Trumpdate: Fog of War

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Gordie.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Let's get underway here when we have several different stories
and none of them really have that much to do
with each other, but for the subject, or at least
the looming specter in all of them, has to be
the President of the United States. It's the same guy
that weaves his way through all these different stories. We
put them all together and something we call a Trump Date.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
To the dance is your chance to the Trump, the
Trump to Trump, the Trump to Trump, Trump Trump, the
Trump to Trump.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Do you know what to win?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
With KFA b.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Trum Trump?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Brian wanted to get involved in that one. They came
flying it out of nowhere with that one. That's his
name is Brian who does the big scary voice guy
stuff for our state. And if he wants to jump
in even during a Trump date song, that's fine. People
say you look like mc hammer on Crack Tump Dy
Trump d All right, here we go with a Trump

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date on news radio eleven ten kfab. Why is it
that this they call her the AOC or the mom
Donnie of Tennessee Nashville. Why is she allowed? And I'm
sure that she had a number of people there in
Tennessee This was the special election in this congressional seat there.

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If you heard the Rosie did Genozi yesterday, you know
it was kind of a big deal politically speaking for
that area, but also the country. As we have the
midterm elections now about eleven months away, a lot of
people are looking at this a district that was won
by double digit points in twenty twenty four by Trump

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and the Republicans, and now was they said, within the
margin of error, potentially going to this democh credit candidate
after a year of strife and all the problems with
President Trump, the chaos, and people are tired of it.
They didn't know he was going to do everything that
he said he was going to do on the campaign
that he's been doing. Where does he get off anyway?

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What is this? And they said that everyone had jumped
off the Trump train if they weren't already deported or
dragged underneath the train. And then a very predictable thing happened.
The Republican in this very red district won by only
nine points, only nine points, when the blue side had

(02:38):
all their people incredibly energized, ready to go, and then
finally last minute, Trump is like, hey, we need the
seat over here. You guys got to go out and vote.
Republicans are like, is there an election? I didn't know
there was an election, and so they went out and
voted and the guy won. It's not that big a deal,

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but one of the big things that came up in
this was this candas Democratic candidate probably had a lot
of people on her side because she did a variation
of a fantastic Nate Bargatzi bit Nate Bargatzi comedian Nashville
area guy, and I don't remember if it was. I

(03:23):
don't think it was something he did on Saturday Night Live.
I think it was during his Christmas special last year,
where he's basically speaking on behalf of the Nashville Department
of Tourism, and the whole bit was, we love it
when you guys come to Nashville. You check out the
live music, all the great restaurants and night spots. We

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love the bachelorette parties and just all the tourism that
comes in here and provides jobs and economic vitality to
our community. But we have a message for you. Don't stay,
come visit, spend a weekend, Spend a three or four
day weekend, live it up, enjoy yourself and then go home,

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you know, because the idea was everyone's like, Hey, Nashville's great,
I want to live here and do what exactly? Have you? Lucy?
Have you been to Nashville?

Speaker 4 (04:14):
You know, that's one of the few places in the
US I have not been. Let's got even to the state.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Let's go. You've never been to the state.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Of Nashville, never even been to Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Tennessee's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
That's where your Nashville is.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
And Nashville's super fun. You've been to Vegas, yep, all right,
So wherever it is that you would consider to be
a fun fun place, which I know for you is
you know, painting your bathroom. But if you ever just
it'd be like, Scott, did you go on a cruise
last week? I don't know if I mentioned this this week,
but I was on a cruise last week. This is
not something we get a chance to do. My wife

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and I went on our honeymoon cruise, and then twenty
three years later we did another cruise. I wouldn't say
that we are cruising people, but it was super fun
and the whole thing was just a dream come true.
It's like how much state, ach and donuts. Would you
like all of it here? You are, sir, And.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
It's just not happens that happens in Nashville, dude.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, the idea is the cruise, the cruise. It's just
it's just food and sunshine and rum and do you
want to hang out on this beach or that beach?
Do you want to be in the sun? Do you
want to be in the shade and a hammock? It's
just it's great and it is a wonderful few days.
But you can't do that every day. What is Some

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people are like the same thing with Nashville. Oh man,
Nashville was awesome. I was out all night with live music.
I was in Nashville once and went within about twenty
minutes time from meeting Wanona Judd at an event and
saying hi to her having to bend way down to

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shake her hand. A lot of people don't know this.
She's the smallest of the Russian nesting dolls. She's only
about an inch and a half tall, and the TV
and the dresses she wears make her look bigger and
she but she's fun sized. She is a diminutive woman
and has a voice and a personality that fills any arena.
But I met her and hurt my back in the

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process because you have to bend way down. It's very
nice to meet you, miss Judd. And so I met
Wanona Judd and then walk down the street and was
in there. I was like, this guy's really good. Who
is that? Like, that's John Rich of Big and Rich,
just in there doing just a fun little acoustic show
just because Hey, I was wandering, buy have my guitar?
How you guys doing tonight? Nashville is awesome? So you

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do all that and then you think I'm gonna live here,
I'm gonna do this every night, and then the reality
of every night sets in and you're like, I can't
do this every night. I have to work tomorrow. I'm
not on vacation anymore. And so I think a lot
of people go to Nashville as tourists and they think

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this is where I want to live and what I
want to do, and then they just move there and
they occupy all the space and they can't go out
and party every single night, otherwise they'd be washed out,
unemployed and drunk.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
And if you pace yourself, well.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
You gotta pay yourself but people have an unrealistic expectation
that though this is the life I want to live
every single day. And it's the same thing that happens
with people in retirement, Satomy, are you listening. A lot
of people retire and they think, man, that's gonna be great.
I can sleep until whenever I want to get up,

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I'll read the paper, I'll drink some coffee. I'm gonna
play golf every single day. And they do that for
a time and then they then especially those who are
retiring now and have been retiring for the last ten
twenty years, they were raised differently. They probably started working

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at the age of twelve and took very very little
time off from twelve to seventy whatever. When they retire
fur their entire higher lives, all they've known is someone
needs something from me, and I'm responsible to get it done.
And so in retirement suddenly they're like, I feel useless.

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And then one of two things happen. They either immediately
curl up and die, Satmy, are you listening. It's not
too late to change your mind, Gary. You either curl
up and die, or you find a little part time gig.
And they're out there whether it's like backing groceries, sweeping
floors or mowing golf courses or whatever they do. They

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find something else to do, and they're very happy with it.
They just basically are like, here's a place I like
to be, and what can I do to help? And
then young people are like, how come we didn't get
hired for this job? This seventy four year old man
got hired for this job. And the HR director, if

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he or she was being honest, would say, I knew
he was going to show up and he was going
to care about his job. However menial you might look
at it. That was a bit of a side step.
I think the initial point here was I'm still in
a Trump day, right. The initial point here was that
the people in Nashville love on some level the tourists,

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but sometimes they're like, I just wanted to go out
in my town and be able to drive around to
the fun stretch of all the bars and restaurants and
the Ryman Auditorium or all the fun stuff that's down here,
and I wanted to find a place to park, and
I didn't want to have to fight crowds, and all

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these tourists are in here, bachelorette parties going NonStop and
drinking drinks out of fallacies and all this, and I'm
just like, I just wanted to come here a band,
and we get a little bit of that here in Omaha,
don't we? College World Series time Berkshire Hathaway.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Just you're trying to take your kids to your zoo
in your hometown and you get bust loads of people
from all over the place, and you're like, I don't
have any place to park. I can't see the monkeys,
and there there's not the band the animals at the zoo, right,
wouldn't can't we train those monkeys to at least do?
Ain't no stepping stone or something like that last train

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to Clarksville.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
You know that doesn't happen here.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
Daydream Believer, Come on, teach one of the monkeys to
sing that song and then Jim will criticize it. I
thought that monkey was past its pride? Where was I?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
That doesn't happen, by the way, where people don't visit
Omaha and decide they want to stay, what doesn't happened?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
That wasn't exactly the route I was going down there.
People who live here, No, I'm taking I need to
be focused here. I am all over the place. I
admit people have an expectation when they go out in
their town. They're like, well, I don't want to fight
crowds of and all this stuff all the time. I
don't want the gridlock of traffic. But they also they

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want the tourism because they want the dollars in the jobs.
They just don't want the traffic and the crowds. So
what did this woman in Tennessee say? She says she
didn't like the tourists and she wasn't big on country music.
Now that's not as big a hey, who are you talking?
That's not exactly what you think because Nashville has kind
of flipped in these last from twenty two three years

(11:31):
ago whenever it was I was in Nashville that first
time and met went out to Judd. So the last
time I was in Nashville about two years ago, not
quite two years ago, that whole stretch of bars and
live music venues and all the rest of it really
really switched. It went from going from bar to bar,

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and we had like all kinds of music in here.
We had country and western. That's how it used to be.
And now there's your movie reference For this segment of
the radio program Blues Brother Lucy said, yesterday she just
watched that movie. I teed up an easy one for you.
I'm proud of you. If I missed it, I'm really

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proud of you. Peer One Imports, so they they they
used to only have country and Western and sometimes country
and Western. When I was there a couple of years ago,
they had country, had Western, they had rap, they had rock,
they had metal, they had I think they had polka.
I think they had old school polka. I think they

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had new wave polka. I mean it was you go
from venue to venue and it's it's a little bit everything.
It's the full buffet of all the different types of music.
And that showed that enough people kind of come in
there and said, we like it here in Nashville, and
we think your country music's fun. But sometimes I want
to hear kid rock, like not do the country stuff.

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And so they've got all that stuff, and and so
you've got someone like this what's her face in Jim
what's her name? The Tennessee Canada Aften or aften Baine,
Thank you. Jim Rose still sits in the studio sometimes
during the first segment of this program and stares at
me disapprovingly. Can't wait to work with him for several

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hours every single day starting here in a week and
a half. Yeah, Afton Baine sounds like a bad guy
in a James Bond movie. Didn't It wasn't Christopher Walken's
name in a View to a Kill? Wasn't it Afton Baine?
Or was it Conrad Bain who was in Different Strokes something?

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Both really bad guys? Wait Conrad, but no, never mind.
She said Timody Taurus around here, and I'm not big
on country music. That's not as big a threat to
the culture of that area as it used to be.
So it's taken me a long time to get to
this point where I bring Trump back into the Trump date.

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I think she's just I mean, you can take whatever
you want from what she said if you live there.
It'd be like if she were here in Omaha. She goes,
I like Omaha, but you know, I'm not really a
big fan of the Henry Dorthley Zoo or the College
World Series, or I don't like or she could say,

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you know, I like Nebraska, but I'm not a big
fan of Nebraska football. Thirty years ago, we would deposit
her at the nearest border and say, and you are
not welcome back, and we'll know if you come back.
Please enjoy the rest of your life. Don't come back. Now,
she's probably in a pretty good company, sad to say.
Things have flipped, things have changed. So I get when

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she would say, like, I'm not a big fan of
all the crazy tourists and all the bachelorette parties and
the country music in Nashville. It's a different time there.
I think she's fine and saying it. I think she's
perfectly justified in saying it. So, oh, then why is
President Donald Trump not allowed to say I don't want

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one hundred and fifty thousand people from Somalia suddenly to
have an influx into the Minneapolis area. It's changed the demo,
it has flipped the tax base. These people aren't coming
in here, not every single one of them, and saying,
let us provide you are incredible skills when it comes

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to the craftsmanship of our labor. A lot of them
are coming in here, and they're immediately in a welfared
dependent state, as refugees are. It doesn't matter if they're
from Somalia or Ontario. When you have refugees coming to America,
they don't have anything, so they get on the welfare state,
and in some specific instances, depending on from where they come,

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they eat dogs. Whatever happened to that, By the way,
do they stop eating dogs there in Ohio? And then
Trump says, I'm also not a big fan of all
these cowardly Afghan men who we worked with in Afghanistan,
and many of them turned around and shot us in
the back. And then President Biden said, yeah, come on in.

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We're not gonna vet any of you. Just come on in, refugees,
all of you, all of these cowardly single men leaving
their families in their country behind rather than fight the Taliban.
I just come on into America. Let's see what happens.
And you've had a dangerous situation last week, and President
Trump said, we need to know who we're dealing with. Okay.

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I put that in the same category with Afton Bane
in Tennessee saying I don't like what my hometown has become.
It's gotten too crowded with the wrong kinds of people. Wait,
who are you saying the wrong I'm not saying I'm
just saying, why can one say that about too many

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visitors who are not contributing to what she wants to
see in her community or getting in her way or whatever.
But Trump can't say the same thing about refugees coming
in here immediately having to be fed by an American
population that's increasingly taxed, whether it's with our property taxes.

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Every time that we go buy something, the inflation of
these things has gone up. You try and find a good,
well priced used car these days, it's impossible, and it's impossible.
We get hit with additional costs every time we turn

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around to try and try and buy anything. And at
the same time, many of us are worried about our jobs,
the solvency of our jobs, and our health care costs,
whether it's the subsidies going towards Obamacare, just regular individuals
and group policy, health care costs. Everything costs way too
much money. And then as you're sitting there struggling to

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make ends meet, suddenly a group of illegal immigrants gets
off a bus and Bajaba Maine or whatever, and they're like, oh, hey,
we're gonna we got these visitors who are gonna be
staying with us, and we're gonna need you to pitch
in a little bit more because you know, the strain
on resources from education to healthcare is and housing it

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and food is going to be it's gonna be. Really,
we're just gonna need you to give a little bit
more here to all these guests. And you're like, I
want to provide for people, but at what point is
the tipping point off? And not in our favor? So
this woman in Tennessee can say, I don't like what
this area has become. I think that we need to

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take a different look at it. But President Trump can't
look at one hundred and forty thousand last year. You
imagine the population of Omaha suddenly increases by whatever we're
saying math, I don't know, like about thirty percent. And

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it's all refugees from a foreign country, whether it's Somalia,
whether it's Haiti, whether it's Missouri. I mean, someplace far
far away with a very very different culture than ours.
And suddenly we got one hundred and fifty thousand people
in one year who come into the Omaha area. You

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don't think that we'd feel that a little bit. You
don't think impact things a little bit. That's what happened
up in Minneapolis last year, and so President Trump got mad.
He's like, yeah, we are learning that tax dollars are
being funneled into a Somalian terrorist group, and the Democrats
up there don't seem to care. And he railed against

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the garbage. And immediately people were like, he called these
people garbage. Some of them are garbage, and not all
of them are Somali. Who are all the bleeding heart
liberals who thought that they were funneling money into hunger
programs and not checking to make sure they weren't going
to a Somali terrorist organization, who were all of those

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that said, oh, no, we want all the refugees because
you know, to bring us you're tired and you're poor.
Come on over, we we love all of you. Refugees
are people too. We're a nation of immigrants. And then
suddenly the people live there are like, hey, what the
heck what happened around here? And they they created this problem,

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and so Trump calls the whole situation and some of
them garbage, and immediately these are not people. These they're
not garbage people. They're mean, well, garbage people are like,
what's the matter with being garbage? People. President Trump, by
the way, worked as a garbage man, remember that on
the campaign, So he comes from that world. We're arguing

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about the wrong thing, and it's all part of what
usually happens, which is President Trump says something, everyone loses
their mind unnecessarily. That's just part one of our Trump
date this morning. I got lots more after a Fox News.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Update next to Scott Goyes, News Radio eleven to ten Kfab.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
We are in the midst of a Trump date Trump.
That's what we do when we have a lot of
different stories that don't have a lot to do with
each other except that and Trump. They all have to
do with President Trump on some level, because doesn't everything
all the time have to do with Trump. Trump Trump, Trump, Trump.
Raise your glasses. We're trumping it up pretty good here

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on this news Radio eleven ten Kfab Trump Date. Talking
about the Tennessee special election. It was won by the
Republican but not as big a win as what the
Republicans did in the twenty twenty four election. Yes, when
everyone came out to vote for Trump in twenty twenty
four in that district and a presidential election, an election

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that a lot of people up until yesterday's election in
this congressional district in Tennessee, encompassing Nashville. A lot of
people didn't even know there was an election until suddenly
Trump in the media was like, hey, you gotta come
out and vote, and so the Republicans still won. People
are like people like Jane Cleb JFK Jane Fleming Kleb,

(22:23):
the head of the Nebraska Democratic Party. She had a
post on social media last night says, if you're Mike
Flood tonight, you're worried. If you're Don Bacon to night,
you know you made the right decision to retire. Why
because a red district is still a red district. Yeah,
but it was almost blue. Yeah, I'm sure Mike Mike

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Flood slept just fine. But cool post that said. A
lot of people now afton Baane. This the AOC of Tennessee,
not an avowed Democratic socialist, which many of you will

(23:06):
see as a distinction without a difference, and in some
instances you're one hundred percent right. But she's not one
of these. She's not Zorn Mom, Donnie the mayor elect
of New York City, or Bernie Sanders the whatever the
grumpy old man up there with his buddy and the
Muppet Show of that district, you know, the senator. So

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there are those who just like, unabashedly like, yep, I'm
a commie, and once mom Donnie won, people like Captain
Bayne suddenly are like, oh, I see the you know,
populist message here of don't you think that things are unaffordable?
Vote for me. I'll make things affordable, which is what

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the one party not in power always says when trying
to get elected and top the party in power. It's
funny how so many Democrats now we're talking about affordability
and how the average American has having a hard time
making ends meet. Now, during the record inflation that saw
prices skyrocket year over year, the average inflation right year

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over year was between eight and twelve points. And that
was whether or not you were looking at what they
usually don't put in the inflation numbers, which is gas
and food. Why would we put those things in a
monthly budget. I mean, I don't know about you. I
don't spend any money over from a month's time on
gas and food. Right, you're fluent and sarcasm. So the

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Labor department just take those numbers out because they would
cause the inflation rate to go up even more. Gas
prices have come down under President Trump, the cost of
a few things have gone up. The media loves to say, like,
have you seen the cost of beef. It's up thirty percent. Now, Yeah,
I go buy a steak or a pound and a

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half of eighty five percent or something like that. It
does cost more than it did a year ago, but
it also ended up costing a lot more during the
Biden years. And due to whether it's tariffs or market
instability or the natural progression of things, there are a
few things that cost some a bit more so, and

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a lot of people are like, yeah, I don't know,
the steak got really expensive, but you know, the pork
chops are on sale, and I love pork chops. So
I mean, there aren't people who are destitute in the
streets going to filet mignons outrageous. Look at this, the
cost of this, this prime rib. I can't do it.
I won't eat. I'm going to the food bank. You know,

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there are people who are working and finding a way
to make ends meet, and at the same time, there
is a pinch there when it comes to everything costing
more money. President Trump's already saying that your tax return
next year is going to be between seven and one thousand,

(26:05):
seven hundred and one thousand dollars more than it was
last year. We'll see how that goes. And the media
already said, like, well, not everyone is going to see
that much money. In fact, I've got that story right here.
The story here from CBS says most Americans, let's see,
the extra cash won't be spread evenly. However, middle and

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upper middle income households. Oh, in other words, middle income
and middle income house They're just trying to put an
extra bit of spitting in the face of classes by
saying middle and upper middle income households. There's a designation
I've not heard before.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
What's wrong with the lower middle.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Middle and upper middle income households, which is those earning
between sixty thousand and four one hundred thousand dollars a
year as a household.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Its middle.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
That says middle, it's middle middle. I would think sixty
thousand dollars depending on where are you living on that,
there's probably more of lower moment. They don't. They're not
going to say lower middle.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
I see the lower middle is in there.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah, there's yeah, there's not calling them that. But the
upper middle income household, So those earning between sixty and
four hundred thousand dollars a year stand to gain the most.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
That's the middle middle. But the upper middle is is
up above four hundred thousand, right.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
They say, the average Americans refund next year will jump
by about one thousand bucks. And they say, and most
people who will get it will be middle income earners.
And people are like, well, the extra cash won't be
spread evenly. Oh no, it's going to go to the
people who earn it, Thank you, John Houseman. So they're

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mad that, well, how come we can't just take the
money that the makers make and just give it to
the takers in an uneven way. There are a growing
number of Americans who are just fine with that, and
they're all inclined to vote because they're on Obamacare, if
they have health care, if they've bothered to sign up

(28:13):
for healthcare at all, and suddenly those costs are gonna
go up. Now, it's fine when costs go up for
everyone else, but when their cost might go up because
someone else is like, look, I'm tired of subsidizing your
lower cost health care. You're gonna have to pay a
little bit more, which is still lower cost health care
than what I, as you know, at no Blue Cross,

(28:34):
Blue Shield, whatever group policy holder pay every single year.
Your costs are gonna have to go up a little
bit more too. And suddenly people are like, but I
won't have it. I don't want to pay more. You
need to pay more. And so you get like Zoron Mom,
Donnie and Aft in Bane and they're not the only ones.
What else we have here? Let's see in let's see

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the former governor of New Jersey is running from mayor
of Jersey City and he came up short, and there's
going to be like a runoff election, but he was
defeated by a forty one year old councilman who is
an avowed Democratic socialist. That's in Jersey. In Washington, d C,

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you've got a younger council member in d C who
is an avowed socialist says I want to be the
mayor of Washington, d C. And you've got and a
few other districts I think there was one in what Colorado,
you've got more people who are I'm a socialist. Vote

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for me and we'll make sure that you don't have
to have to pay for anything. We'll just bring everything down.
And that's look, I got a message for those in
oh here, it is Michigan mission. There's a progressive Michigan
candidate who was out there, Bernie Sanders, and they were striking,

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or they were standing with the striking Starbucks workers. These
are communists, these are socialists, and these are people who
are gaining momentum because they're saying something like, well, they're
maybe they're different, Maybe we should do something. Maybe we
should vote for the socialists in New York City rather
than a Republican never going to happen, or a long

(30:24):
term blue blood Democrat in Cuomo will vote for the
socialist and things will really really change fast around here.
I got news for everybody. Nothing's going to change all that,
and certainly not fast, not fast enough for the patients
of the average American, which doesn't have the patients to
even listen to me go off on a side road

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conversation before I come back to the main point. They're like,
come on, let's go. Everyone wants everything now. I was
talking to my sister, sister you listening yesterday, and I
said we need to to get something here from mom
and you know, like a pharmaceutical kind of a thing
from mom. And I said, if you're heading over there today,

(31:10):
can you stop at like Walgreens, CBS, Walmart and pick
that up. She's like, I'll just order it on Amazon.
I said, you know, you could go to a brick
and mortar store today and you walk out of the
store with it. Now, why in the world would you
order it on Amazon and wait until tomorrow or the
next day to get it. It's just we're trained to
do that. And I don't understand the mindset of people,

(31:34):
like I'm just gonna order this and it'll come here.
You can go buy it. It's down the street. We
got lots of stores. They'd love to see you. But
people have no patience for anything like I'll just click
a few things here, it'll get here when it gets here.
But people, the whatever socialists communist thing that they think

(31:54):
is gonna happen in New York is not going to
happen fast enough to appease the commed voters, And it's
not going to change dramatically enough anytime soon to cause
the more conservative voters or the blue blood old world
Democrats who say, oh, this is all going to change overnight. No,
it won't. You would need a disruptor with a lot

(32:18):
more powers than the mayor of New York City to
change anything fast. Now, the tide is turning in favor
of this new democratic socialism AA socialis aka communism. The
tide certainly turning across the country in this way. President
Trump notices that, and that's why he is going full

(32:40):
bore on the affordability push. As far as affordability, he
also pointed out yesterday that word affordability is a Democrat scam,
he said yesterday, And of course Democrats are seizing on
that as this is Trump saying, well, let them eat cake.
He doesn't care about now. Now. It's not what he's saying.

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What he's saying, is any Democrat now who suddenly is
concerned about the rising cost of some things and didn't
say boo about it during the Biden years suddenly when
they're like, well, the affordability. They didn't care then and
they don't care now. They're only saying it because they
think you want to hear it. So what's Trump doing.
We told you yesterday about the Trump babies. They're working

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with the Dell Technologies people to put money into accounts
for newborn babies Trump babies that could help them get
a nice start in their lives when they turn eighteen,
and that bond or mutual fund or whatever it's going
to end up being ends up maturing probably faster than
the eighteen year old, and then they'll have a nice

(33:46):
bit of money they can use towards college costs, or
maybe down payment for a home or vocational school, or
maybe they just go out and blow it all on hats.
I don't know, it'd be nice to have. And that'll
be eighteen years from now for these babies just being born.
So let's see here. I don't know if that'll be
Donald Trump Junior he'll be president then, or Baron Trump.

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But anyway, President Trump also yesterday talked about the cost
of gas going down. As I mentioned the higher tax returns,
people are going to get no tax on tips and
or overtime for a lot of workers. This is really
really helping people, especially those lower middle class workers, be

(34:34):
able to put more money in their pockets. And he
talked about the subsidies for healthcare, say yeah, we're working
on that too. Taking tax dollars from working Americans and
giving them as subsidies to artificially keep Obamacare costs low
for non working or part time working Americans is not
the best way of doing it. So he's doing a

(34:55):
full blitz on whether it's you know, the tariffs are
bringing and money we're gonna start issuing checks to Americans,
tariff refunds. I don't know if any of that's gonna happen,
but he certainly is aware of that, and so he
is doing all of that as well. But because Trump
has always been able to walk and chew gum at

(35:16):
the same time, it's also deportations and standing up for
cops and that auto pin situation yesterday. We'll get all
of that next.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Scott Coyes News Radio eleven ten k FA.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
As I mentioned a moment ago, as the President is
still out there talking about affordability and we're gonna do
this and don't worry. You got a big tax refund comment.
We're not taxing tips and certain amounts of overtime for
some people, and hey, you're baby born, here's some money.
It's all kinds of stuff. He's also continuing to go
after bad guys. As we mentioned earlier this hour, the

(35:53):
President is saying why in the world. Are we having
people who contribute nothing to the community come by the
cargo planeload into this country and end up on the
gracious teat of hard working Americans where they're they're flooding

(36:14):
the United States. And so he issued a travel ban
against nineteen countries of concern. He continued to stand up
for ice and law enforcement, and then he doubled down
and he started voiding President Biden's autopin executive orders, whether

(36:38):
it was pardons or whatever. He says, I believe that
Joe Biden actually signed Hunter Biden's pardons, so we're not
touching that. But the reports are that the autopin was
used for pardons, including for doctor Anthony Fauci and Adam Schiff.

(36:59):
And and he didn't President Trump didn't immediately say yesterday,
so we're going after these guys, but it leaves open
the possibility that they could go after those guys. And
his secretary of war. That's what Nebraska needs. By the way,
we had used to be the secretary of defense. They
call it the Secretary of War and got after it.

(37:22):
Why don't we call it the coordinator of war rather
than Nebraska's defensive coordinator. Because the title, and the people
who have inhabited it have not worked very well recently,
so we need a coordinator of war for the black
Shirts anyway. Secretary of War Pete Hegsath says, we didn't
see the survivors on that Narco boat after we blew

(37:45):
it up the first time because of the fog of war.
The fog of war prevented them from seeing that. So
that is the last now of our trump dates, Trump
up the jam, trump it up, Trump up the jam,
trumpet trumpet trumpet, trumpet.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Trump and not to mention these situations like what we
described as the ICE officials are going around there deporting
people or detaining people and marking them for potential deportation,
and people are like.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
These are these are not criminals? These are all right, everyone,
hold on, calm down. Not everyone gets directly into the
back of an ICE van and then delivered to a
cargo plane and sent off to Uganda. There is a
process in between for most all of these individuals, and
one of them played out exactly the way it's supposed to.

(38:40):
In Chicago, they had a guy who was picked up
by ICE as part of a a ICE operation on
October fifteenth. Operation Midway Blitz Department of Homeland Security enforcement
effort launched in September when on for weeks, still on

(39:01):
some level, going on targeting undocumented immigrants with criminal records
in the Chicago area, and one of the guys picked up. Immediately,
They're like, hey, he's not a criminal. He's allowed to
work here in this country. In fact, he's a suburban
Chicago police officer with the Hanover Park Police Department and ICE,

(39:24):
and all of the detained detainer people were like, all right, well,
we'll see about that. And they start processing and they
find out, yep, this guy is allowed to work. Hey,
sorry about that, and released him. He was detained for
about two weeks, still received back pay for the period

(39:44):
he was quote on leave. I'm sure he didn't appreciate
other members of law enforcement picking him up, detaining him
for a couple of weeks, and then saying, oh, yeah, sorry, buddy, Yeah,
I'll checked out. Here's your badge. Take care, Take care, bro.
No art feelings, right, Yeah, it's not ideal, But when

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you've had millions upon millions of people come into this country,
it takes a little bit of time to figure out
the really really bad guys from those who might have
a paperwork dispute. And as soon as this guy was
picked up, it was like, all right, time to go
march on ICE and throw molotov cocktails and rocks or

(40:30):
bullets at ICE officials and yell and scream and block
traffic and impede ICE operations. And you had all these
democrats out there saying, you know, you don't have to
follow the president's orders, right, oh, okay, commit treason against
the commander and cheap fantastic idea, what could possibly go wrong?
And all this stuff is going on. Meanwhile, the process

(40:50):
was working, and the process worked out in this guy's favor,
because there is a process. That's how it's supposed to work.
Here are the other sides of the problem. ICE has
lodged an immigration detainer in California for an illegal immigrant
from Mexico who has been deported four times and is

(41:11):
now in custody after this latest thing he did. He
did a hit and run and I think killed a
little kid. He hit and ran an eleven year old
boy in the San Diego area. They picked him up again.
They're like, hey, this guy's been deported four times. He's
not getting the message. So they're asking the governor honor

(41:32):
the detention order on this guy. He's been picked up.
He picked up, deported four times and keeps coming back.
And then in New York there was an unprovoked attack
picked up on surveillance video from an NYU student walking
to class. Guy walks up behind her and hits her
in the back of the head before assaulting her. This

(41:54):
is on surveillance video. They pick up the guy and
I don't know that there's an immigration situation here, but
it's the same issue of lack of law enforcement and
then follow through from the judicial system. This man has
sixteen prior arrests and nothing meaningful ever happens to him.

(42:19):
Previous arrests and involved many instances of assault, which is
what happened here. This is the kind of thing that
they're trying to change in this country. If anyone is
upset about these changes, you have to think, why would
they be against bad, violent people being removed from being

(42:43):
free on the streets now to Omaha and living on
these streets. Was it two three weeks ago there was
the fire up at like Saddle Creek and the radial
military that Bermuda Triangle of streets here Midtown North Midtown Omaha.

(43:06):
There's a fire in a vacant building and the police
show up and they're dragging people out of there, and
they think there are more people in there, and they're like,
but how are people setting fires in this building? On
the first it was like first night it got really
really cold, like two three weeks ago. And the reason
was is because this particular house or business, I forget

(43:30):
what it was, but this particular structure is like so
many others around the area. It's unoccupied, either from previously
being a home that has yet to sell, a rental
property that has no occupants, or business that has been
shut down and is abandoned or vacant, and the homeless

(43:53):
population gets in there, especially when it gets cold, and
it's cold in the building because no one's paying the
to keep the lights and the heat going in there,
so they set fires in there and then sometimes burn
the structure to the ground. People die, other people get
injured or smoking elation or whatever. And not to mention

(44:13):
the other home or business owners in the area, the
threat of that fire spreading to their dwellings, and even
without the fire element, if you're living or working anywhere
in our community, and you've got homeless population next door,
two doors down, three doors down, great band across the street. Whatever,

(44:39):
that's not good. You don't want your kids working, walking,
playing in that community. You don't want to be coming
home from work, getting off the bus and going by
this homeless encampment where in many instances you got people
with unchecked mental and drug issues. That's not good for
the neighborhood. So yesterday, Omaha Mayor John Ewing was joined

(45:06):
by Omaha Fire Chief Kathy Bossman to bring awareness to
the dangers of as Kathy Bossman, Chief Bossman Omaha Fire
Department said, quote, vacant structures are some of the most
hazardous environments that firefighters encounter. These buildings often have holes
in the floors, windows, and roofs, along with weakened structural

(45:27):
support that allow fire to spread with alarming speed. If
this continues, we will see citizens and possibly firefighters die
tragic deaths. When you have the ability for air to
come in and the fire to be whipped up and
spread and be faster and stronger and spread over a
greater area in a shorter amount of time, when you

(45:49):
also have people not in there taking like if you've
got a second floor or a balcony area that is
in disrepair. The whole thing could collapse. No one's been
taking care of the roof through recent storms. You know,
it's not when you got in a vacant building. It's
not like someone's saying, hey, I used to own this building.
I want to make sure the roof has been repaired

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after recent storms. The thing is a match book that
could go up at any moment and fall like a
house of flaming cards. And Mayor Ewing said, we've got
to get vulnerable people off the streets and into safe shelters.
He said, we're doing everything we can to address the
homelessness issue, and we want to make sure people understand

(46:31):
that during the winter there is a need for additional
help for these shelters. All the shelters would welcome, whether
it's the money, the volunteer hours, or whatever. All the
shelters the good shelters. They don't turn anyone away when
the temperature hits a certain what it's been doing lately situation.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
And.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
It's funny. It's not funny, but it's kind of funny
in a dark way that I Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson.
Some members of the city council brinker Harding comes to mind,
have been calling attention to this problem for years, including

(47:14):
three weeks ago when you had people pulled out of
a vacant building in north Midtown Omaha because it was
a homeless encampment and people knew it. Hey, there are
people in that condemned vacant building. I see people coming
and going all hours of the day and night. And

(47:34):
trust me, that's not the only one around town. There
are way too many. There are several Northeast and Southeast
Omaha into Midtown. You'd be surprised to how many you
find in other parts of West Omaha as well, now
that the temperatures are getting really, really cold. The resourcefulness
of a pack of homeless people to break into places

(47:57):
they're not supposed to be and try and live there
and then fight, and you got drugs, alcohol, unchecked, mental problems.
It's uh, it's only a matter of time before someone says,
I'm cold, let's set mic on fire, or this blanket
or tent or what. Let's see if this is flammable,

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and I don't know what the who When you don't
have a lot of resources, they're not bringing Dura flame
logs in there, not even the old cool Dura flame.
They still sell the Dura flame logs that change color
in the fireplace as they burn.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
I don't know if they sell the logs, but you
can buy the little chemicals that you can throw on
your wood and all that and change the colors.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
That was so exciting. My dad and I would go
to Albertson's. He's I about to get a duraflame log.
Get the one that changes color AND's so cool. And
I'd sit there and it was either watched Knots Landing
or the duraflame log. When I was a kid, because
we only had the one TV. What do you mean
you didn't go off into your own room and watch
your own TV or pull up something on YouTube. What's YouTube?

(48:58):
You had one TV? Yeah, watch what was on? Or
you stared at the Dura flame log, or we'd go
out and play some combination thereof. But these guys in
the homeless encampments, they don't have duraflame logs. They're setting
fire whatever they got, whatever they stole, whatever wooden thing
is in the vacant structure, this old chair which then

(49:19):
sets fire to this old carpet on this old wooden floor,
which spreads quickly, and you have a dangerous situation. I
don't understand the news conference they say, we're bringing awareness
to the problem of vacant structure is being caught on fire.

(49:39):
Who was this news conference for? It was for me.
I don't live in an abandoned building. I don't live
in a condemned structure other than my son's room. Don't
go in there, don't go in there. The rest of
the house is quite habitable. Is that a word? So?

(50:00):
Who was this news conference for? Mayor? And the fire
chief are out there going we want the public to
be aware of the possibility that vacant and condemned buildings
will suddenly catch fire. Thanks, or what are we doing
about it? Are you going in to the places where
people in the neighborhood have called either as the police
or the city several times over the months, years, and

(50:24):
certainly over the last week, to say, we've got a
homeless encampment in here. Are you going to do anything
about it? What I didn't hear was whether they're going
to do anything about it? What are we going to do?
We just let people stay in there until they catch fire,
and then we'll bring their charred bodies out and then
if they're still alive, we'll, you know, slap a band
aid on it and take them down to the nearest shelter.

(50:49):
Why is it so hard to admit that allowing people
to be in a dangerous situation for themselves and others
is not something that we should allow. It's not criminalizing homelessness.
It is for their and our own good that we're
putting a stop to a dangerous situation. They didn't say

(51:12):
that yesterday. They're just letting people know, Hey, there's a
problem with homeless encampments, burning down, abandoned homes and vacant buildings.
Here's my fire chief, Kathy Bossman, to tell you more. Yeah,
this is a problem. If this continues, firefighters might lose
their lives. All right, Well, we're not going to do

(51:35):
anything about it beforehand, but we're just letting you know.
Thanks for letting us know. We're doing everything we can
to address No, you're not. Because the city council said
here's some well tried to say, here are some things
you can do to address and stop this problem, and
they voted against it. So when you say we're doing
everything we can to address the homelessness issue. No, you're not, Sadly,

(51:59):
you're not. There are more things you can and should do.
Let's not wait until they burned down the neighborhood that
or or would it be more compassionate to let them
burn down the neighborhood. I'm still getting people emailing me
on yesterday's topic of the best movie scenes. Mary just

(52:21):
emailed and said, did anyone say dirty Harry? Do you
feel lucky punk? Yes? I did get several of those
nominations yesterday. I got a lot of those yesterday.

Speaker 4 (52:32):
Did you keep getting them?

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah, I got them all day. Oh you know what,
here's the problem. Number one. I'm an idiot. I'm Scott Vorhees.
There's Lucy Chapman. I'm an idiot. Lucy's perfect. But I
had to come in here and do a bit of
a changing of the computer screen between what Gary has,

(52:57):
how Gary has things that's set up which is wrong,
and the way I set things up, which is ideal.
Personal preferences don't exist here. There's a wrong way in
the right way of doing it. Gary does it the
wrong way. So I have to come in here and
close twenty seven thousand different windows on the computer screen.

(53:18):
One of those is the talkback Mike inbox, and then
I forget to open it back up because I've only
got like a minute.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
Ere I know, I get that.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Yeah, so that's the problem.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
All Right, we'll do that later, because I bet you've
got a couple of really.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Good And that's why as of the end of next week,
we're firing Gary Sadlemier. Did you not get that news?

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Is that what happened?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Well, I'm just tired of having to close out all
these different tabs. Ain't nobody got time for that. So
we're firing Gary.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
All right? No, no, I know the reason.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
You got You got a week and a half, not
even you got a couple days this week and five
next week. And let's wouldn't it be awful if his
voice completely goes away and he has to call him
sick next week? Like, but Gary, he.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Has to come in here and sit if it's just
his voice, he has to come in here and sit
with us.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Then, in case you hadn't heard that, this is like, wait,
what are you guys talking about? Gary Sandemeyer announced weeks
ago that he is retiring Asterisk, retiring from full time
daily broadcasts. What does that mean. It means that as
of the end of next week, as after Friday show

(54:34):
next week, he's not going to be a regular voice
hosting our morning news program here on News Radio eleven
ten KFAB. They've got some rank amateur who doesn't fit
even uncomfortably into his shoes coming in here to hang
out with Jim Rose and Lucy Chapman and Craig Evans

(54:54):
and everything else you know and love about the program.
You won't even notice that this other guys coming in here.
You won't even notice. And when you do, I hope
that you're annoyed. Being annoyed by that situation is less
and less every single day. It's me. So Gary's still
going to pop in whenever he feels like it. We'll

(55:16):
see how that goes. What I do, he is the door.
We're not taking away his key card. In fact, he's
still gonna be an employee of the radio station. He'll
fill in and host the show from time to time
when I'm not when I'm never gonna take time off
because I don't want people to get used to me,
and then like, Okay, I'm gonna take a couple of

(55:38):
days off. Here's Gary. We hate Scott. We want Gary
full time, unless that would reinforce to Gary how much
he misses this, and he would change his mind. Maybe
that maybe I should take that time, you know what,
I'm taking the whole first two weeks of January off.
We'll see how that goes. Anyway, Gary will still be

(56:01):
a member of our team always forever. But he's officially
going to work in some capacity for another year because
in a year and a week he will officially hit
fifty years of working for this radio station.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
So that's why he's not cleaning his office out. He's
not really going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
I think Jim's going to be cleaning his office out.
He's already laid claim to it, like, well, where are
you putting all Gary's stuff?

Speaker 4 (56:31):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Saidly, sorry, we box it up and said it to you. Hey,
my big game. So that's what's happening around here. And
I know many of you have said, but what happened?
What's going to happen during the nine to eleven show?
No official announcement yet, though I have strongly hinted I
am not willing to seed control of all of this

(56:55):
little nine to eleven Oasis, the Gary Sadelmeyer post game
claim Buck pre game show. If that gives you some
really strong hint as to what might happen. But then
what happened? Yeah, but then what happens to the other
part of the show.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Yeah, it gives me some hope.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Stay tuned, all right, Stay tuned. So that's I don't
know why I gotta started talking about Gary. Oh uh,
talkback Mike. Now I'm getting more so I've got to
pulled up now send him in talkback Mike our free
iHeartRadio app. Click the microphone on the screen, send us

(57:31):
a message with YO voice. We Oh, I was goofing
around and I think I spelled it wrong. I'm not
doing this update without the music. How about this? Yes?
How about this? All right? We have an update from
the Nebraska State Auditor's Office. The state auditor is Mike

(57:55):
fully axl f ax if. Mike Foley has provided a
new audit this of the Department of Health and Human
Services program that uses federal and state taxpayer dollars to
assist caregivers. These are caregivers who support Medicaid eligible people

(58:18):
with assistants shopping, housework, things like that. And you got
some people who, thankfully, through the Department of Health and
Human Services, do this job, and I'm sure they do
a great job, and their absolute angels that they put
forth their time and effort on this. There are some
who are really really dedicated to it. In fact, Mike
Foley found one caregiver that was charging the taxpayers one

(58:42):
hundred and sixteen hours a week. Wow, what dedication. Nearly
seventeen hours a day, seven days a week. I tell
you what. That person loves his or her job or
its bowl. Another one is logging sixty six hours a
week for twenty eight days straight while also working as
a school bus driver. They found a number of others

(59:06):
who were either working other jobs while they were charging
the taxpayers for doing this job. And you had people
who were charging the taxpayers for taking care of three
patients in the time that they were only taking care
of one. So there's some fraud, there's some waste. It
doesn't end up being a billion dollars. It's only about

(59:27):
thirteen thousand dollars in taxpayer dollars fraudulently used. But it's
thirteen thousand dollars. And you got to hold these people
who are not doing a good job accountable. The audit
also rooted out a person who was caring for a
relative who is a convicted felon and registered sex offender

(59:50):
while also having a fourteen year old foster child. That's
probably not a great idea, that's not within the boundaries
of the rules. That situation has been resolved, mostly though,
you've got vulnerable people not getting the care that they
need and deserve and what the taxpayers are paying for,

(01:00:12):
says State auditor Mike axel f fully. So it's it's
a lose lose situation. So he's called attention to it.
But it makes me think about I don't know if
I mentioned this, but I was on a cruise ship
last week. It makes me think about something I noticed
while on the cruise when I wasn't drinking rum out

(01:00:35):
of a pineapple. I'll tell you about it after a
Fox News update.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Next Scott Voice News Radio eleven ten kfab Lucy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
I don't know if I mentioned this. I was on
a cruise last week. I was on a cruise ship
last week, not on tom cruise. I was on a
cruise ship last week.

Speaker 4 (01:00:57):
Did I mention that I was briefly in passing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Here's another thing I noticed while on there, and I thought,
initially because I drank a lot of rum, and I thought,
you know, there are seven thousand some passengers on this
cruise ship and another three thousand or so staff members,

(01:01:24):
crew members, entertainers, you know, people worked for the cruise line.
Ten thousand people on there, and third of them that's
not right, yeah, thirty percent, about a third of them
are staff members. And finally I noticed, I was like, wow,
of the staff members, ninety nine percent of them, if

(01:01:46):
not one hundred percent. I didn't meet every single one,
but I can't remember seeing a single one who was American.
And I thought, through my rum induced haze, initially I
was filled with what a nice thing. Because these staff members,

(01:02:07):
they'll tell you like we this is how we feed
our families. They they work the cruise ships, and it's
it's like eight months that basically these guys go from
their home from far away lands a lot from like
the Philippines and Indonesia, and they live on a cruise ship.

(01:02:32):
And you might think that doesn't sound like such a
bad deal. Yeah, but you know they're working. They're you know,
folding sheets, they're serving food, they're cleaning up and all
that stuff. They're not the ones like I'm gonna duck
into the karaoke bar and just sing a quick song here.
I'm sure that they have some fun. I'm guessing the
uh And I actually heard one night in the part

(01:02:53):
of one of the staff areas the party going on.
So I hope that they're blowing off some steve and
having some fun. But I initially thought, wow, you're all
foreign workers. What a great thing, because we're we're giving
gainful employment to people who they're making more in eight

(01:03:14):
months on a cruise ship than anyone in their home area,
most anyone, almost everyone in that home area is probably
making in eight years. I mean, this is great employment
for them. Also, it's a wonderful blending of the cultures
because when you're on there, whether you're talking with the

(01:03:35):
servers who don't they don't just come over and feel
your drink or whatever. It's a full personality. It's as
much as you want. And we loved working with our guys.
We had two guys kind of had every night at dinner,
and my son gave them both hugs when we left.
Lester and Ricky, both from the Philippines, probably not their

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real names, but these guys are awesome. And then it
was Ida was the one who was taking care of
the State room, and just really really fun people. Or
you have to go ask guest services something, and then
over the noise and the accent of the person you're

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talking to, you walk back to your wife and she's like,
did you get it figured out? I don't know. I
don't know, but it was fun, and I thought, it's
a good blending to the cultures. We're all here having fun.
These staff members that smiles on their faces. They put
in great work and they work really hard, and what
a really cool thing. And then I sobered up, and

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then I realized a couple of reasons why the cruise
ships would only employ foreign workers. And suddenly my pollyannic
what we are the world? Moment here that all went
completely away. And part of it has to do with
this Health and Human Services audit of people building the

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taxpayer as alleged caregivers when they're not doing a good
job providing the care. There are two reasons why I'm
not throwing anyone under any kind of bus, Like no
one's a slave or a servant, not an indentured servant
anything like that. The first reason is cheap labor. These

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cruise ships, you know, they pick up passengers in America,
but if you'll notice most all of them, their home
port is probably like the Bahamas or Jamaica or something
like that. And when this is your home port, this
is the there's probably are better nautical term for it.

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But when that's your home base, you your labor laws
are subject to the laws of that country, and the
laws the labor laws in other countries are not quite
subject to. Whether it's the minimum wage, the you know
what you got to pay in terms of this or that,

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whether it's like workmen's comp or anything like that. Over time,
America would cause the cruises, if we were hiring a
bunch of American workers, it would make everything on the
cruise even more expensive than it already is. And to
figure out right, and so I look, I'm not saying
that the cruise ship is like, hey, come on, we're

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bringing the We're bringing it into the Philippines. Here, everyone
who wants a job, get on here and say goodbye
to your family. You'll never see them again. We're gonna
work your fingers at the bone, and then when we
see bone, you're fired. And We'll just drop you off
or whatever whatever our portocol is that day, and good
luck to you. I hope you made some money, you know,
it's it's not I think that people are very happy

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to have these jobs, which brings us to point number
two on this. Why are all the staff members for him?
Because of labor laws, cheaper labor and not all the
rules against overtime things like that, which sounds pretty dark.
Number two though, is a sad reality. And this is
also part of the illegal immigration argument here in America,

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and that is how do I put this nicely? If
you had a full crew full of staff members from America,
you would not get the same output.

Speaker 4 (01:07:33):
Look are you suggesting?

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
Look, I'm suggesting that many of us were raised. Not
the numbers decrease with every generation, and our gen X generation,
some of us were still. I mentioned this an hour
ago when I talked about people who have retired now

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and over the last twenty years. These guys raised with
work ethic, guys non gender specific, mostly been working since
they were eleven or twelve years old, and that change
of no longer working hits them and some do better
with it than others. These guys have been working for
seventy you know, sixty seventy years. Evenings, weekends, holidays, you know,

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people depend on me, and then that next generation, your
your baby boomers, your gen X, not as much. It
was a more pampered living. I know I had my
first paycheck at the age of twelve because I know
my father felt that was important, and I'm so glad

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that he felt that way. I've been working pretty much NonStop,
including time when I was in school, since I was
about twelve years old, and you know, and I don't
always mind it. Sometimes I get burned out those shows
are but I know not all my peers and those

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who've come behind me now feel that way. And today's kids,
I'll just tell you about the two kids under my roof.
My daughter got a job at fifteen and made a
bunch of money. I can't remember the last time she
asked me for money. And you would think that sounds great, yeah,
But at the same time, I'm like, shouldn't I I'll

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just go fill her gas tank when she comes home
from college, just because I want to do something for it,
because she never asked for anything. She's got a great
work ethic. Her little brother says he wants a job now, Scott,
haven't you forced your kid to have a job. He's
involved with numerous extracurricular athletic activities, and with the dawn

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of the new basketball season, we're not still quite sure
what his schedule looks like. He has a place he
wants to work. I don't know why he hasn't filled
out the application. Maybe we'll get that done tonight. Will
have a job. Because he has no money and he's
asking me for money constantly. He needs to tell him
to ask his sister needs to step up. Oh, his

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sister was busy too, choir, shell, choir, orchestra, school, plays,
extracurricular activities, friendships, and she worked constantly.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
So no, I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
I know as I know, I know, I get what
you're saying. No, And when he doesn't, he does ask
his sister for money all the time. So the work
ethic of Americans, oh, you know, those who are of
working age and into their probably fifties in some instances,

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is not such where many of us had jobs. But
we quickly were like, I don't want to do this
backbreaking labor, nor do I want to cater to the
demands of all of these customers. And customer service. I
hate these people, and so are our being there for like, uh,

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service industry, hospitality we don't have largely some of us.
Certainly do you, I'm sure do great, but many Americans
don't have that call that nature for hospitality and service
and doing a good job with some tasks that many
Americans find will be menial, whether it's service, field work,

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waste disposal, backbreaking labor jobs, whether it's like landscaping or roofing,
things like that. There are a lot of quite frankly
lazy and fat Americans who just won't do that stuff,
or if they do, they want they want to take
a break every few minutes. They want to stand there
while someone else does the work. Meanwhile, you get a

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bunch of hard working guys from into That's a culture.
Philippines another one that cares about hospitality. They it's like
we love serving people. Now maybe they don't, maybe they
hate it. And at their parties they're just talking about
how entitled all these loud Americans are who are on
a cruise ship in Paradise, and they're still finding something

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to complain about. I imagine at some point these nations
will go to war against US. Because they're just tired
of listening to our crap. So it's I don't know
that Americans would do that. And plus if I had
Americans doing these I I'd be worried, like, hey, they're

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in my stateroom. How much stuff are these kids going
to steal from me?

Speaker 4 (01:12:46):
There is there another country that has the social services
that we have here where we are just giving money
away hand over fisk with very little oversight and very
little need to prove anything.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Great point. No, you don't have the welfare state that
exists in America that says, don't worry, pumpkin, You'll be
taken care of. Don't worry about working. You know, if
you want to survive, you've got to work right.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
That's what your point is so well taken. I wouldn't
hire Americans if I didn't have.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
To do right. So I hate Americans. I don't know
if I've made that point clear. I hate them.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Oh there's a good one, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
I know there are. But you know where it really
suffers in the areas of caregiving, where you've got elder
adults who need someone to provide this care, and you
get a lot of people to say i'll do it.
I like the money in the hours and then they're like,
I'm tired of take care of these people. It's gross.

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