Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday, and tens of thousands in the Mid Atlantic
still have no food, no water, no electricity, and no
way out. Disaster officials in North Carolina say it may
be a month before a road is opened to some
of the rural counties. This item will be inconvenient for

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the class envy types, but the relief efforts in Georgia
got a five million dollar check this week from the
members of the Augusta National Golf Club. Meanwhile, FEMA says
it's out of money, spent six hundred million on housing,
feeding gift cards, X boxes, and cell phones for illegals. Now,

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nearly a week after the Hurricane Helene spilled ten trillion
gallons on four states. Still going NonStop around the clock
are Ashley Wilson, Kicks Layton, Aaron Michael and Eddie Fox,
the DJs on Iheart's ninety nine point nine WKF. When
one's on the air, the others are hauling by hand

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giant jugs of fuel up a hill out back to
the back up transmitter. No commercials, no songs, just calm,
reassuring voices reminding the whole region, let's stay together, be
there for each other. Help is on the way. Three
days in the long Shorreman strike is over. The union
agreed to extend the current deal through January, with a

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promise the new contract will include a sixty two percent
pay increase. The White House stuck its nose in it
pressured the company to sweeten the offer. The average long
Shorreman today makes over one hundred thousand per year, plus
the best insurance and a rich four to oh one
k plan. Now, who do you think is going to

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pay for all of this? Not the company. The most
important thing going into those giant grain elevators in our
small towns isn't the grain, it's the dust collection systems.
If they fail, belt friction can ignite that dust into
an explosion. OSHA found one eighth inch of dust collecting

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in a belt tunnel of the Legacy co Op elevator
in Hemingford. The collection system had been duct taped. OSHA
shut it down. Found twenty one other violations. The company
is facing a half a million in fines. The kid
who got the four chair turn after an electrifying performance
on TVs The Voice Monday Night is ours Drion real

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name do Drion Morrell pushed through Foster Care twenty fifteen
Northwest High School grad used big philanthropy to get a
college education and is now one of the hottest stars
in popular music. He'll be back in town next week
for a performance at the Holland. You know music isn't
just good for your workout, it's good for your plants.

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This week, findings published in the blog Biology Letters from
scientists spell it out. Lab test proof plant microves exposed
to music just thirty minutes a day outgrew those exposed
only to white noise. So turn it up at home.
The first trailer for the Warner Brothers drama Juror iiO
is out coming to theaters this fall, produced and directed

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by ninety four year old Clint Eastwood. Bottled water may
not be as good for you. In today's BMJ Global
Health Edition, researchers say tap water goes through a lot
more safety checks and doesn't have the microplastics and other
chemicals they used to make the bottles, so drink from
the sink. Van ha of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, likes to help

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out her kids with monthly expenses, took twelve thousand out
this week. Bank put the cash in an unsealed envelope
with her name on it. She picked it up, stopped
off at the store for groceries, but when she got
home she couldn't find the envelope. Panicked went back to
the store to retrace her steps. Ready to give up,
the store manager rushed out stopped van before she drove away,

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handed her the envelope with every dollar still in there.
Says some guy named Skip found it turned it in.
All of Shrewsbury is looking for Skip. One more sign
of the times set in by listener Dave on a
dairy queen marquee outside of town. It reads, Welcome to Nebraska.
Winter is at six am, Spring is at ten am,

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Summer is at three pm, fall is at seven ish.
Dress accordingly