Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
First up, fake news that you can trust from the
Babylon b AOC appears on the price is right and
guesses everything is free. Now for the real thing. It's Friday,
could get up to one hundred this weekend, so we're
all going to need a good shade tree. The best
one may be a one hundred twenty year old cottonwood

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near the Piebal Lake State Park in Wheeler County, eighty
five feet tall, one hundred and twenty foot canopy. The
trunk circumference is thirty seven feet around, so a lot
of us will fit under that one. Our guys lost
that World Cup soccer match last night. In the ninety
eighth minute, Turkey gets an empty netter from the far
post three to two. We had our second string out there,

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knowing we'd already qualified for the next round. Finally, a
good day for President Trump. The Supreme Court sides with
him on two big immigration issues. Six to three. It
votes to say yes DHS can limit the number of
asylum seekers and they can only apply for a is
limit points of entry. The Court also ends protections for
over three hundred and fifty thousand Haitians and Syrians, some

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here for over a decade under the temporary Protective Status
policy that opened the US to refugees after wars and
natural disasters. Trump wants them out as part of his
plan to restrict any immigration. The American West has a
major problem. Lake Powell, one of the two giant reservoirs
fed by the Colorado River, is down to twenty three

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percent of capacity, the lowest since it was full forty
three years ago. Lake mead Downriver twenty eight percent usage
and record light snowfall, and the Rockies are to blame.
The Colorado is a lifeline to thirty five million people
and five million acres of farmland from the Rockies to

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southern California. Maybe this will finally get the radical environmentalists
to back off blocking the construction of desalination plants along
the Pacific coast. But even if we started turning dirt today,
it'd be five years before it could produce fresh water.
The busiest guy in Nebraska is the watchdog. State auditor

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Mike Foley tells the planes a sentinel. For every tip
his office gets on waste, fraud and abuse, it leads
to three more, most of it in health and human services.
His office only has fifty employees, says, get me more
staff and we'll find hundreds of millions. Thirty three percent
of eighteen to thirty four year olds are still living

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with their parents. Statsfromrealtor dot Com. Seventy percent of them
have jobs, just can't afford to live on their own,
or they don't know how. Which TV network has the
most viewers NBCCBSABC, well neither YouTube. Thirteen point four percent
of the country watches YouTube, ABC, Disney a second, ten

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point three percent, NBC Universe, and paramount CBS third and fourth.
Netflix falls to fifth place. What's on YouTube Everything? What
was once known as the car theft capital of the
world is now the nation's hottest housing market. Three in
five homes since January first have sold above asking price.

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In Newark, New Jersey, a lot of New Yorkers live there.
Crime is way down too. What's coming naming rights to
more college football stadiums. A lot of them were built
in the twenties named for the soldiers of World War One.
Arkansas just sold the name of theirs to a bank.
Ohio State Athletic director ross By York left the door
open for it there. If those in charge of Nebraska

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Memorial Stadium put a top golf in there. How far
do you think we are from replacing the name? There
is an amount of money recovering. Pop superstar Daryl Hall
had a kidney transplant, been struggling health wise since a
tick bite twenty years ago caused a lime disease. Says
he feels better now than in years. He's seventy nine

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in this week's Tournament of Rosies. June twenty six, fifty
years ago, was the day for Brad and Peggy Kramer
of Omaha. Brad, I dare you to try and find
a replica of your tucks that day. One more sign
of the times on the marquee above the Milky Way
ice cream shop on Annabelle Street in Brandon, South Dakota.

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It reads just once. I'd like the user name and
password to say close enough