Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday, fake news you can trust. From the Babylon
B Super Bowl halftime show to feature MS thirteen backup
dancers and Democrats call for common sense sombrero control. Now
for the real thing they think they found. Amelia Earhart's plane,

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the famous female pilot from Atchison, Kansas, disappeared trying to
circle the Earth in a Lockheed Electra ten e eighty
seven years ago, one of the great unsolved mysteries of
our time. By month's end, a team of researchers will
make its way to the remote South Pacific island of
Nico Moraro, eleven hundred miles from Fiji. Satellite imagery shows

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something that looks like a plane in one of the
island's lagoons. Her life and disappearance spawned sixty one books
in a major motion picture. Which state had the hot
economy in the second quarter Ours Nebraska. Our GDP was
a whopping five point two percent in August, over two

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points higher than the national average. We had a lot
of making up to do. Our first quarter GDP was
off six percent. What's the difference? Crop prices in Q one,
beef prices in Q two. Home sales big indicator of
an economy's health were good and bad in August. Good
in Houston, Des Moines and Phoenix, Bad in Las Vegas,

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San Diego and Jacksonville. There prices are through the roof.
Overall closed home sales were off two percent. High interest rates.
This could be the worst year for home sales in decades.
Every fall, US News ranks the top colleges and universities
based on graduation and retention rates, graduate success in finding

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a job, and academic resources one, two three for twenty
five twenty six our Princeton, MIT and Harvard Northwestern tops
the Big Ten, bringing up the rear. Big Red Nebraska
is eighteenth out of eighteen Big Ten schools. But don't gloat,

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Iowa your sixteenth. The unicamerals budget cuts. Did it? Who
to believe? Omaha based Gallup has a new poll public
confidence in the mass media twenty eight percent all time low.
Omaha's oracle, Warren Buffett, is back in the game. His
Berkshire Hathaway buys ten billion in Occidental Petroleum's chemical division,

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biggest spend in three years. Oxykem makes chemicals for ivy bags,
swimming pools, pulp, paper, and aluminum. This may be his
last one Buffett is out as CEO. At the end
of the year, English businessman Mortable Goodall couldn't find a
teddy bear for his then five year old daughter, so,
returning from abroad, he presented her with a stuffed chimpanzee

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named Jubilee. Jubilee inspired the little girl to a lifetime
of learning about primates from Africa to Asia. Jane Goodall,
with no formal college education, was no less a pioneer
in teaching the world how animals live and love. She
died in Los Angeles this week of Natural Causes on

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a lecture tour at ninety one to Your Health, the
Journal of American Cardiology analyzed data from six hundred thousand
cases of heart disease released a report says, in every
case before a stroke or a heart attack, the victim
had one of four things high blood pressure, diabetes, high

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bad cholesterol, and they smoked. Hollywood marriages breaking up country
music star Keith Urban and movie star Nicole Kidman after
nineteen years his choice and after twenty eight years, Laurie
Laughlin and her fashion designer husband Massimo gia Nulli for
the first time in fourteen hundred years. The Archbishop of

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cantor is a woman. Bishop Sarah Malali, a former nurse,
is appointed to be the spiritual leader of eighty five
million Angelicans. This is not universally welcomed. The Conservatives don't
like it. That is a bull moose on the loose
in Nance County. Game and Parks spotted it. First official

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sighting of a moose in Nebraska in ten years, not
hurting anything. He'll find his way back home. Likely came
from Minnesota, but what's going on in Minnesota? You'd leave too.
Today's Champion of Character freshman Tom Sillo, starting defensive alignment
for the coming College Warriors NAIA team in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

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Sillo is fifty eight. One more Sign of the Times
meme sent him by listener Jeff. Somehow Walmart thinks I
want to put up my Christmas tree and eat turkey
in my Halloween costume