldn't someone say, why do you
have Scott's smug? What do you mean I'm Your co
workers would know, right, I hadn't considered that point. How
bad was this guy? You know? Like, uh, you know Merton?

(43:13):
Oh what's the name of the guy from Office Space? Uh?

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Hey, uh Toby Toby was Hr. Toby Toby was Hr.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
There's no one.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
I'm in the series. I'm in the series Office Space.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
Office Merton, not not Merton. I can't think of it.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Milton, Yes, it's Milton.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Hey Milton, what's happening? Milton? Please pass so your Milton.
Your office has been moved down to the basement. But
even everyone who worked with him knows who he is.
Peter Man can't suddenly come in and go I'm Milton.
People are like, I guess we've just been mistaken for
a How do the cowers not know who this guy is.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I suppose you could do it today though, with everybody
working from home.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
So this guy I pulled it up on a different
story here, this guy obtained a birth certificate, credit cards.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
And well he wasn't playing and.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Worked as a high level hospital administrator and tricked cops
into thinking that the victim was the one who stole
his identity, forcing the victim into jail and a mental
hospital because law enforcement deemed the man crazy.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
That is an evil guy.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Wouldn you think, I mean, if you're if you're if
the cops come to you and go, I don't know
why you're pretending to be Lucy Chapman. I have Lucy Chapman.
You know, of course they'll be like, she's she is?
If you donut short of a dozen here, we need
to do something about her. You'd be put into a

(44:54):
mental evaluation facility, medicated, and at one point given jail time.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
If I was doing a podcast, all right, wait wait.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Wait wait wait, okay, if you're doing a podcast.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
If I was doing a crime podcast, the first thing
I would do is look into the background of Matthew
Yeah is the criminal? Yeah, I would look into the
background what it was so needed to be covered up
so dramatically.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Well, here's see, I was mistaken thinking that they both
worked for because it says a former University of Iowa
healthcare employee, they stole a coworker's identity. I was mistaken
in thinking they both worked for the healthcare system at
the time and once stole the other's identity. As I

(45:44):
dig deeper into a different news source, here they worked
at a hot dog stand together in Albuquerque in the
late eighties.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
So I can see where you'd get this mixed up. Well,
health care hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
I only have part of the story here, and it
led me down the wrong mental path.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
No, I think that's a beautiful path.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
They work together.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Know that you could mix up. I know, No, you didn't.
You just had the wrong information. But I could see
where you could mix the hot dogs. Oh, throw anything
in there and make a hot.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Dog mental healthcare and hot dogs go hand in hand. Well,
or Bun and Wiener.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Bun and Wiener they go hand in hand, or five hundred.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Wiener and Bun. By the way, you ever listen to
the Wiener and Bun show, I have not mornings on
Channel ninety four to one. God rest Big, Party Soul.
He's still alive. Yeah, doing fine. But it's always sad
to see your radio friends even at different companies. Part
Ways so Big. I'm still a big fan of Party

(46:51):
and Degan and Molly again different radio company. I'm not
supposed to mention that other radio stations even exist, but
I still love those guys anyway, aka the Wiener and
Bunhow all right, So the you guys are working at
a hot dog cart in Albuquerque, and that's when he
stole his identity, just grabbed a paperwork and then moved

(47:11):
on and tried to assume a new life, which makes
it a little easier. You're not walking up and down
the halls in your office going I'm me that guy's crazy.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
It still doesn't take away what he did to this
guy afterwards.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
No, he got all the false documents and got loans
and all this stuff and then enjoyed life under false pretense,
while the other guy ended up homeless. So how did
this all get found out? So let's see here. The

(47:43):
homeless guy, the victim of this identity theft. Real William
goes into a Los Angeles bank and insisted, like someone's
got to listen to.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Me, and he did this at a bank.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Thirty years later, goes into a bank in Los Angeles
and says, please listen to me. Someone's been using my
credit card, my identity to accumulate large amounts of debt.
I want to close those accounts. So they asked him
the security questions, which of course he didn't know the
answer to because he didn't set them up. So they

(48:21):
contact the police department. The police arrest this guy and
he's still insisting, i'm me, i'm me, pled no contest
the charges. Spent fourteen months in jail, five months in
a mental facility where he's forced to take psycho psychotropic drugs.
So what happened? So then he found out where the

(48:46):
fake him worked, started calling the hospital and cedar rapids
to complain. The hospital says, all right, well, we'll just
pass this complaint along. Someone thought to look into it,
and this detective with the it says, the University of
Iowa Police Department campus cops figured this out. Whole life,

(49:12):
this guy's whole life. Help and finally it was a
campus cop.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
I have great respect for campus police.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
By the way, yeah, this detective, they have detectives.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
With the University of Iowa Police Department, the university police
at the campus cops.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
You keep saying that you're going I used.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
To do a bit when I was on the college
radio station to Carney campus cops protect and serve. Well,
I mean that was fun stuff. Uh So this detective,
who I guess, didn't have anything else to do. It's like,
all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna crack this caper.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
Can I see your email later?

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Yeah, I'm gonna crack this caper and continued continued the
investigation and eventually obtained the victims and proved that he
indeed was who he said he was. And then they
went to Matthew and said, we know you're not William

(50:13):
and he's like A I would have got away with
it too if it weren't for you darn campus.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Cops pulled the mask off.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Yeah, it turns out he was the museum curator the
whole time. He was just wearing some phosphorus paint to
make himself look like an alien or something.

Speaker 3 (50:32):
All right, I just want to know one more thing.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
I promise I don't have the answer, but yes.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Why did it take thirty five years for the real
William to finally stand up.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
You'll have to ask slim shady Scott voice. I've got
to tell you about this proposal. In the House of Representatives.
There is a congressman, Republican from Tennessee who has I
don't know if he's already introduced this. Yeah, he introduced
a constitutional amendment the other day to change how many

(51:09):
terms a president can serve in office. You know, for
any president, any future president could be Shiah lebuff he'd
be a three term president of the United States. You
don't know. You don't know if I had told you
forty years ago. Hey, that guy with the casinos in

(51:30):
Atlantic City that shows up on Oprah Show once in
a while, that Trump guy, He'll be president of the
United States. That's hilarious. So this congressman from Tennessee says
he wants to tweak the constitution to allow a president
to serve no more than three terms. Of Course, Democrats

(51:56):
heads are exploding. He's trying to keep Trump in office.
Of course, he's trying to keep Trump in office. Now,
Trump has said he's joked about, yeah, maybe I'll run
for another term again, just to cause people's heads to explode.
But this guy's actually putting forth the legislation. Now, it's

(52:17):
an extreme long shot. You'd have to ratify the constitution
ratified by thirty eight states. There's no way you're going
to get thirty eight states to go. Yeah, let's keep
Trump around for another four years. I don't or maybe
in three years from now, everything will be going so
great that even states like Michigan, like Governor Whitmer is like,

(52:41):
I think we need to keep this guy around. He's
great for the economy. Look at all the people with
nice jobs. Look at Canada and Mexico keeping fentanyl out
of our country. Look at China saying yes, sir, may
I have another Hey, it could happen, right, It never will,
but you know it could. Fox News Update next, and

(53:02):
then I'll tell you about this piece of legislation put
forth in Nebraska. Maybe you'll be on board with this.
I'll tell you about it next.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Scott Voice News Radio eleven to ten Kfaby.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Topic that comes up time and time, well, it comes
up twice a year. Specifically, is now in the form
of three bills in the Nebraska legislature. I don't know
why we need three bills, because it's either it's an
on off toggle. Here it's either this or that. So
we got three bills dealing with whether or not Nebraska

(53:39):
will recognize daylight savings time. State Senator Megan Hunt of
Omaha would provide for year round daylight saving time, meaning
next month, when we set the clocks ahead one hour,
we set the clocks ahead an hour and don't touch

(54:02):
it ever again. Over the years, I have not agreed
with State Senator and Megan Hunt on probably anything. I
agree with this, set the clocks ahead an hour and
don't leave it. Now. I should say I would be

(54:23):
fine with that, mostly though I guess I think that
I don't really care. Some people get all worked up
about setting the clocks ahead in the spring and back
in the fall, and it's like there was walking around
as zombie people like, oh man, I changed the clock

(54:43):
and I don't know how to function. I crashed into
a bridge on my way to work. I don't even
drive any place where there's a bridge between my house
and work, but I crashed into a bridge. Say, I
can't even talk right now. I didn't get any sleep,
and I don't know what I'm doing. And I tried
to eat an egg and I stuck it right up.
My I don't even know what I'm doing, like, I

(55:04):
don't know where. It's such a big deal to some people,
but we talked about it twice a year. Do you
have an opinion on whether or not we should leave
the clocks where they are right now in standard time
or set it ahead to daylight time and don't leave
it because we have bills. Some that would say we

(55:27):
need to change to daylight some that say we need
to leave it at standard. Do you have an opinion
on this, Lucy Chapman.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
Why can't we just leave it right where? Well? Actually no,
I would want to move it. I haven't. I would
like to move an hour ahead and keep it there. Okay,
well spring forward? Why and then never do it again?

Speaker 2 (55:52):
I have a reason? Why?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Do you have a reason why I want more day
at the end of the day?

Speaker 2 (55:57):
I do too. Do you know why I do golf
because I can play golf at I can't play golf
at the beginning of the day during the week, Yeah,
I can play golf at the end of the day,
and I need an extra hour daylight, especially in the
shoulder season and the fall or even in the winter.
Right now, where we haven't had winter, and people have
been able to go out and play golf when it

(56:17):
gets dark at five or lately about a quarter to six,
which is nice to see the days getting longer. If
I had an extra hour, I could play more golf.
And I think what everyone would agree is I need
to play more golf.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
So what we need to do is give them to
do the clock spring forward in March or whenever it happens,
and then hopefully get this done before October.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
Yes, but this is October November usually the second weekend
in November thereabouts. But there's one issue.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Oh, well, you don't want to copy Arizona.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
No, though it is confusing if you have family that
goes down to Arizona for the winter and you're like, yeah,
we're gonna gi him a call. What time is it
to call him right now? That's that's the first topic
of conversation when you call up friends or family in Arizona.
What time is it there right now? Yep, we don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
No.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
The big issue is not so much a big issue
in Grand Island, but it's a big issue in Omaha.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Oh, you don't know.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
Is it traffic? Is it sunglare No?

Speaker 2 (57:27):
It's so let's say, let's say we keep it at
standard time, and next month, when the clocks go forward
an hour, we don't touch it. So at this time
in two months from now, the time will be ten
forty two. We haven't changed it. But if you go

(57:48):
across the bridge into Iowa, the time will be eleven
forty two. Why am I always late.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Early? I don't even You don't even know.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Right, I don't even know. Yeah, no, you'd probably be late.
If you're like, I'm gonna get here at eleven and
you show up fifteen minutes early, you're forty five minutes late.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Well, that's what happens in Arizona. Then right, forgot about
the time you would have to Yeah, it do for
border towns.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
It does.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
So we just need to make this a federal a
federal thing.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
It absolutely needs to be a federal thing. Each state
shouldn't be deciding what time it is in the state.
And it's even more confusing in Nebraska. I guess, well,
I mean it is, but it isn't. It's the same
issue as just a different time zone, because you know,
Western Nebraska is in the Mountain time zone, which is
always fun. You're driving around North Platte, like, what time

(58:39):
is it? What day is it? I don't I don't
even know what planet I'm on anymore. I think that
if we're going to do this, let's make Nebraska all
one time zone. Right now, there's someone in Chadern going yeah,
but over here, you know it's it's a different time,

(59:01):
you know, like we're gonna have it, Like, well, we
got to do the cutoff somewhere. So I think, make
Nebraska one time zone, decide what time it is, and
then don't touch it. My biggest reason, well, the biggest
reason is because of golf at the end of the day.
My next biggest reason is my wife a couple of

(59:24):
years ago bought this huge, heavy wall clock. I have
no problem. I'm always the first one up, so when
it comes to the daylight chick clock change stuff, I'm
the one that gets up, and I change all the
clocks in the house and all this stuff. And then
I look at this giant honker of a wall clock.

(59:47):
I gotta pull the thing off the wall. I gotta
try and hold the thing up with one hand, and
I got to change the dial with the other one.
And of course anyone this is probably more not to
say that women don't care about being precise, but guys
probably get hung up on this more than women. I know.
I certainly do you want all the clocks in the

(01:00:09):
house to be I mean, I would be so happy
if they all change from minute to minute at exactly
the same time. Now, that's almost impossible to get done.
But I hate it when you're in the same room.
You got two clocks there and they say two different times.
The worst is the microwave in the oven, because those

(01:00:30):
are pretty much like you're in your eye line. They're
one on top of the other.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Yeah, they should make microwaves give us the ability to
have a message instead of the time on that Well,
if you could put a message in.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
What would you like the message in your microwave to be? Uh, Hey,
they're hot stuff. You want some popcorn? As a matter
of fact, I do want some popcorn. Thank you, microwaves.
I just don't like I don't like it when my
microwave and my oven are in two different time zones

(01:01:03):
by one minute, even if that one minute's only ten
seconds apart. I'm over there monkeying with it. Well, other
than that, recess this one, do that one. I've gotten
pretty fast at it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
You can fix all the other ones, get rid of
the digital clocks. Just put clocks in and nobody's gonna notice.
If it's a minute and it's not going to be
a minute, I'll notice because you can always just so.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Then I'm changing all the clocks, and they get this
giant wall clock and I'm trying to get that, and
I'm trying to look over and see what time it is,
or look at my phone. I can't. The thing's too big.
I could put it on the floor, but that seems
like cheating. So I'm, you know, trying to change the
hour and all this stuff that The clock is huge.
It's huge, and it's made by a clock manufacturer called Kensington.

(01:01:47):
And the reason I know that is it's in big
bold letters across the face of the clock, which I've
just taken to calling this giant clock Kensington, to which
I at my My wife doesn't like this at all.
My wife's discussed. I just yell at the wall clock, Kensington,
what time is it? Basically impersonating the leader of the

(01:02:12):
Hawkman from Flash Gordon, I realize as it comes out
of my mouth it's the same impersonation I use for Hawkman,
Dive Flash Gordon, great movie. Kensington, what time is it like?
That's my butler. Kensington doesn't talk back to me. The
only thing in my house that doesn't talk back to me.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Scott Voy's Mornings nine to eleven on news radio eleven
ten KFAB