More Mayoral Fallout / Work Uniforms / Dave Bray USA

Some thoughts for those who feel like Omaha is about to be burned to the ground in an Ewing Administration, and why there's so much anger on social media about his win.  Then, we respond to the Starbucks protests by sharing stories of our work outfits and dress codes over our lives.  Finally, the headliner for an upcoming free show celebrating patriotism joins me to invite you and your family to the event.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorhiez still a bit of fallout from the city
elections where a couple of days ago, and it's possible
you're hearing this for the first time in the city
of Omaha. It's possible you're hearing this news for the
first time. Omaha Mayor Jean Stothart lost her reelection bid
on Tuesday, having been defeated by longtime Douglas County treasurer,

(00:25):
and you're now mayor elect for the City of Omaha,
John Ewing. When I say it's possible you're hearing this
for the first time, I was talking with someone yesterday
who listens to this radio station pretty regularly. It's someone
with whom I have a couple of touch points a

(00:46):
week in communication, with someone who's ostensibly plugged in and
knows what's going on. I saw him yesterday afternoon, and
he see you. I snuck ont up on him yesterday afternoon.
We have this fun game called piano wire, and so
I snuck a note. Then we were talking. He says, oh,

(01:08):
I didn't get a chance to hear any of your
show this morning. I should have got him with the
piano wire that then and there, but I didn't. I
let him talk, and he said, what's the big topic.
I said, well, we talked a lot about the election results.
He goes, oh, yeah, I didn't. I didn't pay any
attention what happened. And I said, Mayor Stothart lost to

(01:33):
John Ewing. Really, this was yesterday afternoon. You don't say no, okay,
I thought she'd win in a landslide. Right now, if
you listen carefully, that sound you here is the gnashing
of teeth of Omaha Mayor Jean Stothart going how many
people out there? Voters plugged in, voters in Omaha didn't

(01:56):
vote because they thought, ah, she's probably got it. And
it very well could have been that way. Because I
asked him, why didn't you vote? Why didn't you decide
to be a part of this. He goes, well, she
was just so far ahead of him in the primary,
which is true. Which is true, from the primary six

(02:20):
weeks ago to the election this week, Mayristothor picked up
an extra ten thousand votes. John Ewing picked up more
than double the votes he got in the primary. He
picked up like an extra thirty thousand votes. It was
something else, right, So now people are here's what I'm

(02:42):
going to try and paraphrase and probably do it poorly
what Gary Sadelmeyer said about twenty five minutes ago here
on news radio eleven ten KFAB Because there's this thought
out there that, oh, there's a Democrat who's going to
be in charge of Omahonab and you know what that means.

(03:03):
And then you see images of other cities that have
been long time Democrat controlled strongholds. The violence, the fires,
the shutting down of streets for the protests, du jore
or just deciding this isn't going to be a two
hour protest shut down in the streets. Instead, we're just

(03:25):
going to have Antifa come in here and just take
over this whole area of downtown. Never mind the fact
that private business and homeowners work and live in this area.
We just decided that we were keeping it because George
Floyd or whatever. And you see the violence, the fires,

(03:46):
the protests in a lot of these communities, let's name them,
everywhere from Portland and Seattle to Minneapolis, Chicago to Washington,
d C. And Baltimore, longtime Democratic stronghold, and people say,
this is what happens when a Democrat runs a city,
They run it directly into the ground. Now, the thing

(04:13):
that I wonder, and I'm not saying that there aren't
people ready and willing to do that here in the
city of Omaha, if you lived here at the time.
We remember a few years ago that maybe one of
the worst nights in Omaha's modern history. I'm talking about

(04:35):
post Civil rights movement, one of the worst nights in
Omaha's history that doesn't have a natural disaster attached to it.
The rioting, the looting, the fact that we lost one
person that night, and then another person as a result
of it days later in the downtown riots to protest

(04:58):
the actions of police officers hours away who may or
may not have contributed to the death of a guy
in the streets of Minnesota. Whether or not George Floyd
died as a result of those actions, the actions were wrong.
I'll let someone else decide why George Floyd died. Be
that as it may. The actions of that police officer

(05:21):
were absolutely disgusting. And because an officer five and a
half hours away did that, it's time to start setting
fires to business owners who have nothing to do with cops,
nothing to do with George Floyd, nothing to do with
the Minneapolis the police Department, any of that stuff. It

(05:43):
was a disgusting display. And what we saw that night
was there are all too many people here in and
around the Omaha metro who say, oh, I understand that
stuff's gonna burn. I like burning things. Let's go out
and do this. That was a horrible in Omaha. That
wasn't Omaha. Omaha was the next morning when people came

(06:04):
out to sweep up glass and try and clean up
vandalism and be there for the business owners who were
just standing outside of their businesses looking at something that
had been windows had been broken shot out in some instances,
graffiti against cops had been written on the side of
their business that works like printing and something completely unrelated

(06:29):
to anything having to do with cops, and they were
just looking at it, going, I don't even know where
to start. How are my employees going to want to
come to work tomorrow? I don't know what to do here.
That next morning, where people were coming out and helping
each other, that was Omaha, not the protest the night before.

(06:50):
It was sad to see though, that there were too
many people who live here who were all too willing
to be a part of that. That was a horrible
night for Omaha. But it was one night in Omaha's
recent history. Since then, these same people who decided we
needed to go out and burn and loot and cause

(07:12):
these problems and riot and all the rest of it,
they haven't done that again, not saying they don't want to.
Some of them want to. They love the idea of that,
but they haven't done that again. Is that because we
had a Republican as mayor, and now that we have
a Democrat as mayor, they're like, all right, I know
how this goes. Democrat becomes mayor. We can just take

(07:34):
whatever we want, whenever we want, and there'll be so
much crime that everything will have to be behind a
lock and key in every single store, and prosecuting of
shoplifting won't be done, and we won't ever have to
go to jail because there'll be no cash bail and
all the rest of this stuff. This is how it's
going to work, right. I haven't heard any of that.

(07:57):
And John Ewings's plans for this of Omaha. And anyone
who thinks, oh, a Democrat is mayor, let's go out
and burn and riot and loot and protest and will
do all this stuff all the time. What has stopped
him over the last few years. You know that the

(08:17):
same people live here, right, the people that you live
next to, the people live a couple blocks over, the
people that live in the next neighborhood, the people that
live across town, the people you work with, the people
you drive around every single day that you go to
the grocery stores and the concerts and the school events with.

(08:39):
They're the same people who've lived here every single day.
It's the same population that voted for a Republican mayor
three times in a row, for Jean Stothard, and now
they decided they wanted to go a different way, and
John Ewing's the next guy up, and he happens to
be a Democrat. It's the same neighbors, it's the same people,

(09:02):
the same coworkers. They don't bust in a whole new population.
It's not like, you know, when there's a regime change
at the White House and the new first Lady comes
in and says, well, I don't like those drapes, and
we're doing, you know, getting in all this stuff and
all that furniture has to go, or to put it

(09:23):
in a situation, you might understand when you move into
a new house and you go in there and you go, well,
the first thing we have to do is change this carpet,
and then I don't know who would paint walls this color,
but that's gonna have to be changed. It's such a garish,
awful fusia color in this room. We're gonna have to

(09:46):
do the the the or like probably a couple of
layers of a white foundation. I can't think what that's called.
The white paint that goes over not kills, but the
base will. There's a name for an. I can't think
what it is right now. Lucy, you say you paint
the bathroom every single weekend.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, if it's not kills and it's not a base.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
It's the Yeah, you gotta paint over it with a
I don't know. Anyway, you got to go in there.
You gotta do that because you can't just go from
one color to the next without first doing.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I don't know, a base paint.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
It almost came anyway. I haven't painted in a while. Anyway,
you go in there and you completely do everything differently
than how the previous people did. It's not like that
when you go from a Republican to a Democrat mayor
in terms of the population of the community. It's not like, oh,

(10:47):
we had it, Primer, thank you, Primer. Oh is what
I'm talking about, Primer.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Lucy, why I paint so much every Monday?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Use for the last three hundred Mondays in a row. So, Lucy,
how was your weekend? She's like, I paint it the bathroom.
That's why you have to paint all the time. You
gotta put a primer down first. All right, everyone stop
emailing me. You're right, Primer. I know I got it.
Thank you. I'm gonna have a thousand emails, I'll say, Primer.
When a Democrat suddenly becomes the mayor, it's not like,

(11:17):
all right, we're gonna have a new this person in
charge of this city office. This person's gonna be in
charge of that city office. We might change a few
things here in the office. Oh by the way, all
the people who've lived here all out and we're busting
in brand new progressive liberal Democrats and they'll be occupying
this town and they'll be given space to destroy. It's

(11:41):
the same people who live here. And I know you're
like Scott, maybe you haven't met my neighbors. Oh no,
I've met your neighbors. We're all together all the time,
and there are some people who shouldn't be allowed to
function on their own. There are a lot of really
awful people in this town, but they're largely either kept

(12:02):
in check for one reason or another, including by the
other people who live here who are quick to come
out and say, we don't want this in our town.
So it's I don't know where this idea is, like, Oh,

(12:23):
Omaha's got a Democrat mayor, it's all going to burn.
Who's going to burn it? The same people haven't been
burning it over the last few years because they're the
ones who live here. So I really want to push
back against this idea that Omaha is all going there

(12:43):
and it's going there in a handbasket, and it's going
to go there and a big ball of flames because
now there's a Democrat in office. I got a message
here from a guy I went to college with who
has different politics than I think with some things, but

(13:04):
he said, hello, old friend, and this is truly old.
I haven't gotten a message from him since twenty seventeen,
a Facebook message. You can track these things, Hello old friend.
He's an eighty year old British chap Hello, old friend.
Hope life is going good for you. He says, I

(13:26):
know that you have sound judgment and are really good
at assessing things, so I would love to know what
your perspective is on the Meyril race. Why are so
many people upset with the outcome? I have my guesses,
And then he rolls a little eye roll emoji. Now,
this particular individual is more liberal leaning, and he's black,

(13:52):
and sometimes the identity politics of being black do seep
into his political views on things. So I took that
to mean that he thinks that there's so many people
mad on Facebook, not that a Democrat was elected, but
that a black man was elected, like Omaha is like, ah, man,

(14:13):
it's come to this. They let him be mayors now,
like really really don't see that? Obviously, there are some
individuals who are racist, And as I always say, the
nice thing about racist, which is the best way to
start off any thought, the nice thing about racist is

(14:35):
they don't hide it, not as much as as people
are like, oh, these you know, secret races out there,
these other they don't. The truly racist people are so
proud to be so racist all the time. They'll tell
you don't have to guess, they'll tell you, and I
don't like having to guess. So he said, why are

(14:57):
so many people upset with the outcome? I have my guesses,
and I said, the reason why so many people are
upset and you're seeing it blasted across social media is
there's a lot of fighting within the Nebraska Republican Party.
You've got your big time Trump supporters. And this was
before the mayor election. This goes back a few years

(15:19):
to win the more trumpy wing of the Nebraska Republicans
who felt ignored by the more let's see old school
heritage country club wing establishment probably establishments, probably the more
colloquial way to put it. So you got the more
trumpy Republicans who felt ignored by the more establishment Republicans.

(15:41):
And the reason they felt ignored is because the establishment
Republicans ignored them, which was a mistake. So then the
more trumpy Republicans go in, they take control of the
state and local parties, and now they're starting to ignore
the establishment Republicans, which is also a mistake, because the
establishment Republicans in Nebraska outnumber the more trumpy Republicans, but

(16:05):
they just didn't put up much of a fight when
it came to this group of people who felt like
they were ignored because they were suddenly taking over all
these leadership positions. It was a really great game of
chess that they played and they won. But what did
they win? They won now a fracture within the state
Republican Party, which then people wonder like, how come there

(16:29):
weren't more people out? How come the Republican Party didn't
endorse any of the Republican candidates in last November's election Bacon,
Ricketts Fisher. I don't think they endorsed any single one
of them, And I didn't really hear anything in terms
of a bunch of money coming in here supporting Jean
Stothard's candidacy from the Republican Party. That's because of all

(16:50):
this in fighting. Now this is just for us. I
didn't write all of that down in my response to
my friend here, I said, there's a lot of fighting
within the Republican Party in Nebraska. You got the big
time Trump supporters mad at Stothart because she's not conservative enough,
so they didn't vote for her. But now they're mad
that a Democrat is mayor of Omaha. They wanted some

(17:13):
mythical candidate who doesn't exist around here and couldn't get
elected if they did. Omaha is a purple city. So
both sides, the Republicans, the Democrats, the trumpy Republicans, the
very progressive Democrats, they're all going to be unhappy at
whoever is in charge once in a while, which probably

(17:33):
means that person is doing his or her job. And
then the other portion of the Republicans are mad at
the Trump wing for not voting for Stothart. So they're
all yelling at each other. You're the reason why Star
the loss. Now you're the reason. So's your face, your mom.
You know they're doing all that. John Ewing just stayed

(17:54):
quiet in these days leading up to the election. He
just got real quiet. Let that all just blow it.
They just ate themselves on the Republican side, and he
let them all fight amongst themselves and won convincingly. I said,
Ewing has a chance to be a great mayor and

(18:15):
unite the people, and he will, because he's either going
to be terrible and unite the Republican Party or he's
going to be a great mayor and unite the people.
Either way, people will be united because of John Ewing.
That's that's how it's going to happen. I said, that's

(18:36):
my assessment, what's yours, And then he went into well
the black community was this and this and all that
he did he was. He did note in here, though,
that the black community of Omaha was upset and particularly
motivated to the vote in this election. And they're upset
at Bud Crawford because Terrence Bud Crawford, the Great box Or,

(19:00):
endorsed Jean Stothard, and that upset a lot of black
people in Omaha. So interesting perspective there. But I truly,
you know, if anyone thinks, like, oh, Omaha is racist

(19:23):
because they're mad a black guy one, oh, the same
community that just voted for a black man to be
the mayor of Omaha, is that the racist community of
which you speak. Congressman Bacon said that one of the
local media outlets, Lucy pick your pick one, No pick one, Okay,
He said, based on the metrics, Jeene Stout should have

(19:46):
won this election. Omaha was just ranked by Forbes magazine
magazine the number one city in the nation in which
to live. It has low unemployment, it has low crime.
You know, you're the mayor of Omaha and you're running
on your record, and this is your record. People are like,
I want change, change to what. But Don Bacon then

(20:12):
adds why he thinks Geene Stother lost. He says he
thinks it has something to do with the people just
instituting their own term limits. As a long time incumbent himself.
In this media report, Bacon said, Omaha is being politically
split means the more elections you win, the more adversaries

(20:34):
you collect, quote, you take on more weight over time. Unquote.
Wait a minute, just saw Mayor Stotther the other day.
She look great. I don't know why Don Bacon's calling
her fat. That's not cool. I drop some weight, yeap, Yes,
Don Bacon says Jean stother didn't win because you know

(20:57):
she she was a little full in the face. I
guess I'm trying to get a fight now between Jeane
Stother and Don Bacon.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
You might get a fight between Scott Vorhees and Don.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Bacon either way, especially if Stotherton I team up on Bacon.
I think Bacon still wins. Brigadier General. He shaved the
mustache though, so he's not as tough.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Didn't They used to do that in wrestling Tag teams. Yeah,
do they still do that?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, I imagine I haven't watched wrestling since puberty set in.
That was only a few years ago. So I like
what Gretina is doing. Memorial Day is coming up, and
this story from KMTV three News Win.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Eighteen forty.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
No, it's three news now, not three News eighteen forty.
That's stupid. By the way, I met the news director
for KMTV the other night, said we have fun on
the radio by referring to your TV is three news
win yesterday, No now. Oh, and she just gave me

(22:07):
the same blank stare you're giving me now. Gretna Hometown
Heroes recognizing local military. You'll see banners stretched out along
Highway three seventy in Gretna today the twenty some service
men and women from Gretna. We'll see those banners go

(22:27):
up this year. They'll be revealed in a special ceremony
and that's going to be at Gretna High School tonight
at seven o'clock. That is a beautiful, beautiful thing. And
a lot of people who voted for Stouthart four years
ago live in Gretna now, they live in Bellevue, now,

(22:49):
they live in Papillion now, they live in Bennington now,
which shows that if Jeane Stother wants to win an
upcoming election, she needs to run for mayor of Douglas
County and Sarpye County, a hybrid position the county's mayor
of Douglas and Sarpie County. I think she'd win. How's

(23:12):
that for a consolation?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Is that terrible?

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I talked earlier this hour about this idea that, oh,
a Democrat's in charge of Omaha, We're going to see
all these protests and the city's going to burn to
the ground now, because that's what happens in these Democrat
run cities. It is what's happened in some longtime Democrat strongholds.
I don't know that you could say Omaha is a

(23:38):
longtime Democrat stronghold since the mayor elect, the first Democrat
to take office in twelve years, won't even be sworn
in for another three weeks. So maybe calm down just
to touch Plus, the same people who you allege are
going to be burning the streets, they're the same people

(23:58):
you who live here. Now. Why aren't they burning the
streets now? Why aren't they celebrating John Ewings win the
same way that like the city of Los Angeles does
when the Lakers win. I love the Lakers. Let's burn
this mother down. I love the Lakers. Let's burn down
the Staples Center where they play. Everyone calm down, but

(24:22):
some of the people can't protest whatever the protest du
jour is. I lost track. Are we on free Palestine
right now or just general anti Trump?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I think it's general anti Trump.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
We're still general anti Trump. You can't keep track. The
protest today though, is Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
What did they do?

Speaker 1 (24:43):
They asked their workers. They're baristas at seventy five US stores,
which is point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero
one percent of the total number of Starbucks just in
any give even three block radius in this country. Protesters

(25:05):
at seventy five US stores have gone on strike. They're
protesting a new company dress code. Starbucks has put new
limits starting this week on what their bearistas can wear.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh wait a minute, is this for the whole company
or just these seventy five stores? What's just seventy five
that are protesting?

Speaker 1 (25:25):
The story says, well, only some are have like a
labor union attached to them. The Starbucks United Starbucks Workers United,
or NAMBLA for short, is a union that represents workers
at five hundred seventy of starbucks ten thousand company owned

(25:46):
US stores. There are more owned by private franchise owners.
But it says here more than a thousand Starbucks baristas
at seventy five US locations have gone on strike this week.
They're protesting Starbucks dress code, and that is that it
has to do with what you can wear under your
green Starbucks apron. The dress code now requires employees at

(26:10):
company operated and licensed stores in the US and Canada
to wear a solid black shirt and as pants either
khaki black or blue denim pants. Under the previous dress code,
you could show your flare. We want you to show

(26:30):
your several pieces of flare your nineties movie reference for
this segment of the radio program. I don't like talking
about my flair.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
It's you know, taking orders and stuff. And I can't
think of the name of.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
The movie Office Space. No, yeah, it is. Is that
the restaurant in office space Jennifer Jennifer Aniston. There's lots
of restaurant.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
No, but it was very similar to that scene anyway.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
The one with Dane Cook.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Yeah, you know, like waiters or servers or yeah, anyway.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
That's a very funny movie. Office space is better. I
don't like talking about my flair. So under the previous
dress code, you could wear a brighter or broader range
of different colors or patterned shirts or whatever. And Starbucks said,
we we just we want a more uniform look to
our uniforms. The green aprons will stand out more and

(27:28):
create a sense of familiarity for customers as we try
to establish a warmer, more welcome and feeling in our stores.
That's not why they're doing it. They're doing it because
everyone was wearing their particular cause rainbow as it might
be on their shirts, and it was getting more and
more ridiculous. And so if you go in there and
you're like, yeah, this person's got us free Palestine shirt on,

(27:51):
and I you know, I've been patronizing the Starbucks location
for years. I'm Jewish. I don't feel comfortable. I'll tell
you what, how about just a solid black sure to
under the ap and it just would look nice and
not allow you to put whatever your causes are all
over the place. So now Starbucks is like, this is terrible.
We're walking off the job. Well, unemployments a little bit low,

(28:15):
so there's a lot of new jobs open, I would think,
if you want to go work at Starbucks. But this
is the big protest. We don't like that our boss
told us what we have to wear to work? Question
for you and you not so much you, but you
question what uniform if you had to wear at work

(28:40):
in your life, what was the standard, whether it's a
particular maybe a costume, maybe be a particular uniform, maybe
it was a dress code that you had to step
up and adhere to. What if you had to wear
to work because your boss said this is what we wear?
I want to know. Scott at kfab dot com, Scott.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Byes NewsRadio eleven ten k FA.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Waiting was the name of that movie we were grasping
at a moment ago. Very funny movie. If you've ever
worked in food service, or ever even eaten at a restaurant,
I recommend that movie Waiting, especially if you don't mind
some sophomoric rather inappropriate humor. But if you do mind

(29:30):
those things, why are you listening to this show? Yeah? Now,
I asked a moment ago, since we got a number
of Starbucks baristas who've walked off the job because Starbucks
said this is the new company uniform solid black shirt
and you can wear either khaki, black or blue denim

(29:50):
bottoms if you want pants, but you gotta wear a
solid black shirt. It's gonna make that green apron of
ours really pop and prevent you from wearing your caused
djure every single day you go to work. So what
did you have to wear to work? Dave says, As
a ride operator at Peenie Park, I also yes, thank you,

(30:13):
Thank you, Dave. I also picked up hours working in
games and at the Midway as a substitute. In games.
I was told I had to wear the Peenie the
Skunk costume one day. What their mascot was? A skunk?
Peenie the Skunk?

Speaker 2 (30:30):
You didn't know that? No, what did you think it was?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
I never I never saw a skunk there, a human
or otherwise.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Did you see a mascot?

Speaker 1 (30:39):
No, I didn't know Peenie Park ever had a mascot.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Oh so sad?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Really, Yeah, I didn't never see that, he says.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I used to walk around all the time.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, he says, being a good employee, I did what
I was told, even though it was ninety five degrees
and the costume stunk inside hand out. I'm just happy
there weren't cell phones at the time and no photographic evidence. Well, Dave,
that's what AI is for. So more of your stories.
What did you have to wear to work because your
boss told you to? I want to know, Scott at
kfab dot com, your next crack at one thousand bucks

(31:11):
comes up at ten oh five. I remember I would
occasionally I worked at the movie theater, which is really
the only time I think in my life I ever
had a dress code black dress pants, white button down shirt,
black bow tie. But if you were one of the managers,
you could wear a tie tie to note this particular

(31:35):
acne faced teenager is in charge.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Oh so they made managers out of the kids.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Oh yeah, huh. Does it shock you that I got
to be an assistant manager.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
But you still had to wear a bow tie.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
I chose to wear the bow tie mostly because it,
you know, I there were a few of us who
were assistant managers, and sometimes there's just a matter of
who is available. Like one time it was like, yes,
your assistant manager, but we also need someone to serve
popcorn tonight, So Matt's gonna be the assistant manager. You're
serving popcorn, but I'm an assistant manager. I'm like, it was,

(32:11):
It's all so stupid. Plus there was one guy who
just decided that he should always wear a tie because
he was older than us. He was in his late twenties.
We were teenagers, and he's like, I'm not dressing up
like these kids, I'm gonna wear a tie. And we're like,
how come Scott gets to wear a tie? Different Scott. Oh,
it became a thing, so.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
No doubt.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
So.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
The only job I've ever had where I had to
wear a uniform was at the movie theater.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Not even when you were pumping gas.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Never pumped gas as a job. I pumped my own gas.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Mucking stalls, didn't do that either. Driving a cab never
done that. I would And these are goola also a
few of these things. It would be the only other
things I might be qualified for. When kfab comes to
its senses and says, yeah, it's time for you to go, like, yeah,
we were going to do this years ago, but we forgotten.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
Please leave. We are asking then, what you had to
wear to work? What uniform did you have to wear
to work? There are a lot of women with some
variation of this. This particular message comes from Megan says.
When I was a freshman in college, I got a

(33:30):
job at a high end steakhouse as a cocktail waitress.
Here's how they would determine what uniform you were wearing
as a cocktail waitress. You would try on a black,
deep plunging v neck, and then they would order you
a size smaller than the one that fit you. The
bottoms were a black mini skirt with fishnet stockings and

(33:54):
black heels. I made five hundred dollars in tips almost
every weeknight I worked, serving martinis and listening to jazz.
But it only lasted two weeks before I decided serving
was not for me.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Five hundred bucks a week on your fish nets?

Speaker 1 (34:11):
No, no, no, no, no, five hundred bucks a night
a night. Yeah, If I thought that I could make
that kind of money, I'd wear that outfit. People would
pay me to put on a smock.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
They might, they might put they might ask me to
wear one size bigger than me.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Lucy, when you were working at Twin Peaks, the plaid
bra that you had to wear, Yeah, is it comfortable?

Speaker 2 (34:42):
Well, only when it was off.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
We're all a little off today as women.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
We wear uniforms every day, whether we go to the
job or not.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
And that's what you decided to wear to huh rio
Speedwagen concert t shirt, stonewashed denim jean jacket, Boston Concert
Tour button on the denim jean jacket. I know it's
a classy look. That is Lucy's uniform. Kevin email Scott
at kfab dot com and these ankers custom Woods Inbox

(35:22):
says while working as a security officer at AmeriStar Casino
in the early to mid nineties, I had to wear
a full polyester blue uniform. Blue pants, I'm sorry, blue pants,
white shirt, full polyester, but it also had burgundy and
gold shiny stripes down both pant legs and on the shoulders.

(35:43):
I looked like something straight out of the Music Man
with my seventy six trombones. And they ordered his pants
a size smaller than what he fed on to It's
that yes, are you the manager? I think that employee
over there is smuggling plums. A lot of people emailing

(36:06):
about the work uniform being military in nature. Here are
a couple of emails on that. Dean says, My twenty
four plus years in the Air Force kind of required
a consistent uniform every day while at work. No blame,
allowed consistency for everybody. Yeah, they're you're not getting you know,

(36:27):
the Starbucks people like, you got to wear a comfortable
T shirt and uh, what you know, some nice pants
jeans if you want. And then you got to wear
the apron and this is the uniform. I don't want to.
People in the military are like, we didn't know it
was an option to say we don't want to.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
I don't think it was.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
It's because it wasn't it was now. David says, while
on an active duty in the Army, stationed in a rock,
we had to wear a reflective belt or sash over
are camouflaged uniforms during the day. Yeah, it's as amazing
as it sounds. So you're wearing a camouflage uniform, but

(37:10):
for some reason you had to wear a reflective belt
and sash and that during the day when the reflectiveness
doesn't do that which would help protect you at night
if you know, there's jeeps or whatever driving around the base.
But plus you're wearing camouflage ostensibly so the enemy can't
see you, and you have this reflective safety orange belt

(37:35):
on who told you to wear these uniforms?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Sodom Hussein and every night they had large shrimp for dinner.
M large shrimp.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Is this a Forrest Gump reference?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
No, it's just they don't go together. I can't never.

Speaker 1 (37:57):
Mind, I see you're doing an oxymoron. Never mind, I'm
an oxy moron because I didn't pick.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Up on that well moron anyway.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Jumbo shrimp.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Here's the phrase, Oh jumbo Yeah, okay, sorry, I'll be
checking out now.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Don't Kim says, and she has a picture. I don't
know if that I think this is from a commercial.
I don't think this is Kim unless she was in
the commercial. But she says, here's what I had to
wear to work, this lovely polyester number at the Ponderosa
Steakhouse in Bellevue nineteen seventy seven. Yeah. I think of
a picnic tablecloth, make it polyester and put it on

(38:34):
with this really wide collar.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
One of those guys at Shaky's after Oh, you wouldn't
know what that is.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
I don't know what Shaky's is, but you can paint
the picture for it.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
It was a pizza parlor, and I believe they all
had to dress like barbershop quartet kind of guys. It
was great.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
I love that as a kid, we had a little
place like that in our neighborhood. Rocky were Cocos. Remember
Rocky were Cocos off one hundred and eighth in l Streets.
Wasn't there for a terribly long time, but I seem
to remember that was kind of the theme at that
restaurant as well. Here's another person who sent me a
picture of himself. Matt says, when I worked for Kids

(39:19):
foot Locker, I had to shave my beard because kids
foot Locker did a study and found that beards scared kids.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I'm growing a beard.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Uh where's let's see now.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Here's the part of the show where Lucy says she's
glad she doesn't have kids.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Lucy wants to keep kids away from her so much, even.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Though a little girl needs her daddy. That's probably why
I don't like kids. A little girl needs her daddy.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
I just havn't had kids, haven't hit some of these
buttons in a while.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
I love kids as long as so.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Footlocker did a study and found that beard's scared kids.
So if I wanted to keep my job, no beard,
I needed my job. Shave my beard. Hair grows back
and now because of the shaving of the beard. It's
thicker than ever, and Matt proved it by sending me
a picture of him that is a very impressive thick beard. Matt,
thank you. Please let this be the first and last

(40:24):
time a guy sends me a picture just to show
off his beard. You know what, We'll make that a
case by case basis.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Actually, oh, I see you're open to it.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Well, just in case any of the guys from ZZ
TOPP are listening and they want to show me what
they got going on. I kind of want to see Scotty.
Some people ask me, say, Scott, how come you do?
I mean, Gary and Emory do a lot more of
this than you. We got the talkback Mike feature where
you can push that microphone button there on the screen
when listening to us anywhere you are with our free

(40:55):
iHeartRadio app, and you can send a message with your
own voice via the talk It's a fun resource and
we do it from time to time, but not always,
like how comes Scott? You don't do it all the time.
Well maybe because of Gym's like this Office Space nineties
movie reference, Watch your corn hole, Bud?

Speaker 2 (41:24):
When was that last?

Speaker 1 (41:26):
The last line was a line from the movie. Hey Peterman,
watch the corn Hole bud Okay, he was going off
to a federal prison. Yeah. So if your robot wants
to send us a message Office Space need to reference
nineties movie, then please.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Says So that's is that the best you've got?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yes? I like the emails. Doug emails Scott at kfab
dot com and the Zonker's custom was inbox. And he's
talking about dress code in general. He says, so many
companies have caved on any kind of standard. There's been
an attack on professionalism for a while now. Every day
can't be casual Friday. Doug says, I've worked in the military,

(42:16):
pizza hut, casino sometimes in the same day, and currently UPS,
which has a certain standard. You got to wear the
UPS uniform. But in a lot of places, I'll tell
you one place I see it and I realize I'm

(42:37):
going to get some flak for saying this. Young teachers,
some young teachers. Hey, he's talking about me. Oh, maybe
I'm not talking about you. Let's do a study line
up with the students. Can people tell you apart if not,
you're dressed like a slob. Sorry. I see a lot

(42:59):
of teachers just to citing I'm just gonna you gonna
hang out here with my homies in this classroom. Hello,
fellow kids. We're all wearing hoodies and pants that are
all ripped up. You can see my knees. That means
I'm want to you, I'm super cool whatever, Boomer, Boomer,
I'm twenty five years old. They don't care dressed professionally,

(43:22):
and then these teachers, they dress like absolute slobs, and
they wonder why the students don't give them more respect.
This was not my experience growing.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Up mine either.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
No, all my teachers wore pasties.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Scott voices, News Radio eleven ten kifab Why where'd you
go to school?

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Oh? I was just thinking mine did too, So I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:47):
Oh, I thought I recognized you from somewhere. I have
an opportunity to say hello to you from the stage
sumter Amphitheater, just off one hundred and eighth and three seventy,
just south of Papilion to South High School on the afternoon,
late afternoon of Sunday, May twenty fifth. It's a free
concert honoring heroes at sumter Amphitheater Barry Law and you

(44:12):
know Barry Law. They are taking care of people here
and they work specifically with veterans and emergency first responders.
The warrior ethos they bring to every single case. Barry
Law has been here in our community and doing it
since nineteen sixty five. They wanted to say thanks. They
wanted to put on a really fun event this year,
and they've got a great headliner coming to Sumter Amphitheater

(44:35):
for this free show on Sunday, May twenty fifth. It's
someone else who shares the values of being there for
our military and first responders. It's a band called Dave
Bray USA, a new Traine in the Price st Up's.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Full Times in Widday.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
It's gonna be a great night at rock, Country, Roots
and Patriotism on Sunday, May twenty fifth. We welcome on
to the show of Dave Bray USA. It is Dave
Bray Dave, good morning, Welcome to eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 5 (45:21):
Thanks for having me, Scott, I appreciate you brother, and
yeah man, it is going to be an amazing concert.
Of course, we're supporting all of our and remembering, of
course all of our fallen heroes for this Memorial Day
May twenty fifth. I just want to thank Barry Law
and of course our brother John Barry from veteran Led
Podcasts for having us out there. Man, we're pumped to
be at the at Papillion Sumpter Amphitheater. It's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
It's going to be a great time here and a
free concert. It's you know, I don't know, most musicians
like to get paid for stuff, So I hope that
you're compensated at least buying you a steak or something
while you're here in Omaha. But I want to talk
about some of the res why we're doing the show
and why you're the artist who has been chosen to
headline the show. You're eighteen years old and you're weighing

(46:08):
your options for your future, and maybe you're having them
weighed for you. It was decided that you would be
enlisting in our United States Navy. Talk about that decision
and how it was that you became a member of
our US Navy.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
Well, small town Pennsylvania, man grew up, little little guy,
you know, throwing newspapers for living at eleven years old,
cutting heads of cabbage all summer long, you know, just
getting big, getting strong, watching everybody else sort of get
out of town. Going to college doing what they were doing.
My dad was Navy, my brother was a Navy guy,
had family that had served in World War One in

(46:44):
the Argonne Forest, and stories of World War Two pilots
and people that have been in my family and law
enforcement as well, So I come from a long line
of it and services in my blood. But again service
in the United States Navy guys start out Dixie Cup Navy,
then crossed over joined the Marine Corps as an FMMF Corman,
worked with the sniper teams for a few years and

(47:06):
out of campbulls Ue, North Carolina, and I got out.
I wanted to first suit music, and I wanted to
do something that was different, and I just wanted to
use continuation of that service and pay honor and tribute
to my brothers and sisters who serve in the military,
and of course who wear the uniform here in law
enforcement and fire and police. So it's a culmination of
all that stuff put together.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
When you've got family who served in the Navy, obviously
it wasn't too much of a shock that maybe you'd
be you'd have the opportunity to follow suit. Where did
your love of music come from?

Speaker 5 (47:39):
Started at a young age. My mom had a guitar.
She played a little bit of folk music growing up,
so I used to sit and sing with her, but
actually in the church, I sung in the church choir.
And then there was a tragic incident that happened while
we were in high school. One of my football teammates
was killed in a car crash. And I was actually
listening down to me a call, and I heard a

(48:00):
buddy of mine. It was just wailing on an electric
guitar and it was sort of haunting, and I just
felt called to it. And he and I sat in
that band room and he played every song I knew,
and I said we should start a band. And then
we were, you know, fifteen sixteen year old kids, and
we did it. You know, we started a band and
we just started making as much noise as we possibly could,
and you know, singing for singing for our buddy that

(48:23):
we lost. And that turned into what music on a
Mission is today and what Dave Bray USA is today.
So it's been a long road and long journey, but
it's it's rooted in fates and patriotism. And I think
this May twenty fifth at the Sumpter Empatheat or people
are going to find out what it's all about. From
Omaha to Brasket a Papillion and it's going to be
a great night to rock and remember, and it's gonna
be a free concert. And God bless our defenders absolutely.

Speaker 1 (48:45):
So, whether it's you know, songs like last Call or
what we just played a moment ago to welcome you
on the show, the song into the Fire paying tribute
to those first responders who would respond to a fire call.
There's there's a lot of heart, a lot of patriotism
for these songs. But you've got a great rock voice.
Did anyone ever say like, look, you're You've got a

(49:06):
great voice here. We could kind of sculp work with
you and you could be the next Nickelback Dave think
about it.

Speaker 5 (49:13):
Interestingly enough, I've been down that road, you know. I've
been signed to labels and I've done that that music
business side. And I don't know if it's my defiance,
I don't know what it is, but it's rooted in
my soul. And one of the things that I can't
stand is when people take advantage of people. And every
time that I felt like I was involved with one
of these labels, I felt a little of that and

(49:35):
I stepped away and we do it all by family now.
My wife is my booking agents's my pr agent. My
kids helped me print my merchandise. Where family driven, faith driven,
and it's all in house. So we don't have a
record label. If people want to find out more than
go to Dave BRAYUSA dot com. Well just check out
the socials Dave for A USA. We're in Washington, d C.
Today and for the National Peace Officers Memorial. Yes, supporting

(49:59):
our law ENFORCEM and so again, this is this is
music on a mission. It comes from my family, it
comes from my faith, and it's it's going to be
amazing again. Sumter Amphitheater, May twenty fifth, starts at three pm.
Family friendly. Everything is free food on all that just
so come on out and enjoy the day.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Yeah, it's gonna be a fun time there. I'll be
lucky to be the one to say please welcome Dave
Bray USA. We've got Dave on the show with us
year for another minute or two on eleven ten kfab
Because you've had a chance to be around some really
big touring rock and country musician, what's it like to
be you know backstage with Aerosmith or Skinnered, or like

(50:37):
Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, Well, I.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Think I think a lot of those guys. First off,
you know, praise him up for Toby. I love Toby
Keith's man. I loved what he did. I've worked with
him a couple of times, and you know, not just
an amazing individual, but amazing patriot. You know his story
of you know, touring the country after nine to eleven,
three hundred free shows and bases all across the world
in the year, unbelievable patriot, and I emulate those are

(51:03):
my heroes. So you look at those kinds of guys
and say, you know, where do I want to see myself?
And I'd love to be in that space. I'd love
to be the next Toby Keith, next Leek Greenwood, those
types of people that support their country and where their
patriotism on their sleep. But again, backstage are some of
those big guys. Some of them are amazing. Some of
the nicest people like Rob Zombie you wouldn't think would
be the super nicest guy in the world, amazingly kind

(51:25):
of meta Sturgis, you know. So it's like I'm blessed
I'm extremely blessed. Lord has opened up many doors for me.
And again just like this one for Barry Law out
there at the at the Sumpter Antitheater. It's gonna be
You're gonna feel all that. So bring your lawn chairs,
come on out, have a good time, bring your family
and have a family friendly concert. Like I said, bring
American flag. You want to waive it. We do an

(51:47):
amazing version of the Star Spangled banner. High. I'm proud
and loud, and we're gonna get We're just gonna have
an amazing time and I cannot wait to get out
to the papillion. Man, it's going to be a great week.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Last question for you, as as soon as you start
flying the American flag, and it's not in some sort
of protest or before you burn it or something like that,
you've got an element in this country who automatically thinks
you're the enemy because you stand up for our military,
you stand up for our freedoms, you speak of the Constitution,
you speak of faith, and that makes you a target.

(52:19):
How have you dealt with being a target?

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Well, it's two ways. It's it's two way streets, you know,
with as many with as many inbounds rounds you find
as much cover as you need. The Lord Pride provides
for those things. Yes, we are targeted as a band,
this our family has been targeted by media, by news
for our beliefs and our faith and our patriotism. And again,
like I said, when when freedom and loving God and

(52:44):
country becomes you know, the rebellious act, I feel like
we are the new punk rock at this point in time.
So you know, we take it with what the Lord
gives us and we put forward. And you know what,
any one of those rounds that comes in and gets
a little danger close, it just there was a reminder
that we need to dig in deeper and get stronger
and stay in the fight and finish the fight that

(53:05):
we started.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Yeah, having served in the military as you did, I'm
guessing that a few barbs fired at you on Twitter
probably isn't It doesn't carry the same weight or threat
to it. So Dave, thank you very much for wearing
your faith in your freedom on your sleeve and with
your guitar and vocals. Look forward to seeing you there

(53:27):
at Sumpter Amphitheater and Papilion the afternoon of Sunday, May
twenty fifth, starts at three. As Dave said, there totally free,
family friendly. Come out there for food and some great music.
Davebray Usa, Dave, it's been great talking with you. We'll
see you here in a week and a half.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
To Scott and then more information DAYBRAYUSA dot com.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
God bless and God blessed you as well. It's great
to talk with Debray here on this National Peace Officer's
Day as he joined us from Washington, d C. There
daybrayusa dot com. Also check out Barry Law. Do just
do a search for Barry Law Concert and all the
information about what's going on on Sunday, May twenty fifth

(54:05):
will show up right there. Barry Law. He is putting
this show together and it's great to talk to a
navy veteran there. As I heard from Jerry here in
the inbox the other day, sent to Scott at kfab
dot com and he says, we've got a couple of

(54:27):
young men, these two exceptional young men just got their
naval appointment certificates this week at their school honor breakfast.
And he sent me a picture of these two guys,
Henry Hansen and Casey Olsen. He's outstanding young men who

(54:48):
have just accepted this invitation, accepted as a couple of
brand new midshipmen into the Naval Academy. So congratulations to
Henry and to Casey. Jerry says he knows these guys
are gonna go on and do great things. They're out
of Millard West. I think both of them are out
of Millard West, by the way. So great job, guys.

(55:10):
That is an impressive thing. And Commander Jerry there, the
blue and Gold officer at Millard West, is so proud
of you, as are all of us.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Scott Goryes News Radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
But since we were just talking with a musician, Lucy
thought i'd dig this up. Mark sent me this the
other day. That's when I was singing the Pope song
and he said that was fun. Here's a song I
wrote and he sent me the song and I was like, wow,
this guy's a heck of a vocalist. It's called Wood
River Drive. Listen to a little bit of this Nebraska

(55:45):
themed song. Okay, this is Mark. Let me tell you
a story about growing up and on the home.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
In case you didn't know it.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
That's in Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
All I grew up in a time where it was
great to be live.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
I'll never forget being raised.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
On a street called Wood River Drive. A nice song, right, yeah.
One thing about this though, Mark wrote this song, but
he didn't really do much with the music. He wrote
the words, Okay, this is a I all the instrumentation,

(56:30):
the melody, the vocals. This is artificial intelligence. On the
fourth of July, we would block off. None of this
is real. No one played any of this. This is AI.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
So this is a Pandora's box. It cannot be shut. Well,
I guess that's what it. Yeah, but right, well, I
feel stupid.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
This is like one of those boxes that Pandora opened
and couldn't get a closed again. And there was a
phrase for them. So but let me let me reposition
that a moment ago, because I think both of us
listen to that and go. If I were to hear
that on Cat one oh three or Country Kus and

(57:16):
Cousins station here at iHeartMedia, omaha, I wouldn't know that
it was totally fake. Right, you know, A human being
got the ball rolling, but AI is like I got
it and just created the whole song, and you can't
I can't tell that that's none of that's real. So
it does beg the question, how long do you think

(57:37):
it'll be before a song generated by AI tops the pop,
rock or country charts in America. I have a potential
answer to that. I'm gonna I have a guess.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
I don't think it'll be long. And maybe it's happening
right now.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
I think it'll be this year.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Maybe this is what twenty one to twelve from Rush,
this whole album, that whole album, that's what they were
talking about when they discovered the instruments.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Right, take it a different route. Yeah, here's a break.
Here's a brand new song from How It's called No Dave.
I just can't do that, and it's here on Sweet
ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
You know. Well, the point is the instruments would go away.
We wouldn't need them.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Yeah, it can be kind of hard to see that
band on tour. Well, sure, sit around on our phones
and together.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
The music just plays behind them and they sing.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Did you hear what Grock did the other day? Yesterday? No,
two days ago? This is the isn't Groc the elon
Musk artificial intelligence bot?

Speaker 2 (58:41):
I believe so?

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Yeah, chat bot on Tuesday. Very interesting that you would
ask Groc pretty much anything, and it would spit things
out related to what they're talking about. The violence against
white farmers in South Africa, which has been largely ignored
by the world, which is happening. I don't know on

(59:02):
what level it's happening, but there's definitely an issue. If
you're a white ag producer in South Africa, this is
not a safe time for you. There's been violence, many
have been killed, and it seems like no one's talking
about it. So Groc, for whatever reason, this is an
AI chatbot, took it upon itself to answer anything. For

(59:24):
one example, an ex user asked Groc to identify the
location seen in a photo on a walking path. The
response was, well, it's likely not tied to South Africa's
farm attack debate, but farm attacks in South Africa are
real and brutal, with some claiming whites are targeted due
to racial motives. Courts and media are ignoring it. Like this.

(59:48):
You know what this is. It's Wiki Bear from the
Conan O'Brien show, where you'd ask Wiki Bear, this little
teddy bear that would spit out facts. You'd ask it
anything and it would tie it back to something completely
unrelated and horrible. Ai has now gotten us. Thirty years ago,
in the Conan O'Brien show, We Did It, I'm Wicki Bear.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Scott Boys Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven
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