Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday, fake news you can trust headlines from the
Babylon b Liberals devastated as stock market recovers. China retaliates
against tariffs by putting bad fortunes into cookies. Now to
the real thing, the trillion dollar tariff poker game. Overnight,
China saw the US and then raised a one hundred

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and twenty five percent on all US goods goes into
effect tomorrow. They also said they would not continue matching
any US levy increases because those imports are no longer marketable,
which means their citizens can't afford to buy them. Why
did Meridian Helicopters, which owns the Bell two six L

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four that crashed into New York's Hudson River yesterday, killing six,
including three children, scrub its website and Facebook pages. Maybe
because it didn't want us to know that in the
last twelve years it's been investigated by the NTSB twice
for safety issues, or that in May of twenty twenty three,

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the NTSB required the testing and possible replacement of tail
rotorschafts on eight different two six L choppers, including the
two six L four. The President's pause on tariffs against
everybody but China put government spending back in his inbox.
The House narrowly passes a blueprint for his big beautiful

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bill would cut one point five trillion, but that's the
easy part. Hardline Republicans want promises of spending cuts in
any final bill. That'll be a left But three GOP
senators Murkowski, Hawley, and Collins won't agree to medicaid reductions,
even if they require Medicaid recipients to look for a job.

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This all might take another month. Trump's tariff ride slowed
down a lot of mergers and acquisitions, but not all
of them. High end fashion giant product Buy's fellow high
end fashion giant Versace yesterday one point three to eight
billion down the hall. Trump's Education Department is throwing punches
at colleges and universities which practice dei and anti Semitism.

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The White House has cut off hundreds of millions in
grants to those who do. To get the money back,
the schools must promise to change and agree to a
consent decree, a legally binding document, which means if they don't,
university administrators could pay a fine, go to jail, or both.

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Did you see there is a Nebraska tax Wall of Shame.
If you're delinquent on state income tax of at least
twenty thousand, they put your name on a public website
atop the list. This week, Omaha businessman Randy Thompson he
owes two point four million. I checked, no Satlemyer, no Rose.

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This week, money matters were entering the prime home selling season.
How's a look, Not bad, not great. Mortgage rates are
right around six point four percent, which is down a
point from a year ago, but recession talk has some
of us waiting for sunnier days. If you need quick cash,
own a house in Augusta, Georgia. Rend it out for

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the Masters one five bedroom, three bath, nice but not opulent,
ten minutes from the course, eight days, twenty eight thousand dollars.
Owner says Masters week pays her whole mortgage for the year.
In this week's Tournament of Rosies, our lovers for life
are Bernice and Kenneth Artel of Columbus. Everybody a round

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of applause for ken and Bernie. Tomorrow makes seventy. Apparently
getting all four seeds into the final four really is
good for business. Hi TV ratings for the semifinals and finals.
The Florida Houston game pulled eighteen million viewers. Gone but
not forgotten George Bell of Portsmouth, Virginia. At twenty seven,
the world's tallest man seven feet eight inches. Most of

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us could only reach his elbows, but friends and families
say that George never looked down on anybody going away
the front sighted license plate. In Nebraska, the unicamer gave
first round approval forty six to nothing to end the
front license plate by twenty twenty nine. It'll save the
state eight million dollars. Half the states don't have him now.

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One more Sign of the Times meme sent in by
listener Stephanie. Friends don't tell friends that nineteen seventy five
was fifty years ago