Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday, fake news you can trust from the Babylon Bee.
Joe Biden says he absolutely positively would have approved everyone
of the presidential pardons if he'd known about him, and
the bear on the flag of California moves to Texas.
Now for the real thing that's sobbing you here in

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the distance is the country's public broadcasters dire predictions after
Congress and the President Claude back their five hundred million
per year tax subsidy. Just like the rest of us,
they're going to have to sing for their supper now.
Nebraska Public Broadcaster CEO Stacey Decker, whose twenty five million
dollar budget gets sixteen point five million from state and

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local taxpayers, says this cut will dismantle the entire system,
leaving out how he has squirreled away fifty million in cash.
When John Ewing took over as mayor, he promised to
keep each of Jen Stothard's department heads said continuity builds trust.
That a little over a month, Park's chief Matt Kosovich

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resigns it was not voluntary. The funerals from the Camp
Mystic flood that swept away twenty seven little girls started
this week on Wednesday, a one hundred and fifty mile
procession from San Antonio to her home in Belleville, Texas.
Followed eight year old Virginia Hollis. Her parents walked the
last few blocks behind Virginia and her riderless quarter horse,

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Salt Valley, empty saddle, and her cowboy hat over the horn,
little pink boots stuffed in the stirrups, a sacred cowboy tradition.
If they're all like this, the country is going to
need more Kleenex. One of Omaha's biggest companies is growing.
Talks are down the track aways about a merger between

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Union Pacific and rival Norfolk Southern. When it's done up,
will be the nation's only transcontinental railroad. Anti trust hawks
are on this. The owner of Nebraska's two largest newspaper
papers has a big unexpected expense. Lee Enterprises sold the
privacy information of former subscribers to Facebook. Subscribers sued, got

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nine point five million plus two million in court costs,
and Lee has three more unsettled lawsuits from former employees.
Owns hundreds of newspapers. Saw its stock price fall to
six dollars a share yesterday. Three years ago, it was
forty dollars. Twenty years ago, it was four hundred and

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ninety dollars. Here's one way to lower your property tax.
Have your land d value for the first time in
six years. Nebraska crop land lost value down to thirty
nine hundred thirty five n acre, two percent less than
last year. Corn prices, high taxes, insurance and interest rates
are shrinking farm income. Despite what Democrats are telling you,

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Trump's big beautiful bill helps us out in it. Interest
on your car Loan, charitable giving is now deductible. You
can put more into your tax deferred health savings account
and four one K plan. He is doubling the childcare
tax credit. Now tell me how all of that only
benefits billionaires. If you're a Democrat, next year, you better

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hope the Republican in your race doesn't remember any of this.
Lincoln bids farewell to Larry Snyder, the self made Waverley
farm kid who built Snyder Industries into a five billion
dollar fiberglass molding factory for boats, campers, and industrial tanks
eighty seven. Don't trust the kiss cam at your next concert.

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A software ceo and his mistress were caught canoodling at
a Coldplay concert in Boston. Soon as the camera hit them,
the embarrassed cheaters tried to hide. The video went viral,
their identities revealed. His wife has shut off all of
her social media accounts and scratched out her married name.
Don't believe everything that chatbot tells. You may just be

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sucking up. Researchers are calling it ai sycophancy, a tendency
to flatter you by always agreeing with you, even when
it knows you're wrong, just so you'll stay friends. The
Beverly Hills mansion, owned by the great midcentury actor Carrie Grant,
is for sale fifteen thousand square feet, pool home, theater,
tennis courts, seventy seven million. Grant's widow, since remarried, is

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the owner. She's ready to downsize. One more Sign of
the Times memes sent by listener Rod took my side
piece to a Coldplay concert. It ruined my life.