Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Friday, which means fake news you can trust
from the Babylon Bee fraud alert triggered when housewife shopping
at Target spends less than one hundred dollars. And now
for the real thing. He's the first assistant high school
football coach to ever get a statue. John Cook of
Chula Vista, California, when starting his football career, found his

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way to a volleyball court forty three years later, after
remaking the sport, lifting it to unprecedented heights of popularity
and revenue, all while leading Nebraska to thirteen final fours
and four national titles, seventy two all Americans, a sellout
streak now into a second generation. He stood before the

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seven foot bronze likeness now greeting fans entering the arena
in his name yesterday, overwhelmed and humbled. Just three statues
down there, Devanny, Osborne and Cook seems about right. Big
day for Creighton. This is a three hundred million dollar
campus sports and recreation project which will include new baseball

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and softball stadiums. One hundred million of the three hundred
was given by the estate of the late billionaire Charles
Hyder a cu Alum who made a fortune in investment
banking and an early association with Buffett. This past week,
your state government made a big deal out of the
twenty million in extra gambling proceeds they will now pour

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into property tax relief if they just sent each of
us a check twenty five bucks. Mister Ethanol, longtime state
Senator Lauren Schmidt, former farmer from Bellwood who had ten kids,
dies at ninety six. In the unicameral for twenty four years,
he midwifed the now eight billion dollar ethanol industry. Farmers

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and ranchers never had a stronger voice. Lincoln Northeast High
School had a small army of police officers over there.
On Wednesday, somebody called in declaring hostages had been taken
in a classroom bogus swatting call, but cops weren't taking
any chances. Stuff is leaking out of Kamala Harris's memoirs
of her one hundred seven day run for president. She

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finished runner up, says as she was talked into making
buffoon Tim Walls her running mate her first choice Pete
Buddhaje Edge, but consultants didn't think that we could handle
a black woman and a gay guy at the same time,
and they say conservatives profile people. Muhammad Ali's draft card

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from March of nineteen sixty seven will go up for
auction next month. They think four million. Remember, as a Muslim,
he was a conscientious objector, anti violent, so he refused
to go to Vietnam. Paid a staggering price, Convicted of
draft evasion by an all white jury, sentenced to five
years in prison, stripped of his heavyweight title, and licensed

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to box for three and a half years in the
prime of his career. That same army once rejected him
over poor test scores and then lowered the aptitude standards,
and yet on the draft card they misspelled his name.
Of the forty eight major motion pictures in which the
late Robert Redford starred, did he ever want to do

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a sequel? He did one twenty nineteens Avengers Endgame, but
the one he wanted to do was reprising his role
in the political satire The Candidate. The hottest thing on
TikTok this week is a video of an eleven year
old Golden Retriever in Texas named Mako. Before Mako falls
asleep each night, he stares at his owners to be

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sure that they're the last ones he sees for. In
Mako's first to ten years, the dog was left outside
alone every day. If only we had as much strength
to forgive. Johnny Carson's last home, a seventy one hundred
square foot seaside estate in Malibu, California, is for sale

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Sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean, a tennis pavilion, indoor
atrium with live trees one hundred and ten million. It
has changed hands several times since Johnny long Line. In
this week's Tournament of Rosies, the newlyweds are Shot and
Candace Clean of Lincoln Today, just sixty years for them,

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Bob and Dee Poppy of Hastings together sixty nine years,
and Fred and Henrietta Binesch of Abbey, Nebraska, still loving
after seventy septembers. One more Sign of the Times meme
sent in by listener Max Better to be the oldest
guy in the gym, not the youngest guy in the

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nursing home.