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What will you REFUSE to pay for? · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 1: That girl is absolutely on fire wherever she's at. Peyton
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  Speaker 1: Highlock here on News Radio 1110 KFAB filling in for
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  Speaker 1: Gene Stothert on the KFAB comment line today. 402-558-1110. Comment
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  Speaker 1: at KFAB.com. We'd love to hear from you today. Scott
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  Speaker 1: Voorhees sitting across from me this morning for his fifth
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  Speaker 1: hour of radio. Good morning, Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasure to be the producer of the comment line today.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to all of our hosts for jumping in. I'm
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  Speaker 2: especially excited about this hour of radio, Peyton. Good to
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  Speaker 2: have you sitting there in the host chair.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Scott. It feels really good. I heard
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  Speaker 1: that you asked everybody across the Omaha metro area, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody was out today.
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  Speaker 2: Too much rain.
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  Speaker 1: Too much rain.
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  Speaker 2: I offered people a lot of money to do this today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go out if it's raining. So
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  Speaker 2: you're up. You get the gig because you're here.
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  Speaker 1: I get the gig because I have to be here regardless. Yes, absolutely, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Well- We want to hear from you today. We'd love
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  Speaker 1: to get some comments going. Things are so expensive right now, Scott, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And I don't want to talk about gas or diesel prices, right?
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  Speaker 1: What is something that you look and go, are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? Restaurants, groceries, daycare, all of those things are so,
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  Speaker 1: so expensive. But what is one thing that you refuse
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  Speaker 1: to pay for?
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  Speaker 2: I briefly told a little bit of the story a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hours ago here on Nebraska's Morning News, but
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  Speaker 2: there was one of these companies that advertises, we'll come
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  Speaker 2: out to your house and we'll do this for $ 99.
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  Speaker 2: And look, there are companies that do that. Immediately people
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  Speaker 2: are like, is it this company? Is it don't try
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  Speaker 2: and guess which company it is and don't assume. And
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  Speaker 2: also don't assume that if you hear a company saying,
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  Speaker 2: we'll come out and do this for $ 99, that it
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  Speaker 2: won't happen that way. But Sometimes with some people, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't happen that way. And when they come out and
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  Speaker 2: they say, we will do this service for $ 99. And
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  Speaker 2: then you have them come out. And then my wife
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  Speaker 2: calls me and says, yeah, he says that the process
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  Speaker 2: of doing this is going to be just a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more involved. And the price has gone from $ 99
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  Speaker 2: to $ 1, 600 for doing the exact same service. I'm yelling
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  Speaker 2: on the phone going, tell that guy to get out
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  Speaker 2: of my house, get out of my house. And so, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the guy by my plan heard that. And my wife
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  Speaker 2: gets off the phone and he says, so the hubby says,
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  Speaker 2: no go, huh? I mean, don't do the bait and
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  Speaker 2: switch on, on people. That's not cool. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe $ 1, 600 was the right price. It turns out it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't someone else did it for 190, but, um, That's
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  Speaker 2: way too much. Don't advertise $ 99 and then charge me $ 1, 600.
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  Speaker 1: I think the $ 99 was the gas. Sometimes when you're
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  Speaker 1: in high school, oh, pay me a few bucks for
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  Speaker 1: gas money. That might just be the gas money to
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  Speaker 1: get from point A to point B.
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  Speaker 2: That got ridiculous. But when you started talking about gas, housing,
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  Speaker 2: mortgage rates ticked up a little bit more, daycare costs.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder, for people in your age range, just newly married,
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  Speaker 2: not to get intrusive, maybe a family on the way,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're just going to get a bunch of turtles
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  Speaker 2: and breed them. I don't know what you guys have planned.
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  Speaker 2: It's not my business. But for a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who are thinking about that starting a family thing, does
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  Speaker 2: it come into the conversations when you talk with your
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  Speaker 2: friends who are in that same lane where they're talking
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  Speaker 2: about what the high cost of daycare and everything else,
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  Speaker 2: let's try and find a way to be a bit
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  Speaker 2: more old school, traditional, if you will, in doing this
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  Speaker 2: where you have a parent who stays home with the
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  Speaker 2: kid because working just to have the pay for daycare
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  Speaker 2: so someone else can raise your kid seems like a
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  Speaker 2: wash when you could be there with your kid. Do
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  Speaker 2: these conversations come into play for making some of these
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  Speaker 2: big decisions?
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  Speaker 1: Most definitely. And I just want to start by saying
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  Speaker 1: one thing that's usually difficult and you might've experienced this yourself,
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  Speaker 1: but when you are young and you are married and
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  Speaker 1: you have a lot of friends around you who are
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  Speaker 1: in similar stages of life, the comparison trap is very real. Okay. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they got a house already or, or they're having kids already,
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  Speaker 1: or they got it. They got a pet now, or
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  Speaker 1: there's people that are younger. Well, how come they're already
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  Speaker 1: doing all this and that? And that's really big, but
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  Speaker 1: childcare is a big one. Um, my dad told me
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  Speaker 1: that right away. He goes, congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: You're married.
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  Speaker 1: Just remember when you have a kid, they're expensive. So,
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  Speaker 1: so be smart about that. And, um, I look at
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  Speaker 1: a house unbelievably expensive and then to have a huge
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  Speaker 1: down payment, all of that goes into it. Um, property taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody got any comments on that property taxes? Maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: save that for Jean on Monday. We'll leave that up
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  Speaker 1: to her. But groceries, Aldi, that's my go-to. I love
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  Speaker 1: me an Aldi. I avoid the world's largest Hy-Vee in Gretna.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little too busy for my liking, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's so big, there's actually three more Hy-Vees inside of it.
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  Speaker 2: I love that place, but yeah, if they're light right now,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to look for your groceries, you got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of options. I got a new Baker's going
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  Speaker 2: out on a West Maple right now. And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a Hy-Vee down the street. And Aldi's is right there,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently people want more places to choose where they
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  Speaker 2: get their groceries, even if it's, like, you always find
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  Speaker 2: a Home Depot across from a Lowe's. Or we're going
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  Speaker 2: to find a Baker's across from a Hy-Vee, across from
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  Speaker 2: an Aldi, across from a Costco, across from a Sam's.
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  Speaker 2: It can be one of those deals.
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  Speaker 1: They're everywhere. And I love a grocery store. When I
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  Speaker 1: was younger, I don't know if you know who this is.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Reed Drummond. She's the pioneer woman.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the Food Network, my favorite person. She's got
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  Speaker 1: this wonderful ginger hair, deep red hair. And I went
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  Speaker 1: to a baker's on 36th and 370, and I got
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  Speaker 1: a cookbook signed by her. And when I was 14
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  Speaker 1: years old, this was like the most important thing in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: Now, is that because you wanted to watch the Food Network?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Or you grew up and your mom was watching Food Network,
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  Speaker 2: and you watch whatever your mom's watching, and that's how
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  Speaker 2: you got into it?
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  Speaker 1: I would walk my brothers home from school and turn
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  Speaker 1: on Food Network, right away at 4 o'clock, Reed Drummond.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: The Pioneer Woman. That was my go-to. And as a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, if you ever see me come in
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  Speaker 1: here with some Band-Aids on my fingers, it's because we
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  Speaker 1: got some wonderful new knives from the wedding registry. And
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  Speaker 1: I obliterate my fingers with these sharp knives.
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  Speaker 2: You got to learn how to cut.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have them... You have the blade facing towards your fingers.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to lose fingers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can consider it a meal
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  Speaker 1: well-cooked if I don't have a little something to take
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  Speaker 1: with me as I go to bed, whether a cut
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  Speaker 1: or a little something.
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  Speaker 2: No pain, no dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's the way I feel about it. We want
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you today.
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  Speaker 3: 402-558-1110.
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  Speaker 1: Comment at KFAB is the email. You also have the
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  Speaker 1: I heart radio app. Send us a talk back up
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  Speaker 1: to 30 seconds, whatever you have to say. Help me
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit here. Peyton and Scott, are you
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  Speaker 1: working nine to five on nine 25?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, uh, Scott is working
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  Speaker 1: all day today. Looking at all these other things. Where
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  Speaker 1: am I from? This comes from Nick Hoffman comment at KFAB.com.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about yourself. Okay. Um, Well,
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  Speaker 1: my social security number is.
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  Speaker 2: Five zero.
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  Speaker 1: Did you mute me? No, I'm from here. Omaha, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: born and raised Papillion. Thank you, Nick. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: with this email. I went to college in Kansas city
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  Speaker 1: for a few years and I played soccer down there
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas city. You've probably heard that a few different
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  Speaker 1: times here just throughout different courses of the show. But
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  Speaker 1: I love Omaha so much, came back here, and I
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  Speaker 1: plan on living here forever. And what is something that
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  Speaker 1: you refuse to pay for? Everybody else pays for this,
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  Speaker 1: but not me. Is that cable? Is that a car
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  Speaker 1: wash membership? Car washes are on every single corner. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how car washes are still in business.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like the mattress firm where I think
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  Speaker 1: it might be a money laundering scheme because there's car
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  Speaker 1: washes on every single corner now. But I will say,
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  Speaker 1: my wife and I, we bought a new car on
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  Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend. Got a good deal on it. 2026s
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  Speaker 1: are heading out, so we bought a new car. And
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  Speaker 1: the nice thing is, is it came with a three-month
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  Speaker 1: subscription for free car washes. I'll take it because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to purchase a car wash subscription. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, I actually prefer going to those self-pay,
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  Speaker 1: self-wash ones where you can spray it down and scrub
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  Speaker 1: the car. Some people will say that those brushes that
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  Speaker 1: they have are not good on the paint. It scratches
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  Speaker 1: it up. But I'm just going to say there's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a mental thing as well cleaning your
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  Speaker 1: car out. But is it subscriptions? Is it cable? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with cable. We're only going with subscriptions now.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it is your Nebraska season football team. Nebraska football
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  Speaker 1: season tickets. Yep, yep. I'm not paying for that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have anything on that, you can absolutely
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  Speaker 1: give us a call, 402-553-7000. looks like we're getting some
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  Speaker 1: calls in here, Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, let's go to Keith here. Keith, you're on the
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  Speaker 2: KFAB comment line with your host today, producer, usual producer,
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Highlock.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Peyton, good to see you got moved up a
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  Speaker 6: couple chairs there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: You're doing a good job. Hey, my holy cow moment
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  Speaker 6: every month, every month. And I've heard Mayor Gene talk
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  Speaker 6: about it a couple times as a sewer tax, okay?
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  Speaker 6: I've got a bill here recently that I got where
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  Speaker 6: I used 780 gallons of water, and the actual price
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  Speaker 6: for this was $ 1. 89, which is almost $ 2. 00. You know,
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  Speaker 6: that's a pretty good deal. But then the sewer tax
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  Speaker 6: on it, the sewer tax on it is $ 75. And
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  Speaker 6: then they charge sales tax on top of all that.
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  Speaker 6: So anyway, I've just got to beef on the sewer tax.
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  Speaker 6: I know Mayor Gene says, you know, they had to
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  Speaker 6: do it. Well, why didn't they get some infrastructure done?
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't they get some COVID money? You know, there's
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  Speaker 6: been two infrastructure bills in the last 10 years that
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  Speaker 6: have been passed. And evidently Omaha got nothing out.
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  Speaker 7: Of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I absolutely hear you there, Keith. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: when we were talking about this a few weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: when it came to the Kellogg moving out, and that
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  Speaker 1: was a really big part of it too. I mean, Keith,
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  Speaker 1: you're not happy with the sewer tax? Clearly, Kellogg was
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  Speaker 1: not happy about that price either. Too expensive for them,
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  Speaker 1: so they went ahead and jumped ship here in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Omaha. That's a good one, though. Sewer tax,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of those you got to pay it, though.
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  Speaker 1: you got to pay it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have been one. I mean, this was
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  Speaker 2: decades ago where the government said, you've got to separate
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  Speaker 2: the wastewater from the sewer line. And if we would
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  Speaker 2: have done it at that time, it would have cost
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  Speaker 2: Omaha homeowners just a little bit of money. But someone said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's the right thing. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be the person to pass that cost along. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll do it somewhere down the line. By the time
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  Speaker 2: we got to that line, it ended up being exponentially
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  Speaker 2: more expensive. We did get some federal funding to Keith's point,
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  Speaker 2: but When it costs you an extra $ 50 just for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of flushing your toilet, that's pretty expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and isn't it based on how much water you
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  Speaker 1: would use?
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  Speaker 2: No, the sewer separation excise tax doesn't matter if you
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  Speaker 2: use no water or a ton of water. That's just
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  Speaker 2: an extra $ 50 or whatever on the bill. On top
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  Speaker 2: of what you're talking about there, if you take an
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  Speaker 2: 18-minute shower every hour— Well, you're going to spend a
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  Speaker 2: lot more money on your utility bill, but that which
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  Speaker 2: is for the sewer separation project is a flat rate
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  Speaker 2: across all the homeowners. I see.
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  Speaker 1: Nick sent an email, comment at kfab.com. Car washes are
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  Speaker 1: really real real estate plays. As long as the car
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  Speaker 1: wash generates enough revenue to cover the cost of the
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  Speaker 1: wash and land, it's a genius move. I hear you, Nick.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just concerned at how they're going on every single corner.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm thinking to myself, how many car washes
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  Speaker 1: can you put up along Highway 370? I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: has to be about a dozen in a three-mile stretch.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, are they competing? But I guess if
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  Speaker 1: it's affordable, then it's a good real estate play, then
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  Speaker 1: good for you. Teresa sends an email. Currently, I refuse
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  Speaker 1: to pay for cable streaming services. I get DVDs of
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  Speaker 1: popular series from the library. I watch the whole Game
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  Speaker 1: of Thrones series that way. Also, refuse to pay for
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  Speaker 1: coffee like at Starbucks. I make my own at home.
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  Speaker 1: That's one thing. Thank you for the email, Teresa. You're
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  Speaker 1: young and everything's too expensive. And I'll call them the boomers, right?
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  Speaker 1: The baby boomers, the older generation. Well, if you just
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  Speaker 1: cut down a little bit on those expensive coffees, you'll
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  Speaker 1: be able to afford a house in no time. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know about that. You know, $ 5, $ 6 here and there.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's okay. When will the sewer tax be
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  Speaker 1: paid off? That's a Gene Stothert question. Well, we can
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  Speaker 1: bring that up on Monday. I think 2038, 2037, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. It's a long ways away, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it was 2037, 2038, something like that. It was, what,
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  Speaker 1: over $ 2 billion worth of is how expensive it was.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not my cup of tea right there.
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  Speaker 2: I got an email here from Justin. It says, why
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  Speaker 2: is literally everything doubled or tripled except the cost of bananas?
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  Speaker 2: That's a good point. Everything else has gone up crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Like broccoli, they're still just giving it away. Bananas are
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  Speaker 2: given away. There's still a little bit of supply and
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  Speaker 2: demand going on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I try to stay on the outside of
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  Speaker 1: the grocery stores. You know, the produce, usually those aisles,
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  Speaker 1: the non-processed things, they're a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Watermelon is stupid expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you want to get seedless, you really
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  Speaker 1: got to fork it out.
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  Speaker 2: Justin also talking about the cost of groceries. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the KFAB comment line, Justin, with your host today, Peyton Highlock.
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  Speaker 2: Justin left us. All right, fine. We'll go to Jim then. Hey, Jim,
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  Speaker 2: how about you? You're next up on 1110 KFAB.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 7: How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Doing good. Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, this sewer tax thing, my daughter was in school,
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  Speaker 8: and I listened to a broadcast on KFAB, and this
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  Speaker 8: was back in the, in like 19, or not 19, 2008,
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  Speaker 8: 9 timeframe. And this tax on this sewer separation was
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  Speaker 8: only supposed to last five years. And look how long
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  Speaker 8: it's lasted. So that was supposed to be a temporary
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  Speaker 8: tax for the sewer separation. And at the time, we
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  Speaker 8: couldn't get any funding for it because of who was
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  Speaker 8: in the White House. So he didn't like our district.
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  Speaker 8: He never came. So that's why we got the tax.
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  Speaker 8: But it wasn't supposed to last more than five years.
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  Speaker 8: I also want to mention, too, that MUD is looking
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  Speaker 8: to go to some new technology to do remote monitoring
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  Speaker 8: of our gas meters. And they say it's more accurate,
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  Speaker 8: but it's going to cost us more money. So there's
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  Speaker 8: another fee that's going to go on our gas bill.
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  Speaker 8: And I told them, I said, I'm on a fixed income.
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  Speaker 8: I can't pay any more for my gas. I'm already
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  Speaker 8: paying all these fees right now, and I'm trying to
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  Speaker 8: conserve water and try to conserve gas. But you can't
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  Speaker 8: go on and conserve so much if these fees are there.
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  Speaker 8: So just to let you guys know, some of this
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  Speaker 8: stuff was only supposed to be temporary. Of course, we
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  Speaker 8: know how that goes. But the other thing I want
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  Speaker 8: to mention too, what I will not pay for, It's
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  Speaker 8: Starbucks coffee. So that's what I can do away with.
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  Speaker 8: So as information, you guys are doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Jim, thank you for the call. And that
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks coffee, that's a go-to one right there. People don't
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  Speaker 1: buy the expensive coffee and I get that. And you
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  Speaker 1: bring up the sewer separation project, the sewer tax, it
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be temporary. That's what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people have to say about the restaurant tax as well
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  Speaker 1: that ended up getting, I guess, supposedly temporary that is
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  Speaker 1: now in full effect. And That will spark some conversation
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: that I don't think I'm ready to have today. But
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: we can definitely bring that up a different time. And
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: just to confirm, yeah, the sewer separation project is expected
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: to conclude in 2037. So another 10 years or so
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to go.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: I'll make an early call on that one, Peyton. It
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: will not go away in 2037. They never go away. But, hey,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: optimism abounds. Optimism abounds.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: This is the KFAB comment line. Your producer is usually
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Peyton Highlock, but today Peyton is the host of the
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: comment line. I'm producer Scott Voorhees. We've got Dave calling
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: in here. Slightly different topic here. Dave, you're on News
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Radio 1110 KFAB with Peyton.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: Hi, Peyton.
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: Thanks for taking my call.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, Dave.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: How are you?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Hey, I sent.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: I vote for Pillen many times. I sent him a
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: emailed a couple months ago because he was out stomping
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: about how much $ 40 million, I believe, was the number
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: that he was going to give to rural Nebraska for internet, right?
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: So I emailed him, and he said, well, this is
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: a grant.
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: Well, a grant's still tax dollars at the end of
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: the day, federal tax dollars. It's still our money. So
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: I asked him, I said, why are we putting lines
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: to these farms and stuff? I got nothing against farmers.
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Why are we running wires to farms to have internet
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: when you can have Starlink?
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's what the city of Omaha is doing
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: that all over.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: Very few people are going wired anymore.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely hear you there, Dave. And Starlink is
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a really interesting thing, too. Kind of newer, a little
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: bit more cutting edge, and you brought up how Omaha
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: uses it. And I have heard that. You're spending all
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of this money to lay cables for internet across rural Nebraska, right?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: when Starlink is so much more affordable. And I don't
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: know the details of Starlink and how it works, but
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I believe they have it a lot of places now,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: and they're trying to make that a little bit more
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: streamlined across multiple places, buildings, cars, everything. And so thank
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you for the.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Call, Dave.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. KFAB, my name is Peyton Highlock,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: filling in for Gene Stothert. here on the KFAB comment line.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I like me some Michael Jackson. Nice little bumper right there.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Chip Maxwell started off the week on a Monday. Then
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we had Kathleen Cowell, state senator for Omaha. Mike Evans,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: mayor of Gretna, was on Tuesday. We had Lucy Chapman
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: on the comment line on Wednesday, and Gary Saddlemeyer yesterday.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: You can listen to all of those episodes, kfab.com slash podcasts,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: or the free iHeartRadio app. You want to listen to those.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You'll also be able to hear this one later today.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Just make sure you keep listening now. You can listen
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to those later in your free time. Scott Voorhees joins
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: me controlling the board today. And 402-558-1110. Comment at kfab.com
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: for any questions, comments, and concerns. Headed to the phone lines. Robert,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you are now live on KFAB.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Hello, Peyton.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: Hello, Peyton.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Hey, I want to say that you're doing a very
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: good job. I can't imagine talking, you know, for hours
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: by Scott Porgy.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: So good job.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: I just want to.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Say that if you're not watching every dime, you are
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: really not going to make it, and you're going.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: To keep it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: It is in this world. It's not that hard in
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: your world compared to our world. You know, you said
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: $ 5 coffee, no big deal. Every dime counts. If you're
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: killing in this commercial, say, well, my dad said feed
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: every nickel a manhole cover. And people actually do that,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: and that's how they make it. And, let's see, my
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: favorite rhyme is, If your outflow exceeds your income, your
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: overhead will be your downfall. So you've got to live
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: like no other to live, he says. And those guys
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: who say, well, congressmen, they're becoming millionaires on their salary.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: If I had 10 years of congressional salary, I'd be
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: a millionaire every time. There's just no way I wouldn't.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: So you can do it. You just have to watch
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: your dime. And keeping up with the Joneses, oh, my gosh.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: You got to stop. You're, you're a, you're a man.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Now you're, you're a husband. You got to stop caring
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: what you look like and what you, what people think
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: about you. You got to just do what's best for
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: you and your family. You got to stop worrying about
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the Joneses you're doing. And that's my.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: Comment today, sir.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Robert. I appreciate the phone call. And, and,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and you're right, Robert, unfortunately I missed the boat, uh,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: back in 2013 or so I did not invest in Bitcoin.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: So I am, uh, just the average American anymore married
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and you're absolutely right. Um, um, budgeting, consolidating costs, watching
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the outflow versus the inflow. It's a big thing. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: being alone, having a wife now, that's been a significant
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: change in my life since graduating college. And I'm right
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: in the thick of it. Now, Dale on the phone lines, 402-558-1110.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Welcome in, Dale. Congratulations on your.
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: Marriage, I hope that it's long and prosperous.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I'd like to make a comment that it's disappointing that
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: you can go to a place that serves baby back
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: ribs and it's cheaper to eat there than it is
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: at your local McDonald's. There's something skewed about that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: I don't know what it is, but it's just wrong.
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: As far as coffee, make it yourself.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: It tastes better.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: And then also, just remember... Today is Dolly Parton Day,
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: 9 to 5. And let Scott know that the first
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: day of winter will be on the 21st of December.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: 21st of December.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Next time.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: 21st of December.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Dale. I appreciate the call today, sir.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Have a great day.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I always know the day that the days start getting longer.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: As a golfer, I always appreciate that. Thank you for
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the call, Dale. Yeah, today is Dolly Parton Day 925.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You've probably not seen this movie.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Not the movie.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: You should.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: This is a timeless classic. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and Dabney Cooper, you'll love it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Get some good cultural influence right there. Dolly Parton Day, 925.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you for that call, Dale.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It teaches you a valuable life lesson. If you don't
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: like your boss, you chain him up in the garage.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: It's a good movie.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Do we have any chains here? Oh, no. Okay. You're
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: my boss, so that wasn't funny.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I was talking about my boss down the hall.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: You can chain your boss up. That's fine.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: 402-558-1110.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Jared is on the phone lines. Thank you for the call.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: What's on your mind?
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: How you doing, Peyton?
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: Good.
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: I also like what Governor Pillen.
• 24:37
  Speaker 12: Had to say about the nickel and manhole. My nickel
• 24:41
  Speaker 12: is $ 1. 99 storage for my Google email.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So do you pay that or do you refuse to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: pay it?
• 24:51
  Speaker 12: I refuse to pay it. I just keep up on
• 24:54
  Speaker 12: my emails even though it's hard. I download my photos
• 24:58
  Speaker 12: onto my computer.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I refuse to.
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: Pay that $ 1.
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: 99.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: That is a really, really, really good one, Jared. And
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: iCloud will do the same thing where you can pay $ 1. 99
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: or something like that and you get a little bit
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: more storage. But that's a no-go for you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: That's an absolute no-go.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I hear you. And that's a good one. And why
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: do we have to pay for extra storage like that?
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: Well, we're going to end up having those anyway.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Jared, thank you for the call. That's probably the best
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: one I've heard yet. $ 1. 99 Google storage. That is.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Real.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I hear him there.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I got one for you. Now, I understand that I'm
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a million years old, but growing up with video games,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: if we wanted to put a different outfit on our character,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: we had to imagine it. If we wanted Super Mario
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: to have a different costume or something on it. Now,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: in any video game, you don't even get a basketball
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: or a football game or even Fortnite just to play
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: the game. You've got to equip your avatar, and you've
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: got to get the right shoes and jersey and hoodie
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: and all the rest of the stuff. And you go shopping,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and you pay actual money to make sure that your
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: player gets all the right equipment. You can either play
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: the game for hours and hours on end and earn
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: those things, or you can pay money right up front.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to get your player certain boosts and so forth. My son, teenager,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: constantly asking, can I have $ 10 for what? So my
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: player can get a boost and something?
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: When did this become commonplace? What happened to just playing
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the game?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: This is very real, and I know you have experiences
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: with your kids as well. I don't play very many
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: video games anymore, but during COVID was the time. I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the oldest. I have two younger brothers. And I think
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: my parents were tormented during that time about these microtransactions,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: is what they call them in these games, where you
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: have no benefit to the game, just the appearance. So
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: there's no benefit but the appearance. But let me tell you,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: when you're in high school, that is a huge deal.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: So that's a good one, though. The microtransactions on the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: video games. I love it. Sam is on the phone
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: lines here, 402-558-1110. Welcome in, Sam. What's on your mind?
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: I've got something I wouldn't spend my own money on,
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: but my wife does. She hired a style consultant.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh. Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: For herself, for the home?
• 27:42
  Speaker 11: For herself. She's a corporate officer at a big company
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: here in Omaha. And I think she already has impeccable taste.
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: And I just couldn't believe it. It's everything from makeup
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: to what's trending this fall in clothes and what nails, everything.
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: It's ridiculous. I have a feeling that's going to be
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: a job, one of the first jobs that goes away
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: because of AI. But it's her money.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Is your wife deserving of a style consultant?
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: Well, sure, yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: What if you could get a little BOGO, buy one,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: get one 50% off, sort of special, if you also
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: get a style consultant? Would you consider that?
• 28:31
  Speaker 11: No, I'm with one of your previous callers. I'm older
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: and married, and I don't really. Was she going to
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: pick me out like Kansas City Chiefs t-shirts or something?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't wear any corduroy pants with your Nebraska jersey?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: No, okay. All right, Sam, thank you for the call.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I got an email here from Kimberly.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Comment at kfab.com some things that she will not pay for.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I won't pay for manicures and pedicures, trendy clothes, streaming services,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: expensive coffee, delivery services like Uber Eats. I'll throw in DoorDash.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Those add up quick. You get a $ 12 breakfast burrito
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: from Abelardo's. You go to checkout and all of a
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: sudden it's $ 35. I don't know where all those things go.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Drive a brand new car. We are boomers raised by
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: depression era parents and have earned everything we have. We
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: just don't. We just happen to know how to be
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: good with money. That's a really important part of this.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the email, Kimberly. Another email from Matt here.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Pepe and I refuse to buy beef jerky. I love it,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: but it's like $ 18 for six little pieces. I hear you, Matt.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I hear you. Beef jerky is expensive, and I don't
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: buy it all the time. And this might be controversial,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: but I do enjoy beef jerky on a road trip.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: The issue with the beef jerky on the road trip, though,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: is you crack open that seal, And all of a sudden,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the entire car smells like beef jerky, and you are
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: getting the stink eye from everybody in the vehicle because
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you just opened up a bag of beef jerky. But
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it's great, besides the fact that it gets stuck in
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: my teeth. I hate that. Scooter sends an email about
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: emergency lights. I've gotten this one a lot, Scooter, from you.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Why are vehicles other than emergency vehicles equipped with blue
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: emergency lights? Last I knew, red and blue lights were
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: meant for emergency vehicles only. Police cars, sheriffs, ambulance, not
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: power companies, Department of Roads, and personal vehicles. All it
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: does is cause confusion. I hear what you're saying when
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: it comes to the lights. You see those, especially along... I-680,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: they're doing that road expansion there, and they have all
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: those vehicles with the flashing lights in the back and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the rear windows. And it can be a little overwhelming,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: especially for a new driver like your grandson. It's definitely
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a tough one, and I'm not sure. I'll bring that
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: up with Jean Stothert. She might have a better answer
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: for me there. This is the KFAB Comment Line here
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on NewsRadio 1110 KFAB. My name is Peyton Highlock. Filling
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: in for host Jean Stothert today. She will return on Monday.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: More to come from the KFAB comment line next. 1048
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: News Radio 1110 KFAB, final segment of the KFAB comment line.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: My name is Peyton Highlock. Scott Voorhees with me today.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: 402-558-1110 on the phone lines, the email comment at kfab.com
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: or the iHeartRadio app. Send us a talkback via the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: talkback mic up to 30 seconds. And Scott, it sounds
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: like we got a few talkbacks here.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a few. First one on your question
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: about affordability and what you just won't pay for. We
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: got this.
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: Hey, good morning, guys. Heard your conversation about the one
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: thing that you will not pay for. For me, it's
• 31:51
  Speaker 13: sides of ranch in restaurants. Nothing aggravates me more. I've
• 31:56
  Speaker 13: actually started to bring my own little bottle because I
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: refuse to pay 25 cents per cup for ranch for
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: my tater tots.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: For my tater tots.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: For your tots.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: For my tots. Napoleon, give me his tots.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, are you allowed to bring your own dressing into
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: a restaurant?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I highly doubt it, but when I was a server,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: if somebody were to pull ranch— room temperature ranch out
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: of their pocket and squeeze it on their plate, I
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: would probably not say anything about that. And when I
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: was thinking about things that people might not pay for,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I wrote down ranch at restaurants. Me personally, I'll pay
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: $ 2 if I get eight ranch cups. I need the ranch.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I'll pay for it.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Then there's other places where you go there and you
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: get a cheeseburger and they throw in like 97 packs
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: of ketchup. Or you're like, I'll have a couple of tacos.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: All right, here's a kiddie pool full of hot sauce.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I don't need all of this. So sometimes, make a decision,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: fast food restaurants, on the various little packets of ranch
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: dressing or ketchup. Do they cost extra or are they worthless?
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Make a decision. Have a caucus. Decide. All right, we
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: also got this on the Talk Back mic.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, Peyton.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: I refuse to pay for her. Things like Spotify or
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Pandora or Series XM. Because the iHeartRadio app is totally free.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Have a great day. Have a good weekend.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You too. And then one more
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: specific question for you, Peyton, here in the talkback mic
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: portion of our free iHeartRadio app.
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: Peyton, you're doing a great job filling in for the mayor,
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: but if you had your own show, what would be
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: your intro music?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: The controversial intro music question.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: That is good. I love Michael Jackson, and I think
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: that that would be a great way to open a show.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, get a little boogie in my seat, get
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: ready to go, get fired up. Yeah, yeah, I like
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the Michael Jackson answer. I don't know if I have
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: a song off the top of my head.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Well, without Jean Stother here, you could go with she's
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: out of my life.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: She'll be back in my life. Oh, that's good. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: got an email here from Grace.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Hi, Grace.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Good to hear from you. Thank you for sending an email.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Comment at kfab.com. Something I refuse to pay for. Shipping
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: on online purchases and the extra cost for name brand
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: items at the grocery store. I assume that you're talking
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: about the... Get it in five to seven business days
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: for $ 5 or get it in two to three days
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: for 15 or get it in two months free. I
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: hear you on that one. I am not going to
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: pay for it to get there faster unless I need
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it and it's urgent. But when it comes to name
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: brand items at grocery stores, I have certain things that
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I will sacrifice. I'll go off brand. But there's some
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: things that I'm going to get name brand. I'm going
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to get my Hidden Valley Ranch. I'm going to get
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: the name brand cereal. Something I'll let slide is, I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: don't know, generic chicken broth. I'll get store brand chicken broth.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: But there's some things I'll forego, but some things I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: want the name brand.
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  Speaker 2: Having been in your position of a newlywed, not making
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: a ton of money and having to make a decision
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: as to how far the budget was going to go
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: every month, I once made a decision and said, I'm
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: going to go with, because I'm A total addict when
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: it comes to ice cream. So I got just the
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: generic ice cream. And I'll tell you what, it's not bad.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Generic ice cream is still pretty good. I still sometimes
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: get generic ice cream. But then I got the generic
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: little bottle of chocolate syrup. It's a lot cheaper than
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the Hershey's syrup.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It's garbage. It's not the same. It's garbage. It's not
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: even close. It's chocolate-flavored garbage. Go with the Hershey's.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Now, I'll get the generic ice cream if it's in
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: one of those big gallon tubs, vanilla ice cream. I'll
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: go there. But if I'm going to get some, oh,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Ben and Jerry's, you can't get an
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: alternative to that. That is the best.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is another decision you make. People are saying, like,
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: just make your coffee at home. I mean, only a
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: couple times a year will I go and get ice
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: cream from someplace that, that sells it. I mean, most
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: of my ice cream is consumed at home. The cost
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: per serving is so much cheaper if you just buy
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: it at the store, take it home, scoop it up yourself,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: as opposed to having someone else scoop it up for you,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: mix it for you, and now here's your malt. It'll
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: be $ 30. Pretty much, I'm only vacation dad on that one.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: We'll get ice cream on vacation. Outside of that, we
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: have ice cream at home.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Have you heard of nuking your ice cream?
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Nuking?
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: My grandfather taught me this one. You get ice cream
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and it's hard. Your spoon's not really getting in the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: ice cream. You finally spoon out enough to get in
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it in the bowl. And then you throw it in
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the microwave for seven seconds.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say it can't be much
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: more than ten seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Just seven seconds.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: And it's just soft enough. It's not even really melty yet.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: It's just soft. And it's a game changer.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Then you can also nuke your chocolate syrup. At the
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: end of the little bottle of chocolate syrup, you know
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: there's still a little bit in there. You can't get it.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: But you can't get it out. It's just all that.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: So nuke it again, three, four seconds, and that stuff
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: just melts real quickly and just pours right out of there.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Much longer, the bottle starts melting on you.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: But good.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: You've got to get the last squeeze out of it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Vent it. Pop open that lid. Yes. Otherwise, the thing's
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: going to get, it's going to explode. Then you have
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: chocolate everywhere.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: I've gotten a few emails here about haircuts. People are
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: refusing to pay too much money for a haircut. Scooter says,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I found a guy that will do them for 15
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: bucks and you get a back massage. Is that where
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson went?
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: That wasn't his back.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: Anyway.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I'll get my haircuts. That is something that I pay for.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got a good head of hair.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: I do, I do.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I hear Chris Baker say that three times an hour
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: on his show.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Chris Baker and his hair.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: He's obsessed with people with a good head of hair.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: We'll get a news story and he goes, and he
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: has a good head of hair. Why would he ruin
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: it like that?
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: He hates that. Chris doesn't have a lot of hair.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: No.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: In case you haven't, gotten that message yet. Chris does
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: not have a lot of hair. Doug says, I'm a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: little late to the conversation, but something I will not
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: pay for is parking. I avoid or refuse to attend
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: events that include pay for parking. When I have no choice,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: it ruins my experience, but it eats me alive when
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I had to pay to park.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I will walk from home before I pay way too
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: much for parking. I'll put a couple of bucks in
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: a meter, but I'm not paying 25, 30 or more
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: dollars to pay in some lot.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: And that's a huge distinction. If I drive downtown, I'll
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: do what I can to find free parking. Usually, you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: in the evening times or weekends, you get a.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Way out and they don't make you pay. But you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: go to a football game. All right, here's $ 50 for parking.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I went to the World Cup this summer in Kansas City.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, do I want to drive?
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Do I want to get an Uber? Uber is going
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to be really expensive. So maybe I'll look at the parking.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: $ 100 for your car to park, and you have to
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: sit in hours of traffic. I said, Uber it is.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: And the Ubers were outrageous too, but I knew on
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: my own conscience I wasn't parking for $ 100. I once
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: bought a car for $ 300.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: $ 100 for parking.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: And you bought a car for $ 300.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: It was not a great car. But it rolled. It drove.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: It rolled.
• 40:21
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  Speaker 1: Radio 1110 KFAB. My name is Peyton Highlock filling in
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: for Gene Stothert today. We had a great slate of
• 40:30
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• 40:35
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• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Peyton Highlock. Thank you so much for listening today. Scott Voorhees,
• 40:43
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• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Great show, Peyton. It was a pleasure.
• 40:47
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• 40:50
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