Rosie's Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is twenty twenty six in New Zealand, has been
for three hours, and then the fireworks got shot off
in Sydney, Australia, so the new year is almost here.
First up, fake news from Babylon. B for Christmas, A
person who hates you gave your kid a recorder. Now
for the real thing. On the last day of twenty

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twenty five? For us, what did we learn? Climate alarmism
is dead? The country woke up to a stubborn reality.
We need oil and natural gas for a lot more
than just getting across town. The oil that comes out
of the ground or from beneath the floor of the
ocean makes steel, lubricants, the roads we drive on, the

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wheels on our cars, even the electric ones, golf clubs,
tennis rackets, lipstick, antihistamines, the case that holds our iPhones,
Grandpa's artificial heart, valve, polyester clothes, hand lotion, disposable diapers,
even the soap we use to clean every thing from
our hands, to our dishes to our teeth. Rather than

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leaving it alone, shouldn't we get to work on finding
its replacement? Twenty twenty five taught us more cops on
the street, even if they look like Marines makes us safer.
DEI programs cost more than their worth, and maybe we
should let our children's sex stay that way a little longer.
We learned big government equals big fraud. Minnesota is just

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one of only fifty states where cheaters are making off
with tax money. But the best news from twenty twenty
five appears to be a revival of faith by the
world's young people. In the UK, now forty eight percent
of eighteen to twenty five year olds say they definitely
or probably believe in God, nineteen points higher than just

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seven years ago. In this country, the percent of gen
z young men who profess to follow Jesus Christ is
up fifteen points in the last five years. These twenty somethingters,
parents who grew up with greed, excess sex, no fall,
divorce in the credit card, might just save the country.

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No known connection, but the death of Charlie Kirk and
his faith based messages are getting through. Elizabeth O'Connor, an
elected member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents,
will resign effective January nine. She is charged with felony
drunk driving following a near fatal automobile accident in May

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She was unhurt, but four passengers in the other car
were one nearly died. O'Connor is blamed for the accident.
An unofficial head count of state senators found more than
the necessary twenty five votes to impeach her, so this
saves a lot of time. The governor will appoint the
new regent from District IV. The Omaha World Herald has

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been sold again. It is a hostile takeover by Florida
businessman David Hoffman, owner of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. The
fifty million dollar transaction gives him controlling interest of the
World Herald parent company Lee Enterprises, which spent a year
inserting poison pills into the company to keep Hoffman from

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buying it. As part of the deal, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway,
which has been financing four hundred and fifty million of
Lee's debt, will cut the interest rate in half for
five years. Otherwise there is a good chance he'd be
back in the newspaper business six years after he got
out of it. Sunday night, United Airlines flight twenty four

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to ten from Washington, d C. To Salt Lake City
made an unplanned stop in Omaha, seems a passenger, twenty
five year old Jordan Langston, struggling with substance abuse and
mental illness, assaulted one of the flight attendants. He was
restrained by four passengers, handcuffed to an empty seat as
the plane landed at Eppley air Field. Omaha police locked

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him up. The judge will keep him there until trial,
says he's too dangerous to let out. In this week's
Tournament of Rosies, Omaha's Mike and Gail Yanni sixty five
Big Ones together and Bill and Judy Straw still holding
hands after fifty five years this week and a special
exemption for this one. Richie and Rosemary Grala of Papillion

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thirty nine together today. Upon this news, Rosemary has just
inched past Edward Flanagan on the list of those to
be canonized or should be. One more Sign of the
Times meme sent in by listener Everett. I'm just renting
this billboard so a personal injury lawyer can't celebrate safely.

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See you back here on Monday,