Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday, fake news you can trust headlines from the
Babylon be Global birth rates hit historic lows as Elon
Musk busy with Doge Joe Biden arrested for harboring eleven
million illegal aliens. And now for the real thing. It

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is Woodstock Week for capitalists. Warren Buffett's annual conclave of
millionaires begins today. Berkshire Hathaway shareholders have invaded Omaha to
sample their own products. Cabits about their good fortune. Times
are flush. While the S and P is down ten
percent since January one, Berkshire is up fourteen percent. They'll

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pack the Chi Center tomorrow, as the ninety five year
old oracle says grace over their empire. Question one, how
you going to spend the three hundred and thirty eight
billion in cash the company has amassed. One share of
Berkshire today is seven hundred and ninety four thousand, seventy
five dollars and ninety four cents. The company is worth

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six hundred and fifty one billion. America is back at
the office. In Q one, the economy added one hundred
and seventy seven thousand new full time jobs, beat forecasts
by a mile One of Donald Trump's steaming criticisms of
Joe Biden's presidency was a lack of accountability. Big mistakes made,

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but nobody paid. One hundred and two days into his presidency,
Trump has reassigned a very important guy. National Security advisor,
Michael Waltz moved from that job to UN ambassador. It
is not a promotion stems from the text chat in
March when military plans meant for high level security personnel

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mistakenly included a reporter, but Trump rewards loyalty. Walls was
that in Congress took the blame for the text chat,
so rather than chop off his head, Trump gives him
a soft landing at the UN. Also out Ashley Buchanan
as CEO of retailer Coles after just four months, violated

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company policy by engineering a million dollar consulting agreement with
a former lover. He will repay the two point five
million dollar signing bonus. More politics. Trump has cut off
public broadcasting through executive order blocks federal funding for PBS
and NPR five hundred million a year. A liberal judge

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will likely block his block, which leaves the funding up
to Congress. Scott Jennings, the conservative burr under the liberal
saddle at CNN is thinking about a run for the
US Senate from Kentucky. Eighty three year old Mitch McConnell
will not seek reelection. Jennings knows his way around before
this was once a senior advisor to w We finally

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have something at Crossroads. A first tenant in the eight
hundred million dollar makeover of that mud flat on seventy
second and Dodge is Gamescape by Cinemark, an entertainment center
with dining, movie theaters, bowling, a climbing wall laser tag.
They'll break ground next month. It has been fifteen years

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since the first promises were made over there. Your state
senators found one hundred and thirty six million in savings
this week, cutting back on economic incentives and the state
contribution into the public teachers pension fund. Got to find
another two hundred and sixty million to balance the budget.
Times running out student loan borrowers. Your vacation from paying

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them back is over a Biden troll for votes by
suspending payments, costing the country billions ends Monday. If you're
not paying starting Monday, the government can seize your tax return,
garnish your wages or both. Lincoln based Nelnet, the national
servicer of student loans, says only thirty eight percent are

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paying them back. Fifty percent of those aren't on time.
Steve Doocey leaves Morning TV twenty eight years at Fox
News retires to Florida. Brought his north central Kansas personality
with him to work, a nice contrast to the self
important network talents by which he was surrounded every morning.

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In today's Tournament of Rosi's, our lovers for Life are
Mark and Susie Romanic of Omaha side by side for
fifty three years, and Marvin and Karen Hines of morse Bluff,
Nebraska sixty four years. To Your Health, drugmaker merk, facing
two hundred million in tariffs, is bringing manufacture of his
blockbuster cancer drug ki Trudah home from Ireland. Key Trudah

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treats lung cancer melanoma. It's the most popular pharmaceutical in
the world. One more Sign of the Times meme sent
in by listener Denise, owning a dog is ninety percent
following each other around, watching each other pee and wondering
what the other one has in its mouth.