August 1, 2025 • 45 mins
Despite Trump wanting kids to exercise, fear of meat and beer, radioactive wasps and more, we made it to the weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorgie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Lucy Chadman has checked back into the program, someone who
brought her own coffee pods to the radio station to
put an in. I think this coffee machine that you
brought in, you just said I need some real coffee
and you left. Did you find what you were looking for? No?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well I did, but the line was too long. I
didn't want to wait. But this coffee, the carrig doesn't work?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh why not? I don't. Yeah, everything else around here works.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, and then one behind me, I don't have any
ground coffee for it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, you you left the long line at a local
coffee drive through to come back here and be a
part of this.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Really, that's you know. I hadn't thought about it that way.
All right, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, take as much time as you need.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, No, I just I mean for your mental health
and sake.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I think there might be a carrig downstairs. Okay, look
sometime is that next to the is it a.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
There's a U in there? Megs? That was yesterday's pronunciation, Lucy.
It is as we expected it, sadly, and that's on
more fronts than Fremont. But we start here in Fremont.
I drove by there yesterday and actually talked with one
of the officials who was part of the recovery effort,
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and he just said, we wanted to go in there
and get those and get those people for their families,
and that's what they did. God blessed these officials, these
first responders, and now the investigators to find out exactly
what happened at the Horizon Biofuels plant in South Fremont.
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According to the State Fire Marshall's office, it was an accident.
It was in a dust fire. When you have this
combustible dust in the air, all you need is a charge. Now,
there are biofuels plant and those that have this combustible dust,
not only just across Nebraska in the Midwest, but across
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the country, and you almost never see a situation like
we saw in Fremont earlier this week. So what do
you do when you've got this combustible, flammable dust wafting
about the plant and all it takes is a static
charge or some spark off a machine and the whole
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place goes up. You would think, I would think that
this would happen every single day, but it doesn't. The
couple of things here. One, the heat earlier this week
certainly could have been a contributing factor, but again it's
always it's whether it's cold outside a nice day like today,
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or heat index values in the triple digits like on Tuesday.
Inside the building it's all hot. So I think the
heat probably didn't help, certainly, not with the responders and everything.
But I don't think that you can say, oh, the
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heat index caused this. According to an expert who provided
his insight to k ETV Newswatch seven, he is an
associate professor at un MC and at UNL and he says, well,
the process of grinding and compacting scrap wood into these
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wood pellets in this case for animal betting, can inherently
create conditions for a dust explosion. He said, you need
five elements dust dispersion, so dust in the air, confined space, yes, fuel, oxygen,
and ignition. And he says the ignition, they don't know
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exactly how that spard. It could have been a hot bearing,
it could have been a static charge. But once you
get that charge and you have that dust in the air,
the resulting fire accelerates in just a matter of split seconds.
What businesses like this typically do to tamp down on
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that dust in the air, is keeping the dust damp,
you know, misting areas, that kind of thing. There's mitigation practices,
and he's not suggesting. No one's suggesting that they weren't
doing this because agriculture related accidents like this, while rare,
do happen, this is dangerous work. And the thing that
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I think about, obviously, is for this man and his
two daughters who were killed in this. His daughters, these
are half sisters as we are now to understand it,
eight and twelve years old. I believe he is thirty
two who lived in Columbus, drove down to Fremont to work,
and his daughters were there because he was getting off
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and he needed to take one or both of them
to probably back to school, doctor's appointments or something like that.
So we're just waiting for dad over here, and you've
got half sisters hanging out together, and it's hard not
to conjure a scenario where these girls are the best
of friends. You know, it's just so incredibly sad. Beyond that,
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the thing I think about is there are plants like
this that whether they're making these little wood pellets or
whatever you've got, whether it's agg or fuel or biofuel, whatever.
You've got plants like this all over the area, including
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in pretty close proximity to where this accident happened on
Tuesday in Fremont, that area of South Fremont just Highway
I think it's Highway seventy seven there. You've got a
lot of different AGG related and processing plants, and you've
got grain bins and silos and all the rest of
the stuff all across the area. And every day since Tuesday,
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including today, there are people right now listening to this
knowing how dangerous this type of work is. Who are
going to work right now in one of those places.
And they knew it on Monday before this accident happened,
and they went to work anyway, They've known it every
day since, and they know it right now and they're
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going to work. And it's not because it's like, well,
what else am I going to do? This is my
lot in life now. These are just like guys from
military to law enforcement to first responders, fire, you've got
these people. It's street crews, construction crews. It is much
more likely for someone to be out there consistently trying
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to fix the streets in Omaha, and amazingly the exact
same places they tore the streets up last year at
this time, time to tear the streets up again. I
think it's a summer project for high school kids. It's like,
all right, we don't want anyone to get into Benson,
so we just start walling off all the streets and
going down to one way or no way or road closed.
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Well I'm gonna go this way. Nope, this road's closed too,
And next thing you know, you can't get anywhere. I mean,
it's seemingly always around that seventy second in Maple area
and points now south and east of there are usually
under construction. And then you think, well, I'll come to
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work here in Dundee via Cass Street. No, no, no,
that needs to be ground up. Well you just did this,
You just did this. Yeah, Well we're gonna do it again. Yeah,
and you know what, you keep complaining about it, We'll
do it again next month. How like you won't be
done next month? So where was I? Oh? Yeah, street
crews are out there tearing up the same streets and
the same place as in Olmah at the same time,
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every single day. Year in and year out. It is
much more plausible that one of those guys gets hit
by some driver that won't look up from his phone
or his bowl of soup or whatever it is that's
distracting him while driving and eclips a construction worker. That
is much more likely than anyone going to one of
these processing plants, a biofuels plant in this instance, and
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dying in an accidental dust fire explosion. But they know
what can happen, and they are going to work anyway.
They being at these plants, on these road crews, law enforcement, firefighters, immigration,
customs enforcement, and God bless our military. They're going anyway.
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And oftentimes they kiss their family, including their little girls,
and say see you tonight, and God willing, they will
and so often do, but not always. And so when
we're when I'm complaining about like if I get a hangnail,
my week is shot, Like oh geez, and I tore it.
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I know I shouldn't tear the thing off. We got
a little hangnail here, should get my little girls cuticle
clippers and cut that thing off. But nope, I thought, well,
I can I can pluck this in such a Nope,
can't tour tore my whole finger off, you know, like
I just my whole week is shot. You know the
next time that we I we are mostly me. You're
complaining about these little things in life. Be so thankful
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that some of these complaints are little, because at some
point you may very well experience some pretty big complaints.
Then you then you realize, oh, I don't know what
I was upset about before. When you're counting your blessings,
make sure and say some nice things, some prayers, some
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good thoughts towards those who go to work every single
day knowing how dangerous it is because these guys do so.
That is the latest from Fremont Sad reality. There as expected,
though accidental fire due to the combustible dust, President Trump
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surrounded himself with combustible materials that would be people who
are willing to stand next to President Trump, And immediately
the media was like, well, I don't know why he
had this guy here. I don't even know why he's
doing this. It's something that we did growing up. I'll
explain next.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Scott Bordes News Radio eleven ten k.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
FA ICE members do a very dangerous job, as was
evident yesterday in Colorado or on the Colorado Springs area,
that's l Passo, Colorado. According to officials, officers of ICE
were nearly hit by a vehicle being driven by two
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individuals suspected to be in the country illegally while ICE
was carrying out an operation in the Colorado Springs area.
Agencies officers had to fire three shots into the vehicle.
The suspects left the scene before abandoning the vehicle, and
the search continues for two suspects unless there's an update.
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I don't know that they've got these guys yet. Yeah,
I don't know why that members of ICE would want
to wear masks to cover their face to protect their
identities when there are people out there actively trying to
murder them every single day, as was the case yesterday.
These guys are lucky to be alive and that happened
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yesterday in Colorado Springs. At the White House yesterday, President
Trump has done something that you did when you were
growing up. I did when I was growing up. I
remember getting the certificate, which I figured like, oh, this
is something personally signed by President Ronald Reagan, probably an
auto pin like any president would use one of. Oh,
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we got the President's fitness certification. Remember the Presidential Fitness
Test that you had to do that It started in
nineteen sixty six, So for most of us we did this.
If you went through grade school from the mid sixties
through the mid twenty teens, you did this. Well, when
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did it stop? President Obama stopped it. President Trump yesterday
brought it back. The program ended in twenty twelve, the
Youth Fitness Test, the presidential Fitness Test. Now, what do
you do for this? Children have to run, they have
to do sit ups, they have to do pull ups
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or push ups, and I think they have to try
and touch their toes, which I can't. Well, I can't
if I am allowed to bend at the knee. But
I have very tight hamstrings. Weird flex, I know, but
I'm very inflexible physically, emotionally, ideologically, I'm just very very inflexible.
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So President Trump brought back the presidential Fitness Test yesterday. Now,
this of course got criticism because it's Trump. They immediately
and they being the Associated Press, as I mentioned yesterday,
this is a nationwide group of alleged journalists who are
incredibly anti Trump, very left leaning, which is fine as
long as you recognize who's doing the reporting. And what
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their goal here is. So the Associated Press, which ferrets
out these reports to an increasing number of newspapers and
websites who don't have their own staff members and have
to rely on the Associated Press many or are all
too happy to do so. They immediately start bringing some
experts in to say, well, it's always good to put
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a focus on physical activity, but one test alone won't
make America's children more healthy. Yeah, that's exactly what President
Trump thought. You know, at one point in your first
grade year or whatever year it is, that you do this,
You run around the track one time and like that's it.
Your life is all set. It's sowing the seeds not
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of love, tears for fears, but sowing the seeds of
trying to put some emphasis on healthy activity, of doing
some physical fitness, of realizing that it is in your
best interest from a health standpoint, to exercise, to have
a healthy diet. Now, first Lady Obama, Michelle Obama promoted
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that Let's Move initiative that was focused on reducing childhood
obesity through throwing away the garbage that she had served
in public education K through twelve education in this country
under the Obama administration, that food was inedible, but amazingly,
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it didn't reduce childhood obesity. President Trump is brought back
that presidential fitness test to have these kids do a
one mile run, do some sit ups and stretch and
do some push ups or pull ups or something like that.
But he had the audacity to be surrounded by athletes.
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Let's start picking these guys apart. The worst of all.
Harrison but Kerr. I mean, even his name sounds vulgar,
butt ker gross. Harrison Butker is the Kansas City chiefs
kicker who had that horrible speech at a college graduation
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last year where he talked about family values. He talked
about the president at the time, President Biden's stance on
abortion as being wicked. Oh, Harrison Butker is the worst.
He wants to put women in those little handsmade tails outfit,
and not because it turns him on. It's because he
wants them to just be barefoot having babies, his babies.
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Harrison Butcker is the worst. So he was there, Lawrence
Taylor was there, and LT, who hasn't played in the
National Football League for thirty some years, admitted, I don't
know why I'm here, Well, because I think LT was
on Trump's celebrity Apprentice show. Lawrence Taylor was the fearsome
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defensive back for the New York Giants throughout the eighties.
Number five.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Oh, I thought he was in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
No, that was Lawrence Phillips. Lawrence Phillips fearsome in his
own way. But yeah, LT was incredible football player. Has
had some trouble since his days in the NFL, so
trying to rebuild his life. President Trump brought him in
to say, hey, let's give you some additional purpose to
be a part of the President's Fitness Council. Of course,
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the media pointed out LT had to register as a
sex offender, impleading guilty in twenty eleven to misdemeanor criminal
charges of sexual misconduct. I don't remember what he did.
I'm sure that bad. Yeah, misdemeanor. I don't know. He
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was sentenced to probation or just ordered to register as
a sex offender for whatever it was that he did.
Of course, the media is like, well, yeah, President Trump's
surrounded by a sex offender. This guy can't probably can't
even be around kids, and he's trying to He's not
going to be out there and I don't think that
there were kids. I don't know. And then they even
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had Anika Saurnstam, a golfer out there who is noted here,
faced backlash for accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from
President Trump on January seventh, twenty twenty one, the day
after President Trump led a violent insurrection against America. Anakasaurnstam,
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one of the most celebrated women's golfers of all time,
went to the White House to let this man put
a medal on her. She should have brought him into
custody that day. I'm making a citizen's arrest. So they
immediately start picking apart the people who are there. Risin
De'shambeau was there. Golfer, triple h wrestler. Presidential fitness Test.
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Here's how it works. Can you run a mile while
wearing a red Make America Great Again? Hat? If you can,
you have passed Trump. No, I'm kidding. It's a continuation
of what we grew up with when we were in school.
Since nineteen sixty six up until twenty twelve, President Obama said,
we don't need that. We've had a presidential fitness test,
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and kids like competition, and I forgot about this element
of it until Scott sent this email. I said, granted
it was a different time, but I recall in my
years at Adams Elementary in Keystone back in the late
sixties and early seventies, the President's Fitness Program was something
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many wanted to exceed in. It was bragging rights and
the award presentation was anticipated. Kids trained in the summer
to improve their performance in the test. And I was
a husky kid as labeled by the clothing stores at
the time. You know, we don't do that anymore. I
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was a husky kid. Pull ups were my demise, but
I still tried to turn in a respectable effort. Hopefully
bringing the program back not only gets the kids some exercise,
but also gets them some needed socialization. As from Scott
sent to Scott at kfab dot com. Yeah, anytime, whether
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there was a certification like the President to Fitness certification
on the line, if you were competing against your friends,
sit ups, pull ups, running the broad jump or whatever.
I got an email, So do they still do the
broad jump and do they need to change the name
of it to fit our new standards in twenty twenty five,
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you were compete against your friends and you wanted to
beat your friends. We tried to drum competition out of kids.
Oh no, we don't keep scoring. The kids know what
score is. They know who's winning, they know who's losing.
They know who the good athletes are. The ones who
are the bad athletes know that they're not great athletes,
and they either try and get better. They say, maybe
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I will do something else with my life, but they
still want to They don't want to embarrass themselves with it.
Why would we do this, Randy says, it was reported
this week that seventy seven percent of our youth could
not pass the standards for military physical requirements.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So just lower their equess, right.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's what I was thinking. Now in the past, you
just say, all right, well, we got to lower the standards,
you know, as I did when I was dating, Which
brings us back to our conversation with Colleen Kelly Mast
and when she was talking about how we want young
people to experience what it's like to have a healthy
relationship and that includes abstinence and here are some ways,
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and I was like, I know how I did it.
By having this face and this personality that was incredibly effective.
And here's the latest thing that is drawing people's outrage
today and the company involved. They haven't apologized for it,
but they are making a big change. And this latest
thing that is offensive to even bring up to discuss
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has nothing to do with actress Sidney Sweeney and a
pair of blue jeans. We've already talked about that a
couple of times this week, and I'm happy to do
so again because did I mention Sidney Sweeney in a
pair of blue jeans? Sorry? What Scott passed out for
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a second. No, the latest thing here that people really
find incredibly offensive is the word meat.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Meat, as in M E. T. Some people don't like
to meet other people.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, no, that's true. I'm not talking about those that
have often colloquial been colloquially been referred to as shut INDs. Now,
We're just talking about those with anxiety disorder, otherwise known
as just about everybody. No, I'm talking about a tea.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Not the muppets.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Huh meat meat, No, that's that's Beaker. He says meat.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Meep uh meat at.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Meat specifically, as it relates to a company that had
been referred to as Beyond Meat, they've had to drop
the word meat. If you're not familiar with Beyond Meat.
This was a meat free alternative to everything from you know,
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hot dogs that were made of chickpeas. Man, these are
some good chickpeas. Can I have some more barbecue sauce?
Can I have all the barbecue sauce? Please? You know
what I want? I want chickpeas formed in the mold
of a hot dog on a buzz that's so weedy,
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that is pretty much made of sand and large grain.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You make it sound so good, man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'll tell you what. No better way to have a
picnic than with the old chickpea dog? Am I right?
So amazingly the company Beyond Meat, which tried to create
some plant based proteins, which, look, this is what some
people are into. That's fine. It doesn't bother me at all.
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If you want to be everything from a vegetarian to
a vegan to someone who's I don't know, one of
those weird things like pescatarian or whatever. You know, vegans
and vegetarians look down on you like I only eat fish.
Fish has a face, you phony, or if you want
to be one of those people who tells all your
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friends I'm vegan and then you go out and eat
a bunch of meat when no one's looking. I don't
care what you do. It doesn't bother me one bit.
What I find funny about this is the anti meat
crowd can't just have it be to where I don't
prefer meat, but they still want to eat chicken nuggets
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that look like chicken nuggets. There's just no chicken in there.
Or a hot dog that looks like a hot dog.
There's just no whatever it is that you think is
a hot dog in there. Yeah. So now they got
the meat out of there. They got these these things
to look like the meat products. But there was one
more thing that they had to do. They don't like.
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The company was called Beyond Meat. It puts the word
meat in there, and we think that's disgusting. Now there's
another thing, and this is what.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Vegetarians are.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, I'll come back to it. But there's there's another
part on this, and that is I believe it's Governor
Pillen and others who have been saying, look, you can't
label it as meat if it is not meat. They're like, well,
it's beyond meat. Yeah, but it still implies that maybe
there's meat. Someone might not know what you mean by
beyond meat, and they might get this and they might lack,
you know, the necessary proteins and iron that they need
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in their diet, and they think, well, I'm eating meat
and they're not getting any meat because your company has
falsely labeled. Now it doesn't say that specifically in this
particular article, but I think that might have something to
do with it. There are some people who don't know.
I mean, if you call something by a certain name,
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they might not know whether what is in or not
in it. Here's my story to prove my point. There
was a girl I know who used to be a vegetarian.
And you know, she was a great vegetarian. She didn't
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look down on you or throw blood on you if
you had a steak or cheeseburger or something. But her
particular dietary were for her to be a vegetarian. But
she had a soft spot for something until I pointed out,
I thought, you said you were a vegetarian and she
said I am. I said, well why are you eating that?
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She goes, oh, no, this isn't this isn't crab. It's
imitation crab. And I said, well, yeah, but it's still fish,
it's still fish meat. No, it's not it's is it?
I said, yes, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
She really didn't know.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
She didn't know. Well, it's called imitation crab, you know.
And when you're shopping in the vegetarian section of a
grocery store and you have stuff called Beyond Meat and
faux chicken and all the rest of this stuff, you
see imitation crab and you think, well, this is the
same thing. You know. It wasn't in the same area
as the fake and foe and Beyond and all the
rest of this stuff, but it had kind of a
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similar name, and so she thought, well, this is this
ism be soy. No, it was some sort of some
sort of fish.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
You know what. The funniest thing about that is that
probably had a lot of faces in it. Because the
fish they use for the it's parts and pieces.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Imitation crab is the hot dog of the fish world,
the seafood world. Imitation crab is the hot dog. I
love it, Oh, I do. I love You know who
else loves imitation crab? Now? My son. I brought some
home for him a few years ago. He loves it.
He is all about it. Another fun vegetarian story, my
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daughter who learned about vegetarianism I guess in school or something,
or she was watching something and talking to friends or whatever.
She had it in her head that the best way
to live was to be a vegetarian. And so she
came to me at the age of eight and she said, Daddy,
I want to be a vegetarian, and I said you do.
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She goes yes. It seems I don't know what how
she rationalized it, but she's like, this is this is
the best way you know to have a healthy diet
is to be a vegetarian. And I said, well, that's
that's great, honey. We can talk about that when you're eighteen.
But in the meantime, I'm making chicken for dinner tonight.
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And she goes, oh, I like chicken. She didn't even
know what it meant. She was indoctrinated into the best
healthy thing to have. So the same people who are
indoctrinating our kids to grow towards the light with a
plant based diet. And again, you're an adult and you
want to have a plant based diet, and that's it.
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I don't Again, I don't care have at it. So
they're the ones who are super mad at this company
Beyond Meat for having the name meat in their name.
And one of the big reasons why this company is
changing it and rebranding now is Beyond bed Bathing. No,
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not bed Bathing, just beyond is because when they started
their IPO, when they went public in twenty nineteen, Beyond
Meat had a market value of about twelve billion dollars.
Today under five hundred million dollars. Now, if you're a
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business and you're bringing in five hundred million dollars a year,
you're like, hey, this is pretty good. If you just
a few years ago were worth twelve billion and now
you're under half of one billion. You're going the wrong way.
You're going the wrong way. Ah, they're drunk. How do
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they know where we're going? Your eighties movie reference for
this segment of the radio program, Lucy's going to make
a real bad guess at this right now. Blues Brothers,
Fine Gets.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Planes, trains and boats, auto cars, cars, teslas.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's the one John Candy's in both movies, Blues Brothers
and Planes, trains and auto boat, cars, planes, trains and automobiles.
That's right, you're going the wrong way. I love that. Yeah,
they're losing money, they're hamorrhaging money, and so they're looking
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to do anything. You know what else he could do
to maybe make a few more bucks and get people
more interested in your your product. Put some meat in
there that might help. That might help. Yeah, here's some
hot dogs made out of ground up fava beans or
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you know meat. You can try to try to do
the meat. Someone should. Here's another thing they're experimenting with.
And we're just about there. What is the how long
until the football season starts around here?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Let's see twenty seven days until we kick on Big great?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, seven twenty seven days until kickoff? And well, Lucy
has another reason to be excited as lush Lucy over
there is going to be able to buy beer at
Memorial Stadium during football games. This is There are two
things I have in this next section that might indicate
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we are at the precipice of the end of the world.
That's one of them. The other one is something straight
out of a horror movie. We'll get to it here
in two minutes. Scott Boy, time for the end of
the world update. Here on eleven ten, kfab me singing
on the radio always an indication that the four horsemen
of the apocalypse may be on their way. Here's another
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one alcohol sales at Memorial Stadium. They had a little
scrimmage and they did the beer sales there and they're like,
all right, well this can show how we might be
able to do beer sales during Husker football games. Well,
we already had a pardon the pun, a dry run,
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a wet run, an alcohol fueled run of how to
do beer sales at Memorial Stadium when there are ninety
thousand plus people in there. The Garth Brooks concert a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Ago, I remember that I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I remember that I was there. Garth Brooks puts on
maybe the greatest concert of any entertainer alive today.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
He does I haven't seen enough shows.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Tell me which show I need to go to and
why that would be better than Garth Brooks. People go
in there, they're not even Garth brook fans. They leave saying, yeha,
that's how great Garth Brooks is so good as a
live I'll try and catch a show you don't know
you've not been.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm gonna try and catch a show.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I'm waiting for you to tell me who might be better.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Australia. How about Pink Floyd or Australian Pink Floyd, they'll
be here on the seventh.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Okay, I'm sure Pink Floyd. What's on a fantastic show?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I bet they don't.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Garth Brooks has been so when they did the Garth
Brooks Show, there were beer sales there and here's how
they do it. People are like, I'm not gonna wait
in line for then don't buy a beer. That's that's
point number one. Here. Anyone who's like, but I don't
want beer Memorial State, then don't buy one. It's not
like you walk in there through these gates, past the
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greatest fans in college football, and here's your beer. You
don't have to have one. And if you're like, the
line's too long to get one, or I think it's
too expensive for one of these tall boys, then don't
get one. But I want to have a drink at
the game. Then do it like people have been doing
it for decades. You get hammered at a tailgate party
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down the street, and you stagger your way into the
stadium if you can make it there. You know the
way that we used to do it, the way that
our parents did it. Purse bar Now they look through
your purses when you go into the game purse bar
like that. So immediately people are like, but that's got it.
Then all right, so this isn't for you, then don't
get a beer at people. Look, I can appreciate that
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coach Osborne and others never wanted to have alcohol sales
tainting the product on the field, But that's when the
product on the field was not something that made us
want to drink. Sorry, I am a lifelong fan of
the Big Red. I have nothing but optimism in the
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upcoming season, but there have been a lot of times
during the last fifteen plus years of Nebraska football not
only did I want to drink, I wanted to do
crystal meth. I wanted. I wanted. Well, if we go
through another fifteen twenty years of Husker football like the
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last fifteen or twenty years, they'll be selling crack in
the concession stands and it'll be easy to get because
the sellout streak will be long gone. So I don't
think that we're going in that direction. I think Nebraska
is going in the right direction. I'm super excited about
the games. But look, I understand you. You don't want
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to have alcohol, especially something that's supposed to be for
college kids, right. You know, the Husker football used to be.
This is where all the college kids come in here
and some of the you know, the parents and people
in the community, we come and support the team. It was.
It was a different time. Now it's if you're a
college kid, good luck getting a ticket. And the college
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kids drink a lot more probably than they used to,
or they just walk around with their vate pins and
ingest whatever chemical substance that is. At the time, they've
decided that they wanted to go alcohol sales at football games.
Why money. Athletic director Dannen says that alcohol sales could
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generate between three and four million dollars per game.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Somebody's gonna pay that nil.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Right, and he says they might cut down on dangerous
drinking habits. It could. I if this is your only
source of alcohol, getting a twelve dollars beer or whatever,
it's going to be at the football game, having to
wait in line to the concession stand. But at the
Garth Brooks thing, they didn't have anyone. Wait, you didn't
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have to wait in line at concession stand. They had
beer vendors around like in the concourse and even going
up and down the steps if you wanted a beer,
you could go. Fine, you walk right down the steps,
go into the area where the concession stands. Are you
get one at one of the stands, or you had
vendors there with little coolers and stuff. I don't even
know if some of those people worked there.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And it only got you extra six bucks.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Right, here's a billion dollar beer. You know what? Tasted good?
That was a hot night. It was a hot summer
night when Garth Brooks was at Memorial Stadium a few
years ago, and I did get a beer just to
see what the experience is of drinking a beer in
Memorial Stadium as opposed to swilling a bottle of rum
and a parking lot down the street. It turns out
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about the same price morally and financially. So we got
to make some money and they say, no, no, it's
gonna be fine. There was an nu regent, Kathy Wilmot,
who says alcohol is going to make the atmosphere of
the games a lot less family friendly. Kathy, I don't
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know when the last time you went to a game was.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Are you suggesting they're not now?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm walking into Memorial Stadium years ago? Probably, I don't know.
Five ten years ago with my kids. My son is
walking in front of me and he's directly behind a
sorority girl. You know in the movie The Princess Bride,
where you if you're walking through the fire swamp, you
hear a popping sound. There is an indication that something's
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about to explode and you've got to get out of
the way of it. This sorority girl, in a gaggle
of all of her friends made such a sound. I
picked up my son and did a spin move off
to the left to get out of the spray. As
she released, she released the all the alcohol in her
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system for this. I think it was even an eleven
o'clock kickoff, so she got started early, so she threw up,
and I had to move my son, so he because
he almost got yacked on by a sorority chick in
a football game, which my son and I I agreed
then and now is super cool. So I moved him
out of the way and just kept walking. The rest
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of the girls stopped to help their friend and hold
her hair and all that fun stuff, except for one
girl who just kept marching forward. And we're walking next
to her, and I said, I hope your friend's okay,
and she goes, she's not my friend. I don't even
know who that chick is. Wow, And that is a Husker.
That's a Husker of football game experience right there. And
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then you go in the stadium and you might have
someone that's you know, drunk and falling down and yelling
and cussing and all the rest of that. But that's
not that's not a Husker football experience. That's a life experience.
This is what I find when I go anywhere. You're
at a restaurant with your family. You got someone loudly
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drunkenly cussing over here. You had a park with your family,
someone is loudly drunkenly cussing or fighting over here. You
go to Cincinna, you get all beat up by everyone
in town. It's just it's anywhere you go anymore. It's
not exactly a real family friendly experience all the time.
And I'd love to get back to this this wonderful
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time maybe of make believe when everyone's you know, having
a great time, all pulling in the same direction at
a football game, and maybe we can. It doesn't bother
me if people have a beer once in a while,
because they were doing it in the parking lot. So
this will be for some people the end of the
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world Huskers football games with alcohol being sold at the stadium.
Here's the other part of our end of the world update, Lucy.
They just discovered a wasp's nest in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
A wasp. Sorry, I was sneezing a.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Wasps nest, a nest of waspuses.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Did they kill him, yes, okay, but.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
They had to do so in a very delicate way
because this particular nest of wasps in South Carolina was
discovered by workers on a site that was once used
to produce nuclear material. That's right, they just found a
radioactive wasp nest.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
How big were they the.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Size of helicopter?
Speaker 3 (42:23):
You remember the Gilligan's Island when they grew the vegetables
with nuclear seeds. How big were the wasp.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
They were the size of radio controlled drones, the size
of pterodactyls. No, I guess they were just wasp sized,
but still radioactive wasps nuclear infuse wasps.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I think Bill Gates is working on that next.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Hittie. Right, this is just horrible. I don't like wasps
to begin with. Whether it's the insect or the Anglo
Saxon Protestants. I just don't like them. They scare me.
So No, I don't like wasps. I don't like these stinging.
I don't like bugs that sting and bite. I don't
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like them. Wasps, though, are fine. They're kind of interesting
the way they just kind of hang there. They're just
real creepy. But you know, I spray them when suddenly
I look up and like, here's we're just building a
wasp here underneath the railing of your deck, right next
to your grill. Is that okay? No, it's not okay.
You wish you could reason with the insect world. Life
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would be so much better for everybody if you could
just say, look, you guys want to go to that
corner of the yard, don't bother me and my family.
You know, if we come over there to do some
spraying around this garden bed or whatever. We're not bothering
you guys. We're just this is where we live, and
you guys can hang out here and do wasp stuff.
That's cool, thanks man, Yeah, no, big deal. Wouldn't that
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be great? Wouldn't it be great if you were at
a picnic and they are flies? Buzzing of landing on
your foot, landing on your face, landing on your arm. Say, look,
we're gonna take a little hunk of meat, a little
hunks it's three times your size. We're gonna put it
away over here in the corner. This is yours. This
will last you all week. It's all yours, and we'll
just be over here and join our food. Oh that's great. Yeah,
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thanks man, Yeah, no big deal, have at it. Wouldn't
it be great if you could reason with the insect world.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
We could find the little teeny tiny buttons like they
use for dogs that a wasp foot could could actually navigate,
and you could reason with them that way. I bet
they're intelligent.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Well, the radioactive ones might be. Oh yeah. Can you
imagine you're looking out in the backyard going, oh, look,
the lightning bugs are out, and you get closer and
you realize those aren't lightning bugs. They're radioactive nuclear powered wasps.
So they had to go in there and spray the ground,
kill the wasps, bury them with the rest of the
radioactive waste, and hope that the Russians don't find out.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
Scot Mornings nine to eleven, Our News Radio eleven ten
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Scott Vorgie.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Lucy Chadman has checked back into the program, someone who
brought her own coffee pods to the radio station to
put an in. I think this coffee machine that you
brought in, you just said I need some real coffee
and you left. Did you find what you were looking for? No?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Well I did, but the line was too long. I
didn't want to wait. But this coffee, the carrig doesn't work?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh why not? I don't. Yeah, everything else around here works.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, and then one behind me, I don't have any
ground coffee for it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, you you left the long line at a local
coffee drive through to come back here and be a
part of this.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Really, that's you know. I hadn't thought about it that way.
All right, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, take as much time as you need.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, No, I just I mean for your mental health
and sake.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I think there might be a carrig downstairs. Okay, look
sometime is that next to the is it a.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
There's a U in there? Megs? That was yesterday's pronunciation, Lucy.
It is as we expected it, sadly, and that's on
more fronts than Fremont. But we start here in Fremont.
I drove by there yesterday and actually talked with one
of the officials who was part of the recovery effort,
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and he just said, we wanted to go in there
and get those and get those people for their families,
and that's what they did. God blessed these officials, these
first responders, and now the investigators to find out exactly
what happened at the Horizon Biofuels plant in South Fremont.
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According to the State Fire Marshall's office, it was an accident.
It was in a dust fire. When you have this
combustible dust in the air, all you need is a charge. Now,
there are biofuels plant and those that have this combustible dust,
not only just across Nebraska in the Midwest, but across
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the country, and you almost never see a situation like
we saw in Fremont earlier this week. So what do
you do when you've got this combustible, flammable dust wafting
about the plant and all it takes is a static
charge or some spark off a machine and the whole
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place goes up. You would think, I would think that
this would happen every single day, but it doesn't. The
couple of things here. One, the heat earlier this week
certainly could have been a contributing factor, but again it's
always it's whether it's cold outside a nice day like today,
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or heat index values in the triple digits like on Tuesday.
Inside the building it's all hot. So I think the
heat probably didn't help, certainly, not with the responders and everything.
But I don't think that you can say, oh, the
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heat index caused this. According to an expert who provided
his insight to k ETV Newswatch seven, he is an
associate professor at un MC and at UNL and he says, well,
the process of grinding and compacting scrap wood into these
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wood pellets in this case for animal betting, can inherently
create conditions for a dust explosion. He said, you need
five elements dust dispersion, so dust in the air, confined space, yes, fuel, oxygen,
and ignition. And he says the ignition, they don't know
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exactly how that spard. It could have been a hot bearing,
it could have been a static charge. But once you
get that charge and you have that dust in the air,
the resulting fire accelerates in just a matter of split seconds.
What businesses like this typically do to tamp down on
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that dust in the air, is keeping the dust damp,
you know, misting areas, that kind of thing. There's mitigation practices,
and he's not suggesting. No one's suggesting that they weren't
doing this because agriculture related accidents like this, while rare,
do happen, this is dangerous work. And the thing that
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I think about, obviously, is for this man and his
two daughters who were killed in this. His daughters, these
are half sisters as we are now to understand it,
eight and twelve years old. I believe he is thirty
two who lived in Columbus, drove down to Fremont to work,
and his daughters were there because he was getting off
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and he needed to take one or both of them
to probably back to school, doctor's appointments or something like that.
So we're just waiting for dad over here, and you've
got half sisters hanging out together, and it's hard not
to conjure a scenario where these girls are the best
of friends. You know, it's just so incredibly sad. Beyond that,
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the thing I think about is there are plants like
this that whether they're making these little wood pellets or
whatever you've got, whether it's agg or fuel or biofuel, whatever.
You've got plants like this all over the area, including
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in pretty close proximity to where this accident happened on
Tuesday in Fremont, that area of South Fremont just Highway
I think it's Highway seventy seven there. You've got a
lot of different AGG related and processing plants, and you've
got grain bins and silos and all the rest of
the stuff all across the area. And every day since Tuesday,
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including today, there are people right now listening to this
knowing how dangerous this type of work is. Who are
going to work right now in one of those places.
And they knew it on Monday before this accident happened,
and they went to work anyway, They've known it every
day since, and they know it right now and they're
(06:36):
going to work. And it's not because it's like, well,
what else am I going to do? This is my
lot in life now. These are just like guys from
military to law enforcement to first responders, fire, you've got
these people. It's street crews, construction crews. It is much
more likely for someone to be out there consistently trying
(06:59):
to fix the streets in Omaha, and amazingly the exact
same places they tore the streets up last year at
this time, time to tear the streets up again. I
think it's a summer project for high school kids. It's like,
all right, we don't want anyone to get into Benson,
so we just start walling off all the streets and
going down to one way or no way or road closed.
(07:20):
Well I'm gonna go this way. Nope, this road's closed too,
And next thing you know, you can't get anywhere. I mean,
it's seemingly always around that seventy second in Maple area
and points now south and east of there are usually
under construction. And then you think, well, I'll come to
(07:40):
work here in Dundee via Cass Street. No, no, no,
that needs to be ground up. Well you just did this,
You just did this. Yeah, Well we're gonna do it again. Yeah,
and you know what, you keep complaining about it, We'll
do it again next month. How like you won't be
done next month? So where was I? Oh? Yeah, street
crews are out there tearing up the same streets and
the same place as in Olmah at the same time,
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every single day. Year in and year out. It is
much more plausible that one of those guys gets hit
by some driver that won't look up from his phone
or his bowl of soup or whatever it is that's
distracting him while driving and eclips a construction worker. That
is much more likely than anyone going to one of
these processing plants, a biofuels plant in this instance, and
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dying in an accidental dust fire explosion. But they know
what can happen, and they are going to work anyway.
They being at these plants, on these road crews, law enforcement, firefighters, immigration,
customs enforcement, and God bless our military. They're going anyway.
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And oftentimes they kiss their family, including their little girls,
and say see you tonight, and God willing, they will
and so often do, but not always. And so when
we're when I'm complaining about like if I get a hangnail,
my week is shot, Like oh geez, and I tore it.
(09:15):
I know I shouldn't tear the thing off. We got
a little hangnail here, should get my little girls cuticle
clippers and cut that thing off. But nope, I thought, well,
I can I can pluck this in such a Nope,
can't tour tore my whole finger off, you know, like
I just my whole week is shot. You know the
next time that we I we are mostly me. You're
complaining about these little things in life. Be so thankful
(09:41):
that some of these complaints are little, because at some
point you may very well experience some pretty big complaints.
Then you then you realize, oh, I don't know what
I was upset about before. When you're counting your blessings,
make sure and say some nice things, some prayers, some
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good thoughts towards those who go to work every single
day knowing how dangerous it is because these guys do so.
That is the latest from Fremont Sad reality. There as expected,
though accidental fire due to the combustible dust, President Trump
(10:26):
surrounded himself with combustible materials that would be people who
are willing to stand next to President Trump, And immediately
the media was like, well, I don't know why he
had this guy here. I don't even know why he's
doing this. It's something that we did growing up. I'll
explain next.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Scott Bordes News Radio eleven ten k.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
FA ICE members do a very dangerous job, as was
evident yesterday in Colorado or on the Colorado Springs area,
that's l Passo, Colorado. According to officials, officers of ICE
were nearly hit by a vehicle being driven by two
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individuals suspected to be in the country illegally while ICE
was carrying out an operation in the Colorado Springs area.
Agencies officers had to fire three shots into the vehicle.
The suspects left the scene before abandoning the vehicle, and
the search continues for two suspects unless there's an update.
(11:32):
I don't know that they've got these guys yet. Yeah,
I don't know why that members of ICE would want
to wear masks to cover their face to protect their
identities when there are people out there actively trying to
murder them every single day, as was the case yesterday.
These guys are lucky to be alive and that happened
(11:56):
yesterday in Colorado Springs. At the White House yesterday, President
Trump has done something that you did when you were
growing up. I did when I was growing up. I
remember getting the certificate, which I figured like, oh, this
is something personally signed by President Ronald Reagan, probably an
auto pin like any president would use one of. Oh,
(12:21):
we got the President's fitness certification. Remember the Presidential Fitness
Test that you had to do that It started in
nineteen sixty six, So for most of us we did this.
If you went through grade school from the mid sixties
through the mid twenty teens, you did this. Well, when
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did it stop? President Obama stopped it. President Trump yesterday
brought it back. The program ended in twenty twelve, the
Youth Fitness Test, the presidential Fitness Test. Now, what do
you do for this? Children have to run, they have
to do sit ups, they have to do pull ups
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or push ups, and I think they have to try
and touch their toes, which I can't. Well, I can't
if I am allowed to bend at the knee. But
I have very tight hamstrings. Weird flex, I know, but
I'm very inflexible physically, emotionally, ideologically, I'm just very very inflexible.
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So President Trump brought back the presidential Fitness Test yesterday. Now,
this of course got criticism because it's Trump. They immediately
and they being the Associated Press, as I mentioned yesterday,
this is a nationwide group of alleged journalists who are
incredibly anti Trump, very left leaning, which is fine as
long as you recognize who's doing the reporting. And what
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their goal here is. So the Associated Press, which ferrets
out these reports to an increasing number of newspapers and
websites who don't have their own staff members and have
to rely on the Associated Press many or are all
too happy to do so. They immediately start bringing some
experts in to say, well, it's always good to put
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a focus on physical activity, but one test alone won't
make America's children more healthy. Yeah, that's exactly what President
Trump thought. You know, at one point in your first
grade year or whatever year it is, that you do this,
You run around the track one time and like that's it.
Your life is all set. It's sowing the seeds not
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of love, tears for fears, but sowing the seeds of
trying to put some emphasis on healthy activity, of doing
some physical fitness, of realizing that it is in your
best interest from a health standpoint, to exercise, to have
a healthy diet. Now, first Lady Obama, Michelle Obama promoted
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that Let's Move initiative that was focused on reducing childhood
obesity through throwing away the garbage that she had served
in public education K through twelve education in this country
under the Obama administration, that food was inedible, but amazingly,
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it didn't reduce childhood obesity. President Trump is brought back
that presidential fitness test to have these kids do a
one mile run, do some sit ups and stretch and
do some push ups or pull ups or something like that.
But he had the audacity to be surrounded by athletes.
(15:48):
Let's start picking these guys apart. The worst of all.
Harrison but Kerr. I mean, even his name sounds vulgar,
butt ker gross. Harrison Butker is the Kansas City chiefs
kicker who had that horrible speech at a college graduation
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last year where he talked about family values. He talked
about the president at the time, President Biden's stance on
abortion as being wicked. Oh, Harrison Butker is the worst.
He wants to put women in those little handsmade tails outfit,
and not because it turns him on. It's because he
wants them to just be barefoot having babies, his babies.
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Harrison Butcker is the worst. So he was there, Lawrence
Taylor was there, and LT, who hasn't played in the
National Football League for thirty some years, admitted, I don't
know why I'm here, Well, because I think LT was
on Trump's celebrity Apprentice show. Lawrence Taylor was the fearsome
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defensive back for the New York Giants throughout the eighties.
Number five.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Oh, I thought he was in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
No, that was Lawrence Phillips. Lawrence Phillips fearsome in his
own way. But yeah, LT was incredible football player. Has
had some trouble since his days in the NFL, so
trying to rebuild his life. President Trump brought him in
to say, hey, let's give you some additional purpose to
be a part of the President's Fitness Council. Of course,
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the media pointed out LT had to register as a
sex offender, impleading guilty in twenty eleven to misdemeanor criminal
charges of sexual misconduct. I don't remember what he did.
I'm sure that bad. Yeah, misdemeanor. I don't know. He
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was sentenced to probation or just ordered to register as
a sex offender for whatever it was that he did.
Of course, the media is like, well, yeah, President Trump's
surrounded by a sex offender. This guy can't probably can't
even be around kids, and he's trying to He's not
going to be out there and I don't think that
there were kids. I don't know. And then they even
(18:02):
had Anika Saurnstam, a golfer out there who is noted here,
faced backlash for accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from
President Trump on January seventh, twenty twenty one, the day
after President Trump led a violent insurrection against America. Anakasaurnstam,
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one of the most celebrated women's golfers of all time,
went to the White House to let this man put
a medal on her. She should have brought him into
custody that day. I'm making a citizen's arrest. So they
immediately start picking apart the people who are there. Risin
De'shambeau was there. Golfer, triple h wrestler. Presidential fitness Test.
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Here's how it works. Can you run a mile while
wearing a red Make America Great Again? Hat? If you can,
you have passed Trump. No, I'm kidding. It's a continuation
of what we grew up with when we were in school.
Since nineteen sixty six up until twenty twelve, President Obama said,
we don't need that. We've had a presidential fitness test,
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and kids like competition, and I forgot about this element
of it until Scott sent this email. I said, granted
it was a different time, but I recall in my
years at Adams Elementary in Keystone back in the late
sixties and early seventies, the President's Fitness Program was something
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many wanted to exceed in. It was bragging rights and
the award presentation was anticipated. Kids trained in the summer
to improve their performance in the test. And I was
a husky kid as labeled by the clothing stores at
the time. You know, we don't do that anymore. I
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was a husky kid. Pull ups were my demise, but
I still tried to turn in a respectable effort. Hopefully
bringing the program back not only gets the kids some exercise,
but also gets them some needed socialization. As from Scott
sent to Scott at kfab dot com. Yeah, anytime, whether
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there was a certification like the President to Fitness certification
on the line, if you were competing against your friends,
sit ups, pull ups, running the broad jump or whatever.
I got an email, So do they still do the
broad jump and do they need to change the name
of it to fit our new standards in twenty twenty five,
(20:40):
you were compete against your friends and you wanted to
beat your friends. We tried to drum competition out of kids.
Oh no, we don't keep scoring. The kids know what
score is. They know who's winning, they know who's losing.
They know who the good athletes are. The ones who
are the bad athletes know that they're not great athletes,
and they either try and get better. They say, maybe
(21:01):
I will do something else with my life, but they
still want to They don't want to embarrass themselves with it.
Why would we do this, Randy says, it was reported
this week that seventy seven percent of our youth could
not pass the standards for military physical requirements.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So just lower their equess, right.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
That's what I was thinking. Now in the past, you
just say, all right, well, we got to lower the standards,
you know, as I did when I was dating, Which
brings us back to our conversation with Colleen Kelly Mast
and when she was talking about how we want young
people to experience what it's like to have a healthy
relationship and that includes abstinence and here are some ways,
(21:46):
and I was like, I know how I did it.
By having this face and this personality that was incredibly effective.
And here's the latest thing that is drawing people's outrage
today and the company involved. They haven't apologized for it,
but they are making a big change. And this latest
thing that is offensive to even bring up to discuss
(22:09):
has nothing to do with actress Sidney Sweeney and a
pair of blue jeans. We've already talked about that a
couple of times this week, and I'm happy to do
so again because did I mention Sidney Sweeney in a
pair of blue jeans? Sorry? What Scott passed out for
(22:29):
a second. No, the latest thing here that people really
find incredibly offensive is the word meat.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Meat, as in M E. T. Some people don't like
to meet other people.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Well, no, that's true. I'm not talking about those that
have often colloquial been colloquially been referred to as shut INDs. Now,
We're just talking about those with anxiety disorder, otherwise known
as just about everybody. No, I'm talking about a tea.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Not the muppets.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Huh meat meat, No, that's that's Beaker. He says meat.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Meep uh meat at.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Meat specifically, as it relates to a company that had
been referred to as Beyond Meat, they've had to drop
the word meat. If you're not familiar with Beyond Meat.
This was a meat free alternative to everything from you know,
(23:38):
hot dogs that were made of chickpeas. Man, these are
some good chickpeas. Can I have some more barbecue sauce?
Can I have all the barbecue sauce? Please? You know
what I want? I want chickpeas formed in the mold
of a hot dog on a buzz that's so weedy,
(24:01):
that is pretty much made of sand and large grain.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
You make it sound so good, man, that's good.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'll tell you what. No better way to have a
picnic than with the old chickpea dog? Am I right?
So amazingly the company Beyond Meat, which tried to create
some plant based proteins, which, look, this is what some
people are into. That's fine. It doesn't bother me at all.
(24:31):
If you want to be everything from a vegetarian to
a vegan to someone who's I don't know, one of
those weird things like pescatarian or whatever. You know, vegans
and vegetarians look down on you like I only eat fish.
Fish has a face, you phony, or if you want
to be one of those people who tells all your
(24:52):
friends I'm vegan and then you go out and eat
a bunch of meat when no one's looking. I don't
care what you do. It doesn't bother me one bit.
What I find funny about this is the anti meat
crowd can't just have it be to where I don't
prefer meat, but they still want to eat chicken nuggets
(25:13):
that look like chicken nuggets. There's just no chicken in there.
Or a hot dog that looks like a hot dog.
There's just no whatever it is that you think is
a hot dog in there. Yeah. So now they got
the meat out of there. They got these these things
to look like the meat products. But there was one
more thing that they had to do. They don't like.
(25:35):
The company was called Beyond Meat. It puts the word
meat in there, and we think that's disgusting. Now there's
another thing, and this is what.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Vegetarians are.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, I'll come back to it. But there's there's another
part on this, and that is I believe it's Governor
Pillen and others who have been saying, look, you can't
label it as meat if it is not meat. They're like, well,
it's beyond meat. Yeah, but it still implies that maybe
there's meat. Someone might not know what you mean by
beyond meat, and they might get this and they might lack,
you know, the necessary proteins and iron that they need
(26:10):
in their diet, and they think, well, I'm eating meat
and they're not getting any meat because your company has
falsely labeled. Now it doesn't say that specifically in this
particular article, but I think that might have something to
do with it. There are some people who don't know.
I mean, if you call something by a certain name,
(26:32):
they might not know whether what is in or not
in it. Here's my story to prove my point. There
was a girl I know who used to be a vegetarian.
And you know, she was a great vegetarian. She didn't
(26:53):
look down on you or throw blood on you if
you had a steak or cheeseburger or something. But her
particular dietary were for her to be a vegetarian. But
she had a soft spot for something until I pointed out,
I thought, you said you were a vegetarian and she
said I am. I said, well why are you eating that?
(27:14):
She goes, oh, no, this isn't this isn't crab. It's
imitation crab. And I said, well, yeah, but it's still fish,
it's still fish meat. No, it's not it's is it?
I said, yes, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
She really didn't know.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
She didn't know. Well, it's called imitation crab, you know.
And when you're shopping in the vegetarian section of a
grocery store and you have stuff called Beyond Meat and
faux chicken and all the rest of this stuff, you
see imitation crab and you think, well, this is the
same thing. You know. It wasn't in the same area
as the fake and foe and Beyond and all the
rest of this stuff, but it had kind of a
(27:56):
similar name, and so she thought, well, this is this
ism be soy. No, it was some sort of some
sort of fish.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
You know what. The funniest thing about that is that
probably had a lot of faces in it. Because the
fish they use for the it's parts and pieces.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Imitation crab is the hot dog of the fish world,
the seafood world. Imitation crab is the hot dog. I
love it, Oh, I do. I love You know who
else loves imitation crab? Now? My son. I brought some
home for him a few years ago. He loves it.
He is all about it. Another fun vegetarian story, my
(28:37):
daughter who learned about vegetarianism I guess in school or something,
or she was watching something and talking to friends or whatever.
She had it in her head that the best way
to live was to be a vegetarian. And so she
came to me at the age of eight and she said, Daddy,
I want to be a vegetarian, and I said you do.
(28:57):
She goes yes. It seems I don't know what how
she rationalized it, but she's like, this is this is
the best way you know to have a healthy diet
is to be a vegetarian. And I said, well, that's
that's great, honey. We can talk about that when you're eighteen.
But in the meantime, I'm making chicken for dinner tonight.
(29:19):
And she goes, oh, I like chicken. She didn't even
know what it meant. She was indoctrinated into the best
healthy thing to have. So the same people who are
indoctrinating our kids to grow towards the light with a
plant based diet. And again, you're an adult and you
want to have a plant based diet, and that's it.
(29:40):
I don't Again, I don't care have at it. So
they're the ones who are super mad at this company
Beyond Meat for having the name meat in their name.
And one of the big reasons why this company is
changing it and rebranding now is Beyond bed Bathing. No,
(30:03):
not bed Bathing, just beyond is because when they started
their IPO, when they went public in twenty nineteen, Beyond
Meat had a market value of about twelve billion dollars.
Today under five hundred million dollars. Now, if you're a
(30:31):
business and you're bringing in five hundred million dollars a year,
you're like, hey, this is pretty good. If you just
a few years ago were worth twelve billion and now
you're under half of one billion. You're going the wrong way.
You're going the wrong way. Ah, they're drunk. How do
(30:54):
they know where we're going? Your eighties movie reference for
this segment of the radio program, Lucy's going to make
a real bad guess at this right now. Blues Brothers,
Fine Gets.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Planes, trains and boats, auto cars, cars, teslas.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
That's the one John Candy's in both movies, Blues Brothers
and Planes, trains and auto boat, cars, planes, trains and automobiles.
That's right, you're going the wrong way. I love that. Yeah,
they're losing money, they're hamorrhaging money, and so they're looking
(31:34):
to do anything. You know what else he could do
to maybe make a few more bucks and get people
more interested in your your product. Put some meat in
there that might help. That might help. Yeah, here's some
hot dogs made out of ground up fava beans or
(31:55):
you know meat. You can try to try to do
the meat. Someone should. Here's another thing they're experimenting with.
And we're just about there. What is the how long
until the football season starts around here?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Let's see twenty seven days until we kick on Big great?
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Yeah, seven twenty seven days until kickoff? And well, Lucy
has another reason to be excited as lush Lucy over
there is going to be able to buy beer at
Memorial Stadium during football games. This is There are two
things I have in this next section that might indicate
(32:37):
we are at the precipice of the end of the world.
That's one of them. The other one is something straight
out of a horror movie. We'll get to it here
in two minutes. Scott Boy, time for the end of
the world update. Here on eleven ten, kfab me singing
on the radio always an indication that the four horsemen
of the apocalypse may be on their way. Here's another
(32:59):
one alcohol sales at Memorial Stadium. They had a little
scrimmage and they did the beer sales there and they're like,
all right, well this can show how we might be
able to do beer sales during Husker football games. Well,
we already had a pardon the pun, a dry run,
(33:21):
a wet run, an alcohol fueled run of how to
do beer sales at Memorial Stadium when there are ninety
thousand plus people in there. The Garth Brooks concert a
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Ago, I remember that I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I remember that I was there. Garth Brooks puts on
maybe the greatest concert of any entertainer alive today.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
He does I haven't seen enough shows.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Tell me which show I need to go to and
why that would be better than Garth Brooks. People go
in there, they're not even Garth brook fans. They leave saying, yeha,
that's how great Garth Brooks is so good as a
live I'll try and catch a show you don't know
you've not been.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I'm gonna try and catch a show.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
I'm waiting for you to tell me who might be better.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Australia. How about Pink Floyd or Australian Pink Floyd, they'll
be here on the seventh.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Okay, I'm sure Pink Floyd. What's on a fantastic show?
Speaker 3 (34:20):
I bet they don't.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Garth Brooks has been so when they did the Garth
Brooks Show, there were beer sales there and here's how
they do it. People are like, I'm not gonna wait
in line for then don't buy a beer. That's that's
point number one. Here. Anyone who's like, but I don't
want beer Memorial State, then don't buy one. It's not
like you walk in there through these gates, past the
(34:41):
greatest fans in college football, and here's your beer. You
don't have to have one. And if you're like, the
line's too long to get one, or I think it's
too expensive for one of these tall boys, then don't
get one. But I want to have a drink at
the game. Then do it like people have been doing
it for decades. You get hammered at a tailgate party
(35:02):
down the street, and you stagger your way into the
stadium if you can make it there. You know the
way that we used to do it, the way that
our parents did it. Purse bar Now they look through
your purses when you go into the game purse bar
like that. So immediately people are like, but that's got it.
Then all right, so this isn't for you, then don't
get a beer at people. Look, I can appreciate that
(35:29):
coach Osborne and others never wanted to have alcohol sales
tainting the product on the field, But that's when the
product on the field was not something that made us
want to drink. Sorry, I am a lifelong fan of
the Big Red. I have nothing but optimism in the
(35:50):
upcoming season, but there have been a lot of times
during the last fifteen plus years of Nebraska football not
only did I want to drink, I wanted to do
crystal meth. I wanted. I wanted. Well, if we go
through another fifteen twenty years of Husker football like the
(36:14):
last fifteen or twenty years, they'll be selling crack in
the concession stands and it'll be easy to get because
the sellout streak will be long gone. So I don't
think that we're going in that direction. I think Nebraska
is going in the right direction. I'm super excited about
the games. But look, I understand you. You don't want
(36:37):
to have alcohol, especially something that's supposed to be for
college kids, right. You know, the Husker football used to be.
This is where all the college kids come in here
and some of the you know, the parents and people
in the community, we come and support the team. It was.
It was a different time. Now it's if you're a
college kid, good luck getting a ticket. And the college
(36:58):
kids drink a lot more probably than they used to,
or they just walk around with their vate pins and
ingest whatever chemical substance that is. At the time, they've
decided that they wanted to go alcohol sales at football games.
Why money. Athletic director Dannen says that alcohol sales could
(37:24):
generate between three and four million dollars per game.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Somebody's gonna pay that nil.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Right, and he says they might cut down on dangerous
drinking habits. It could. I if this is your only
source of alcohol, getting a twelve dollars beer or whatever,
it's going to be at the football game, having to
wait in line to the concession stand. But at the
Garth Brooks thing, they didn't have anyone. Wait, you didn't
(37:50):
have to wait in line at concession stand. They had
beer vendors around like in the concourse and even going
up and down the steps if you wanted a beer,
you could go. Fine, you walk right down the steps,
go into the area where the concession stands. Are you
get one at one of the stands, or you had
vendors there with little coolers and stuff. I don't even
know if some of those people worked there.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And it only got you extra six bucks.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Right, here's a billion dollar beer. You know what? Tasted good?
That was a hot night. It was a hot summer
night when Garth Brooks was at Memorial Stadium a few
years ago, and I did get a beer just to
see what the experience is of drinking a beer in
Memorial Stadium as opposed to swilling a bottle of rum
and a parking lot down the street. It turns out
(38:35):
about the same price morally and financially. So we got
to make some money and they say, no, no, it's
gonna be fine. There was an nu regent, Kathy Wilmot,
who says alcohol is going to make the atmosphere of
the games a lot less family friendly. Kathy, I don't
(38:55):
know when the last time you went to a game was.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Are you suggesting they're not now?
Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm walking into Memorial Stadium years ago? Probably, I don't know.
Five ten years ago with my kids. My son is
walking in front of me and he's directly behind a
sorority girl. You know in the movie The Princess Bride,
where you if you're walking through the fire swamp, you
hear a popping sound. There is an indication that something's
(39:21):
about to explode and you've got to get out of
the way of it. This sorority girl, in a gaggle
of all of her friends made such a sound. I
picked up my son and did a spin move off
to the left to get out of the spray. As
she released, she released the all the alcohol in her
(39:45):
system for this. I think it was even an eleven
o'clock kickoff, so she got started early, so she threw up,
and I had to move my son, so he because
he almost got yacked on by a sorority chick in
a football game, which my son and I I agreed
then and now is super cool. So I moved him
out of the way and just kept walking. The rest
(40:08):
of the girls stopped to help their friend and hold
her hair and all that fun stuff, except for one
girl who just kept marching forward. And we're walking next
to her, and I said, I hope your friend's okay,
and she goes, she's not my friend. I don't even
know who that chick is. Wow, And that is a Husker.
That's a Husker of football game experience right there. And
(40:30):
then you go in the stadium and you might have
someone that's you know, drunk and falling down and yelling
and cussing and all the rest of that. But that's
not that's not a Husker football experience. That's a life experience.
This is what I find when I go anywhere. You're
at a restaurant with your family. You got someone loudly
(40:51):
drunkenly cussing over here. You had a park with your family,
someone is loudly drunkenly cussing or fighting over here. You
go to Cincinna, you get all beat up by everyone
in town. It's just it's anywhere you go anymore. It's
not exactly a real family friendly experience all the time.
And I'd love to get back to this this wonderful
(41:13):
time maybe of make believe when everyone's you know, having
a great time, all pulling in the same direction at
a football game, and maybe we can. It doesn't bother
me if people have a beer once in a while,
because they were doing it in the parking lot. So
this will be for some people the end of the
(41:35):
world Huskers football games with alcohol being sold at the stadium.
Here's the other part of our end of the world update, Lucy.
They just discovered a wasp's nest in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
A wasp. Sorry, I was sneezing a.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Wasps nest, a nest of waspuses.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Did they kill him, yes, okay, but.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
They had to do so in a very delicate way
because this particular nest of wasps in South Carolina was
discovered by workers on a site that was once used
to produce nuclear material. That's right, they just found a
radioactive wasp nest.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
How big were they the.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
Size of helicopter?
Speaker 3 (42:23):
You remember the Gilligan's Island when they grew the vegetables
with nuclear seeds. How big were the wasp.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
They were the size of radio controlled drones, the size
of pterodactyls. No, I guess they were just wasp sized,
but still radioactive wasps nuclear infuse wasps.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
I think Bill Gates is working on that next.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Hittie. Right, this is just horrible. I don't like wasps
to begin with. Whether it's the insect or the Anglo
Saxon Protestants. I just don't like them. They scare me.
So No, I don't like wasps. I don't like these stinging.
I don't like bugs that sting and bite. I don't
(43:12):
like them. Wasps, though, are fine. They're kind of interesting
the way they just kind of hang there. They're just
real creepy. But you know, I spray them when suddenly
I look up and like, here's we're just building a
wasp here underneath the railing of your deck, right next
to your grill. Is that okay? No, it's not okay.
You wish you could reason with the insect world. Life
(43:33):
would be so much better for everybody if you could
just say, look, you guys want to go to that
corner of the yard, don't bother me and my family.
You know, if we come over there to do some
spraying around this garden bed or whatever. We're not bothering
you guys. We're just this is where we live, and
you guys can hang out here and do wasp stuff.
That's cool, thanks man, Yeah, no, big deal. Wouldn't that
(43:55):
be great? Wouldn't it be great if you were at
a picnic and they are flies? Buzzing of landing on
your foot, landing on your face, landing on your arm. Say, look,
we're gonna take a little hunk of meat, a little
hunks it's three times your size. We're gonna put it
away over here in the corner. This is yours. This
will last you all week. It's all yours, and we'll
just be over here and join our food. Oh that's great. Yeah,
(44:17):
thanks man, Yeah, no big deal, have at it. Wouldn't
it be great if you could reason with the insect world.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
We could find the little teeny tiny buttons like they
use for dogs that a wasp foot could could actually navigate,
and you could reason with them that way. I bet
they're intelligent.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Well, the radioactive ones might be. Oh yeah. Can you
imagine you're looking out in the backyard going, oh, look,
the lightning bugs are out, and you get closer and
you realize those aren't lightning bugs. They're radioactive nuclear powered wasps.
So they had to go in there and spray the ground,
kill the wasps, bury them with the rest of the
radioactive waste, and hope that the Russians don't find out.
Speaker 1 (44:59):
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