Rosie's Thursday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everybody. It's a rosy dig you Friday on
a Thursday, or I'll be away from our chat tomorrow.
Hurricane Milton roars across Florida overnight, hit the western coast
near Sarasota, moving at twenty miles an hour, should be
out into the Atlantic by mid afternoon. Eighteen inches of
rain fell on Saint Petersburg. Winds ripped the roof off

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of the Tropic Cana Dome, home to Baseball's Tampa Bay
Devil Rays. It appears the storm surges forecast for up
to fifteen feet were half, but the wind blew so
hard that some Floridians report storm surges of four inches
in their toilets. Accessories to Hurricane Milton. Tornado outbreaks one

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hundred twenty six confirmed touchdowns yesterday and last night, including
Fort Myers, where an F three ripped through a neighborhood.
Most of the tornado damage came in Saint Lucia County,
and Alligators Zoo officials say the wind and waves will
carry them and poisonous snakes into front yards. This morning,
three million without power, many of them lost during the

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Hurricane Helene, means those folks are going on three weeks
without power, and they may not get it on for
another one. There are no winners in natural disasters like hurricanes,
but they can reveal leaders. While North Carolinians go another
day without water, power, food, or even a way out.
The Vice president was doing softball interviews in New York City,

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but in Florida there was Governor Ron DeSantis on statewide
TV and radio around the clock, calmly, specifically sharing vital
information about the storm, damage reports, updated weather, and what
Floridians can expect from him. Twenty six days from the election,
new polls from typically reliable Quinnipiac University showing cracks in

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the Democrats blue Wall Michigan Trump plus four, Wisconsin up
plus three, Pennsylvania Harris plus two. For context, on October tenth,
four years ago, Biden led in Michigan by seven and
by seven in Pennsylvania. We may not be done with debates.
Fox News has offered either October twenty fourth or October

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twenty seventh for a ninety minute live square off in Pennsylvania.
Brett Baird and Martha McCallum would moderate same rules as
the CNN and ABC debates, but no anchor fact checking
Trump's campaign is sure to say yes. Harris may be
forced to agree, given her sliding numbers with a working class.
The Biden administration has finally reassigned overmatch to Dei hire

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Kreine Jean Pierre from the public press secretary job to
a senior advisory role comfortably hidden in the West Wing.
Tim Johnson, the last Democrat elected to statewide office in
South Dakota, is dead complications from a stroke at seventy seven. Politically,
he was a moon moving target, often voting with and

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for Republicans used to say neither the left nor the
right owns all the good ideas. Warren Buffett has already
outlived one wife and now a son in law daughter
Suzi's husband, Omaha guitar virtuoso John Foley of lung cancer
at sixty six. The war in Ukraine just got a
little bigger, arriving on the battlefield for Russia, the first

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troops from North Korea going away after sixty years. College
sports National letter of Intent starting next year, the athlete
signs an agreement tied to nil revenue sharing. Each deal
is a little different. The original NLI, established in nineteen
sixty four, was adopted by the NCAA after Omaha Central

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All stater Gail Sayers backed out of his commitment to
Nebraska football just two weeks before fall practice and enrolled
at Kansas. According to wallet Hub, based on police, natural disasters,
and financial stapility, the safest city in America is South Burlington, Vermont.
The most dangerous Memphis. What is the most popular romance

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movie of all time? Well, according to the data platform Stacker,
measuring downloads and votes, Casa Blanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and
Ingrid Bergmann, released eighty two years ago. One more Sign
of the Times meme sent in by listener Keith. If
a man speaks in the forest and there is no
woman to hear him, is he still wrong?