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Chip Maxwell with Memorial Day in the Rear View · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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Speaker 1: I was driving in here to do the show, as
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Speaker 1: you know, twenty or twenty five minutes ago, and I
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Speaker 1: heard somebody call it. There's a lot of talk about
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Speaker 1: swimming pools this morning, and somebody called in and Lucy Immediate,
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Speaker 1: was that Chip Maxwell? It was not, But I was
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Speaker 1: chuckling because if I, you know, it was maybe Chip
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Speaker 1: Maxwell with a cold. If I, if I, if I
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Speaker 1: kind of pinch my nose and beak a little deeper
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Speaker 1: and throw a baby Ruth in the deep end of
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Speaker 1: the pool. If the it could almost work, I could
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Speaker 1: see how she thought that. But no, but you you
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Speaker 1: are free to take advantage of the talkback mic on
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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app and join our conversation. So I'm with
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Speaker 1: you today and I'll finish out the week Thursday and Friday.
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Speaker 1: I am not able to join you tomorrow. Wednesday morning
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Speaker 1: is when we record our retire smart radio show heard
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Speaker 1: on these airwaves Saturday morning at ten Sunday morning at
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Speaker 1: nine on News Radio eleven ten KFABE. So apparently they
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Speaker 1: got a couple guys. I'm kind of flattered. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: take two people to take my place. A couple guys
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Speaker 1: named Gary and Jim I don't know. I hope they're
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Speaker 1: up to it. I hope they can handle it.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Peyton will be here, so everything will be fine. But no,
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Speaker 1: of course, I'm speaking of radio legend Jim Rose and
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Speaker 1: radio legend emeritus Gary Saddlemyer. They will be holding down
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Speaker 1: the fort tomorrow. My goodness, Peyton, you have enough on
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Speaker 1: your hands trying to wrangle Chris Baker in the afternoons.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna have Gary and Jim in here tomorrow. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my goodness, the h I just hope, I hope those two.
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Speaker 1: What I want is a recreation of Peyton. You might
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Speaker 1: not be familiar with this, but years ago May, many
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Speaker 1: years ago, those two did a little bit Gary in
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Speaker 1: person needed Richard Nixon admiring the stylings of Karen Carpenter.
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Speaker 1: Now if I say the Carpenters, Karen Carpenter and no, nothing,
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Speaker 1: it's over. Yeah, no, no, that's all right, my young paduan.
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Speaker 1: You know you, in time you will come to know
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Speaker 1: all these things. But of course the singer Karen Carpent Anyway, Satomer, well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, his impression of Nixon is hilarious. But
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Speaker 1: the thing that's even better about it, and never gets
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Speaker 1: old Jim Rose. Well, I say it's a bit that
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Speaker 1: those two did. It was really Gary's bit, and Jim
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Speaker 1: is reduced to, I don't know what to call it,
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Speaker 1: a giggling puddle of goo. Jim Rose unable to form words.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that has ever happened any other
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Speaker 1: time when he's been on a microphone. But he's just
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Speaker 1: convulsing in hysterics at I don't maybe it can't be recreated.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that was just it can never be replicated. Well,
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Speaker 1: go into the archives. Then go to the archives and
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Speaker 1: find it tomorrow and play it. Oh my goodness, all right,
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Speaker 1: the so Gary Jim will cover tomorrow. I'll be back
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Speaker 1: with you to finish out the week. And I know,
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Speaker 1: I know the calendar says summer doesn't begin till what
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Speaker 1: you know, middle or late June. Hey Memorial days in
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Speaker 1: the rearview mirror, it's summertime. The weather is certainly reflecting that.
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Speaker 1: So Thursday and Friday, i'll put you on bumper alert.
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Speaker 1: Dow Peyton, I'm going to send you some what I
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Speaker 1: call the Oak Hills Pool Playlist. I spent six glorious
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Speaker 1: years growing up in Ralston, age fourd age ten and
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Speaker 1: we belong to the oak Hills Pool, and so the
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Speaker 1: playlist on Thursday and Friday, that's going to be the tunes.
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Speaker 1: I remember hearing over the speakers at the oak Hills
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Speaker 1: Pool and Lston. So you've got that to look forward
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Speaker 1: to this week, folks. All right, four oh two, five, five,
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Speaker 1: eight eleven ten Comment at kfab dot com. Talkback Mike
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. We still have a little Memorial
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Speaker 1: Day business to do here. I hope you had a
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Speaker 1: great weekend, Peyton. How was your Memorial Day weekend? I
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Speaker 1: had a really good weekend, you know. And you had
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Speaker 1: a lot of birthdays going on.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, my future father in law had a birthday
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Speaker 3: on Saturday and my fiance had a birthday yesterday on
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Speaker 3: Memorial Day.
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Speaker 1: Oh, this was a high stakes weekend for you.
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Speaker 3: High stakes. I was tasked with a lot of relationship building,
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Speaker 3: a lot of interactions. I was very busy, but it
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Speaker 3: was a law Yeah. We went golfing on Sunday morning.
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, Saturday morning. Okay, you had a beautiful day
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Speaker 3: for beautiful day at tibron I'd never golfed at Tibroan before,
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Speaker 3: and let's just say that I got my money's worth.
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Speaker 1: So do I. I see the whole course. I see
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Speaker 1: the whole course.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what if I'm gonna pay for
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Speaker 3: the golf, see, I'm gonna get my I'm gonna get
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Speaker 3: my value.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: A lot of swings in a lot of shots. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I know it was really happening. He let the father
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Speaker 1: in law win. It's his birthday. It's a well played,
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Speaker 1: well played Peyton. I told you this, this guy, he's
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Speaker 1: mature beyond his years, Peyton Highlich well good. Friday was
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Speaker 1: not beautiful whether why is rainy? Miserable and windy? Alas
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Speaker 1: we were not able to unfurl the world's largest flag
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Speaker 1: at Memorial Park. But I caught some of Scott earlier
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Speaker 1: this morning. But the show did go on, magnificent drone show,
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Speaker 1: Ronan Tynan singing. And so not only was Friday a
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Speaker 1: wind but then Sunday and Lincoln and then back here
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Speaker 1: Monday morning. It was a little bittersweet coming in here
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Speaker 1: and entering the Dundee Memorial Area to here, to the
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Speaker 1: home of the fifty thousand watt legacy blowtorch. Only the
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Speaker 1: porta potties and the big tent are left at Memorial Park.
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Speaker 1: The flag are gone, The towers of remembrance, the towers
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Speaker 1: honoring the fallen, they're gone. They're packed away until next
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Speaker 1: Memorial Day. But God bless Bill and Von Williams. They
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Speaker 1: must they're going to sleep all week. I imagine this week,
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Speaker 1: what a what a workout Memorial Day weekend is for them,
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Speaker 1: But the rest of us certainly appreciate it. I have
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Speaker 1: a Memorial Day chaser for you. This is from Sarge
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Speaker 1: Serge who was the listener a few weeks ago. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it was a month or so ago when
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Speaker 1: I sat in before and the Blue Dot building at
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteenth in Dutch. Turns out it's a
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Speaker 1: closed burger king and that's what's left of the logo,
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Speaker 1: but it does look exactly like the Blue Dot on
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Speaker 1: the sides. Sarge was wondering, was that that's some headquarters
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Speaker 1: building for the Blue Dot movement. Well this is that
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Speaker 1: same Serge. A little more serious note here. This is
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Speaker 1: something well i'll just let Sarge tell it in Sarge's
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Speaker 1: own words, something that kind of found me a pretty
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Speaker 1: cool story. I first want to say that my appreciation
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Speaker 1: for our vets and service people really increased after my
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Speaker 1: grandfather died in two thousand and six and I learned
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Speaker 1: that he had the job of cleaning up the battlefields
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Speaker 1: in World War Two. I had only known about his
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Speaker 1: trumpet playing in the US Army Band when he boosted
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Speaker 1: the morale of troops, and even once played before the
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Speaker 1: Queen of England. He didn't talk about the funerals that
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Speaker 1: he also played at. My grandfather was the most christ
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Speaker 1: like and joyful person that I've ever met, and I
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Speaker 1: think that's because he was grateful, and I am so grateful,
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Speaker 1: So it's no wonder that God would want me to
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Speaker 1: meet another soul who dedicated his life to remembering. Back
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Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, when I was in my thirties, I
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Speaker 1: was driving through a neighborhood in downtown Papillion when I
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Speaker 1: was captured by a wonderful display of patriotism in someone's yard.
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Speaker 1: Because I was so touched, I decided to take a picture.
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Speaker 1: As I did that, a man suddenly approached and startled me.
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Speaker 1: I thought I had some explaining to do, but he
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Speaker 1: just wanted to borrow my camera. He and his wife
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Speaker 1: were handling the estate of someone across the street and
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Speaker 1: needed to take a picture of a piano to sell.
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Speaker 1: I was, of course glad to help. The man I
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Speaker 1: met had taught school and coached in a rural Nebraska
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Speaker 1: town in his free time, and during retirement, he went
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Speaker 1: on a quest to record every story of wartime commitment
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Speaker 1: and sacrifice that he could find, mostly in northeastern Nebraska.
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Speaker 1: I bought the four volumes on the spot, so that
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Speaker 1: the four volume compilation that this man had put together
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Speaker 1: over the years, Sarge says, I bought the four volumes
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Speaker 1: on the spot which he had published. They stand about
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Speaker 1: a foot high in the colors of red, white, and blue.
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Speaker 1: The now deceased man simply felt that the people should
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Speaker 1: be that these people should be remembered, and I think
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Speaker 1: his very act of remembering is one that is worthy
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Speaker 1: of praise. And by the way, Sarge says, if anybody
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Speaker 1: wants to take these and share them with the world,
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Speaker 1: they are available for that purpose. Now let me just conclude,
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Speaker 1: by the way, my email, so the email handles Sarge,
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Speaker 1: is in remembrance of my grandfather known as Sarge. I'm
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Speaker 1: a female. We actually have common connections. You'd get a
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Speaker 1: kick out of. So Serge in honor of her grandfather,
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Speaker 1: goes as such. I think I can safely say I
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Speaker 1: don't think Sarge is saying that Sarge's trans I think
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Speaker 1: it is purely an honor to Sarge's grandfather that she
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Speaker 1: uses Serge for an email. Hand But wasn't that a
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Speaker 1: beautiful story? Uh just happens now that that was no accident.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't care how cynical you are. That
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Speaker 1: was no accident. That somebody was a strong feeling for
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Speaker 1: her grandfather veteran and someone who had stopped to look
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Speaker 1: at a patriotic display is just I'm using air quotes
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Speaker 1: accidentally drawn into this, uh connection with these volumes of
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Speaker 1: stories of remembrance and sacrifice by veterans, that was incredible. Uh, Serge,
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Speaker 1: thank you for sharing that with us. And I wasn't
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Speaker 1: gonna mentione this, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna do it
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Speaker 1: now because of Sarge's story. So Friday night, back back
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Speaker 1: to Memoryal Park on Friday night, Uh, a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a downer, you know, the rains falling. There were
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Speaker 1: still a lot of people, nice crowd turned out and
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Speaker 1: the performances one on the Drone show went on. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know if that would somebody that I knew, who
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Speaker 1: knew about this stuff said, oh, drones can't operate in rain. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. The rain did kind of back off,
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Speaker 1: or maybe these were waterproof drones. Whatever the case. The
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Speaker 1: drone show went off was magnificent, and so the evening
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Speaker 1: was still a win. It was still a victory. But
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Speaker 1: you know, early on that's kind of revved up to
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Speaker 1: do the flag and that wasn't happening. So I did
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Speaker 1: a rosary walking among those towers. I think it's fifty
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Speaker 1: of them. The towers. They have these wings, they have
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Speaker 1: the three wings, and they're full of pictures. That Bill says,
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Speaker 1: Yvonne is the one who put to get pictures and
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Speaker 1: quick stories families. Sometimes there's the shot of the fallen
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Speaker 1: as a young you know, a baby or a toddler.
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Speaker 1: Often there's a shot with a wife and children. And
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Speaker 1: I found myself getting choked up at times, and of
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Speaker 1: course most of these people I didn't know. I did
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Speaker 1: see Daigan Page, the guy who died in the Afghanistan
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Speaker 1: Mess of withdrawal a few years ago. I did see
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Speaker 1: my former neighbor Adam Harold, who the street, the stretch
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Speaker 1: of Webster Street in front of Saint Cecilia's Elementary School,
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Speaker 1: where he and I both attended grade school, runs right
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Speaker 1: through the middle of the cathedral campus there from from
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Speaker 1: fortieth Street to thirty eighth Street that was renamed for Adam.
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Speaker 1: Harold saw his picture among them. But here's the strange thing.
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Speaker 1: I won't go into all the details of it, but
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Speaker 1: when you do a Rosary, there are different decades that
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Speaker 1: you do sections of prayers and you meditate on something
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Speaker 1: about the life of Christ. And I was about to
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Speaker 1: do the one dealing with the transfiguration. That was his
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Speaker 1: rendezvous with Moses, and I think it was Elijah. I
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Speaker 1: am not a scripture scholar. It was Moses and Elijah. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: a little taste of heaven. You know, he's transfigured, sort
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Speaker 1: of a glowing presence, and this is what it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be like in heaven. Anyway. The reason I mentioned it
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Speaker 1: to you is so I'm about to start in on
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Speaker 1: that section of prayers and my eyes fall upon the
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Speaker 1: picture of Raymond R. E. Y m U and Da
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Speaker 1: Latino Raymund Transfigura. That was his surname, that was his
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Speaker 1: last name, his family name, Transfigura. I took a picture
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Speaker 1: of it right away. And said it to my wife.
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Speaker 1: I had to document it to somebody. I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: I was about to do this decade of prayers of
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Speaker 1: the Transfiguration and I run into a guy named Transfigura.
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Speaker 1: Come on. So it was very Uh, I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite things, just walking around
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Speaker 1: amongst the fallen and then there's it right next to it,
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Speaker 1: there's a display of small flags planted in the ground
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Speaker 1: for everyone. I think there are signs around explaining all this.
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Speaker 1: That's what I love about patriotic productions. It's a history lesson,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's not just frothy nostalgia whatever. There's grit
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Speaker 1: and substance to it. It's a history lesson as well
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Speaker 1: as entertainment. And there were signs explaining the different wars.
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Speaker 1: And I think it was one point three million total
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Speaker 1: that we've lost from the revolutionary today, people dying in
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Speaker 1: military service. So there were flags. I think it was
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Speaker 1: one flag for every thousand, or one for every ten
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Speaker 1: thousand or something. I can't remember the exact formulas, but
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Speaker 1: a big field of flags. So just strolling amongst the towers,
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Speaker 1: remembering the fallen and the flags commemorating the fallen and
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Speaker 1: doing Rosary. I didn't mind the rain. I didn't mind
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Speaker 1: it one bit really neat Anyway, I hope you had
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Speaker 1: a great Memorial Day weekend. We do actually need to
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Speaker 1: get to the news now. I've almost talked my way
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Speaker 1: right through the whole first half of the show before
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Speaker 1: I get rolling Peyton. Anything in the email or the
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Speaker 1: phone lines with phone lines are open?
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Speaker 3: Phone lines are open? Yes, four zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
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Speaker 3: I was just really intrigued on your story there, and
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Speaker 3: from Sarge as well. It was very touch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was was that was unsolicited. Sarge just
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Speaker 1: offered that one up and yeah, so you know, if
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Speaker 1: you have any stories from Memorial Day weekend or we're
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Speaker 1: still we're still willing to entertain any memories pertaining to
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Speaker 1: Memorial Day or someone something you were involved in, someone
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Speaker 1: you know about who made the ultimate sacrifice, we'd be
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Speaker 1: glad to hear about that. In the meantime, into the news,
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Speaker 1: we go, well, the Texas Primary futures market is open.
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Speaker 1: What are you buying? Born enter Paxton a few weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: I guess it was pretty much a toss up. The
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Speaker 1: Trump endorsement of Ken Paxton last week, of course, as
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Speaker 1: a factor that seems to have moved the needle in
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Speaker 1: that race. So are you are you buying Paxson today
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Speaker 1: or do you think Cornon the incumbent, the longtime incumbent,
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Speaker 1: will pull it out. I've heard some ads by corn
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Speaker 1: And saying, hey, I've been a friend of President Trump,
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Speaker 1: I've been a friend of the MAGA movement, I'm a
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Speaker 1: friend of the Republican Party, I'm a friend of conservatism
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Speaker 1: and I will continue to be And so he's been
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Speaker 1: graceful about it. Ken Paxton, of course, seizing on the
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Speaker 1: Trump endorsement, and let's go. You know, I'm your guy.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Given what's been happening, let's see
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Speaker 1: what happens today, and then we may have to talk
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Speaker 1: about this some more on Thursday and Friday. On this phenomenon.
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Speaker 1: Because I read everything. I sample everything left right, everything
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Speaker 1: in between when it comes to news sites and political
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Speaker 1: commentary and voices, because I want to know everything that's
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Speaker 1: being said. And you can't be afraid to be exposed
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Speaker 1: to what the other side thinks and says. I if
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Speaker 1: your own beliefs can't stand up to that pressure, then
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Speaker 1: your own beliefs really aren't worth much. You ought to
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Speaker 1: be able to listen and hear. Yeah, but did you
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Speaker 1: think of this? Did you consider that? You know, you
17:29
Speaker 1: got to be able to stand up. But it's also
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Speaker 1: you can learn things. It's helpful to know what the
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Speaker 1: other side's thinking, and the other side see. Well, Trump's done,
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Speaker 1: he's finished. Stick a fork in him, he's done. The
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Speaker 1: MAGA movement's done. The uh, you know, that's all in
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Speaker 1: the past, and I don't know. This election season Trump
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Speaker 1: decided to do in Trumpian fashion. You know, usually a
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Speaker 1: president just kind of is passively on the sidelines in
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Speaker 1: an off year election when there's no presidential election happening.
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Speaker 1: Trump has decided just the opposite. Oh no, I'm out there.
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Speaker 1: I'm working it. I am on the ballot. My name
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Speaker 1: may be on the may not be on ballots, but
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Speaker 1: I'm on the ballot. This year, I'm putting myself on
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Speaker 1: the ballot. I'm finding people who are with me and
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Speaker 1: helping them and opposing people who are not. And so
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Speaker 1: he's working it. And I think there's still going to
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Speaker 1: be some kind of a convention this summer as if
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Speaker 1: it was a presidential election year. So Trump, in his
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Speaker 1: inimitable style is out there working it and changing the game,
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Speaker 1: and it has produced results so far. And if this
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Speaker 1: long time incumbent Corning goes down in Texas today, well
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Speaker 1: we'll have to talk about that Thursday and Friday. In
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Speaker 1: the meantime, gosh, we're already coming up on our first break.
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Speaker 1: Oh Peyton, you got the jazz bumpers in good Man.
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Speaker 1: I didn't feed those things until this morning, and I
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Speaker 1: try to give him stuff the night before. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: I should have known Peyton can handle it. Jazz bumpers
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Speaker 1: for you today on a Tuesday, kind of getting you
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Speaker 1: back in gear for the work week after a Memorial
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Speaker 1: Day weekend. I'm Jim Maxwell, filling in for the honorable
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Speaker 1: Jens Stothard, producer. Peyton's at the controls. It's the KFAB
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Speaker 1: comment line on news radio eleven ten KFAB, and I
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Speaker 1: do think we've got something on the talkback Mike. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna ask Peyton in just a moment to play that. Harvey,
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Speaker 1: are you out there? How about you? Mom's march Mike Constitution, Jim,
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Speaker 1: haven't heard from you in a while. And then there's
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Speaker 1: frequent contributor and Hall of Fame listener, Rob, Rob, what's
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Speaker 1: your excuse? Four oh two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and do that. Talkback, Mike. We've got
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Speaker 1: something right, Peyton, go ahead, Yes we do.
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Speaker 2: Here we go, Chipping, Good morning, Good luck Peyton. You
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Speaker 2: know those two don't get along very well. They don't
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Speaker 2: play it, they don't play nice with with each other.
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Speaker 2: So keep him apart, keep him apart from killing each other.
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Speaker 2: Good show, guys, have a good one.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you. Well, it sounds like it's going to
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Speaker 1: be entertaining whatever happens. We're talking about the fact that
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Speaker 1: I can't be with you tomorrow, but I will finish
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Speaker 1: out the week with you Thursday and Friday. Then Jean
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Speaker 1: Stothord he'll be back in the saddle on Monday, June first.
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Speaker 1: But Gary Saddlemeyer and Jim Rose are going to cover
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Speaker 1: this show tomorrow, and so yeah, it could get it
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Speaker 1: could get a little well, Peyton, I just hope you
20:37
Speaker 1: don't get caught any crossfire tomorrow, and boy, you are
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Speaker 1: going to have a full day. Gary Sadlemyer and Jim
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Speaker 1: Rose in the morning and then Chris Baker in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Chris Baker, well, I don't want to steal his thunder,
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Speaker 1: So I'll just mention in case he's too humble to
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Speaker 1: mention it. Peyton, I don't know if you were aware
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Speaker 1: he got a very nice award over the weekend. Did
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Speaker 1: did you mention anything about that? He did? Yes?
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Speaker 3: Okay, we actually had the founder on the.
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Speaker 1: Show, Lambrose had America's Wall of Honor. Yes, fantastic. Okay,
21:12
Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. Uh yeah, America's Wall of Honor.
21:15
Speaker 1: Retire Smart is a sponsor of that project as well.
21:17
Speaker 1: David Brooks is a sucker for anything patriotic. His dad
21:22
Speaker 1: was a marine and a cop. So, uh, Retire Smart
21:27
Speaker 1: gets behind a lot of these things. That's how I
21:29
Speaker 1: knew about it. And okay, well that's that's been covered.
21:32
Speaker 1: I hope Chris will regale us with stories from the
21:36
Speaker 1: evening when his turn comes today. In the meantime, Uh
21:43
Speaker 1: so the Texas primary, I want to know the futures market.
21:47
Speaker 1: What are you buy in, folks, Paxton or Cornyn?
21:50
Speaker 4: Uh?
21:51
Speaker 1: It was kind of seemed like leaning toward Cornan for
21:53
Speaker 1: a long time, especially if Trump had endorsed him. Trump
21:58
Speaker 1: stayed silent until last week, and Trump came out for
22:01
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton. Now I know on the left, it's the
22:08
Speaker 1: game is to spin it in a negative way. Well,
22:10
Speaker 1: it's Trump the tyrant, and then everybody's licking his boots
22:15
Speaker 1: and trying to I don't think that's a full and
22:19
Speaker 1: complete understanding of politics and how it works. Maga voters.
22:24
Speaker 1: I'll even go back and see tea party voters. I
22:27
Speaker 1: used to mc tea party rallies when it was a thing,
22:30
Speaker 1: you know, a decade or so ago. The big rallies
22:33
Speaker 1: and events aren't happening, but that momentum is still out there.
22:37
Speaker 1: Well it became maga. Okay, but what you don't realize
22:41
Speaker 1: is people we're not cheap, but we don't. We sometimes
22:48
Speaker 1: get angry and turn on erstwhile tea party maga leaders.
22:53
Speaker 1: And so just the fact that Trump says vote for
22:57
Speaker 1: somebody alone isn't enough. I think Trump is pretty good
23:01
Speaker 1: at reading the tea leaves. I think Trump and you know,
23:04
Speaker 1: he's got his people on the ground in Texas. I
23:06
Speaker 1: suppose providing intel. I think Trump figured out. You know,
23:10
Speaker 1: I think Paxton may win this thing. In fact, I
23:15
Speaker 1: think he is going to win. I think he'll definitely
23:17
Speaker 1: win if I back him. So it's kind of a
23:19
Speaker 1: two way thing. It isn't just now Trump is the
23:22
Speaker 1: magic touch and now you win. It's that Trump figures
23:25
Speaker 1: out where the people are, where the oh gosh, I'm
23:29
Speaker 1: going to reach your way back here. Lec Falensa Poland
23:34
Speaker 1: Kadansk shipyards when the Communists still ran Poland, and he
23:38
Speaker 1: led the Solidarity movement and eventually would end up becoming
23:42
Speaker 1: president of Poland after Communism was thrown off. But this
23:46
Speaker 1: guy's a shipyard worker. He was not a political science
23:49
Speaker 1: major in college. I don't even know you went to college.
23:52
Speaker 1: You know. He was a working man. But he had
23:54
Speaker 1: magnificent political instincts. And somebody interviewed him one time, and
24:01
Speaker 1: how do you do this? What do you You've never
24:02
Speaker 1: studied politics? You've never said, no, I just I can
24:06
Speaker 1: sniff the wind and figure out where the herd wants
24:10
Speaker 1: and needs to go. He was saying. It isn't that
24:13
Speaker 1: I just choose whatever and everybody automatically follow me. It's
24:17
Speaker 1: because I am I am of the people. I know
24:21
Speaker 1: the people and I know where they want to go,
24:24
Speaker 1: so that that's part of what helps it. So it's
24:27
Speaker 1: kind of a two way street with leadership. And I
24:31
Speaker 1: think Trump is very much. I know, I know this
24:34
Speaker 1: is New York born and bred billionaire, but this guy
24:40
Speaker 1: has uh well, Chuck Hagel, I know that name for
24:43
Speaker 1: some people, Chuck Hagel. I worked for Chuck Hagel when
24:48
Speaker 1: Chuck Egel was a Conservative and when he was in
24:52
Speaker 1: his first term in the Senate, and uh he uh,
24:56
Speaker 1: he had a theory of connectivity. Connectivity, he said, because
25:02
Speaker 1: at that time, so we're talking about the late nineties
25:04
Speaker 1: and approaching two thousand and you know, the people in
25:08
Speaker 1: politics at that time, he said, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton,
25:11
Speaker 1: he has connectivity. He knows how to connect with people.
25:14
Speaker 1: He says, got a natural connection with you. Al Gore
25:16
Speaker 1: does not, he said, he just he's just kind of flat,
25:19
Speaker 1: kind of tone deaf. He he doesn't have it. He doesn't.
25:22
Speaker 1: But Clinton does. On the Republican side, you know, he said,
25:27
Speaker 1: George W. Bush, he's got it connectivity. He does know
25:31
Speaker 1: how to connect and resonate with people. And then there
25:34
Speaker 1: were some other people Republicans who were wanting to run
25:37
Speaker 1: for president in two thousand and this is Hagel in
25:39
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine saying he doesn't have it or she
25:43
Speaker 1: doesn't have it, And I would say Hagel had that
25:48
Speaker 1: ability of that connectivity. Of course then he started to
25:56
Speaker 1: change a little and well eventually serve in the Obama administration.
25:59
Speaker 1: But anyway, connectivity, I think Trump has it. And uh,
26:06
Speaker 1: and so I think it's partly also knowing where the
26:09
Speaker 1: voters are and where they want things to go that
26:12
Speaker 1: that feeds into his decisions.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, speaking of voters, Chip, I got something here and
26:17
Speaker 3: reference to that voter comment. This is an email that
26:20
Speaker 3: came to comment at kfabe dot com. Hang it on
26:22
Speaker 3: and in this this is in reference to former FBI
26:26
Speaker 3: Director James Comy.
26:28
Speaker 1: Oh, do you think the.
26:29
Speaker 3: Moving of Comy's trial from July to October has anything
26:35
Speaker 3: to do with the elections being in November?
26:39
Speaker 1: Ah, I hadn't considered.
26:41
Speaker 3: Have a theoretical question, you know, kind of something to
26:45
Speaker 3: ponder about.
26:46
Speaker 1: All right, off the cuff. I don't know. I welcome
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Speaker 1: anybody's thoughts on that. Four oh two, five, five, eight
26:52
Speaker 1: eleven ten comment at kfab dot com at the talkback, Mike,
26:55
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll tell you what anything any move
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Speaker 1: that increased speaking of a futures market, anything that increases
27:04
Speaker 1: the odds of some kind of a Komy conviction. I'm
27:08
Speaker 1: for it, I support it. I did a podcast on
27:12
Speaker 1: this recently, call me Clapper Brennan. All of them, all
27:16
Speaker 1: of them who did the Trump Russia collusion hoax and
27:21
Speaker 1: in various ways lied to Congress, and since they couldn't
27:26
Speaker 1: impeach him in the constitutional manner, tried to effectively impeach
27:30
Speaker 1: Trump run him out of office. With these persecutions and
27:34
Speaker 1: prosecutions of Trump and his people, his campaign, his administration.
27:39
Speaker 1: The oh boy, this one touches a nerve. As you
27:44
Speaker 1: can see anything that increases the enchances, the chances of
27:48
Speaker 1: Jim Comy behind bars in an orange jumpsuit. I am
27:52
Speaker 1: for it. I'm sorry. And because he is so smarmy,
27:56
Speaker 1: he is so self absorbed. He is talking about a
28:02
Speaker 1: Messiah complex. Now, this thing about the rocks on the beach,
28:06
Speaker 1: the stones on the beach, the eighty six forty seven,
28:11
Speaker 1: I sure hope the government has stronger than that to
28:15
Speaker 1: bring on Komy because he lied, he's perjured himself, he's lied,
28:18
Speaker 1: he leaked classified information to try to generate buzz. Well,
28:23
Speaker 1: it worked, it worked, a quick review, quick review, and
28:28
Speaker 1: then I'll leave it alone in case anybody else wants
28:31
Speaker 1: to grab the baton and run with it. But so
28:37
Speaker 1: there was no collusion. You know, Trump, Trump, the treason,
28:40
Speaker 1: his Putin puppet. Putin ran the twenty sixteen election. All
28:44
Speaker 1: that nonsense. What happened was the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hillary Clinton,
28:50
Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee. If anybody was colluding with Russia, it
28:53
Speaker 1: was her. Her campaign hired a British spy uh named
29:01
Speaker 1: Steel to approach Russians and get intel on Trump, damaging
29:06
Speaker 1: intel from Russian spies. Well, these Russian spies, they must
29:11
Speaker 1: they must still just be hooting and hollering telling stories
29:15
Speaker 1: about this one. They cooked up a spectacularly false dossier
29:20
Speaker 1: and fed that thing to steal and probably got top
29:23
Speaker 1: dollar for it. Steel brings it back to the Clintons.
29:25
Speaker 1: The Clintons start leaking it out to media and their
29:28
Speaker 1: friends and government and so forth.
29:30
Speaker 4: Uh.
29:30
Speaker 1: You know, so you've got a fake dossier with fake
29:34
Speaker 1: allegations coming out in the fake news, and so the
29:39
Speaker 1: swamp creatures inside government go to these courts, you know,
29:42
Speaker 1: fiz of courts and so forth. We look at these
29:44
Speaker 1: news stories. We're going to need some warrants to do
29:47
Speaker 1: some spying on Trump and his people, because I look
29:50
Speaker 1: at these stories coming out the news, so fake allegations,
29:55
Speaker 1: for fake warrants, for a whole thord fake operative word
30:00
Speaker 1: is fake. Comy was in the middle of all this.
30:04
Speaker 1: There were under Oh Obama, by the way, and I'm sorry,
30:07
Speaker 1: I will you don't want people persecuting Trump, I don't.
30:10
Speaker 1: I don't like law fair. Lawfair is when you gin
30:13
Speaker 1: something up, something phony and fraudulent and flimsy to harass somebody.
30:21
Speaker 1: This isn't lawfair. These are people Obama belongs in there
30:24
Speaker 1: with Clapper, bread saying put them in the same cell
30:26
Speaker 1: with Clapper, Brennan and Komy. Because underlings in the intelligence
30:30
Speaker 1: world there were some people who say, hey, hey, hey,
30:33
Speaker 1: this is crazy, this is ridiculous. There's no substance to
30:37
Speaker 1: any of this. Obama, Brennan, Comy, Clapper, all of that crowd.
30:40
Speaker 1: They overrode the professionals who were telling drop this is
30:45
Speaker 1: They overrode all that and kept running with it and
30:48
Speaker 1: kept it going and kept it alive. They used the
30:53
Speaker 1: power of the They misused the power of the federal
30:56
Speaker 1: government to persecute and prosecute political enemy. They should pay
31:02
Speaker 1: a price for that. That's not law fair, that is justice.
31:07
Speaker 1: That is righting an egregious wrong, these people claiming today
31:12
Speaker 1: Trump is destroying our democracy, that is the organs of
31:16
Speaker 1: our democratic republic being prostituted, being twisted for partisan ends,
31:25
Speaker 1: and that must be addressed, that those people must be
31:30
Speaker 1: held accountable. All Right, we better go to a brank
31:34
Speaker 1: peyton and I'll stop, I'll breathe, I'll call him down
31:37
Speaker 1: a little. We'll see. I've got about six more topics
31:40
Speaker 1: I want it kept to. We have one segment left,
31:42
Speaker 1: asking you shall receive. We now have a few callers
31:46
Speaker 1: on the line. Well, let's get right to the callers.
31:49
Speaker 1: So Brett, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, gentlemen.
31:53
Speaker 1: What's on your buying Brett?
31:56
Speaker 5: Well, I hope you guys had a Memorial Day. We
31:58
Speaker 5: had a great weather and we can be thankful for that,
32:01
Speaker 5: and we can be thankful for everybody who served. My
32:04
Speaker 5: comment chip was about Yeah, my comment was about connectivity.
32:08
Speaker 5: So I find it a really interesting topic. You referenced
32:11
Speaker 5: a couple of politicians, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump. People understand this.
32:16
Speaker 5: There's a book called Influence, The Psychology of Persuasion. It
32:20
Speaker 5: was written by a psychologist named Robert Chaldeini in the
32:23
Speaker 5: mid eighties, and there's been millions of copies sold, and
32:27
Speaker 5: I encourage everybody to pick it up because I train
32:30
Speaker 5: on this book and these topics in my profession constantly.
32:35
Speaker 5: And so this issue of connectivity is a principle in
32:38
Speaker 5: a book called Liking, and so liking means rapport. If
32:42
Speaker 5: you have rapport with somebody, that means they like you.
32:45
Speaker 5: And what Bill Clinton understands and what Donald Trump understands
32:49
Speaker 5: is there's three ways to get rapport with people. And
32:52
Speaker 5: the first way is to make yourself seem like them.
32:56
Speaker 5: If that person sees you as being like them, they're
32:59
Speaker 5: going to like you. And the second way is to
33:01
Speaker 5: put yourself in the same place that they are. So
33:05
Speaker 5: I always referenced the sixth degree of separation. If you
33:08
Speaker 5: know where that person went to school, if you know
33:11
Speaker 5: the job that they're in, if you know the neighborhood
33:13
Speaker 5: that they're in, you always reference that. And if you
33:15
Speaker 5: can do that, they'll like you. And the third thing
33:18
Speaker 5: is to compliment people, which Bill Clinton did very well.
33:22
Speaker 5: Donald Trump does very well also. But it's an extremely
33:26
Speaker 5: powerful book. I find the topic very interesting. I encourage
33:30
Speaker 5: everybody go pick up a copy. You can get it.
33:32
Speaker 1: Brett, would you spell that last week. How do you
33:35
Speaker 1: spell Chaldina?
33:37
Speaker 5: It's CIA D I N I. Robert Chaldeini. He was
33:43
Speaker 5: a psychology professor at Arizona State University. Marketing executives coaches.
33:51
Speaker 5: Any executive people who are successful with understanding how to
33:55
Speaker 5: influence people. They know about this book and they've read it.
33:59
Speaker 5: So obviously my only caveat is there are people who are,
34:05
Speaker 5: you know, not the most trustworthy, and they understand these
34:09
Speaker 5: things to manipulate people. But if you're really trying to
34:13
Speaker 5: do good and help people out, this book is extremely powerful.
34:18
Speaker 5: So check it out. And I just find that, you know,
34:21
Speaker 5: connectivity is liking, which is rapport and I think I
34:24
Speaker 5: just wanted to make a comment.
34:25
Speaker 1: So Brett, thank you, Thank you, Brett, Thank you Brett.
34:28
Speaker 1: Let's see, Yeah, we we're getting close. But oh, Rob,
34:33
Speaker 1: is that you?
34:37
Speaker 6: So?
34:37
Speaker 1: As I chastised in any any surfaces, I thought it
34:40
Speaker 1: might work, Rob, what's on your mind this morning?
34:44
Speaker 4: I was getting I was saving the best for last
34:46
Speaker 4: four You. You know you talk about because I'm humble,
34:50
Speaker 4: You talk about.
34:51
Speaker 1: The greatest thing about me is my humility.
34:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, what do you expect? Your mother was a
34:57
Speaker 4: task Republican.
34:59
Speaker 1: Oh he's playing that card all right, and gloves are off,
35:03
Speaker 1: go rub.
35:04
Speaker 4: In honor of your dad. Anyway, Hey, so you know
35:08
Speaker 4: my you know I was I remember this very well.
35:12
Speaker 4: You talk about you talk about people who lose during war.
35:16
Speaker 4: You know, growing up, I knew I had a My
35:19
Speaker 4: mom had a cousin who shortly before she was born,
35:23
Speaker 4: was killed serving at Pearl Harbor. And that was just that,
35:27
Speaker 4: you know, lost lost to the war.
35:28
Speaker 5: There was.
35:30
Speaker 4: You know, you don't really.
35:32
Speaker 6: Know, I mean what it was washed out to see.
35:35
Speaker 4: You never knew, you know. September third, twenty nineteen, I
35:39
Speaker 4: was listening to KFAB as every good Omahan should, and
35:43
Speaker 4: you know they do the local news saying a funeral
35:46
Speaker 4: will be hill today in Cedar Rapids for Bill Shanahan Junior,
35:49
Speaker 4: and I abelt filled to the ground. I never thought
35:52
Speaker 4: I would hear that name outside of a outside of family.
35:55
Speaker 4: But you know, he was serving aboard the Oklahoma. He
35:59
Speaker 4: was top. I'd thrown off, climb back up to help
36:02
Speaker 4: his other shipmates. But the Oklahoma capsized and just in
36:07
Speaker 4: nothing flat and about four hundred people were trapped below.
36:12
Speaker 1: Okay, slow down, slow down, we're talking about did you
36:17
Speaker 1: say your mother's cousin. Yes, this was mister Shanahan. Okay,
36:22
Speaker 1: he's blown off the ship. He makes his way back
36:26
Speaker 1: to the ship trying to help his shipmates, but then
36:29
Speaker 1: the whole ship capsizes and goes down and he's lost
36:32
Speaker 1: at sea. But but so a ceremony was held or
36:35
Speaker 1: where remains actually found.
36:37
Speaker 4: Or well again there was there was. Things were just
36:42
Speaker 4: different than and and fast forward to modern day. When
36:45
Speaker 4: you go to basic trainy they take blood swap put
36:48
Speaker 4: on a little card for future. That wasn't done then.
36:54
Speaker 4: So we just simply there knew I mean, if he
36:58
Speaker 4: just washed we ever knew about in the early nineties.
37:04
Speaker 4: I guess it was late nineties. One or two of
37:07
Speaker 4: his sisters submitted da because you know, they had, you know,
37:11
Speaker 4: in several pieces, about four hundred some bodies from Oklahoma,
37:16
Speaker 4: some unidentified remains. Okay, right, you'll stay in one piece.
37:21
Speaker 4: Unfortunately and sure so thingstakingly.
37:25
Speaker 6: Uh, there's a lap down an off it who identifies
37:29
Speaker 6: pretty much each of the two hundred and six bones
37:31
Speaker 6: of the body and sorts that out and he received
37:35
Speaker 6: a proper brier.
37:36
Speaker 4: It had just been a empty grave back in forty
37:40
Speaker 4: one or forty two whenever there remains.
37:43
Speaker 1: There was a genetic match established and there were remains.
37:47
Speaker 1: Oh the goodness and you now yeah.
37:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, every now and then you will hear now they
37:56
Speaker 4: were put just in basically a grave called I believe
37:59
Speaker 4: it called the fish Bowl down in Hawaii.
38:02
Speaker 6: But you know, as technology advanced.
38:04
Speaker 4: Over decades, uh, that was able to be. And once
38:08
Speaker 4: in a while you will still hear every maybe once
38:12
Speaker 4: or twice a year, you will hear a story a
38:14
Speaker 4: sailor from the Oklahoma has been identified.
38:19
Speaker 1: Incredible, you did save the best for last. Wow. Uh, Rob,
38:25
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing that one. There's there's there's another
38:27
Speaker 1: Memorial Day chaser for us. Well, this is kind of
38:31
Speaker 1: pedestrian compared to your story. But before I let you go,
38:35
Speaker 1: do you have a prediction today? Rob? On the Texas Primary?
38:40
Speaker 4: You know, I tell you I went to five MLB
38:44
Speaker 4: games this month and only two of the home teams
38:47
Speaker 4: won two times with the home team one. So my, my, my,
38:51
Speaker 4: I will bring bad luck if I say one.
38:53
Speaker 3: Of the.
38:54
Speaker 1: All right, well, okay, now now I'm intrigued. Where where
38:58
Speaker 1: were you in one city watching games?
39:00
Speaker 4: Or did you move around? We went to Rigley and
39:03
Speaker 4: they beat the Reds in a walk off, okay, the
39:06
Speaker 4: first of a full game sweep. Then we went to
39:08
Speaker 4: Detroit and they were beat by the RedHawks. We then
39:10
Speaker 4: went to Fenway, year old stomping ground and and they
39:14
Speaker 4: were beat by uh, they were beat by Tampa Bay anyway.
39:20
Speaker 4: So then we went to Baltimore and then they were
39:21
Speaker 4: beat by those damn Yankees, all right, and then then
39:26
Speaker 4: we finally got the Pittsburgh and they beat they beat
39:28
Speaker 4: the Rockies, so we now bookend wins.
39:31
Speaker 1: Well, two for five in baseball, that's hitting four hundred.
39:34
Speaker 1: That's not bad, Robbie. But I have to let you
39:36
Speaker 1: go right of time. Thank you so much for the
39:38
Speaker 1: story about your your mother's cousin, mister Shanahan, rest in peace. Well,
39:43
Speaker 1: we'll have to leave it there today. Gary Sandlem, Jim
39:47
Speaker 1: Rose are gonna tag David tomorrow. I'll be with you
39:50
Speaker 1: to finish out the week. I'm Chip Maxwell filling in
39:52
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