No More Love on the Run

I came back from a few days off with just two things to say.  After that, a public service announcement to those who maybe haven't gotten around to something the rest of us have been doing for 2+ months.

Episode Transcript

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Scott. I'm Scott Vorhees. There'sLucy Chapman. Lucy, I have missed
you terribly. I don't know ifyou notice I've been gone the last few
days for you. Yeah, Iwas. I was gone the last three
days. This is this is thecoming back from a few days off,
showing up on a Thursday and tryingso hard not to see people I haven't

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seen since late last week with agreeting like, hey, how was your
weekend? And how was your weekend? Well, you're a five day weekend.
I want to technically wasn't a fiveday weekend. I wanted to say
a couple of things about that.The fact that we had severe weather on
Tuesday morning, and we've got aprogram here that generally has a live and

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local radio host here providing updates,was not able to service you with that
update on Tuesday, And a coupleof things about that. Just the two
things I wanted to say over thelast few days. Number one, the

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Billy Ocean song Caribbe and Queen NoMore Love on the Run has maybe one
of the dumbest lyrics of all time, and that is the line where he's
talking about meeting this woman and hesays, in the blink of an eye,
I knew her number and her name. She said I was the tiger

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she wanted to tame. No shedidn't. I'm wondering how you're going to
tie this in. No, there'sno tie in. I just like I
said, there's a couple of thingsI've really wanted to did you go.
There's a couple of things I reallywanted to say over the last few days,
and that's one of them that's beenbuilding up. That's forty years right
now, and I and I knewif I didn't start the show by saying

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that that it would be lost.So I wanted to say that. And
then, on another note, ifit makes you feel any better at all,
I felt so incredibly guilty not beinghere, especially on Tuesday morning that

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I was. I was in alocation of paradise and I couldn't enjoy it,
which made me more upset, whichjust caused a spiral of just being
just really wishing I was here withyou guys, Lucy, Gary, Terry,

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Jim, the entire team. Andthat was in Tuesday morning, and
then in the afternoon, Emery,Matt and Craig a wonderful job here in
the pyramid roofing Severe Weather Center.I was here, That's why I started
off my list of people. Ohyeah, that's right. I did hear
you come in in the afternoon.Oh Scott, you were on vacation in

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a tropic tropical destination just need theradio all day? Yes I was,
And yes I did hear you jumpin there and talk about the flooding to
the streets. Sorry about that,so, Lucy, Okay, I'm very
used to being overlooked. Double duty, I know, double duty on Tuesday
and a great job. So ifit makes all of you here at the

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radio station feel any better, Iwas miserable not being here with you.
Does that make you feel any better? It doesn't make me feel any better.
It makes me feel proud of thisteam we have here. I know.
I was also out of town duringthe tornado of late Lace late last

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month that hit this town. Andyou're never going out of town again.
I'm never going out of town again. I mean, my family's like,
are we going to take a summervacation here now that the kids are at
school? Nope? No, omaha, thanks you, Yeah, we're gonna
take We're gonna do a stateation whereare we going the radio station. That's

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where we're gonna go. We've gotcomputers here and uh, you know,
they'll the kids will be fine.We have Wi Fi just like you never
saw, you know, like likethere be there'd be something going on and
Clark can't would say, oh mygosh, look at that. Oh where
I've left something in my car?And then he'll leave and the next thing

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you know, Superman shows up.Well, I leave, and then horrible
severe weather shows up. Maybe,so what's happening is you're taking the Omadome
with you. No, you don'teven know it. I think it's obvious.
I am a severe storm. Iam a dangerous storm. And if

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I leave, that's when you needto get in the basement, unless your
basement's underground and you're flooded, inwhich case you need to get up on
the roof. It's hard to whenyou've got the situation where you've got water
coming up into your basement. You'relike, well, we need to seek
higher ground. Well, higher groundis where the tornado is. Then what

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do you do? This lady livesin the Grand Ridge Apartments northeast of six
eighty and fort where I don't knowhow many apartments they have there. It's
a big apartment building and they've gottwenty five units at this apartment complex that
can't be lived in for at leasta few months. That's the story here

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from k ETV News Watch seven.So, now that school is out in
Omaha Public schools, yesterday was thelast day of school, they're having displaced
residents from this apartment complex stay atMorton Middle School. Sorry, Morton Magnet
Middle School. Because it's important tosay the magnet that designates something. And

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I still don't know what, andyou know what, you can tell me.
I don't care. I can helpshow them around. Some point we
started calling schools magnet schools. Idon't know what that is. Do.
They do the same stupid block schedulingas the rest of the schools. Where
you've got a teacher who could barelyhandle forty four minutes of teaching. Not
all the teachers, some are great. And now you've been given an hour

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and a half and the teacher teachesfor like twenty minutes, says all right,
you guys got free time for therest of the period. You can
get out your phones or your iPadsand stream movies because that's what happens at
my kids' school. But you know, it's a Magnet middle school, so
the teachers probably teach for like thirtyminutes and then they have an hour.
But so now they got families livingat the middle school. There's no kids

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there, Lucy, so maybe youwant to move in. I've already spent
enough time there. Did you goto Morton? Oh you're a Morton monster
Morton panther. Oh, I wasgonna I was gonna go alliteration just when
we were there. I think Iwas gonna go alliteration. That's a couple
of years ago. The Morton monitorlizards, Yes, the Morton mongeese,

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mongooses, mongeese mongeesees. And theysaid, we're just gonna stay open so
people can live here in the schooluntil the people in this apartment complex find
long term housing. So this lady, her name is Consuela, and she
says she started getting phone calls onTuesday. This was during the afternoon wave

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of storms because people were seeing hercar on the news, like, are
you okay? I turned on thenews and they showed a car about underwater
and I thought it looked like yourcar, and they said it was over
in this area and you're over inthat area. Are you in your car
right now? She's like, yeah, I know. People saw people saw

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my car all flooded out on thenews. That was my car. And
she said her apartment didn't have waterflooded, but because of the problems,
they don't have any running water.Even in the apartments that weren't flooded out,
they had And anyone who's lived,especially on the first floor of an

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apartment complex, knows the joy ofthis. When you go to take a
shower in the morning and raw sewageis backing up through the drain in your
bathtub or shower, that's a delight. You're like, huh, that usually
stays down there, and now it'sup here where I am. So the

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raw sewage is coming out of thebathtubs. People had to swim to get
out of their apartments in some instances. And this lady Consuela, I'm not
laughing at her, you just thesituation is so it's so nuts. Where
she tells k E TV News Watchseven, we had this epic flooding.

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So how do we call this.We're not calling it. It's not a
five hundred or thousand year flood yetPlatsmouth, Good afternoon. All this rain
we got upstream is coming towards you, and there's a flood warning and effect
Platsmouth and south of they're here today, so you haven't had to deal with
that in a couple of years.Don't worry. It's only once every five

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hundred or thousand years on these floods, or every five or six, it
depends. It's math, it's newMath. So we have this epic flood.
These apartment complexes are flooded out,and she tells the TV station,
well, I just want to knowif my landlord could have done anything to
prevent this, which I was like, is her landlord? God? I

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mean yeah, then well here's whatthe landlord did do. The property manager
came out talk with everyone, includingConsuela, and said, well, we
have we own a few different apartmentshere in Omaha. We are going to
put you up in an apartment inanother one of our properties until your apartment

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And I don't I don't know ifthey're doing this for free, out of
the goodness of their heart or whatever. I mean, like, look,
you're paying rent, We'll just we'llhave you continue to pay rent, but
we're going to move you over tothis other apartment. And she says,
no, I'm done dealing with them. Well, clearly then she was already

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upset with them because nobody had anythingto do with this. Yeah, well
I don't know. Well you thinkit has stopped a flood, I don't
know. She thinks the landlord shouldhave done something about it. Well,
I suppose it depends on where theactual water came from. If the water
didn't come from the flooding, ifit came from burst pipes, right,

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you know, And sometimes, youknow, it's tough to be a landlord,
be a property manager. You alwaysget a bad rap. There's some
people you just can't make happy.And they're like, look, I keep
calling the landlord, and I said, my neighbor upstairs is too loud.
His fat buns are just stomping backand forth, back and forth, back
and forth. Are you clogging upthere? What are you? Michael Flatley,

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the lord of the dance, Whatare you doing up there? I
call the landlord, you tell himto be quiet and then out here.
I don't like the way the landscapingcrew mods. They always leave loose grass
all over the sidewalk and on wetmornings. Some of that gets slippery and
I have a hard time walking.I don't like that. I'm supposed to
have a parking spot out here underneathone of those covered garage things. Someone

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keeps parking in it and the landlordnot doing anything. And then I say,
hey, there, we've got abig flood coming. Why don't you
just build a berm around the apartmentcomplex so the water didn't get in here
that They didn't build a berm,they didn't build a moat, didn't build
nothing, and no walls. Iwanted to have some team of people with
some pumps out here just evacuating waterout of the apartment house. They didn't

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do any of that. Build adome over this apartment complex. I want
you build a dome. Build domeover here. It's tough to be a
landlord. The apartment complex sent astatement to k ETV and just said stuff
like unprecedented event. We're doing thebest we can to make sure that this

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unfortunate situation is resolved. And peoplewere impacted by severe flooding. They're displacing
their homes. We're working with theAmerican Red Cross insurance companies. County officers
to support the residents and arrange fortemporary housing. And your temporary housing's in
Lucy's old science classroom at Morton MagnetMiddle School. It was Morton Junior High

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when we were there. We don'thave junior highs anymore. Uh, it's
a magnet middle school. It's amagnet for people. Just have like a
wet Duffel bag. And where amI supposed to sleep? Well, we
rolled a cot into the auxiliary gym. You can go in there for a

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little bit. We still got someteams doing some stuff coaches are going to
do, like a flag football,lacrosse hybrid practice on Thursday mornings at seven.
We got the color guard coming inright after that, but they only
take up one side of the gym. Your side's fine. Well, if
you're actually going to use classrooms,mister Monroe's science class had a little office,

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so you'd have like a separate spacefor yourself. I think check out
these Maybe it was just rooms thatwere connected. Check out the drawers.
Any teacher had their own kind ofoffice outside off the classroom. Check the
desk drawers for flasks. It wasthe I know, yeah, especially here

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in the last few weeks of schoolall these little honyaks are on full alert,
and they're like, we're so readyto get out of here. The
teachers are also thinking that we're soready to get out of here. Just
a word to the teachers, andI slammed some of the bad teachers a
moment ago. I want to saythis for the good teachers. Great job

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this year. You survived, insome cases literally with all the fights and
everything going on and all these schoolsproblems and so forth. So you made
it through another school year. AndI hope that you guys did. What
I understand happens, especially in theelementary schools at the end of the school
year. You think the kids arehappy when that last bell goes off the

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last day of school and they allgo streaming out of there, all running
in there listening to Alice Cooper Poisonnot schools out for summer. They prefer
the late eighties song by Alice Cooper, So maybe no more mister nice guy.
I don't know. So they allgo running out of there. Teachers
are like, oh, we're gonnamiss you guys. Have a great summer.

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Bye bye, Are they gone?And then they locked the doors behind
all those little passages and They havea freaking kagger in that school at the
end of the school year, andI understand it is the best party in
town when the teachers all hang outthere and just just bomb themselves silly at

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the end of the school It's theday after the last day of school here
this morning, and you might driveby and go, wow, a lot
of those teachers' cars are still onthe parking lot. They have like an
in service meeting. Is it oneof those like, hey, let's come
back and let's clean up the classrooms. No, they all took uber last
night. They're responsible, and someone'sgonna drive him back to pick up their

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cars later today after they sleep itoff, and they're entitled. All of
it good for them. Where werethese apartments at just northeast of six eighty
and four, the Grand Ridge apartments. Hmmm, Lucy's gonna ponder that map
here for a moment, and speaking, I'll just throw this out here.

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I don't want to dwell on it. But speaking of I made some passing
comments to these kids and the violence. They promoted this as it was just
a nice, feel good thing todo at the end of the school year.
Yesterday I look at it a littledifferently. We'll get to that here
in about two minutes. Scott FordesNews Radio eleven ten k FAD. No

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she didn't, No, she didn't, Billy, she didn't say that.
Yeah, I'm to believe that thisconversation with this Caribeu queen, because that's
based on how he pronounces it inthe entire song, and apparently for forty
years we just let that go.She's a reindeer queen. Yeah, bo

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queen. You know, we're justlike, I'll go with Caribbean queen,
or I'll go with Caribbean queen.But Caribou I can't. I can't abide
by this. So I'm to believethat this conversation took place. Billy Oshin
showed up apparently at this social gatheringhe saw this girl, they saw each

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other. Hi, how you doing? Can I get your number and your
name? Or maybe she just volunteeredit and said, Hi, four oh
two five five one. I wantto give out the traffic tip line.
People start calling it number number,number number. My name is Princess,

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and you are the tiger I wantedto tame. No, she did not
get over yourself. Well, maybeyou should find out who actually wrote it.
I presume Billy Oshan wrote it.I listened to these guys tell these

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sing these songs in the radio.I presume they all wrote their own words,
and all of these things happened tothem. I take everything very literally.
I'm very trusting. I'm Scott Vorhees. There's Lucy Chapman. This is
News Radio eleven to ten kfab thanksfor being with us. At the end
of the school year yesterday for OmahaPublic Schools. This is presented as oh,

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what a nice thing they had.Some of the people in the community,
including Omaha three sixty, Metro TransitOmaha, and your friendly Omaha Police
Department. Some of these officials cameout there just to give a few words
of encouragement, like, hey,you little scamps, have a great summer,

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guys. And where did they dothis. They did this at the
Metro Transit station at thirtieth and Ames. And they just wanted to be there.
You know, in these sometimes asa school bus and whatever, it's
become a gathering place for young peopleat the end of the school day,
and they all just wanted to bethere because they knew the kids would be

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there. And they're like, oh, what are you gonna do now the
last day of school, you're gonnahave a water balloon fight? Are you
gonna try and kill each other again? Because this is the spot throughout the
year where there have been numerous fights. These kids got out of school and
they're like, all right, whatdo you guys want to do. Let's
go over to the bus depot andjust start punching each other. Someone got
stabbed, and it's become a placewhere you know, like if you show

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up there, there's a great chancesomeone could get killed. And so of
course everyone's like, well I gotto see that. So they've all gone
and you think, wow, it'sterrible they're doing that. Wait a second,
thirtieth the names, isn't that reallyclose to the Omaha Police Precinct location

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up there? Yes, that particularOPD precinct. It's twenty five feet,
not twenty five minutes, not twentyfive blocks, twenty five feet from where
all this happens, and just themost blatant we don't care in the world.
They just show up there and theyjust start fighting each other right next

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to the police department. And sothey're like, eh, we just wanted
to come up there and bring themsome snacks, remind them we're watching you
guys. And so actually they've beenshowing more and more attention to that location
over these last few weeks, andthey said there's been less violence there.

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Yeah, I wonder where they're goingnow and doing. I just thought that
was funny, like, Oh,we just wanted to be there to give
the kids some encouragement, see ifthey wanted to throw the football around,
maybe get a shasta and just tellthem to have a great summer. And
also just in case anyone going toshow up and start doing a lot of

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violent stuff. We wanted to bethere to hopefully save lives, but mostly
it was there to encourage those kids. Hey, read a book this summer,
engage in a summer reading program.Not some of the books that the
Democratic Party has recommended. Here's HarrisonButker's list of his favorite books. Read
some of these, and he's backin the news this morning. Now here's

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the part of the show where Lucysays she's glad she doesn't have kids.
Oh, your life didn't begin whenyou became a wife and a mother,
then it did not. But sinceyou're talking about family real quickly, I
discovered something about my genealogy over thisweekend. That had me absolutely cracking up,
rolling and laughing, and it's ridiculous. Did you do twenty three in

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me? No? I had Idid. I thought it was a dating
site. You wanted to date twentythree? Kevin Nelan, that's his joke,
all right. Yes, what mygreat great grandfather hmm was a trapeze
artist in a traveling circus in Czechoslovakia. Wow? And how did he die?

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It says so much he answers somany questions. Yeah, you also
kind of do the flying trapeze inyour life. No, net I just
immediately thought of the jerk traveling circus. Yes, I love that. Anytime
someone says, oh, we didone of those genealogy things, the rest

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of the story is never And itturns out no one in our family was
anyone special or did anyone anything special. There was nothing well that didn't come
from a genealogy check that came frommy experiences. Oh told me that?
Okay, well, congratulations, Ithought that was pretty special. I'm picturing
a guy, you know, headto toe, you know, a leotard

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and an awesome light, one ofthose mustachios that kind of comes up and
does rings over on the side likeone of those guys. That's what I'm
picturing too, And I love it. I love it, all right,
ladies and gentlemen. He's gonna attemptto get from this side of the ring
over to that side of the ringusing only this trapeze. Of course,

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we got to back up on theeastbound trapeze wire over here. We've got
a little bit of trouble over there, So pack your patients on that particular
stretch of the trapeze path. See, he was all right, what was
I saying? Oh, yeah,Harrison Butker. Yes, he talked about
family. You know, I've beengone the last few days, and it

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seems like it's the day after thelast time I was on the radio with
you, which would have been Friday. We talked a lot about Harrison Butker.
This guy had the audacity as aas a staunch Catholic Christian to give
an address to a school that isa Catholic university, to students who are

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largely but not completely Catholic, butat least you're not so turned off by
faith that I mean. They decidedto go to the school, Benedictine College
in Atchison, Kansas, a Catholicbased or it's like, like I hate
those people and everything, but Igot a scholarship, so I went over

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there, and well, here weare all these days later. It's been
a week over a week and ahalf since he gave that commencement address,
and now for the first time hisquarterback, Harrison Bucker, the kicker for
the Kansas City Chiefs. His quarterbackPatrick Mahomes had a chance to talk with

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the media and addressed the controversy.What do you think about what Harrison Butker
said, Yeah, I mean,kind of like I was talking about with
the Rashid thing. I think it'sjust I know Harrison. I've known him
for seven years and I judge himby the character that he shows every single
day, and that that's a goodperson. That's someone who cares about the

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people around him, cares about hisfamily, and wants to make a good
impact in society. When you're inthe locker room, there's a lot of
people from a lot of different areasof life, and they have a lot
of different views on everything, andwe're not always going to agree. But
I'm and there's certain things that hesaid that I don't necessarily agree with,
but I understand the person that heis, and he's trying to do whatever
he can to lead people in theright direction. And that might not be

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the same values as I have,But at the same time, I'm gonna
judge him by the character that heshows every single day. That's a great
person. And we'll continue to movealong and try to help build each other
up to make ourselves better every singleday. By the end of the day,
we're gonna come together as a team. I think that'll help out as
well as eliminate those distractions outside ofthe building as well. So what did

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he say that you don't agree with? I think he's probably addressing the more
political things that he talked about.He said he had nothing good to say
about President Biden, and perhaps itwas along those some people have taken his
comments would be very anti LGBTQ.I haven't actually heard any of the words
he said that are anti LGBTQ.I think he's got a lot of the

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same concerns that a lot of peoplehave, and that is like, look,
I have some concerns when it comesto what little kids are being taught,
or how they're being directed, orwho's been able to use what locker
room, you know that kind ofthing. I think it's a reasonable conversation.
But I haven't heard him say,Hi, I'm Harrison, butker I

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boot? Actually what I boot?Kickoffs through the end zone for the Kansasity
Chiefs and a very good kicker ofthe football when it comes to extra points
and field goals. Also, Ilike to round up gay people set them
on fire, and not just gaypeople, but also people people are like
a little gay. They're like,hey, I got front row tickets to

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see Duran Duran on Friday night asteelhouse. Do you want to go?
You're like, it's close enough,by the way. I went to see
Duran Duran on Friday night and itwas fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Did you
make any friends? I ran insome friends there, Yeah, very nice.
Yeah. I harmonized as And Idon't sing at concerts unless the singer

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directs the crowd to sing along.Then I feel it is my responsibility.
So it certainly is the chorus ofSave a Prayer, which is not a
big radio hit for that band.You have to be a fan to know
it. And the whole place wassinging along on Save a Prayer. But
I'm standing next to the effervescent NikkiBoulet, not only great radio personality in

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this town, but an amazing singer. Most notably, it was it's her
vocals on the Blue Moon Ghetto songShine all the Time that makes that song
then and now shine all the time. So we're singing together on Saber Prayer
and she takes the harmony part andI just I sang the lead part and

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she sang harmon. I'm like,oh my god, I'm singing saber Prayer
and Aduranda a concert with Nikki Boolesinging harmony. This is so cool.
Yeah, I totally fangrilled out.And then Harrison Butker set me on fire.
He's like, that's it's kind ofgay. So he I haven't heard
him say all this anti lgbt Qstone. So when Mahomes like, hey,

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he says some stuff I don't agreewith, I don't know. I
mean, he kept that purposefully vague. But Patrick Mahomes wasn't the only one
who addressed the comments from the kickher on His football team. Head coach
Andy Reid also talked with the mediayesterday, prison all the time, So,
I that's not that's not h Ithink I didn't talk to him about

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this, didn't think we need to. We're we're a microcosm of life.
Everybody from different areas, different religions, different races, and so we all
get along. We all respect eachother's, you know, opinions. Not
necessarily do we do we go bythose, but we you know, we

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respect everybody to have a voice.It's a great thing about America, man,
And uh, and we're just,like I said, a microcosm of
that. And I wish, uh, you know, my wish is that
you know, everybody could kind offollow that. So, yeah, this
is like his America. He statedan opinion, He stated an opinion,

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and people, of course lost theirever loving minds over all of it.
Now, there was one reporter whoasked the question during this news conference,
and you can't hear the reporter allthat well, but the reporter said that

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what would you tell female employees ifthey came, like females who work within
the Kansas City Chiefs organization, andthey came to you the football coach,
not the president of the team,not the general manager of the team,
not the HR director. They cameto the football coach, Andy Reid,

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and said, I have some concernsabout your kicker speaking ill of women.
He didn't speak ill of women.He talked to the graduates there, specifically
the women at one point and said, congratulations and everything you've accomplished, which

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people are like, oh, hedoesn't think women accomplish anything until they become
a wife and a mother. Listento what he said, you guys have
accomplished so much. Congratulations and everythingyou've done. Somehow people are ignoring the
fact that he thought these female graduateshad accomplished something before they became wives and
mothers. So then he said,some of you are going to go on

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and do wonderful things in the career. Some of you are looking forward to
being a wife and a mother,and he said, like, you guys
have been lied to and saying likehomemaker is not something to which you should
aspire. We've covered this ground.If anyone was offended by these comments,

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it's because they are perpetually offended individualswho wake up every single day offended and
it just gets worse from there.They're looking for an excuse to be offended.
So in this example during press conference, some reporters said, what would
you tell female employees if they cameto you with concerns about Harrison Butker speaking

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ill to women. Andy Reid said, quote, I don't think he was
speaking ill to women. He hashis opinions, and we all respect that.
I let you guys in this room, and you have a lot of
opinions I don't like. Unquote that'swhat he said to the reporters. In

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other words, as he just saidthere, this is America. We've got
a divergent view of some things.But what some people are saying about what
Harrison Butker said is not what hesaid. It's what people think he meant.
He wants to subjugate all women.He wants the chiefs to wear these

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scarlet letters and Stepford wives' uniforms.Like that's not it's not even based in
reality. What would you tell femaleemployees this organization? But I you know
what I'd say, Why are youtalking to me? I'm the football coach.

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Do we have any thoughts on youknow, defensive scheme doesn't stop Buffalo
this year? If so, I'mall ears. If you have hr concerns,
he's down the hall or she orthe whole team of him. I'm
not the I'm the football coach.Do you have some thoughts on perhaps we
can run a fantastic new offensive spreadthat utilizes some of this young speed we

(33:38):
have come into wide receiver. Pleaselet's chat. Yes, I have some
concerns with the parking lot. There'ssome potholes in the parking lot and there's
one curve that has not been Oh, I'm sorry you've mistaken me for someone
who deals with that and or cares. I'm the football coach. Yeah.

(34:02):
What would you tell female employees becausesomeone a member of the football team had
an opinion on something that I didn'tlike. Well, I can't tell you
what I'd really say, but weall have different opinions. I let you
guys in this room, and youall have a lot of opinions. I
don't like the reporters who covered theKansas City Chiefs. I love Andy Reid.

(34:23):
Is this the end of the HarrisonButker story? Uh? Kind of.
One more person weighed in yesterday onthe very controversial comments by the Kansas
City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker top ESPNpersonality. Oh, I bet she just
tore him apart. Nope. SamanthaPonder, who hosts Sunday NFL Countdown,

(34:44):
criticized calls for the Chiefs to firethe Super Bowl champion kicker because of his
comments. Her name is Samantha Ponder. She says, quote, I think
the petition that he should be firedfrom the Chiefs is totally Unamerican. Is
a Catholic espousing traditionally Catholic views toa Catholic audience. Really that shocking unquote

(35:07):
wow, way to boil it down. Lucy told us in the last hour
of the program that based on herfamily's genealogy, she had a great great
grandfather who was a flying trapeze artisttraveling, a traveling I guess you wouldn't
stay in one place. A travelingartist of the flying trapeze, traveling circus.

(35:31):
And Wilford emails via the Zonker's customWoods Inbox Scotti kfab dot com and
says, after four generations, Lucy'sfamily is still working with clowns. We
could be friends. That is beautiful, That is funny. I'm gonna block
that guy, but that's I don'tknow who needs to hear this message.

(35:57):
But it is the morning of Thursday, May twenty third year of Our Lord
twenty twenty three, and generally alot of people this is do you like
how when someone's asking you to dosomething and say, hey, now,
gentle reminder to I hate that phrase, just a gentle reminder, Like why

(36:20):
don't you just say, hey,hey? All the words I want to
use here all sound or are dirty, So hey you, how about you
do the stuff you're supposed to do? You know, I kind of prefer
a more blunt approach, just gentlereminder. It always comes off like Lumberg

(36:43):
from Office Space. Yeah, soif you could go ahead and do that,
that would be great. Thanks,Just just what but I do.
I'm trying to be less blunt inall parts of my life. So let's

(37:05):
try this out a lot of people. You're trying to be less I am.
It's good. I don't. Idon't want to come off as aggressive.
I don't want to come off astoxic, especially when it comes to
toxic masculinity. Oh no, Scott, Yeah, you don't come off with
too much masculinity. Yeah, yeah, you're you're just teaming with mckismo over
there. Tell me again about howyou were singing at the Duran Duran concert.

(37:29):
So aggressive. Then I mentioned Ihad a great time at the Duran
Duran concert. I saw him bothDuran and Duran. Oh they were both
there. They were both there.Were they on the stage at the same
time. They were? So Duranstarts, Duran starts the show, and

(37:50):
then he leaves, and then Durancomes out and then he does some numbers,
and in the end they come outand they do a few songs together,
and that's when they mind to formDuran Duran. I love that there
are people listening to this program who'ship musical reference as Benny Goodman and they're
like, oh, that sounds fun. I'm gonna have to listen to this

(38:12):
Duran person. And we have youngpeople now out of school forced to listen
to this program going what's a DuranDuran? No, they would get it,
even if they didn't understand the band, but they would hear that name,
and they're used to hearing very oddnames. Apple Music came out and

(38:32):
said that Apple Music came out andsaid the best album of all time is
The Miseducation of Lauren Hill by LaurenHill. Best album of all time.
I'll give you the time all time. I'll move the list with the top
ten up. We'll get to that. But first, if you are a

(38:52):
homeowner, just a gentle reminder.Maybe you know noticed that many of your
neighbors already did this going back totwo and a half months, and that

(39:13):
doesn't specifically imply that perhaps you should. I'm not saying that if your neighbor
does something, you have to doit. You know, if your neighbor
is the Jones family, you know, you don't have to keep up with
the Joneses. Same thing. Ifyour family is the Butker family, you
don't have to keep up with theButkers. You know, whoever lives next
door, you don't have Just becauseyour neighbor does something doesn't mean but you

(39:36):
know, it could also be anindication like, huh, they're doing this,
maybe it's something that I could implementin my life. And then perhaps
a week later you saw that theywere doing it again, and then again,
and really over the last month,maybe it's been a frequency of twice
a week and you think, wow, they're doing that a lot. I

(40:00):
haven't done it yet. Maybe Ishould think about mowing my lawn. So,
if you're a homeowner and you haven'ttaken it upon yourself to mow the
lawn yet this year, something toit's something to consider. It's a nice

(40:21):
afternoon might have some more rain hereovernight. I always like to mow right
before it rains. This really nicetime if you can. It's a Memorial
Day weekend coming up. A lotof people got a three day weekend,
so find some time to perhaps runa lawnmower if you don't have one.

(40:43):
You know what, if you wantto watch your neighbor cry. You want
to see a grown man cry.If you haven't mowed your lawn yet this
year, If you haven't given agood mowing, and your neighbor's out there
mowing his lawn a lot, andmaybe you don't have a lawnmower that works,
you're like, I haven't gotten aroundto it. If you go over

(41:05):
and knock on your neighbor's door andsay, hey Stan, thanks Stan,
Sorry that commercial's on this radio station. I don't know who Stan is,
but a lot of people like thatguy. Hey Stan, I haven't mowed
my I don't know if you've noticedI haven't mowed my lawn yet this year.
It's because my lawnmower doesn't work,or it got stolen, or I've

(41:30):
just never bought one. Can II'll give you a few bucks? Can
I borrow your he he would startweeping. You want to mow your lawn,
your lawn, tell you what.I'll give you the lawnmower to use
for the day and twenty bucks.Here you go. Please have at it.

(41:51):
Just you know, put it backin my driveway when you're done.
That would be That would be great. He'd be so excited to have you
mow your lawn. And you mightthink, like, how many people haven't
mowed their lawn yet this year?Uh? Yeah, uh drive around this
town. If you're looking for grassseed, it's out there. You might

(42:16):
have to harvest it. What's worseif you got a neighbor who hasn't mowed
the lawn, or if you havea neighbor who can't grow grass. If
you can't grow grass right now,well that's valid. But what I'm talking
about is grass it's so long,it's gone to seed. Oh you got

(42:36):
the little seed heads at the top. If you need some seed for your
grass? Seed heads opened up forDuran? Duran? Did they? Yeah?
How was it? They were great? It was a little seedy,
just how I like it. Yeah. If if how do you mow your
lawn right now? If you moveyour mower to the highest setting and it's

(42:59):
still choking. As soon as youhave it touched this wheat, then you
know, like you're gonna take aget a thresher. You're gonna need lawn
or not lawn, but like farmequipment. You're gonna need some sort of
tractor to come out there and dothis. You're gonna need a bunch of
guys wearing those you know, bigsunshade hats out there with some scyths and

(43:23):
uh and haysicles and uh scythes andsyths. However you say of that,
are you need the guys out therewith the haysicles? The grim Reaper is
gonna have to come out take acrack at your lawn, which also causes
me to think about this. Theone excuse that I would use that no,

(43:44):
that I would accept. The oneexcuse I would accept if you haven't
mowed your lawn yet this year isif you died two and a half months
ago and you're just there in thehouse and you're what a weird experience,
right, Like you've you're in yourhouse and you're sitting there changing channels,

(44:05):
you know, watching TV and smoking, and suddenly you feel it coming.
You're like, is that indigestion.Now I'm dying. Here's this is the
big one, and your heart justexplodes and in your dying thought is boy,

(44:25):
this is when they you know,they didn't they didn't care about me,
But they're gonna miss me when I'mgone. You know, they took
me for granted. They think allthis stuff just gets done by itself.
Well, no, they're gonna seenow that Guadaloupe is dead. This is
a guy who named his name isGuadalupe. Now you're gonna see Guadaloupe is

(44:49):
dead. That stuff just not gonnaget done at work anymore. You know,
I think my kids are gonna beable to get by without old Guadaloupe
around. Yeah, let's see.Let's see how this goes. And then
he dies, and immediately his soulascends and he says, no, wait,
wait, wait wait, I'm notI don't want to go to heaven

(45:13):
yet. Just give me a fewhours, maybe a day or two,
just to hang out and see allthe people wailing and crying. People are
gonna be banging on the door.Guadalupe, Please, no, don't let
this be. The work's gonna becalling NonStop. Where's Guadaloupe? We don't
know what we're doing here at work. No one knows how to do this.

(45:35):
Oh my gosh, family is gonnabe And that ghost has been there
haunting that empty house for two anda half months. No one's checked on
him, No one cared. You'rekilling me over here, because now I
feel bad. I see people inmy neighborhood that maybe haven't mowed much.

(45:58):
They're dead. They're not dead.They are day see activity, but they
could be. They better be dead. Here's the thing. If you haven't
mowed your lawn yet this year,and it's only because you're a lazy,
horrible person, then you might wantto just die. And then they're going

(46:25):
to come out and do an autopsyand says well, and then the neighbors
are like, oh my gosh,yeah we knew, Like when he didn't
mow his lawn, we thought maybehe was dead. We should have called
someone, sorry about that. Howlong has he been dead? Well,
the Corners report said he died atten seventeen this morning. He had the
radio blaring and tried to win athousand dollars listening to some radio station.

(46:45):
That was his last thing. Hewent to kfab dot com put the keyword
on the pop up window trying towin a thousand bucks, and then twelve
minutes later he was dead. We'renot sure why we're going to review the
podcast. Oh this isn't going onthe podcast, but we're gonna. We
don't know, Like, he couldn'thave died this morning. He hasn't mowed

(47:07):
his lawn in two and a halfmonths. Are you sure he didn't die
ten weeks ago? No? No, he fell right over dead about ten
o'clock, just after ten o'clock thismorning. The coroner placed the cause of
death somewhere between like nine and eleveno'clock in the morning. And and because
he died while listening to the radiostation at that time, he had a

(47:30):
smile on his face, going,well, at least I won't have to
listen to this anymore. Guys criticizingme for not mowing my lawn, and
now he's wishing me dead. Youknow what the worst part is, right
after he died, he got acall from an unlisted phone number trying to
give him one thousand dollars. Iwould have kept him alive. Yes,

(47:51):
what I'm saying, don't do it. Don't But if you were to die
like natural causes. If you wereto die, then that would probably be
best. Or you can go outand mow. Yeah, that the way
I see it. You guys,guess if you did that, If you
went out and mode and then youdied, people would see you. If

(48:13):
you went out to the lawn totry and inspect, like how am I
going to mow this? You'd probablydie in the lawn and then they'd never
find you. The way I seeit, you've got two options. I
don't like having too many options.I like, you know, Robert Frost
didn't talk about wasn't it Frost whosaid I took the road less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference. So he's talking about he came

(48:37):
to this divergent path in the woods, and it suggested to me that the
path forks, and so you caneither go this way or that way.
I suppose if you really want toget technical, you can go back the
way you came Three options. Tops, That's fine. It's not like he
went to this weird area. Whoover here in midtown Omaha where six roads

(49:01):
come to isn't it six six orseven roads that all come together here just
north of Underwood and about fifty fourthStreet or so fifty second Street. We
got like six roads that come togetherover here in this neighborhood. It's not
like Robert Fraus showed up there andsaid, I came to a path in

(49:22):
midtown Omaha, and I found Icould go six different directions, and I
just parked the car and walked.I didn't know who was supposed to go,
and that has made all the difference. I rented one of those limescooters
and I just went the other way. I like having two options. You

(49:49):
want to do this or this.You want to die or you want to
mow your lawn. My hope isthat you'll mow your lawn. But if
you can't, then by natural causes, define again, natural again, or

(50:14):
you can mow. What if youhave terrible allergies, then you're gonna die
by natural causes. Well, don'tyou have your mask on? COVID still,
people, I was on airplanes andairports. I think I saw three
people who had masks on. They'llbe the only ones left when COVID gets

(50:36):
us all. They're like, youknow what, by the way, speaking
of wishing masks death on people,you know these people want you to die.
Right, if you have the audacityto have been walking around now forever
without a mask on, and they'relike, well, I'm still gonna wear
mine as an example to others.I'm too stubborn to admit to people I
was wrong, and I was tellingthem all they need to wear a mask,

(50:57):
and they wouldn't wear a mask.All the people I yelled at,
all the people that I call themanager. I called the police on people
and they didn't have masks on.I made a big stinking deal about all
of this, and there's no wayI can walk this back now. I'm
just gonna keep wearing this mask forever. And it is my hope that everyone
else dies and only the masked peoplewill survive. It'll be all those people
who wear masks and the people whosing on that show, the masked singer,

(51:22):
they will also be alive. Thatwould be Larry the cable guy and
Morton Harkett, the lead singer ofAHA. I don't watch that show,
but I know those guys have beenon it. They want you, They
want you so bad to get COVIDand die. Still they still do,

(51:43):
but hardly anyone wears a mask anymore. But if you got your COVID mask
on. You go out and mowand you can not succumb to allergies.
Why don't you mow the lawn?What did you think, like, I'm
gonna mow it. I was gonnamow it, and then it's hard to
rain. I can't rain, Ican't mow the rain and I can't rain
in the mow and said, I'mnot going to do that today, and
so I'll mow it tomorrow. Andthen the next day you got busy,

(52:06):
and next thing you know, twoand a half months went by and you
haven't mowed the lawn. Why arethere so many people in this town who
have yet to mow their lawns.Maybe there's a big backup on getting your
lawnmowers ready to go for the summer. Maybe all a little machine shop.
Do we even have small machine shops? Oh yeah, oh yeah we do

(52:27):
small engine shops? Yeah, what'swrong with the same machine because why do
you have to call me out likethat? Most of them are called small
engines. No, I look stupid. I do know. Talk to Terry,
Terry small engine. I didn't setup the business. You got to
talk to Terry, okay, andI guarantee These are the same people that

(52:47):
didn't mow their lawn last year,and the neighbor finally said, I'm mowing
his lawn for him. I can'tlook at this anymore. And then this
year, now you've got this stubbornstandoff. The guy who hasn't mowed his
lawn is well, I waited lastyear to mow, and I didn't mow,
and then my neighbor mode I betif I waited out, he'll mow

(53:09):
again for me this year, didn'teven charge me. And that guy's looking
at that going I want to mowhis lawn so bad, so badly,
but I am I'm not gonna doit. He's got to learn. And
so now you've got to standoff goingon, how do the rats and the

(53:29):
vermin and the mice and everything whateveris in there? At some point?
Some of these these lawns are solush and thick. You don't have like
prairie dogs and mice in there,guinea pigs whatever. You've got mountain lions
living in there. This is wherethey go. You've got mountain lions and
wolves living in there. Mow yourlawn. I am glad that you came

(53:59):
back with burning into somehow figure outhow to fix it. You know why
people haven't mowed their lawn. Ijust looked at this story because I said
that I'm moving this piece of paperup that's got the top ten list of
the best albums of all time fromApple Music. You know what's on the
bottom half of this story probably thereason why so many more people aren't mowing

(54:21):
their lawn. So before I goback to tearing people apart for not mowing
their lawn, and a couple ofreasons why this might be happening. Got
home really late last night and comingback from the airport, we decide to
slide around and you know, takethat exit onto four eighty. It comes

(54:44):
around, and then trying, youknow, go over to I eighty,
and we're coming around all the downtownexits on the interstate, and it's right
where like you can get off onthirtieth and Dodge. Yes, if you're
head west and then heading west tosouthbound four eighty to go catch I eighty

(55:05):
over there. And I'm coming aroundthat corner and too late to do anything
about it. If I'd seen ita half second earlier, I could have
taken that thirtieth and Dodge exit andgotten around this, but it was too
late. Came around the corner andbang, all the traffic in America was

(55:30):
snarled there on four eighty and Ithought, this must be a horrible accident
up here. No, no,no accident. I think I know what
you're talking about. I don't knowwho's responsible for this decision. And on
a regular Wednesday night in Omaha,if you've got four lanes of interstate traffic

(55:53):
and you decide to close three ofthem because you've got to do some road
patching or whatever you're doing, onlyin the far right lane. I didn't
see him doing them in the otherlanes. I guess they wanted a whole
lot of room with which to work. And based on the fact that there
are terrible drivers out there, Idon't blame them for that. And again,
just a regular Wednesday night in Omaha, you close three out of four

(56:16):
lanes of interstate traffic so you cando some work, that's not going to
be a problem. Maybe obviously peopleneed to slow down, do a little
bit of a zipper action to getinto that one lane, the far left
lanes so they can get around safelythe construction. And it's only for a
couple of miles. It's really notthat big a deal. But you'd flow

(56:37):
through there and it's not a problem. What was special about last night though,
after ten o'clock the Nebraska baseball gamegot over. You had thousands of
fans all trying to get home lateat night, and really only one way
to do that from the ballpark.You get right there on on four eighty

(57:00):
and zip around. You take thatjog around. Now, now you're going
southbound on four to eighty to gocatch e eighty to go back from whence
you came. Probably three or fourPurdue fans in there too, But this
is all big Red fans, bigHusker bus and a bunch of other stuff
in there, and everyone is leavingthe ballpark and suddenly it's like, hey,

(57:22):
what do you guys think you're doing? Get in the far left lane.
So you had four lanes of trafficall suddenly trying to squeeze down to
one. That is a pretty badbottleneck. Someone thought it'd be a great
idea just to shut down all thoselanes interstate traffic during the only way that

(57:44):
people leaving the Big ten baseball tournamentget home, especially the only Big ten
baseball tournament game, anyone seems togive a rats about. So after the
Husker game, and they had signsup saying how to get there. They
had the portable signs, the digitalsign to get to the ballpark. Take
seventy five, you know whatever itsaid, So they knew about it.

(58:06):
Yeah, but that's that's the onlyplace to get Yeah, if you're going
I eighty, if you're going seventyfive, you got to go that way.
Now, it took out over atthe regular time. Congratulations Nebraska,
they survive. They'll play again tomorrow. But that was a terror. I
mean, someone didn't think that onethrough. Bet you were wishing you had

(58:27):
taken pershing in six's eighty. WellI thought about just coming right up coming
and you know, cutting through andthen finding that way. Well, no,
not not like that. We werejust dead stop forever. It took
forever to get there. It wasn'tforever because you're here now, I just
got here. Does it sound likeI had time to prepare for this show?

(58:51):
I just got here. We gotwe've we got into town ten o'clock
last night. So yeah, thatwas that was a great move. Now
it's the interstate. But there's nofederal Department of Transportation. That's like,
oh, we you know, theNational DOT comes out and does this.
But who makes the decision on thisone. I think it's probably a state

(59:15):
or maybe a locally contracted crew thatgoes out and does that work. I'm
not criticizing the work. I'm justcriticizing the timing that someone didn't think to
look like, all right, we'regonna shut down all these interstate lanes.
There's not like a big baseball gamegoing on there at the ballpark or a
big concert or anything going on.I mean, we can this is okay,
right, we can shut them downafter ten o'clock. And no one

(59:38):
thought to And maybe they did,and they're probably not Husker baseball fans.
They're like, well, if weshut down all these lanes on a Wednesday
night after ten, I mean therewill be one baseball game. They all
those schedules, they all come together. It depends on who makes the tournament,
how they do in the first game, and which bracker are you in.

(59:59):
I mean, really, the onlygame like the perfect storm would be
if Nebraska suddenly got bounced by OhioState ended up a loser's bracket, had
to play for due in that gamewas the night game. It got over
at ten in that very unrealistic scenario, then it might be a oh crap,
and that's exactly what happened. Niceone. I'm trying to find out

(01:00:20):
who schedules this kind of stuff.So on my thought that for you people
who have not mowed your lawn yetthis year, that you better be dead.
And I've given you two options.You can either mow your lawn,
which again I think is the betteroption. You can either mow your lawn,

(01:00:42):
or you can die. And Igot this email from Ryan that says,
goodbye cruel world and stupid yard Scottmade me do it. No,
no, no, I didn't tellyou options, gave you options. Well,
someone needs to mow Ryan's lawn.And then I got Now, we'll

(01:01:08):
add this as a third potential reasonwhy people aren't mowing their lawn. Number
one. This is probably most likely. Lana says, they aren't dead,
they're probably renters. Let's make itsound of course. Good people are like,
this is my house, and yeah, maybe I think someone else should

(01:01:30):
do this, but I'm gonna doit because this is my house or I'm
living. I want my house tolook good. I'm gonna mow my lawn,
you know. But there are somepeople aren't good people, and maybe
they're renters, maybe they're homeowners whoare also just terrible human beings, and
they don't mow. But then Igot a bunch of people emailing me saying,
haven't you heard it's no mo may. Oh, if it's better for

(01:01:52):
the environment, if you don't mowyour lawn for the entire month of May,
that's a stupid excuse. It's superdumb. And if you're abiding by
no mow May because of the environment, well, I hope that you.
I mean, we survived. Wegot another five minutes before the end of

(01:02:15):
the world thanks to you not mowingyour lawn throughout the month of May.
Well, talk about climate. Maybethat's why we've had all these storms.
Extra grass. Yeah, we gottoo much grass, Which brings me to
this third reason why people aren't mowingtheir lawn. See daily and near daily
marijuana use is more common than dailyor near daily alcohol use in the United

(01:02:39):
States. More people are smoking potthan having to drink. There's no way
that's true. Oh, good,more tequila for me. I mean,
I'm doing my best to throw offthe curve when it comes to the drinking.
Like I said, I was onvacation in Paradise the last few days.
I didn't even know you left town. Thank you maybe had a few
glasses. I knew you were offa few glasses of wine. Yeah,

(01:03:01):
I was out of town. SomedayI'll tell you what I was doing.
But I'm not gonna be the guythat comes back when everyone here is getting
their houses shelled by hail, destroyedby winds and flooded out, and I'm
just gonna come back here and belike, hey, what's going on.
Let me tell you what I wasdoing the last few days. You're a

(01:03:22):
good egg. I'm not, butI'm not gonna be that guy. Daily
and near daily marijuana use is morecommon than daily or near daily alcohol use.
There's no way that's true. Butthen again, take a look around
here, and why would a personnot have mowed their lawn yet this year

(01:03:45):
or all month? Well, becausethey're either dead or just tripping high,
just so high, or they're asingle mom and they have little kids and
they just they work all the time, or they have to take care of
the kids and they cannot do it. Then I would hope that you'd have
decent neighbors who would say, hey, Mandy, you came and you saw

(01:04:12):
without taking, came and you gavewithout singing. You gave and you took,
you came, you saw, youkicked their butts without taking. Oh,
Mandy, I'm gonna mow your lawnfor you. Like, oh,
let me give a few bucks.No, no, no, happy to
do it. This is when peoplelike knew each other recognize. That's the
problem. I know. That's becausethey're all high. They don't even recognize

(01:04:34):
themselves in the mirror. They're justtripping balls all the time. I don't
even know you guys, got toomuch grass over there? Yeah, like,
no, no, you need tomow. Hang on, it'll shrink
when it rains. Yeah, it'swhat looks good to me. Manh.

(01:04:57):
So now this, this is maybethe reason why they're either dead. Even
if you're environmentally conscious, you cango buy one of those push mowers,
those old fashioned like Dennis the MENACE'sdad is out there with this little,
you know, string of blades ona you know push mower. There's no
motor or anything. Just push thething. You can do one of those.

(01:05:21):
Get a goat, get a goatand had the goat come out there
and eat your grass. Are theseguys are probably just high. They don't
know. Tuesday from page five,They're not going to mow their lawn.
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