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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordy's.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
They have two lists here. One is the top ten list,
the David Letterman Top ten list of these are the
books most frequently taught in the classroom in middle schools
and high schools in English classes. And they have the
top ten list of the books that are most taught
today versus nineteen eighty nine. And they say the list
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of these top ten books most frequently taught in mostly
English classrooms middle school, high school by instructors across the
country hasn't changed much since nineteen eighty nine. I don't
know why they chose nineteen eighty nine, great year, but
I mean, despite everyone always says, well, that's when the
(00:44):
hairbands decided to put out all their ballads. There's still
some pretty good songs. There were a lot of them, sure,
but they're still some pretty good songs. Anyway, that's the
year that they chose. And which top ten list do
you want? First? Here? Lucy nine twenty five eighty nine
(01:04):
in US sending orders starting with number ten. Lord of
the Flies, Great Gatsby, Hamlet of Mice and Men, Scarlet,
Letter to Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar's Julius Caesar, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Now
same thing, starting with number ten, working to number one.
(01:25):
It's Frankenstein, Fahrenheit four point fifty one, Hamlet, Knight, to
Kill a Mockingbird of Miis and Men, Macbeth, The Crucible,
Great Gatsby, and Romeo and Juliet. Six books are on
both lists. So sixty percent of these lists are the
same between now and nineteen eighty nine. And most of
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these books are by white authors, mostly male white authors,
and they were written more than sixty years ago, in
the case of Shakespeare, a lot longer than that. Okay,
which of these books do you take off the list?
(02:10):
Which is not an important read? And by the way,
there are other books that are presented as well, other
teachings that are presented as well. It's not like, all right,
here are the ten books we're going to read this year,
and they pull out the old dusty English books from
old dusty white guys. There's a lot more that happens.
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And plus I don't know how many of these books
my kids have read here in Omaha public schools. I
bet if I ask both my kids, I know they
both I know my daughter's read Romeo and Juliet, but
I bet they haven't read Huck Finn. That's on the
old list. I think that's been taken away. Great Gatsby,
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I don't think has probably been taught. Great Gatsby is
one of my favorite books. Why, I don't even know.
It's not exactly it doesn't have historical import. I wouldn't
say that it's a real uplifting book. I don't want
to give anything away, but I think that if you're
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a fifteen year old boy, and in the case of
I'll just talk about me, I usually do. Certainly I
was one of those, you know, teenage guys who I'd
fall madly in love with a different girl every other Tuesday,
and at no point where any of these girls interested
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in talking to me. So I was. I was a
hopeless romantic. So you then read The Great Gatsby, which
is on many levels that of either the hopeless romantic
or the friend watching his buddy get any girl he wants,
and so it resonates a little bit with young men,
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older men sometimes too. I don't know how much girls
like The Great Gatsby, but I absolutely identified with it.
I was figuratively standing at the end of the dock,
looking at the light from Daisy's dock across the way.
From a figurative standpoint, sometimes literal, I knew where she lived,
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and I would go and stare at the light at
the end of her I didn't get any closer. That's weird, but.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well there was water.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, you're right, I'm not a strong swimmer. But yeah, figuratively,
A lot of a lot of young men, especially are
looking at the light at the end of Daisy's dock.
So I think that's why probably a lot of men
English male English teachers still teach The Great Gatsby because
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they identify with it. I think girls reading and go
what is this? What is this? Are you nod in
your head here? Did you read it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's not a book that I was really drawn to.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's all right, Yeah, Shakespeare's stuff is largely garbage. Yeah,
I just said that. So I don't know, I have
all the books on either of these lists. To kill
a Mockingbird's amazing, I don't. I mean of Mice and
Men again, interesting story. Not sure what the lesson was. Yeah,
(05:26):
I think the lesson was, if you've got a dumb sibling,
kill them early before they cause trouble. See, you got it,
they see that's why I don't have a lot of siblings.
All right, In case you're like, are you guys gonna
talk about anything? Look, it's Monday, it's hot. What do
you want me to do? Come on here and go.
The President secured a deal with the European Union over
(05:48):
the weekend whereby they pay fifteen percent tariffs when we
pay zero. This is a major win on the trade
front with a major economic partner not interested.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So how do you know that last part? When I
heard it on the news.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's yeah, that's what they did. It was the Fox
News report.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Sounds like Tina from fail firm bobs burgers. Oh you
don't watch Bobbers.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
No, I don't. So we're we're easing into the week,
all right, I should say we started off, though. I
still think that's a serious conversation about how women are
complaining that men are absolutely undtable these days. We've talked
about a variety of reasons why this might be drumming
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the man out of the man, toxic masculinity. The more
feminine you are, the better off you are, the less
threatening you are. Please put on these skinny jeans and
a man bun, and don't go hunting, and don't go
out drinking with the guys. You just come back and
all there, we've drummed the man out of the man.
We're all hunters. We're all gatherers. Now there are no
(06:53):
hunters left. We're all gatherings.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I wouldn't say all yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So we got a whole new generation of young men
who when their woman says, hey, can you go to
the store and get me this this item? Well, you know,
for a lot of men, my wife asked me to
pick us some mine at the store. I don't know
where it is. I don't know what i'le is this
in the health food aisle? Is this over it feels
(07:18):
like it should be where the salsa is. I've never
heard of this thing. I think she's just getting me
out of the house for a while. She's asking me
to get something that doesn't exist. A lot of these
young men are like, oh, yeah, the rind of a
rice cake gluten free. I know where that is. And
they walk over there and they get it, and you know,
we don't have any We're not allowed to be hunters anymore.
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We all got to be gatherers, well, maybe non threatening gatherers.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, maybe the problem that this woman is having is
that all of the meet all the people that she's meeting,
the men are undateable because they're not datable for her.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I know we already covered that. You it might be her.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Wait wait wait wait stop, I can control So maybe
it's because the right guy for her she just hasn't
met him yet. So if she's if she's hooked up
with some Yahoo that's not right for her, she should
be grateful.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
There's a lot of guys right now emailing going, oh,
I know this story. It's you know, I've been in
that friend zone for years with the woman I'm madly
in love with, says I just keep dating the wrong guys.
I wish I could find someone like you, and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Here, move on, there have no connection, unavailable. I'm right
here except friends or move on because if she's not Yeah,
that's that only happens in the movies where they suddenly
realize my best friend has been here the whole time,
right my guy.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I know, guys, you ever cuddle with a girl you're
in love with but you're in the friend zone and
she's like, let's cuddle and watch a movie. You get
out the blanket and you cuddle, and you realize this
is all that's going to happen. It's awesome and incredibly aggravating.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You just imagine.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, every once in a while they're like, we don't
understand what happened. Joe just drove himself off of a cliff.
Chances are he was just fifteen minutes ago in the
friend zone. He's like, yeah, well, I got a couple options.
This is the best one, and he Thelma and Louise
is it right off the cliff. Richard emails and says,
as a single male, I can tell you exactly why
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women are having a hard time finding a man. Number one,
their standards are way too high. These women get with
an eight or a nine, and they think that's their
level between their looks and their feminist personalities. Their real
level is a lot lower. You know why a woman
can get a nine because she's a woman, and she can.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I've heard the argument reversed.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So that's the worst thing. Women. All of you are
way above our level. But when one of you who's
like truly like there's like a five scale difference in
that you know one out of ten. If a guy
happens to get with a girl who's five spots higher,
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it's wonderful and it ruins the rest of his life,
but totally worth it. So number two. According to Richard's email,
women do not know how to be feminine or submissive.
They think being a feminist boss babe is a desirable trait.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It is not, which is speaking to my point earlier.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, that's what you were saying women. Are you said women?
You said women were told that they could be something?
And sorry, ladies, it's a man's world.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And if you just it's not what I said, that's
what I heard, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Let me man explain to you. Man ears that's a
new phrase. Had a nice weekend, Lucy, I trust you
did as well. What'd you do.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
A yard work?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Lucy did yard work all weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I was out on Friday night though Funplex at Thecations, Right.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I heard you at Funplex doing your show for kgU
or from fun Plex. Did a great job. Sound like
you're having a lot of fun? Oh always, Yeah. I
went to see Darius Rutger on Friday night and yesterday.
I am so lucky that I've got a teenage boy
who's young enough that he still likes going to Adventureland,
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but old enough that I can take him and a
couple of his friends who Adventureland, drop them off at Adventureland,
go play golf all day, and then come pick them up.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's what I did yesterday. Okay, it was it was so.
I'm playing in Des Moines playing golf yesterday and I
ended up joining these three guys and they said, well,
we're playing up here at the Old Guy Teas. So
I'm playing a couple of tea boxes back and we
all get on the green and we're all within about
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ten feet of the pen on the first hole, and
I'm like, wow, you guys, are you guys are dialed
in second whole same thing. I'm like, what has gotten
into you guys. That's when I find out that they're
in Des Moines for a Senior Games golf tournament. These
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three guys didn't live there, they don't live here. They're
the state champions from their respective states. So, and they're
also in the same age division playing this golf course there.
So these are the best golfers in the country between
the ages of sixty five and sixty nine years old.
So I played with the state champs from the Oregon,
North Carolina, and Mississippi, and I'm like, oh, I'm out
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of my league. I'm just trying not to get dead
last in this group of so called old guys. You know,
guys who are about sixty seven years old, not old.
These guys were players.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, it was, it was, Yeah, it was super fun.
Now on Saturday, this is going to be amazing to you.
I played golf on Saturday too. This was an annual
event for the Crete Athletic Department, Booster Club, Create High Schools,
creat High School, Crete Community Schools, whatever. Good friend of
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mine is the basketball coach at Crete, so we play
golf and then I also see some guys that I
really sometimes only see once a year at this event.
So it's a really really fun time. We played the
little golf course there in Crete, and it's people can
get as crazy as they want playing it. There was
one year that a guy said I'm just gonna lie
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down here for a second and just lie down in
the grass just off the fifth fairway, and I'm like,
I'm just gonna leave him here. He looks super comfortable.
He's not gonna move. We'll get him later. So he
passed out in the rough off of five. No one
has seen him since, so it's you know, it's a
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it's a fun time boot probably probably Bigfoot son. One
of the fun things about this annual event is where
we go afterwards to eat some food and have a beverage.
And someone said, let's go to Kramer. I said, who's that? Like, no,
it's a town. It's just outside of Creek, just south
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of Lincoln here Kramer. I gotta put in my GPS, Like,
what's the name of the place we're going to? Like, well,
you'll see it. It's it's right there. Kramer is a
very very small town population basically a guy named Kramer.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So have you ever we have two of those cities
in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Have you heard of the town of Kramer.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I can't say I have no. I've heard of the character, right,
I've heard of the stuff you put in your golfe
that's creamer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
This Kramer k R A M E R. I come up,
I come up on the I even metropolis of Kramer,
and they're like, there's this. There's the standard sign when
you come into a town that has the here's the
name of our town, and here's the population of the town.
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But just just to the right of it, in a cornfield,
there's a there's a hymn. There's a lot of corn sweat.
Just to the right of the real sign, there's another
sign that I absolutely loved. And it shows either this
this great little town has an incredible sense of humor,
or someone was serious about this and they take it
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very seriously, in which case it's even more funny than
I thought. The sign says Kramer. Next three exits, which
are just two the three little side streets in that
which is the totality of this small town. I know,
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like that's it's so funny. And then on the second
exit is the Kramer Bar and Grill, where we had
some food, really good chicken wings there. I had some food,
some of the guys played some quino and had some beverages,
and we hung out there for a while. And they're
in the logo of the name of this place. On
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the going down the side of the k it says
on their second exit.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I'm going I'm going see and this is near Crete.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, it's just east of Crete, just south of Lincoln.
Kramer Nebraska. Yeah, I love. We have some really cool
little small towns. And when you hang out in a
small town, whether it's like if you get real lucky
and find a diner or a steakhouse, be prepared to
eat your weight in food and spend like three bucks
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in some of these places. I was super disappointed. Just
a few weeks ago, I met someone from Palmyra, Nebraska.
I said, I said, oh, I like your steakhouse, and
she said it closed. I'm like, what, how? How did close?
It was a really great little restaurant. So if you
can find a little small town diner or steakhouse, why just.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So I'm going to get addicted to something and then
they close. No, forget it. I was going to No,
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You gotta you gotta support these places. So I like those.
But I really like a small town bar, so love
coming hanging out in there. Every one. Once in a
while you'll find one that's got live music, like Bucks
out in Venice, Yah is one of the coolest spots
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in the entire Midwest. So we have some really great
small towns here, But my new favorite one is Kramer, Nebraska.
Next three exits. That is so funny to me.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Scott Voices Radio eleven ten kfaby.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Here is something that's actually in the news though, And
I did see this during my my scenic Highways and
byways trip around south of Lincoln, and I even took
the scenic route home. I went this was by mistake.
I missed the right road to take me back to
I eighty, so I just ended up going completely straight
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north to Waverley and then just taking that road over
through Ashland, which was totally I was totally in the mood.
I was listening to a new album I got, and
I just wanted to just drive and enjoy some music
and see a few things I had not seen before
in small town Nebraska. Waverley is a metropolis compared to Kramer,
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but in this area I saw a lot of signs
from property agg producers and even homeowners in the area.
And there are a lot of signs that say stop
the windmills, No wind mills, say no to windmills. Now.
They're not talking about the little errow motor windmills that
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you see, which are awesome. They're talking about the big,
the big windmills, the turbines and all the rest of
this stuff. President Trump even said something over the weekend.
I don't know that anyone even asked him about it.
He just suddenly said, we don't want windmills. He said,
(19:29):
we need to stop these windmills. They're killing the beauty
of our scenery, our beautiful planes. And I was thinking, yeah,
I just saw these signs out here in whether It's
I saw him and Cass. I saw him in Lancaster Counties,
Saunders Counties. I was kind of driving all over the
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place and I saw these signs from property owners say
no windmills. And then yesterday, as I said, drove out
to Des Moines and back.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Were you running from the law?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Wind mills everywhere? Not just driving. Gas is cheap, so
wind mills everywhere. But you don't see that in Nebraska.
I wonder if we're going to worry Lucy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'll if I have a voice.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
No, we have one minute left here. I want to
hear your thoughts on the wind turbines.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They are not cost effective because of how much it
costs to get them here, how much it costs to
maintain them. They're killing the wildlife, they're killing birds. They
are an I sore and it's just it's not worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, Trump went off, he said. He said they're made
in China, almost all of them. It's the most expensive
form of energy. When they start to rust and rot
in eight years, you can't really turn them off. You
can't burn them. You can't put these giant things in
a landfill or whatever. And he says people don't like them.
As you mentioned, they kill the birds. They're noisy. You
(20:54):
think they're noisy, Yeah, but if you live in close
proximity to one, you hear them. If you're down in
Texas and you see a billion of them, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Don't they have them offshore?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, it's killing wales too, I don't think. Yeah, well,
there has been evidence that links the wind energy development
to whale deaths. I don't know if they're run in
to them in underground or whatever. But yeah, President Trump
and most of the people around Kramer, Nebraska say no
to windmills.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Scott Voys Mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordy's.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
They have two lists here. One is the top ten list,
the David Letterman Top ten list of these are the
books most frequently taught in the classroom in middle schools
and high schools in English classes. And they have the
top ten list of the books that are most taught
today versus nineteen eighty nine. And they say the list
(00:23):
of these top ten books most frequently taught in mostly
English classrooms middle school, high school by instructors across the
country hasn't changed much since nineteen eighty nine. I don't
know why they chose nineteen eighty nine, great year, but
I mean, despite everyone always says, well, that's when the
(00:44):
hairbands decided to put out all their ballads. There's still
some pretty good songs. There were a lot of them, sure,
but they're still some pretty good songs. Anyway, that's the
year that they chose. And which top ten list do
you want? First? Here? Lucy nine twenty five eighty nine
(01:04):
in US sending orders starting with number ten. Lord of
the Flies, Great Gatsby, Hamlet of Mice and Men, Scarlet,
Letter to Kill a Mockingbird, Julius Caesar's Julius Caesar, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Now
same thing, starting with number ten, working to number one.
(01:25):
It's Frankenstein, Fahrenheit four point fifty one, Hamlet, Knight, to
Kill a Mockingbird of Miis and Men, Macbeth, The Crucible,
Great Gatsby, and Romeo and Juliet. Six books are on
both lists. So sixty percent of these lists are the
same between now and nineteen eighty nine. And most of
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these books are by white authors, mostly male white authors,
and they were written more than sixty years ago, in
the case of Shakespeare, a lot longer than that. Okay,
which of these books do you take off the list?
(02:10):
Which is not an important read? And by the way,
there are other books that are presented as well, other
teachings that are presented as well. It's not like, all right,
here are the ten books we're going to read this year,
and they pull out the old dusty English books from
old dusty white guys. There's a lot more that happens.
(02:32):
And plus I don't know how many of these books
my kids have read here in Omaha public schools. I
bet if I ask both my kids, I know they
both I know my daughter's read Romeo and Juliet, but
I bet they haven't read Huck Finn. That's on the
old list. I think that's been taken away. Great Gatsby,
(02:53):
I don't think has probably been taught. Great Gatsby is
one of my favorite books. Why, I don't even know.
It's not exactly it doesn't have historical import. I wouldn't
say that it's a real uplifting book. I don't want
to give anything away, but I think that if you're
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a fifteen year old boy, and in the case of
I'll just talk about me, I usually do. Certainly I
was one of those, you know, teenage guys who I'd
fall madly in love with a different girl every other Tuesday,
and at no point where any of these girls interested
(03:36):
in talking to me. So I was. I was a
hopeless romantic. So you then read The Great Gatsby, which
is on many levels that of either the hopeless romantic
or the friend watching his buddy get any girl he wants,
and so it resonates a little bit with young men,
(04:00):
older men sometimes too. I don't know how much girls
like The Great Gatsby, but I absolutely identified with it.
I was figuratively standing at the end of the dock,
looking at the light from Daisy's dock across the way.
From a figurative standpoint, sometimes literal, I knew where she lived,
(04:25):
and I would go and stare at the light at
the end of her I didn't get any closer. That's weird, but.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well there was water.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
No, you're right, I'm not a strong swimmer. But yeah, figuratively,
A lot of a lot of young men, especially are
looking at the light at the end of Daisy's dock.
So I think that's why probably a lot of men
English male English teachers still teach The Great Gatsby because
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they identify with it. I think girls reading and go
what is this? What is this? Are you nod in
your head here? Did you read it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It's not a book that I was really drawn to.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It's all right, Yeah, Shakespeare's stuff is largely garbage. Yeah,
I just said that. So I don't know, I have
all the books on either of these lists. To kill
a Mockingbird's amazing, I don't. I mean of Mice and
Men again, interesting story. Not sure what the lesson was. Yeah,
(05:26):
I think the lesson was, if you've got a dumb sibling,
kill them early before they cause trouble. See, you got it,
they see that's why I don't have a lot of siblings.
All right, In case you're like, are you guys gonna
talk about anything? Look, it's Monday, it's hot. What do
you want me to do? Come on here and go.
The President secured a deal with the European Union over
(05:48):
the weekend whereby they pay fifteen percent tariffs when we
pay zero. This is a major win on the trade
front with a major economic partner not interested.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So how do you know that last part? When I
heard it on the news.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
That's yeah, that's what they did. It was the Fox
News report.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Sounds like Tina from fail firm bobs burgers. Oh you
don't watch Bobbers.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
No, I don't. So we're we're easing into the week,
all right, I should say we started off, though. I
still think that's a serious conversation about how women are
complaining that men are absolutely undtable these days. We've talked
about a variety of reasons why this might be drumming
(06:31):
the man out of the man, toxic masculinity. The more
feminine you are, the better off you are, the less
threatening you are. Please put on these skinny jeans and
a man bun, and don't go hunting, and don't go
out drinking with the guys. You just come back and
all there, we've drummed the man out of the man.
We're all hunters. We're all gatherers. Now there are no
(06:53):
hunters left. We're all gatherings.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I wouldn't say all yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So we got a whole new generation of young men
who when their woman says, hey, can you go to
the store and get me this this item? Well, you know,
for a lot of men, my wife asked me to
pick us some mine at the store. I don't know
where it is. I don't know what i'le is this
in the health food aisle? Is this over it feels
(07:18):
like it should be where the salsa is. I've never
heard of this thing. I think she's just getting me
out of the house for a while. She's asking me
to get something that doesn't exist. A lot of these
young men are like, oh, yeah, the rind of a
rice cake gluten free. I know where that is. And
they walk over there and they get it, and you know,
we don't have any We're not allowed to be hunters anymore.
(07:39):
We all got to be gatherers, well, maybe non threatening gatherers.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well, maybe the problem that this woman is having is
that all of the meet all the people that she's meeting,
the men are undateable because they're not datable for her.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
I know we already covered that. You it might be her.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Wait wait wait wait stop, I can control So maybe
it's because the right guy for her she just hasn't
met him yet. So if she's if she's hooked up
with some Yahoo that's not right for her, she should
be grateful.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
There's a lot of guys right now emailing going, oh,
I know this story. It's you know, I've been in
that friend zone for years with the woman I'm madly
in love with, says I just keep dating the wrong guys.
I wish I could find someone like you, and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Here, move on, there have no connection, unavailable. I'm right
here except friends or move on because if she's not Yeah,
that's that only happens in the movies where they suddenly
realize my best friend has been here the whole time,
right my guy.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I know, guys, you ever cuddle with a girl you're
in love with but you're in the friend zone and
she's like, let's cuddle and watch a movie. You get
out the blanket and you cuddle, and you realize this
is all that's going to happen. It's awesome and incredibly aggravating.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
You just imagine.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, every once in a while they're like, we don't
understand what happened. Joe just drove himself off of a cliff.
Chances are he was just fifteen minutes ago in the
friend zone. He's like, yeah, well, I got a couple options.
This is the best one, and he Thelma and Louise
is it right off the cliff. Richard emails and says,
as a single male, I can tell you exactly why
(09:22):
women are having a hard time finding a man. Number one,
their standards are way too high. These women get with
an eight or a nine, and they think that's their
level between their looks and their feminist personalities. Their real
level is a lot lower. You know why a woman
can get a nine because she's a woman, and she can.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I've heard the argument reversed.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So that's the worst thing. Women. All of you are
way above our level. But when one of you who's
like truly like there's like a five scale difference in
that you know one out of ten. If a guy
happens to get with a girl who's five spots higher,
(10:04):
it's wonderful and it ruins the rest of his life,
but totally worth it. So number two. According to Richard's email,
women do not know how to be feminine or submissive.
They think being a feminist boss babe is a desirable trait.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
It is not, which is speaking to my point earlier.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, that's what you were saying women. Are you said women?
You said women were told that they could be something?
And sorry, ladies, it's a man's world.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And if you just it's not what I said, that's
what I heard, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Let me man explain to you. Man ears that's a
new phrase. Had a nice weekend, Lucy, I trust you
did as well. What'd you do.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
A yard work?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Lucy did yard work all weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
I was out on Friday night though Funplex at Thecations, Right.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I heard you at Funplex doing your show for kgU
or from fun Plex. Did a great job. Sound like
you're having a lot of fun? Oh always, Yeah. I
went to see Darius Rutger on Friday night and yesterday.
I am so lucky that I've got a teenage boy
who's young enough that he still likes going to Adventureland,
(11:23):
but old enough that I can take him and a
couple of his friends who Adventureland, drop them off at Adventureland,
go play golf all day, and then come pick them up.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That's what I did yesterday. Okay, it was it was so.
I'm playing in Des Moines playing golf yesterday and I
ended up joining these three guys and they said, well,
we're playing up here at the Old Guy Teas. So
I'm playing a couple of tea boxes back and we
all get on the green and we're all within about
(11:57):
ten feet of the pen on the first hole, and
I'm like, wow, you guys, are you guys are dialed
in second whole same thing. I'm like, what has gotten
into you guys. That's when I find out that they're
in Des Moines for a Senior Games golf tournament. These
(12:18):
three guys didn't live there, they don't live here. They're
the state champions from their respective states. So, and they're
also in the same age division playing this golf course there.
So these are the best golfers in the country between
the ages of sixty five and sixty nine years old.
So I played with the state champs from the Oregon,
North Carolina, and Mississippi, and I'm like, oh, I'm out
(12:43):
of my league. I'm just trying not to get dead
last in this group of so called old guys. You know,
guys who are about sixty seven years old, not old.
These guys were players.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's very cool.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, it was, it was, Yeah, it was super fun.
Now on Saturday, this is going to be amazing to you.
I played golf on Saturday too. This was an annual
event for the Crete Athletic Department, Booster Club, Create High Schools,
creat High School, Crete Community Schools, whatever. Good friend of
(13:16):
mine is the basketball coach at Crete, so we play
golf and then I also see some guys that I
really sometimes only see once a year at this event.
So it's a really really fun time. We played the
little golf course there in Crete, and it's people can
get as crazy as they want playing it. There was
one year that a guy said I'm just gonna lie
(13:38):
down here for a second and just lie down in
the grass just off the fifth fairway, and I'm like,
I'm just gonna leave him here. He looks super comfortable.
He's not gonna move. We'll get him later. So he
passed out in the rough off of five. No one
has seen him since, so it's you know, it's a
(14:00):
it's a fun time boot probably probably Bigfoot son. One
of the fun things about this annual event is where
we go afterwards to eat some food and have a beverage.
And someone said, let's go to Kramer. I said, who's that? Like, no,
it's a town. It's just outside of Creek, just south
(14:23):
of Lincoln here Kramer. I gotta put in my GPS, Like,
what's the name of the place we're going to? Like, well,
you'll see it. It's it's right there. Kramer is a
very very small town population basically a guy named Kramer.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
So have you ever we have two of those cities
in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Have you heard of the town of Kramer.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I can't say I have no. I've heard of the character, right,
I've heard of the stuff you put in your golfe
that's creamer.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
This Kramer k R A M E R. I come up,
I come up on the I even metropolis of Kramer,
and they're like, there's this. There's the standard sign when
you come into a town that has the here's the
name of our town, and here's the population of the town.
(15:14):
But just just to the right of it, in a cornfield,
there's a there's a hymn. There's a lot of corn sweat.
Just to the right of the real sign, there's another
sign that I absolutely loved. And it shows either this
this great little town has an incredible sense of humor,
or someone was serious about this and they take it
(15:37):
very seriously, in which case it's even more funny than
I thought. The sign says Kramer. Next three exits, which
are just two the three little side streets in that
which is the totality of this small town. I know,
(15:59):
like that's it's so funny. And then on the second
exit is the Kramer Bar and Grill, where we had
some food, really good chicken wings there. I had some food,
some of the guys played some quino and had some beverages,
and we hung out there for a while. And they're
in the logo of the name of this place. On
(16:19):
the going down the side of the k it says
on their second exit.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I'm going I'm going see and this is near Crete.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, it's just east of Crete, just south of Lincoln.
Kramer Nebraska. Yeah, I love. We have some really cool
little small towns. And when you hang out in a
small town, whether it's like if you get real lucky
and find a diner or a steakhouse, be prepared to
eat your weight in food and spend like three bucks
(16:56):
in some of these places. I was super disappointed. Just
a few weeks ago, I met someone from Palmyra, Nebraska.
I said, I said, oh, I like your steakhouse, and
she said it closed. I'm like, what, how? How did close?
It was a really great little restaurant. So if you
can find a little small town diner or steakhouse, why just.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
So I'm going to get addicted to something and then
they close. No, forget it. I was going to No,
I'm not.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You gotta you gotta support these places. So I like those.
But I really like a small town bar, so love
coming hanging out in there. Every one. Once in a
while you'll find one that's got live music, like Bucks
out in Venice, Yah is one of the coolest spots
(17:44):
in the entire Midwest. So we have some really great
small towns here, But my new favorite one is Kramer, Nebraska.
Next three exits. That is so funny to me.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Scott Voices Radio eleven ten kfaby.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Here is something that's actually in the news though, And
I did see this during my my scenic Highways and
byways trip around south of Lincoln, and I even took
the scenic route home. I went this was by mistake.
I missed the right road to take me back to
I eighty, so I just ended up going completely straight
(18:25):
north to Waverley and then just taking that road over
through Ashland, which was totally I was totally in the mood.
I was listening to a new album I got, and
I just wanted to just drive and enjoy some music
and see a few things I had not seen before
in small town Nebraska. Waverley is a metropolis compared to Kramer,
(18:45):
but in this area I saw a lot of signs
from property agg producers and even homeowners in the area.
And there are a lot of signs that say stop
the windmills, No wind mills, say no to windmills. Now.
They're not talking about the little errow motor windmills that
(19:08):
you see, which are awesome. They're talking about the big,
the big windmills, the turbines and all the rest of
this stuff. President Trump even said something over the weekend.
I don't know that anyone even asked him about it.
He just suddenly said, we don't want windmills. He said,
(19:29):
we need to stop these windmills. They're killing the beauty
of our scenery, our beautiful planes. And I was thinking, yeah,
I just saw these signs out here in whether It's
I saw him and Cass. I saw him in Lancaster Counties,
Saunders Counties. I was kind of driving all over the
(19:50):
place and I saw these signs from property owners say
no windmills. And then yesterday, as I said, drove out
to Des Moines and back.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Were you running from the law?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Wind mills everywhere? Not just driving. Gas is cheap, so
wind mills everywhere. But you don't see that in Nebraska.
I wonder if we're going to worry Lucy.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I'll if I have a voice.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
No, we have one minute left here. I want to
hear your thoughts on the wind turbines.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
They are not cost effective because of how much it
costs to get them here, how much it costs to
maintain them. They're killing the wildlife, they're killing birds. They
are an I sore and it's just it's not worth it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, Trump went off, he said. He said they're made
in China, almost all of them. It's the most expensive
form of energy. When they start to rust and rot
in eight years, you can't really turn them off. You
can't burn them. You can't put these giant things in
a landfill or whatever. And he says people don't like them.
As you mentioned, they kill the birds. They're noisy. You
(20:54):
think they're noisy, Yeah, but if you live in close
proximity to one, you hear them. If you're down in
Texas and you see a billion of them, it's.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Don't they have them offshore?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, it's killing wales too, I don't think. Yeah, well,
there has been evidence that links the wind energy development
to whale deaths. I don't know if they're run in
to them in underground or whatever. But yeah, President Trump
and most of the people around Kramer, Nebraska say no
to windmills.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Scott Voys Mornings nine to eleven on news Radio eleven
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