Power Outages, Floods, and Cloud-Seeding Space Lasers

And taking your shoes off at the airport!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vor Lucy Chapman is right there. What is your
shirt today? I see a wonderful lavender shirt with some
cartoonish kind of circus riding on it. What do you got?
What are you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's the Stones man, Come on.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's a rolling stone shirt. Well I can only see
the ing. Oh now I see rolling Ah. Yes, there's
the lips and I like it. That's a it's a
good shirt. Lucy Chapman's right there. I'm Scott Vorhees and
for the next couple of hours we're just going to
talk about what we're wearing. I have. I'm wearing a suit.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's almost the same color. It's a I don't know
where you got a lavender suit, but.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, I got a it's it's it's more of a fuchia. Yeah,
yeah suit. And you know.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I I I like accent though.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Right, you know that's uh. I'm I'm auditioning to be
a member of Joker's gang later today after the show. So,
you know, dress for the job you want, not the
job you have. Well, we're now down to two hundred
eleven customers in Douglas County is six hundred and forty
two in Washington County that's up in Blair, just north

(01:14):
of the Omaha metro without power. Last night, it had
been several thousand in Blair and about seven thousand in
Douglas County throughout north central Omaha into central Omaha, putting
Central Omaha around like seventy second and center, that kind

(01:34):
of area. And people immediately started saying, and you heard
Gary Sadlemeyer when he was talking with us here a
little bit ago on kfab's Morning News. He said, you know,
every time we get some lightning or the wind blows,
everyone loses their power in this town out. Not true,

(01:56):
but I understand the frustration of why some people, people
who've lost their power a lot would say that. I
don't know yet, And OPPD hasn't released any information yet
as to why the storm last night knocked out so
much power. The issue seemed to be the sixty mile
per hour wind gusts. We did have some very strong

(02:18):
winds come blowing through here. When you have full trees
and sixty mile per hour winds, you're going to have
trees that get entangled with power lines and knockout power lines.
Power lines are knocked out, power's knocked out, and people say, well,
how in the world because we just lost power a
little bit ago and they said they were gonna, all right,

(02:41):
how many people they have out there cutting down trees
for I don't know, it's not a lot. How many
trees do we have in Omaha? Now, look, I delivered
this rant I don't know, a couple of months ago
when we had a bunch of people without power in
some instances for a long time after some storms. And

(03:02):
I'll deliver this rant again. Here's the rant. If you
have two options. You can sit around on your back
porch and you can look at the trees in your
neighborhood that are hanging precariously over, around, or in some
cases under these power lines. Sometimes the power lines are

(03:25):
going right through the trees, and you can look at that,
and you can imagine a scenario where the wind blows
pretty strongly and the trees end up knocking down the
power lines. You have two options at that point. You
can either sit there and do nothing. Go not my job.
I'll wait for OPPD to come out here and do it.

(03:46):
They're the ones that are supposed to come out and
clear these power lines without even calling them to tell
them that there's an issue. You can just sit there,
arms folded and go not my job. I don't have
to mess with that. Or you can look there and go, well,
this my neighbor's true, that's his job. Not do anything,
not talk to him, not call anybody, not do nothing.
That's apparently the option most people are using. Oh and

(04:11):
then there's a sub option on that, and that is
when OPPD eventually comes out there to cut down those lines.
Cut down the cut down the lines. There we go,
fix the problem. We cut down the lines. Like, no,
you're supposed to cut down the tree limbs. Ah, rats,
darn it, shucks, fiddlesticks, pardon my language. Kids are out

(04:32):
of school. I need to watch it.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Shoot.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
OPPD comes out, cuts down the limbs and basically just
renders half the tree bald, and you look at it
and go, this was the worst job. Like, hey, problem
was that the tree limbs are too close to the
power lines. Solve the problem. Like, but the tree looks terrible. Yeah,
that wasn't our problem. That wasn't the job we were
called out to do. So now you're complaining about it.

(04:59):
Now you're calling OPPD. Yes, I'm very upset about what
my tree looks like. Or it's your neighbor's tree. I'm
very upset about how my neighbor's tree looks. I'm the
one who has to look at it. You get all
cranky about it, or I mentioned there were two options.
Here's the other one. You look out in your yard, backyard,

(05:21):
probably you see the tree limbs precariously placed around power lines,
and you call a tree trimming service. There are a
number of them, and they'll come out. You can go
get some bids. They're gonna come out and bid the job.
I'll tell you right now, it's going to be more

(05:42):
expensive than you think it should.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
I didn't know you could do that. I knew you
couldn't go and have and do it yourself, cut the
limbs yourself, because it's you can.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't think you're supposed to, and I don't know.
I didn't know it was a good idea. But of
course you can. You can hire someone to prune those trees.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I guess there's somebody that you could hire for pretty
much anything. Huh.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Sure, Yeah, So you hire someone to come out there,
and that way you can direct them. I want the
trees to be cut back from these power lines, and
I want it to look good. I want it for
the long term health of the tree and the beautification
of the neighborhood, and for the power to stop going
out every time the wind blows and lightning is in

(06:27):
the area. I would like for the power lines to
be free of these scary tree limbs. And it's gonna
cost some money. And you're thinking, I shouldn't have to
pay this. Well, home ownership fun, right, So I mean

(06:48):
you don't have to. But the downside is is you
don't do anything. The wind blows, the trees knock down
power lines. The crews had to come out in the
middle of the night and reconnect power lines.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
And they're tired.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
You're without Yeah, you're like, I like to sleep at night,
so you know they're out there, they're sucking down coffee
and reconnected power lines and you're without power in the
middle of the night. So you're without power for five hours.

(07:25):
That's the trade off. You don't have to do anything,
you don't have to spend the money. But then when
you know, and if you didn't even call OPPD to
tell them that you had power lines around the tree
limbs and you have a problem and the lights go out, well,
I guess that's what you wanted. You didn't call anybody,

(07:45):
you didn't have the job done yourself, So I guess
you determined that the trade off is I'm gonna be
without power for a while. And it was hot. Well, actually,
once that storm blew through, the temperature dropped fifteen or
twenty degree and it felt great after that storm. I
don't know if you were out last night, but after
that storm blew through, we went from about eighty degrees

(08:08):
to low sixties and it felt great out there. You
could open the windows last night at a great night's sleep.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Are you just going to ignore all of the people
that lost power, that had buried lines.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm the areas I'm looking at that had the biggest
issues with the power being out were in areas where
you had above ground power line.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, now I know rand out on around one hundred
and twentieth in Blair High.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Area, they have underground lines there, she.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Said they did. Yeah, Well, if I'm thinking about her house,
no lines are.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Right, then it's probably close enough to where someone I mean,
at some point there's an above ground line and then
that would connect to all the rest of it. So
I mean that was close enough. I didn't hear about
a lot of power being out Elkhorn, you know, West Omaha,
out there where God protects us from losing our power.

(09:08):
And sometimes I'm out there with the buried power lines
out there where we all have memberships to the yacht
club and all the rest of it. In beautiful West
Omaha where we leave for work every morning, God gives
us a high five out there, like have a great day,
Like thanks God. You know it's it's wonderful out there.
You should try it. And we all have buried power lines,

(09:28):
and every once in a while we do lose power,
but it's not for very long, just enough to add
a little bit of perspective. Like, boy, I'm sure glad
that we have electricity. I don't know how My great
great Grandpappy did it. And great great Grandpapy was like,
we didn't know any better, you know. Yeah, sometimes it
was hard to play video games, but you know, we

(09:50):
didn't know any better. Yeah, spotty Wi Fi. Back in
those days, it was tough. So we lose once in
a while, but not for a week. So I'm sure
that there are some people who are complaining, going, ah,
we didn't have power in the middle of the night.

(10:10):
I slept through most of it. But do you have
any idea how many clocks I have to change? I
get I wake up in the morning, I'm like, well,
son of a gun, I gotta know the microwave, the oven.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Just leave them off until it's the right time again.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
The VCR, VCR, Yeah, I got a VCR. Kids like
to watch the old Disney videos, So yeah, I gotta
change all they're all flashing. I don't know if it's
midnight or noon, but they're all flashing twelve o'clock. I
gotta go out there that change. And the worst part
about resetting all the clocks. You got that microwave in

(10:45):
the oven right there, in close proximity to one another.
Don't you hate it when one is one minute off
from the other.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Oh you know how that problem got solved at my house?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
How bought a crappy microwave and the display stopped working?

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Oh well, how do you know when the microwave is done?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
That that works? But the clock display clock displayed? Nothing
works unless it's on.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Put a just put some duct tape over one of them.
Well what temperature is the oven at? I don't know,
but I know that that clock is always a minute
off drives me nuts, Like, oh, do we have a
different time zone over here? What are you? Oven? North Korea?
You just decide what time it is. Doesn't work that
way in this house. I argue with inanimate objects.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
So that's how you always win.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
No, I sometimes lose. I often lose. Actually I can
argue with that oven. But you know what doesn't happen
time getting right with the microwave? Like why all right,
you guys, I'll leave the room. I'm like, all right,
it's enough you guys figure it out. When I come
back in this room, you better figure it out. And
I come back and now it's off by two minutes
like no. Oh. So you can complain to OPPD today

(12:06):
and go how came I? Or you can take a
look in your backyard and see if there's a problem.
If there's not, well you've done. You've done the very
least you can do. Or you can be like Batman.
You can go out there in the middle of the
night and start cutting trees down a way from power lines.
Did the man on the radio? Just like, No, I'm

(12:26):
not gonna get sued. I bet Batman doesn't sue people, though,
Batman's not suing people. Isn't need to Batman's not like that.
I tried to save Gotham and I got all beat
up and lost a perfectly good bat wing, And uh,
you know who's gonna pay for this stuff? You know,

(12:47):
I'm out here trying to save you guys. And uh,
you know I got this. This bus always full of passengers.
It's amazing, the crosstown bus here, and Gotham's always got
a full load of passengers. People stand up and all
their you know, I go to other cities, no one's
on the metro bus there, but you know, here in Gotham,
I gotta stop what I'm doing, save all these people

(13:08):
on the bus. You know, I told them they need
to put seatbelts on this bus. Did they listen to me?

Speaker 2 (13:14):
No?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
You know, So now I gotta sue, and I got
to sit here in a courtroom, get my bat lawyers,
my bat briefs, my bat briefcase, sit here in a courtroom,
waste a half day lawyers fees. You know, Batman doesn't sue.
Batman just gets it done. So you can be more
like Batman, or you can sit there and stare at

(13:38):
each other in the dark when the lights are off,
the choice is yours. Personally. I think OPPD did a
fine job last night reconnecting people, and we had something
like seven thousand customers without power. Now it's two hundred
and seven people. Wait a second, isn't that more than
I said fifteen minutes ago? Oh you guys suck Scott Byes.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
News Radio eleven ten k FAD.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'm just saying that these did it really go up?
I think so didn't? And well now it went down again?
All right, Fine, they're good.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
They're good, like Scott boys is looking right now?

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yeah? Numbers, all right, get the number down, Get the
number down. Scott at kfab dot com. First one from
Thomas says, thanks for playing the og intro today. I
was waiting for the if this was your childhood, But baby,
everything is all right, close enough, and he's still in
his childhood. He's younger than I am. He signs it off.

(14:42):
Our HS class of two thousand, Happy twenty fifth high
school reunion to your Ralston class, Tom, go to the reunion.
I don't know if they're doing a twenty five, you
should do a twenty five. Our class didn't get to
do a twenty five. You know why, Covid boy I
nailed that one. It was early in the year and
I started saying, all right, we're doing a twenty fifth reunion,

(15:04):
and people started saying, yeah, I'm hearing about this pandemic,
like it'll all be over by easter. We'll be fine.
We're ready to go this summer. And then it got
into early summer and like, you know what, we'll just
push it to fall. We're doing a reunion.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
And we're putting deposits down.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
And we did and everyone died. That's why no one
came to our thirtieth No, I didn't do any deposits.
So Tom, thank you so much for listening, and I
hope you enjoyed the Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder has been
the welcome to this hour of the program music off
and on since I started a daily talk radio show

(15:45):
in nineteen ninety six. That was before Stevie Wonder release
that song. In fact, he wrote it specifically for the show.
Don't do the method doesn't check out all right? Now,
Power Tanya says, we all have underground power up here
in Irvington, and we still continue to lose power even

(16:06):
if Mother Nature just winks at us, Tanya, you need
to get right with mother nature. Have you tried throwing
a virgin into a volcano? It works for some cultures.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
There are no virgins at everything.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Thank you, Lucy, hi kid.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
I couldn't even say it without Lavin.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Scott says power was restored to us near seventy second
and Grover around one one thirty based on the exchange
you had with Gary and Jim this morning. Westgate that's
just east of there, that area has had tireless efforts
to replace lines as well as tree limb removal to

(16:52):
mitigate outages. That said, blowing birthday candles out in this
area can black out out the neighborhood's power. Does it
make sense. I don't know what's going on there and
Westgate other than a lot of trees. We have a
lot of trees here and you got overhead power lines

(17:13):
and a lot of trees, and all it takes is
one guy to be like, I'm not doing anything about
those power lines. I'm not calling anybody out. Not my job.
I mean, you drive around some of these neighborhoods and
it's amazing. You'll have a house or two in a
row with maybe three four in a row that are
really nicely kept up, new shutters, new paint, new sighting,

(17:36):
lawn perfect. They even take the care to edge along
the sidewalk and driveway where that turf sits up nice
and high like mister T's mohawk. It just sits up
there and you look and go, wow, there's not even
a bit of mult out of place. Then you look
at the next door neighbor's house. This guy hasn't even
considered mowing his lawn this year, probably didn't last year.

(18:01):
Paint peeling off the house, skylight's got a hole in it.
You're like, how how how did people live like this?
And you wonder has anyone checked to see if that
guy's dead? And you got the trees hanging over the
power lines. All it takes is that one guy in
the neighborhood who doesn't do anything, not even squat to do,

(18:23):
and didn't call anyone out, didn't do anything, and the
power goes out. Dead, the power goes out, and you're like, ah,
it's Andy, it's dead Andy down the street. I kept
putting a note on his door and he doesn't even
check him. You know, I got thirteen notes there in
his door It's almost like the guy's dead in there

(18:45):
or something. Maybe that's why we call him dead.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Andy Good ant good ant Andy.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Oh shoot. The next emails from Andrew not talking about you,
my man. Andrew says, Scott, people must cut down the
silver maple trees. Then we won't have any trees. Says.
People may scream, but these trees grow too fast and
they break too easily.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Though. Are they the ones with the propellers the helicopters?
Maybe get rid of them.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Do silver maples have the helicopters.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Or I don't know, but whatever does should be banned.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Oh, the helicopters are fun. Kids pick them up, throw
them up in the air, and watch them helicopter down
to the ground. It's great fun and it's cheap. That's
how I raise my kids. Daddy, how come we can't
have video games and phones. I'll go out and play
with the little helicopters.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Do you save some up for Christmas so they have
something to open?

Speaker 1 (19:44):
They love it. A whole stocking full of those helicopters,
all dried out. They fly better when they dried out.
Andrew says, my tree kept losing a branch, so I
had the whole tree cut down. Andrew is like judge jury,
an executioner. I hope Andrew's not a father, and my

(20:07):
son wouldn't clean up his room, so I burned down
the house. Geez, and Jim email says, I have a
third option, all right. So my options were power keeps
going out in your neighborhood. You look out your window
and you see that the tree limbs are close to
the power lines. Your options are do nothing and then

(20:27):
make sure and complain every time that the power is
out because you didn't do anything, or you call someone
or spend the money yourself to do what's necessary to
get the trees trimmed around the power lines. Jim says,
here's a third option. If your tree could knock down
power lines and your neighbors would also be without power

(20:47):
because of it, then go ask them to help you
pay for trimming your tree.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Raw.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
First of all, do you even know the neighbors that
live behind you? I don't know those people. He had
six foot fences. I can barely see this guy, you know,
just you see like the top of his head once
in a while as he comes over and talks to you.
In this instance, you are tim tooleman Taylor. It's your
nineties TV reference for this segment of the radio program.

(21:21):
I don't know these people. I'm not gonna ask, hey,
can you help me pay for me? Oh no, you
didn't help me pay for my fence? You said, nope,
the poster on your side. You gotta pay for your fence.
Remember that you didn't pay. It's your fence too, you
know it helps keep your dog in the yard. You
didn't ask me, you didn't offer nothing. I'm not doing
jack for you. You trim your own tree. Fox News Update.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Next Scott Boyes News Radio eleven kfab.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Lucy doesn't like helicopters, specifically the ones that fall from trees. Yes,
those are maple trees that that doesn't specifically say here's
silver but yeah, I don't know specifically about the silver maple,
but silver maple are maple trees, and maple trees drop
the helicopters. So I'm gonna say, yes.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Your mom is a maple tree.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
My mom is a maple tree. What are you trying
to say? And she's older, so she's a silver maple tree. Okay,
so's your face. Doug Emails says, it's all fun and
games if you're the guy who never has a power
failure or rarely has one, and even these failures are

(22:38):
usually minutes, not ours. But if you're a guy who
loses power every single time, there's anything that's got to
be beyond infuriating, and you're probably also the guy who
has to wait hours and days before you're back online.
I'm curious if the power company tracks which houses have

(22:58):
repeatable losses, and if there's any effort to solve that problem.
Sign Duck Doug misspelled his name or there was an
autocorrect issue there, But Doug aka duck aka ducky, I

(23:18):
don't know. Maybe he is duck, he might be he
maybe Doug changed his name to long duck Doug. And
will will because someone will complain if I don't move
the screen and ding Lucy's eighties movie reference sixteen candles say,
I got your first movie reference of the day. Now.

(23:40):
I don't know if the power company does that. I
I imagine that in a situation where it's like, all right,
we've got thousands of people without power, it's just all
about trying to go out there and quickly reconnect everyone
as fast as possible. And you can't do that right away.

(24:00):
I mean some people last night power goes out at
nine forty five, ten fifteen, somewhere in there, storms are
coming across the area, and they're like, how come someone's
not out here working on restoring my power lines. Well,
I don't know if you looked outside during that stretch,
but there was still some incredible lightning, rain and storms,
not severe thunderstorms, but we still had storms, your so

(24:26):
called garden variety thunderstorms in the area for hours after that.
So are you honestly sitting there going how come there's
not a guy alignment on a power pole up here
in a lightning storm to reconnect my power Well, because
you know, old fry out there doesn't want to get

(24:46):
hit by lightning.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Again, Well, what about the homes that do not have
overhead wires?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
What about them?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Why aren't they out they're fixing them? Maybe they are,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Because you still have to be outside, which is a
bad idea in a lightning storm. What do you think
they just go underground? Let me just dig down here
and I'll just reconnect the power lines here underground. I
don't think it works that way. Usually, when the power
goes out and you have buried lines. It's not because
there's a problem with the line buried out in the yard.

(25:21):
It's somewhere down there where the line comes up above ground, right,
and the storm plays whack a mole with that area.
So I don't I don't know. To Duck's point, I
don't know if later after the storm is done and

(25:45):
people are reconnected and they're like, all right now, because
at some point you've got to have some people within
the power company OPPD in this instance, after the storm
and people are reconnected and they have to have a
meeting and say, are all right, that was pretty bad?
Is there anything we can do to maybe stop all

(26:06):
the people in this neighborhood from losing their power all
the time. Maybe they say nope, all right, good meeting everyone. Well,
we'll see you next week. I don't know. I can
ask them and I will. We'll see if we can
get someone on here from well, maybe.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
They're short staff. Maybe they sent some people to Texas,
and that would be okay.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Nebraska did send some people to Texas, but it wasn't
I don't think it was Lineman from the power company
I was thinking about. I mean, who wasn't thinking about Texas?
Last night anyway. But then when we had rain falling
and we had flash flood alerts. Now this was in
northeast Nebraska, but I was thinking about these kids around

(26:52):
Norfolk and up in that'd be Madison County, then Boone
and Antelope, Cedar, Knox Counties. We had a lot of
counties up in north central northeast Nebraska where you had,
like along the Elkhorn River and so forth, that had
flash flood concerns. Now, you're a kid, you're seven, eight
years old. Mom and dad got the radio, the TV on,
and they hear about flash flooding. You're a kid. You've

(27:14):
heard what happened to kids your age down in Texas.
How do you not just freak out? How do you
not think, oh, now the floods are coming from me,
cause you're a kid. How do you not think that?
So I was on the radio here last night, Terry
Lahy and I were doing some of the storm coverage
on KFAB, and I took a moment to say, parents,

(27:36):
if you got kids within earshot here and we're talking
about flood concerns, flood advisories, flash floods, possibility for some
flooding in some of these areas tell the kids the
reality of floods around here, and that is, there are
areas in this region that tend to flood a lot.

(27:58):
The people in those areas generally know that these areas
flood a lot. They know what to do in these instances.
They take precautionary measures, and there are notifications they can
get either from weather systems on radio and TV well
in advance and their phones. Their phones can go off.

(28:21):
Maybe we've all been awakened at three o'clock in the
morning when suddenly our phones starting emergency screaming at us
that there was a flood advisory. I remember talking to
Senator dev Fisher early the next morning after one of
those nights where all of our phones went off because
of flood concerns, and she's like, Yeah, I was sleeping
three o'clock in the morning on the twelfth floor of

(28:42):
a hotel and my phone goes off that there's a flood.
I'm jumping up, going how deep are these flood waters here?
I'm on the twelfth floor. But there are families who
know that they tend to live in flo areas, and
they tend to take those precautionary measures. And you can

(29:05):
also tell your kids, we live in an area where
it doesn't flood here. So I remember my dad telling
me that I was listening to the radio when I
was a kid and they said, well we got floods,
And I said, are we going to flood? He goes, son,
we live on one of the highest points in uh town.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
How wide did that river get?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
There's there's there's no, there's no creek water river anywhere
near us. We're not going to flood. They're like, oh okay,
So I felt better, one less thing to worry about.
How why did that the Guadaloupe down a curve valley
get very very wide? But to your but the conditions
and this is also something to tell kids who heard

(29:52):
about what happened to these kids in Texas, then they
had flood warnings here in Nebraska. The ground conditions in
Texas are very very different than here in Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
But are were they any different than they have been
for the last century, the last two centuries? What caused this?
Absolutely nobody was expecting it. Nobody was Nobody said that this, yeah,
this could have happened. We knew this could always happen.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Nobody has said that, well, now the people have said everything.
In the wake of this what I don't know, and
I don't want to make it sound like I'm blaming
anyone is I mean, everyone's got phones and you get
these warnings that get sent out to your phone that,

(30:44):
depending on how your notifications are set up on your phone,
will wake you up. They do that loud beeping alarm
to tell you that there is a concern. But I
also wonder how many of us have been trained in
our lifetimes to where siren go off, whether it's outside
or your phone, or even in your house. Sometimes you're

(31:06):
suddenly the whether it's the fire alarm or carbon monoxide detector,
goes off, and you're like, oh, this thing's probably broken.
Most people anymore have been alerted by various sirens and
alerts so often that didn't end up being anything that
our first thought is not I need to evacuate or

(31:27):
take evasive maneuvers right now. Most of us are like,
turn that thing off. I'm trying to sleep. And of
course there were some arguments there about whether or not
the Texas Division of Emergency Management had done everything they
can to improve their flood warning system and so forth,

(31:50):
but the National Weather Service was still putting warnings out there,
and there was a forecast all day long about heavy
rains in the area. What was different this time there
were kids at a camp that suffered catastrophic flooding. If
those kids are not at that camp and we had

(32:12):
I don't know, a couple dozen, even a couple dozen
people die, it's a news story, sure, but most people
just look at it and go, that's terrible, and then
they move on with their lives. The fact there was
a bunch of kids at a camp, which is different
than other flooding that they get down there, because they
get flooding down there all the time. You had historic flooding,

(32:32):
and you had kids at a Christian camp, and it's
just about the saddest thing you can think of here
in this area. It immediately makes us think about that
tornado at the Boy Scout Little Sue camp years ago
north of Omaha, and it's just incredibly sad. If you

(32:53):
didn't have that condition, then people would probably barely even
notice that it happened. And so to your point, like,
does it not flood down there? It floods all the time.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
This was question wrong.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
This one was different. Well, here, let me let me
do this and you try again.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Next Scott voice.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Lucy Chapman right there. Lucy asked me a question. I
tried to answer it, and she says, you weren't listening
to me.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
No, I think you just misheard me. I wasn't asking
why this flood has received so much attention, so much news.
Of course it speaks you know, obviously, the little children
that we lost in this. I was asking, has this
is this kind of catastrophic flood something that happens all
the time there. I'm just actually reading about some of this,

(33:47):
and the Guadalupe River is considered one of the most
dangerous areas for flooding in the country.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
And I imagine that every other time it's flooded, maybe
not quite like this, but every other time it's flooded,
there have not been a bunch of kids at a camp.
So when you don't have that condition, you know, if
they had this flood down there and it just washed
out there, But it depends on when kids are there
and what anyone's doing about it. So if the news

(34:17):
story had been there was a major flooding in Texas
Curve Valley along the Guadalupe River, it washed out a
place that is often used as a camp. Thankfully no
campers were there. Then we're all just like, oh okay,
and then we all just go on with our lives.
So does this happen all the time, Maybe not to

(34:40):
this scope, but the conditions being what they were, with
the flooding, with the river, and with the kids being present.
Luke Email says, I was down in this area, down
in Cerr Valley in April, and I couldn't believe how
rocky and hilly that country is. There are grades on
the high that are one and a half to two

(35:03):
miles long. The country is pretty much a thin layer
of sand over bedrock. I know enough that if you're
gonna get twelve inches of rain, there's gonna be serious flooding.
And of course people are anytime there's anything that happens,
they're like, who can we blame? Some people tried to
blame President Trump because they hate President Trump. Marjorie Taylor

(35:28):
Green says, we have to stop trying to control the weather.
Raised eyebrow by Lucy Chapman. We can explore that more
if you'd like. I know, we got a Fox and
kfab News update next and your next shout at one
thousand bucks coming up to ten oh five. We saw
sixty mile pro wind gus, we saw some hail, we
saw some pretty good rain across the area. And I

(35:51):
wonder how many kids heard about flood warnings in the
area and immediately thought, oh, no, it's coming for me
because of what happened in Texas. And you know, my
heart goes out to so many who are struggling in
the wake of this horrible news story, as people are

(36:12):
looking at why this happened and try and prevent it
from happening in the future, and whether there's anyone to
blame in the wake of this. We talked about this
a little bit in the last hour of the program.
Of course, some people are going to blame President Trump
because they hate President Trump. Let's take a look at
the claim, though questions have been raised whether the apparent

(36:35):
lack of warnings from local officials or tied into any
DOGE cuts from the Trump administration and Elon Musk and
DOGE and all the rest of it. Here in Nebraska,
there were some complaints that, well, the DOGE was cutting
back on National Weather Service stuff, all right, Well, that

(36:57):
claim was on a regular day. There are certain stations
of the National Weather Service that release weather balloons, they
would do. I forget how many a day or a week.
These are just normal conditions. Let's release a weather balloon
and see what's going on in the sky, I said,

(37:18):
because what do I know? Can't you just have radar
and from other stations along the way, and by the way,
all the TV stations have their their various radars, and
you've got you know, other people that are weather enthusiasts
who have got weather balloons. Can't we all work together

(37:38):
and and just on a regular day when it's sunny
in seventy degrees and no wind and no storms in sight,
do we have to release all these weather balloons like
three four times a day, and you know we checked
the sky conditions. It's nice, Like, well, I could have
told you that, but I don't. I don't know about
all that, but I know that when when there was

(38:00):
severe weather threatening, even in those instances, they were like, yeah,
we start to release more weather balloons and get more
data and get more staff in here when circumstances warrant.
At no point where they like, yeah, just you know,
we don't need anyone to tell anyone else when they's
severe weather. It's all fine. They were still staffing and

(38:25):
doing that work when there was an issue, not just
in my stupid opinion, not just to justify someone being there, like, well,
I'll send a weather balloon up see what's going on
up there in the sky. Most people can tell you that. Well,

(38:47):
I mean, do we need to do all that? Or
can you just talk to an older neighbor and say,
how's your knee feel? It hurts, it's going to rain tonight.
All right, thanks for that, ed. So there weren't cuts
to the National Weather Service in the threat of severe weather.

(39:09):
In fact, the National Weather Service was among those pushing
back real hard on the idea that the Trump administration
or Doze or anyone had cut warnings. The National Weather
Service did. No, Our warnings were timely and accurate. But
don't go ahead, lucy what.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
But don't you think that once that information is said
once not information, but once that statement is made, it's
out there and you will never convince some people that
it is not accurate. Just like anything, you can say
anything today and there will be people that you could
hand them the entire book of all of the things

(39:49):
that they did.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Right. Well, some people are going to find a way
to blame Trump, just to blame Trump. And on that point,
the Press Secretary at the White House, Caroline Levitt, former
guest on this program, said, quote, blaming President Trump for
these floods is a depraved lie and it serves no
purpose during this time of National Morning unquote, well, how.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Are they trying to blame him? Just with the cuts?

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yeah, cut dose, cutbacks. You know, had had the National
Weather Service scrambling and no staff and there was no
one doing anything. And the National Weather Service said that
is absolutely inaccurate. So what happened? Well, Number one, human nature? Yeah,
there's there might be a storm eighteen hours from now.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Okay, we do tonadoes.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Right, How many times have I heard that one? Hey?
You know, because they'll start telling you the radio and
the TV will start telling you three days out. Oh man,
I'll tell you what Friday, Friday night might be, might
be a first alert day, you know, like you want
me to pay attention to your news for the rest
of the week, and then by Friday, it's like, yeah,

(40:58):
that looks like the storm's going to miss us. I
have a eight weekend, you know, so and I'm not
saying that these guys are making it up. The conditions
with forecasts are such that you give people as much
heads up as possible. I guarantee you all the radio
on TV down there that does this thing, And the
National Weather Service had told people in the area for days,

(41:19):
we're looking at the possibility of some storms. Maybe we
might see a lot of rain in this area. So
first step human nature. There have been times this year
this summer I've been on the radio and we're tracking
the radar showing storms coming to the Omaha metro. We

(41:42):
started like four o'clock in the afternoon. I remember one
day during the College World Series, like the timing of
the storm is such that when the first pitch goes
out of this game to night at six thirty or whatever,
it looks like that's when the storm's gonna hit. That's
what it looked like at four o'clock, four to thirty,
same thing time, like five o'clock. By five point forty five,

(42:02):
the storm suddenly just broke up, and by six point
thirty it was perfect. No, there wasn't even a drop
or rain. I mean, these things are difficult to predict,
and because this happens once in a while, Step one,
human nature, watch out for this storm. Tomorrow tonight in
an hour. Okay, yeah, we'll watch for it. It's okay.

(42:27):
So that's that's the maybe one big thing. And then
step two. How many people were really plugged in and
paying attention? This was Independence Day weekend. This is people
out having a good time. You know how many people

(42:47):
who were camping, maybe not at that particular camp. And
I think it's it's reasonable for that particular camp to
say this is hard to say this because it makes
it sound like someone dropped the ball ahead of time.
No matter what I say here, there'll be people with

(43:10):
this and other camps who will be having conversations like,
all right, what's the worst thing that can happen here?
And are we prepared with a warning system and a
plan in case the worst thing could happen here? We
saw it here in Sioux City with that little Sue
Scout camp with the tornado and those those poor scouts
who lost their lives years ago here in this area.

(43:32):
We saw that, and other camps said we need to
have a better plan than what was the best thing
that they could do at that time. And people have
built new structures and they've got new warning systems in place,
and you know, in the way a tragedy can come

(43:52):
better planning for a while. There'll be a time years
from now when people hear about warnings or sirens going
off and they'll be like, ah, I'm sure it'll be
fine human nature, but it's I wonder how many people
were like, no, no, it's Independence Day weekend. I'm looking
forward to just I'm not even bringing my phone. I'm

(44:16):
just unplugging and I don't want anyone to bother me.
It was just an incredible hate to use the term
perfect storm since we're talking about a storm, but it
was a tragic blend of circumstances, from the conditions of

(44:38):
the weather to the conditions of the people dealing with
the weather, which brings me to Marjorie Taylor green Well.
By way of some people saying that, well, the Texas
Division of Emergency Management, we told these guys, we need
to have a better flood warning system. Well, what flood

(45:02):
warning system would happen at one o'clock in the morning,
What flood warning system is going to be in place
that everyone across the county here the sirens go off,
and do what would go where? At that point when
it's like, hey, wow, these floodwaters. I mean, what are
you gonna do? Where are you gonna go? So some

(45:24):
people are blaming them. So Marjorie Taylor Green has says
she plans to introduce as a congresswoman from Georgia, she
plans to introduce a bill to make what she calls
dangerous and deadly weather modification a felony, because she says
they can control the weather. Quote. I am introducing a

(45:49):
bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals
or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of
altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. The meteorologists and
other experts say, well, whatever it is that you think

(46:12):
we're doing is not what Marjorie Taylor Green thinks that
we're doing.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Well, I don't think she thinks the meteorologists are doing it.
There are companies that are called seed clouding companies.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
I don't think they're called seed clouding companies. In the title,
The Government Accountability Office defines the practice of cloud seeding
as adding tiny particulates, most often silver iodide crystals, to
clouds to help with the conditions for rain and snow.

(46:53):
Marjorie Taylor Green says that this is causing wild weather swing,
including like, oh, we we mixed too much and now
the conditions are such that we have catastrophic flooding. Lucy,
you're the official conspiracy theorist here on the program. I'm curious.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Sounds like Lucy has a conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Whether that's true. Do you have a confer whether firasy
theory on this. No, not that that happens, but that
it happens such that our people are doing it so
recklessly that we have situations like what we saw in
Texas this weekend.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Well, I think it's like trying to tame a lion.
You might have the right equipment to do it, but
if the lion's not going to be tamed, then you're
probably going to lose. You can try to tame the weather,
and sometimes you can. Sometimes you can get the clouds
seeded to produce a little bit of rain for fresh
water or four crops and areas that are filled with

(47:56):
drought or are suffering from drought. But that's the kind
of technology that can get out of the lab, so
to speak. It can get away from you. And do
I think this is happening? I don't know. I do
know that it is possible there are things like this happening.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
So yes, the experts who do this kind of thing
and take a look at the results of it say
the best we can do is take an existing cloud
and enhance the possibility for rainfall by up to twenty percent.
I don't know, but I do believe that perhaps Marjorie
Taylor Green is maybe not the best spokesperson for pushing

(48:38):
back on this practice. After all, she said that hurricanes
have been created to go after Republican areas like Florida
to punish them, and then there was the comment about
I don't know what she said, but it was attributed
that she was talking about Jewish space lasers causing wildfires. Well,

(48:59):
I think so, maybe she's not exactly the best spokesperson.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Maybe not, but I think a lot of crazy ideas
start as really crazy, kooky ideas coming from crazy people.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Yeah, but that's the point of being a conspiracy theory.
You say one hundred completely nutty things. If one of
them comes true, it's like, ah see told you. Scott
goes Arthur emails and says Scott, he shouldn't be so
quick to be sarcastically dismissive on weather modification. The information

(49:33):
is accessible to those willing to do their due diligence.
In Alaska and off the coast of Florida, they are
equipped to heat the iona sphere, along with cloud seating
corporations around the country. When you start messing with Mother nature,
this is what happens. Or you can be the sap
that follows the crowd of climate change. I'd agree with you,

(49:54):
but then we'd both be wrong. That's from Arthur, sent
to Scott at kfab T. Arthur, I don't know that
I was quick to sarcastically dismiss weather modification. I am
rather quick on sarcastically dismissing Marjorie Taylor Green. But you know,

(50:15):
and she's right well with her votes, she's right nearly
all the time. But she's also she's she's quirky. We'll
call her that. We'll be nice. But as far as like,
you know, when you start messing with mother nature, this
is what happens. What happens, storms, flooding, hurricanes, the same
stuff that's happened since the dawn of time. All right,

(50:41):
So maybe maybe I'm a bit quick to dismiss this stuff,
but I think you're a bit quick to dismiss Earth's history.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. We have we have floods.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
We have floods, we have storms, we have blizzards, we
have hurricanes, we have tornadoes, this since the dawn of time.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
And with that, we could crazy, We could say, if
we're going to believe in cycles, which is an argument
against climate change, if we're going to believe in cycles,
then this could be another just another cycle. With the
out that crazy storm that hit North Carolina, the flooding,
and that is just unprecedented for something like that to

(51:26):
happen high in the mountains.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
The whole earth used to be water pretty much.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
And this that's that has happened in Texas, And I mean,
you can look at some of that and say, okay,
all right, it could be cyclical. So we're in a
cycle of really ridiculous crazy weather that we haven't seen
in four hundred years or what.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
No, we haven't seen I was no. We I believe
in cycles. I think a lot of it's tied to
sun spots. I believe in sunspot cycles. I believe in bicycles, motorcycles, unicycles.
I believe in cycles. Yeah, I don't know, I think

(52:10):
anymore we just we have to just point the blame
at somebody and well that's not new, yeah, and blame
them for whatever just happened. I love what Gary Sadelmeyer
said the other morning here on news radio eleven ten
kfab where this horrible thing happens in Texas and then
you got people fighting about it or mocking thoughts and

(52:31):
prayers or whatever it is that they decided to do.
And Gary said, it, can't there be anything anymore where
something happens and we all feel the same way about it,
where we don't have to fight and nitpick, and can't
we just be just sad.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
I think the last time that happened was nine to
eleven for a minute.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah I didn't last real long, no day or two.
But can't there be any thing where we just say, wow,
what a horrible confluence of circumstances. Now, I know this
is all super sad to talk about, but I took
a look at the other news I brought into the

(53:13):
studio here, especially the local news, and the only other
story I have seems to be this guy who stabbed
his dad in Omaha with a sword the other day.
So I'll try and find something. Okay, here's some good,
by the way, you know that to happen. But yesterday
with a sword, Yeah, yeah, guy killed his eighty five

(53:38):
year old father. It happened last week. He was in
a court.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
Yes, Oh he killed him.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Oh he killed him. Yeah, he killed him with a sword.
It happened one hundred and eighty fifth and Pulk circle.
That's going to be Southwest Omaha. Last week. Yeah, guy
used a sword to stab and kill his dad, eighty
five years old. Time for him to go, I guess.

(54:03):
So fifty three year old guy denied bond, scheduled to
get back in court next month, so I can try.
I do have stories better than all of this we've
been talking about. In fact, I do have a hey,
this is a good idea. Maybe they'll actually do this
story and it's coming up next.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Scott Gorz, News Radio elevenfab Lucy.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
Chapman's given me a very interesting look. What's your look?
What are you doing? Matter with your.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Facing's wrong with my face? Tired of trying to explain
that the.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Look you're giving me, You kind of give me a
look like see, I told you I hadn't even said anything.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Yet, I wasn't even listening to you.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Maybe that's the look. All right, listen to me here,
I'm listen now. Hear me later. Okay. It looks like
they're talking about and this is probably due to pressure
from Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration on the
Transportation the TSA Transportation Security Administration. Sounds like maybe maybe

(55:19):
we might be able to go to the airport and
go through airport security and not have to take our
shoes off.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
They had too many stinky shoes. I couldn't take any more.
We got to stop this practice.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
We can't breathe. There are people not only alive right now,
but I'm talking about people here in there in their twenties.
They might be taking kids on vacation through airports and
all they've known their entire lives is I go to
the airport, I have to take my shoes off. But

(55:55):
my shoes in the bin used to be And it's
kind of weird as it used to be. You put
I know, it used to be, I just throw everything
in the same bin. Shoes, wallet, keys, laptop, you know, whatever,
carry on, but you throw it all on the same bin.
Now it seems like recently it's like, no, put everything

(56:15):
in a different bin. Take one shoe off, put it
in the bin, take the shoelaces off the shoe, put
that in a separate bin, and put a bin inside
of a bin. And they're just the bins everywhere. It
just got weird. So, but there are people who don't
know any differently. They go to the airport, they take

(56:36):
their shoes off. They don't even know why they have
to take their shoes off. They don't know about what's
his face? What's the name that guy, Richard?

Speaker 2 (56:44):
I don't remember his name. I don't think he deserves
all right, do you have his name remembered? But I yeah,
the shoe bomber.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Right, well, the would be it would be so September eleventh,
two thousand and one, and then it was I think
it was in December when a guy on a flight
from Paris to Miami hid some sort of explosive component
in a shoe and then tried to light it on fire.

(57:16):
And they tackled him and he wasn't able to light
his shoe on fire, and they said, all right, well,
from now on, you've got to take your shoes off
so we can put your shoes through. Because one guy
tried to light his shoe on fire and from since
that time, for almost twenty five years. Now, you got

(57:38):
to take your shoes off. You know who's enjoyed this?
Sketchers so easy to Yeah, you take them off, you
slip them back on. You don't have to tie him.
You don't have to. You don't have to sit down
and tie your shoes, and you don't have to learn
how to tie your shoes. It's great, So Sketcher, the
big Sketchers right now is probably like, no, no, no, no,

(58:01):
don't let people get through airport security without taking their
shoes off. Now, I personally think this is a great
first step, first step of what towards maybe not having
to subject might subject everyone to stupidity when they go

(58:22):
through airport security. I'm not saying I don't want airport security,
but come on, the random checks. All right, Grandma, come
on over here, what are you doing? Well? You never know,
terrorists might load up, Grandma. You know that's why they
ask you at the airport. Did anyone else pack your
bag for you? Oh? Yes, don't I look like I'm
the kind of a person who just random strangers just

(58:45):
packed my bag. Yeah. I was coming up here and
someone said, here's your bag, Like well thank you and
just started walking into the airport. It's just it's stupidity.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
I don't know that the TSA would be quite so intrusive.
I guess is maybe the word I'm looking for with
your with your person. But they have been tasked with
doing this job and have kind of been left to
do it. That's the only way that you can find

(59:21):
TSA agents becoming very very much wanting to be in power,
wanting to have that power.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Well, they're they're tasked with what they're supposed to do. Yes, yeah,
there are some TSA agents who seem to enjoy asserting
their power more than others. Isn't it great Sometimes when
you go through the airport and every once in a
while TSA team will just say like, yeah, you guys
are good. You don't take your shoes off, come on

(59:50):
in here, You're fine.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
I've never had that happen.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
I have just some guy over there, he's shoes were
you wearing? Barely even looking up from his phone. You
guys are good, come on in here. And uh, you
know it's and every once in a while when you
don't have to subject yourself to a full body cavity
service or just like oh, I remember this. I remember,
you know, when when flying was a bit more enjoyable.

(01:00:18):
Transportation Secretary Sean duffy uh talked to people and said,
how can travel be improved in this country? And the
number one complaint was the TSA. They said, all right,
what about the TSA? And the shoe requirement specifically has
been reviled and blamed for delays at checkpoints for years.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
How because it doesn't take that long.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Well, because it always seems like there's someone who's this
is the first time they've flown in twenty seven years,
and they're like, I have to do what? And then
they got to like, you know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Just find it sat down number one, you know, Untie,
their shoes.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
They got to figure out what to do where to
put Now your shoes need to be in a separate bin.
You know, there's shoes hanging up over the bin. It
falls out of the bin, it clogs up the thing.
So I know, for most of us who aren't idiots
and fly from time to time, it's it's a pretty
quick process when you finally get up there, and it

(01:01:20):
doesn't have to be something that causes anxiety or whatever.
But I do miss the day you know because one
guy tried to set his shoe on fire. And of course,
if they don't make you take your shoes off, and
one guy tries again to set his shoe on fire,

(01:01:42):
that's it. We we tried. We tried to give you
the ability not to have this done. You know, there
are so many other ways that a terrorist could try
and do any of these things. Let me list them
for you first. You know, there's there's a number of
different things.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
But wouldn't they have done it already? Oh, can't do
the shoes anymore, it's been twenty five years.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Couldn't someone Here's what I would do. I would soak
my two pay in lighter fluid and some sort of
explosive device, and I tear off my two pay and
people were like, he's bald. We knew it, we knew
that was a bad rug. And I'd light it up
and kubbluey And then suddenly it's like, all right, no

(01:02:26):
one's allowed to have hair anymore. You have to sit
there and have to have your head shaved before you
get on a flight. And then some guy will light
up his eyebrows and they're like, it's it. No one's
got it, No one gets to have eyebrows anymore. Everyone's
got to look like Dick Geppart. There's a reference for
the kids. And then some guy will light up his

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nose hair. You know, these guys with florettes of nose
hair cascading out of their nostrils. Some you know, douse
that lighter fluid and blow it, blow his nose off
and take the plane with him.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
He'd be his own personal Molotov cocktail.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
And then you just work your way down jump mustache, beard,
chest hair. You know, guy's gonna any number of things.
Guy's gonna store an explosive device and his his deep
belly button. That's it. We gotta check your belly button
now every time you go onto the plane. There's any
number of things. Or maybe we try and get back

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to some level of not being it. I mean, you
can be careful, but do I have to say this
about what happened on nine to eleven, And maybe that's
something we can watch out for. Just the the guy
is like, we want one way flight, and then we're

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gonna strategically place ourselves around yeah, and ask for seat
belt extenders and all I mean box cutters in our
carry on I mean is there really and and and
ever since then, you know, your nephew is like random
screening for this seven year old what you know, and

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they're taking off his backpack, all right, what's in here?
You got to take your all your electronic devices out
of everything that you got and take off your jacket
and all the rest of this stuff, and take your
shoes off and or you know, here's the here's the
dumb part about that. Everyone had to do that. And
then they said, well, unless you want to pay not

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to have to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
That is the one thing that I have been very
sure questionable.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Right, So to your point of well, how come they
haven't done it? Did the terrorists know they could just
do a TSA pre check they pay, They could just
pay their money and then they could, you know, put
all their explosives in their platform shoes, walk in there
wearing those boots that Elton John had on and Tommy
is the pinball wizard and just walk in there like
are you on stilts? I'm fine, Oh, he's got TSA checkpoint.

(01:05:00):
He obviously paid. He paid a couple hundred bucks. He
wouldn't dare do anything like this. It's not like he's
gonna pay three hundred dollars and then come in here
and blow out the plane as he's walking in there
with his giant boots on, and he lights his boots up,
and they're like, ah, they foiled us. How we couldn't
possibly see this coming. We thought the TSA check point

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pre check, TSA pre check, we thought that was fool proof.
And then this guy went in there, he paid his
money and then he lit his boots on fire. How
could we possibly have seen that coming? The rest of
us pleabes who didn't pay for pre check or over
here taking our shoes off. Does that mean people are like,
I want my money back. The only reason I got

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the pre check because I didn't want to take my
shoes off, because it seems like I'm always going to
the airport going I forgot. I've got my socks on
with a hole in them, and everyone's looking at me, going,
look at that guy. I can see part of us
toe ha ha ah. That kid's on the plane. So

(01:06:05):
maybe when when are we talking about this? Well? The
Wall Street Journal in the New York Times said they
talked with sources with TSA and DHS that maybe air
travelers might be able to keep their shoes on as
they passed through security screening checkpoints.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Maybe that'll make them happier. We won't have so many
freakouts in the planes. Can you get your freakouts done
outside of the plane before we board. You got a
problem with somebody, get that problem taken care of before
we board.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
That's a great idea. Yeah, that's what they could do
with their announcements, Like all right, right right, we'd like
to welcome all of our travelers on this airline today.
We'll at first take any active duty military parents with
small children, and anyone who's already gotten their freakout out
of the way. Ma'am, we saw you like, oh no, ill,

(01:07:04):
I don't want to sit next to this guy. He's
got a Trump hat on. He can't have a Trump
had on. You know, you get it out of your system,
You work your way, Like all right, ma'am, are you okay?
Now if you realize that people are allowed to wear hats, well,
I don't like him, like he's not sitting next to you.
It's okay, all right, I'm calmed down, I'm okay, I'm okay.
All right, then you can get on the plane. See

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that'd be good.

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
That We've come up with a brilliant idea.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Lucy, you do all the time. Thank you for that.
Scott by Matt emails and says I didn't have to
take my shoes off at denver Tsa this weekend. So
I think that some people are able to go through
airport security recently and they're like, yeah, you guys can
come on through, you don't take your shoes off. I

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think they've been trying it out. Let's just let random
people get through airport security without having to take their
shoes off, and let's see how many of them are like,
thank good this because I've got explosives in my shoes
and a lighter that I'm sneaking onto the plane, which
is the other part. Right, If you have explosives in

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the shoes, you need something to use to be able
to light or detonate the explosives, which would be an
electronic device or the guy the shoe bomber tried to
light his shoe on fire. How do you what do
you do? You take take a book of matches through? There?
Can you take matches onto the plane?

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
I believe you can if it has to be on
your carry on stuff. You can't just go walking in
with the lighter. It's all flamed up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
I would know, Yes, I I'm taking the Olympic torch
to Athens. Like, I don't think that that works out
right now? But yeah, can I just take a just
a pack of matches, just a book of matches in
my pocket? I don't know ca m I take. There's
no way to find this out. I could ask Google.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
But well, you can take a lighter, So why couldn't
you take a match?

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
But I don't know that you can just well, I
mean can you or does it have to be in
your checked luggage?

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
No, you can take a lighter with your really stuff
on board.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Okay, Well, Curtis says, when I go through security, I
pretty much get waved through every time. It kind of
bothers me that I look so stupid.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Is that why he gets waved through?

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
Right? Is this guy a criminal mastermind?

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Look at him? Dan says, I remember when you could
go through TSA without having to even show a plane
ticket and you just meet your party at the gate
to pick him up. Yep, yeah, good times. I know
I remember that too. But the number of people right
now in their twenties who have no memory of any

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of the stuff that we super old people are talking about,
and they think, like I wonder how many of them
would be nervous, like you mean, I don't take my
shoe off. They don't even know why you have to
take your shoes off.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
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